Terra Tenebrarum, Love's Jestbook and Other Verses (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: T3EYOND the wide and wandering verge of land Whose seas are silence, and its streets are dream, They throng, the vague and myriad-laden stream, Where twilight falls about the encircling strand; Queen of this realm, whence sad remembrance banned Troubles no more, with tender sway supreme Passion long-tost afar and pain extreme She soothes with spirit of pure and calm command. So many times they come about her knees, Craving the poppy from her lustrous hair, That she, beholding how they find no ease, Nor flee the stress in waking, anywhere, Breathes at the last for ever her kiss of peace, Charm against sorrow, and joy, and slow despair. " il pii1 basso loco e il piu oscuro, E il pii1 Iontan dal ciel che tutto gira." Inf. ix. T SAW the low earth whizzing round its track, As 'twere a soul pursued beyond repose; Here scathed in flame, here clenched with arctic snows, Urgent in vain, yet looking never back: Round it the perilous pit and smoky rack Rolled to the Night of naught no spirit knows; Wall upon wall of swallowing shades that close Suns in their gulfs that glimmer, eyelessly black. Time was not there, save when with alien tone Out of that dust to skies laid waste and stern A sound of burdens swam through space eterne, Laughter and tears of lives that make their moan; Then silence through aeons fell?round the world's return On the endless journey involved fleeing alone."altro che giuoco Son 1'opre de' mortali ? ed e men vano Delia menzogna il vero ? " /FT, in the very stress of action, moves Some dread arch-enemy within us, bold To try the tortuous reason, and to hold Him monarch of those labyrinthine groves: Fool! he doth whisper, shall the Night restore? Thee the wan wastes of Nothingness enfold: Wherefore, ...