| George William (“A. E.”) Russell (1867–1935). Collected Poems by A.E. 1913. |
| |
| 38. A New World |
| |
| |
| I WHO had sought afar from earth | |
| The faery land to meet, | |
| Now find content within its girth | |
| And wonder nigh my feet. | |
| |
| To-day a nearer love I choose | 5 |
| And seek no distant sphere; | |
| For aureoled by faery dews | |
| The dear brown breasts appear. | |
| |
| With rainbow radiance come and go | |
| The airy breaths of day; | 10 |
| And eve is all a pearly glow | |
| With moonlit winds a-play. | |
| |
| The lips of twilight burn my brow, | |
| The arms of night caress: | |
| Glimmer her white eyes drooping now | 15 |
| With grave old tenderness. | |
| |
| I close mine eyes from dream to be | |
| The diamond-rayed again, | |
| As in the ancient hours ere we | |
| Forgot ourselves to men. | 20 |
| |
| And all I thought of heaven before | |
| I find in earth below: | |
| A sunlight in the hidden core | |
| To dim the noonday glow. | |
| |
| And with the earth my heart is glad, | 25 |
| I move as one of old; | |
| With mists of silver I am clad | |
| And bright with burning gold. | |
| |
|
|
|
