The Return of Persephone

Gliding through the still air, he made no sound;

Wing-shod and deft, dropped almost at her feet,

And searched the ghostly regiments and found

The living eyes, the tremor of breath, the beat

Of blood in all that bodiless underground.

She left her majesty; she loosed the zone

Of darkness and put by the rod of dread.

Standing, she turned her back upon the throne

Where, well she knew, the Ruler of the Dead,

Lord of her body and being, sat like stone;

Stared with his ravenous eyes to see her shake

The midnight drifting from her loosened hair,

The girl once more in all her actions wake,

The blush of colour in her cheeks appear

Lost with her flowers that day beside the lake.

The summer flowers scattering, the shout,

The black manes plunging down to the black pit —

Memory or dream? She stood awhile in doubt,

Then touched the Traveller God’s brown arm and met

His cool, bright glance and heard his words ring out:

“Queen of the Dead and Mistress of the Year!”

— His voice was the ripe ripple of the corn;

The touch of dew, the rush of morning air —

“Remember now the world where you were born;

The month of your return at last is here.”

And still she did not speak, but turned again

Looking for answer, for anger, for command:

The eyes of Dis were shut upon their pain;

Calm as his marble brow, the marble hand

Slept on his knee. Insuperable disdain

Foreknowing all bounds of passion, of power, of art,

Mastered but could not mask his deep despair.

Even as she turned with Hermes to depart,

Looking her last on her grim ravisher

For the first time she loved him from her heart.

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• English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 41. Филип Джеймс Бэйли. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 44. Филип Джеймс Бэйли. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Blasphemy of Guns. Элла Уилкокс. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Triumph of Time. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. William Barnes. Second Collection. The Heäre. Уильям Барнс. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 2. Исаак Уоттс. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Henry Livingston. To the Memory of Sarah Livingston. Генри Ливингстон. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Assault. Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. As the Heart Hopes. Люси Мод Монтгомери. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. In Examination. Руперт Брук. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Satan Broken Loose. Перси Биши Шелли. Тень Ада by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. David Herbert Lawrence. Whales Weep Not!. Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Thomas Aird. The Devil’s Dream on Mount Aksbeck. Томас Эрд. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. George Eliot. How Lisa Loved the King. Джордж Элиот. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Charles Lockhart. Epistle to a Friend, with a Copy of Burns’s Letters. Чарльз Локкарт. Послание другу при возвращении ему томиков стихов Бернса by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Charles Wesley. Hark! A Voice Div­ides the Sky. Чарльз Уэсли. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Room. Роберт Уильям Сервис. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. John Townsend Trowbridge. Midwinter. Джон Таунсенд Троубридж. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dark Glasses. Роберт Уильям Сервис. by Poetry In English
• English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dark Glasses. Роберт Уильям Сервис. by Poetry In English

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