Maurice Henry Hewlett Blue Poems
- 1. Gnatho
Gnatho, Satyr, homing at dusk,
Trotting home like a tired dog,
By mountain slopes 'twixt the junipers
And flamed oleanders near the sea,
... - 2. The Saints' Maying
Since green earth is awake
Let us now pastime take,
Not serving wantonness
Too well, nor niggardness,
... - 3. Clytië©
Hearken, O passers, what thing
Fortuned in Hellas. A maid,
Lissom and white as the roe,
Lived recess'd in a glade.
... - 4. The Chamber Idyll
The blue night falleth, the moon
Is over the hill; make fast,
Fasten the latch, I am tired: come soon,
Come! I would sleep at last
... - 5. Blue Iris
Blue is the Adrian sea, and darkly blue
The ëgean; and the shafted sun thro' them,
That fishes grope to, gives the beamy hue
Rayed from her iris's deep diadem.
... - 6. Hypsipyle
Queen of the shadows, Maid and Wife,
Twifold in essence, as in life,
The lamp of Death, the star of Birth,
Half cradled and half mourned by Earth,
... - 7. The Village Wife's Lament
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