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Page 53 of 1121910 · PDF PAGE 17
ROSA COELI 7 Your hair was like a forest of tall pines In winter ; black strange dwarfs with crooked spines And elfin eyes, and bleating mouths that worked All manner of grimace and bleak derision Bore them away ; hollow-eyed ghosts that lurked About the sea made thereof masts ; they fitted Tall ships and goodly, furrowing the deep To harvest merchandise ; strong and keen-witted The mariners ; oho ! the breezes leap Like lovers on them ; lo ! they fared forth To South, East, West and North, Iceland, the Indies, Sicily, and Spain. . . . Lo ! men…
1912 · PDF PAGE 274
…d around thy head in plait and chain. m 'Tis but a trifling change—a petty pace, But fraught with all the force of Yet Το Be: For to mine eyes thy simple act of grace Is one step onward, whither no one can see— A little further to the Great Unknown By ways where Life's Periodics plants her rood The Living Progress landmarks all alone, Soon passed :—thou reachest on to Womanhood! IV Fair—God grant that it be fair—thy world ! With influence of Goodness shed around Far from thee may the tongue of Spite uncurl With venom'd spleen, and vicious raucous…
1912 · PDF PAGE 274
…d around thy head in plait and chain. m 'Tis but a trifling change—a petty pace, But fraught with all the force of Yet Το Be: For to mine eyes thy simple act of grace Is one step onward, whither no one can see— A little further to the Great Unknown By ways where Life's Periodics plants her rood The Living Progress landmarks all alone, Soon passed :—thou reachest on to Womanhood! IV Fair—God grant that it be fair—thy world ! With influence of Goodness shed around Far from thee may the tongue of Spite uncurl With venom'd spleen, and vicious raucous…
1913 · PDF PAGE 198
…ldering heart, and turned into flame his brains With purple and crimson stains. And the hour of the Rose is fallen, and the light of her eyes is fled, There is only a sense of vaguest dream, of calm, unending repose 160
1913 · PDF PAGE 198
…ldering heart, and turned into flame his brains With purple and crimson stains. And the hour of the Rose is fallen, and the light of her eyes is fled, There is only a sense of vaguest dream, of calm, unending repose 160
1914 · PDF PAGE 15
…in all love's lore There is no word for love—oh, snore, sow, snore! 1 am rigid with my hate; the brain stands still, Frozen in hate, the eyes one frightful glare. ‘Oh, may sleep save me—or the twitch and thrill Of ecstasy—and yet I hardly dare. Anything but to wake (dear God, I pray!) To the mad maulings of Chicago May.
1905 · PDF PAGE 241
…osom! leaps, And sleeps! None but the dead can sleep the sleep of love! How its fortress wakes, and Come, love, caress me with endearing eyes! Light the long rapture that nor fades nor flies! Love laughs and lingers, frenzies, stabs, and sighs, And-dies ! None but the dead can know the worth of love! [TANNHAUSER Sleeps. VENUS. Sleep on, poor fool, and in thy sleep deceived Defy the very beauty that thou seekest ! Now is the solemn portal of the dusk Lifted ; and in the gleaming silver-gray, The eastern sky, steps out the single One, Hathoor and…
1905 · PDF PAGE 95
…more our feet shall stain Purple with the Joyous grape, Whence there rose a fairy shape In the fume and must and juice, Singing lest our eyes escape All his tunic wried and louse With the feet that softly trod Tn the vat the fairy god. Never more our eyes shall swim, Lovking for the love of him In the magic moon that bent Over maidens moon-content, When the summer woods were wet With our dewy songs, that set Quivering all seas and snows, Stars and tender winds that fret Lily, lily, laughing rose, Sighing, sighing violet, Dusky pansy, swaying ru…
1898 · PDF PAGE 8
…in. Her pleasures and her passions purr For the delight I have of her. Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons ; my eyes Absorb her eyelids lazy light, And read her bosom to devise Fresh blossoms of the heart of hell And secret joys of Jezebel.
1898 · PDF PAGE 131
…here, Wild arms thrown wide, an agony of hair Streamed fierce behind her, seems to sympathize ; Through selfish, yet despair in both our eyes Gives us a link of love. The darkling room Is fearsome ; one red light throughout the gloom Thrills my void veins with horror. On the couch The gruesome hound with sleepy stare doth crouch. His red hard eye upon me. Every shelf Of noisome books reflects my hideous self ! Lucky I burnt my picture ! Snakes on floor Writhe, lick my legs, I fear them. By the door
1898 · PDF PAGE 133
… ² Åü¿Â 127 Outward, my face and breast have leprous sores ; Inward, my filthy blood ; its poison pours Corruption through me. In the eyes of man I am contemned, the haughty one. God’s fan Is eager on my threshing-floor ; his rod Smites no vain stroke. Oh, how I curse thee, God ! What is my aid ? But yet to Satan’s power I lend my utmost vigour for an hour, To wrest Thy damned throne from out thy hands ! My aid ? How shall I burst thy bitter bands, Strike off thy shackles, from thy fetters break, I, whom Thy name appals, whose vitals quake A…
1899 · PDF PAGE 231
…!—to her who sleeps, To her bright bosom as at peace she lies. She is dead quickly, and the ocean keeps The secret of my sorrow from her eyes. I will not weep; I cannot weep; I turn And watch the sail fill with the wind that sighs A little for pure pity—I discern The cowards shake with fear; the vessel springs Light to the breezes, as the golden erne That seeks a prey on its impetuous wings: The reef is past ; I crash upon the foe, And all the fury of my weapon rings On armour temperless ; the waters flow Through the dark rent within the side; …
1899 · PDF PAGE 49
…ut fierce defiance now Knotted the veins, suffused them with rich blood, And wrath restrained from sight the torrid flood Of tears ; her eyes were terrible ; she spake : Rise for thy life, and flee. Arise, awake, And hide thee in the temple ; Zeus hath spoken To me—me, Queen of Love—O sceptre broken !— O vainest of all realms ! that thou must die. This only chance is left thee yet, to fly Within that sanctity even he not dares To touch with impious hand ; thus unawares Creep in among the columns to a gate My hand shall show thee ; it will ope…
1961 · PDF PAGE 71
…ssary Part of that great Structure, so that there is no more conflict at all in thy whole By-coming. But now will I make Light for thine Eyes in this Matter as thou gropest, asking: but of them that see not this, what sayst thou, o my Father? But in that Vision thou sayst not thus, my Son! Learn then of me the Secret Mystery of Illusion, and how it Worketh, and other Holy Law that is its Nature, and of thine Action therein; for this is an Arcanum of the Wisdom of the Magi, and proper unto thee that dwellest in the Land of Understanding. l
1905 · PDF PAGE 31
…ealed in low cadences that rise and fail, And all the augurs promise happy days, And all the men for Archais have praise, And all maids’ eyes are fixed on Charicles. Then, to the tune of musical slow seas, The wind began to murmur on the mead, And he, unconscious, drew his eager reed From the loose tunic; now they seat them- selves On moss worn smooth by feet of many elves Dancing at midnight through them, and their voice | Bids all the woodland echoes to rejoice Because the lovers are made one at last. Then Charicles began to play; they cast T…
1898 · PDF PAGE 15
JEZEBEL 11 A SAINTS DAMNATION. YOU buy my spirit with those peerless eyes That burn my soul ; you loose the torrent stream Of my desire ; you make my lips your prize, And on them burns the whole lifes hope : you deem You buy a heart ; but I am well aware How my damnation dwells in that supreme Passion to feed upon your shoulders bare, And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair That clothe my body from your head ; you win The devils bargain ; I am yours to kill, Yours, for one kiss ; my spirit for your skin ! O bi…
1902 · PDF PAGE 141
…! Thy face, O mother ! Splendour of the Gods ! Behold ! amid the glory of her hair And light shed over from the crown thereof, Wonderful eyes less passionate than Peace That wept ! That wept ! O mystery of Love ! Clasping my hands upon the scarlet rose That flamed upon my bosom, the keen thorns Pierced me and slew! My spirit was withdrawn Into Her godhead, and my soul made One With the Great Sorrow of the Universe, The Love of I sis ! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above, be…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
WHY JESUS WEPT 53 Her pale, her golden body lies ! Even asleep the dark long lashes move, And the eyes see. She dreams of me, of love, Of all these bridal ecstasies That have been ours this month, this month of joy. I am a foolish boy ; Did not the golden starred Ambassador Come like a father to me and implore I would look straight on truth ? “ This is no love-sick youth ! ” He cried, “ She is nigh sixty years of age ; Her lovers are a mangled multitude ; You are one duckling of an infinite brood This vixen hath up-gobbled ! ” Am I mage ? Ay, f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 81
…d sought a deadlier deep, And in its monotone mood Of supreme solitude Was neither glad nor sad because it did not sleep ; But with calm eyes abode Patient, its leisure that galactic load, Abode alone, nor even rejoiced to know that it was God.
1905 · PDF PAGE 99
…h earth, the luxury of the glow Where many colours mingled into snow, Song-marvels in the air desirable. So lazily I lay, and watched my eyes In the deep fountain’s sun-stirred harmonies. I loved myself ! O Thou ! (I cried) divine Woman more lovely than the flowers of earth ! O Self-hood softer than the babe at birth, Sweeter than love, more amorous than wine, Where is thy peer upon the face of life ? I love myself, the daughter of the dawn. Come, silken night, in your deep wings withdrawn Let me be folded, as a tender wife In my own arms imagi…