Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MAETERLINCK, by JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY


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TO MAETERLINCK, by                    
First Line: Weaver of dreams like cloudy tapestries
Last Line: The awful eyes of the unhurried norns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newberry, J. S.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Yale University


WEAVER of dreams like cloudy tapestries,
With runic symbols curiously wrought,
Half-guessed at in the gloom, the mystic keys
That guard strange treasuries of secret thought;

Painter of haunted gardens gray with time,
Dark, dreamy forests stretching to the sea,
Grim castles blackened by unwhispered crime,
And lifeless marshes palled with mystery;

Singer of moonlight music that disparts
The dim, strained silence of the summer night
With passion too intense for human hearts,
And horror shuddering itself from sight;

The sense of fugitive, forgotten things
Stirs through the twilight beauty of thy bars,
Strange gleams of knowledge, as of hidden springs
That seep their way through fresh arbutus stars.

Far off we hear the full sea's pulsing beat,
Through all his lofty oaks the wood-god mourns,
We dare not look, lest, in the dark, we meet
The awful eyes of the unhurried Norns.





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