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… 75 At Waikiki ...................................................... 76 The Harbour, Vera Cruz ................................. 78 The Song of the Siren Leucosia....................... 81 Hong Kong Harbour ....................................... 83 At Prome ........................................................ 85 FROM THE STAR AND THE GARTER Song .............................................................. 87 Song .............................................................. 88 ROSA MUNDI.................................................…
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CONTENTS FROM THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Song ............................................................... 1 In Hollow Stones, Scawfell................................ 3 FROM SONGS OF THE SPIRIT The Goad ......................................................... 6 Astrology.......................................................... 9 FROM JEPHTHAH Chorus of Maidens ......................................... 11 FROM MYSTERIES De Profundis .................................................. 15 Beside the River ............................................…
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AMBERGRIS 137 FROM ORPHEUS The Star-Goddess sings of Orpheus dead Enough. It is ended, the story Of magical æons of song ; The sun is gone down in his glory To the Houses of Hate and of Wrong. Would ye see if he rise ? In Hesperian skies Ye may look for his rising for long. The magical æon beginneth Of song in the heart of desire, That smiteth and striveth and sinneth, But burns up the soul of the lyre : There is pain in the note : In the sorcerers throat Is a sword, and his brain is afire ! Long after (to men : but a moment To me in my mans…
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AMBERGRIS 75 FROM THE ARGONAUTS Chorus of Shipbuilders The sound of the hammer and steel ! The song of the level and line ! The whirr of the whistling wheel ! The ring of the axe on the pine ! The joy of the ended labour, As the good ship plunges free By sound of pipe and tabor To front the sparkling sea ! The mystery-woven spell ! The voyage of golden gain ! The free full sails that swell On the swell of the splendid main ! The song of the axe and the wedge ! The clang of the hammer and chain ! Keen whistle of chisel and edge ! Smooth swish of…
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60 AMBERGRIS Some forty years this earth knew song and passion Pour from my lips, saw gladness in mine eyes ! Some forty shall I sing some other fashion, Dance in strange measures, change the key of sighs. Then rise in Thessaly again, Thalassian ! Only, more wise.
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AMBERGRIS 109 FROM GARGOYLES Song Dance a measure Of tiniest whirls ! Shake out your treasure Of cinnamon curls ! Tremble with pleasure, O wonder of girls ! Rest is bliss, And bliss is rest, Give me a kiss If you love me best ! Hold me like this With my head on your breast !
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…BERGRIS FROM THE FATAL FORCE 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 discrowned, 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 ! In the way…
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…emot, Confused in rapture : peace is culled a flower from the arboreal root, The vision dulled, the singer mute, shattered the lute, the song annulled.
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…s, and the purple of mighty dominions Exalted, afoam in the sky ; And to us it were wiser and sweeter to ruin the race of the metre, And song were to die.
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AMBERGRIS 19 Follow thou him ! Work ever, if thy heart Be fervent with one hope, thy brain with art, Thy lips with song, thine arm with strength to smite : Achieve some act ; its name shall not depart. Christ laid Loves corner-stone, and Cæsar built The tower of glory ; Sapphos life was spilt From fervent lips the torch of song to ignite : Thou mayst add yet a stoneif but thou wilt. And yet the days stream by ; night shakes the day From his pale throne of purple, to allay The tremors of the earth ; day smiteth dark With the swift poignard di…
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AMBERGRIS 5 So the cliffs their Song . . . For the mist regathers, Girds them bride-like, fit for the sun to kiss them ; Darkness falls like dewfall about the hill-sides ; Night is upon me. Now to me remain in the doubtful twilight Stretches bare of flower, but touched with whispers, Grey with huddled rocks, and a space of woodland, Pine-tree and poplar. Now a stream to ford and a stile to clamber ; Last the inn, a book, and a quiet corner . . . Fresh as Spring, there kisses me on the forehead Sleep, like a sister.
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…the lea, it is light on the lake ! The fawns in the bush and the birds on the wing ! Adonis, awake ! Adonis, awake ! We are colour and song And for, we are muses most tender to take Thy life up to Art that was lost over long. Adonis, awake ! Adonis, awake ! thou has risen above The fear in the forest, the brute in the brake. Thou art sacred to shrines that are higher than Love ! Adonis, awake !
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AMBERGRIS 89 The overarching miracles Of loves desire, and Nights. It swells, it rolls to triumph-song Through luminous black skies ; Thrills into silence sharp and strong, Assumes its peace, and dies. There is the night : it covers close The lilies folded fair Of all your beauty, and the rose Half hidden in your hair. There is the night : unseen I stand And look to seaward still : We would not look upon the land Again, had I my will. The ship is trim : to sea ! to sea ! Take life in either hand, Crush out its wind for you and me, And drink, …
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…tress of all its moods, Matchless, serene, in sacred amplitudes Of its own royal rapture, deaf and blind To aught but its own mastery of song And light, shown ever as silence and deep night Secret as death and final. Let me long Never again for aught ! This great delight Involves me, weaves me in its pattern of bliss, Seals me with its own kiss, Draws me to thee with every dream that glows. Poet, each word ! Maiden, each burden of snows Extending beyond sunset, beyond dawn ! O Rose, inviolate, utterly withdrawn In the truth :for this is truth …
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… storm sweeps triumphantly home From the bed of the violate day, In the furious waves of the sea, wild world of tem- pestuous night, Our song is as light ! In the tumult of manifold fire, Multitudinous mutable feet That dance to an infinite lyre On the heart of the world as they beat, In the flowers of the bride of the flame, in the war- rior Lord of the Fire, There burns our desire !
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AMBERGRIS 87 FROM THE STAR AND THE GARTER Song Make me a roseleaf with your mouth, And I will waft it through the air To some far garden of the South, The herald of our happening there ! Fragrant, caressing, steals the breeze ; Curls into kisses on your lips : I know interminable seas, Winged ardour of the stately ships, Space of incalculable blue And years enwreathed in one close crown, And glimmering laughters echoing you From reverend shades of bards renown : Nature alive and glad to hymn Your beauty, my delight : her God Weary, his old e…
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88 AMBERGRIS FROM THE STAR AND THE GARTER Song To sea ! To sea ! The ship is trim ; The breezes bend the sails. They chant the necromantic hymn, Arouse Arabian tales ! To sea ! Before us leap the waves ; The wild white combers follow. Invoke, ye melancholy slaves, The morning of Apollo ! Theres phosphorescence in the wake, And starlight oer the prow ; One comet, like an angry snake, Lifts up its hooded brow. The black grows grey toward the East : A hint of silver glows. Gods gather to the mystic feast On interlunar snows. The moon is up full-…
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…aded, The golden fruit of all the blossoming sky. And now the watcher to the bright breasts blind Loses the seemly shape, the loud swift song ; Now the moon falls, and all the gold is gone, And round the storm-caught shape hard gusts of wind Blow, and her leaves are torn, a flying throng Of orange and purple and red ; the sombre sun Shines darkly in her breast But wakes no joy therein, And all his kisses sharp and keen Bring only now desire of rest, Not their old rapture : the warm violet eyes Melt into sweet hot tears ; subtler the sighs Are i…
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… O sea of sleep ! Young moon Dream on above in maiden swoon ! None daring to invoke the gales To shake our sea, and swell our sails. Not song, but silence, were a boon Save for this tune. Round capes grown darker as night falls, We see at last the splendid walls That ridge the bay ; the town lies there Lighted (the temples hour for prayer) At grave harmonious intervals. The grand voice of some seaman calls, Just as the picture fades, aware How it was fair.
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AMBERGRIS 81 FROM THE ARGONAUTS The Song of the Siren, Leucosia O Lover, I am lonely here ! O lover, I am weeping ! Each pearl of ocean is a tear Let fall while love was sleeping. A tear is made of fire and dew And saddened with a smile ; The suns laugh in the curving blue Lasts but a little while. The night-winds kiss the deep : the stars Shed laughter from above ; But night must pass dawns prison bars : Night hath not tasted love. With me the night is fallen in day ; The day swoons back to night ; The white and black are woven in gray, Fain…