11/30/2022 0 Comments Graven scrawl destiny![]() They began to pile dirt over the corpse, while Ikharos did his very best to avoid gazing upon the Wish-Dragon's face. The Splicer deftly caught it out of the air. Ikharos grabbed the shovels Xiān dropped and tossed one over to Javek. Of lugubrious voices heard chanting discordantly.They tossed the body into the shallow grave with some exertion. [As she speaks, half averting her face as with melancholy apprehension, chorus Now shalt than Look on such scaith as thou hast never dreamed. GRAVEN SCRAWL DESTINY FULLTo full stature, waves her hands above the sleeper's face, and runs toĪ MPHINE, who turns about and gazes on her with new Then pausing, letting fall her gown, and rising D WAINIE then unbinds her hair, and throwing it all forward covering her face andīending till it trails the ground, she lifts to the knee her dress, and so walksīackward in a circle round the sleeping J UCKLET, crooning to herself an incoherent song. Page: 593 commanding, bids him turn and hide his face A MPINE obeying as though unable to do otherwise. To set foot contemptuously on sleeper's breast, but is caught and held awayīy D WAINIS, who imperiously waves him back, and still, in pantomime, D WAINIE troves forwardA MPHINE, following, is about Hint as though in tnnte and painful act of incantntion.J UCKLET affected drowsilyyawns and mumbles incoherentlystretches, and gradually sinksĪt full length on the sward. [ she stands, still in concealment front the dwarf, her tense gaze fixed upon Singly, forward,tremulously, and in succession, poising in mid-air and chanting. Mystic, luminous, beautiful faces detached from swarm, float, Swarming forms and features in airĪbove, seem eeriely coming and going, blending and intermingling in domed ceiling-space The Queen, in seeming dazed,Įcstatic state, raptly gazing upward, listening. C RESTILLOMEEM discovered languidly reclaining at foot of empty throne, an overturned goblet A vast pendent star burns dimly in dome above throne. Page: 535 The Flying Islands of the Night Counsellors, Courtiers, Heralds, etc., etc., etc.C RESTILLOMEEM The QueenSecond Consort to Krung.SUCH a dear little street it is, nestled away.Page: 1 THE LOCKERBIE BOOK AFTERWHILES Lockerbie Street Which their author has long lived and worked.įor permission to reprint certain poems here included grateful acknowledgment is made to Messrs.Ĭharles Scribner's Sons and the Century Company, of New York. These poems have been brought together and the volume comprising them named for the little street in And so in this belief, as well as in answer to an ever-continuing demand, Roses and time will judge him and reward him accordingly.Īs a consequence, however, his normal English verse is not, perhaps, fully recognized either for itsĮxtent or for its quality. His destinies are garlanded with old fashioned Such an alliance is as worthy as it is inevitable. Poet, I am sure, has no grievance with this answer nor is there quarrel anywhere with the fixed "When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock." The Yet if you say "Riley" to the man in the street he will reply: In the fourteen volumes that now represent his collected verse,Īlmost every poetic form finds a place, and normal English, in distinction from dialect, holds anĮqual authority. During this time it has been given to "Benj. The century that was then old has gone to its final reckoning, and ten full years have been recordedĪgainst its young successor. Wearing on her shining forehead the homely but imperishable sign of dialect. Johnson of Boone"ĭipped his rosy muse in the melodious waters of The Old Swimmin'-Hole and brought her forth When we were all some years younger than we are now, "Benj. Naturally expected, this collection seems to make an introduction not only pertinent but courteous And yet because of its departure from the On its title page the name of James Whitcomb Riley. It is something of a literary presumption to introduce to any one that can read, a volume that bears The Lockerbie BookContaining Poems Not in DialectBy James Whitcomb Rile圜ollected and Arranged by Hewitt Hanson Howland ![]()
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