The Silver Poppy A Novel Author:Arthur Stringer General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Canadian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustr... more »ations 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: CHAPTER IV THE WOBLD AND THE WOMAN Leave not thy slumbering melodies To dream too long within thine eyes ; Let not all time thy bosom hold Song in that overft-agrant fold, Lest thou a tardy gleaner prove And thy reluctant hand but move The overgoldened sheaf, to find Thy tenderest touch can never bind These thoughts too long unharvested -- Lest on some byway stern be shed That golden, sad, ungarnered grain, When thou canst sow nor reap again. John Hartley, " The Lost Voice." These souls of ours are like railway bridges -- they can be reconstructed even when the trains of temptation and trial are creeping over them. -- "The Silver Poppy." Hartley's first impression of Cordelia Vaughan was a happy confusion of yellows. Her hair, luxuriant and heavily massed on the small head, was a sort of tawny gold. Her skin, which more than once had been described as like old ivory, was in truth neither ivory nor olive, but almost a pale, rose-like yellow with a transfusing warmth to its pallor, as though the lights of an open fire were playing upon it. The eyes themselves seemed, at times, a soft, jade-like yellowish green, muffled, unsatisfied, often mournful, with a latent hint of tragedy, shading off in strong lights to asea gray; by lamplight showing a deep violet. In moments of excitement or exaltation they were slightly phosphorescent, glowing with an almost animal-like luminosity that temporarily re...« less