This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... SHE BRUSHED THE VERY DOWN OF SLEEP, AND LEFT HIM, AND WITH BREATH-TIPPED STEPS DID CREEP OUT FROM THE CHAMBER TO THE MIST-WHITE HALL; THEN, HAVING PASSED A CURTAIN'S SIGHING FALL, GOING DOWN THE SHALLOW STEPS INTO THE STREET EACH MADE A POOL OF MARBLE FOR HER FEET. DAY SOON CAME FLUSHING IN A CLOUDY SWIRL ACROSS THE ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... SHE BRUSHED THE VERY DOWN OF SLEEP, AND LEFT HIM, AND WITH BREATH-TIPPED STEPS DID CREEP OUT FROM THE CHAMBER TO THE MIST-WHITE HALL; THEN, HAVING PASSED A CURTAIN'S SIGHING FALL, GOING DOWN THE SHALLOW STEPS INTO THE STREET EACH MADE A POOL OF MARBLE FOR HER FEET. DAY SOON CAME FLUSHING IN A CLOUDY SWIRL ACROSS THE SOFT-STIRRED SEA OF WAKING PEARL AND MADE THE MARBLE ROSY AS THE GIRL; BUT DAPHNE SAW NO WATERS' JACINTH GLOW NOR MARBLES VEINED DREAMILY AND SLOW, FOR PRESSING ONWARD WITH AN EAGER GAZE SHE LEFT THE SILENT PALACES IN HAZE AND SOUGHT A FAR-OFF PATHLESS DEWY WOOD, AN UNDISCERNED GOD-HAUNTED SOLITUDE, WHERE 'NEATH HER FEET, PALED BY THE GLEAM THEREOF, LIKE LADIES HUMBLE FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE THE SOFT BRUISED VIOLETS GAVE HER SWEETS FOR BLOWS. AND THUS SHE DARKENED, LIKE A LEAF-HID ROSE. AND WHEN HER LOVER CALLED HER THROUGH THAT NIGHT SICK WITH HIS EAGERNESS TO FEEL THE SIGHT OF HER GREEN-SHADOWED RAIMENT WATER-WHITE, DEEP IN HER STREAM-SIDE BLOOMS HE ONLY FOUND A GOLD-WHITE LYRIC YOUTH WITH LAUREL CROWNED, WIDE-AUREOLED, AS THOUGH FROM GREEN MISTS ROUND THE SUDDBN SUN DASHED THE WET LEAVES AFIRE; A PRAYER-WHITE YOUTH WHO TO A GIRL-WHITE LYRE SANG LANGUIDLY AND LIGHTLY, LOUD AND LOW, A CHANT HALF SLEEPY JOY, HALF CARELESS WOE. "AH, DAPHNE, NEVER WILL THINE ARMS DROP DOWN, LEAVING MY HEAD, TO MAKE MY WAIST THINE OWN; BUT STILL THINE ARMS GIVE ME MY LAUREL CROWN. THE ARMS THAT THRUST ME FROM THEE INTERFUSED WITH TREES, AS THOUGH A DRYAD SANK BEMUSED; FEAR GAVE THE LAUREL THAT THY LOVE REFUSED. AH, IF THY LOVE HAD CROWNED ME UNAFRAID, LOVE'S GODDESS WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO POOR TO AID; BUT THEN MY FRUITFUL SORROW WERE UNMADE. LOVE IS THE POET'S CRAFT; 'TIS NEVER WRONG; TRIUMPHANT OR REJECTED, BRIEF OR LONG, THE POOREST PASSION YIELDS AT LEAST A SONG...
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Add this copy of The Gate of Smaragdus to cart. $38.05, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
Add this copy of The Gate of Smaragdus to cart. $196.99, very good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1904 by Elkin Mathews.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in boards with cloth spine. Illustrated by Clinton Balmer. End papers browned; small surface damge (? insect) to back pastedown. With a frontispiece and eight illustrations in green.
