Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-04-19
LOVES OF THE POETS.
81 Their Head stands white -ttosomed
Azure Eyed Helen of Troy.

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AZURE Eyed ielen Of Troy.
In fair and far-oif country, hidden TO
none. Though visited by few. dwell lit
tie band uf lovely ladies, 10 whose youth
and radiance the poets have added the
crowning gift Of immortality. There
thcy live, with faint allnring SMILES
that never fade: and at their head Is
| Helen ~ Troy. white-bosomed, azure
eyed, To whom men torgave all things
TOR her beautys sake. There, too, is
l.esbia, fair and false; laughing at
broken heart but holding close and ten
DERBY the dead sparrow
| rhat, liking. uryrr -trayed from her sweet
breast.
She kisses It's rutlied wings and weeps,
she who had no tears to spare when
Catullus sung and sued. And there Is
Myrto. beloved by Theocritus, her naked
feet cleaning like pearls, a bunch OF
Coan rushes pressed in her rosy fingers:
and the namcless girl who held in nvhcck
Anacrcon's wandering heart with the
magic Of dimples, and parted lips, and
thin purple floating garments. With
, ihcsc are later beauties: Fiammetta the
ruddy haired. whom death snatched from
.
rina raising those heavy-lidded eyes
! that Camoens loved and lost: Petrarch''
A Laura, robed in palc-grcen spotted with
n yiolcts, one golden curl escaping wan
a tonly beneath her vail; the fair blue
tockiug I.eonora Este. pale as a rain
=, washed rose hcr dress in sweet disor
4 Ter; and Beatrice with the stiffness o
, eternity In her brooding eyes. II VI
!. listen. VIZ hear the shrill laughter q
Mignnnnc. child OF lift zen summer.
uscking at Ronsard's wooing; or "
:. catch the gcntlcr murmur OF Ilighlan
=, Mary's song She bushes a little, tn
low-horn lass, and sinks her gracefu
~ head, as though abashed by the fame he
peasant lover brought her. Bare-footed
~ yellow haired, She passes swiftly bi
and with her. band In hand, walk
Scutland's Queen. sad Jane Beaufur
)" "thc fairest younge houre' that eve
~ won the heart Of royal captive and su
ne fercd the martyrdom Of love. Englan
ny sends to that far land Stella, with ey,
W like stars. and vail OF gossamer hi
'rs ing her delicate beauty, and Celia. AZ
false Iucasta, and Castara, tantalizing
OF discreet, in whose dimples Cupid is ia
on to linger signing, exilcd, poor froz,
We god. from the
me Chnstc uunnery Of her breasts.
nr- Sacharissa, too stands near, with
icy shade Of lstlessncss in her sweet eye
in as though she wearicd u little of Mast
iad Walters cuurtly strains. A withered ro
iin drOops from her white fingers, preac
led ing its mute sermon. and preaching
the all IN vain; for rose and lady live f
age ever, linked In each others fame. A
ere by her side. casting her fragile love
gos ness in the shade. j. one Of difIere
,lo- mold a sumptuous smiling woman,
ade whom Sacharissa's blue eyes iall viii
old soft disdain. We know this indolr
I. beauty hy the brave vibration of her u
him pestuous silken robe. by the ruby ear
,ays net that clasps her throat, the rainh
,ver ribbon around her slender waist,
also levels wedged hurkle-deep on ey,
that apcring finger, and even oh, van
the uf yanities. ON one small rosy thun
n of We know her by the scented be;
sent upon her arm. and by the sweet a
ling subtle odors Of storax and spikenard d
ong galhanum that breathe softly forth fr
per- her brocadcd bodice, and from her ma
ood. dark meshes caught in golden net.
can : she to whom the giow-worms !
ex- their eyes. and the elves their win
-ism and the stars their shooting fires, as
,ong wandered through the dewy woods
al meet her lovers steps. II Is lierri,
ands dulia whom W. see so clearly thro
Aus. the Midst Of centuries that can not
nor dim the brightness of her pressl
Agnes Repplier. in Atlantic.