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Poems and Dramas of George Cabot Lodge (1)
Poems and Dramas of George Cabot Lodge - 1 Author:George Cabot Lodge Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It... more » has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: My Love, thine eyes have been to me Like to a bird that singeth in the night To one who waits the coming of the light Through the enormous solitude of sea. Thy beauty fell upon my mind Like song to one within a darkling land Who, with fear on him like a bloodless hand, Hears the large, hurrying whisper of the wind. My Love, thy heart is like a prayer To one who, dying at the gates of morn, Stirless, in splendid effort and great scorn, Sends forth his soul to meet the last despair. And oh, thy Love is as a road To one who waits in deserts of the soul, And sees through Life, whose waves of fever roll, The waking Sorrow in the breast of God. SONG Out of one heart the birds and I together, Earth hushed in twilight, Low through the live-oaks hung heavy with silver, Gemmed with the sky-light, Under the great wet star Shaking with light, we jar Lute-voiced the silence with intervalled music. While under the margined world the slow sun lingers, Flaming earth's portal, Over the lilac dusk spreads his great fingers -- Earth is immortal! While the frail beauty dies, Dream in the dreamer's eyes, . All the good gladness turns praise for the singers. Hark, 't is the breath of life! Hush! and I need it; Northern, gigantic, -- Questing the silences, herding the sudden foam Down the Atlantic; Leaves from the autumn's store Shrill at my desert door, They and...« less