Poem: Phedre

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Poem: Phedre

 

(To Sarah Bernhardt)

 

How vain and dull this common world must seem

上海龙凤shlf最新地址To such a One as thou, who should'st have talked

At Florence with Mirandola, or walked

Through the cool olives of the Academe:

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Thou should'st have gathered reeds from a green stream

For Goat-foot Pan's shrill piping, and have played

上海龙凤shlf最新地址With the white girls in that Phaeacian glade

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Where grave Odysseus wakened from his dream.

 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Ah! surely once some urn of Attic clay

Held thy wan dust, and thou hast come again

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Back to this common world so dull and vain,

上海龙凤shlf最新地址For thou wert weary of the sunless day,

The heavy fields of scentless asphodel,

上海龙凤shlf最新地址The loveless lips with which men kiss in Hell.