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    The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems
    The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems
    The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems
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    The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems

    By Richard le Gallienne

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems - Richard le Gallienne

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems, by Richard Le Gallienne

      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.net

      Title: The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems

      Author: Richard Le Gallienne

      Release Date: December 14, 2003 [eBook #10457]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONELY DANCER AND OTHER POEMS***

      E-text prepared by Brendan Lane, Carol David, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders

      THE LONELY DANCER AND OTHER POEMS

      BY

      RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

      1913

      WITH A FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT BY

      IRMA LE GALLIENNE

      TO

      IRMA

      ALL THE WAY

      Not all my treasure hath the bandit Time

        Locked in his glimmering caverns of the Past:

      Fair women dead and friendships of old rhyme,

        And noble dreams that had to end at last:—

      Ah! these indeed; and from youth's sacristy

        Full many a holy relic hath he torn,

      Vessels of mystic faith God filled for me,

        Holding them up to Him in life's young morn.

      All these are mine no more—Time hath them all,

        Time and his adamantine gaoler Death:

      Despoilure vast—yet seemeth it but small,

        When unto thee I turn, thy bloom and breath

      Filling with light and incense the last shrine,

        Innermost, inaccessible,—yea, thine.

      CONTENTS

      THE LONELY DANCER

      I

      FLOS AEVORUM ALL THE WORDS IN ALL THE WORLD I SAID—I CARE NOT ALL THE WIDE WORLD IS BUT THE THOUGHT OF YOU LIGHTNINGS MAY FLICKER ROUND MY HEAD THE AFTERNOON IS LONELY FOR YOUR FACE SORE IN NEED WAS I OF A FAITHFUL FRIEND I THOUGHT, BEFORE MY SUNLIT TWENTIETH YEAR

      II

      TO A BIRD AT DAWN ALMA VENUS AH! DID YOU EVER HEAR THE SPRING APRIL MAY IS BUILDING HER HOUSE SHADOW JUNE GREEN SILENCE SUMMER SONGS TO A WILD BIRD I CROSSED THE ORCHARD WALKING HOME I MEANT TO DO MY WORK TO-DAY HOW FAST THE YEAR IS GOING BY AUGUST MOONLIGHT TO A ROSE INVITATION SUMMER GOING AUTUMN TREASURE WINTER THE MYSTIC FRIENDS THE COUNTRY GODS

      III

      TO ONE ON A JOURNEY HER PORTRAIT IMMORTAL SPRING'S PROMISES APRIL IS IN THE WORLD AGAIN SINGING GO I WHO WAS IT SWEPT AGAINST MY DOOR FACE IN THE TOMB THAT LIES SO STILL I KNOW NOT IN WHAT PLACE RESURRECTION WHEN THE LONG DAY HAS FADED HER EYES ARE BLUEBELLS NOW THE DEAD AROSE THE BLOOM UPON THE GRAPE THE FRIEND ADORATION AT LAST I GOT A LETTER FROM THE DEAD

      IV

      SONGS FOR FRAGOLETTA

      V

      A BALLAD OF WOMAN AN EASTER HYMN BALLAD OF THE SEVEN O'CLOCK WHISTLE MORALITY

      VI

      FOR THE BIRTHDAY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON RICHARD WATSON GILDER IN A COPY OF FITZGERALD'S OMAR

      VII

      A BALLAD OF TOO MUCH BEAUTY SPRING IN THE PARIS CATACOMBS A FACE IN A BOOK TIME, BEAUTY'S FRIEND YOUNG LOVE LOVERS FOR A PICTURE BY ROSE CECIL O'NEIL LOVE IN SPAIN THE EYES THAT COME FROM IRELAND A BALLAD OF THE KIND LITTLE CREATURES BLUE FLOWER THE HEART UNSEEN THE SHIMMER OF THE SOUND A SONG OF SINGERS THE END

      THE LONELY DANCER

      I had no heart to join the dance,

        I danced it all so long ago—

      Ah! light-winged music out of France,

        Let other feet glide to and fro,

      Weaving new patterns of romance

        For bosoms of new-fallen snow.

      But leave me thus where I may hear

        The leafy rustle of the waltz,

      The shell-like murmur in my ear,

        The silken whisper fairy-false

      Of unseen rainbows circling near,

        And the glad shuddering of the walls.

      Another dance the dancers spin,

        A shadow-dance of mystic pain,

      And other partners enter in

        And dance within my lonely brain—

      The swaying woodland shod in green,

        The ghostly dancers of the rain;

      The lonely dancers of the sea,

        Foam-footed on the sandy bar,

      The wizard dance of wind and tree,

        The eddying dance of stream and star;

      Yea, all these dancers tread for me

        A measure mournful and bizarre:

      An echo-dance where ear is eye,

        And sound evokes the shapes of things,

      Where out of silence and a sigh

        The sad world like a picture springs,

      As, when some secret bird sweeps by,

        We see it in the sound of wings.

      Those human feet upon the floor,

        That eager pulse of rhythmic breath,—

      How sadly

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