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1、POEMS 1 POEMS CURRER ELLIS AND ACTON BELL POEMS 2 POEMS BY CURRER BELL PILATE S WIFE S DREAM I ve quench d my lamp I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed I heard it fall The crash blent with my sleep I saw depart Its light even as I woke on yonder wall Over against my bed there shone a
2、 gleam Strange faint and mingling also with my dream It sank and I am wrapt in utter gloom How far is night advanced and when will day Retinge the dusk and livid air with bloom And fill this void with warm creative ray Would I could sleep again till clear and red Morning shall on the mountain tops b
3、e spread I d call my women but to break their sleep Because my own is broken were unjust They ve wrought all day and well earn d slumbers steep Their labours in forgetfulness I trust Let me my feverish watch with patience bear Thankful that none with me its sufferings share Yet oh for light one ray
4、would tranquillize My nerves my pulses more than effort can I ll draw my curtain and consult the skies These trembling stars at dead of night look wan Wild restless strange yet cannot be more drear Than this my couch shared by a nameless fear All black one great cloud drawn from east to west Conceal
5、s the heavens but there are lights below Torches burn in Jerusalem and cast On yonder stony mount a lurid glow I see men station d there and gleaming spears A sound too from afar invades my ears Dull measured strokes of axe and hammer ring From street to street not loud but through the night Distinc
6、tly heard and some strange spectral thing Is now uprear d and fix d against the light Of the pale lamps defined upon that sky It stands up like a column straight and high I see it all I know the dusky sign A cross on Calvary which Jews uprear While Romans watch and when the dawn shall shine Pilate t
7、o judge the victim will appear Pass sentence yield Him up to crucify And on that cross the spotless Christ must die POEMS 3 Dreams then are true for thus my vision ran Surely some oracle has been with me The gods have chosen me to reveal their plan To warn an unjust judge of destiny I slumbering hea
8、rd and saw awake I know Christ s coming death and Pilate s life of woe I do not weep for Pilate who could prove Regret for him whose cold and crushing sway No prayer can soften no appeal can move Who tramples hearts as others trample clay Yet with a faltering an uncertain tread That might stir up re
9、prisal in the dead Forced to sit by his side and see his deeds Forced to behold that visage hour by hour In whose gaunt lines the abhorrent gazer reads A triple lust of gold and blood and power A soul whom motives fierce yet abject urge Rome s servile slave and Judah s tyrant scourge How can I love
10、or mourn or pity him I who so long my fetter d hands have wrung I who for grief have wept my eyesight dim Because while life for me was bright and young He robb d my youth he quench d my life s fair ray He crush d my mind and did my freedom slay And at this hour although I be his wife He has no more
11、 of tenderness from me Than any other wretch of guilty life Less for I know his household privacy I see him as he is without a screen And by the gods my soul abhors his mien Has he not sought my presence dyed in blood Innocent righteous blood shed shamelessly And have I not his red salute withstood
12、Ay when as erst he plunged all Galilee In dark bereavement in affliction sore Mingling their very offerings with their gore Then came he in his eyes a serpent smile Upon his lips some false endearing word And through the streets of Salem clang d the while His slaughtering hacking sacrilegious sword
13、And I to see a man cause men such woe Trembled with ire I did not fear to show And now the envious Jewish priests have brought Jesus whom they in mock ry call their king To have by this grim power their vengeance wrought By this mean reptile innocence to sting Oh could I but the purposed doom avert
14、And shield the blameless head from cruel hurt Accessible is Pilate s heart to fear Omens will shake his soul like autumn leaf Could he this night s appalling vision hear This just man s POEMS 4 bonds were loosed his life were safe Unless that bitter priesthood should prevail And make even terror to
15、their malice quail Yet if I tell the dream but let me pause What dream Erewhile the characters were clear Graved on my brain at once some unknown cause Has dimm d and razed the thoughts which now appear Like a vague remnant of some by past scene Not what will be but what long since has been I suffer
16、 d many things I heard foretold A dreadful doom for Pilate lingering woes In far barbarian climes where mountains cold Built up a solitude of trackless snows There he and grisly wolves prowl d side by side There he lived famish d there methought he died But not of hunger nor by malady I saw the snow around him stain d with gore I said I had no tears for such as he And lo my cheek is wet mine eyes run o er I weep for mortal suffering mortal guilt I weep the impious deed the blood self spilt More
