The Five Books of Youth

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Title: The Five Books of Youth
Author: Robert Hillyer
Release Date: April, 2004 [EBook #5425]?[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]?[This file was first posted on July 16, 2002]
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? START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE FIVE BOOKS OF YOUTH ***
Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
THE FIVE BOOKS OF YOUTH
BY ROBERT HILLYER
AUTHOR OF "SONNETS AND OTHER LYRICS"
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Acknowledgments are due to theeditors of THE NATION,?THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE DIAL, THE SONNET, THE LYRIC, ART AND?LIFE, and CONTEMPORARY VERSE, for permission to reprint?poems originally published by them.
CONTENTS
BOOK I?A MISCELLANY
I La Mare des Fees?II Prothalamion?III Montmartre?IV A Letter?V Esther Dancing?VI Hunters?VII A Wreck?VIII Grave Stones in a Front Yard?IX Vigil?X When the Door was Open?XI The Maker Rests?XII The Pilgrimage?XIII Epilogue?XIV Thermopylae
BOOK II?DAYS AND SEASONS
I Winds blowing over the white-capped bay?II Like children on a sunny shore?III Against my wall the summer weaves?IV Into the trembling air?V In gardens when the sun is set?VI Now the white dove has found her mate?VII When voices sink in twilight silences?VIII When noon is blazing on the town?IX The trees have never seemed so green?X The green canal is mottled with falling leaves?XI They who have gone down the hill are far away?XII Where two roads meet amid the wood?XIII The boy is late tonight binding his sheaves?XIV O lovely shepherd Corydon, how far?XV O little shepherd boy, what sobs are those?XVI The dull-eyed girl in bronze implores Apollo?XVII The winter night is hard as glass?XVIII Chords, tremendous chords?XIX I have known the lure of cities?XX We wove a fillet for thy head
BOOK III?EROS
I Now the sick earth revives, and in the sun?II The heavy bee burdened the golden clover?III Of days and nights under the living vine?IV You seek to hurt me, foolish child, and why??V By these shall you remember?VI Two black deer uprise?VII When in the ultimate embrace?VIII Tonight it seems to be the same?IX If you should come tonight?X You are very far tonight?XI O lonely star moving in still abodes?XII A chalice singing deep with wine
BOOK IV?THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS
I As dreamers through their dreams surmise?II The thinkers light their lamps in rows?III I pass my days in ghostly presences?IV Each mote that staggers down the sun?V He is a priest?VI Through hissing snow, through rain, through many hundred Mays VII Gods dine on prayer and sacred song?VIII A smile will turn away green eyes?IX Two Kings there were, one Good, one Bad?X I see that Hermes unawares?XI Semiramis, the whore of Babylon?XII Bring hemlock, black as Cretan cheese?XIII Walking through the town last night?XIV The change of many tides has swung the flow?XV Piero di Cosimo?XVI I would know what cannot be known?XVII The yellow bird is singing by the pond
BOOK V?SONNETS
I Love dwelled with me with music on her lips?II Invoking not the worship of the crowd?III And yet think not that I desire to seal?IV With the young god who out of death creates?V O it was gay! the wilderness was floral?VI The snow is thawing on the hanging eaves?VII So ends the day with beauty in the west?VIII Across the evening calm I faintly hear?IX Calmer than mirrored waters after rain?X I stood like some worn image carved of stone?XI Through the deep night the leaves speak, tree to tree XII I walked the hollow pavements of the town?XIII In tireless march I move from sphere to sphere?XIV A while you shared my path and solitude?XV There is a void that reason can not face?XVI The mirrors of all ages are the eyes?XVII We sat in silence till the twilight fell?XVIII He clung to me, his young face dark with woe
BOOK I?A MISCELLANY
I - LA MARE DES FEES
The leaves rain down upon the forest pond,?An elfin tarn green-shadowed in the fern;?Nine yews ensomber the wet bank, beyond?The autumn branches of the beeches burn?With yellow flame and red amid the