Poems of Nature and Love (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...might Crouch guarding some enchanted gem of charm--Wilds of Carmarthen, that for me each night Reecho prayers and pleadings, --all the year Unanswered, made to listening waters, --white, The bitter white of Winter, and the clear Cool eyes of girlish Springtide, and the slow Sweet gaze of languid Summer, and the dear Dark eyes of tristful Autumn saw me so, Unhappy, lost among your moaning hills Should any ripple tremble into glow, When yeasty moonshine scuds the foam, there thrills Heart's expectation through glad veins and high With " She " each pulse the exultation fills. But she't is never. Once... and then would I Had fall'n abolished so beholding ... World, What sadder hast than beauty that must die?--Once I beheld her --if some fiend had curled Stiff talons through my hair, and, twisting tight, Scoffed, ' Burn and be " then into hell had hurled Me satisfied with beauty--beauty's white Bloom heavenizing hell--I, unamerced, Shackled with tortures, might have mocked hell's spite. Immortal memory of love, I thirst O starlike beauty that the memory wove, In that I love thee am I so accursed?--Oh, mak; me mad with love, with all thy love Who tell it to these wilds when midnights gloom Storms or drip gold from sibylline stars above: Let thy high favor all heaven's fires consume Quench with thy starry presence and make mad Me with sweet madness slay me with perfume Sleep may I not now for all sleep is sad. Cheated of thee, sad are all tearful dreams A shadowy sorrow haunts with what hath clad Day's tyrannous hope in life that only seems: And seeming hope forever needs must pine Seeking evasions that are form-fixed gleams.--Though thou be wrought from elements divine, And I crass earth exalted, which will think, "Since I am thine this m...