Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOUR SONGS, by EDITH JABSON


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FOUR SONGS, by                    
First Line: Blaze not your glory
Last Line: In the centre of space.
Subject(s): Gold; Legends


I

Blaze not your glory
Among the green leaves,
For gold makes a story
And a legend weaves.

A tale of Pornic glitters
In a dark grave:
And sweets grow to bitters
On a salt wave.

But our legend lingers
On the fresh air:
And I run my fingers
Through your gold hair!

II

Why shouldn't it be gold?
For gold has tints of rust;
And I've a flame that burns
Deeper than dust.

Somewhere behind the mist
Of this wall, called flesh,
My moods got tangled
In a strange mesh.

And now I'm but giving
What was given me --
Star-frosted England,
Blood-burning Italy!

III

Oh, sail away with all of me
And take my passion out to sea,
And drop it on a salt wave
And let that be my grave.

And as I drift from shore to shore
Forever and forever more,
I'll cry your beauty everywhere
From hemisphere to hemisphere!

IV

Not many years now
Shall I be --
Nothing to listen to,
Nothing to see.

What will be worth then
Having no pain?
Nothing to lose and
Nothing to gain!

If I can't remember
And can't foresee,
There will be no tides
Flowing in me.

The only motion
I shall know
Will be this eternal
Ebb and flow --

Of the earth rolling
In its race
Round the sun
In the centre of space.





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