Poems Author:James Vila Blake 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: Song 29 Life, go thou on without my will! For love hath taken hold, and works repairs More beautiful than aught my cares Can do, or tears or prayers. Awak... more »e, my boy! Thy cheek hath kissed Its twin rose, Dawn! Awake for joy! A day is born, And earth is blest! For under tufts of grass lies the lark's nest, And sparkle beads of dew on the earth's breast, Far overhead the white clouds are sailing, And on the hills soft shadows are trailing. Now sleep, boy bright! Sweet, go to sleep! With eider-down Of dreams, brown Night Shall weight thee down, And fold thee deep. The water-gate is shut and the mill stops; The evening star climbs over the hill tops; White fleece, like wool, descends on the meadow, And on the owl's nest deepens the shadow. QUINTRAINS Simply to see things as they are, this, this Is poetry: for beauty, power and bliss Cannot consist in what is not. Thus he Who sees the truth, liveth with poetry, And singeth when he tells what he doth see. When thou hast climbed a tree, then pluck the cherry A bird hath pecked: they know a rich, ripe berry. So in the climb of life, follow the merry Ely the singers of the earth, buoyed above strife: They know the best and sweetest things of life. Thins, of thy lot in life as one great whole; Then wouldst thou change it ? Nay, not for thy soul: Some one sweet thing thou hast, some sacred bliss, Some friend, child, love, thought, hope, too sweet to miss! The secret of contentment, this, Quintrains 31 Thh earth not only round the sun doth fall, But the sun too doth roam Through space, they say, drawing his planets all. Well, whirl along! ye cannot leap the wall Around my soul's own home. When the bright sun shines, Then let thy heart be gay: But w...« less