Francis Brett Young Contents / Contents, p. 4 Francis Brett Young Seascape Over that morn hung heaviness, until, Near sunless noon, we heard the ship's bell beating A melancholy staccato on dead metal; Saw the bare-footed watch come running aft; Felt, far below, the sudden telegraph jangle Its harsh metallic challenge, thrice repeated: Stand to. Half-speed ahead. Slow. Stop her! They stopped. The plunging pistons sank like a stopped heart: She held, she swayed, a hulk, a hollow carcass Of blistered iron that the grey-green, waveless, Unruffled tropic waters slapped languidly. And, in that pause, a sinister whisper ran: Burial at Sea! a Portuguese official ... Poor fever-broken devil from Mozambique: Came on half tight: the doctor calls it heat-stroke. Why do they travel steerage? It's the exchange: So many million reis to the pound! What did he look like? No one ever saw him: Took to his bunk, and drank and drank and died. They're ready! Silence! We clustered to the rail, Curious and half-ashamed. The well-deck spread A comfortable gulf of segregation Between ourselves and death. Burial at sea ... The master holds a black book at arm's length; His droning voice comes for'ard: This our brother ... We therefore commit his body to the deep To be turned into corruption ... The bo's'n whispers Hoarsely behind his hand: Now, all together! The hatch-cover is tilted; a mummy of sailcloth Well ballasted with iron shoots clear of the poop; Falls, like a diving gannet. The green sea closes Its burnished skin; the snaky swell smoothes over ... While he, the man of the steerage, goes down, down, Feet foremost, sliding swiftly down the dim water, Swift to escape Those plunging shapes with pale, empurpled bellies That swirl and veer about him. He goes down Unerringly, as though he knew the way Through green, through gloom, to absolute watery darkness, Where no weed sways nor curious fin quivers: To the sad, sunless deeps where, endlessly, A downward drift of death spreads its wan mantle In the wave-moulded valleys that shall enfold him Till the sea give up its dead. There shall he lie dispersed amid great riches: Such gold, such arrogance, so many bold hearts! All the sunken armadas pressed to powder By weight of incredible seas! That mingled wrack No livening sun shall visit till the crust Of earth be riven, or this rolling planet Reel on its axis; till the moon-chained tides, Unloosed, deliver up that white Atlantis Whose naked peaks shall bleach above the slaked Thirst of Sahara, fringed by weedy tangles Of Atlas's drown'd cedars, frowning eastward To where the sands of India lie cold, And heap'd Himalaya's a rib of coral Slowly uplifted, grain on grain.... We dream Too long! Another jangle of alarum Stabs at the engines: Slow. Half-speed. Full-speed! The great bearings rumble; the screw churns, frothing Opaque water to downward-swelling plumes Milky as wood-smoke. A shoal of flying-fish Spurts out like animate spray. The warm breeze wakens; And we pass on, forgetting, Toward the solemn horizon of bronzed cumulus That bounds our brooding sea, gathering gloom That, when night falls, will dissipate in flaws Of watery lightning, washing the hot sky, Cleansing all hearts of heat and restlessness, Until, with day, another blue be born. Contents / Contents, p. 4 Scirocco Out of that high pavilion Where the sick, wind-harassed sun In the whiteness of the day Ghostly shone and stole away — Parchèd with the utter thirst Of unnumbered Libyan sands, Thou, cloud-gathering spirit, burst Out of arid Africa To the tideless sea, and smote On our pale, moon-coolèd lands The hot breath of a lion's throat. And that furnace-heated breath Blew into my placid dreams The heart of fire from whence it came: Haunt of beauty and of death Where the forest breaks in flame Of flaunting blossom, where the flood Of life pulses hot and stark, Where a wing'd death breeds in mud And tumult of tree-shadowed streams — Black waters, desolately hurled Through the uttermost, lost, dark, Secret places of the world. There, O swift and terrible Being, wast thou born; and thence, Like a demon loosed from hell, Stripped with rending wings the dense Echoing forests, till their bowed Plumes of trees like tattered cloud Were toss'd and torn, and cried aloud As the wood were rack'd with pain: Thence thou freed'st thy wings, and soon From the moaning, stricken plain In whorled eagle-soarings rose To melt the sun-defeating snows Of the Mountains of the Moon, To dull their glaciers with fierce breath, To slip the avalanches' rein, To set the laughing torrents free On the tented desert beneath, Where men of thirst must wither and die While the vultures stare in the sun's eye; Where slowly sifting sands are strown On broken cities, whose bleaching bones Whiten in moonlight stone on stone. Over their pitiful dust thy blast Passed in columns of whirling sand, Leapt the desert and swept the strand Of the cool and quiet sea, Gathering mighty shapes, and proud Phantoms of monstrous, wave-born cloud, And northward drove this panoply Till the sky seemed charging on the land.... Yet, in that plumèd helm, the most Of thy hot power was cooled or lost, So that it came to me at length, Faint and tepid and shorn of strength, To shiver an olive-grove that heaves A myriad moonlight-coloured leaves, And in the stone-pine's dome set free A murmur of the middle sea: A puff of warm air in the night So spent by its impetuous flight It scarce invades my pillar'd closes, — To waft their fragrance from the sweet Buds of my lemon-coloured roses Or strew blown petals at my feet: To kiss my cheek with a warm sigh And in the tired darkness die. Contents / Contents, p. 4 The Quails (In the south of Italy the peasants put out the eyes of a captured quail so that its cries may attract the flocks of spring migrants into their nets.) All through the night I have heard the stuttering call of a blind quail, A caged decoy, under a cairn of stones, Crying for light as the quails cry for love. Other wanderers, Northward from Africa winging on numb pinions, dazed With beating winds and the sobbing of the sea, Hear, in a breath of sweet land-herbage, the call Of the blind one, their sister.... Hearing, their fluttered hearts Take courage, and they wheel in their dark flight, Knowing that their toil is over, dreaming to see The white stubbles of Abruzzi smitten with dawn, And spilt grain lying in the furrows, the squandered gold That is the delight of quails in their spring mating. Land-scents grow keener, Penetrating the dank and bitter odour of brine That whitens their feathers; Far below, the voice of their sister calls them To plenty, and sweet water, and fulfilment. Over the pallid margin of dim seas breaking, Over the thickening in the darkness that is land, They fly. Their flight is ended. Wings beat no more. Downward they drift, one by one, like dark petals, Slowly, listlessly falling Into the mouth of horror: The nets.... Where men come trampling and crying with bright lanterns, Plucking their weak, entangled claws from the meshes of net, Clutching the soft brown bodies mottled with olive, Crushing the warm, fluttering flesh, in hands stained with blood, Till their quivering hearts are stilled, and the bright eyes, That are like a polished agate, glaze in death. But the blind one, in her wicker cage, without ceasing Haunts this night of spring with her stuttering call, Knowing nothing of the terror that walks in darkness, Knowing only that some cruelty has stolen the light That is life, and that she must cry until she dies. I, in the darkness, Heard, and my heart grew sick. But I know that to-morrow A smiling peasant will come with a basket of quails Wrapped in vine-leaves, prodding them with blood-stained fingers, Saying, 'Signore, you must cook them thus, and thus, With a sprig of basil inside them.' And I shall thank him, Carrying the piteous carcases into the kitchen Without a pang, without shame. 'Why should I be ashamed? Why should I rail Against the cruelty of men? Why should I pity, Seeing that there is no cruelty which men can imagine To match the subtle dooms that are wrought against them By blind spores of pestilence: seeing that each of us, Lured by dim hopes, flutters in the toils of death On a cold star that is spinning blindly through space Into the nets of time?' So cried I, bitterly thrusting pity aside, Closing my lids to sleep. But sleep came not, And pity, with sad eyes, Crept to my side, and told me That the life of all creatures is brave and pityful Whether they be men, with dark thoughts to vex them, Or birds, wheeling in the swift joys of flight, Or brittle ephemerids, spinning to death in the haze Of gold that quivers on dim evening waters; Nor would she be denied. The harshness died Within me, and my heart Was caught and fluttered like the palpitant heart Of a brown quail, flying To the call of her blind sister, And death, in the spring night. Contents / Contents, p. 4 Song at Santa Cruz Were there lovers in the lanes of Atlantis: Meeting lips and twining fingers In the mild Atlantis springtime? How should I know If there were lovers in the lanes of Atlantis When the dark sea drowned her mountains Many ages ago? Were there poets in the paths of Atlantis: Eager poets, seeking beauty To adorn the women they worshipped? How can I say If there were poets in the paths of Atlantis? For the waters that drowned her mountains Washed their beauty away. Were there women in the ways of Atlantis: Foolish women, who loved, as I do, Dreaming that mortal love was deathless? Ask me not now If there were women in the ways of Atlantis: There was no woman in all her mountains Wonderful as thou! Contents / Contents, p. 4 Bibliography These lists, which include poetical works only, are in some cases incomplete. Lascelles Abercrombie Interludes and Poems John Lane. 1908 Mary and the Bramble ( Out of print .) 1910 The Sale of St. Thomas 1 ( Out of print .) 1911 Emblems of Love John Lane. 1912 Deborah (three act play) John Lane. 1913 Four Short Plays Martin Seeker. 1922 Martin Armstrong Exodus and Other Poems Lynwood and Co. 1912 Thirty New Poems Chapman and Hall. 1918 The Buzzards Martin Seeker. 1921 Edmund Blunden The Waggoner Sidgwick and Jackson. 1920 The Shepherd R. Cobden-Sanderson. 1922 William H. Davies The Soul's Destroyer Jonathan Cape. 1906 New Poems Jonathan Cape. 1907 Nature Poems Jonathan Cape. 1908 Farewell to Poesy Jonathan Cape. 1910 Songs of Joy Jonathan Cape. 1911 Foliage Jonathan Cape. 1913 The Bird of Paradise Methuen. 1914 Child Lovers Jonathan Cape. 1916 Collected Poems Jonathan Cape. 1916 Raptures 2 Beaumont Press. 1918 Forty New Poems Jonathan Cape. 1918 The Song of Life Jonathan Cape. 1920 The Hour of Magic Jonathan Cape. 1922 Walter de la Mare Poems Murray. 1906 The Listeners Constable. 1912 A Child's Day Constable. 1912 Peacock Pie Constable. 1913 Songs of Childhood ( New Edition .) Longmans. 1916 The Sunken Garden 3 Beaumont Press. 1917 Motley Constable. 1917 Poems, 1901-1918 Constable. 1920 Flora Heinemann. 1919 The Veil Constable. 1921 John Drinkwater Poems of Men and Hours ( Out of print .) 1911 Cophetua (play) ( Out of print .) 1911 Poems of Love and Earth ( Out of print .) 1912 Cromwell, and Other Poems David Nutt. 1913 Rebellion (play) ( Out of print .) 1914 Swords and Ploughshares Sidgwick and Jackson. 1915 Olton Pools Sidgwick and Jackson. 1916 Poems, 1908-1914 Sidgwick and Jackson. 1917 Tides Beaumont Press. 1917 Tides (with additions) Sidgwick and Jackson. 1917 Loyalties Beaumont Press. 1918 Loyalties (with additions) Sidgwick and Jackson. 1918 Abraham Lincoln (Prose Play with Chorus) Sidgwick and Jackson. 1918 Seeds of Time Sidgwick and Jackson. 1921 Selected Poems Sidgwick and Jackson. 1922 Pawns and Cophetua (Four Poetic Plays). (New Edition.) Sidgwick and Jackson. 1922 Preludes, 1921-1922 (in preparation) John Freeman Twenty Poems Gay and Hancock. 1909 Fifty Poems. (New Edition.) Selwyn and Blount. 1916 Stone Trees Selwyn and Blount. 1916 Presage of Victory Selwyn and Blount. 1916 Memories of Childhood Morland Press. 1918 Memories, and Other Poems Selwyn and Blount. 1919 Poems New and Old Selwyn and Blount. 1920 Music Selwyn and Blount. 1921 Two Poems Selwyn and Blount. 1921 Wilfrid Gibson Stonefolds Elkin Mathews. 1907 Akra the Slave Elkin Mathews. 1910 Daily Bread Elkin Mathews. 1910 Fires Elkin Mathews. 1913 Borderlands Elkin Mathews. 1914 Thoroughfares Elkin Mathews. 1914 Battle Elkin Mathews. 1915 Friends Elkin Mathews. 1916 Livelihood Macmillan. 1917 Collected Poems New York: Macmillan Co. 1917 Whin Macmillan. 1918 Home Beaumont Press. 1919 Neighbours Macmillan. 1920 Krindlesyke (play) Macmillan. 1922 Robert Graves Over the Brazier Poetry Bookshop. 1916 Fairies and Fusiliers Heinemann. 1917 Country Sentiment Martin Seeker. 1919 The Pier-glass Martin Seeker. 1921 On English Poetry (Critical work containing new poems) pub Whipperginny (in preparation) Richard Hughes Gipsy-Night Golden Cockerel Press. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems Duckworth. 1913 Amores Duckworth. 1916 Look! We have Come Through! ( Out of print. ) 1917 New Poems Martin Seeker. 1918 Harold Monro Judas Sampson Low. 1908 Before Dawn ( Out of print. ) 1911 Children of Love. Poetry Bookshop. 1914 Strange Meetings Poetry Bookshop. 1917 Real Property London: Poetry Bookshop. 1922 New York: Macmillan Co. 1922 Robert Nichols Invocation Elkin Mathews. 1915 Ardours and Endurances Chatto and Windus. 1917 The Budded Branch Beaumont Press. 1918 Aurelia Chatto and Windus. 1920 Frank Prewett Poems Hogarth Press. 1921 Peter Quennell Masques and Poems (in preparation). Golden Cockerel Press V. Sackville-West Orchard and Vineyard John Lane. 1921 Edward Shanks Songs ( Out of print .) 1915 Poems Sidgwick and Jackson. 1916 The Queen of China Martin Seeker. 1919 The Island of Youth Collins. 1921 J. C. Squire Steps to Parnassus Allen and Unwin. 1913 The Three Hills Allen and Unwin. 1913 The Survival of the Fittest Allen and Unwin. 1916 Tricks of the Trade Hodder and Stoughton. 1917 Poems: First Series Hodder and Stoughton. 1918 The Birds, and Other Poems Hodder and Stoughton. 1919 Poems: Second Series Hodder and Stoughton. 1922 Francis Brett Young Five Degrees South Martin Seeker. 1917 Poems, 1916-1918 Collins. 1919 Footnote 1: Reprinted in Georgian Poetry, 1911-1912 . return to footnote mark Footnote 2: Reprinted, with additions, in Forty New Poems . return Footnote 3: Reprinted, with additions, in Motley . return end of text *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GEORGIAN POETRY, 1920-22 *** Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will be renamed. 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