Quotes from Poems — Stephen Phillips
1864–1915 England
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What is the love of men that women seek it?
Sea-faring men with their sea-weary eyes.
The half of music, I have heard men say,
Is to have grieved; when comes the lonely wail
Over the mind.
The pastoral fields burned by the setting sun.
The illumed unconscious faces of the crowd!
The greenly silent and cool-growing night.
Some spirit lute touched on a spirit sea.
With slow sweet surgery restore the brain,
And to dispel shadows and shadowy fear.
Beautiful friendship tried by sun and wind,
Durable from the daily dust of life.
The fierce ingratitude of children loved,
Ah, sting of stings!
As rich and purposeless as is the rose:
Thy simple doom is to be beautiful.
The listless ripple of Oblivion.
She drugged her brain against realities,
And lived in dreams, and was with music fed.
Beautiful Faith surrendering to Time.
Thy simple doom is to be beautiful.
The fiery funeral of foliage old.
Attribution
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