Poems Dramatic and Lyrical
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217741637
Paperback|9780217741637
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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: CIRCE This is the fair witch Circe, queen divine, The daughter of the Sun: her charming Rests on her ivory shoulder at command: She holds a chalice of enchanted wine, The sweet wine sweeter from the rosy hand. She sits within a grove of gray wych-elms, And sings across the waves with siren breath, To call her lovers in from twilight realms, To crowd their foolish sails for love and death. And near the rocking breakers, drear and dread, She hath a lordly palace of delight, And a rich chamber where her couch is spread With gems like orient sunrise, flashing light; Ruby and opal, sard and sardonyx In soft effulgence mix; Beryl and chrysolite Beam on her brow by night: Her drowsy lips are kissed By rays of amethyst. A loom is in her chamber, purple-flecked A giant web expands, whereon is wrought Nature in all her colours, fancy-caught; Above that web two Cupids rosy-necked, Almost alive in tinted Parian rock, Mingle their locks together, each gauzed wing Trembles and fans with light aerial shock. As when two bees within one peony swing, These brother Loves embrace, Rosed with the shadow of the rose's face. With fragrant mouths they seem to inter- breathe, And there is passion in their lips of stone, That gives the icy marble living grace, And flushes underneath: As on the snow-cloud grows The dawn's red undertone, When lisping zephyr blows. And on each image from a flickering fire Of cedar logs and bay-wood heaped behind Reddens the flame and shimmers at its spire. But of those Loves is neither sculptured blind. One holds a rose?that means long love desire: One holds an asphodel?that means reward. And on their brows is coral-berried yew, An emblem harsh and hard, That means?ah, well a day, ? For lovers false and lovers true, Sleep...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217741637 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217741630 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 106 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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