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…s worms caress thee and control. Nay, but alone, intolerably alone, Alone, as here, thy carrion soul shall swelter, Yearning in vain for sleep, or death, or shelter; No release possible, no respite known ! Self-damned, without a friend, thy eternal place Sweats through the painting of thy harlot’s face. At the hour of the eclipse, Wednesday, Dec. 28. BESIDE THE RIVER. RAIN, rain in May. The river sadly flows, A sullen silver crossed with sable bars, Damp, gleomy, shivering, while reluctant stars, Between swart masses of thick clouds that close,…
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…vers, dwell together In the isles of golden weather, Free of tyranny and tether, Roam the world, linked hand in hand, Moonlight for your sleep, and breezes Fresh from where the Ocean freezes, And the cold Aurora stands With new lilies in her hands. Ilappy lovers, twilight falls. Let us leave you for awhile, Guarding all the golden walls With the weapon ofa smile. Silver arrows from the maiden With new labours laden Shall be shot at bold intruders who would violate your peace ; Lightning shall keep watch and warden through the sea-born isles of …
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… fiery lakes, And sought no happy end. I said: the height is as the deep, Twin breasts of one white dove; Death’s face is as the face of Sleep, And Lust is likest Love. And with my blood I forced the door That guards the palaces of sin ; I reached the lake’s cinereous! shore ; I passed those groves within. My blood was wasted in her veins, To freshen them, who stood like 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, A…
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…The fern-fronds gird thy fragrant beauty round, Thy ways are bound With petals that unclose When the sun seeks his way Through night and sleep and love to all the dreams of day. Love, sleep, and death ! The three that melt together, mingle so Man may not know The little change of breath (Caught sigh that love desires,) When love grows sleep, and sleep at last in death expires. © lamp of love! The hissing spray shall jet thee with desire And foaming fire, And fire from thee shall move Her spirit to devour, And fuse and mingle us in one transcend…
1905 · PDF PAGE 191
…melan- I]. THE GATE OF TO LAURA. Misrress, I pray thee, when the wind Exults upon the roaring sea, Come to my bosom, kissed and kind And sleep upon the lips of me! Dream on my breast of quiet days, Kindled of slow absorbing fire ! Sleep, while I pondef on the ways And secret paths of my desire ! Dream, while my restless brain probes deep The mysteries of its magic power, The secrets of forgotten sleep, The birth of knowledge as a flower ! Slow and divine thy gentle breath Wovos my warm throat: my spirit flies Beyond the iron walls of death, And…
1905 · PDF PAGE 240
TANNHAUSER 233 VENUS. Answer that call—and thou art lost indeed ! Wake thou thy spirit in this hateful sleep, Keeping the vision, rise, and spit on her! TANNHAUSER. Spit on Thy likeness? I who love Thee sor VENUS. Yes, yes: obey me! She will leave thee then. She hath assumed mine image ! [ Thunder. TANNHAUSER. What is that? VENUS. Mere thunder on the mountain top. Do this, And I will come in sleep, in sleep renew The carnal joys of day. TANNHAUSER. Hast Thou forgot? It is the fleshly I would flee ! VENUS. Forget ? But I strive fleshwards. Let o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 239
… But in this carnal strife the Intimate Achieves for one snatched swiftness. me, love! Kiss TANNHAUSER. Ah, but the waking! As [ sink to sleep >illowed in nuptial arms —so fresh and cool— (Yet in their veins I know the fire that runs Racing and maddening from the crown of flame, The monolithic core of mystical Red fury that is called a woman’s heart) Sinking, I say, from the supreme embrace, The Good-night kisses; sinking into sleep-— What dreams betoken the dread solitude? VENUS. What dreams? Ah, dreamest not of me, my knight ? Of vast caresse…
1905 · PDF PAGE 241
…twine the limbs of love ! Come, love! My body in thy passion weeps Tears keen as dewfall’s, salter than the deep’s. My bosom! leaps, And sleeps! None but the dead can sleep the sleep of love! How its fortress wakes, and Come, love, caress me with endearing eyes! Light the long rapture that nor fades nor flies! Love laughs and lingers, frenzies, stabs, and sighs, And-dies ! None but the dead can know the worth of love! [TANNHAUSER Sleeps. VENUS. Sleep on, poor fool, and in thy sleep deceived Defy the very beauty that thou seekest ! Now is the so…
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…ow thee. Aphrodite, no! Nor Anael,! nor Eva! Lather thou Lilith, the woman-serpent, she who sucks The breath of little children in their sleep, Strangles young maidens, and presides upon Sterile debauchery and unnatural loves. VENUS. Lilith! Ah, lover! name ! Thou hast known my TANNHAUSER, So; yet I love thee! MRended is the veil! Calling thee Ugliness, I guessed aright, Who saw, and see, all Beauty in thee still. Only, a beauty risen out of Hell ; Death and delusion—ay, corruption’s self, Wickedness sliming into impotence, Pleasure in putrefac…
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…eps over them A crown of light! Behold! The white seas touch the gold, And flame like flowers of fire about the prow. It is the hour for sleep :— Lulled by the moveless deep To sleep, sweet wife, to sleep! Yes, kiss me now ! Vv. THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE? THE wandering waters move about the world, And lap the sand, with quietest complaint Borne on the wings of dying breezes up, To where we make toward the wooded top Of yonder menacing hill. The night is fallen Starless and moonless, black beyond belief, Tremendous, only just the ripple keeps Our soul…
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…de world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep: Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke Only the respite of a little sleep; Sleep, just a little space of sleep, to rest The fevered head and cool the aching eyes; Sleep for a space, to fall upon the breast Of the dear God, that He may sympathise, Long has the day drawn out; a bitter frost Sparkles along the streets; the shipping heaves With the slow murmur of the sea, half lost In the last rustle of forgotten leaves. Over the bridges pass the throngs; the sound, Deep and insis…
1905 · PDF PAGE 142
…little kiss before you go ; It is my right—you must. Ohno! Ohno! EPILOGUE. To die amid the blossoms of the frost On far fair heights; to sleep the quiet sleep Of dead men underneath the snowy steep Of many mountains ; ever to have lost These cares and these distrusts 3 to lie alone, Watched by the distant eagle’s drowsy wing, Stars and grey summits, and the winds that sing Slow dirges in eternal monotone. Such is my soul’s desire, being weary of This vain eternity of sleepless dreams That is my life; withal there still may be In other worlds, t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 111
… Always in vain, and Ilope’s forerunners evleam Alway one step too late. Not as when sunlight strikes the counter- pane ; Half wakening, sleep rolls back her iron wave, And dawn brings blithesomeness ; Not as wher opiates lull the tortured brain And sprinkle lotus on the drowsy grave Of earth’s old bitterness ; But as when consciousness half rouses up And hurls back all the gibbering harpy crowd 3 And sleep’s draught deepeneth, And all the furies of hell’s belly sup In the brain’s palaces, and chant aloud Songs that foretaste of Death. Maddened…
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…k our vague en- deavour, 1 Chosen in accordance with the theory of Young and Helmholz. 2 Compare this octet with that of the ‘*Sonnet to Sleep” of P. B. Marston, which Crowley had not at this time read. Whilst we may find in thee the secrets grey Of all things God would fain have hid for ever. IT, All things grow still before thine awful face. Now fails the lover’s sigh; Sleep’s angel clings About the children with her dreamy wings, And all the world is silent for a space. The waving of thy dusky plumes in heaven Alone breathes gentle music to …
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… ten.ed with the dead, And every hollow made a sepulchre, And every hill a vantage ground whereon Hard-breathing fighting men get scanty sleep, Till the dawn lift his eyebrows, and the day Renew the battle? Will ye follow me Through slippery ways of blood to Ephraim To beat with sturdy swords unwearying Our foemen to their Ammon, and to grapple With red death clutching at the throat of us, With famine and with pestilence, at last To reach a barren vengeance, and per- chance An hundred of your thousands to return Victors—so best God speed us—and…
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…oldness a fire, Between my slow words is a sword, One lit by the heart of desire, One sharp in the hand of the Lord; To these that sink, sleep, and expire, your welcome accord, With wrath or repose for its raiment Your power, like a pyramid, stands; My love, with no claim, as a claimant Came seeking out truthin the sands, Found truth, and must placein poor payment this bookin your hands.
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
…e the dumb moments slip. So she, my bride, my queen, So virginal, so keen, Swoons, while the moon-rays lean To fan their silver ship. No sleep, but precious kisses In those pale wildernesses, Mark the dead hours of night, No sleep so sweet as this is, Whose pulse of purple blisses Beats calm and cool and light. No life so fair with roses, No day so swift to close is ; No cushion so reposes Fair love so sweet and slight. MORS JANUA AMORIS. ‘* None but the dead can know the worth of love."—KELLY. IN the night my passion fancies That an incense va…
1905 · PDF PAGE 242
TANNHAUSER 235 TANNHAUSER. I sleep not. Those were Her mysterious words As faded the great vision, And I knew In some forgotten corner of my brain Some desperate truth. VENUS, Forget this foolishness ! [ There cometh a shadow. I am afraid, even I! What moves me thus? TANNHAUSER. I saw the mighty vision as before Forming in front of the awakening east, All permeated with the rose of dawn, And pale with delicate green light and shade, Marvellous! So, you say, she is a witch Seeking to rob or trick you of your power? VENUS. Isayso? No! Idare not! …
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…OR. LIBERTINE touches of small fingers creep Among my curls to-night: pale ghastly kisses, Like mournful ghosts roused from their ruined sleep By clamorous cries of murder. abysses Loom in the vista keen eyes penetrate, Vague forecasts of immeasurable fate. Strange O thou belovéd blood, that wells and weeps ! O thou belovéd mouth, that beats and bleeds ! O mystic bosom where some serpent sleeps, Sweet mockery of a thousand saintlier creeds ! Even I, that breathe your perfume, taste your breath, Know, even this hour, ye are not life, but death! …
1905 · PDF PAGE 120
…nd Man, divine. I know not all I say, but through it all Mark the dim hint of ultimate sunshine ! Remember me for this! And when I go To sleep the last sleep in the slumberous snow, Let child and man and woman yet re- call One little moment that I loved you so ! Let some high pinnacle my tombstone be, My epitaph the murmur of the sea, The clouds of heaven be fleeces for my pall, My unknown grave the cradle of the free. TWO SONNETS ON HEARING THE MUSIC OF BRAHMS AND TSCHAIKOWSKY. To C. G. LAMB. I. My soul is aching with the sense of sound Whose …