Praxiteles
- ISBN-10
- 1330392264
- ISBN-13
- 9781330392263
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 61
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-25
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Thomas Dunkin Paret
Description
Excerpt from Praxiteles Busts, statues, clay models, drawings, etc. In the background a girl mixing clay. Prax. [Seated in a despondent attitude.] I cannot work. And yet I rose this morn with every pulse athrob. While these dull laggards of the city here lay wanton in their beds, or dead in sleep, I hied me with quick step towards the shore. Then morn rose from the sea like one great pearl, gray orbed and lustreless; and then, as if it had a heart, life's red suffused it all. Then to an opal did it turn, and blazing lay in shimmering iridescence. Such green, such red - the vine-leaf and the wine. Then rose the sun, and morn lay shining there a glistening diamond in sea's sapphire cup. One moment's breath, the long, white sea-sands o'er, brought me the smell of salt, of ooze, of brine - a smell of distance, borne from isles afar. I stripped and stood there naked, all alone, a living whiteness on the dead sea-sand. Then I forgot myself and sat me down - forgot myself, the shore, the world, the sea - full only of a vagrant, antique dream an unshaped beauty I had never caught. I strove to mould it in the fickle sand - that dead, dull sand, which, being dry, cohered not - being wet, did flow. And then I spurned the sand and sprung to foot, and revelled in my naked, living self, rejoiced to think I was a man, not clay. Then did I wade out in the clear, blue deep, and sank my body underneath its waves till the sea, like a sapphire rim, did meet my lips. I breathed the ooze, the intoxicating brine. I stretched my arms out to the distant isles. I strained my eyes to heaven, to the horizon's verge, seeking some form which should condense to shape and show me nature's long lost, perfect type. A land breeze came, the smell of thyme and bees, and drew me back to doubt, to work, to home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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