I gave her eyes my own to take and round she turned my sake My hands in need and gave herself indeed
I met a girl down in the meads A fading rose was on her cheeks Her honey eyes dreaming wild Full beautiful, a fairy-child
And on the floor she's all alone I sit upon this cold, grey stone And I dream my time away yet conversing as I may
And the stars through the spears My heart waters full of tears Run in blood down the wall for another give you ease Do you know who made you? You are called by what you do Into spheres, spheres we see Joy reduces to misery
I feel my strenght to fade Almost asleep, my only sake She spoke the words, used the clue "I love you true..."
And the fields, black and bare The eternal winter's there Fed with cold, fearless hands in a rich and fruitful land
And the sun does never shine Joy another loss of mine In what distant deeps or skies burned the fire of your eyes? Never end...
2. Lysander
Neglest me, lose me only give me leave unworthy as I am to follow your grief
Therefore the moon the governess of floods pale in her anger washes all the air Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose The human mortals want their winter cheer
Love takes the meaning in love's conference So that but one heart we can make of it The stary welking covers you anon with dropping fog as black as acheron
Thorny anger, be not seen come not near out fairy-queen For night's swift dragons cut the clouds I tary for the comfort of the day Fair love, I see, I forgot our way
Stand steel, you ever moving spheres in misery noone will hear And they shoot chillness to my heart I can't break the midnight sigh
3. Love's Heavy Burden
Under love's heavy burden do I sink Can I go forward, when my heart is here? I cannot be here, here and there, there and here for You and I are past our dancing days
I like the lightning which does cease to be ere one can say "I see" Beauty too rich for use for earth too dear Did my heart love till now? I forswear!
Regions near me seemed all alone My mutual cry she never heard again Now sadness is beloved, and love we gain Alike bewitched by charm of looks
Night, sable Goddess, from your ebon throne Every eye is fixed on you alone I thank you, moon, for showing me the way Trip away, make me stay, meet me all by break of day
You made mine eyes and merry tears Oh, grim-looked night, the way you fear! Full many flowers born to blush unseen And waste their sweetness now sure their last gleam
Trip away, make me stay, meet me all by break of day Heaven hell shadow-dancer heatened blood makes holy hands unclean
Mine eyes look sad, And grim-looked night away Stare around the sphere to blush unseen-your tears
When you turn away Leave me out of the end Turn your insane out Leave me, it you will
Away from light steals forth my soul I want give cure as know But love's a smoke with fume of sighs So swallow down and rise, autumn rise
4. The Sealing Day
I look upon myself and curse my fate Shall I compare you to a winter's day? Pull down your vanity, I say pull down A world of made is not a world of born
I all alone beweep my outcast state and my eternal spring is shall not fade Some safer world in depths of wood embrace The stars move still with sound of glace
And all the air a solemn stilness holds My ear is much enarmoured of your silent notes
What angel wakes me from my flowered bed? Oh, you have killed my sleeping fairy-land I pray you gentle mortal, sing again I'm wandering till truth makes all things plain
By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn to stay but here awhile most radiantly
How glorious once above thy sphere and all the air Heaven's matchless king does glance methought he is there
5. Forgetfulness
And I seek sweet favours carved in gold And I bare the light my breath to hold Early seen unknown, but know too late How came this gentle concord? Can you tell me was it fate?
I cross the entrance, push the door to crawing sadness hurting more I see I hear the trembling sphere Come and pass, alas, stay here!
And I breathed such vows love used to swear It's too rich for earth too dear Now sadness is beloved and love we gain I see me I see you and all I know is hurt is lying plain
I pity silence sad I enjoyed the vital light Oh, that she knew, knew I did God alone in grievance lies I thank you for your cries I leave you now.I leave you now
When I feel my insane blue I dive into the sea of you and hope to drown by falling down Weapons out to pierce my grief I hide my blade alike in peace Drop the curtain, I will leave
I don't care, I don't go I don't leave you when you will I don't care, I don't go When you cease my love to kill
Burning ice and wondrous flaming snow And I see more devils hell can hold I will leave the break of day No more passion, no more lust and only fume of sigh will stay
6. Like To A Silver Bow
Once I wrote her name upon the sand but came a wave a washed it away Again I wrote in with a second hand but came a tide, made my plans prey
Who so list to think? I know where is a sign I am of them that furthest come behind
Yet may I, by no means, my weared mind draw from my thought, but as they flee ashore, fainting I follow, I leave off therefore, since in net I seek to hold the wind
The sweet season, that bud and bloom forth brings The summer has come, for every spray now springs With green had clad the hill and ehe the vale The nightingale with feathers new she sings
"Vain man" she said "that dost in vain assay, a mortal name so to immortalise, for I myself shell like to this desay and ehe my name be wiped out likewise"
7. Chariot Wheels
Leaves by night and day Webs with colours gray But she still delights mirrors magic sights
When the moon was overhead The red-crossed knight forever kneeled like the branch of stars we see She loosed the chain, down she lay The broud stream brought her far away I am part of all she met
Rivers drowning lands gleams untravelling hands Wandering if I might from morn to night
Cause I grew both deaf and blind Damned to win, unskilled to find Dark shores no ship's ever seen
The leaves upon her falling light ere she reached upon the tide Singing in her song she died
Hold me - to reach heaven from hell Leave me - from cold eyes farewell Hold me - in sounds royal cheer Leave me - leave my palace here
When we fall, when we fall below cold thunder's upper deep When we fall, when we fall her eyes so hard beneath the sea When we fall, when we fall subdue me to the useful good When we fall, when we fall to drown in sadness'brotherhood
8. The Bolt Of Cupid Fell
When fourty nights shall beside you brow and dig deep wounds in your beauty now Your youth's proud livery so gazed on me tomorrow will be darkened sealed
Look how a bird lies tangeled in a net Pure shame and awed resistance made him fred So fastened in her arms the favoured lies She found more beauty in his varied eyes
Cut is the brunch that might be grown with you faith, the treasure of your lusty days
Then being asked where all your beauty lies I say it to your deep-sunken eyes "As if the dead the living should exceed possessed by heavens heart and hand"
He burns with basful shame She with her tears does quench the maiden burning off her cheeks Then with her windy sighs and golden hands to fain and blow them dry again she seeks
Look how a painter would surpass his life His art with nature's workmanship at strife In limmming out a well-proportioned steed as if the dead the living should exceed
9. Night Mislead
With how sad steps you climb the skies How silently, how pale your face What may it be, that even in this place that busy archer his arrows tries?
Leave me, on love, which reachest but to dust And you, my mind, aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never takes ryst What ever fades but fading pleasure brings
Verbreitte die Stahlen, gib'mir Deine Macht die die Wolken besiegt und dasLicht mir bewegt durch den Fruhling des goldnen belebenden Blickes Ich suche den Weg in der Dammerung schwer
And let the day be time enough to mourn Let waking eyes suffice to vail their scorn The shipwreck of my ill-adventured youth Without the torment of the night's untruth
10. My Worldly Task Is Done
Falling, falling into the hole Starfall, starfall-to the horizon
This hateful imperfection on her eyes They swell like orient pearls Why should they stay? Pressed by love to go
You don't speak as you think it cannot be! Your vows to her and me How shall we find the concord of your night and day
And I go, oh spite, oh hell, to vows that would consis of the wind So sorrow's heaviness does heavier grow Give me your hands of we be friends
Oh peace will not harbour me since night's swift dragons cut the skies
Night and silence, are you there? Weeds of chillness he does wear So awake when I'm gone To heaven's breaking fields I come
11. Winter Noon
Well, my kind, in silence sad trip we after what we read We the globe can compass soon swifter than the wandering moon
I look to like if looking liking prays I gather thorns seek night to happy days
On life's vast ocean do we sail I pity myself, cause passion is the gale
Tears augmenting the fresh morning-dew I know my grievance or be much denied Mistempered sorrow, fear me not! You dreamt a dream tonight and so did I
And since you wove dreams of joy and fear which made me terrible and dear But I arose and saw the dawn when light rode hight and was gone
