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Page 27 of 1121913 · PDF PAGE 94
…he streets of Camden Town, I splendid in my suit of black And she divine in brown. Hers was a proud and noble face, A secret heart , and eyes Like water in a lonely place Beneath unclouded skies . A bed , a chest, a faded mat And broken chairs a few , Were all we had to grace our flat In Hazel Avenue . But I could walk to Hampstead Heath And crown her head with daisies, And watch the streaming world beneath And men with other Maisies . When I was ill and she was pale And empty stood our store , She left the latchkey on its nail And saw me never…
1913 · PDF PAGE 234
…our dreams that we would proudly hold as true Are shadows from the light of God who is the All ; If we who looked adoringly in Nature 's eyes , And we who find in Love the highest truth we know And bear the blazing torch of song aloft to show Divinity indwells the lovely forms we prize ; If we , then , poets , dare believe as we dare see The God above , among us , who is God indeed , O Thou , who gave us voice and vision to our need , Take to Thyself the songs that had their birth in Thee . Sarasvati . 215
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
… you fooled the lot of us— Your spell is cracked within the ring! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared the man’s eyes! amorous Is blinded with the horror of the truth He sees this moment. Foolish prostitute ! You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence, decay Of care to hold him—can I tell you which? Down goes the moon—one sees the howling bitch ! The salmon you had hooked in fin and gill You reel unskilfully—he darts away. Alas! you devil, but vou hold me still ! So the blind III. QO first a…
1898 · PDF PAGE 14
…n And brazen chain, Far from the change that men call life fled higher Into the world immutable of sleep, We see our loved one, and vain eyes desire In vain to weep. Woeful our gaze, if on Ione Earth descendent, To view the absence of yon flame afar— Yet in the Heavens, anew, divine, resplendent, Behold a star ! One light the less, that steady flamed and even Amid the dusk of Earth’s uncertain shore ; One light the less, but in Jehovah’s Heaven One star the more ! 4
1898 · PDF PAGE 15
…lieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep : Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke 5
1898 · PDF PAGE 110
…e, The horrid spasms of the night. Long have we lusted on this wise ; Now one delight, the last is left— Come, I will lick thine haggard eyes, And wallow on thee straddle-wise.
1899 · PDF PAGE 160
…ep, Changing from silver into crimson flakes, And molten into gold Like the pale opal through whose gray may sweep A scarlet flame, like eyes of crested snakes, Keen, furious, and too cold. What words are these? The pall of slumber lifts ; The veil of finiteness withdraws, The night Is heavier, life burns low: Yet to the quivering brain three goodly gifts The cruelty of Pluto and his might In the abyss bestow: Change, foresight, fear. The pageant whirls and boils, Restricted not by space and time, my dream Foresees the doom of Fate ; My spirit …
1903 · PDF PAGE 58
…gh husk of form and name, Leave of the dross a little ash, One button of pure fuséd gold Identical—O floral hour! That were the bliss no eyes behold, But Christ’s delighted bridal dower 56
1904 · PDF PAGE 49
…h, I am so sorry, I forgot. ANGELA. I will tell you, though. I am all but twenty-two ! SIR PERCY. That is young yet. ANGELA. Ah, in your eyes I see sadness—I breathe ; I hope. Think deeply in yourself, if you love this girl ! I am older than you, to be sure ; but not so much. May be you would find my love a better thing than you think ! Do I perspire now ? Do my cheeks run down nasty wet tears ? Is my love a monotonous harping on one word ? Love, Percy — dare I call you Percy ? SIR PERCY. If I may call you Angela.
1913 · PDF PAGE 180
… , an hour brief . What is life for, O my Queen , With its days of shade and sheen , Morn 's and evening 's pageantry ? Just to glad the eyes of Love , Quick to see , quick to see . What is death for , O my Queen , Hungry jaws , and sickle keen , Shedding bloom and withering leaf ? Death 's a priest to consecrate Love with grief , love with grief . 161
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…I stood and Jaughed upon the Ancient One. For He was silent as my body’s kiss, , And sleeping as my many-coloured hair, And living as my eyes and lips ; and where The vast creation round him cried “ He Is!’’, No murmur reached ]1im ; He was set alone, Alone and central. Ah! my eyes were dim. I worshipped even; for I envied Him. So, moving upward to the azure throne, I spread my arms unto that ambient mist ; Lifted my life and soul up to be kissed ! A million million voices roared aloud ! A million million sabres flashed between ! Flamed the vas…
1996 · PDF PAGE 207
…ifth who is invisible, 8c therein am I as a babe in an egg.) 50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; 8c my spangles are purple 8c green. 51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. 52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, 8c the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my ser vice; ye do well, 8c I will reward you here and here…
1905 · PDF PAGE 132
…space Between twin rocks confined, Carven like Gods for poise and grace, Like miracles for mind: Each fashioned like a kissing face, The eyes for joy being blind. The waters widened in a pool, Broad mirror of blue light. The surface was as still and cool As the broad-breasted night. Engraven of no mortal tool, The granite glistened white. As if to shield from mortal gaze A nymph’s immortal limbs, 133
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…in the steady, continuous throe, Shall beauty avail thee, Caryatid? Thou wast proud of thy beauty: the burden of beauty was hid From thy eyes: how is’t now with thee, now? By the sweat dropping slow From the brows of thy anguish, we see what the weight of it did To the patient despair of the brain. Shall no God strike a blow? Shall no hero be found the unbearable burden to rid ? And if these be extinct—'tis a fiend that laughs eager and low: “Shall beauty avail thee, Caryatid ?” 22
1910 · PDF PAGE 443
…e forehead of the spring. Here in a plunging galleon Sir Palamede, a listless drone, Drifts desperately on—and on— And on—with heart and eyes of stone. The deep-scarred brain of him is healed With wind and sea and star and sun, The assoiling grace that God revealed For gree and bounteous benison. Ah! still he trusts the recreant brain, Thrown in a thousand tourney-justs ; Still he raves on in reason-strain With senseless “oughts” and fatuous “ musts.” “ All the delusions ” (argueth The ass), “all uproars, surely rise From that curst Me whose na…
1910 · PDF PAGE 443
…e forehead of the spring. Here in a plunging galleon Sir Palamede, a listless drone, Drifts desperately on—and on— And on—with heart and eyes of stone. The deep-scarred brain of him is healed With wind and sea and star and sun, The assoiling grace that God revealed For gree and bounteous benison. Ah! still he trusts the recreant brain, Thrown in a thousand tourney-justs ; Still he raves on in reason-strain With senseless “oughts” and fatuous “ musts.” “ All the delusions ” (argueth The ass), “all uproars, surely rise From that curst Me whose na…
1910 · PDF PAGE 109
…nscandescable cliff ? V Look ! in the polished granite, Black as thy cartouche is with sins, I read the searing sentence That blasts the eyes that scan it : HOOR and SET be TWINS. A fico for repentance ! VI Ay ! O Son of my mother That snarled and clawed in her womb As now we rave in our rapture, I know thee, I love thee, brother ! Incestuous males that consume The light and the life that we capture. VII Starve thou the soul of the world, Brother, as I the body ! Shall we not glut our lust
1911 · PDF PAGE 120
SLEEP ALONG the silver pathways of the moon, (With lilies strewn to mark her passing hours) A mighty goddess strays. Her rapt eyes gaze in calm undying swoon, Like stars in June that guard earth’s sleeping flowers, The guests of summer days. Moving she plays some sweetly slumbrous tune, As mothers croon ; through faint [Eolian showers, Her mist-hung garment sways. And in her shadow chaste as starlit snows, A vestal goes, scattering sweet roses : Roses deep-themed and red— Whose leaves are shed in perfumed dreams, where glows A world that blows a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 120
SLEEP ALONG the silver pathways of the moon, (With lilies strewn to mark her passing hours) A mighty goddess strays. Her rapt eyes gaze in calm undying swoon, Like stars in June that guard earth’s sleeping flowers, The guests of summer days. Moving she plays some sweetly slumbrous tune, As mothers croon ; through faint [Eolian showers, Her mist-hung garment sways. And in her shadow chaste as starlit snows, A vestal goes, scattering sweet roses : Roses deep-themed and red— Whose leaves are shed in perfumed dreams, where glows A world that blows a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 34
…r splendour darts ‘Through the crisp air to the grove upon the isle... . Do you see her? Do you see her? Crassus. Monstrous! Vile! These eyes betray me. Aucta. Nol your Adela lies With arms thrown back, head tilted, open thighs. Her lips flame out like poppies in the dusk. The breeze brings back to us a scent of musk. Her mouth is oozing kisses! Crassus. Filthy harlot! Axtcia. I never fed on a superber scarlet. And look! the wonder of plumes that foams upon Her tidal breast—oh, but a swan! a swan! A swan snow-white with his sole scarlet hidden …