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Page 1 of 11898 · PDF PAGE 14
V. That was my sanity. Brought face to face Suddenly with the infinite, I feared. My brain snapped, broke ; white oarage-wings appeared On stronger shoulders set, a carapace, A chariot. I did essay that wierd Unmeasured dome, Found in its balance, peace ; found in its silence, home. VI. That was my madness. On bright plumage poised I soared, I hovered in the infinite ; Nothing was everything ; the day was night, Dark and deep light together, that rejoiced In their strange wedlock. Marvellously white All rainbows kissed Into one sphere that stoo…
1898 · PDF PAGE 10
…wo feet ; Her hair, half grey, half ruined gold, Thrills me and burns me in kissing it. Love bites and stings me through to see Her keen face made of sunken bones, Her worn-out eyelids madden me, That were shot through with purple once.” SWINBURNE, “ The Leper,” Poems and Ballads, 1866.
1898 · PDF PAGE 28
EPILOGUE. My heavy hair upon my olive skin ( Baise la lourde crinière ! ) Frames with its ebony a face like sin. My heavy hair ! You touched my lips and told me I was fair ; It was your wickedness my love to win. ( Baise la lourde crinière ! ) Your passion has destroyed my soul—what care If you desire me, and I hold you in My arms a little, and you love for lair My heavy hair ! It is a fatal web your fingers spin. ( Baise la lourde crinière ! ) Let our love end as other loves begin, Or, slay me at The Moment, unaware, Or, kiss in mutual death-p…