第 5 节
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僻处自说 更新:2021-02-21 12:01 字数:9322
Ledwidge; even!
GRACE HAZARD CONKLING
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DANDELION
LITTLE soldier with the golden helmet; O What are you guarding on
my lawn? You with your green gun And your yellow beard; Why do you
stand so stiff? There is only the grass to fight!
HILDA CONKLING
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RED ROOSTER
RED ROOSTER in your gray coop; O stately creature with tail…
feathers red and blue; Yellow and black; You have a comb gay as a parade
On your head: You have pearl trinkets On your feet: The short feathers
smooth along your back Are the dark color of wet rocks; Or the rippled
green of ships When I look at their sides through water。 I don't know how
you happened to be made So proud; so foolish; Wearing your coat of many
colors; Shouting all day long your crooked words; Loud 。 。 。 sharp 。 。 。 not
beautiful!
HILDA CONKLING
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VELVETS (BY A BED OF
PANSIES)
THIS pansy has a thinking face Like the yellow moon。 This one has a
face with white blots; I call him the clown。 Here goes one down the grass
With a pretty look of plumpness; She is a little girl going to school With
her hands in the pockets of her pinafore。 Her name is Sue。 I like this one;
in a bonnet; Waiting; Her eyes are so deep! But these on the other side;
These that wear purple and blue; They are the Velvets; The king with his
cloak; The queen with her gown; The prince with his feather。 These are
dark and quiet And stay alone。 I know you; Velvets; Color of Dark; Like
the pine…tree on the hill When stars shine!
HILDA CONKLING
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HE MOODS
THE Moods have laid their hands across my hair: The Moods have
drawn their fingers through my heart; My hair shall never more lie smooth
and bright; But stir like tide…worn sea…weed; and my heart Shall never
more be glad of small sweet things;… A wild rose; or a crescent moon;…a
book Of little verses; or a dancing child。 My heart turns crying from the
rose and book; My heart turns crying from the thin bright moon; And
weeps with useless sorrow for the child。 The Moods have loosed a wind to
vex my hair; And made my heart too wise; that was a child。
Now I shall blow like smitten candle…flame: I shall desire all things
that may not be: The years; the stars; the souls of ancient men; All tears
that must; and smiles that may not be; Yes; glimmering lights across a
windy ford; And vagrant voices on a darkened plain; And holy things; and
outcast things; and things; Far too remote; frail…bodied to be plain。
My pity and my joy are grown alike。 I cannot sweep the strangeness
from my heart。 The Moods have laid swift hands across my hair: The
Moods have drawn swift fingers through my heart。 FANNIE STEARNS
DAVIS
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HILL…FANTASY
SITTETH by the red cairn a brown One; a hoofed One; High upon the
mountain; where the grasses fail。 Where the ash…trees flourish far their
blazing Bunches to the sun; A brown One; a hoofed One; pipes against the
gale。 Up scrambled I then; furry fingers helping me。
I was on the mountain; wandering; wandering; No one but the pine
trees and the white birch knew。 Over rocks I scrambled; looked up and
saw that Strange Thing; Peaked ears and sharp horns; pricked against the
blue。
Oh; and; how he piped there! piped upon the high reeds Till the blue
air crackled like a frost…film on a pool! Oh; and how he spread himself;
like a child whom no one heeds; Tumbled chuckling in the brook; all sleek
and kind and cool!
He had berries 'twixt his horns; crimson…red as cochineal。; Bobbing;
wagging wantonly they tickled him; and oh; How his deft lips puckered
round the reed; seemed to chase and steal Sky…music; earth…music; tree…
music low! I said 〃Good…day; Thou!〃 He said; 〃Good…day; Thou!〃 Wiped
his reed against the spotted doe…skin on his back; He said; 〃Come up here;
and I will teach thee piping now。 While the earth is singing so; for tunes
we shall not Lack。〃
Up scrambled I then; furry fingers helping me。 Up scrambled I。 So we
sat beside the cairn。 Broad into my face laughed that horned Thing so
Naughtily。 Oh; it was a rascal of a woodland Satyr's bairn!
'So blow; and so; Thou! Move thy fingers faster; look! Move them like
the little leaves and whirling midges。 So! Soon ‘twill twist like tendrils
and out…twinkle like the lost brook。 Move thy fingers merrily; and blow!
Blow! Blow!〃
Brown One! Hoofed One! Beat time to keep me Straight。 Kick it on
the red stone; whistle in my ear。 Brush thy crimson berries in my face;
then hold Thy breath; for…wait! Joy comes bubbling to me lips。 I pipe; oh;
hear!
Blue sky; art glad of us? Green wood; art glad of us? Old hard…heart
mountain; dost thou hear me; how I blow? Far away the sea…isles swim in
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sun…haze luminous。 Each one has a color like the seven…splendor bow。
Wind; wind; wind; dost thou mind me how I pipe; Now? Chipmunk
chatt'ring in the beech; rabbit in the brake? Furry arm around my neck:
〃Oh; Thou art a brave one; Thou!〃 Satyr; little satyr…friend; my heart with
joy doth ache !
Sky…music; earth…music; tree…music tremulous; Water over steaming
rocks; water in the shade; Storm…tune and sun…tune; how they flock up
unto us; Sitting by the red cairn; gay and unafraid!
Brown One; Hoofed One; give me nimble hoofs; Thou! Give me furry
fingers and a secret furry tail! Pleasant are thy smooth horns: if their like
were on my brow Might I not abide here; till the strong sun fail?
Oh; the sorry brown eyes! Oh; the soft kind hand… touch; Sudden
brush of velvet ears across my wind…cool cheek! 〃Play…mate; Pipe…mate;
thou askest one good boon too much。 I could never find thee horns; though
day…long I seek。
〃Yet; keep the pipe; Thou: I will cut another one。 Keep the pipe and
play on it for all the world to hear。 Ah; but it was good once to sit together
in the sun! Though I have but half a soul; it finds thee very dear!
〃Wise Thing; Mortal Thing; yet my half…soul fears thee! Take the pipe
and go thy ways;quick now; for the sun Reels across the hot west and
stumbles dazzled to the sea。 Take the pipe; and oh…one kiss! then run; run;
run! run!〃
Silence on the mountain。 Lonely stands the high cairn; All the leaves
a…shivering; all the stones dead…gray。 O thou cold small pipe; which way is
fled that Satyr's bairn? I am lost and all alone; and down drops the day。
I was on the mountain; wandering; wandering There I got this Pipe o'
dreams。 Strange; when I blow; Something deep as human love starts a…
crying; troubling。 Is it only sky…music; earth…music low?
FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS
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THE MIRAGE
ACROSS the Bay are low…lying cliffs; Where stand fishermen's
cottages: I can barely distinguish them with the naked eye。 But to…day the
cliffs are lifted; escarpt; Perpendicular; mysterious; inaccessible; And those
sordid dwellings have become The magnificent fortified castles of Sea…
kings。
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
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THE ROAD BEYOND THE
TOWN
A ROAD goes up a pleasant hill; And a little house looks down: Ah!
but I see the roadway still And the day I left the town。
The day I left my father's home; It'