[syndicate] Shakespeare Sonnets of Francois Mauriac

[jeff harrison]

THERESE DESQUEYROUX 

in sonnet 28, night & day conspire 
to rob me, w/ my mouth of bones, 
from repose --- O hours!, of murk or 
of glint, w/out repose exposed I'm to 
who'd rend me, wild w/ quick eyes! --- 
thus I try to gain their good will 

1. by telling the day you, Virginia, 
are bright in imitation of him 

2. by telling the night you, Virginia, 
illuminate the night sky when hid are stars 

but 
day   |   continues to bring me grief 


& ni 
ght   |   regularly accentuates my grief 

* 

A WOMAN OF THE PHARISEES 

Virginia, if nothing new is possible, 
it's futile labor, in sonnet 59, to 
create novelty - a labor like luxuriant 
sorrow in slow roam. the trumpet sips 
at gusts! at the image, would it were true!, 
shown me w/in an antique tome, then 
I'd see whether we or the ancients excelled 
at describing you, or whether change has come. 

Oh, sure I am the wits of former days 
To subjects worse have given admiring praise. 

* 

A KNOT OF VIPERS 

constancy is a great adornment of beauty, 
opines sonnet 54. fullness of constant, the 
hill's generous shoulder. roses are the more 
admired for their scent (a harper at the gates), 
a,n,d, although the scentless wild rose may 
be colorful with the cultivated rose, its beauty ends 
with death - animated only thru music's schemes. 
scented roses are distilled into lasting perfume. 
the hill, nondescript outside photography, 
is distilled into "the / hill's generous shoulder" 

* 

A KISS FOR THE LEPER 

sonnet 50: travel is a labor -- 
luxuriant sorrow in slow roam. 

my steps grow blood the gardens of Pluto envy. 

my spur cannot provoke my horse onward the faster 
my spur can only provoke his groan, more sharp to me 
than spurring to his side; his groan provokes to my mind 
my grief lies onward and my joys behind. 

* 

GENETRIX 

sonnet 64 observes 
lofty towers unbuilt, yet here 

the frail has gone ruins! 
not vanished all as was suspicioned 

(since ruination's most 
inclined toward the powerhouse) 

to divide threnody among 
such wisps are browsing lyrists sent 

 		
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