The South Seas
Mutability
Clouds
Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
A Memory (From a sonnet-sequence)
One Day
Waikiki
Hauntings
He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her
Doubts
There's Wisdom in Women
Fafaia
Heaven
The Great Lover
Retrospect
Tiare Tahiti
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Waikiki
Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree
Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes
Somewhere an eukaleli thrills and cries
And stabs with pain the night's brown savagery.
And dark scents whisper; and dim waves creep to me,
Gleam like a woman's hair, stretch out, and rise;
And new stars burn into the ancient skies,
Over the murmurous soft Hawaian sea.
And I recall, lose, grasp, forget again,
And still remember, a tale I have heard, or known,
An empty tale, of idleness and pain,
Of two that loved -- or did not love -- and one
Whose perplexed heart did evil, foolishly,
A long while since, and by some other sea.
Waikiki, 1913.
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