Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HELLENICA: 1, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight hath veiled his eyes Last Line: Where I met philemon dreaming. Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
I Twilight hath veiled his eyes In the blue silence, Sophron, Who dreams of the morning And white tides. II Here, in the cloudy night, Murmurs the wind of ocean, Bearing tidings of ships To a sailor home from the sea. III Bird-haunted silences Are troubled with wings of memory, But the swallow returns not Unto the roof of Charis. IV Light shrouds his dream In a silver urn, While the dust that he forsook, Bears once more The flesh that one was longing. V High on the purple mountain An eagle soars, But below in the valley Only the wind from the stars Remembers the flame Shrined immortal within this rustling hollow. VI Under the columned pine A poet sleeps, With the swinging arch of stars Making music above him. VII Spring and the coming of swallows Opened her bridal day, But darker wings shadowed the door, And her spouse now mourns in vain By another bed, Where reeds sway over her pillow. VIII Light fades from the sky, And the blue Thessalian hills Grieve for the glory departed Of one who sailed at dawn for the morning star. IX Here, on the rain-washed hillside, Where the light dies over the grasses, Myrrha bears on her breast The little child Who led her home to the shadows. X Wind, sweep gently Over the bent narcissi Bowed with the sighs Of a shepherd who flutes here lonely. XI When spring comes over the mountain From southern valleys, Mela stirs on her couch of woven violets, For a low wind pulls at her heart That grasses cover. XII Cicada, pulsing alone in the summer noontide, Sing of wild-haunted glades Of mossy coolness. So shall my heart remember The tangled light Where I met Philemon dreaming. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD AN EPITAPH, INTENDED FOR HIMSELF by JAMES BEATTIE MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS AND HOW HE GAINED THEM by ROBERT SOUTHEY |
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