PAN-WORSHIP
AND OTHER POEMS
PAN-WORSHIP
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
ELEANOR FARJEON
LONDON
ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET, W.
1908
TO MY FATHER
CONTENTS
| PAGE. | |
| Pan-Worship | 9 |
| Vagrant Songs | 13 |
| King Laurin's Garden | 18 |
| The Mysterious Forest | 21 |
| The Old Grey Queen | 22 |
| The Quest | 24 |
| The Unspoken Word | 26 |
| In the Oculist's Anteroom | 33 |
| Little Dream-Brother | 34 |
| Faust and Margaret | 36 |
| Dream-Ships | 37 |
| The Moral | 38 |
| Colour-Tones | 40 |
| From an old Garden | 42 |
| A Sheaf of Nature-Songs | 59 |
| Apollo in Pherae | 72 |
PAN-WORSHIP
In Arcady there lies a crystal spring
Ring'd all about with green melodious reeds
Swaying seal'd music up and down the wind.
Here on its time-defacèd pedestal
The image of a half-forgotten God
Crumbles to its complete oblivion.
The faithful and invariable earth
Tilts at the shrine her sacrificial cup,
Spilling libations from the brim that runs
The golden nectar of her daffodils
And rivulets of summer-breathing flow'rs.
O evanescent temples built of man
To deities he honoured and dethroned!
Earth shoots a trail of her eternal vine
To crown the head that men have ceased to honour.