A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems

A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems

CONTENTS A HERMIT OF CARMEL THE KNIGHT'S RETURN. A Sequel to A Hermit of Carmel ELEGIAC AND LYRIC POEMS Premonition Solipsism Sybaris Avila King's College Chapel On an Unfinished Statue Midnight In Grantchester Meadows Futility Before a Statue of Achilles Odi et Amo Cathedrals by the Sea Mont Brvent The Rustic at the Play Resurrection TRANSLATIONS From Michael Angelo From Alfred de Musset: Souvenir From Thophile Gautier: l'Art CONVIVIAL AND OCCASIONAL VERSES Prosit Neujahr Fair Harvard College Drinking Song Six Wise Fools Athletic Ode The Bottles and the Wine The Poetic Medium Young Sammy's first Wild Oats Spain in America Youth's Immortality HERMIT. Thou who wast tempted in the wilderness, Guard me this night, for there are snares in sleep That baffle watching. O poisoned, bitter life Of doubt and longing! Were death possible, Who would not choose it? But that dim estate Might plunge my witless ghost in grosser matter And in still closer meshes choke my life. Yet thus to live is grievous agony, When sleep and thirst, hunger and weariness, And the sharp goads of thought-awakened lust Torture the flesh, and inward doubt of all Embitters with its lurking mockery Virtue's sad victories. This wilderness Whither I fly from the approach of men Keeps not the devil out. The treacherous glens Are full of imps, and ghosts in moonlit vesture Startle the watches of the lidless night. The giant forest, in my youth so fair, Is now a den of demons; the hoarse sea Is foul with monsters hungry for my soul; The dark and pregnant soil, once innocent Mother of flowers, reeks with venomous worms, And sore temptation is in all the world. But hist! A sound, as if of clanking hoofs. Saint Anthony protect me from the fiend, Whether he come in guise of horned beast Or of pernicious man! If I must die Be it upon this hallowed ground, O Lord! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49888
Author: Santayana, George
Release Date: Sep 6, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English