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Some other girl is standing dumb��
Fearing her love will go。
II
Oh white steam over the roofs�察�blow high��
Oh chimes in the tower ring clear and free ��
Oh sun awake in the covered sky��
For the man I love�察�loves me I 。 。 。
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Oh drifting steam disperse and die��
Oh tower stand shrouded toward the south��
Fate heard afar my happy cry��
And laid her finger on my mouth。
III
The dusk was blue with blowing mist��
The lights were spangles in a veil��
And from the clamor far below
Floated faint music like a wail。
It voiced what I shall never speak��
My heart was breaking all night long��
But when the dawn was hard and gray��
My tears distilled into a song。
IV
I said�察 �I have shut my heart
As one shuts an open door��
That Love may starve therein
And trouble me no more。;
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But over the roofs there came
The wet new wind of May��
And a tune blew up from the curb
Where the street´pianos play。
My room was white with the sun
And Love cried out in me��
;I am strong�察�I will break your heart
Unless you set me free。;
A CRY
OH�察�there are eyes that he can see��
And hands to make his hands rejoice��
But to my lover I must be
Only a voice。
Oh�察�there are breasts to bear his head��
And lips whereon his lips can lie��
But I must be till I am dead
Only a cry。
CHANCE
How many times we must have met
Here on the street as strangers do��
Children of chance we were�察�who passed
The door of heaven and never knew。
IMMORTAL
So soon my body will have gone
Beyond the sound and sight of men��
And tho' it wakes and suffers now��
Its sleep will be unbroken then��
But oh�察�my frail immortal soul
That will not sleep forevermore��
A leaf borne onward by the blast��
A wave that never finds the shore。
AFTER DEATH
Now while my lips are living
Their words must stay unsaid��
And will my soul remember
To speak when I am dead��
Yet if my soul remembered
You would not heed it�察�dear��
For now you must not listen��
And then you could not hear。
TESTAMENT
I SAID�察 �I will take my life
And throw it away��
I who was fire and song
Will turn to clay。;
;I will lie no more in the night
With shaken breath��
I will toss my heart in the air
To be caught by Death。;
But out of the night I heard��
Like the inland sound of the sea��
The hushed and terrible sob
Of all humanity。
Then I said�察 �Oh who am I
To scorn God to his face��
I will bow my head and stay
And suffer with my race。;
GIFTS
I GAVE my first love laughter��
I gave my second tears��
I gave my third love silence
Thru all the years。
My first love gave me singing��
My second eyes to see��
But oh�察�it was my third love
Who gave my soul to me。
IV
FROM THE SEA
ALL beauty calls you to me�察�and you seem��
Past twice a thousand miles of shifting sea��
To reach me。 You are as the wind I breathe
Here on the ship's sun´smitten topmost deck��
With only light between the heavens and me。
I feel your spirit and I close my eyes��
Knowing the bright hair blowing in the sun��
The eager whisper and the searching eyes。
* * * * * *
Listen�察�I love you。 Do not turn your face
Nor touch me。 Only stand and watch awhile
The blue unbroken circle of the sea。
Look far away and let me ease my heart
Of words that beat in it with broken wing。
Look far away�察�and if I say too much��
Forget that I am speaking。 Only watch��
How like a gull that sparkling sinks to rest��
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The foam´crest drifts along a happy wave
Toward the bright verge�察�the boundary of the world。
* * * * * *
I am so weak a thing�察�praise me for this��
That in some strange way I was strong enough
To keep my love unuttered and to stand
Altho' I longed to kneel to you that night
You looked at me with ever´calling eyes。
Was I not calm�拭 �And if you guessed my love
You thought it something delicate and free��
Soft as the sound of fir´trees in the wind��
Fleeting as phosphorescent stars in foam。
Yet in my heart there was a beating storm
Bending my thoughts before it�察�and I strove
To say too little lest I say too much��
And from my eyes to drive love's happy shame。
Yet when I heard your name the first far time
It seemed like other names to me�察�and I
Was all unconscious�察�as a dreaming river
That nears at last its long predestined sea��
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And when you spoke to me�察�I did not know
That to my life's high altar came its priest。
But now I know between my God and me
You stand forever�察�nearer God than I��
And in your hands with faith and utter joy
I would that I could lay my woman's soul。
* * * * * *
Oh�察�my love
To whom I cannot come with any gift
Of body or of soul�察�I pass and go。
But sometimes when you hear blown back to you
My wistful�察�far´off singing touched with tears��
Know that I sang for you alone to hear��
And that I wondered if the wind would bring
To him who tuned my heart its distant song。
So might a woman who in loneliness
Had borne a child�察�dreaming of days to come��
Wonder if it would please its father's eyes。
But long before I ever heard your name��
Always the undertone's unchanging note
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In all my singing had prefigured you��
Foretold you as a spark foretells a flame。
Yet I was free as an untethered cloud
In the great space between the sky and sea��
And might have blown before the wind of joy
Like a bright banner woven by the sun。
I did not know the longing in the night
You who have waked me cannot give me sleep。
All things in all the world can rest�察�but I��
Even the smooth brief respite of a wave
When it gives up its broken crown of foam��
Even that little rest I may not have。
And yet all quiet loves of friends�察�all joy
In all the piercing beauty of the world
I would give upgo blind forevermore��
Rather than have God blot from out my soul
Remembrance of your voice that said my name。
* * * * * *
For us no starlight stilled the April fields��
No birds awoke in darkling trees for us��
RIVERS TO THE SEA
Yet where we walked the city's street that night
Felt in our feet the singing fire of spring��
And in our path we left a trail of light
Soft as the phosphorescence of the sea
When night submerges in the vessel's wake
A heaven of unborn evanescent stars。
VIGNETTES OVERSEAS
I
Off Gibraltar
BEYOND the sleepy hills of Spain��
The sun goes down in yellow mist��
The sky is fresh with dewy stars
Above a sea of amethyst。
Yet in the city of my love
High noon burns all the heavens bare
For him the happiness of light��
For me a delicate despair。
II
Off Algiers
Oh give me neither love nor tears��
Nor dreams that sear the night with fire��
Go lightly on your pilgrimage
Unburdened by desire。
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Forget me for a month�察�a year��
But�察�oh�察�beloved�察�think of me
When unexpected beauty burns
Like sudden sunlight on the sea。
III
Naples
Nisida and Prosida are laughing in the light��
Capri is a dewy flower lifting into sight��
Posilipo kneels and looks in the burnished sea��
Naples crowds her million roofs close as close can be��
Round about the mountain's crest a flag of smoke is hung
Oh when God made Italy he was gay and young��
IV
Capri
When beauty grows too great to bear
How shall I ease me of its ache��
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For beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break。
Now while I watch the dreaming sea
With isles like flowers against her breast��
Only one voice in all the world
Could give me rest。
V
Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love
It answered me with silence��
Silence above。
I asked the darkened sea
Down where the fishers go
It answered me with silence��
Silence below。
Oh�察�I could give him weeping��
Or I could give him song
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But how can I give silence
My whole life long��
VI
Ruins of Paestum
On lowlands where the temples lie
The marsh´grass mingles with the flowers��
Only the little songs of birds
Link the unbroken hours。
So in the end�察�above my heart
Once like the city wild and gay��
The slow white stars will pass by night��
The swift brown birds by day。
VII
Rome
Oh for the rising moon
Over the roofs of Rome��
And swallows in the dusk
Circling a darkened dome��
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Oh for the measured dawns
That pass with folded wings
How can I let them go
With unremembered things��
VIII
Florence
The bells ring over the Anno��
Midnight�察�the long�察�long chime��
Here in the quivering darkness
I am afraid of time。
Oh�察�gray bells cease your tolling��
Time takes too much from me��
And yet to rock and river
He gives eternity。
IX
Villa Serbelloni�察�Bellaggio
The fountain shivers lightly in the rain��
The laurels drip�察�the fading roses fall��
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The marble satyr plays a mournful strain
That leaves the rainy fragrance musical。
Oh dripping laurel�察�Phoebus sacred tree��
Would that swift Daphne's lot might come to me��
Then would I still my soul and for an hour
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