At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the "Yellow Book", a notorious British quarterly of the late 1890's, featuring poems, essays, short stories and artwork by many well-known writers and artists of the age. In 1902 she married Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, famed for his relationship with Oscar Wilde. Opals, her first published poetry collection, appeared in 1897 when she was just 23, to be followed by Rainbows , The Blue Bird and The Inn of Dreams.
By : Olive Custance (1874 - 1944)
01 - Dedication (Comtesse de Noailles)
02 - The Inn of Dreams
03 - The Kingdom of Heaven
04 - A Dream
05 - The Autumn Day
06 - Angels
07 - The Changeling
08 - A Song Against Care
09 - 'Quelque part une Enfance très douce et mourir'
10 - Candle-Light
11 - In the South
12 - Spring in the South
13 - 'I am Weary, let me Sleep'
14 - Grief
15 - Daffodil Dawn
16 - Beauty
17 - The Vision
18 - The Dance
19 - The Prisoner of God
20 - The Storm
21 - St. Anthony
22 - Black Butterflies
23 - In Praise of Youth
24 - Opal Song
25 - Gifts
26 - Primrose Hill
27 - A Morning Song
28 - The Wings of Fortune
29 - Shadow-Nets
30 - Peacocks. A Mood
31 - Hyacinthus
32 - Hylas
33 - Blue Flowers
34 - Madrigal
35 - Endymion
36 - Dance Song
37 - A Memory
38 - The Photograph
39 - St. Sebastian
40 - The Magic Mirrors
Sweet Laughter! Sweet Delight!
My heart is like a lighted Inn that waits
Your swift approach . . . and at the open gates
White Beauty stands and listens like a flower.
She has been dreaming of you in the night,
O fairy Princes; and her eyes are bright.
Spur your fleet horses, this is Beauty's hour!
Even as when a golden flame up-curled
Quivers and flickers out in a dark place,
So is it with the flame of Beauty's face—
That torch! that rose! that wonder of the world!
And Love shall weep to see—when he rides by
Years hence (the time shall seem as a bird's flight)—
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