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Title: Helen Redeemed and Other Poems
Author: Maurice Hewlett
Release Date: September 29, 2007 [EBook #22803]
Language: English
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HELEN REDEEMED
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
MAURICE HEWLETT
{Dôron Erôs Aidê}
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET,
LONDON
1913
Transcriber's Note

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Archaic
spellings have been retained. Greek words have been transliterated and
are shown between {braces}. The oe ligature has been transcribed as
[oe].
DEDICATION
Love owes tribute unto Death,
Being but a flower of breath,
Ev'n as
thy fair body is
Moment's figure of the bliss
Dwelling in the mind
of God
When He called thee from the sod,
Like a crocus up to start,

Gray-eyed with a golden heart,
Out of earth, and point our sight

To thy eternal home of light.
Here on earth is all we know:
To let our love as steadfast blow,

Open-hearted to the sun,
Folded down when our day's done,
As thy
flower that bids it be
Flower of thy charity.
'Tis not ours to boast or
pray
Breath from us shall outlive clay;
'Tis not thine, thou Pitiful,

Set me task beyond my rule.
Yet as young men carve on trees
Lovely names, and find in these

Solace in the after time,
So to have hid thee in my rhyme
Shall be
comfort when I take
The lonely road. Then, for my sake,
Keep thou
this my graven sigh,
And, that I may not all die,
Open it, and hear it
tell,
Here was one who loved thee well.
_October 6, 1912._
CONTENTS
PAGE
HELEN REDEEMED 1
HYPSIPYLE 123
OREITHYIA 149
CLYTIÉ 155
LAI OF GOBERTZ 159
THE SAINTS' MAYING 169

THE ARGIVE WOMEN 173
GNATHO 187
TO THE GODS OF THE COUNTRY 193
FOURTEEN SONNETS--
ALMA SDEGNOSA 197
THE WINDS' POSSESSION 198
ASPETTO REALE 199
KIN CONFESSED 200
QUEL GIORNO PIÙ 201
ABSENCE