Category: Poetry
Punctuation, spelling and obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Footnotes from the original text have been collated at the end of this e-book and references to them have been amended according to the new footnote numbering used in this e-book.
The fisherman, a primitive world's breed, The sum of Christian and of Satyr blood, Returning from his fruitful fishing path, Looked upon her as on an evil tempter And on a sacre...
7. Chapter 7I slept and woke; even my sorrow's ogress Had turned into a fairy sweetly sad! And in my hands I found both, laurel bough And reed! I drank the fragrant morning breath Of pines;...
5. Chapter 5Cyprus's shores have not beheld thee born of foam; A foreign Vulcan forged thee on a diamond anvil With a gold hammer; and the bard who touches thee, Bound with thy magic beauty...
4. Chapter 4At the sight of such splendor, the poet lies palsy-stricken on this bank of the river, the "graceless, barren, and desert bank" unable to rise and sing. Then Life, like a mercif...
1. Chapter 1Punctuation, spelling and obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Footnotes from the original text have been collated at the end of this e-book and references to them have...
3. Chapter 3A new blood filled the herbs, And even the strong-stemmed plants Waxed stronger. Men war-glad are risen! And the waterfalls roar In the mountain's heart; Men war-glad are risen...
2. Chapter 2Even in the winter's heart, the almonds are ablossom! And lo, the angry month is gay with sunshine laughter, While to this beauty round about a crown you weave, O naked rocks an...
8. Chapter 8Our pain is as reward and treasure found! The golden seal of harmony has stamped us, And while Death touches us, we glory, victors! We tremble; hail O rhythm's thrice-sacred tre...