The book of earth

COLLECTED POEMS—_3 Vols._ THE LORD OF MISRULE A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE THE WINE-PRESS WALKING SHADOWS—_Prose_ TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVERN SHERWOOD THE ENCHANTED ISLAND AND OTHER...

In the still garden that Pythagoras made, The Temple of the Muses, firm as truth, Lucid as beauty, the white marriage-song Made visible, of beauty and truth in one, Flushed with...

_Write not thy thoughts on snow._ _Grave them in rock to front the thundering sky._ _From Time’s proud feast, when it is time to go,_ _Take the dark road; bid one more world goo...

“What wars destroyed it, and how long ago?” I asked him. Slowly lifting his grey head, He stared at me in wonder. “This bleak land Was always thus. Our bread was always black An...

I have built bridges. Armies tread them now. The rains will come. The torrents will roll down And sweep them headlong to the sea, one day. I have painted pictures. Let cicalas c...

At daybreak they pressed on. Strange hills arose Clustering before them, hills whose fragrant turf, Softer than velvet, hid what savage hearts! At noon they saw, beside the road...

_Vivat Linnæus!_ And out the old Master came, Jauntily as a throstle-cock in Spring, His big bright eyes aglow; the fine curved beak, The kindly lips, the broad well-sculptured...

There dwelt that eager mind, whom fools deride For laced and periwigged verses on his flowers; Forgetting how he strode before his age, And how his grandson caught from his righ...

And, while he stood in silence by her grave, Hearing the ropes creak as they lowered her down Into the cold dark hollow, while he breathed The smell of the moist earth, those ca...

_Many are called, few chosen_, quietly breathed Shadow-of-a-Leaf, in exquisite undertone One phrase of the secret music.... He did not hear. Lamarck—all too impatiently he flung...

The rest filed in, mere adjuncts, modest foils. Hooker and Lubbock and Huxley took their chairs On Henslow’s left. The beautiful gaitered legs, By their divine prerogative, on h...

Ah, but his task, his endless task on earth, Bent his head earthward. He must find the way Before he claimed the heights. No Newton he; Though men began to acclaim him and his l...