Poem Outlines (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It is always sunrise and always sunset somewhere on the earth. And so, with a silver sunrise before him and a golden sunset behind him, the Royal Sun fares through Heaven, like a king with a herald and a retinue. Night's a black-haired poet, and he's in love with Day. But he never meets her save at early morn and late eve, when they fall into each other's arms and draw out a lingering kiss: so folded together at such times that we cannot distinguish bright maid from dark lover; and so we call it Dawn and Twilight?it being Not light, but lustrous dark; Not dark, but secret light. These green and swelling hills, crowned with white tents, Like vast green waves, white-foaming at the top. Hunger and a whip: with these we tame wild beasts. So, to tame us, God continually keeps our hearts hungry for love, and continually lashes our souls with the thongs of relentless circumstance. Stab-drops lingering after sunlight's rain. The earth, a grain of pollen dropped in the vast calyx of Heaven. Our beliefs needed pruning, that they might bring forth more fruit: and so Science came. I, The artist, fought with a Knight that was cased in a mail of gold; and my weapon, with all my art, would not penetrate his armor. Gold is a soft metal, but makes the hardest hauberk of all. What shall I do to pierce this covering ? For I am hungry for this man, this business man of stocks and dry-goods, and now it seems as if there were no pleasure nor hope nor life for me until I win him to my side. My Desire is round, It is a great globe. If my desire were no bigger than this world It were no bigger than a pin's head. But this world is to the world I want As a cinder to Sirius. I Am startled at the gigantic suggestions in this old story of the Serpent who introdu...