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et aussi dans :
Ah there again the hot thrill swept Across the dusk brown breasted air 1. »
I] avait le don de saisir le trait caractéristique d’une chose | et de le peindre d’un pinceau rapide et hardi. Il savait évoquer une image de l'hiver qui fait presque frissonner.
« I hear without the tall trees crack and splinter With snow opprest The ways with snow are sealed And dumb and fixed as flint are The furrows of each field ».
et la belle image de la bien-aimée dans :
« And gazed full sadly on my face With eyes star-soft, that I knew
Filled with peace of heavens hue Wherein big tears did stand and chase Each other from their deeps of blue?. »
Quel sentiment de vitesse est exprimé dans :
They fly across the frozen floss
Across the frost-starred mead
Hill wood and plain they cross amain.
Hill wood and plain succeed3. »
« et quelle situation dramatique lorsque la sorcière, dans Sir Winjrith
«.... falls on the knight with tooth and nail. His weapons against her nought avail
She claws for his heart through his shirt of mail She clutches his heart with claws of steel Already his limbs the death sweats feel Already his eyes the death mists seal ‘. »
. Lautrec, J. Payne, stance 6.
. Carol and Cadence, J. Payne, n° 36 p. 39.
. Rime of Redemption, J. Payne vers 153-6.
. Sir Winfrith, J. Payne vers 224, etc.
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T1 rappelle dans ces vers qui suivent le «romantique » de la chevalerie.
« And now the steed must don
His harness and caparisons of war Such as of old he wore
Chanfrein and poitrail with its rusty spike Rerebrace and all the like 1 ».
Ici le chant des oiseaux :
« À note and à burst Of single song soon swelling to a sea Of choral ecstasy ? ».
Payne est encore supérieur quand il s’agit de dépeindre le domaine spirituel et mystique qui avoisine cette vie terrestre, et il sait l’animer de la vie mortelle. Le bateau magique
est reflété dans les vers :
« And on the prow of cymophane Translucent às the pearly wane Of that fair star that rules the night »
le mouvement du bateau dans :
« But through the dancing ripples play The shallop sped towards the dawn As by some starry influence drawn Over the ridges of the main Unstirred and clear.
Il donne une image d’un chevalier ravi en extase dans
« Then as he knelt Unseeing suddenly he felt.
Upon his mouth à burning kiss That with such sharp unearthly bliss His soul did kindle into flame
1. The Buildng of the Dream, Poetical Works, J, Payne, vol. I p. 64. 2. Podical Works, J. Payne, vol. I p. 76.
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Of ravishment, the way worn frame Could not for frailty sustain
The rapturous ecstatic pain
Of that strange joyaunce nor the spright Embodied of that unearthly boon And so for bliss, he fell aswoon !.
une image des édifices fantastiques dans
« About
The marish borders started out À masze of buildings of à dream Ranges of steads, that all did gleam With white fantastic porticoes, High temples with pale ghosty shows Of colonnades and peristyles Prolonged and join’d for unknown miles In maddening endless countlessness Grey cloister did on cloister press Far stretching on through devious ways
Into the intermittent haze
That closed the distance *. »
On sent comme une présence spectrale, dans les stances suivantes qui rappellent le Ancient Mariner de Coleridge-
« À flutter stirred upon the breeze As of à spirit’s wings
A wind went by him through the trees That spoke of heavenly things 8 »
« And as I.
Stove tow’rd the glimmer I was ware That all the bands that bound me there Had loosed my limbs and every sense Was free from thrall the cerements Slid off, as mists fall from the day And up I stood à phantom grey And awful in the dim blue gloom “ ».
1. The Romaunt of Sir Floris, Poeticals Works, J. Payne, vol. II p.: 54. 2. Masque of Shadows, Poetical-Works, J. Payne, vol. 1, p 286.
