Happy Monday friends! I hope you packed light and got some party clothes, cause this Monday we are one more embarking on a journey!
So today we are in England and we will explore:
SUMMER PAST
John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet whose works include Silverpoints, The Long Road and Park: A Fantastic Story. It has often been suggested that he was the inspiration behind Oscar Wilde's fictional Dorian Gray. Gray's first notable publication was a collection of verse called Silverpoints (1893), consisting of sixteen original poems and thirteen translations. Gray's second volume, Spiritual Poems, chiefly done out of several languages (1896), defined his developing identity as a Catholic aesthete. Gray produced one novel, Park: A Fantastic Story (1932).
Poem:
To Oscar Wilde
There was the summer. There
Warm hours of leaf-lipped song,
And dripping amber sweat.
O sweet to see
The great trees condescend to cast a
pearl
Down to the myrtles; and the proud
leaves curl
In ecstasy
Fruit of a quest, despair.
Smart of a sullen wrong.
Where may they hide them yet?
One hour, yet one,
To find the mossgod lurking in his nest,
To see the naiads’ floating hair,
caressed
By fragrant sun-
Beams. Softly lulled the eves
The song-tired birds to sleep,
That other things might tell
Their secrecies.
The beetle humming neath the fallen
leaves
Deep in what hollow do the stern gods
keep
Their bitter silence? By what listening
well
Where holy trees,
Song-set, unfurl eternally the sheen
Of restless green?
Thoughts:
I love Oscar Wild, I fell in love with him in School and in University I developed this connection between us!
To know, that a person he based Dorian Gray on, wrote such a beautiful poem about dying summer to him breaks and warms my heart at the same time! Oscar Wilde if you know, did not end his life very well, and I feel like this is simply the most beautiful way to honor him!
To Oscar indeed!
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