The Mind
Hot-House of Weariness
Translated by Jethro Bithell (1911) · From Contemporary Belgian Poetry (1911)
O weariness blue in the breast!
Wedding the better sight,
In the weeping, wan moonlight,
Of my blue dreams with languor oppressed!
This weariness blue evermore,
Where through the deep windows green,
As in a hot-house are seen,
With moon and with glass covered o'er,
The mighty forests undying
Whose nightly forgetfulness,
Like a dream motionless,
On the roses of passion is lying;
Where rises a slow water-beam,
Mingling the moon and the sky
In a glaucous, eternal sigh,
Monotonous as a dream.
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MLA
Maeterlinck, Maurice. “Hot-House of Weariness.” Translated by Jethro Bithell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/maurice-maeterlinck/2/.
Chicago
Maeterlinck, Maurice. “Hot-House of Weariness.” Translated by Jethro Bithell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/maurice-maeterlinck/2/.
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