Thomas Edward Brown Soul Poems
- 1. A Morning Walk
"Lie there," I said, "my Sorrow! lie thou there!
And I will drink the lissome air,
And see if yet the heavens have gained their blue."
Then rose my Sorrow as an aged man,
... - 2. Statio Quarta
We have not seen the sun for many days,
But now through East-wind haze
He makes a shift
To send a luminous drift,
... - 3. Statio Tertia
The stream is very sweet
To-day . . . Just see the swallow dart!
How fleet!
It sent a shiver to my heart.
... - 4. Statio Prima
Why do I make so much of Aber Fall?
Four years ago
My little boy was with me here,
That's all,
... - 5. 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.
... - 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. Opifex
As I was carving images from clouds,
And tinting them with soft ethereal dyes
Pressed from the pulp of dreams, one comes, and cries:--
"Forbear!" and all my heaven with gloom enshrouds.
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