April Twilights and Other Poems

<h3><SPAN name="PARADOX" id="PARADOX"></SPAN>PARADOX</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="iq"><span class="letra">“I</span> knew them both upon Miranda’s isle,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Which is of youth a sea-bound seigniory:<br/></span> <span class="i0">Misshapen Caliban, so seeming vile,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And Ariel, proud prince of minstrelsy,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Who did forsake the sunset for my tower<br/></span> <span class="i2">And like a star above my slumber burned.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The night was held in silver chains by power<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of melody, in which all longings yearned&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Star-grasping youth in one wild strain expressed,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Tender as dawn, insistent as the tide;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The heart of night and summer stood confessed.<br/></span> <span class="i2">I rose aglow and flung the lattice wide&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ah, jest of art, what mockery and pang!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Alack, it was poor Caliban who sang.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_25" id="page_25">{25}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />