A Hermit of Carmel
And Other Poems
By
George Santayana
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1901
CONTENTS
A HERMIT OF CARMEL
THE KNIGHT'S RETURN. A Sequel to A Hermit of Carmel
ELEGIAC AND LYRIC POEMS
Premonition
Solipsism
Sybaris
Avila
King's College Chapel
On an Unfinished Statue
Midnight
In Grantchester Meadows
Futility
Before a Statue of Achilles
Odi et Amo
Cathedrals by the Sea
Mont Brévent
The Rustic at the Play
Resurrection
TRANSLATIONS
From Michael Angelo
From Alfred de Musset: Souvenir
From Théophile Gautier: l'Art
CONVIVIAL AND OCCASIONAL VERSES
Prosit Neujahr
Fair Harvard
College Drinking Song
Six Wise Fools
Athletic Ode
The Bottles and the Wine
The Poetic Medium
Young Sammy's first Wild Oats
Spain in America
Youth's Immortality
A HERMIT OF CARMEL
SCENE.—A ravine amid the slopes of Mount Carmel.On one side a hermitage, on the other a rusticcross. The sun is about to set in the sea, whichfills the background.
HERMIT. Thou who wast tempted in the wilderness,
Guard me this night, for there are snares in sleep
That baffle watching. O poisoned, bitter life
Of doubt and longing! Were death possible,
Who would not choose it? But that dim estate
Might plunge my witless ghost in grosser matter
And in still closer