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Title: Poems

Author: Sophia M. Almon

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POEMS

BY

SOPHIE M. ALMON.



(For Private Circulation.)



April, 1889:
Printed for the Author by J. J. Anslow.
Windsor, N. S.

CONTENTS.

Sonnets:—

Crows.
Futurity.
There is no God.
Disappointment.
A Shallow.
Triumph.

Rondeaux:—

I Will Forget.
When Summer Comes.
It Might Have Been.
Brother and Friend.
Pourquoi?
For our Love's Sake.

Echoes.
Noon.
Pictures.
Eurydice.
Slack Tide.
An Evening in October.
Parted.
Tout pour L'Amour.
Soothing.

CROWS.

THEY stream across the fading western sky
 A sable cloud, far o'er the lonely leas;
 Now parting into scattered companies,
 Now closing up the broken ranks, still high
 And higher yet they mount, while, carelessly,
 Trail slow behind, athwart the moving trees
 A lingering few, 'round whom the evening breeze
 Plays with sad whispered murmurs as they fly.
A lonely figure, ghostly in the dim
 And darkening twilight, lingers in the shade
 Of bending willows: "Surely God has laid
 His curse on me," he moans, "my strength of limb
 And old heart-courage fail me, and I flee
 Bowed with fell terror at this augury."

FUTURITY.

WHAT of our life when this frail flesh lies low
 A withered clod, and the free soul has burst
 Through the world-fetters? Not of souls accursed
 With cherished lusts that mar them, those who sow
 Evil and reap the harvest, and who bow
 At Mammon's golden shrine, but those who thirst
 For Truth, and see not,—spirits deep immersed
 In doubt and trouble,—hearts that fain would know?
The soul is satisfied. The spirit trained
 For the divine, because the beautiful,
 Now with the body gone, free and unstained,
 Doubts swept away like clouds of scattering wool
 Before a blast,—e'er Heaven's pure paths are trod
 Is perfected to understand its God.

THERE IS NO GOD.

THERE is no God? If one should stand at noon
 Where the glow rests, and the warm sunlight plays,
 Where earth is gladdened by the cordial rays
 And blossoms answering, where the calm lagoon
 Gives back the brightness of the heart of June,
 And he should say: "There is no sun"—the day's
 Fair shew still round him,—should we lose the blaze
 And warmth, and weep that day has gone so soon?
Nay, there would be one word, one only thought,
 "The man is blind!" and throbs of pitying scorn
 Would rouse the heart, and stir the wondering mind.
 We feel, and see, and therefore know,—the morn
 With blush of youth ne'er left us till it brought
 Promise of full-grown day. "The man is blind!"

DISAPPOINTMENT.

THE light has left the hill-side. Yesterday
 These skies shewed blue against the dusky trees,
 The leaves' soft murmur in the evening breeze
 Was music, and the waves danced in the bay.
 Then was my heart, as ever, far away
 With you,—and I could see you as one sees
 A mirrored face,—and happiness and ease
 And hope were mine, in spite of long delay.
After these months of waiting, this is all!
 Hope, dead, lies coffined, shrouded in despair,
 With all the blessings of the outer air
 Forgot, 'neath the black covering of a pall.
 Only the darkening of the woodland ways,
 A heart's low moaning over wasted days.

A SHADOW.

THE world to-day is radiant, as I ne'er
 Could picture it in wildest dreaming, when
 For long, long hours I lay in flowery glen
 Or wooded copse, and tried in vain to tear
 The glamour from my eyes, and face the glare
 And tumult of the busy world of men.
 I staked my all, and won! and ne'er again
 Can my blest spirit know a heart's despair.
And yet—and yet—why should it be that now,
 When all my heart has longed for is at last
 Within my grasp, and I should be at rest,
 A ghostly Something rising in the glow
 Of Love's own fire, an uninvited guest,
 Taunts me with just one memory of the past!

TRIUMPH.

THE sky, grown dull through many waiting days,
 Flashed into crimson with the sunrise charm,
 So all my love, aroused to vague alarm,
 Flushed into fire and burned with eager blaze.
 I saw thee not as suppliant, with still gaze
 Of pleading, but as victor,—and thine arm
 Gathered me fast into embraces warm,
 And I was taught the light of Love's dear ways.
This day of triumph is no longer thine,
 Oh conqueror, in calm exclusive power.—
 As evermore, through storm, and shade, and shine,
 Your woe my pain, your joy my ecstasy,
 We breathe together,—so this blessed hour
 Of self-surrender makes my jubilee!

RONDEAU.—I WILL FORGET.

I WILL forget those days of mingled bliss
 And dear delicious pain,—will cast from me
 All dreams of what I know can never be,
 Even the remembrance of that parting kiss.
 I knew that some day it would come to this
 In spite of all our sworn fidelity,
 That I must banish even memory,
 And, sorrowing, learn to say, nor say amiss
 I will forget.
I register this vow, and am content
 That it be so. Ah me!—yet, if the door
 Shut on our heaven might be asunder rent
 Even now, and I could see the way we went,
 I might retract my vow, and say no more
 I will forget.

RONDEAU.—WHEN SUMMER COMES.

WHEN summer comes, and when o'er hill and lea
 The sun's strong wooing glow hath patiently
 Shed o'er the earth long days his golden dower,
 And then, by force of his own loving power,
 Drawn the hard frost, and left it passive, free
 To give forth all its sweets untiringly,
 Shall not the day rise fair for thee and me,
 And all life seem but as an opening flower
 When summer comes?
The days move slowly, young hearts yearn to be
 Together always, cannot brook to see
 Their love-days pass, and void each sunny hour,
 Yet may we smile, e'en when fate's storm-clouds lower,
 Waiting fulfilment of our hearts' decree
 When summer comes.

RONDEAU.—IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

IT might have been so different a year
 To what has been; the summer's guileless play
 Not all a jest, comes back to me to-day
 In added sweetness, and provokes a tear.
 Strange pictures rise, pass on, and disappear.
 Drawn from your tender words of yesterday
 When, looking in my eyes in the old way
 You told me of your life, how passing dear
 It might have been.
Useless to dream, more useless to regret!
 We might have lived and loved, nor lost the glow
 Of Love's first sweet intensity;—to let
 These foolish fancies die I strive,—and yet
 I still must count it happiness to know
 It might have been.

RONDEAU.—BROTHER AND FRIEND.

BROTHER and friend I found thee in the hour
 Of need and day of trouble, strong and true.—
 In June's fair mirth, and when the sunrise hue
 Shewed bright where joy had built his thoughtless bower,
 Thou wert a child to sport with, something lower
 Than a friend's need. I gave, methought, thy due,—
 An elder sister's gentleness, nor knew
 That ere Spring dawned my soul would feel thy power.
 Brother and Friend!
A man, with a man's strength, and will, and fire,
 I know thee, my Alcides; thus a god
 For some fair soul to reverence, and desire
 To own and worship. I can place thee higher
 To-day, in naming thee,—pain's paths just trod—
 Brother and Friend.

RONDEAU.—POURQUOI?

"POURQUOI," she breathed, then drooped her head,
 (Pure snow-drifts to the sunset wed)
 As all my weakness I confessed.
 I shewed how I had done my best,
 Though long ago I should have fled,
 Knowing all hope, for me, was dead;
 And now my heart would die, unfed.
 She murmured low, (was it in jest?)
 "Pourquoi?"
That winsome face, all rosy red,—
 I turned towards me,—gone was dread!
 She came as birdlings to their nest
 At eventide; so was I blest
 By that one precious, softly-said
 "Pourquoi?"

RONDEAU.—FOR OUR LOVE'S SAKE.

FOR our Love's sake I bid thee stay,
 Sweet, ere the hours flee away,
 Beneath the old acacia tree
 That waves its blossoms quiveringly,
 And think awhile of early May:
Of how the months have fled away,
 And sunrise hour turned twilight gray,
 While we have suffered smilingly
 For our Love's sake.
It may not be—that which we pray
 For tearfully—but dare not say.
 And yet if, Sweet, it may not be,
 We still may suffer silently,
 Watching our sunlight fade away,
 For our Love's sake.

ECHOES.

A BREATH
 And a sigh,—
 How we fly
 From Death!
A breath
 And a sigh,—
 How we fly
 From Death!
A palm
 Warm pressed,
 As we guessed
 Love's psalm.
Sing on
 O our bird!
 Thou art heard
 Alone.
A word
 Breathed close,
 And then rose
 The bird
We know
 No life,
 Neither strife,
 Nor woe,
That cowers
 In the wood
 'Mid a flood
 Of flowers,
Nor aught
 But this hour,—
 Love's dower
 Dear bought.—
Till Love's
 Heart sighs,
 Like the cries
 Of doves,—
Death's voice
 Is away,
 And we may
 Rejoice.
Then sings
 His song,
 Beating strong
 White wings,—
The bird
 Of our song
 May be long
 Unheard,
Heart clear
 Though faint,
 Like a saint
 In prayer.—
But, Dear,
 Bend low;
 It is now
 We hear.
He reigns
 In power,
 And Love's hour
 Disdains.
Dear Heart
 Your kiss!—
 After this
 We part.
Forget
 For a day
 All his sway,
 Life's fret.
A breath
 And a sigh,—
 How we fly
 From Death!

NOON.

NO ripple stirs the water,
 No song-bird wakes the grove,
 Calm noon-tide sways his sceptre,
 And hushes even love.
On earth the sun-god bending
 Poureth his wondrous store;
 The soft-tongued tide, advancing,
 Laps the unconscious shore.
The long, low isle of marsh-land
 Stretches in weary waste,
 By sloping sand-banks guarded,
 By winding weeds embraced.
Comes clearly from the open
 The plash of distant oars,—
 Over the rocky headland
 The snow-white sea-gull soars.
I see as if through dream-clouds,
 I hear from far away.
 The scorched air breathes its opiate,
 The drowsy fancies stay;
I have no hopes or longings,
 I scarce can feel your kiss,—
 For thought, and joy and worship,
 Another hour than this!

PICTURES.

THE full-orbed Paschal moon; dark shadows flung
 On the brown Lenten earth; tall spectral trees
 Stand in their huge and naked strength erect,
 And stretch wild arms towards the gleaming sky.
 A motionless girl-figure, face upraised
 In the strong moonlight, cold and passionless.
A proud spring sunset; opal-tinted sky,
 Save where the western purple, pale and faint
 With longing for her fickle Love,—content
 Had merged herself into his burning red.
 A fair young maiden, clad in velvet robe
 Of sombre green, stands in the golden glow,
 One hand held up to shade her dazzled eyes,
 A bunch of white Narcissus at her throat.
November's day, dark, leaden, lowering,—
 Grey purple shadows fading on the hills;
 Dreary and desolate the far expanse
 And gloomy sameness of the open plain.
 A peasant woman, in white wimpled hood,
 White vest, and scarlet petticoat, surveys
 The meadow, with rough hands crossed on her breast.
A shining, shimmering, gracious, golden day;
 The sated summer's all-pervading hush;
 Warm luscious tints, glowing in earth and sky.
 On a low mossy bank, a little child,
 His golden curls twined in the reedy grass,
 Clutching within his tear-stained feverish hands
 The yellow blossoms of the Celandine,
 Sobs out his heart in passionate childish grief.

EURYDICE.

OH come, Eurydice!
 The Stygian deeps are past
 Well-nigh; the light dawns fast.
 Oh come, Eurydice!
The gods have heard my song!
 My love's despairing cry
 Filled hell with melody,—
 And the gods heard my song.
I knew no life but thee;
 Persephone was moved;
 She, too, hath lived, hath loved;
 She saw I lived for thee.
I may not look on thee,
 Such was the gods' decree;—
 Till sun and earth we see
 No kiss, no smile for thee!
The way is rough, is hard;
 I cannot hear thy feet
 Swift following; speak, my Sweet,—
 Is the way rough and hard?
"Oh come, Eurydice!"
 I turn: "our woe is o'er,
 I will not lose thee more!"
 I cry: "Eurydice!"
O father Hermes, help!
 I see her fade away
 Back from the dawning ray;
 Dear Father Hermes, help!
One swift look,—all is lost!
 Wild heaven-arousing cries
 Pierce to the dull dead skies;
 My heaven, my all is lost!
The unrelenting gods
 Refuse me. "No," say they,
 "Thy chance is thrown away."
 Fierce unrelenting gods!
The sky is blue no more,
 The spring-tide airs are bleak,
 I find not her I seek,
 The earth is fair no more!
I loathe all earth, all life!
 These Thracian women gaze
 And whispering, go their ways,
 Seeing I loathe my life.
Only my song remains.
 I may not cease to sing,
 Though hot tears start and sting,
 The song that still remains,
Even—"Come Eurydice!"
 The sea rolls on in pain,
 Echoing the note again:
 "Lost, lost Eurydice!"
And still the sea moves on,
 The woods give back the thrill
 "Eurydice!" and still
 The quiet sea moves on.
The years, Eurydice,
 The long unquiet years
 Heed not or sighs or tears,
 Oh Heart, Eurydice!

SLACK TIDE.

MY boat is still in the reedy cove
 Where the rushes hinder its onward course,
 For I care not now if we rest or move
 O'er the slumberous tide to the river's source.
My boat is fast in the tall dank weeds
 And I lay my oars in silence by,
 And lean, and draw the slippery reeds
 Through my listless fingers carelessly.
The babbling froth of the surface foam
 Clings close to the side of my moveless boat,
 Like endless meshes of honeycomb,—
 And I break it off, and send it afloat.
A faint wind stirs, and I drift along
 Far down the stream to its utmost bound,
 And the thick white foam-flakes gathering strong
 Still cling, and follow, and fold around.
Oh! the weary green of the weedy waste,
 The thickening scum of the frothy foam,
 And the torpid heart by the reeds embraced
 And shrouded and held in its cheerless home.
The fearful stillness of wearied calm,
 The tired quiet of ended strife,
 The echoed note of a heart's sad psalm,
 The sighing end of a wasted life.—
The reeds cling close, and my cradle sways,
 And the white gull dips in the waters' barm,
 And the heart asleep in the twilight haze
 Feels not its earth-bonds, knows not alarm.

AN EVENING IN OCTOBER

EVENING has thrown her hushing garment round
 This little world; no harsh or jarring sound
 Disturbs my reverie. The room is dark,
 And kneeling at the window I can mark
 Each light and shadow of the scene below.
 The placid glistening pools, the streams that flow
 Through the red earth, left by the hurrying tide;
 The ridge of mountain on the farther side
 Shewing more black for many twinkling lights
 That come and go about the gathering heights.
 Below me lie great wharves, dreary and dim,
 And lumber houses crowding close and grim
 Like giant shadowed guardians of the port,
 With towering chimneys outlined tall and swart
 Against the silver pools. Two figures pace
 The wharf in ghostly silence, face from face.
 O'er the black line of mountain, silver-clear
 In faint rose-tint of vaporous evening air,
 Sinketh the bright suspicion of a wing,
 The slim curved moon, who in shy triumphing
 Hideth her face. Above, the rose-tint pales
 Into a silver opal, hills and dales
 Of cloudy glory, fading high alone
 Into a tender blue-grey monotone.—
 And then I thought: "ere that fair, slender moon
 Has rounded grown and full, (so soon, so soon!)
 Our hearts' desire accomplished we shall see
 Dear one, all light, and joy, and ecstasy!"

PARTED.

MY spirit holds you, Dear,
 Though worlds away,"—
 This to their absent ones
 Many can say.
"Thoughts, fancies, hopes, desires,
 All must be yours;
 Sweetest my memories still
 Of our past hours."
I can say more than this
 Now, lover mine,—
 Here can I feel your kiss
 Warmer than wine,
Feel your arms folding me,
 Know that quick breath
 That aye my soul would stir
 Even in death.
'Tis not a memory, Love,
 Thoughts of the past,
 Fleeting remembrances
 Which may not last,—
But, as I shut my eyes
 Know I the sign
 That you are here, yourself,
 Bodily, mine.—
So, Love, I cannot say
 "My spirit flies
 Over the widening space,
 Under dull skies,
To where your spirit is,"—
 Though I may know
 Seas part us, earth divides,
 It is not so
Here to me, now, for you
 Lean on my heart.
 Who says that you and I
 Ever can part?—

TOUT POUR L'AMOUR.

THE world may rage without,
 Quiet is here;
 Statesmen may toil and shout,
 Cynics may sneer;
 The great world,—let it go,—
 June warmth be March's snow,
 I care not,—be it so
 Since I am here.
Time was when war's alarm
 Called for a fear,
 When sorrow's seeming harm
 Hastened a tear.
 Naught care I now what foe
 Threatens, for scarce I know
 How the year's seasons go
 Since I am here.
This is my resting-place
 Holy and dear,
 Where pain's dejected face
 May not appear;
 This is the world to me,
 Earth's woes I will not see,
 But rest contentedly
 Since I am here.
Is't your voice chiding, Love,
 My mild career,
 My meek abiding, Love,
 Daily so near?—
 "Danger and loss," to me?
 Ah, Sweet, I fear to see
 No loss but loss of thee,
 And I am here.

SOOTHING.

I AIMLESS wandered thro' the woods, and flung
 My idle limbs upon a soft brown bank,
 Where, thickly strewn, the worn-out russet leaves
 Rustled a faint remonstrance at my tread.
 The yellow fungi, shewing pallid stems,
 The mossy lichen creeping o'er the stones
 And making green the whitened hemlock-bark,
 The dull wax of the woodland lily-bud,
 On these my eye could rest, and I was still.
 No sound was there save a low murmured cheep
 From an ambitious nestling, and the slow
 And oft-recurring plash of myriad waves
 That spent their strength against the unheeding shore.
 Over and through a spreading undergrowth
 I saw the gleaming of the tranquil sea.
 The woody scent of mosses and sweet ferns,
 Mingled with the fresh brine, and came to me,
 Bringing a laudanum to my ceaseless pain;
 A quietness stole in upon me then,
 And o'er my soul there passed a wave of peace.
 





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