Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 8 January 1896 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2020</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>YBV8_43po</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>Olive Custance</author> <title>A Mood John Lane London Copeland & Day Boston January 1896 Custance, Olive. "A Mood." The Yellow Book, vol. 8, January 1896, pp. 241-242. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2010-2014. Yellow Nineties 2.0, , Ryerson University Centre for Digtial Humanities, 2020. https://1890s.ca/YBV8_custance_mood/

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A Mood By Olive Custance THE sun aslant the carpet, and the rain Blown sobbingly against the window glass, While I sit silent with a wordless pain, Pressing my heart between its iron hands. The slow hours pass. . . . Between the dawn lands and the sunset lands My soul walks wearily with aching eyes, The whole world grey about her where she stands ! Sorrow and she are tired of the long noon, The sullen skies. . . . My friend at work hums softly an old tune, And in the grate, new lit, a fluctuant fire Puts forth pale pointed flame-flowers that full soon Fret all the rough black coals to fairy gold Of tower and spire ! Sunlight and firelight, but the world feels cold— The wet trees toss their weight of tumbled green ; And shreds of torn cloud banners manifold Drift up the dome of heaven, while slips the light, Pearl hued, between. . . . You 342 A Mood ... I wonder shall I meet you in the night, In that dear house of Dreams, Sleep s dwelling-place? O Prince ! O Lord of life ! O heart s delight ! O Lover ! never this side of the stars Seen face to face ! . . . In vain my winged songs beat against the bars Of bitter life ; then, falling mute and tired, Like leaves that the sharp hoar frost sheds and scars, Lie dead beneath the heaven they desired.