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Title: The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems
Author: Richard Le Gallienne
Release Date: December 14, 2003 [eBook #10457]
Language: English
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THE LONELY DANCER AND OTHER POEMS
BY
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
1913
WITH A FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT BY
IRMA LE GALLIENNE
TO
IRMA
ALL THE WAY
Not all my treasure hath the bandit Time
Locked in his glimmering caverns of the Past:
Fair women dead and friendships of old rhyme,
And noble dreams that had to end at last:—
Ah! these indeed; and from youth's sacristy
Full many a holy relic hath he torn,
Vessels of mystic faith God filled for me,
Holding them up to Him in life's young morn.
All these are mine no more—Time hath them all,
Time and his adamantine gaoler Death:
Despoilure vast—yet seemeth it but small,
When unto thee I turn, thy bloom and breath
Filling with light and incense the last shrine,
Innermost, inaccessible,—yea, thine.
CONTENTS
THE LONELY DANCER
I
FLOS AEVORUM ALL THE WORDS IN ALL THE WORLD
I SAID—I CARE NOT
ALL THE WIDE WORLD IS BUT THE THOUGHT OF YOU
LIGHTNINGS MAY FLICKER ROUND MY HEAD
THE AFTERNOON IS LONELY FOR YOUR FACE
SORE IN NEED WAS I OF A FAITHFUL FRIEND
I THOUGHT, BEFORE MY SUNLIT TWENTIETH YEAR
II
TO A BIRD AT DAWN ALMA VENUS AH! DID YOU EVER HEAR THE SPRING
APRIL MAY IS BUILDING HER HOUSE SHADOW JUNE GREEN SILENCE SUMMER SONGS TO A WILD BIRD I CROSSED THE ORCHARD WALKING HOME
I MEANT TO DO MY WORK TO-DAY
HOW FAST THE YEAR IS GOING BY
AUGUST MOONLIGHT TO A ROSE INVITATION SUMMER GOING AUTUMN TREASURE WINTER THE MYSTIC FRIENDS THE COUNTRY GODS
III
TO ONE ON A JOURNEY HER PORTRAIT IMMORTAL SPRING'S PROMISES APRIL IS IN THE WORLD AGAIN
SINGING GO I
WHO WAS IT SWEPT AGAINST MY DOOR
FACE IN THE TOMB THAT LIES SO STILL
I KNOW NOT IN WHAT PLACE
RESURRECTION WHEN THE LONG DAY HAS FADED
HER EYES ARE BLUEBELLS NOW
THE DEAD AROSE
THE BLOOM UPON THE GRAPE
THE FRIEND ADORATION AT LAST I GOT A LETTER FROM THE DEAD
IV
SONGS FOR FRAGOLETTA
V
A BALLAD OF WOMAN AN EASTER HYMN BALLAD OF THE SEVEN O'CLOCK WHISTLE MORALITY
VI
FOR THE BIRTHDAY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON RICHARD WATSON GILDER IN A COPY OF FITZGERALD'S OMAR
VII
A BALLAD OF TOO MUCH BEAUTY SPRING IN THE PARIS CATACOMBS A FACE IN A BOOK TIME, BEAUTY'S FRIEND YOUNG LOVE LOVERS FOR A PICTURE BY ROSE CECIL O'NEIL LOVE IN SPAIN THE EYES THAT COME FROM IRELAND A BALLAD OF THE KIND LITTLE CREATURES BLUE FLOWER THE HEART UNSEEN THE SHIMMER OF THE SOUND A SONG OF SINGERS THE END
THE LONELY DANCER
I had no heart to join the dance,
I danced it all so long ago—
Ah! light-winged music out of France,
Let other feet glide to and fro,
Weaving new patterns of romance
For bosoms of new-fallen snow.
But leave me thus where I may hear
The leafy rustle of the waltz,
The shell-like murmur in my ear,
The silken whisper fairy-false
Of unseen rainbows circling near,
And the glad shuddering of the walls.
Another dance the dancers spin,
A shadow-dance of mystic pain,
And other partners enter in
And dance within my lonely brain—
The swaying woodland shod in green,
The ghostly dancers of the rain;
The lonely dancers of the sea,
Foam-footed on the sandy bar,
The wizard dance of wind and tree,
The eddying dance of stream and star;
Yea, all these dancers tread for me
A measure mournful and bizarre:
An echo-dance where ear is eye,
And sound evokes the shapes of things,
Where out of silence and a sigh
The sad world like a picture springs,
As, when some secret bird sweeps by,
We see it in the sound of wings.
Those human feet upon the floor,
That eager pulse of rhythmic breath,—
How sadly