Ennui (Thou)

Thou art immured in some sad garden sown with dust Of fruit of Sodom that bedims the summer ground, And burdenously bows the lilies many-crowned, Or fills the pale and ebon mouths of sleepy lust The poppies raise. And, falling there imponderously, Dull ashes emptied from the urns of all the dead Have stilled the fountain and have sealed the fountain-head And pall-wise draped the pine and flowering myrtle-tree. Thou art becalmed upon that slothful ancient main Where Styx and Lethe fall; where skies of stagnant grey With the grey stagnant waters meet and merge as one: How tardily thy torpid heart remembers pain, And love itself, as aureate islands far away On seas refulgent with the incredible red sun.