The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems
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Of this and this occasion, sisterly In their resemblances, each effigy (C rowned with the same bright hair above the napes ite rounded firmness, and each body alert With such swift loveliness, that very rest Seemed a poised movement: .. .phantoms that im But a faint influence and could bless or hurt pressed No more than dreams. And these ghost things were she; For formless still, without identity,...
MoreOf this and this occasion, sisterly In their resemblances, each effigy (C rowned with the same bright hair above the napes ite rounded firmness, and each body alert With such swift loveliness, that very rest Seemed a poised movement: .. .phantoms that im But a faint influence and could bless or hurt pressed No more than dreams. And these ghost things were she; For formless still, without identity, Not one she seemed, not clear, but many and dim. One face among the legions of the street, Indifferent mystery, she was for him Something still uncreated, incomplete. IL Bright windy sunshine and the shadow of cloud Quicken the heavy summer to new birth Of life and motion on the drowsing earth; The huge elms stir, till all the air is loud With their awakening from the muffled sleep Of long hot days. And on the wavering line That marks the alternate ebb of shade and shine, Under the trees, a little group is deep In laughing talk. The shadow as it flows A cross them dims the lustre of a rose, Quenches the bright clear gold of hair, the green Of a girls dress, and life seems faint. The light Swings back, and in the rose a fire is seen, Gold hairs aflame and green grows emerald bright.
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