Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NYMPHS, by KATHARINE TYNAN


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First Line: Where are ye now, o beautiful girls of the mountain
Last Line: Vanished and flown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Nymphs


WHERE are ye now, O beautiful girls of the mountain,
Oreads all?
Nothing at all stirs here save the drip of the fountain;
Answers our call
Only the heart-glad thrush, in the Vale of Thrushes;
Stirs in the brake
But the dew-bright ears of the hare in his couch of rushes
Listening, awake.

Flashes awhile the fin of a trout in the waters
Silver and cool.
Where are ye, flowers, maids of the woods, and the daughters
Of river and pool?
Clad in silver, wrought with roses and pansies,
Many a leaf;
Lovely your milk-white arms linked in the dances:
Gone for our grief.

Delicate hands, soft touches out of the twilight,
Lighter than wings;
Whispering voices heard in the dawn and the shy light;
Something that clings
Like scented hair blown back on the lightest zephyr.
Where are ye gone?
Dewy eyes like the eyes of a milk-white heifer,
Vanished and flown.





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