Sonnets and Songs

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2024

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Authors: Arthur Upson In Year : 1911

Book Language: English

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Dedication by Arthur Upson; Introductory Poem and Note by Ruth Shepard Phelps
After a Dolmetsch Concert
The Earth-Errand
"Vers La Vie"
Phantom Life
"At The Hill's Top Bides Love"
Love's Patience
A Motive out of Lohengrin
My Song Must Not Forsake Me
The Lake
Absence and Presence
A Song of Love and Your Dreams
The Mystery of Beauty
The Tragic Winds
To a Picture of My Mother as a Girl
Song of Agamede (From "The City")
The Sobbing Woman
The Incurables
Chorus (From "The City ")
Arlington
Between Hingham and Braintree
Wheat Elevators
From "Octaves in an Oxford Garden"
Minstrels in Bloomsbury
Thought of Stevenson
After Reading "The Golden Treasury" in the Green Park
On the Lower Rhine
Souvenance de Liège
After Reading an Old Comedy
After Reading "An Italian Garden"
Chorus (From "The City")
Golden Rod
In October
When Roseleaves Fall
Springtide of the Soul
"Ex Libris"
When the Song is Done

Arthur Upson's insightful and sensitive poetic art is grandly displayed in this selection of some of his best work. As a tribute to Upson, Ruth Shepard Phelps proclaims in the introductory poem of this volume, "And all the rare and lovely things that are / Bloom newly now to celebrate thy name." Indeed "rare and lovely" are apt concepts to describe the nature of Upson's work, his poems being conceived by a man with a quest, with a passion for meaning, a man "fain to know / What are humanity and human fate". Upson is a grand poet, an "explorer of a star / Where all is strange", and although his poet's determination is mired in "phantom days, each one / The shadow of a hope", he is determined to continue his fervent search for meaning, despite realizing that, "Slow-tongued Experience teaches me to bear / On lips more patient Love's impatient prayer." Just as Upson's talent faces no diminishment by the "phantom days" that surround him, neither is his poetic skill encumbered by its mandatory human incarnation - an incarnation of which the poet is intensely aware, intensely affected by, and which compels him to produce works of insight and earthly resonance to transform his quest for a search for meaning, for truth, and for a comprehension and enactment of the power of love. This is the essence of the current that runs through this collection and is manifested in each of these magnificent poems, resulting in an uplifting volume of inspiring readability and rousing introspective depth. - Summary by Bruce Kachuk