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Page 1 of 11899 · PDF PAGE 82
…TALE OF ARCHAIS Hear thou their murmured song Who cry for pardon ; pity, and prepare For pains delight thy votaries who kiss thy rod, O high Lord God ! O Lord our God ! O garden tyrant ! O imperious god ! Who as a father smitest with thy rod Thine erring children who aspire In vain the high mysteries Of thy most secret fire. Beat us and burn with nameless infamies ! We suffer, and are proud and glad, and kiss thy rod, O high Lord God. O Lord our God ! O despot of the fields ! O silent god ! Who hidest visions underneath thy rod, And hast all d…
1899 · PDF PAGE 48
…y the lightning, torn of ravaging wind ; Upon it sate the herald, who should find The home of Aphrodite, and should bring A message from high Zeus. The mighty king Had bidden him to speed. His wings drew nigh And hushed the last faint echoed melody With silver waving. As the messenger Of mighty Zeus descending unto her He stood before her, and called loud her name. Wrapped in a cloud of amber-scented flame Befitting his high office ; but his word, Too terrible for mortals, passed unheard To Cypris ear alone. She bowed her head And bade her nym…
1899 · PDF PAGE 76
…ange Over her cheeks ; she bitterly began : I will not yield to thee—a mortal man Alone shall know my love. No God shall come From his high place and far immortal home To bend my will by force. Freeborn, I live In freedom, and the love that maidens give To men I give to one, but thou, most high, (For womans wits through your deceptions spy And know ye for Olympians) shall know A maidens heart no lover may win so. Farewell, and find a fairer maid to love! Farewell ! But he : Through all the silent grove I sought thee sighing—for thy love…
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…ore His throne who spake and bade The fountains of the deep descend And bade the earth uproot and rend To pitch like tents the mountains high, And gave him language who hath penned This pleasant tale of Thessaly. ENVOI Fair maiden, who hast rightly weighed The message of the morning sky, Think kindly of the man who made This pleasant tale of Thessaly.
1899 · PDF PAGE 88
…king. ARCHAIS I the queen of your array. Foot it nimbly in the ring, CHARICLES Strewn with violet and may. ARCHAIS Apple-blossom pile on high, Till the bridal bed is duly Panoplied with blooms that sigh. CHARICLES Not a flower of them shall die, Every one shall blossom newly ; Stars shall lend them of their beauty, Rain and sunshine know their duty.
1899 · PDF PAGE 39
…of Zeus ; the thunder broke From purple flashes vanished into smoke That rolled unceasingly through heaven ; the youth Cried out against high Zeus, The cause of Truth, Freedom, and Justice ! and withal strode on To the vast margin of the waters wan That barred him from his goal ; his cloak he stripped, Then in the waves his sudden body dipped, And with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped. Long had he struggled (for Poseidons hand Heaped foam against him) toward the seemly strand, But that Loves Mother, journeying from Rome, Pass…
1899 · PDF PAGE 54
…et The sun forgot his chariot, nor would set, Since as he sank the maiden thought to leap Within the bosom of the vaulted deep From that high pedestal. And seeing this, That yet an hour was left her, Archais Lift up her voice and prayed with zeal divine To Aphrodite, who from her far shrine Heard and flew fast to aid over the night-clad brine. PRAYER OF ARCHAIS O Mother of Love, By whom the earth and all its fountains move In harmony, Hear thou the bitter overwhelming cry Of me, who love, who am about to die Because of love. O Queenliest Shrine…
1899 · PDF PAGE 24
…h, albeit so wholly base ; His ears are dead to subtle sounds, His eyes are blind, for Zeus confounds His vain irreverence, and astounds High Heaven with wrathful face.
1899 · PDF PAGE 64
…th, whose large eyes well might scorn The wanton eyes of Ganymede, whose tongue Reiterates ill curses idly strung In circles meaningless high Zeus to move, Yet has twain other cries ; the one is Love ! The other Archais ! The Paphian lips Smiled with a splendour potent to eclipse The large-lipped drawn-out grinning of that court That mouthed and gibbered in their swinish sport.
1899 · PDF PAGE 26
…r spark Had flashed and faded ; all the field was bare, No wave of wing bestirred the sultry air, Save only where the noontide lark rose high To chant his liberty. The vaulted sky Was one blue cupola of rare turquoise That shimmered with the heat. His pulses pause
1899 · PDF PAGE 67
…ake With fear before I die ; I have vowed to live With one aim only ; never to forgive The wrong the gods do me, and in my form Love his high self, by whom the earth is warm To-day, by whose defiance the universe Would crash in one inextricable curse To primal chaos. Hear me, I have sworn. Then, suddenly, more glorious than the morn Tipping the golden tops of autumn hills With light, more countless than the myriad rills Of bright dew running off the bracken leaves, With gold more saturated than the sheaves In the red glow that promises the day…
1899 · PDF PAGE 37
…ed Deadly vermilion, like the poisonous toad That darts an angry red from out its eye, By sword and spear, by maze and mystery, By Zeus high house, and by his godhead great, By his own soul, no ardour to abate Until he freed Archais. Like a star Rebellious, thrust beyond the mornings bar, Erect, sublime, he swore so fierce an oath