Category: Poetry
PAGE Dedication vii SIGHT AND INSIGHT The Mistress of Vision 3 Contemplation 14 ‘By Reason of Thy Law’ 18 The Dread of Height 21 Orient Ode 26 New Year’s Chimes 36 From the Night of Forebeing 40 Any Saint 58 Assumpta Maria 67 The After Woman 74 Grace of the Way 77 Retrospect 8...
How far am I from heavenly liberty, That play at policy with change and fate, Who should my soul from foreign broils keep free, In the fast-guarded frontiers of its single state!
5. Chapter 5In a little joy, in a little joy, We wear awhile thy sore insignia, Nor know thy heel o’ the neck. O Mother! Mother! Then what use knew I of thy solemn robes, But as a child, to...
2. Chapter 2Thou art the incarnated Light Whose Sire is aboriginal, and beyond Death and resurgence of our day and night; From him is thy vicegerent wand With double potence of the black an...
3. Chapter 3Multitudinous ascend I, Dreadful as a battle arrayed, For I bear you whither tend I; Ye are I: be undismayed! I, the Ark that for the graven Tables of the Law was made; Man’s ow...
4. Chapter 4SHE did not love to love; but hated him For making her to love, and so her whim From passion taught misprision to begin; And all this sin Was because love to cast out had no ski...
1. Chapter 1PAGE Dedication vii SIGHT AND INSIGHT The Mistress of Vision 3 Contemplation 14 ‘By Reason of Thy Law’ 18 The Dread of Height 21 Orient Ode 26 New Year’s Chimes 36 From the Nigh...
7. Chapter 7(The metre of the second of these two translations is an experiment. The splendid fourteen-syllable metre of Chapman I have treated after the manner of Drydenian rhyming heroics...