ChiaroscurosAuthor(s): Oscar WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 16, No. 6 (Sep., 1920), p. 302Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20572766 .

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POETRY: a Magazine of Verse

MOOD

A sky filling with shadow as a flower with rain . A wind gray with the secret moods of the sea . .

And the old singing comes back again, The old aching perplexity.

The old questioning comes back once more Asking the little shadows hiding in tears,

Why love cries in the rain outside the door, And beauty blunders forever down the years.

CHIAROSCUROS

I was begotten in joy And born in pain, As a raindrop is begotten in gold And born in gray; And in the heart of me, as in the heart of the raindrop, The twilight and the rainbow Keep their rendezvous.

II

As dawn, moving among the dews,

Stirs the shadows that slumber in them,

So have you, beloved one, Rustled your.delicate gold Among my dreams.

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