Poems by Albert Samain

Poems by Albert Samain

The Hermaphrodite, by Albert Samain

NAKED, the Hermaphrodite is stretched to muse
With writhing reptile limbs upon her bed;
The j...

Your Memory, by Albert Samain

YOUR memory is like a book we love,
And which our face is ever bent above;
Our heart read int...

Xanthis, by Albert Samain

THE breeze of morning stirs the grasses fine;
Light vapour floats along the wooded slope,
And...

Winter, by Albert Samain

THE sky weeps white tears that freeze
On the rosy days that are dead;
And Cupids with chapped ...

Visions, by Albert Samain

I I DREAMED of a jungle flowered with burning scents,
Moist with the tufts of musk and creeper...

Summer Hours, by Albert Samain

I PROLONG our love's contents
With a pallid wine that gleams
Through glasses the colour of dre...

Sleepless Night, by Albert Samain

TONIGHT there shall be lighted here no tapers,
but a sheaf of still wet flowers that shake in f...

The Orient, by Albert Samain

LIFE is a flower I scarcely breathe, for pain
Is every earthly perfume after a while.
My fancy...

October, by Albert Samain

TOWARD sweet October pilgrim winter creeps,
Brushed by the last lone swallow's frightened wings...

Night Outwatched, by Albert Samain

To think. Alone in darkness sybilline
To shiver!.. To be subtle fire around
The cosmos and refi...

Music on the Waters, by Albert Samain

O HARK what the symphony saith,
Nothing is sweet as a death
Of music vague on the breath
That...

Music, by Albert Samain

SINCE there are no words that can hold the brine
On this sad evening in my soul distilling,
Le...

The Infanta, by Albert Samain

MY soul is an Infanta robed in state,
Whose exile is reflected evermore
In mighty mirrors of t...

Accompaniment, by Albert Samain

LIME, and birch, and aspen branches quiver..
The moon sheds petals on the river..   Like...

The Golden Fleece, by Albert Samain

BLACK in the blue night Argus sails, while dozes
Each chieftain sad, dreaming of Grecian hills...