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…d dainty hands, caressed _ of dew, And bade the love-lorn wanderer sing anew. ‘His muse came trembling, soon through starry air it flew. SONG OF CHARICLES. Within the forest gloom There lies a lover’s bower, A lotus-flower In bloom. O lotus-flower too white, Starred purple, round and sweet, Rich golden wheat Of night ! Pll kiss thee, lotus-flower, I'll pluck thee, yellow grain, Once and again This hour. There coos a dove to me Across the waves of space} O passionate face To see! I’ll woo thee, silver dove, Caress thee, lotus-flower; It is the h…
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…s men may love or sorrow, Their moods thy music borrow To bid them live or die. So sweet, so sad, so lonely, In silent noontide only Thy song-wings float and lie On cloud-foam scarred and riven, By God’s red lightnings shriven, And quiet hours are given To him that lingers nigh. Fain would I linger near thee Amid the poppies red, Forget this world, and hear thee As one among the dead ; Amid the daffadillies, Red tulips and white lilies, Where daisies’ tears are shed ; Where larkspur and cornflower Are blue with sunlight’s hour, And all the eart…
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…n beneath the temple gate While I consider of our war on Fate. Till then, and I will tell thee everything That thou must do; but now let song take wing Till the pale air swoon with the deep delight That makes cool noontide from the sultry night. What are your dreams, my maidens? Your young dreams ? Are they of passion, or of rocks and streams, Of purple mountains, clad about with green, Or do their lamps grow dim in the unseen? Sing to this hero; sing, lure slumber to your queen.” And she: ‘Not many SONG OF APHRODITE’S LIANDMAIDENS. My dreams a…
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…g, and flood the ocean With a living ecstasy of music Till the whole creation echo, echo, Echo till the tune dissolve the heavens? Still song lingers; lamely from the lute- string Steals a breath of melody; the forest Treasures in its glades the sighs I utter. Yet may I be happy, storing honey Lover’s lips hold, gathering the sunlight Eyes and hair have kept for me, delighting In the bells far-off, in yonder thrushes, In the tawny songster of the forest, In the stream’s song, all the words of passion, Echoes of the deeper words unspoken In thy …
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… fair blossoms wreathed in one device Of perfect love in perfect maidenhood. JARED [recovering himself). Nay, but my voice must fill the song of joy With gratitude, and meet thanksgiving. Me More than these others it beseems, who love Less dearly for their innocence than I, Pardoned of my unpardonable sin. ADULAH. The flowers turn westerward; the sun is down Almost among those clouds that kiss the sea With heavy lashes drooping over it, A mother watching her own daughter swoon To sleep. But look toward the southern sky ; It is my father. Let us…
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…re of our heart. Sentt-Chorus of Mer. Exalted with immeasurable gladness ; Bonds touched with tears and melted like the snow :— Wake the song loudly; loose the leash of madness, Beat the loud drum, and bid the trumpet blow ! Semt-Chorus of Women. Let the lute thrill divinely low, Let the harp strike a tender note of sad- ness5 Louder and louder, till the full song flow, One earth-dissolving stream of utter glad- ness ! CHORUS. Free! ye are free! hear us ! Smile, Artemis, thy virgin leaves thy fold ! Star of the morning, fling thy blussom near u…
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…play the part through so. CHORUS. In the ways of the North and the South Whence the dark and the dayspring are drawn, . We pass with the song of the mouth Of the notable Lord of the Dawn. Unto Ra, the desire of the East, let the clamour of singing proclaim The fire of his name ! In the ways of the East and the West Whence the night and the day are dis- crowned, We pass with the beat of his breast, And the breath of his crying is bound. Unto Toum, the low Lord of the West, let the noise of our chant be the breath Proclaiming him Death ! And the …
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… O love! for strange and dread Delights consume me ; I am as one dead Beating at I]eaven’s gate with nerveless wing, Wailing because the song the immortals sing Is so fast barred behind the iron sky. Speak but thine anger quickly; let me die!” ‘*But I forgive thee, thou art good and kind.” ‘“O love! mind, You love me!” ‘‘ Nay, I was awhile afraid, Being so white and tender ; for a maid I lived alone with flower and brook, nor guessed Another dwelt within the quiet nest That these woods build me; hold my tremb- ling hand, Teach me to love; I do …
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… trump sound, ‘‘ Let all the earth be free!” With thine own strength and melody made strong, And filled with fire and light of thine own song. Only a boy’s wild songs, a boy’s desire, I bring with reverent hands. The task is ended— The twilight draws on me: the sacred fire Sleeps: I have sheathed my sword, my bow unbended : So for one hour I lay aside the lyre, And come, alone, unholpen, unbefriended, As streams get water of the sun-smit sea, Seeking my ocean and my sun in thee. Yea, with thy whirling clouds of fiery light Involve my music, gyr…
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…eutz his mystifying crew !! A CourRTIER. A Poet’s tourney, and the theme is Love ! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. There is a sequel to our poet’s song, And he will sing it. TANNHAUSER. No! I know it not! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The winepress and the sun ! TANNHAUSER (again tn Venusherg). My spouse and Queen! Bright Goddess of the amber limbs, the lips Redder than poppies in the golden cern That is your mane! Listen, the after-song ! [Zakinge hts harp. LANDGRAVE. What are these words? THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Let silence now abide : Disturb not the impassione…
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… death I cried, and Thou hast holpen me, Set me upon a rock, established me, And filled my mouth, and tuned mine ancient lyre With a new song—praise, praise to God above,} And to Our Lady of the Smitten Heart, 1 Psalm xi. That David never knew : my pettiness Exceeding through Her mercy and Her might The King and Priest of Israel; for I know Her love, and She hath shewn to me Her face, And given me a magic star to stand Over the house that hides Elizabeth. [A shepherd-boy 7s discovered upon a rock hard by. SHEPHERD-BOY. Hillo ho! The morning ! […
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…one, I know thy story, That I must taste the terror of thy wrong : How Hades ride across the promontory, Snatch my pale body in mid over-song ; Drag me from sight of my Apollo’s glory With horses strong. Nay! as Apollo half the day is shrouded, As Artemis twice seven nights is dark ; Surely he shines in other lands unclouded, Surely her shaft shall find another mark. So dawns the day on Acheron ghost-crowded, And on my bark. I know not how yon world may prove, nor whither Hermes conduct me to what farther end. Yet if these bays abide, this hear…
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82 JEPHTHAH And my wife’s eyes were welcome more desired Than chains of roses, and the song of children, And swinging palm branches, and milk-white —elders. CHORUS. Fie on thy railing! But his wife is sick, And cannot leave the borders of her house. AHINOAM. But he hath one fair only daughter! Friends, With maidens bearing trimbrels, and with dances, Let her go forth and bring her father home. -JARED [aszde]. Horrible! I must speak and silence this Monstrous impossible villainy of fate. CHORUS. O wise old man, thou speakest cleverly. AHINOAM, S…
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52 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT Because my hand may fasten on the sword If my heart falter not, and smite Those lampless limits most abhorred Of iron night, And pass beyond their horror to attack Fresh foemen, light and truth to bring Through their untrodden fields of black, A victor king. I know all must be well, all must be free; I know God: as I knowa friend ; I conquer, and most silently Await the end. VESPERS. THE incense steams before the Christ ; It wraps His feet with grey, A perfumed melancholy mist, Tears sacred from the day ; An awe, a holine…
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… ; Our necks stretch out, our haggard eyes aspire In desperation ; from the fearful line Our coils revulse in impotence and ire. An idle song it was the poet sang, A quavering note—no brazen kettle’s clang, But gentle, drooping, tearful. Nay, achieve ! I can remember how the finish rang Clear, sharp, and loud; the harp is glad to die And give the clarion one note silver-high. It was too sweet for music, and I weave In vain the tattered woof of memory. Ashes and dust ! Cold cinders dead ! Our swords are rust ; Our lives are fled Like dew on glas…
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…knew them true Even while you sang. But see! the light of day ! Beauty in all things and—-for you—true love! All the blind horror of the song recedes. There is a sequel; is there not, my friend? Of love, your theme, we have not heard a note. TANNHAUSER. That is a question. I am not so sure My song was not entirely to that end. WOLFRAM. Yes, poet, true one that you are indeed ! You show us the dilemma of the soul, The Gordian knot Love only hews asunder. TANNHAUSER. Or—shall I say ?—-soothes only, bandages, Not heals the sore of Destiny? WOLFRAM…
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…all, fall into the abyss, Your arms—a culminating ecstasy, Darkness and death and rapture. you? Sing to 1 From [Latin pedZ7s, skin. What song? too oft My first great cry of love inaudible Sapped me of music. My tunes are played upon VENUS, Sing me that again! TANNHAUSER. Who is this maiden robéd for a bride, White shoulders and bright brows adorable, The flaming locks that clothe her, and abide, As God were bathing in the fire of Hell? They change, they grow, they shake As sunlight on the lake: They hiss, they glisten on her bosom bare. O maide…
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THE FATAL FORCE 149 CHORUS. The noise of the wind of the winter; the sound Of the wings of the charioted night ; The song of the sons of the seas profound ; The thundet of death; the might Of the eloquent silence of black ight ! RATOUM. The noise of many planets fallen far ! CHORUS. Death listens for the voice of life; mght waits dawn of wisdom: spring ! winter seeks the The RATOUM. ‘The music of all stars arisen; the breath Of God upon the valley of the dead ! CHORUS. The silence of the awaiting soul asleep ! RATOUM. The murmur of the fountain…
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120 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC Its song. But now I turn to thee, whose eyes Blaze on me with such look as flesh and blood May never see and live; for so it burns Into the innest being of the spirit And stains its vital essence with a brand Of fire that shall not change; and shudder- ing I Gaze back, spirit to spirit, with the like Insatiable desire, that never quenched, Nor lessened by sublime satiety, But rather crescent, hotter with the flame Of its own burning, that consumes it not, Because it is the pure white flame of God. I shudder, …
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…he was so gracious ; she was grace. Once, in the long insidious hours that steal Through summer’s pleasant kingdom, she would weave Such songs, such murmurs of the dusky breeze That passed, like silken tapestries that feel The silkier cheeks of maidens as they cleave Tender to patient lovers, for the ease Of lips fulfilled of harmonies. Such songs were hers. What song is hers to-night When she is smitten in her bridal bed, Because I would not trust the God that gave Her smooth virginity to godlier might, My glory? There she lies divine and dead…