# A silver pool

Author: Field, Beulah

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77093

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+silver+pool+Field&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I have found me a darkling mistress, Who is all my need and desire; Her slave in a willing bondage, I bathe in her opal fire. She has given me gorgeous dawns From the rim of her saffron seas; There is joy in the burning wind That comes from her fronded keys. I know the grip of her brilliant days, And the scorching spell of her nights, When pagan gods seduce me With the lure of their heathen rites. I know the call of her hard, white roads, The choking heat of her rains, And I laugh in my soul with God, At the lash of her hurricanes. I have dipped in her amethyst bowl, And painted me splendid dreams, But I know the clutch of a dreadful fear, When her crawling jungle screams. I have felt the...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-silver-pool-77093/chapters/1/index.md)