Haunting nights
by
garden scents
to
the brimming eyes
looking to
a cusp of stars
that all white
burn and shine bright
haloes
that on land and sea
restless sea
come and go
haunted trees
by satyrs, fauns
and no less
the scarce-clad nymphs
and
no less the sounds of night
in the silence deep and loud
Snores at times sovereign night
laughs and chuckles
the sweet Dawn
then arising her from reclining
in full beauty
hies to Earth.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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There is a wonderful pagan spirit flowing through this poem with all of the sensuous details of these demigods of the natural world. This array of gods and goddesses must be older and freer than the twelve Olympians whom you ignore in this evocation of divinity WITHIN, not above NATURE. You begin with some long shots of the sky, sea and land and then come in close for the perhaps shy creatures, satyrs and naked nymphs - well, I guess they're not so shy when they populate the forest at night. In one of his ODES John Keats sees a satyr and nymph asleep in each other's arms - they have NOT awakened to the new day when the place belong to human beings. When they do wake up they rush into hiding - until the night gives the forest back to them.