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Page 109 of 1201905 · PDF PAGE 30
…ed rosc ! 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…
1906 · PDF PAGE 22
…men’s ancient pains. Others, whose throat is thirsty for breast- blood, To hide a whip ’neath flowing robes are fain, Mingling in lonely night and darksome wood The foam of pleasure and the tears of pain. O virgins, demons, monsters, O martyrs ! Great souls contemptuous of reality ! Seekers fur the Infinite, satyrs, worshippers, Now mad with cries, now torn with agony ! You whom my soul has followed to your hell, Poor sisters, more beloved than wept by me, For your fierce woes, your lusts insatiable, And the urns of love that fill the hearts of…
1905 · PDF PAGE 108
…n shore, Laid they him where on to Achray Spread the plain of Ian Vohr. Hard by Teith’s tumultuous waters Camped his sons throughout the night, Till the rosy blush of morning Showed a vast majestic sight
1906 · PDF PAGE 19
THE BLOOD-LOTUS 13 To thy red centre are my eyes held fast and fervent, as at night Some sad miasma lends a light of strange and silent blasphemies To lure a soul to hell, to draw some saint’s charred lust, to tempt, to win Another sacrifice to sin, another poet’s heart to gnaw With dubious remorse. Oh! flame of tortur- ing flower-love ! sacrament Of Satan, triple element of mystery and love and shame, Green, gold, and crimson, in my heart you strive with Jesus for its realm, While Sorrow’s tears would overwhelm the warriors of either part. Jes…
1905 · PDF PAGE 235
…prayer ! [TANNHAUSER speaks the Word of Double Power. Oh God, Thy blinding beauty, and the light Shed from Thy shoulders, and the golden night Of mingling fire and stars and roses swart In the long flame of hair that leaps athwart, Live in each tingling gossamer! Dread eyes! Each flings its arrow of sharp sacrifice, Eating me up with poison! I am hurled Far through the vaporous confines of the world With agony of sundering sense, beholding Thy mighty flower, blood-coloured death, unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled, Cur…
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
…d begun, Or I had hardly seen the truth Beneath thy beauty and thy youth :— A mouldering skeleton ! XXV. I AM so sad and, being alone to-night, I will not see you. Self-disdain forbids. | I wander through the icy hermitage Of the populous streets, hoping. O might Some idle God look through his drowsy lids And will us happiness! Serene and sage Therefore I sit, as if I loved you not, And train a practised pen, and strive to art ; Accomplish art, and lose the art therein. I sit, a bitter Witenagemot,! The saint, the poet, the man : the lover’s he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
…!" said the girl, "come away while it is time. This is the first chance I have ever had to escape; I was set to watch the chapel door to-night; and I found the spring. Oh, come away quickly! They're criminals; they corrupt you and they torture you. Oh do come, sister! I can't escape without you; the man in the automobile would stop me. But if you come, I can slip away. It's only a step through the passage. Oh God! Oh God! if I had only gone when I was as you are!" Lisa's whole soul went out in sympathy to the gentle creature." Look what they've…
1905 · PDF PAGE 245
…stles mingl. in delight ! And from the athanor of death and pain Bring golden showers of rain To crown our bed withal, the empire of the Night ! O Wife! Incarnate Beauty self-create ! O Life! O Death ! Love unimaginable ! Despair grows hope, as hope grows despe- rate; And Heaven bridges the great gulf of Tell. Thy life is met with mine, Transmuted, grown divine, Even in this, the evil of the world! What agony is this, The first undying kiss
1996 · PDF PAGE 300
… 74-75 sexes, difference between the 27 sexual freedom 42 44,58-61,68 sexual harrassment 176-177 Shakespeare, William 44.95,96 Midsummer Night’s Dream 95 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 102,109,138,155 Shu 30
1905 · PDF PAGE 100
…away, and then to-morrow Shall shake off sorrow And be to-morrow and not change for ever : No dawn shall sever The sleepy eyelids of the night, no eve Shall fall and cleave The blue deep eyes of day. queen ! My ship Your hand, my Look down and lean Your whole weight on me, then leap out, as light As swallow’s flight, And race across the shadosys of the moon, And keep the {tine With ringing hoofs across the fiery way. Your eyes betray Ilow eager is your heart, and yet--O dare To fashion fair A whole Jong life of love ! low! Leap high, laugh T do…
1905 · PDF PAGE 144
…anger stings. White slaves shall look up and behold a hight Grow in the islands of the sacred sea, And on the land whose forehead kisses night And has the dawn upon its wings, whose might Is mightier for the lips of Liberty Pressed on its new-born cheek, when Church and State Drove forth to baffle Fate Our sires and yours, whose fame is grown this year so great. That morning of deliverance is at hand; The world requickens, and all folk rejoice, Seeing our kingdom look toward your land, And both catch hands, indissolubly grand In the proud frien…
1907 · PDF PAGE 149
…mites ! Diamond and ruby, topaz and sapphire, Emerald and amethyst, one clear bright fire, We are earth’s stars below, as she ahove hath Night’s. Our sweet clean song pierces the cover, And thin keen notes of music flit and hover Like spirit-birds upon the lyre of this our lover. We, children of the mountains, lying low On earth’s own bosom, deep, embowered, flow In wide soft waves of land: upon us sweep The mightiest rivers: in our hollows lie Great lakes: our voices hardly rise, but die In the cold streams of air: shallow and deep: Leagues by…
1905 · PDF PAGE 263
…ever knew. Then came our Lady of the Sevenfold Light, Showed me a distant plan, distinct and clear, As twilight to the dayspring and the night, Dividing and uniting even here: The middle path—life interfused with death— Pure love; the secret of Elizabeth ! This is my secret—in the man’s delight To lose that stubborn ecstasy for God! To this clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell—in the profoundest sky ! This knowledge, the true immortality, I came unto through pain and tears, Tigerish hopes, and serpent loves, and dragon fears, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 73
LOVE-SONGS 67 XXVI. WHEN the wearily falling blossom of mid- night Stirs the face of a sleeper, Mother of Sorrow ! Look thou down in the dawn of heavier dewfall. Tears of widow despair, O mutely lamenting Crouched in heavenly bowers over the carven Gateway’s ivory flower, tears of revival Fall, oh fall, to the black abodes of the lonely. I await, I await, I sing not for sorrow, Train the fugitive lights of music across me, Seek by force to avail me, vainly attempting Song with feather detested, agony futile: Ply these piteous exercises of cunni…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…face. I ama tenderer man than your father —he would have spat on you and thrust you from his door. But married you shall be, and that to-night. [Zzrxs fo DENYS.] And you, Monsieur, will best serve her if you save her. What devil have I saddled your life with that you look at me so black? [ Zurns on his heel and exit, A short stlence of embarrassment. BLANCHE, [Zurns on DENYS with flashine eyes.) And what, sir, may be the meaning of all this? DENYS. God knows ; I ama prisoner in this house, which seems full of mad people. But I understand one th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 201
… yes! And there above I bathe in ether and self-shining light ; My soul is filled with the eternal love; I am the brother of the Day and Night. I AM! my spirit, and perhaps my mind ! But O my heart! I left thy love behind ! A RELIGIOUS BRINGING-UP. WiTH this our ‘‘ Christian” parents marred our youth; ‘One thing is certain of our origin. We are born Adam’s bastards into sin, Servants to Death and Time’s devouring tooth. God, damning most, had this one thought of ruth To save some dozens—-Us : and by the skin Of teeth to save us from the devil’s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 265
…n iron words, Than my mind grows, o’erleaps the limit set, And I perceive the truth that lies beyond— One further step into a new-fallen night. Hear then—I hate to hurt your perfect soul ; I hate myself because I love you still In that strange intermediate consciousness, The reason and the mind! This middle way Ancients called safe’—that damns it in- stantly! Without some danger nothing great is done ! Let me be God! Or, failing of that task, 1 "In medio tutissimus ibis.”—Ovib., Were it but by an unit, let me fall! And, falling, be it from so g…
1906 · PDF PAGE 36
… the marriage bed in vain? Shall my heart and soul and life shrink back to themselves again? Be thou my one desire, my soul in day as in night ! My mind the home of the Higher! heart the centre of Light! My A LITANY.! 1. BLACK thine abyss of noon Flings forth the thunder-swoon. Smite us, and slay, Amoun, Amoun, Achiha ! 1 The Table of Correspondences will eluci- date any doubtful point in this poem.
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…nd on Life’s fatal wheel—revolv- ing bliss. O that worn wisdom and the age of sorrow Could learn its bitter lesson, and depart Into some nightfall guiltless of a morrow, Into some cave’s unprofitable heart Beyond this curse of birth! O that dread night Could come and cover all, Even itself to fall To some abyss past resurrection’s might ! For the old whispers of my old life call Accursed hopes, accursed fears, accursed pleasures. Long-suffering of all life! Changed consciousness at strife! No dancer treads the melancholy measures Unchanged for …
1905 · PDF PAGE 214
…ss, no pain, No swift emotion, no disdain, No pity: but the boundless light Of the Eternal Love, unslain, Flows through me to redeem the night. Mine is a sad-slow life: but I, I would not gain release, and die A moment ere my task be done. To falter now were treachery— I should not dare to greet the sun! Yet, in one hour I dare not hope, The mighty gate of Life may ope, And call me upwards to unite (Even my soul within the scope) With That Unutterable Light.