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My Lattice, and Other Poems - Frederick George Scott
Frederick George Scott
My Lattice, and Other Poems
EAN 8596547350873
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
MY LATTICE.
MY LATTICE.
SAMSON.
IN VIA MORTIS.
THOR.
THE FEUD.
THE FRENZY OF PROMETHEUS.
NATURA VICTRIX.
THE ABBOT.
DION. A POEM. ARGUMENT.
LOVE SLIGHTED.
ANDANTE.
SORROW’S WAKING.
ON AN OLD VENETIAN PORTRAIT.
OLD LETTERS.
VAN ELSEN.
IN MEMORIAM.
THE EVERLASTING FATHER.
THE STING OF DEATH.
TE JUDICE.
THE TWO MISTRESSES.
IN THE WOODS.
CALVARY.
AT LAUDS.
IN THE CHURCHYARD.
THE CRIPPLE.
A NOCTURNE.
SONNETS.
TO MY WIFE.
A CYPRESS WREATH.
COLUMBUS.
IDOLS.
SOLOMON.
OUT OF THE STORM.
MY LATTICE.
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MY LATTICE.
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My
lattice looks upon the North,
The winds are cool that enter;
At night I see the stars come forth,
Arcturus in the centre.
The curtain down my casement drawn
Is dewy mist, which lingers
Until my maid, the rosy dawn,
Uplifts it with her fingers.
The sparrows are my matin-bell,
Each day my heart rejoices,
When, from the trellis where they dwell,
They call me with their voices.
Then, as I dream with half-shut eye,
Without a sound or motion,
To me that little square of sky
Becomes a boundless ocean.
And straight my soul unfurls its sails
That blue sky-sea to sever,
My fancies are the noiseless gales
That waft it on forever.
I sail into the depths of space
And leave the clouds behind me,
I pass the old moon’s hiding-place,
The sun’s rays cannot find me.
I sail beyond the solar light,
Beyond the constellations,
Across the voids where loom in sight
New systems and creations.
I pass great worlds of silent stone,
Whence light and life have vanished,
Which wander on to tracts unknown,
In lonely exile banished.
I meet with spheres of fiery mist
Which warm me as I enter,
Where—ruby, gold and amethyst—
The rainbow lights concentre.
And on I sail into the vast,
New wonders aye discerning,
Until my mind is lost at last,
And, suddenly returning,
I feel the wind which, cool as dew,
Upon my face is falling,
And see again my patch of blue
And hear the sparrows calling.
SAMSON.
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Plunged
in night, I sit alone
Eyeless on this dungeon stone,
Naked, shaggy and unkempt,
Dreaming dreams no soul hath dreamt.
Rats and vermin round my feet
Play unharmed, companions sweet;
Spiders weave me overhead
Silken curtains for my bed.
Day by day the mould I smell
Of this fungus-blistered cell;
Nightly in my haunted sleep
O’er my face the lizards creep.
Gyves of iron scrape and burn
Wrists and ankles when I turn,
And my collared neck is raw
With the teeth of brass that gnaw.
God of Israel, canst Thou see
All my fierce captivity?
Do Thy sinews feel my pains?
Hearest Thou the clanking chains?
Thou who madest me so fair,
Strong and buoyant as the air,
Tall and noble as a tree,
With the passions of the sea,
Swift as horse upon my feet,
Fierce as lion in my heat,
Rending, like a wisp of hay,
All that dared withstand my way,
Canst Thou see me through the gloom
Of this subterranean tomb,—
Blinded tiger in his den,
Once the lord and prince of men?
Clay was I; the potter Thou
With Thy thumb-nail smooth’dst my brow,
Roll’dst the spittle-moistened sands
Into limbs between Thy hands.
Thou didst pour into my blood
Fury of the fire and flood,
And upon the boundless skies
Thou didst first unclose my eyes.
And my breath of life was flame,
God-like from the source it came,
Whirling round like furious wind,
Thoughts upgathered in the mind.
Strong Thou mad’st me, till at length
All my weakness was my strength;
Tortured am I, blind and wrecked,
For a faulty architect.
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