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…ear steps ! Est [2 covr/dor). Did you call, Percy? you were in pain, I heard a cry as if PERCY, Esme, I will come and talk to you in the moonlight. IT want to say something that I couldn’t say before, because my heart choked me. oSME. Come out, Percy, the moon is so white, looking out of the black sky. The sky is quite black near the moon; only far down where there are no more bright stars it is a deep, deep blue. It is bluer and deeper than the sea, PERCY. It is like your eyes. [Comes oud into corridor.) Esmé! I have looked into your eyes as y…
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…ery ; The little loves and whispers win me :— + 39 ** Eli, lama sabacthani ! 1 Nature: the beginning. 2 Perfection: the end. ‘© Chomse,! moon-god, grant thy boon, The silver pathway of the moon ! Beyond the Glory of the Dawn, Beyond the Splendour of the Sun, Thy secret Spirit is withdrawn, The plumes of the Concealed One. Amoun !7 upon the Cross I cry, ‘*T am Osiris, even I!” O Thou! the All, the many-named, The One in many manifest: ' Let not my spirit be ashamed, But win to its eternal rest! Thou Self from Nothing ! bring Thou me Unto that Se…
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… Blood of ten million slaves to conquer it.! Clad in sparse robes of white The mountain beckons Night Her tracery of azure with the cold moon-rays to knit. 1 The reference isto the ‘‘ Shepherd Kings” of Abydos, who, says one theory, built Ghizeh. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT Armoured with secret might [ stand on earth upright, Strong in the power of Ilim who welded ‘arth, Barred in the sky with steel, And breathed upon the wheel Of this vast scheme of stars, and made Him mirth In the poor dreams of us Who strive mysterious To pierce the bands of sense, …
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…night, And a smile for the avenue shady, A kiss for the eyelashes bright, And a blush tor the cheek of my lady, Yvonne ! A daugh for the moon and her spite, Anda blush for the cheek of my lady ! We'll tread where the daffodils shake And the primrose smiles up through her weeping, Where the daisies dip down to the lake, Where the wonderful thrushes are sleeping, ¥vonne ! By the marge of the maze of the brake Where the wonderful thrushes are sleeping. Where the brook trickles clear to the eye Below dew-spangled frondlets of willow We will wander …
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… 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 maidens moon-content, When the summer woods were wet With our dewy songs, that set Quivering all seas and snows, Stars and tender winds that fret Lily, lily, laughing rose, Sighing, sighing violet, Dusky pansy, swaying rush, And the stream that flows Singing, ringing softly: Flush! Listen to the bird that goes Wooing to the brown mate’s bough ; Listen to the breeze that blows Over cape and …
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…indled her desire That she with new glad confidence would quire A new song exquisite, whose tender tune Was nurtured at the bosom of the moon And kissed on either cheek by sun and rain. She trembled and began. fain To keep pure silence while her notes resound Over the forest and the marshy ground. The troop was ARCHAIS. Green and gold the meadows lie In the sunset’s eye. Green and silver the woods glow When the sun is low, And the moon sails up like music ona sea of breathing snow. Chain and curse are passed away ;_ Love proclaims the day. Dawn…
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…oppies by still white water ! Sunlight burns in her pure deep eyes ; Love lights the tresses of Jephthah’s daughter. Kissing rays of the moon have caught her, Rays of the moon that sleeps and sighs, JARED [aszde]. In our disgrace, behold! our vengeance strikes. I am inspired with so profound a hate— He shall not triumph: in the very hour When his o’ermastering forehead tops the sky I strike him to the earth. I need not move. Silence—no more—and all accomplishes. Leviathan, how subtle is thy path ! CHORUS. Not now may the hour of gladness fade, …
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…THAH JEPHTHAH., A maiden shall be slain for many men. Surely, O people, and men of Israel, The prophecy is happy to the end. For see yon moon that creeps inviolate Against the corner of the mountains so, Slowly and gracefully to lighten us. So, ere three nights be gone, the course of heaven Shall be most monstrously o’erwhelmed for us Ere sundown, as for Joshua, and the moon, ‘The maiden moon, be slain that we may see By the large moveless sun to strike and slay, More utterly proud Ammon to consume. This is the omen. Shout for joy, my friends !…
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…umns Built of essential time. © And lo! the light Shed from Her shoulders whom I dimly saw ; Crowned with twelve stars and horndd as the moon; Clothed with a sun to which the sun of earth Were tinsel; and the moon was at Her feet 1— A moon whose brilliance breaks the sword of song Into a million fragments ; so transcends Music, that starlight-sandalled majesty ! Then—shall I contemplate the face of Her? O Nature! Self-begotten! Spouse of God, The Glory of thy Countenance unveiled ! Thy face, O mother ! Splendour of the Gods! Behold ! amid the g…
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…nd IIeaven is always open to her eyes when she looks up, and she is so beautiful. Will it seem Jong, Esmé, till we kiss again beyond the moon there—it is the moon, isn’t it, come to see that Esmé is not too sad about my dying? Be kind to her always, moon, when Iam gone beyond you ! You must finish my poem, Esmé; there is only a little to do. Kiss me the last time! (good-bye, my dear friends. I wish I could take your hands, but I am so weak. Kiss me, Esmé, quickly. I feel the voice of God come hke a shudder in my blood ; T must go to Him. Esmé! …
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…ttle and bright birds, Tremble above the sea With song more noble, the divinest potion Of poet’s wonder and bard’s melody. Delight, thou Moon, to ARCHAIS, Cold is the kiss of the stars to the sea, The kiss of the earth to the orient grey That heralds the day ; Warmer the kiss of a love that is free As the wind of the sea, Quick and resurgent and splendid. CIARICLES, Night her bright bow-string has bended ; last flies her arrow unsparing Through the beech-leaves, “lsther it cleaves Rapid and daring. Ah! how it strikes as with silver! how the sun…
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… dying To find some rest ! and frozen robins in my There is a shallop—how the breakers gallop, Grinding to dust the unresisting shore, A moon-mad thought to wander in the shallop ! Act—think no more ! Pale as a ghost I leave the sounding coast, The waters white with moonrise. I embark, Float on to the horizon as a ghost, Confront the dark. The cadent curve of Dian seems to swerve, Eluding helmeraft : let me drift away Where sea and sky unite their clamorous curve In praise of Day. Isitan edge? Some spray-bechiselled ledge? Some sentry platform …
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…uld gleam to see me there, As fixed upon a star, And yet thy lips should take a tune, And match me unaware— So steals the sun beside the moon And hides her lustre rare. The bloom upon the peach is fine ; The blossom on thy cheek is mine ! O kiss me—if you dare ! I called thee by the name of love That mothers fear and gods approve, And maidens blush to say— O Gretchen, meet me in the dell We know and love, who love so well, While morn is cold and gray ! So, match thy blushes to the dawn ; Thy bosom to the rising moon, Until our loves to earth ha…
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…ed like Hell right into it, and spat} upon the face ! O Madonna of the Golden Eyes! ‘‘Come with me,” you whispered, ‘‘ come, and let the moon Lend her light to madden us through the hours of pleasure ; Let thedayspring pass and brighten intonoon! Yet no limit find our love, nor passion find a measure !” O Madonna of the Golden Eyes! Dawn brought reason back, and the violet eyes are sadder :-— O they were golden once, and I call them golden still ! Dawn has brought remorse, the sting of a foul swamp-adder— I hate you! beast of Hell! Love’s manac…
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…passion rises in the amber walls, And falls! None but the dead can breathe the life of love ! Come, love, thy lips, curved hollow as the moon’s! , Bring me thy kisses, for the seawind tunes, The song that soars, and reads the starry runes, And swoons ! None but the dead can tune the lyre of love! Come, love, thy body serpentine and bright ! What love is this, the heart of sombre light, Impossible, and therefore infinite? Sheer height ! None but the dead can twine the limbs of love ! Come, love! My body in thy passion weeps Tears keen as dewfall…
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…n To flash the waves between, But no soft moving current is withdrawn : We float upon the blue Like sunlight specks in dew, And like the moonlight on the lake we lie: The northern gates are past, And, following fair and fast, The north wind drove us under such a sky, Faint with the sun’s desire, And clad in fair attire Of many driving cloudlets; and we flew Like swallows to the South. The ocean’s curving mouth Smiled day by day and nights of starry blue ; Nights when the sea would shake Like sunlight where the wake Was wonderful with flakes of …
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…ul, Who hast thus shown Thy mystery to nan : Grant that his coming may be very soon See, the sobs shake me like a little child. 9? e The moon is crescent, waxing in the West. Take the last kiss, dear. What is the strange song? [Zhe great Goddess ariseth, weeping Jor the slain Osiris TANNHAUSER, the perfected through suffering. IsIs. Isis am I, and from my life are fed All stars and suns, all moons that wax and wane, Create and uncreate, living and dead, The Mystery of Pain. Iam the Mother, I the silent Sea, The Earth, its travail, its fertility…
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THE GATE OF THE SANCTUARY > ae 189 ‘*Resolve all question by a moonward tread. ‘ Follow the moon !” said. My thought had thanked him for the generous breath Wherewith he warned us: for delay were death. And now, too late! no moon is overhead— Some other meaning in the words he saith? Even so the king had Or, am I tricked in such a little snare? I lifted up my eyes. What soul stood there, Fronting my path? Tall, stately, delicate, A woman fairer than a pomegranate. A silver spear her hands of lotus hear, One shaft of moonlight quivering and stra…
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…se vast Storehouses of ‘‘ Things of one Kind” from which, pure or mingled, all other Things did proceed. Since 5, a Camel, refers to the Moon, they did say that a Camel and the Moon were sympathetic, and came, that Part of them, from a common Principle: and that a Camel being yellow brown, it partook of the Earth Nature, to which that Colour is given. Thence they said that by taking all the Natures involved, and by blending them in the just Proportions, one might have a Camel. But this is no more than is said by the Upholders of the Atomic Theo…
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…ip. The gods descend to dance ; the noise Of hungry kissings, as a swoon, Faints for excess of its own joys, And mystic beams assail the moon, With flames of their infernal noon ; While the smooth incense, without breath, Spreads like some scented flower of death, Over the grove; the lover’s boon Of sleep shall steal upon them soon, And lovers’ lips, from lips withdrawn, Seek dimmer bosoms till the dawn. Yet on the central altar lies The sacrament of kneaded bread With blood made one, the sacrifice To those, the living, who are dead— Strange go…