Nathalia Crane était écrivaine américaine.
“Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.”
"The Dust" <!-- p. 23 -->
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Contexte: Treating the sword blade the same as the staff,
Turning the chariot wheel into chaff.
Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall,
Building a sand pile to counter each fall.
Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.
"The First Reformer"
Lava Lane and Other Poems (1925)
“That instructed damsel
Donned a gown of green;”
"The Vestal"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>Finally she faltered;
Saw at last, forsooth,
Every gaudy color
Is a bit of truth.
Then the gates were opened;
Miracles were seen;
That instructed damsel
Donned a gown of green;Wore it in a churchyard,
All arrayed with care;
And a painted rainbow
Shone above her there.</p
“Every gaudy color
Is a bit of truth.”
"The Vestal"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>Finally she faltered;
Saw at last, forsooth,
Every gaudy color
Is a bit of truth.
Then the gates were opened;
Miracles were seen;
That instructed damsel
Donned a gown of green;Wore it in a churchyard,
All arrayed with care;
And a painted rainbow
Shone above her there.</p
"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;
The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown;The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May;
But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way.Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.</p
"Imperfection"
Swear By the Night and Other Poems (1936)
“Once a pallid Vestal
Doubted truth in blue;
Listed red in ruin,
Harried every hue;”
"The Vestal" <!-- p. 15 -->
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>Once a pallid Vestal
Doubted truth in blue;
Listed red in ruin,
Harried every hue;Barricaded vision,
Garbed herself in sighs;
Ridiculed the birthmarks
Of the butterflies.</p
“The starry brocade of the summer night
Is linked to us as part of our estate”
"Tomorrow"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: The starry brocade of the summer night
Is linked to us as part of our estate;
And every bee that wings its sidelong flight
Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.
"Tomorrow" <!-- p. 41 -->
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;
The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown;The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May;
But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way.Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.</p
“Barricaded vision,
Garbed herself in sighs;
Ridiculed the birthmarks
Of the butterflies.”
"The Vestal" <!-- p. 15 -->
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>Once a pallid Vestal
Doubted truth in blue;
Listed red in ruin,
Harried every hue;Barricaded vision,
Garbed herself in sighs;
Ridiculed the birthmarks
Of the butterflies.</p
“They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.”
"Prescience" <!-- p. 18 -->
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth,
But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below;
They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row.They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth;
They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.</p
"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;
The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown;The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May;
But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way.Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.</p
"Imperfection"
Swear By the Night and Other Poems (1936)
“Wore it in a churchyard,
All arrayed with care;
And a painted rainbow
Shone above her there.”
"The Vestal"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>Finally she faltered;
Saw at last, forsooth,
Every gaudy color
Is a bit of truth.
Then the gates were opened;
Miracles were seen;
That instructed damsel
Donned a gown of green;Wore it in a churchyard,
All arrayed with care;
And a painted rainbow
Shone above her there.</p
"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting,
For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering.And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line,
Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.</p
“Treating the sword blade the same as the staff,
Turning the chariot wheel into chaff.”
"The Dust" <!-- p. 23 -->
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Contexte: Treating the sword blade the same as the staff,
Turning the chariot wheel into chaff.
Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall,
Building a sand pile to counter each fall.
Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.
"Prescience" <!-- p. 18 -->
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Contexte: p>A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth,
But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below;
They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row.They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth;
They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.</p
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928), The Wings of Lead
Contexte: The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull;
They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull.It roused the Norman eagerness, the Albion cliffs turned red:
"You fly the wings of logic — can you fly the wings of lead?
"The Flathouse Roof"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
“Great is the rose
That challenges the crypt,
And quotes milleniums
Against the grave.”
"Tadmore"
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
"Tadmore"
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
"Proposals"
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
“Cloud-made mountains towered,
Beckoning to me;
Visionary triremes
Talked about the sea…”
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
"Tomorrow"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
"The Blind Girl"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
“He found the harem filled with rocking maids
Surrendered to the orgies of the sob.”
"Tadmore"
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
“Great is the rose
Infected by the tomb,
Yet burgeoning
Indifferent to death.”
"Tadmore"
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Impromptu poem, made at the request of reporters, printed in "Markham v. Prodigy" http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,928761,00.html TIME magazine (23 November 1925)
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928), The Wings of Lead
