Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses
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Artemis to Actaeon is an interpretation of the myth of the Theban hero who watched Artemis bathe and was thus turned into a stag and hunted by his own hounds as punishment. This collection also contains the verses Life, Vesalius In Zante, Margaret Of Cortona, A Torchbearer, The Mortal Lease, Experience, Grief, Chartres, Two Backgrounds, The Tomb Of Ilaria Giunigi, The One Grief, The Eumenides, Orpheus An Autumn Sunset, Moonrise Over Tyringham, All Souls, All Saints, The Old Pole Star, A Grave, Non Dolet!, A Hunting-song, Survival, Uses, and A Meeting.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having grown up in an upper-class, tightly controlled society known as “Old New York” at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage, Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of that society’s fiercest critics as well as one of America’s greatest writers. The author of more than 40 books in 40 years, Wharton’s oeuvre includes classic works of American literature such as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, as well as authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel.
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Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses - Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Table of Contents
I
LIFE
MARGARET OF CORTONA
A TORCHBEARER
II
THE MORTAL LEASE
EXPERIENCE
GRIEF
CHARTRES
TWO BACKGROUNDS
II
THE TOMB OF ILARIA GIUNIGI
THE ONE GRIEF
THE EUMENIDES
III
AN AUTUMN SUNSET
MOONRISE OVER TYRINGHAM
ALL SOULS
ALL SAINTS
THE OLD POLE STAR
A GRAVE
NON DOLET!
A HUNTING-SONG
SURVIVAL
USES
A MEETING
Part I—
ARTEMIS TO ACTAEON LIFE VESALIUS IN ZANTE MARGARET OF CORTONA A TORCHBEARER
Part II—
THE MORTAL LEASE EXPERIENCE GRIEF CHARTRES TWO BACKGROUNDS THE TOMB OF ILARIA GIUNIGI THE ONE GRIEF THE EUMENIDES
Part III—
ORPHEUS AN AUTUMN SUNSET MOONRISE OVER TYRINGHAM ALL SOULS ALL SAINTS THE OLD POLE STAR A GRAVE NON DOLET! A HUNTING-SONG SURVIVAL USES A MEETING
I
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ARTEMIS TO ACTAEON
THOU couldst not look on me and live: so runs
The mortal legend—thou that couldst not live
Nor look on me (so the divine decree)!
That saw'st me in the cloud, the wave, the bough,
The clod commoved with April, and the shapes
Lurking 'twixt lid and eye-ball in the dark.
Mocked I thee not in every guise of life,
Hid in girls' eyes, a naiad in her well,
Wooed through their laughter, and like echo fled,
Luring thee down the primal silences
Where the heart hushes and the flesh is dumb?
Nay, was not I the tide that drew thee out
Relentlessly from the detaining shore,
Forth from the home-lights and the hailing voices,
Forth from the last faint headland's failing line,
Till I enveloped thee from verge to verge
And hid thee in the hollow of my being?
And still, because between us hung the veil,
The myriad-tinted veil of sense, thy feet
Refused their rest, thy hands the gifts of life,
Thy heart its losses, lest some lesser face
Should blur mine image in thine upturned soul
Ere death had stamped it there. This was thy thought.
And mine?
The gods, they say, have all: not so!
This have they—flocks on every hill, the blue
Spirals of incense and the amber drip
Of lucid honey-comb on sylvan shrines,
First-chosen weanlings, doves immaculate,
Twin-cooing in the osier-plaited cage,
And ivy-garlands glaucous with the dew:
Man's wealth, man's servitude, but not himself!
And so they pale, for lack of warmth they wane,
Freeze to the marble of their images,
And, pinnacled on man's subserviency,
Through the thick sacrificial haze discern
Unheeding lives and loves, as some cold peak
Through icy mists may enviously descry
Warm vales unzoned to the all-fruitful sun.
So they along an immortality
Of endless-envistaed homage strain their gaze,
If haply some rash votary, empty-urned,
But light of foot, with all-adventuring hand,
Break rank, fling past the people and the priest,
Up the last step, on to the inmost shrine,
And there, the sacred curtain in his clutch,
Drop dead of seeing—while the others prayed!
Yes, this we wait for, this renews us, this
Incarnates us, pale people of your dreams,
Who are but what you make us, wood or stone,
Or cold chryselephantine hung with gems,
Or else the beating purpose of your life,
Your sword, your clay, the note your pipe pursues,
The face that haunts your pillow, or the light
Scarce visible over leagues of labouring sea!
O thus through use to reign again,