{"id":251131,"date":"2025-12-30T05:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filastrocche.it\/contenuti\/?p=251131"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:32:05","slug":"spell-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filastrocche.it\/contenuti\/spell-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Spell Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spell<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s read together: Spell Bound<\/strong> by William Morris<\/h2>\n

How weary is it none can tell,
\nHow dismally the days go by!
\nI hear the tinkling of the bell,
\nI see the cross against the sky.<\/p>\n

The year wears round to autumn-tide,
\nYet comes no reaper to the corn;
\nThe golden land is like a bride
\nWhen first she knows herself forlorn.<\/p>\n

She sits and weeps with all her hair
\nLaid downward over tender hands;
\nFor stained silk she hath no care,
\nNo care for broken ivory wands;<\/p>\n

The silver cups beside her stand;
\nThe golden stars on the blue roof
\nYet glitter, though against her hand
\nHis cold sword presses for a proof<\/p>\n

He is not dead, but gone away.
\nHow many hours did she wait
\nFor me, I wonder? Till the day
\nHad faded wholly, and the gate.<\/p>\n

Clanged to behind returning knights?
\nI wonder did she raise her head
\nAnd go away, fleeing the lights;
\nAnd lay the samite on her bed,<\/p>\n

The wedding samite strewn with pearls:
\nThen sit with hands laid on her knees,
\nShuddering at half-heard sound of girls
\nThat chatter outside in the breeze?<\/p>\n

I wonder did her poor heart throb
\nAt distant tramp of coming knight?
\nHow often did the choking sob
\nRaise up her head and lips? The light,<\/p>\n

Did it come on her unawares,
\nAnd drag her sternly down before
\nPeople who loved her not? in prayers
\nDid she say one name and no more?<\/p>\n

And once\u2014all songs they ever sung,
\nAll tales they ever told to me,
\nThis only burden through them rung:
\nOh! golden love that waitest me,<\/p>\n

The days pass on, pass on a pace,
\nSometimes I have a little rest
\nIn fairest dreams, when on thy face
\nMy lips lie, or thy hands are prest<\/p>\n

About my forehead, and thy lips
\nDraw near and nearer to mine own;
\nBut when the vision from me slips,
\nIn colourless dawn I lie and moan,<\/p>\n

And wander forth with fever’d blood,
\nThat makes me start at little things,
\nThe blackbird screaming from the wood,
\nThe sudden whirr of pheasants’ wings.<\/p>\n

Oh! dearest, scarcely seen by me\u2014
\nBut when that wild time had gone by,
\nAnd in these arms I folded thee,
\nWho ever thought those days could die?<\/p>\n

Yet now I wait, and you wait too,
\nFor what perchance may never come;
\nYou think I have forgotten you,
\nThat I grew tired and went home.<\/p>\n

But what if some day as I stood
\nAgainst the wall with strained hands,
\nAnd turn’d my face toward the wood,
\nAway from all the golden lands;<\/p>\n

And saw you come with tired feet,
\nAnd pale face thin and wan with care,
\nAnd stained raiment no more neat,
\nThe white dust lying on your hair:\u2014<\/p>\n

Then I should say, I could not come;
\nThis land was my wide prison, dear;
\nI could not choose but go; at home
\nThere is a wizard whom I fear:<\/p>\n

He bound me round with silken chains
\nI could not break; he set me here
\nAbove the golden-waving plains,
\nWhere never reaper cometh near.<\/p>\n

And you have brought me my good sword,
\nWherewith in happy days of old
\nI won you well from knight and lord;
\nMy heart upswells and I grow bold.<\/p>\n

But I shall die unless you stand,
\n(Half lying now, you are so weak,)
\nWithin my arms, unless your hand
\nPass to and fro across my cheek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s read together: Spell Bound by William Morris How weary is it none can tell, How dismally the days go by! I hear the tinkling of the bell, I see the cross against the sky. The year wears round to autumn-tide, Yet comes no reaper to the corn; The golden land is like a bride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":251132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,51],"tags":[187,8826],"sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-251131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poesie","category-poesie-dautore","tag-poesia","tag-william-morris","lingua-inglese","scopo-intrattenimento"],"yoast_head":"\nSpell Bound - Filastrocche.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Text of the poem entitled: Spell Bound by William Morris. 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