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Adonis and Adona — A Tale for Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Adonnas and adonna a tail for Christmas. Conscious waves astutely rejoiced,
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  Speaker 1: tumultuous surging by the seashore, mutely sat the lonely virgin,
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  Speaker 1: while thy Murmur's ocean sported with the breezes music of
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  Speaker 1: their motion, making such as seeses spirits when they feel inspired.
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  Speaker 1: Thus sitting unadmired to watch the foam a donna seemed
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  Speaker 1: while it mantled, rolled and creamed. Its spray once shed
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  Speaker 1: tis shed, forever, flowing away, returning never and where it
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  Speaker 1: broke and tumbled o'er another still for evermore grows to
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  Speaker 1: a ridge, and froths and frets and melts to vapor,
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  Speaker 1: all regrets for stalling, for the passing, by the coming,
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  Speaker 1: born with ecstasy in endless series, like a chase, each
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  Speaker 1: eager for the former's place in maiden meditation. She a
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  Speaker 1: donna sat and fancy free, felt like a weed upon
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  Speaker 1: the shore, flung from that sea, unclad, forlorn. What mortal
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  Speaker 1: girt with regal vest, crowned with the myrtle for a
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  Speaker 1: crest with springy step, now treads the lee as pleased
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  Speaker 1: with sand and sky and sea. Who knows him not Adonnis,
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  Speaker 1: he who is just what he seems to be, the
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  Speaker 1: glorious monarch of the Isles, Oh happy band, oh joyous
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  Speaker 1: troop that bask within the summer, smiles and make with
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  Speaker 1: this a sister group. What stays his step in mute amaze?
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  Speaker 1: That maiden shape arrests his gaze. But as he looked,
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  Speaker 1: a darkness lowered and shadows deepened on her brow. With
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  Speaker 1: terror or with shame overpowered, she turned to flee, But
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  Speaker 1: where and how she turned to flee? But worn and
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  Speaker 1: weak sank on the beach and could not speak. Then
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  Speaker 1: in thy heart Adonis sprang pity, and like a fountain
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  Speaker 1: sang a soft and clear and silvery song, running its
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  Speaker 1: pebbly bed along which save in stillness and in shade,
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  Speaker 1: no sound unto the ear had made that royal soul.
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  Speaker 1: The whisper heard, and soon to love by pity stirred.
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  Speaker 1: The monarch scanned the maiden's face with marvel at the
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  Speaker 1: expressive grace that life, to every lineament, significance and luster lent.
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  Speaker 1: Then words he spoke to soothe and cheer, and healed
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  Speaker 1: her soon of shame and fear, and heard her simple tale.
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  Speaker 1: In part the rest he guessed at by the heart
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  Speaker 1: on some fair isle, hid in the deep, couched on
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  Speaker 1: a bank of flowers, asleep, A pirate crew with purpose
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  Speaker 1: dark had seen, and then on board their bark conveyed her,
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  Speaker 1: meaning to enslave. Pursued, they tossed her to the wave,
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  Speaker 1: and hither, floating with the tide, more like a corpse
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  Speaker 1: than living creature. The billows bore her in their pride,
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  Speaker 1: uninjured or in form or feature her voice, her air.
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  Speaker 1: The monarch moved, he looked, he listened, and he loved.
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  Speaker 1: On golden throne in marble hall, Adonna sits adonnas By.
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  Speaker 1: It is a day of festival, of masking and of revelry. Adonia.
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  Speaker 1: They call the day whereon who would might idly play
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  Speaker 1: and sport his jest and boast his say, follow his
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  Speaker 1: fancy and his way. There was none to chide with, nay,
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  Speaker 1: the world was affair and all were gay. Ever, at
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  Speaker 1: this Adonia, in royal robes, the bride was seen Adonna,
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  Speaker 1: all elected queen, beside her, and not far above an
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  Speaker 1: image of immortal love, Adonis, with his eyes of fire
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  Speaker 1: lit up in hers his own detail, and while her
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  Speaker 1: cheeks with blushes glowed, her beauty awed the ignoble crowd.
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  Speaker 1: There were his altars, there his shrine, and all he
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  Speaker 1: worshiped was divine. The likeness of himself he saw, and
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  Speaker 1: in the mirror looked with awe and thus caressed and worshiped.
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  Speaker 1: So the woman to a goddess grew and greater felt
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  Speaker 1: than she might know the lovely and the deathless. Too,
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  Speaker 1: her eye of pride adonnis read and filled with more
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  Speaker 1: of love than dread. Exulting, said, now by the sun,
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  Speaker 1: whate'er thou wilt that shall be done, or grace or guilt,
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  Speaker 1: speak have thy will, my goddess bride. I see the
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  Speaker 1: wine cup by thy side, The liquor mantles to the brim,
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  Speaker 1: the beads upon its surface swim. Each globule is a
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  Speaker 1: world of pleasure. They run a race, they dance a measure,
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  Speaker 1: and like the planets in the sky, have their own
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  Speaker 1: stellar harmony. Merrily, merrily, the dimples laugh and fain, How
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  Speaker 1: fain would I the goblet quoth a gloom upon Adonis fell,
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  Speaker 1: This goblet wouldst thou taste tis well? The shoulders fit
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  Speaker 1: them to the yoke. An oath once vowed who dare
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  Speaker 1: revoke the draft, be thine. I will not tell the
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  Speaker 1: magic charm, the wizard spell that mingles there, lest thou
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  Speaker 1: should lose one joy, and deem that I refuse. My
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  Speaker 1: love to me is more than life, My mistress, bride,
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  Speaker 1: my queen, my wife. Then in his arms Adonis took Adonna,
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  Speaker 1: and upon her lips, impressed a kiss, and shed a
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  Speaker 1: look into her eyes they scarce might brook bright as
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  Speaker 1: the sun's before his eclipse. This done for love had
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  Speaker 1: made him brave. The wine cup to her hand, he
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  Speaker 1: gave and smiled well pleased, so best might he her
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  Speaker 1: bosom of all doubt set free within her small white hand.
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  Speaker 1: Adonna took the cup and held it to her lip
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  Speaker 1: so bland, then drank the red wine up. Oh, the rapture,
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  Speaker 1: all a tremble. She the joy would fain dissemble when
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  Speaker 1: from her unsteady grasp escaped the bowl and sudden fell.
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  Speaker 1: Oh late twas whole within her clasp now broken. Lo.
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  Speaker 1: The fragments tell what that Adonis loved too well. He
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  Speaker 1: knew not she the oracle. When the bull shall be broken,
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  Speaker 1: ere the right can be spoken on the deathless, the
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  Speaker 1: deadly shall be reeked. These were the words the flowmen
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  Speaker 1: aloud exclaimed, advancing before the crowd into the presence the
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  Speaker 1: sound appalled. Adona's senses were all enthralled and pale. She
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  Speaker 1: stood in the midst of throngs ceased on the sudden,
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  Speaker 1: their sports and their songs, while the stern priest said
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  Speaker 1: in the silence, dread one moment and religious wont with
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  Speaker 1: ceremonial order fitting had taken from the holy font the
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  Speaker 1: while all your hands in bonds were knitting the sacred chalice,
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  Speaker 1: and to thee presented it with sanction free. But thy
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  Speaker 1: impatience has outrun the pious right, and evil done that
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  Speaker 1: had been good, the form been so. Wherefore the bridle
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  Speaker 1: we forego, wake from thy trance too much, adored Adonah,
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  Speaker 1: look upon thy lord obedient, now too late. Thus Chid,
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  Speaker 1: as she was bid, Adonah did and looked upon Adonis,
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  Speaker 1: whom some horror seemed to wrap in gloom. It passed,
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  Speaker 1: but left within his eye a wildness as of frenzy,
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  Speaker 1: and forth his trembling lips there came breathing thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: words of flame, like the lightning from a cloud to
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  Speaker 1: the chase. He cried aloud, The deep mouthed bay of
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  Speaker 1: the hounds. I hear the sound in my soul is
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  Speaker 1: a sound of fear. For they are the hounds of Hell.
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  Speaker 1: I wish and their prey they never miss ha which
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  Speaker 1: of us are they pursuing? They go the bore to
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  Speaker 1: my undoing hold back, hold back, Oh fatal zeal, his
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  Speaker 1: tusks within my side. I feel no rescue, none by
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's decree. Adonah, Thus I die for thee. While thus
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  Speaker 1: he raved his visage, act in agonistic gestures, fit symboled
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  Speaker 1: to every sense the fact his words described performing it.
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  Speaker 1: And when he ceased to speak, he fell as smitten
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  Speaker 1: by a sudden spell. Adonah looked upon her lord, Adonah,
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  Speaker 1: the too much adored, gazed as her eyes that would
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  Speaker 1: not weep, might from their stiffened spheres outleap. But in
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  Speaker 1: the madness of that hour, the Flamen's words had healing
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  Speaker 1: power on thy dead Lord. Thou lookest here whom love
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  Speaker 1: for thee hast slain, whose absence thou must learn to
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  Speaker 1: bear till his life come back again. His love, then
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  Speaker 1: death is stronger far yet doomed with doom to be
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  Speaker 1: at war, he still shall conquer but to be again
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  Speaker 1: subdued forever, and I six moons on earth restored to
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  Speaker 1: thee six moons spent with Proserpina. Adonah heard, then stooped,
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  Speaker 1: embraced in her two loving arms her Lord, and wept
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  Speaker 1: the tears her beauty graced too much, beloved, too much adored.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore it is that evermore, when winter, like the furious boar,
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  Speaker 1: slays the bright sun, and nature all wears a white shroud,
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  Speaker 1: a snowy pall, the Syrian damsels mourn thy death, Adonis,
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  Speaker 1: but with hope and faith, expectant of thy resurrection, when Earth,
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  Speaker 1: because of thy affection anew shall blossom and shall bear,
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  Speaker 1: dying and living every year