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…of frenzy, concentrate Our thirsty mouths on that hot drinking cup, Whence we may never suck the nectar up Too often or too hard ; fresh fire invades Our furious veins, and the unquiet shades Of night make noises in the darkened room. Yet, did I raise my head, throughout the gloom I might behold thine eyes as red as fire A tigress maddened with supreme desire ; White arms that clasp me; fervent breast that glides An eager snake, about my breast and sides ; Teeth keen to bite, red tongue that never tires, And lips ensanguine with unfed desires, …
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… ~ ORACLES INVOCATION.! O SELF Divine! O Living Lord of Me! Self-shining flame, begotten of Beyond ! Godhead immaculate! Swift tongue of fire, Kindled from that immeasurable light The boundless, the immutable. Come forth, My God, my lover, spirit of my heart, Heart of my soul, white virgin of the Dawn, My Queen of all perfection, come thou forth From thine abode beyond the Silences To me the prisoner, me the mortal man, Shrined in this clay : come forth, I say, to me, Initiate my quickened soul; draw near, And let the glory of thy Godhead shine…
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ACTUS QUARTUS 109 ORPHEWUS. The hearts of Greeks with sharper flames Burn than with one fire of all fire, We have the Races and the Games, The song, the chisel, and the lyre ; We have the altar, we the shrine, . And ours the joy of love and wine. Why take one pleasure, put aside The myriad bliss of life diverse? Unchanging joy will soon divide Into the likeness of a curse. Have we no maidens, slender, strong, Daughters of tender-throated song? I swear by Aphrodite’s eyes Our Grecian maids are fairer far ! What love as sweet as theirs is lies In…
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
…r, and kissed her full on her full lips. Wherefore she sighed and fell back a space, and he pressed on. Now at the end of the darkness a fire glowed: she would have hindered him: clung she to his neck and wept. But the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. But the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. Our Father passed into the fire. Some say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel…
1906 · PDF PAGE 43
…ritten at Anuradhapura. I must be ready for my friend to-night. So, such pale flowers as winter bears bedeck The old oak walls: the wood-fire’s cheerful light . Flashes upon the fire-dogs silver-bright. Wood? why, the jetsam of yon broken wreck Where the white sea runs o’er the sandy neck That joins my island to the land when tides Run low. What curious fancies through my brain Run, all so wild and all so pleasant! Glides No phantom creeping from the under sides Of the grey globe: no avatar of pain Gathering a body from the wind and rain. 1 Thi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 41
… wings appears, a cataract of snow Plunging before the white east wind; she meets the eager sea As forest green by thunder thinned meets fire’s emblazonry. Then I sink back upon the breast of mighty- flinging foam, Ride like a ghost upon the crest, the silver- rolling comb ; Float like a warrior to his rest, majestically home. But oh! my soul, what seest thou, whose eyes are open wide? What thoughts inspire me idling now, lone on the lonely tide? Here in the beauty of the place, hope laughs and says me nay ; In nature’s bosom, in God’s face, I …
1906 · PDF PAGE 82
…, nor delight repose, Nor love retire; the woodland cleaves and closes Round heads an aureole hides, a rainbow shows. A swifter shape of fire cleaves us, encloses Rosebud and rose......... Mouth unto mouth! O fairest ! Mutely lying, Fire lambent laid on water,—O! the pain ! Kiss me, O heart, as if we both were dying ! Kiss, as we could not ever kiss again ! Kiss me, between the music of our sighing, Lightning and rain ! Not only as the kiss of tender lovers— Let mingle also the sun’s kiss to sea, Also the wind’s kiss to the bird that hovers, Th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 69
MARGARET 63 I feel the swollen veins below The knotted 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…
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…ar Crystalline, fixed, forgotten (as a star Forgets its nebulous virginity) Are set in all the sky and earth and sea. Shining with solar fire, The single-eyed desire Of scent and sound and sight and sense perfuses The still and lambent light Of the essential night ; And all the heart of me is fain, and muses, As if for ever doomed to dream Or pass in peace Lethean adown the grey Lethean stream. So deep the sense of beauty, and so keen ! ‘The calm abiding holiness of love Reigns; and so fallen from the heights above Stern and free, | Immeasurabl…
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…ers, and whoremongers, and idolaters, and all ~ lars” (Rev. xxi. 8), and that they ‘shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death” (Rev. xxi. 8), ‘‘where their worm dieth not, and the fire is net quenched” (Mark. ix. 44). Let me only add that they are ‘‘a herd of many swine feeding ” (Matt. vill. 30). ‘* Ve serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ?’”’ (Matt. XXlli, 33). And now, belovéd brethren, with every prayer that this adaptation may prove of lasting bl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 54
…e law, The gallows, and the scourge, to awe Brave Irish hearts: their hates deny The right to live—the right to die. Our weapons—be they fire and cord, The shell, the rifle, and the sword! Without a helper or a friend All means be righteous to the End! Look not for help to wordy strife ! This battle is for death or life. Melt mountains with a word—and then The colder hearts of Englishmen ! Look not to Europe in your need ! Columbia’s but a broken reed ! Your own good hearts, your own strong hand Win back at last the Irish land. Won by the stren…
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…ge means ‘* having beautiful buttocks,” - Fruitless foam of a sterile sea, Wanton waves of a vain desire, Maddening billows flecked with fire, Storms that lash on the brine, and flee, Dead delights, insatiate ire Broke like a flower to the birth of thee, Venus Callipyge, mother of me ! Deep wet eyes that are violet-blue ! Haggard cheeks that may blush no more! Body bruised daintily, touched of gore Where the sharp fierce teeth have bitten through The olive skin that thy sons adore, That they die for daily, are slain anew By manifold hate ; for …
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…e Dank odours bring, that starry seas wash white in vain ; intense and warm The scents fulfil; they permeate all lips, all arteries, and fire New murmured music on the lyre that throbs the horrors they create. Omniscient blossom! Is thy red slack bosom fresher for my kiss? Are thy loves sharper? Hast thou bliss in all the sorrow of the dead? Why art thou paler when the moon- grows loftierin the troublous sky? Why dost thou beat and heave when I press lips of fire, hell’s princeliest boon, _ To thy mad petals, green-and gold like angels’ wings, …
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…he accomplished courtesans of old-time Athens than to the Imperial Peripatetics of the Daily Telegraph and Mr. Raven-Hill,! her looks of fire turned my friend’s silky and insipid moustache into a veritable Burning Bush. But puppy endearments are of little interest to one who has just done his duty by No. 9? in distant Yoshiwara; so turned to the conversation of our dirty old Irish hostess, who, being drunk, grew more so, and exceedingly entertaining. Of the central forces which sway man- kind, her knowledge was more comprehen- sive than convent…
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
…sun’s gold, And blue eyes where stars lurked for happi- ness, And lithe with all a young fawn's loveliness. Such are the dwellers of the fire that fold Fine wings in wanton ecstasy, and sleep Where the thin tongues of glory leap Up from the brazen hold And far majestic keep Of Djinn, the Lord of elemental light. But he beheld some sight Beyond that city’s joy: his gentle word The old king gently heard. (This king was Zohra’s father) ‘‘ Lord and king Of love’s own city, give me leave to wing A fervid flight to yonder hills of night. Not that my …
1906 · PDF PAGE 164
…l me God—I would exert That power to heal creation’s hurt ; Not to divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm, a fire, a thirst for these ; A harp-resounding heaven for those ! And though you claim Salvation sure For all the heathen ®—-there again New Christians give the lie to plain Scripture, those words which must endure ! (The Vedas say the same !) and though His mercy widens ever so, I never met a man (this shocks, What I now press) so heterodox, Anglican, Roman, Methodist, Peculiar Person--- all the list !— I never…
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…EA. The woman raves. MEDEA. Such victory as this Outsails all shame. Before the dawn was up I bound such talismans about his breast That fire and steel grow dew and flowery wreaths For all their power to hurt him. Presently I made a posset, drugged with somnolence, Sleepy with poppy and white hellebore, Fit for the dragon. This was my design. CHORUS. Beware thy father’s anger when he finds His plans thus baffled ! He will murder us. MEDEA. Heroes indeed ye are, and lion hearts. CHORUS. No woman need school me in bravery. MEDEA. Rather a hare. C…
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…d’s deepest dell Where—my love knows. III. Skies are grown redder far; Tempest draws nigher ; Dark lowers a single star ; Mars, like the fire ! Fiercer our lips engage ; Limbs, eyes, ears, gather rage; Sharp grows desire. Hear thy short bitter cries? Pity thine agonies? Loose, though love tire? Nay, neither hear nor spare ; Frenzy shall mock at prayer ; Torture’s red torch shall flare Till thou expire. IV. Stars stud a cloudless sky ; Moon silvers blue ; Breeze is content to die; Lightly falls dew. Calm after strain and stress Now to our wearin…
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…On the forehead of night, As we lie and behold All the wonders untold That the joys of desire In their secrets enfold, As the pillars of fire On the ocean of old! O Lesbian maiden ! The delight of thy lips Is the voice of the Spring That the nightingales sing Over Winter's eclipse, While my fingers enring The white limbs of thy sleep And my lips suck the lips Of the house of my dream, And press daintily deep, Till the joys are supreme That thine amorous mouth On the home of thy love Would exhaust the fierce drouth Of the rivers thereof, Till th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
…throne, and up- flying | Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake ! Then crown me and cling ! Flash forward—and spring ! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ; Till the Three Worlds! flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead ! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy ! JASON. It is enough ! HERACLES, Too great for a god’s strength ! THESEUS. Speak ! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death ! ORPHEUS. Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEU…