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    Silverpoints
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    Silverpoints

    By John Gray

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1973
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      Silverpoints - John Gray

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Silverpoints, by John Gray

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Silverpoints

      Author: John Gray

      Release Date: April 24, 2007 [EBook #21211]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SILVERPOINTS ***

      Produced by Ruth Hart ruthhart@twilightoracle.com

      SILVERPOINTS

      BY

      JOHN GRAY

      LONDON M.DCCC.XC.III

      ELKIN MATHEWS AND

      JOHN LANE. AT THE

      SIGN OF THE BODLEY

      HEAD IN VIGO STREET

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      . . . EN COMPOSANT DES ACROSTICHES INDOLENTS

                  P.V.

      LES DEMOISELLES DE SAUVE

      TO S. A. S. ALICE, PRINCESSE DE MONACO

      Beautiful ladies through the orchard pass;

      Bend under crutched-up branches, forked and low;

      Trailing their samet palls o'er dew-drenched grass.

      Pale blossoms, looking on proud Jacqueline,

      Blush to the colour of her finger tips,

      And rosy knuckles, laced with yellow lace.

      High-crested Berthe discerns, with slant, clinched eyes,

      Amid the leaves pink faces of the skies;

      She locks her plaintive hands Sainte-Margot-wise.

      Ysabeau follows last, with languorous pace;

      Presses, voluptuous, to her bursting lips.

      With backward stoop, a bunch of eglantine.

      Courtly ladies through the orchard pass;

      Bow low, as in lords' halls; and springtime grass

      Tangles a snare to catch the tapering toe.

      HEART'S DEMESNE

      TO PAUL VERLAINE

      Listen, bright lady, thy deep Pansie eyes

      Made never answer when my eyes did pray,

      Than with those quaintest looks of blank surprise.

      But my love longing has devised a way

      To mock thy living image, from thy hair

      To thy rose toes and keep thee by alway.

      My garden's face is oh! so maidly fair,

      With limbs all tapering and with hues all fresh;

      Thine are the beauties all that flourish there.

      Amaranth, fadeless, tells me of thy flesh.

      Briar rose knows thy cheek, the Pink thy pout.

      Bunched kisses dangle from the Woodbine mesh.

      I love to loll, when Daisy stars peep out,

      And hear the music of my garden dell,

      Hollyhock's laughter and the Sunflowers shout.

      And many whisper things I dare not tell.

      SONG OF THE SEEDLING

      TO ARTHUR SEWELL BUTT

      Tell, little seedling, murmuring germ,

      Why are you joyful? What do

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