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Page 1 of 21899 · PDF PAGE 148
… with sacred power I sought A little while, as thought that seeks for thought, And found his changeless love endure as mine, And all his passion round me as a vine. So clinging fibres of desire control My perfect body, and my perfect soul Shot flakes of light toward him, and my eyes, Seeking his face, were made divinely wise. So, solemn, silent, ’mid a merry folk - I bound him by my forehead’s silver yoke, And grew immense about him and within, And so possessed him wholly, without sin. For I had crossed the barrier and knew There was no sin. Hi…
1899 · PDF PAGE 146
… as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey-bee. I felt a perfect soul embracing me, And in my spirit like a river flows A passion like the passion of the sea.
1899 · PDF PAGE 58
360 JEPHTHAH. And through waters that foamed and that wondered There flashes the heart of a rose ; For its petals are beauty and passion, For its stem the foundation of earth, For bloom the incarnadine fashion Of blessings that roar into birth ; And the gates that roll back on their hinges The soul of the sage may discern, Till the water with crimson that tinges Beyond them miraculous burn ; And the presence of God to the senses Is the passion of God in the mind, As the string of a harp that intenses The note that its fire may not find. For her…
1899 · PDF PAGE 187
…mbrace me, and thy kiss Is ever on my lips, and all thy charms Burn in my blood till pain itself grows sweet, Reluctant sorrow and quick passion meet ; We two one day will kneel in Heaven and touch God’s feet.
1899 · PDF PAGE 193
…an arm to encircle my head ; You with your eyes all my secret divining Rest in my love, as divine as the dead. Peace is the prize of our passion. Love springs unfading, a flower unfolding Petals of marvellous fashion ; Scarlet and green to our eyes unbeholding, Fixed on each other so deep ; Only the light of them flushes our being, Fills us with music and silence, but seeing Love, and the vision of Sleep.
1899 · PDF PAGE 194
…y agonies that thicken I hang, and sweat, and sicken, With miserable pangs. I found out Love new-risen From seas I thought had slain His passion in their prison, And girt their icy chain.
1899 · PDF PAGE 106
…t Thy straining sides for freedom! Gallant mare! The frosty air Kindles the blood within us as we race. O love! Thy face Flames with the passion of our happy speed! The noble steed Pashes the first gold limit of the sand. Ah love, thy hand! We win, no foot pursuing spans the brow! Yes, kiss me now ! .
1899 · PDF PAGE 168
… sky stands, a dome of flawless weather, And the stars join in one triumphal band, Because we broke the inexorable tether That bound our passion with an iron hand.
1899 · PDF PAGE 215
… his, whose slow desire fears The fierce embraces of thine olive breast. O Queen, sun-lover, we are wed with thee In changeless love, in passion for a fire . Whose lips bind all men in their bitter spell ; A love whose first caress, hard won, would be The final dissolution of desire, A flame to shrivel us with fire of hell.
1899 · PDF PAGE 201
…SONNET FOR G. F. KELLY’S DRAWING OF AN HERM- APHRODITE. BODY pale and beautiful with sin ! O breasts with venom swollen by the snakes Of passion, whose cold slaver slimes and slakes The soul-consuming fevers that within Thy heart the fires of hell on earth begin ! O heart whose yearning after truth forsakes The law of love! O heart whose ocean breaks In sterile foam against some golden skin ! O thou whose body is one perfect prayer, One long regret, one agony of shame, Lost in the fragrance, speeding, subtle and rare, Up to the sky, an avenue o…
1899 · PDF PAGE 196
…ed never, True loves that none might sever, The flame that burns for ever, Love's ruined water-springs. Oh, Death! draw nigh, deliver My passion from its band ; Draw nigh, until I shiver At thy most holy hand. For Earth’s desires have fled me, And Earth’s distrusts have fed me, And Love has come, and shed me As water upon sand.
1899 · PDF PAGE 211
…your freedom burn in my veins, and Freedom! Freedom ! echoes adown cliff and precipitous ghyll ; Fire and desire and light and youth and passion and freedom Race in my blood untamed, laugh in my face for love. Down by the cold gray lake the sun descends from his hunting, Shadow and silence steal over the frozen fells. Oh, to be there, my heart !_ And the vesper bells awaken, Colleges call their children, Lakeland fades from the sight. Only the sad slow Cam like a sire with age grown heavy Wearily moves to the sea, to quicken to life at last. Bl…
1899 · PDF PAGE 245
… for me, delighting In the bells far-off, in yonder thrushes, In the tawny songster of the forest, In the stream’s song, in the words of passion Ringing true and deep and most enduring, Echoes of the deeper words unspoken In the hearts of two undying lovers. Will they pierce one day to other nations Clear and strong and triumphing? It may be. Then we shall not envy you, my Horace! 223
1899 · PDF PAGE 195
…s above her, And yearns towards the Fates. Nor life nor death will hear him, Nor God nor Satan aid ; Though Love no more endear him, Nor Passion make afraid. Too cold, too calm, too holy He stands, consuming slowly In the strong flame that wholly Absorbs his vital shade. 173
1899 · PDF PAGE 156
…h is spread As in a dream before me, While steals divinely o’er me Love’s scented spring to draw me From moods of dreamy dread. O wingéd passion! traveller Too near to God ta see ! O lyrical unraveller Of knotted life to me! O song! O shining river Ofthought and sound! O giver Of goodly words of glee! — Like to a star that singeth, — A flower that incense bringeth, A love-song of the free ! Oh f let me sing thy glories While spring winds whisper stories Of winter past, whose shore is Beyond a shoreless sea. Spring, with the sea for raiment — Ad…
1899 · PDF PAGE 33
…h the ocean now, Ruined symbols, changéd psalters, Where no lip no longer falters, And the priest’s deep brow Pales not, flushes not for passion, Clouds not with concealéd thought, And the worshipper’s eye, wrought To the stars in subtle fashion, By no magic is distraught. For our hope is in His holy Places, and our prayers ascend Fervent, and may sunder slowly The blue darkness at the end. For we know not where to send For a sword to cleanse the land, For a sharp two-edgéd brand, All our homesteads to defend. For amid the desert sand Lives an …
1899 · PDF PAGE 102
…That look upon me fondly to beget Two faces, set Either like flowers upon their laughing blue, Where morning dew _ Sparkles with all the passion of the dawn! The happy lawn Leads, by the stillest avenues, to groves Made soft by loves ; And all the nymphs have made a mossy dell Hard by the well Where even a Satyr might behold the grace Of such a face As his who perished for his own delights, So well requites That witching fountain his desire that looks. Two slow bright brooks
1899 · PDF PAGE 244
…most abundant, Where the olive ripens in the sunshine, Where the streams are voiced with Dian’s whispers, Lived in quiet, with a woman’s passion To inspire his lute and bring contentment In the gray still days of early winter. I, remote from cities, like the poet, Tune my lesser lyre with other fingers, Yet am not a whit the less belovéd. And.to me the stars are never silent, Nor do sea and storm deny their music, Nor do flower and breeze refuse their kisses: So my soul is flooded with their magic; So my love completes the joy of living. I am l…
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73 MYSTERIES: Of eager eyes that startle for the fear Too dimly dear Lest there come death, like passion, and fulfil Their dreams of ill! Oh! lift thy forehead to the night’s cool wind! The meekest hind That fears the noonday in her grove is bold To seek the gold So pale and perfect as the moon puts on: The light is gone. Hardly as yet one sees the crescent maid Move, half afraid, Into the swarthy forest of the air And, breast made bare, Gather her limbs about her for the chase Through starry space, And, while the lilies sway their heads, to be…
1899 · PDF PAGE 59
…ame. Therefore, because Thou hast hid Thy face, and yet Given me not to forget The foaming cloud that shaped itself a rose, Whose steady passion glows Within the secretest fortress of my heart, Because, my God, Thou Art, And I am chosen of Thee for this folk, To break the foreign yoke, Therefore, Existence of Existence, hear! Bend low Thine holy ear, And make Thyself, unseen, most terrible To these fierce fiends of hell That torture holiest ears with false complaint: Bend down, and bid me faint Into the arms of night, to see Thine hosts March p…