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. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... HALF LIGHT Over my morning garden fell A slender shadow--I loved it well; But under the gradual glare of day The tender shadow vanished away. At night again, when the moon rose high, From the dreaming casement I could descry, Shy as a fawn on the silvery plain The delicate shadow had come again. "FIN AL ...
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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. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... HALF LIGHT Over my morning garden fell A slender shadow--I loved it well; But under the gradual glare of day The tender shadow vanished away. At night again, when the moon rose high, From the dreaming casement I could descry, Shy as a fawn on the silvery plain The delicate shadow had come again. "FIN AL MARINA" I passed an amber villa set on high Above the breaking music of the sea, Within a realm of sun and cloudless sky, Upon the crest of a declivity. Half cinctured by cool cypress to the south, To keep the untempered sun from breaking through, All free with silvery olives to the north That courted openly the sun's full view. Shadow and sun thus graciously combined To lay their gifts before the golden door, Where hidden lovers held their lives enshrined Within a dream of beauty evermore. TWO GARDENS One overhung with sense of dreams still sleeping Beneath the breath of lilies past their bloom, A vigil through unawakened seasons keeping For some heard echo of predestined doom. One clearly offering its cool embrasure To vernal gifts of buds and melodies, Awake to welcome each appropriate pleasure That falls from golden leaved futurities. And neither of the other's nearness guessing, Because of leaf-enshadowed walls between, But, unawares, a mutual sky possessing, And one eve-star, empatronal, serene. WATER FETE From the areas of evening Fell a sudden fairy dream, Laughing lights and hidden music, Jewelled boats upon the stream. Past the bank of sombre pine trees, O'er the dark and quiet river, Floats the laughing, lighted image On and past and out forever. AN EGYPTIAN TOMB I We watched the far Nile's beauty opaline Until its last gleam vanished; then we turned Toward the sands. There at thine entrance Thou, Oh Desert haunted by Divinity, Didst...
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