Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 13 April 1897 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2020</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>YBV13_25po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> <persName>Henry Harland</persName> </editor> <author>J. A. Blaikie</author> <title>The Noon of Love John Lane London New York April 1897 Blaikie, J. A. "The Noon of Love." The Yellow Book, vol. 13, April 1897, pp. 167-169. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2010-2014. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020. https://1890s.ca/YBV13_blaikie_noon/

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The Noon of Love By J. A. Blaikie

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EASTWARD each morning, Ever old, ever new, The radiant adorning Of day made for you Meets me, and lifts me, upspringing Over crag, over hollow, Over woodland and meadow, A glory all heaven, the earth its sun-shadow— I go with heart singing, And singing winds follow, I take my way winging, Where the gossamers fly, to the sun's gold clinging, My sweeting, my darling, my One ! Into the gold and the sun.

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Unbreathing Noon, the hour of love's dominion, Falls now, as yesterday, as 'twill to-morrow ; Soft 168 The Noon of Love Soft as the amorous dove's uplifted pinion, Sweet as the fair first sleep of new-born sorrow. There's not the least small stir on yonder wall Of grass or fern ; hushed is the torrent's throat Within the dark ravine, and in yon oak The woodpecker his many-sounding stroke Has stayed ; the windless air bears not one note To vex the dreaming air this noontide fall. But we, my love, sleep not, but wake to prove The inconstant constancy o' the noon of love ; My kingdom lost ! which once more I regain, And then do lose with every evening's pain— A conqueror who takes his spoil, yet yields More than he wins of Love's ne'er-conquered fields— Some unimagined treasure there must be That I from you may draw, or you from me, Some joy which we from envious time may wrest That shall make droop the proud o'er-topping crest Of yesterday ; and so the exhaustless store Offers fresh marvels of love-lure and lore. Thus ours full harvest is ; our noon of love Nor afternoon nor aftermath may know, With changeless change it does our spirits move And of love's hours eternises the flow : Better than best of what is past, O Day ! Until thou diest with thy last rose-ray, Better than best until to-morrow shines A-quivering through yon purple band of pines, Ever the best, beneath noon's ripened skies, O Spirit and Heart that me imparadise ! Westward By J. A. Blaikie 169

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Westward each nightfall When white lies the dew, Where the stream makes a bright fall Of moon-rays for you ; While the night wind goes sighing Over crag, over hollow, Like a ghostly replying To the snowy owl's crying, I the white waters follow ; With lips still sweet from sweet lips kist, Like a spirit I pass O'er the gleaming grass Into the moon and the mist.