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Poems of Many Years and Many Places (Classic Reprint)
Poems of Many Years and Many Places - Classic Reprint Author:William Gibson Excerpt from Poems of Many Years and Many Places — Poems of Many Years and Many Places. — Persephone. — In the boat's shadow leaning, looking down — In azure Cyane, whoso fountain-lake — Was blue as the blue flax-flower in the fields, — Blue as the vernal-blue Sicilian sky, — I watched the sacred mullet in the depths - — Smooth, silver-bellied, living t... more »urquoises -
Gleam gliding through the dark green water-weeds,
And heard the seeming idle wind, that played
With tassels of the pools papyrus fringe,
And filled languid poppies in the wheat,
To earnest listening grow oracular.
Whispers of far-off secrets of the Nile
Stirred in each fibre of those feathering plants;
Hints of high mysteries Eleusinian ran
Shivering through the corn; and a sweet voice,
Sweet and low, breathing from tlie Fountain Nymph,
Whose blue eye wells with immemorial grief,
Told tlie old story of Persephone.
Thus sang the Nymph, what time the westering sun
Made golden Etna's pyramid of snow:
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