Intl poetry month.

[amand_r]

THE TWO TREES

William Butler Yeats

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with merry light;
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night;
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
There the Loves a circle go,
The flaming circle of our days,
Gyring, spiring to and fro
In those great ignorant leafy ways;
Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the wingèd sandals dart,
Thine eyes grow full of tender care:
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.

Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while;
For there a fatal image grows
That the stormy night receives,
Roots half hidden under snows,
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
For all things turn to barrenness
In the dim glass the demons hold,
The glass of outer weariness,
Made when God slept in times of old.
There, through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought;
Flying, crying, to and fro,
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.

Comments

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE POEMS EVER, SINCE I WAS TWELVE. ♥ Have you ever heard of Loreena McKennitt? She put it to music once. It's beyootiful. ^_^

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

That's actually why I dug it out, because of her song! It's on the soundtrack for the story I'm writing.

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

That album was one of the first CDs I ever owned. Still one of my favorites. ^_^ LOVE.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I had it on tape. I was looking for my Book of Secrets disk and I couldn't find it, so I went to...obtain it online and saw the Mask and Mirror album and almost shit myself. THE BONNY SWANS. (I'm using that too--the story, that is) and OMG MARRAKESH NIGHT MARKET!

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

YES and YES. Do you have any of the later albums? There's a lot on Book of Secrets and Ancient Muse that I like, too. Loreena's pretty much my favorite. Excellent music to listen to while writing. ^_^

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Also, what is this story, and why isn't it done yet? Or is it? WANT.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard beyond Secrets, because I lost track of her sometime after college, but I'll have to look her up again.

This part is for the Queen Mab section of the TWseason 4 that I'm writing. Hahaaahahaha.

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Ah, Queen Mab... Nice!

I can hook you up, if you like, far as the LM is concerned.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. want.

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Which albums are you missing? I'll upload them (I have pretty much all of them.) ^_^

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

anything after secrets, I'm afraid. :(

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

I uploaded An Ancient Muse here: http://www.mediafire.com/?3vzem3dkjne

And I found the most recent Christmas album here: http://rapidshare.com/files/163241180/LM-AMWND.rar (The woman has three Christmas albums. It's kinda scary...) (password is kamane)

She had a long dry spell after Book of Secrets because her fiancée died in 1998, and then she did a lot (more) traveling. :(

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Where did my comment go?

I said, thank you thank you thank you so much!

That's very sad about her fiance.