Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 12. TO YONE NOGUCHI, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen bending ladies in a mist Last Line: A night-song half a gleam and half a sigh. Subject(s): Noguchi, Yone (1875-1947) | ||||||||
I HAVE seen bending ladies in a mist Gathering dewy butterflies with fans Before full day takes off their burden of moon-drops -- O, faint delicious ladies with wistaria Dropt down their silken backs. And I have seen Your clear pure mountain, firm inverted lily, Rapt Fusiyama, through tall fringy waves. There is no dream I have not some time dreamed Of your far land rare and desirable: And in this greyer place of shadow and veil I now prepare a poem my heart has loved And filled with solemn Autumn as it falls On vision and longing in this greyer place To send to you because my heart has loved Your murmurs of hushed poetry that wait On stillness to express what sound must lose: This poem of earth and change I send to you Because I think of you among your poems In your far land dear and desirable (Land of such haunting hands and eyes and hair, Blossoms and pines and foam of invisible sea), Where now perhaps you are withdrawn to meet A night-song half a gleam and half a sigh. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 6. GRUACH by GORDON BOTTOMLEY IN JANUARY by GORDON BOTTOMLEY THE END OF THE WORLD by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS DAY BEFORE DAWN by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A DEAD MOTHER by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A HYMN OF FORM by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A HYMN OF IMAGINATION by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A HYMN OF TOUCH by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A LADY OF PARIS BORDONE by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |
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