Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments ::

Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments

By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers

Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901)

THE DEATH OF SOCRATES

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON

THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE

SAINT PAUL

THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH AND OTHER POEMS

PART I

THE TRANSLATION OF FAITH

II.

III.

III

SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

AMMERGAU

II.

THE IMPLICIT PROMISE OF IMMORTALITY

ON ART AS AN AIM IN LIFE

TWO SISTERS

SIMMENTHAL

ON AN INVALID

WOULD GOD IT WERE EVENING

WOULD GOD IT WERE MORNING

HIGH TIDE AT MIDNIGHT

ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD

A LETTER FROM NEWPORT

EPITHALAMIUM

IN HENRY VII.'S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY

STANZAS ON MR. WATTS' COLLECTED WORKS

II.

PART II

THE PASSING OF YOUTH

SWEET SEVENTEEN

[Ah, no more questions, no more fears]

[Who to the grave child-eyes could teach]

ARETHUSA

AUF FLÜGELN DES GESANGES

UNSATISFACTORY

SATISFACTORY

[“Oh never kiss me; stand apart]

HESIONE

NORA

[Though words of ice be spoken]

PHYLLIS

[When summer even softly dies]

A CRY FROM THE STALLS

THE BALLERINA'S PROGRESS, OR THE POETRY OF MOTION

[I saw, I saw the lovely child]

CYDIPPE

LOVER'S SONG

ANTE DIEM

[Why should I strive to express it?]

POEMS FROM “FRAGMENTS OF PROSE AND POETRY”

RETROSPECT

VENICE

[In dreams the heart is waking]

[O God, no proper place I see]

[Thro' what new world, this happy hour]

DVM MEMOR IPSE MEI

ODE TO NATURE

TO LADY MOUNT TEMPLE

ON A WINDOW IN DONINGTON CHURCH

IAMQVE VALE

SLEEP

FEROR INGENTI CIRCUMDATA NOCTE

FROM ALFRED DE MUSSET

[Oh, when thro' all the crowd she came]

[O waving veil of shade and sun!]

MADEIRA

“FAERY LANDS FORLORN”

SILVIA

TO ALICE'S PICTURE

[“Soul, that in some high world hast made]

GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES

[When in late twilight slowly thou hast strayed]

[She wears her body like a veil]

[And all is over; and again I stand]

IN THE WOLSEY CHAPEL, WINDSOR

[O rock and torrent, lake and hill]

WIND, MOON, AND TIDES

SOLOMON

[And thou too knew'st her, friend! thy lot hath been]

A CHILD OF THE AGE

[What heart with waiting broken]

SUNRISE

[Oh stars in heaven that fade and flame]

[I wailed as one who scarce can be forgiven]

BRIGHTON

HAROLD AT TWO YEARS OLD

ASHRIDGE

[Not even in death thou diest; so strong to save]

[Let each alone with timely thought]

[Love, they said, is faint and dying]

[I knew a man in early days]

[Oh fair and fleet with eager feet]

[O bear it, bear it, lonely heart]

[In that still home, while Tyne went murmuring by]

[Nay, would'st thou know her? let thine hid heart declare]

THE GENESIS OF A MISSIONARY

[O God, how many years ago]

[O that the sorrowful joy, that the fears and the tumult of loving]

[I am tired of all the years can give]

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HAROLD AT TWO YEARS OLD

Open your gates for him
Eager and new!
All the world waits for him;
What will he do?

Dear incompletenesses
Blossoming hours!
Feed him with sweetnesses!
Heap him with flowers!

See how he crumbles them,
Shouts like a man!
Tosses and tumbles them
Wide as he can!

Vain is admonishment,
Sermons in vain;—
Gleeful astonishment!
At it again!

Wildness of babyhood!
Passion of play!
Who but a gaby would
Wish it away?

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Rapt from the Mystery,
Reft from the whole,
Hast thou a history,
Innocent soul!

Gaze we with wondering,
Baby, on thee;—
Sped o'er what sundering
Strait of the sea?

Borne to us hitherward,
Ah! from what shore?
Voyaging whitherward,
Child, evermore?

Little he'll tell for us!
Nothing he knows!
Clear like a bell for us
Laughs as he goes!

Powers supersensible
Breathe thro' the boy
Incomprehensible
Promise of joy!

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HAROLD AT TWO YEARS OLD