The Masque of Shadows: And Other PoemsW.H. Allen, 1884 - 222 páginas |
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Página 138 - The time of parting with the man,—with slow Sad loving speech said, " Go : I may not bid thee stay with me, poor friend, That to the common end Of weary men draw'st nigh, and (being man) Labourest beneath the ban Of the all-conquering pain and may'st not bear The bliss thyself didst rear In thy high fancy. Go : I love thee still,— Better, perchance,—and fill Thy destiny; for Fate is over all, And one may not recall The ordinance of God that fashion'd us, Albeit despiteous And very sad it seem.
Página 36 - The knight sits bent with eyes intent Upon the dying fire ; Sad dreams and strange in sooth do range Before the troubled sire. He sees the maid the past years laid Upon his breast to sleep, Long dead in sin, laid low within The grave unblest and deep.
Página 202 - Of gold and azure; and the swell Of clarions, co-ordinate To mystic harmonies, did wait, With cadences most grave and sweet, Upon the rhythm of their feet. So goodly were they of aspect And in such pictured raiment deck'd Of say and samite, there is none, Minstrel or bard, beneath the sun, That could have sung of their array As it befits to sing...