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…. Elizabeth ! VENUS. Flis far-off baby-love ! I triumph, then! The Goddess 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 begon…
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…o con- fused, and IT woke up. I hear 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! …
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…The trifles that shall] make it master yet Of the strong soul that bade itself forget. CORA. Let me not shrink! Truth always purifies. I will go through those two impossible Actual years. The city was itself; Hard thinking if hard drinking —sober- sides ! One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something, found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer. And I lay— A storm of weeping swept across frame— Till the polite, the hateful manager Led me to face a na…
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…in a circle. LANDGRAVE. This is noble talk ! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Leave the wide circle—word and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit: land you in the Three, Where form is perfect—in the triangle. TANNHAUSER, My friend, the Three is infinitely small, Mere surface. And I seek the Depth divine! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The solid! But the triangle aspires To that same unity that you despise, And lo! the Pyramid! The Sages say : Unite that to the-Sphinx, and all is done, C…
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…pring, Till there be born immaculate A fair new thing. Tall as the mother-lily, still By faint winds swayed ; Tender and pure, without a will— An English maid. No tree of poison, at whose feet All men lie dead ; No well of death, whose waters sweet Are tinged with red. No hideous impassioned queen For whom love dies; No warm imperious Messaline That slew with sighs. Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to-day Their motherhood. She will remain, unshaken yet By storm and sun ; She will remain, when years forget…
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…R’S TRAGEDY ULRIC. What is my life without the love of thee? CoRA. I hate each word as I do hate the devil. ULRIC. I am bound a slave Tt will eat me up. I, each evasion. To this wild passion. CORA. You cannot guess the horror that you speak. I tell you, if I know your golden heart, This detestation of yourself shall cry The cry of CEdipus—“‘ I have profaned 23 ULRIC., What sphinx more cruel? What new - CEdipus? You riddle, Cora, and it breaks my heart. [He seks exhausted. (Rallying.) By God, I swear to you no lie shall keep Its Dead Sea bar aga…
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… Between the folk of Ammon and the folk Of Israel this day be God the judge. [Exzt Second Herald. ELEAZAR. Well spoken: but the ear that will not hear Is deafer than the adder none may charm. JEPHTHAH. IT know it, and will not await the answer. But dawn shall see a solemn sacrifice, And solemn vows, and long swords glittering, And moving columns that shall shake the earth With firm and manly stride; and victory Most like a dove amid the altar-smoke. CHORUS. We, passing here the night in prayer, will wait And with thee offer up propitious doves,…
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58 THE POEM VAUGHAN. But, boy, you are starving physically. Come home with me and have some dinner. Only my daughter will be there. PERCY. You are very kind. Thank you. FRIEND [aside]. He is a gentleman. VAUGHAN. But what are you doing to be alone in London? PERCY. Where should I go? VAUGHAN. Your father— PERCY. ‘Has shown me the door. VAUGHAN. How have you quarrelled? PERCY. Because I must write. VAUGHAN. What do you write about that he dislikes? PERCY. He calls it waste of time. VAUGHAN. He may be right. What do you write about? PERCY. I writ…
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…ll 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_ for worst Death round our cities horrible and vast, And rape and mur…
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…ttack at night is near, When the gates of spirit tense with angel’s tread Close, and all the gates of sense swing wide instead, When the will of men is sleeping, and when the mind Hears no sobs of spirits weeping above the . wind, All the subtle paths are clear for wicked breath, And no angel warns the eur that this is death ? Is this fiend the Love that came when youth rose up Purple with its holy flame, and flower-fair cup, Gave me of his burning wine to fire my heart, Filled me with desires divine toward my art? Is he then the Love who robs …
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…tern sky, steps out the single One, Hathoor and Aphrodite—whom I mock ! I may not follow in the dimness—I Chained unto matter by my evil will, Delight of death and carnal life. But see! He stirs, as one beholding in a dream Some deadly serpent or foul basilisk Sunning its scales, called kingly, in the mire. Strike, O my lover! I will drag thee down Into mine own unending pain and hate ‘To be one devil more upon the earth.— Come! ye my serpents, wrap his bosom round With your entangling leprosy! And me, Let me assume the belovéd limber shape, Th…
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…e may end Out into darkness, and our circle bend Round to all glory in a sudden sweep, And speed triumphant with the sun to friend. Tove will not leave my home. She knows my tears, My angers and caprices ; still my ears Listen to singing voices, till I weep Once more, less sadly, and set hounds on fears. She will not leave me comfortless. And why? Through the dimmed glory of my clouded eye She catches one sharp glint of love for her: She will not leave me ever till I die :— Nay, though [die! Beyond the distant gloom Heaven springs, a fountain, …
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… a moment when our lips are fastened close Once more, in the unutterable kiss, Drive its sharp spirit to my heart ! TANNHAUSER. Not I! I will I know the spell.) I am warned. begone. VENUS. I swear I will not let thee! Thinkest thou So long I have held thee not to have the power To hold thee still by charm, or love, or force? Fool, for I hate thee! I will have thy life! TANNHAUSER., Where is the cavern in the mountain side, The accurséd gateway of this house of Hell? VENUS. Thou canst not find it! Fool! TANNHAUSER. And yet I will. 1 Which would …
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6 ACELDAMA XXX1L. Master !! I think that I have found thee now : | Deceive me not, I trust thee, [am sure Thy love will stand while ocean winds endure. Our quest shall be our quest till cither brow Radiate light, till death himself allure Our love to him When life’s desires are filled beyond the silver brim. . XXXII. Ifere I abandon all myself to thee, Slip into thy caresses as of right, Live in thy kisses as in living light, Clothed in thy love, enthronéd lazily In thine embrace, as naked as the night, As love and lover More pure, more keen, m…
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…thus Not to hide wrinkles of debauchery? To catch new lovers? LANDGRAVE. Stop the lying mouth! Friends, your sword-service ! TANNHAUSER. Will they answer you? My arm is weary as your souls are not Of beastliness: I have drawn my father’s sword, Hard as your virtue is the easy sort, Heavy to handle as your loves are light, Smooth as your lies, and sharper than your hates ! I know you! Cowards to the very bone! [Driving them out. Who fights me, of this sworded company? Cannot my words have sting in them enough, Now, to make one of you turn sudden…
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…So, to the poet’s tourney. HERALD. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. LANDGRAVE. Ha! He is not here! WOLFRAM. Our sturdy lover will not be consoled For losing, as he phrases it, his friend. LANDGRAVE. Well, we forgive him the more readily Because of the occasion. One alone Of all themes possible may grace this hour ;— Love! Let the lots of precedence be drawn. Tannhauser, you will string us once again Your harp forgotten? TANNHAUSER. That will I, my lord. HERALD. On the Lord Wolfram falls it first to sing. WOLFRAM (s22g5). Tender the …
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…nd sky are brighter for your face— I hear the sound of many oars ; perchance Your father’s, but within this iron place The heavy dragons will not dare advance Where our light vessel barely skimmed the rock : Their anger may grow cool, the while they dance Like fools before the bar we crossed, and mock Pursuit. Behold! one dragon strikes the reef, ) Breaks in the midst before the dreadful shock, Shattered and stricken by the rousing sheaf Of wild intolerable foam that breaks Full on their stem: she sinks. One fierce foul thief Springs desperate …
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THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY 163 Be what you will except that infamous ! For as my mother—I should spit on you! [CoRA zs at his feet grovelling. She half rises to listen. Ignoble is your foul maternity, The cattle-kinship. But the other crime Is viler than the first one. ‘‘ Look!” you say: ‘* His passion threatens to defile my bed !” And put a hideous abiding curse On both our lives to save your modesty From my incestuous embrace! O God! My love is nobler—to defy the past, Deny !—your love is merely natural ; Mine, against Nature, is the love Divine ! …
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… I hate thee. RATOUM. J am still goddess, still desire thy love. That leper lies : thou art indeed a god. S'AFI, Iam a god to execute my will. [Zhreatens her with hts dageer. RATOUM. Mercy! Thou canst not strike a woman down! S’AFI. So! The thin casing of the godhead rots, Mere mummy-cloth: the rotten corpse within, Dust and corruption! Iam still the god, And gods slay women: therefore I slay thee. RATOUM. Then thou shalt see me once again a god ! [Ay a tremendous effort she towers before hint Silently they gase at one another for a while, he v…
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…hilosophy ! ELIZABETH. Indeed My brain is baffled. But I see your point. Talking of God, even imagining, Insane! But for aspiring—that I will! TANNHAUSER. That is true marriage, in my estimate. Aspire together to one Deity? Yes! But to love thee otherwise than that? ELIZABETH. This one thing clearly do I understand : We shall not marry. It is well, my lord. | TANNHAUSER. Miserable, miserable me! I bring Hate and disruption and unhappiness Unto all purity I chance to touch. I have no hope but I am fallen now ; So journey, in this purpose of desp…