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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416373" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Four Points in a Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I </div><div style="margin:10px 0">LOVE'S DAWN</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Still thine eyes haunt me; in the darkness now, <br>The dreamtime, the hushed stillness of the night, <br>I see them shining pure and earnest light; <br>And here, all lonely, may I not avow <br>The thrill with which I ever meet their glance? <br>At first they gazed a calm abstracted gaze, <br>The while thy soul was floating through some maze <br>Of beautiful divinely-peopled trance; <br>But now I shrink from them in shame and fear, <br>For they are gathering all their beams of light <br>Into an arrow, keen, intense and bright, <br>Swerveless and starlike from its deep blue sphere, <br>Piercing the cavernous darkness of my soul, <br>Burning its foul recesses into view, <br>Transfixing with sharp agony through and through <br>Whatever ls not brave and clean and whole. <br>And yet I will not shrink, although thou piercest <br>Into the inmost depths of all my being <br>I will not shrink, although though now art seeing <br>My heart's caged lusts the wildest and the fiercest, <br>The cynic thoughts that fret my homeless mind, <br>My unbelief, my selfishness, my weakness, <br>My dismal lack of charity and meekness; <br>For, amidst all the evil, thou must find <br>Pervading, cleansing, and transmuting me, <br>A fervent and most holy love for thee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">II </div><div style="margin:10px 0">MARRIAGE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Come to me, oh come to me! <br>Time is long since we were parted; <br>I am sad and weary-hearted, <br>Foiled and almost overthrown, <br>Fighting with the world alone: <br>What am I when thou art gone? <br>Come darling, soon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to me, oh come to me! <br>Let my failing head find rest, Love, <br>On thy pure and tender breast, Love; <br>Calm my overwearied brain, <br>Soothe away my heart's chill pain, <br>Bring me hope and strength again: <br>Come darling, soon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to me, oh come to me! <br>Evermore the memory lingers, <br>How your gentle flower-soft fingers, <br>With a touch when I lay ill <br>Through my fevered frame could thrill <br>Cool rich life divinely still: <br>Come darling, soon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to me, oh come to me ! <br>Dearest heart of love and meekness, <br>Is not this unmanly weakness? <br>Ah, with thee such pure sweet calm <br>Heals my wounds with heavenly balm, <br>I fighting feel my spear a palm: <br>Come darling, soon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to me, oh come to me! <br>Though its perils groomed more fearful <br>I could fight undaunted, cheerful, <br>This stern Agony called Life, <br>Were the pauses of the strife <br>Blest by thee, my noble Wife: <br>Come darling, soon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to me, oh come to me! <br>Strength and hope and faith are waning <br>With this fierce and pauseless straining; <br>Ere my soul be conquered quite, <br>Ere I fail from Truth and Right, <br>Come, my Life, my joy, my Light, <br>Come Darling, soon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">III </div><div style="margin:10px 0">PARTING</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Weep not Dearest, weep not so; <br>Soon again we two shall meet <br>Who now part in bitter woe: <br>After pain shall bliss be sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few more years of numb despair <br>Must we wander far apart <br>Through the desert dead and bare: <br>Love is courage in the heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few more years of bitter moan <br>O'er the rugged mountain height, <br>Must we toil on each alone: <br>Love can make all burdens light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few more years of stricken woe <br>Erring on an alien shore <br>Lone and friendless each, must go: <br>We will love then more and more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few short hours of doubt and dread <br>Trembling on the brink of Night <br>Spectre-haunted, each must tread: <br>Love can burn all darkness bright. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the long lone years must die; <br>Then shall we together come <br>Where beneath a calm bright sky <br>Bright waves bear us to our home. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weep not Dearest, weep not so; <br>Soon again we two must meet <br>Where the calm deep waters flow, <br>Soothing surely care and woe, <br>With their mystic murmur sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV </div><div style="margin:10px 0">AT DEATH'S DOOR</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Is this the second childhood's feeble sadness? <br>My eyes are dim now and my hair is white; <br>Yet never did the sunshine give more gladness, <br>Never young Spring burst forth in green delight <br>More freshly; never was the earth more fair, <br>Never more rapture in the common air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still as I near great Death, it seems his portal <br>Glides gently backward, that I may gaze through <br>And glimpse far glories of the realm immortal; <br>The world becomes transparent to my view, <br>Diviner Heavens expand beyond the skies <br>The stars grow thoughtful with eternal eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How the green grass and every flower swell yearning <br>To hint more clearly some high loveliness <br>Whose mystic soul within their forms is burning; <br>How strives the sea for ever to express, <br>With infinite heavings, murmurings manifold, <br>Some secret grandeur that will not be told! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The life of day is lulled to dreamful musing, <br>And true life waketh in the world of dream; <br>While with the Present strangely interfusing <br>The Future and the Past together stream, <br>As if the long-drawn waves of Time should be <br>Settling and mingling in Eternity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With every golden dawn awakened lightly, <br>I think I must have slept through Death's calm night; <br>For lo, how purely, silently and brightly, <br>The Heavens unfold their gates before my sight; <br>The tranced sea of crystal spreadeth slowly, <br>The burning Throne lives out with splendours holy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whereon I look to see thee come swift-greeting <br>From where thou waitest for my laggard feet, <br>Assured beyond impatience for the meeting, <br>Crowned with triumphant love and faith complete: <br>I look in vain as yet; but every hour <br>So summer-rich may make the bud a flower. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How well, my Love, the thoughtful Heavens endeavour <br>To make this world and life and time all bear <br>Dream-lightly on the soul, ere it for ever <br>Be parted from them! Did I once despair <br>Through years of lonely anguish unassuaged ? <br>This calm can scarce believe that storms have raged. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here is the blessing: I now muse enchanted <br>In this sweet dawnlike sunset; night comes then <br>Of restful sleep by gracious visions haunted; <br>So with new morning I shall rise again <br>Full of young life, and find my Love for aye, <br>My Love whom I have missed this long sad day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Thomson">James Thomson</a><div class=q>
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LOVE'S DAWN


Still thine eyes haunt me; in the darkness now, 
The dreamtime, the hushed stillness of the night, 
I see them shining pure and earnest light; 
And here, all lonely, may I not avow 
The thrill with which I ever meet their glance?..."></div>
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