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…e. Never dew-dashed foreheads fair Shall salute the idle air. Never shall we wander deep Where the fronds of fern, asleep, Kiss her rosy feet that pass On the spangled summer grass, ilalfawake, and drowse again. Never more our feet shall stain Purple with the Joyous grape, Whence there rose a fairy shape In the fume and must and juice, Singing lest our eyes escape All his tunic wried and louse With the feet that softly trod Tn the vat the fairy god. Never more our eyes shall swim, Lovking for the love of him In the magic moon that bent Over mai…
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…e death, Our Lady of ten thousand Pains With heavy kissing breath. I said: Our Lady is as God, Her hell of pain as heaven above; Death’s feet, like Sleep’s, with fire are shod, And Lust is likest Love. Our Lady crushed me in her bed ; Between her breasts my life was wet ; My lips from that sweet death were fed ; I died, and would forget. But so God would not have me die ; Her deadly lips relax and fade, Her body slackens with a sigh Reluctant, like a maid. I said : O vainpire ? Lover, weep, Who cannot follow me above, Though Death may masquerad…
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…he cuol enticements of the brook, And hidden in the boskage close and green.) So dreamed she, smiling like a faéry queen ; So the bright feet and forehead of the breeze Lured her to sleep, and shook the morning trees Clear of the dewfall, and disturbed the grass, So that no rustle, should a serpent pass, i Might rouse her reverie. So then, behold, Chance leant from Heaven with feet and face of gold, And hid the iron of her body bare With such warm cloudlets as the morning aii
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… ; lind and black the ghylls of the mountain clefted, Crag and snow-clad slope in a distant vision Rise as before me. Here (it seems) my feet by a tiny torrent Press the moss with a glad delight of being : Here my eyes look up to the riven moun- tain Split by the thunder. Rent and rifted, shattered of wind and lightning, Smilten, scarred, and stricken of sun and tempest, Seamed with wounds, like adamant, shod with iron, Torn by the earthquake. Still through all the stresses of doubtful weather IIfold the firm old pinnacles, sky-defying ; Still …
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…s that are not dead to- day Added their voices ; ITeaven’s desart way Man wins not but by sorrow—let him break The golden image with the feet of clay !! Let him despise That earthen vessel which the potter marred 2 —and rise! XI. As life burns strong, the spirit’s flame grows dull ; The ruddy-cheeked sea-breezes shame its spark ; Wan rainy winds of autumn on the dark Leafless and purple moors, that rage and Tull With a damned soul’s despair, these leave their mark, Their brand of fire That burns the dross, that wings the heart to its desire. Vp…
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…eposes, And slumbers to visions bow. For the soul of man, being free, shall pass the gates of God, | And_ the spirit find the Sea by the feet of clim ? untrod, And the flesh, a lifeless ember, in ashen fear vrow cold, As the lives before remember the perished hours of gold. [ xeunt all but JEPHTHAH. JEPHTHAH. Surely, my God, now I am left alone Kneeling before Thy throne, T may grow beautiful, even I, to see Thy beauty fair and free. For on the vast expanses of the wold I hear the feet of gold, And over all the skies I see a flame That flickers…
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… to murmur on the mead, And he, unconscious, drew his eager reed From the loose tunic; now they seat them- selves On moss worn smooth by feet of many elves Dancing at midnight through them, and their voice | Bids all the woodland echoes to rejoice Because the lovers are made one at last. Then Charicles began to play; they cast Tunic and snood and sandal, and began To foot a happy measure for a span, While still Archais at his feet would sit, Gaze in his eyes, by love and triumph lit, And listen to the music. And the fire Of his light reed so ki…
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…in my brain. Then surged the madden- ing tide Of my intention. Onward! Let me run! Thy steed, O Moon! Thy chariot, O Sun! Lend me fierce feet, winged sandals, wings as wide As thine, O East wind! won ! And the goal is Was ever such a cruel solitude? Up rears the pillar. Quaintly shaped and hued, It focussed all the sky and all the plain To its own ugliness. I looked again, And saw its magic in another mood. A shapeless truth took image in my brain. A hollow voice from every quarter cries : ‘*Q thou, zelator of this Paradise, Tell thou the secre…
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170 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST With strange eyes kindling, as the fleet Implacable untiring feet Weave mystic figures manifold That draw down angels to behold The moving music, and the fire Of their intolerable desire. For, maddening to fiercer thought, The fiery limbs requicken, wheel In formless furies, subtly wrought Of swifter melodies than steel That flashes in the fight : the peal Of amorous laughters choking sense, And madness kissing violence, Rings like dead horsemen ; bodies reel Drunken with motion ; spirits feel The strange constr…
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…a cliff, about whose bdse were strewn Boulders of amethyst or malachite. Save these the cliffs rose sheer, a dazzling white, Six hundred feet from ocean ; so divine Was the tall precipice, that from the shrine A child might fling a stone and splash it in. the brine. Within whose silver courts and lily bowers The Queen of Love led Charicles 3 white flowers Blushed everywhere to scarlet, as her feet, Themselves more white, did touch them. On a seat, White with strewn rose, and leaves of silver birch, Remote from courts profane, and vulgar search,…
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… not quenched, although I weep. (For even my tears are tears of fire, For loathing, madness, and desire.) Ah God ! the traps for fervent feet ! The morrow beaconed, and I came By where the golden groves of wheat In summer glories fiercely flame; To those white courts, by princes trod, Where Ahab sat, and mocked at God. Where Ahab sat :—but lo! I saw No king, no tyrant to be curst ; But she, who filled me with blind awe, She, for whose blood my thin veins thirst; The blossom of a painted mouth And bare breasts tinctured with the south. For lo! t…
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…hold Sweet odours of the sunny spring. Behold the rising swell of perfect calm In breezy dells adorable of balm ! Behold the tender rosy feet Made bare for holiness, that move Like doves amid the waving wheat, Or swallows silver in the grove Where sylph and salamander meet, And gnome and undine swoon for love ! Her feet that flit upon the windy way Twin fawns, the daughters of the rosy day. Behold, the arms of her desire Wave, weave, and wander in the air, Vines life-endued by subtle fire So quick and comely, curving bare. The white diaphanous …
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…Behold The vintage spilt, the broken bread ! I feast upon the cruel cold Pale body that was ripe and red. Only, her head, her palms, her feet, I kissed all night, and did not eat. So, and not otherwise, the word Of God was utterly fulfilled. So, and not otherwise. I heard Her spirit cry, by death not stilled : ‘My sin is perfect in thy blood, And thou and I have conquered God.” Now let me die, at last desired, At last beloved of thee my queen; Now let me die, with blood attired, Thy servant naked and obscene ; To thy white skull, thy palms, thy…
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…sea Forgotten of high God, until there went The final trumpet of the dead, who flee Vainly that fearful blast of judgment. is me! Woe My feet, in spite of me, in circles bend ; I meet my own tracks often, all in vain I seek some tower or cliff to make an end,! I find no object on the distant plain ; Misty distortions crowd upon my brain, And spectre fountains gurgle on the ground; I drop to drink, and hear the horrid strain Of chuckling devils, that grimace around, And think I catch the note of Hell’s three- headed Hound. Up still and staggerin…
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… back in the tower’ where pallid shades murmur and quicken : Low laughs leap in the silence, sink to a sigh ere there come, Far from the feet of the storm, a pulse like the beat of a drum. Throbs the wild sound through the storm, and the wings of it waken and quiver, Only the watcher, unmoved, looks on the face of the night ; Sees the strong hosts that unite, a fervent implacable river Foaming from heaven and hell, two armies of crimson and white ; Flecked is the sky with their blood shed as by sabres of light. Now they are clutching his arms, …
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…t suffer this: I said! Droop thy wide pinions, O thou mortal God ! Sink thy vast forehead, and let Life con- sume The miserable life thy feet have trod Beneath them, that thine own life in its doom Fall, in its resurrection to arise; Stoop, that its holier hope may cleave the skies. Power, power, and power! O single sacrifice On thine own altar: let thy savour steam Up, through the domes of broken Paradise ; Up, by Euphrates’? unimagined stream ; Up, by strange river and mysterious lawn To some impossible diadem of dawn ! 1 Cf. Fichte. 2 Or Phr…
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… her is overthrown ! O maiden of the spirit of the wheat, One ripening sunbeam thrills thee to the soul, Electric from red mane to amber feet ! The blue skies focus, as a burning bowl, The restless passion of the universe Into our mutual anger and distress, VOL. I. To be forbidden (the Creator’s curse) To comprehend the other’s loveliness. We cannot grasp the ecstasy of this; | Only we strain and struggle and renew The utter bliss of the unending kiss, The mutual pang that shudders through and through, . Repeated and repeated, as the light Can …
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…wa little boat appear, And in it such a figure as we knew Was Death. But she, intolerant of delay, Hailed him. The vessel floated to our feet, And Death was not. She leapt within, and bent Her own white shoulders to the thwart, and bade Me steer, and keep stern waich with sword unsheathed For fear of something that her soul had seen Above. And thus upon the oily black Silent swift river we sailed out to reach Its source, no longer feeling as compelled, But led by some incomprehensible Passion. And here lewd fishes snapped at us, And watersnakes…
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…ss hath with- drawn. His mind works back to childhood, babydom ; Will grow to manhood and remember me. TANNHAUSER (awaking, leaps to his feet). Freedom! Elizabeth! All hail to Her! Radiant Goddess! Liberty and love! VENUS. What sayest thou? Curse Her! TANNHAUSER. My Elizabeth ! VENUS. What? art thou mad? again. Forget this nightmare. Rather, tell me it, And I will soothe thee. Have I not a balm, A sovereign comfort in my old caress? Come close to me TANNHAUSER. I must begone. She waits. VENUS. Who waits? Come here! Let us talk fondly, set toget…
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…hall bear him through the city. THIRD ELDER. And wreaths of roses be instead of dust. FOURTH ELDER. And dancing girls— Firtit ELDER. And feet of maidens most Shall strike a measure of delight. SIxtH ELDER. And boys With bright unsullied curls shall minister Before him all the days of life God grants, SEVENTH ELDER. And all his platters shall be made of gold. EIGHTH ELDER. And jewels beyond price shall stud them all. VOL, I. ELEAZAR, What sayest thou, O wisest of our race, Ahinoam, the aged priest of God, Who weighest out the stars with balances…