Thomas Edward Brown Light Poems
- 1. Statio Secunda
Just listen to the blackbird, what a note
The creature has! God bless his happy throat!
He is so absolutely glad
I fear he will go mad.
... - 2. An Oxford Idyll
Ah little mill, you're rumbling still,
Ah sunset flecked with gold!
Ah deepening tinge, ah purple fringe
Of lilac as of old!
... - 3. Statio Prima
Why do I make so much of Aber Fall?
Four years ago
My little boy was with me here,
That's all,
... - 4. I Wonder
I wonder if in that far isle,
Some child is growing now, like me
When I was child : care-pricked, yet healed the while
With balm of rock and sea.
... - 5. Ibant Obscuae
To-night I saw three maidens on the beach,
Dark-robed descending to the sea,
So slow, so silent of all speech,
And visible to me
... - 6. Old John
Old John, if I could sit with you a day
At Abram's feet upon the asphodel,
There, while the grand old patriarch dreamed away,
To you my life's whole progress I would tell;
... - 7. Ibant Obscuræ
To-night I saw three maidens on the beach,
Dark-robed descending to the sea,
So slow, so silent of all speech,
And visible to me
... - 8. Salve!
To live within a cave-it is most good;
But, if God make a day,
And some one come, and say,
‘Lo! I have gather'd faggots in the wood!'
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