The Five Books of Youth

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0. START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE FIVE
BOOKS OF YOUTH ***
Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team.
THE FIVE BOOKS OF YOUTH
BY ROBERT HILLYER
AUTHOR OF "SONNETS AND OTHER LYRICS"
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Acknowledgments are due to theeditors of THE NATION,
THE
NEW REPUBLIC, THE DIAL, THE SONNET, THE LYRIC,
ART AND
LIFE, and CONTEMPORARY VERSE, for permission
to reprint
poems originally published by them.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
A MISCELLANY
I La Mare des Fees
II Prothalamion
III Montmartre
IV A Letter

V Esther Dancing
VI Hunters
VII A Wreck
VIII Grave Stones in
a Front Yard
IX Vigil
X When the Door was Open
XI The Maker
Rests
XII The Pilgrimage
XIII Epilogue
XIV Thermopylae
BOOK II
DAYS AND SEASONS
I Winds blowing over the white-capped bay
II Like children on a
sunny shore
III Against my wall the summer weaves
IV Into the
trembling air
V In gardens when the sun is set
VI Now the white
dove has found her mate
VII When voices sink in twilight silences

VIII When noon is blazing on the town
IX The trees have never
seemed so green
X The green canal is mottled with falling leaves

XI They who have gone down the hill are far away
XII Where two

roads meet amid the wood
XIII The boy is late tonight binding his
sheaves
XIV O lovely shepherd Corydon, how far
XV O little
shepherd boy, what sobs are those
XVI The dull-eyed girl in bronze
implores Apollo
XVII The winter night is hard as glass
XVIII
Chords, tremendous chords
XIX I have known the lure of cities
XX
We wove a fillet for thy head
BOOK III
EROS
I Now the sick earth revives, and in the sun
II The heavy bee
burdened the golden clover
III Of days and nights under the living
vine
IV You seek to hurt me, foolish child, and why?
V By these
shall you remember
VI Two black deer uprise
VII When in the
ultimate embrace
VIII Tonight it seems to be the same
IX If you
should come tonight
X You are very far tonight
XI O lonely star
moving in still abodes
XII A chalice singing deep with wine
BOOK IV
THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS
I As dreamers through their dreams surmise
II The thinkers light their
lamps in rows
III I pass my days in ghostly presences
IV Each mote
that staggers down the sun
V He is a priest
VI Through hissing
snow, through rain, through many hundred Mays VII Gods dine on
prayer and sacred song
VIII A smile will turn away green eyes
IX
Two Kings there were, one Good, one Bad
X I see that Hermes
unawares
XI Semiramis, the whore of Babylon
XII Bring hemlock,
black as Cretan cheese
XIII Walking through the town last night

XIV The change of many tides has swung the flow
XV Piero di
Cosimo
XVI I would know what cannot be known
XVII The
yellow bird is singing by the pond
BOOK V

SONNETS
I Love dwelled with me with music on her lips
II Invoking not the

worship of the crowd
III And yet think not that I desire to seal
IV
With the young god who out of death creates
V O it was gay! the
wilderness was floral
VI The snow is thawing on the hanging eaves

VII So ends the day with beauty in the west
VIII Across the evening
calm I faintly hear
IX Calmer than mirrored waters after rain
X I
stood like some worn image carved of stone
XI Through the deep
night the leaves speak, tree to tree XII I walked the hollow pavements
of the town
XIII In tireless march I move from sphere to sphere

XIV A while you shared my path and solitude
XV There is a void
that reason can not face
XVI The mirrors of all ages are the eyes

XVII We sat in silence till the twilight fell
XVIII He clung to me, his
young face dark with woe
BOOK I
A MISCELLANY
I - LA MARE DES FEES
The