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…tted throat; the ebb and flow Of blood, not milk, in breasts of fire ; Of deaths, not fluctuants, of desire ; Of molten lava that abides Deep in the vast volcanic sides; Deep scars where kisses once bit in Below young mountains that be twin, Stigmata cruciform of sin, The diary of Messaline. The moving mountains crater-crowned ; The valleys deep and silver-bound ; The girdle treacherously wound ; One violet-crested mounded mole, Some blood-stain filtered from the soul ; The light and shadow shed between My soul and God from Messaline. And even …
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…n to thy swart bosom—O render not again ! Keep thou our life and mix it with thine eternal sleep : Rest, Jet us rest from passion there, deep! O how deep! Deep calleth unto deep, Amen ! hast thou no passion, thou ? Even now the white flames kindle on thy universal brow. I hear white serpents hiss and wild black dragons roll ; And the storm of love is on thee—ah ! shall it touch thy soul? Nay, O my mother, in eternal calm thy virginal depths lie. The peace of God, that passeth understanding, that am [! Even I, perceiving deeply beneath the eyes …
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THE GOD-EATER 131 Wilt thou not lull it into rest, Some strong repoge More satisfying than pale sleep ; Than death more long, more deep? Hail! at the twilight as at dawn! The sunset close Even on the lake as on the lawn! The red ray glows Across the woven stardrift’s ways In mystery of Maurya’s praise. Hear me, thy priest, at eventide ! These subtler throes Than love’s or life’s, invade, divide The world of woes. Thy smile, thy murmur of delight, be enough To fill the world with life and love ! [He bends over into deep reverence, yet with the a…
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…as priests ! Let there be silence while the sleeper? wakes ! | O coiled and constricted and chosen ! O tortured and twisted and twined ! Deep spring of my soul deep frozen, The sleep of the truth of the mind ! As a bright snake curled Round the vine of the World ! O sleeper through dawn and through day- light, | O sleeper through dusk and through night ! O shifted from white light to gray light, From gray to the one black light ! O silence and sound In the far profound ! O serpent of scales as an armour To bind on the breast of a lord ! Not dea…
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ASSUMPTA CANIDIA 27 The mystic slumber of my sense forlorn Stirs only now and then; some deeper pang Reminds despair there is a sharper fang, Reminds my night of a tempestuous morn. For I am lost and lonely: in the skies I see no hope of any sun or star ; On earth there blooms no rose, no nenu- phar; No cross is set for hope of sacrifice. I cannot sleep, I cannot wake; and death Passes me by with his desiréd breath. No shadow in my mind to prove a sun ; No sorrow to declare that joy exists ; A cycle of dim spectres in the mists Moves just a lit…
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…ght about me shed Devours the sense of time: Hovers about my sleepy head Some sweet persistent rhyme. Beneath my breast my love may hear Deep murmur of the billows— O gather me to thee, my dear, On soft forgetful pillows ! O gather me in arms of love As maidens plucking posies, Or mists that fold about a dove, Or valleys full of roses ! O let me fade and fall away From waking into sleep, From sleep to death, from gold to gray, Deep as the skies are deep } O let me fall from death to dream, Eternal monotone; Faint eventide of sleep supreme With …
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…kes, and the cruel jaw Hides me in the glutless maw— Crown of ten blisses ! For all the vision world Is closed on me and curled Into the deep Of my slow soul, and hurled Through lampless lands, and furled, Sharp folds and steep: Till all unite in one, Seven planets in the sun, And I am deeplicr done Into full sleep. MESSALINE. BENEATH the living cross I lie And swoon towards eternity: Prodigious sinewy shapes, and lean And curving limbs of Messaline. The deep arched eyes, the floating mane,— One pierces, one wraps-in my brain. A crown of thorn,…
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… lands God has hid precious stones with jealous hands! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Thou whose clear eye discerns the arsenals deep, Where the small folk of buried metals sleep! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Whose broad hand hides the giddy precipice From sleepers straying about some edifice ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Whose skill makes supple the old bones, at needs, Of the belated sot, ’mid surging steeds! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Who taught frail man, to make his suffering lighter, Consoling, to …
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THE DREAM — 129 A sleep as deep as theirs bestow, Dear angel of my dreams ! Bid time now cease its to-and-fro That I may dwell with thee, and know The soul from that which seems ! The long hair sobs in closer fold And deeper curves of dawn ; The arms bend closer, and the gold Burns brighter, and the eyes are cold With life at last withdrawn. And all the spirit passing down Involves my heart with gray: So the pale stars of even crown The glow of twilight ; dip and drown The last despairs of day. Oh ! closer yet and closer yet The pearl of faces …
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…RCH IN THE TROPICS 31 Il. Thoth, from the starry space Flash out the splendid face! Wisdom, immortal grace, Thoth, turn to usward ! III. Deep, deep thy sombre Sea, Spouse of eternity ! Mother, we cry to Thee: Hear us, Maut, Mother! IV. Sound, sistron, sound afar ! Shine, shine, O dawning Star! Flame, flame, O meteor Car ! Isis, Our Lady ! Vv. ‘“rike, strike the louder chord! Draw, draw the flaming sword, Crowned child and conquering Lord: Horus, avenger. Vi. Dawn-star of flaming light, Five rays in one unite, Light, Life, Love, Mercy, Might, St…
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… is cruel, And like a devil-fish is hate. Beneath those kisses songs of sadness Sob, in the pulses of desire, Seeking some secret in the deep ; Low melodies of stolen gladness, The bitterness of death ; the lyre Broken to bid the viol weep : And like a Maenad’s chants are madness, And like a Maenad’s chants are fire, And like a Maenad’s chants are sleep. A house of pain is her bedchamber. Her skin electric clings to mine, Shakes for pure passion, moves and hisses $ Whose subtle perfumes half remember Old loves, and desolate divine Wailings amon…
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…y palm and pagoda enchaunted o’er- shadowed, [I lie in the light Of stars that are bright beyond suns that all poets have vaunted In the deep-breathing amorous bosom of forests of amazon might By palm and pagoda enchaunted. By spells that are murmured and rays of my soul strongly flung, never daunted ; By gesture of tracery traced with a wand dappled white ; I summon the spirits of earth from the gloom they for ages have haunted. O woman of deep-red skin! like the teak! O delight Of my soul in the hollows of earth—how my spirit hath taunted— Aw…
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…weet and chill The wind comes faintly whispering On wanton wing. Between the islands sheer and steep Our craft treads noiseless o’er the deep, Turned to the gold heart of the west, The sun’s last sigh of love expressed Ere the lake glimmer, borrow sleep From clouds and tinge their edges; weep That night brings love not to his breast, But only rest. We move toward the golden track Shed in the water: we look back Eastward, where rose is set to warn Promise and prophecy of dawn Reflected, lest the ocean lack In any space serene or slack Some colou…
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…w of the silence of the sunset, when the world’s heart sinks to sleep, And the waking wind arises from the wedding of the aether and the deep, There are perfumes through the saltness of the even ; there are hints of flowers afar; And the God goes down lamented by the lonely vesper star. 1 The universe. The monsters rise around us as we move in moving mist, Slow whales that swim as musing, and lo! or ever we wist, Looms northward in the grey, mysterious ice, cathedral high, Clad in transparent clouds of cold, as a ghost in drapery. The solemn du…
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… Into live flame her passion, and deters Her fear from spurning all the day’s due joys. She had not dared to speak one word, to tell How deep and pure a fountain sunward leapt In her life’s garden: but to-night she lay In my intense embraces : so the spell . Moved her: ‘I love you,” said she. So we kept, Remurmuring that one phrase until the day. THE NINETEENTH DAY. ‘« The boy is foolish, and I fear not him,” Richard I1, SHE dared not come into my room to-night. So? I was acquiescent, sharp despair And nervous purpose mixing in me there The whi…
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ODE TO VENUS CALLIPYGE 9 MY WIFE DIES. THE sun of love shone through my love’s deep eyes And made a rainbow of her tender tears, And on her cheeks I saw a blush arise When her lips opened to say, loverwise, ‘*T love”’—and light broke through the cloud of fears That hid her eyes. The storm of passion woke in her red lips, When first they clung to mine and rested there ; Lightnings of love were eager to eclipse That earlier sunshine, and her whole soul clips } My soul—I kissed out life within her hair Upon her lips. We parted lips from lips and s…
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…y on the draught That bloats and blisters, blackens and cor- rodes. These had he seen of old ; so now he laughed, Not without bitterness deep-lying, that erst He had esteemed such foolish devil’s craft Part of his quest, his quest when fair and first He flung the last, the strongest horseman back With such a buffet that no skill amerced Its debt but headlong in his charger’s track He must be hurled, rib-shattered bythe shock; And the loud populace exclaimed ‘‘ Alack !”, Their favourite foiled. stock Of holy kings from Christ to Charlemagne Hail…
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…and dumber That the soul of its slumber oppressed. For stronger control is than urging, And mightier the heart of the sea Than her waves deep-merging and striving and surging That deem they are free. In spirit I stand on the mountain, My soul into God’s withdrawn, And look to the East like a fountain That shoots up the spray of the dawn. And the life of the mountain swims through me (So the song of a thrush in me thrills) And the dawn speaks to me, of old for it knew ne The soul of the hills. I stand on the mountain in wonder As the splendour s…
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…the tears she shed He knew that he was dead ! Thus he feared not, nor wondered, as the stream Grew darker, as a dream Fades to the utter deep Of dreamless sleep. The stream grew darker, and the willows cover (As lover from a lover Even for love's sake all the wealth of love) The whole light of the skies: there came to him Sense of some being dim Bent over him, one colour and one form With the dark leaves; but warm And capable of some diviner air. Her limbs were bare, her face supremely fair, Her soul one shapely splendour, Her voice indeed as t…
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…ss That surely could not end, though earth should end. Therefore my shut eyes blend With sleep’s own secret eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay ! there …