Duncan Campbell Scott

Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist,
A sweeping plunge, a sudden shattering noise,
And thou hast dared, with a long spiral twist,
The elastic stairway to the rising sun.

The winds that on the uplands softly lie,
Grow keener where the ice is lingering
Where the first robin on the sheltered
Pipes blithely to the tune, "When Spring goes by!"Hear him again, "Spring!

IThe lady Lillian knelt upon the sward,
Between the arbour and the almond leaves;
Beyond, the barley gathered into sheaves;
A blade of gladiolus, like a sword,…

The sunset colours mingle in the sky,
And over all the Umbrian valleys flow;
Trevi is touched with wonder, and the glow
Finds high Perugia crimson with renown;…

HE slender moon and one pale star, A rose leaf and a silver
From some god's garden blown afar, Go down the gold deep tranquilly.
Within the south there rolls and grows A mighty town with tower and spire,
From a cloud bastion masked…

The wave is over the foaming reef
Leaping alive in the sun,
Seaward the opal sails are blown
Vanishing one by one.’Tis leagues around the blue sea curve…

(The refrain is quoted by Edward Fitzgerald inone of his
Growing, growing, all the glory going;
Flashing out of fire and light, burning to a husk,
All the world's a-dying and failing in the dusk--

Dear Morris--here is your letter--Can my answer reach you now?
Fate has left me your debtor,
You will remember how;
For I went away to Nantucket

This is not June,--by Autumn's stratagem
Thou hast been ambushed in the chilly air;
Upon thy fragile crest virginal fair
The rime has clustered in a diadem;…

In her chamber, wheresoe’er
Time shall build the walls of it,
Melodies shall minister,
Mellow sounds shall flit…

I
HT of death beside the lonely
That went beyond the limit of my sight,
Seeming the image of his mastery,

Creep into my heart, creep in, creep in,
Afar from the fret, the toil and the din,
Where the spring of love forever flows,
As clear as light and as sweet as the rose;…

I
LL in the wood that is dark and kind  But afar off tolls the main,
Afar, far off I hear the wind,  And the roving of the rain.
The shade is dark as a palmer's hood,  The air with balm is bland:

Let your soul grow a thing apart,
Untroubled by the restless day,
Sublimed by some unconscious art,
Controlled by some divine delay.For life is greater than they think,…

Here where the cypress tall
Shadows the stucco wall,
Bronze and deep,
Where the chrysanthemums blow,…

Gather the leaves from the forest And blow them over the world,
The wind of winter follows The wind of autumn furled.
Only the beech tree cherishes A leaf or two for ruth,
Their stems too tough for the tempest, Like thoughts of…

I
LL in the sea that is wild and deep,  But afar in a shadow still,
I can see the trees that gather and sleep  In the wood upon the hill.
The deeps are green as an emerald's face,  The caves are crystal calm

To ports of balm through isles of
The gentle airs are leading us;
To curtained calm and tents of dusk,
The wood-wild things unheeding

Come, O thou season of intense repose;
Come with thy lidded eyes and crystal breath;
Come gently with thy soft release of snows;
And bring thy few short months of tender death.Build a huge tomb within the desert frore,…

Some men are born to gather women's tears,
To give a harbour to their timorous fears,
To take them as the dry earth takes the rain,
As the dark wood the warm wind from the plain;

I have done,
Put by the lute;
Songs and singing soon are over,
Soon as airy shades that hover…

TO A.P.S.The night wind moves the gloom
In the shadowy basswood;
Mysteriously the leaves sway and sing;
So slow, so tender is the wind,…

Here in Samarcand they offer emeralds,
Pure as frozen drops of sea-water,
Rubies, pale as dew-ponds stained with slaughter,
Where the fairies fought for a king's

With a golden rolling sound
Booming came a bell,
From the aery in the tower
Eagles fell;…