Arthur Upson

Arthur Wheelock Upson (10 January 1877 – 14 August 1908) was an American poet.

• Night-refuge, set aloft this travelled hill,
    'Tis deemed by many a lodger but an inn;
  Others look round them better and scarce fill
    Their first cup ere its mystery doth begin,
  And they are led by some divine desire,
    Where, midmost of an inner room, there bends
  Clear flame on golden altar, to which fire
    A wide-eyed vestal changelessly attends.
  And most, so led, have joy to serve that light
    And with the jealous priestess vigil keep;
  But woe to any wearying neophyte,
    And woe to him who serves with eyes of sleep:
  To such is she more bitter than to those
  On whom, unlit, her doors forever close!
  • "Life's Tavern" in The City: A Poem Drama: and Other Poems (1905), p. 107

• Friend of my heart! Among the Autumn trees
    We walk together baring thought to thought
    Of this vast symbol-earth wherein lie wrought
  Hints of immortal dreams and destinies!
  And you and I are part of all of these!
    Ourselves mysterious emblems, tones half-caught
    From voices far, wherein our souls have sought
  Deep meanings, silent, 'mid earth's melodies.
  • "Springtide of the Soul" in Collected Poems, ed. Richard Burton, Vol. 2 (1909), p. 46

• Out of the conquered Past
    Unravishable Beauty;
  Hearts that are dew and dust
    Rebuking the dream of Death;
  Flower of the clay down-cast
    Triumphant in earth’s aroma;
  Strings that were strained in rust
    A-tremble with Music’s breath!
  Wine that was spilt in haste
    Arising in fumes more precious;
  Garlands that fell forgot
    Rooting to wondrous bloom;
  Youth that would flow to waste
    Pausing in pool-green valleys—
  And Passion that lasted not
    Surviving the voiceless Tomb!
  • "After a Dolmetsch Concert" in Collected Poems, ed. Richard Burton, Vol. 2 (1909), p. 3
  • Quoted as an epigraph in W. S. Braithwaite, ed. A Book of Elizabethan Verse (1906)

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Arthur Upson

• Westwind Songs (1902) [1]
• Octaves in an Oxford Garden (1902) [2]
• The City: a Poem Drama (1905) [3]
• The Tides of Spring and Other Poems (1907) [4]
• Collected Poems (1909) [5][6]