第 4 节
作者:悟来悟去      更新:2021-02-20 18:42      字数:9322
  shall say to you Since you never asked me to。
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  The Tree of Song
  I sang my songs for the rest;       For you I am still; The tree of my song
  is bare   On its shining hill。
  For you came like a lordly wind;        And the leaves were whirled Far as
  forgotten things     Past the rim of the world。
  The tree of my song stands bare         Against the blue  I gave my songs
  to the rest;   Myself to you。
  The Giver
  You bound strong sandals on my feet;           You gave me bread and wine;
  And sent me under sun and stars;        For all the world was mine。
  Oh; take the sandals off my feet;        You know not what you do; For all
  my world is in your arms;       My sun and stars are you。
  April Song
  Willow; in your April gown         Delicate and gleaming; Do you mind in
  years gone by     All my dreaming?
  Spring was like a call to me        That I could not answer; I was chained
  to loneliness;    I; the dancer。
  Willow;   twinkling   in   the   sun; Still   your   leaves   and   hear   me;   I   can
  answer spring at last;     Love is near me!
  The Wanderer
  I saw the sunset…colored sands;         The Nile like flowing fire between;
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  Where Rameses stares forth serene; And Ammon's heavy temple stands。
  I saw the rocks where long ago;         Above the sea that cries and breaks;
  Swift Perseus with Medusa's snakes Set free the maiden white like snow。
  And many skies have covered me;             And many winds have blown me
  forth;    And   I   have   loved   the   green;   bright   north; And   I   have   loved   the
  cold; sweet sea。
  But what to me are north and south;          And what the lure of many lands;
  Since you have leaned to catch my hands And lay a kiss upon my mouth。
  The Years
  To…night I close my eyes and see A strange procession passing me
  The   years   before   I   saw   your   face   Go   by   me   with   a   wistful   grace;   They
  pass; the sensitive; shy years; As one who strives to dance; half blind with
  tears。
  The years went by and never knew That each one brought me nearer
  you; Their path was narrow and apart And yet it led me to your heart  Oh;
  sensitive;   shy   years;   oh;   lonely   years;   That   strove   to   sing   with   voices
  drowned in tears。
  Enough
  It is enough for me by day        To walk the same bright earth with him;
  Enough that over us by night         The same great roof of stars is dim。
  I   do   not   hope   to   bind   the   wind Or   set   a   fetter   on   the   sea      It   is
  enough to feel his love       Blow by like music over me。
  Come
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  Come; when the pale moon like a petal              Floats in the pearly dusk of
  spring; Come with arms outstretched to take me;               Come with lips pursed
  up to cling。
  Come; for life is a frail moth flying;         Caught in the web of the years
  that   pass; And   soon   we   two;   so   warm   and   eager;   Will   be   as   the   gray
  stones in the grass。
  Joy
  I am wild; I will sing to the trees;       I will sing to the stars in the sky; I
  love; I am loved; he is mine;        Now at last I can die!
  I  am   sandaled    with   wind    and   with   flame;   I   have   heart…fire   and
  singing to give; I can tread on the grass or the stars;             Now at last I can
  live!
  Riches
  I have no riches but my thoughts;         Yet these are wealth enough for me;
  My thoughts of you are golden coins            Stamped in the mint of memory;
  And   I   must   spend   them  all   in   song; For   thoughts;   as   well   as   gold;
  must be Left on the hither side of death          To gain their immortality。
  Dusk in War Time
  A  half…hour   more   and   you   will   lean  To   gather   me   close   in   the   old
  sweet way  But oh; to the woman over the sea                 Who will come at the
  close of day?
  A half…hour more and I will hear          The key in the latch and the strong;
  quick tread  But oh; the woman over the sea               Waiting at dusk for one
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  who is dead!
  Peace
  Peace flows into me      As the tide to the pool by the shore;      It is mine
  forevermore; It will not ebb like the sea。
  I am the pool of blue     That worships the vivid sky;       My hopes were
  heaven…high; They are all fulfilled in you。
  I am the pool of gold       When sunset burns and dies         You are my
  deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold。
  Moods
  I am the still rain falling;    Too tired for singing mirth  Oh; be the
  green fields calling;   Oh; be for me the earth!
  I am the brown bird pining        To leave the nest and fly  Oh; be the
  fresh cloud shining;    Oh; be for me the sky!
  Houses of Dreams
  You    took   my   empty    dreams    And    filled  them   every   one   With
  tenderness and nobleness;      April and the sun。
  The old empty dreams        Where my thoughts would throng Are far too
  full of happiness    To even hold a song。
  Oh; the empty dreams were dim          And the empty dreams were wide;
  They were sweet and shadowy houses          Where my thoughts could hide。
  But you took my dreams away          And you made them all come true
  My thoughts have no place now to play;        And nothing now to do。
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  Lights
  When we come home at night and close the door;               Standing together
  in the shadowy room;        Safe in our own love and the gentle gloom; Glad
  of familiar wall and chair and floor;
  Glad to leave far below the clanging city;          Looking far downward to
  the glaring street     Gaudy with light; yet tired with many feet; In both of
  us wells up a wordless pity;
  Men have tried hard to put away the dark;          A million lighted windows
  brilliantlyInlay with squares of gold the winter night; But to us standing
  here   there   comes   the   starkSense   of   the   lives   behind   each   yellow   light;
  And not one wholly joyous; proud; or free。
  〃I Am Not Yours〃
  I am not yours; not lost in you;       Not lost; although I long to be Lost as
  a candle lit at noon;    Lost as a snowflake in the sea。
  You love me; and I find you still         A spirit beautiful and bright; Yet I
  am I; who long to be       Lost as a light is lost in light。
  Oh plunge me deep in love  put out           My senses; leave me deaf and
  blind; Swept by the tempest of your love;         A taper in a rushing wind。
  Doubt
  My soul lives in my body's house;          And you have both the house and
  her  But sometimes she is less your own           Than a wild; gay adventurer;
  A restless and an eager wraith;        How can I tell what she will do  Oh; I
  am sure of my body's faith;       But what if my soul broke faith with you?
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  The Wind
  A   wind    is  blowing   over  my   soul;   I  hear   it  cry  the  whole  night
  through  Is there no peace for me on earth        Except with you?
  Alas;   the   wind   has   made   me   wise; Over   my   naked   soul   it   blew;
  There is no peace for me on earth        Even with you。
  Morning
  I went out on an April morning          All alone; for my heart was high; I
  was a child of the shining meadow;         I was a sister of the sky。
  There in the windy flood of morning           Longing lifted its weight from
  me; Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering;