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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473311" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The New Helen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHERE hast thou been since round the walls of Troy<br> The sons of God fought in that great emprise?<br> Why dost thou walk our common earth again?<br> Hast thou forgotten that impassioned boy,<br> His purple galley, and his Tyrian men,<br> And treacherous Aphrodite's mocking eyes?<br> For surely it was thou, who, like a star<br> Hung in the silver silence of the night,<br> Didst lure the Old World's chivalry and might<br> Into the clamorous crimson waves of war!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Or didst thou rule the fire-laden moon?<br> In amorous Sidon was thy temple built<br> Over the light and laughter of the sea?<br> Where, behind lattice scarlet-wrought and gilt,<br> Some brown-limbed girl did weave thee tapestry,<br> All through the waste and wearied hours of noon;<br> Till her wan cheek with flame of passion burned,<br> And she rose up the sea-washed lips to kiss<br> Of some glad Cyprian sailor, safe returned<br> From Calpé and the cliffs of Herakles!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No! thou art Helen, and none other one!<br> It was for thee that young Sarpedôn died,<br> And Memnôn's manhood was untimely spent;<br> It was for thee gold-crested Hector tried<br> With Thetis' child that evil race to run,<br> In the last year of thy beleaguerment;<br> Ay! even now the glory of thy fame<br> Burns in those fields of trampled asphodel,<br> Where the high lords whom Ilion knew so well<br> Clash ghostly shields, and call upon thy name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Where hast thou been? in that enchanted land<br> Whose slumbering vales forlorn Calypso knew,<br> Where never mower rose to greet the day<br> But all unswathed the trammelling grasses grew,<br> And the sad shepherd saw the tall corn stand<br> Till summer's red had changed to withered gray?<br> Didst thou lie there by some Lethæan stream<br> Deep brooding on thine ancient memory,<br> The crash of broken spears, the fiery gleam<br> From shivered helm, the Grecian battle-cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Nay, thou wert hidden in that hollow hill<br> With one who is forgotten utterly,<br> That discrowned Queen men call the Erycine;<br> Hidden away that never mightst thou see<br> The face of Her, before whose mouldering shrine<br> To-day at Rome the silent nations kneel;<br> Who gat from Love no joyous gladdening,<br> But only Love's intolerable pain,<br> Only a sword to pierce her heart in twain,<br> Only the bitterness of child-bearing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The lotos-leaves which heal the wounds of Death<br> Lie in thy hand; O, be thou kind to me,<br> While yet I know the summer of my days;<br> For hardly can my tremulous lips draw breath<br> To fill the silver trumpet with thy praise,<br> So bowed am I before thy mystery;<br> So bowed and broken on Love's terrible wheel,<br> That I have lost all hope and heart to sing,<br> Yet care I not what ruin time may bring<br> If in thy temple thou wilt let me kneel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Alas, alas, thou wilt not tarry here,<br> But, like that bird, the servant of the sun,<br> Who flies before the northwind and the night,<br> So wilt thou fly our evil land and drear,<br> Back to the tower of thine old delight,<br> And the red lips of young Euphorion;<br> Nor shall I ever see thy face again,<br> But in this poisonous garden must I stay,<br> Crowning my brows with the thorn-crown of pain,<br> Till all my loveless life shall pass away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O Helen! Helen! Helen! yet awhile,<br> Yet for a little while, O, tarry here,<br> Till the dawn cometh and the shadows flee!<br> For in the gladsome sunlight of thy smile<br> Of heaven or hell I have no thought or fear,<br> Seeing I know no other god but thee:<br> No other god save him, before whose feet<br> In nets of gold the tired planets move,<br> The incarnate spirit of spiritual love<br> Who in thy body holds his joyous seat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thou wert not born as common women are!<br> But, girt with silver splendour of the foam,<br> Didst from the depths of sapphire seas arise!<br> And at thy coming some immortal star,<br> Bearded with flame, blazed in the Eastern skies,<br> And waked the shepherds on thine island-home.<br> Thou shalt not die: no asps of Egypt creep<br> Close at thy heels to taint the delicate air;<br> No sullen-blooming poppies stain thy hair,<br> Those scarlet heralds of eternal sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lily of love, pure and inviolate!<br> Tower of ivory! red rose of fire!<br> Thou hast come down our darkness to illume:<br> For we, close-caught in the wide nets of Fate,<br> Wearied with waiting for the World's Desire,<br> Aimlessly wandered in the house of gloom,<br> Aimlessly sought some slumberous anodyne<br> For wasted lives, for lingering wretchedness,<br> Till we beheld thy re-arisen shrine,<br> And the white glory of thy loveliness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oscar+Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a><div class=q>
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 The sons of God fought in that great emprise?
 Why dost thou walk our common earth again?
 Hast thou forgotten that impassioned boy,
 His purple galley, and his Tyrian men,
 And treacherous Aphro..."></div>
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