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… shape of the storm ! THE TEMPEST. Wide-winged, many-throated, Colossal, sublime, I come and am coated With feathers of Time. I hear the deep note, head My pinions to climb, The roar of devoted Large limbs of the mime That mocks the loud lords of Olympus; we mingle; I wake. I come with the sound of a snake. ORIPHEUS, O storm many-winded, O life of the air, Thou angry and blinded Hast sky for thy share. O mother deep-minded, My lyre to my prayer Responds, and the elements answer or ever| my soul is aware. Ye powers of deep water And sea-running …
1907 · PDF PAGE 144
…er the steep, As the echo of my booming Some godhead whose glory would bind us, To the furthest star is hurled. Reflected far-off on the deep. Now I hear the lunar clashing We hear the low chant that may blind us, That evokes me from the tide, The song from the ultimate shore. Now I rise, my fury lashing, We come that our lover may find us Rolling where the banks divide— His bride as he found us before. I obey thee, I am with thee, Lord of Light- | We listen, and love; and his voice is the ning, lotus-eyed ! voice of the God we adore. ORPHEUS. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 147
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 141 Olympus alone Of earth’s glories is taken For deity’s throne Deep-frozen, storm-shaken. What glories are shown When their slumbers awaken ! The avalanche thunders adown, and the gods of the gods are forsaken. To mortals your voices Are mighty and glad. The maiden rejoices: The man is grown mad For love, and his choice is The choice of a lad When a virgin first smiles on his suit, and the summer for envy is sad. Wan grows Aphrodite, And Artemis frail ; Apollo less mighty, Red Bacchus too pale. Dark Hades grows brigh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
…witchery Of all the smiling shape in the dark stream, As one who gathers the first floral beam Of daylight by the water, dives and swims Deep in cool alleys, softer than a dream : So, rising to the other bank, aglow With the bright motion and the stream’s young flow, She might discover the Elysian ground, And find me waiting, find me sad and slow Pacing the green flower-lighted turf, and leap Into my body’s kisses, into sleep :— Sweeter this latter bridal than we found The first, now lost in time’s eternal deep. It is not cruel if the ripe frui…
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
… of hair involving Subtle shadows and shapes of ivory beauty. Gray blue eyes from the sphered opal eyelids Look me through and make me a deep con- tentment Slow dissolving desire. We sit so silent Death might sweep over sleep with flowers of cypress - (Gathered myriad blossoms, Proserpina’s), Stir us not, nor a whisper steal through love- trance. Still we sit; and your head lies calm and splendid Shadowed, curve of an arm about it whisper- ing. Still your bosom respires its sighs of silver; Still one hand o’ me quivers close, caresses, Touches …
1907 · PDF PAGE 149
… spires of delicate hue, Changing and lost in the exultant blue, By fire and whirlwind fashioned and then riven, Invoke fresh song, with deep solemnity In noble notes of mastery answering thee, By some young tumult in our old hearts driven ; And this immortal path of splintered rock Shall lead the wild chant to the sky, and mock The nectared feast of Gods with its im- passioned shock. Deep-mouthed, I, earthquake, wake in echoing thunder. I break my mother’s breast ; I tear asunder The womb that bore me; I arise in terror, Threatening to ruin he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 208
…d with fear, Is the hard conquest here? Where is Eurydice? The god hath faded Back to invisible abodes And on these rocky roads Comes no deep perfume of her hair light- braided. Alas! I listen ! and no breath Assures the walls of death That life remembers, that their hate is quelled. My ears, my scent avail. me nought; My slavish eyes are bought By the command wherewith I am compelled, Alas ! my heart sinks momently. Fear steals and misery. From faith in faith of Hell my thoughts dis- sever. Yet, O my heart! abide, endure! Seek not by sight to …
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…a rest ! No higher? I have climbed This pinnacled steep. It mocks me, this heaven Of thine, Adonai ! Rather be limed In the dusk, in the deep, Seven times seven Thy hells, O Jehovah ! I tune the great Name To a million vowels :— It escapes me, the flame ! But deep in my bowels Growls the deep lust, The bitter distrust, The icy fear, The cruel thought ! O! Iam here— And here is nought. I must rave on. I hate the sun. Anon! Anon! Let us both begone, Thou fiend that pourest One by one These evil words In my ear, in my heart ! Here on the summit Th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 127
… hope; and she, her sighs up- swell, And sorrow shakes her: shame’s oblivious hell Burns round her body: in her eyes there swim Tears of deep joy, deep anguish ; love’s first hymn Is choral in her ear’s young miracle. She knows the utmost now; what waters white She held from heaven’s crystal fountains ; flight Of what celestial birds struck down :—Ah me! What god or demigod hath struck remorse Into that close-crouched, cold, and desolate corse, Wailing her violate virginity? LA TENTATION DE SAINT- ANTOINE. In mystic dolour wrapt, the ascetic tu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
LOVE-SONGS 65 Lie still, O love, and let me hide my brows In the deep bosom and the scented vales. Thy deep drawn breath embrace my hair, resume My life in thine! With gateways of old gold. gales Sing like smooth silence through the extreme perfume. Here is an amber house Far nightin- Moving, flying, exulting, on we go, Borne on blue clouds of glory. On the river, Over the mountains of the night, above The stars of the night, above the floral glow Of the sun dawning now for us for ever Who rest content in the abode of love! Lie still, O love, a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
…em- brance, came Even at our prelude, a death-quickening flame, And earth rejoiced throughout to hear De- meter’s name. We come, in bass deep-swelling, rocks and caves, A hollow roar across the golden waves Hidden in islands set deep in the un- travelled sea. Across the corn from storm-cleft mountain- sides Our voice peals, like the thunder of the tides, Into the darkling hills that fringe Eternity. Dire and divine our womb unfruitful bears Deep music darker than tempestuous airs When Heaven’s anger wakes: when at our own decree, Withclanging r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 180
…and The ways of the dark, As an angel did guide me, As I pass in my flight On the awed storm cloud, Steeps steeper than sleep, oe Depths deeper than night, | Waving the brand I have furrowed and ploughed | Of the dawn’s red spark. (Deep calling to deep !) My measures mark The influence fine Through the spaces of light, e The heads of them bowed Of the voyage divine ° Of the airy bark For the fears that weep, ; And the joys that smite, Wherein I travel And the loves disallowed. : O’er mountain and level, They are risen ; they leap ; The land, an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
…your eyes! Not with mere death, but dreams, Eurydice! Not one warm breath of the young breast: Come back to me! | no sleep | Could be so deep. O you that were my lover and my wife! The last pale lotus opens to the skies. Come back to life! | Open your eyes ! Come back, breathe softly from the breast of Lift the blue eyelids under the deep lashes Till one light flashes! old . These arms enfold. Wake with one supreme sigh like the old Give me your lips and kiss me once! O wife, sighs ! Come back to life! Open your eyes ! Nay, let the wind but sti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
… Dim shadows of groves Of Demeter adorn The waves and the woods of the earth, the heart of the mother forlorn. Caves curved of the wind, Deep hollows of earth, Whence the song of the blind Old prophet had birth, The caves that confined Deep music of mirth, Thy caves, O my mother, are these not a gem in thy virginal girth? Ye mountains uplift As an arrow in air; Ice-crowned, rock-cliffed, Snow-bosomed bare, I give ye the gift Of a voice more fair. Leave echo, and wake, and proclaim that ye stand against death and despair ! Ye hills where I reste…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…d sing: and my soul is not conquered of fear. Now the road widens and grows darker still As if the shadow of some ancient tower Cast its deep spell on the reluctant will. Still tortuous winds the deep descent; the hour Lies bitterer on my soul: I fear to fail, To loose in vain the lyre’s dissolving power On the white souls armed in that triple mail Of justice, virtue, truth: percipience Beyond the mute and melancholy veil That covers from the drowsy eye of sense The subtle thought that hides behind the mask. I fear indeed: but now the soul inte…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
… key ! I cry on Apollo to aid, I lift up my lyre on the sea. Thou reaper of fear, Accurst of mankind, I charge thee to hear, Deaf horror deep-mined In hell! O uprear On the front of the wind! I curse thee! Thou hearest my hounds of thunder that mutter behind? How strange is the dark And the silence around ! Hardly the spark Of my silvery sound Moves, or may mark The heaven’s dim bound. How strange! I have sought him in vain— perchance not in vain have I found! No! Life thrills in me; Vibrates on the lyre; The Fates still spin me Their thread of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 143
…rain ; In the desert green-engirded, Lying lone in waste and wood, To my breast the many-herded Lowing kine in gracious mood Come, drink deeply, and are glad of me, my pleasant solitude. ORPHEUS. From the breast of the snow As a life-swollen stream, Your !ove-rivers flow Soft hued as a dream, Adrift and aglow With the sunlight supreme. Come forth! I invoke ye, O torrents that fall in the mazes and gleam ! THE MOUNTAIN TORRENTS. Falling fast or lingering love-wise, Gathered into mirror-lakes, Floating sprayed through heaven dove- wise, Dreaming,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…INES 245 O Self Divine! O Living Lord of Me, ii. 20 O sleep of lazy love, be near, ii. 115 O tearless sorrow of long years, li. 82 O the deep wells and springs of tears! iii. 63 O the gloom of these distasteful tomes, li. 25 O there is edged the waning moon, iii. 36 O the time of dule and teen, i. 87 O thou, of Angels fairest and most wise, ii. 15 O triple form of darkness! Sombre splendour ! iil, 177 Our hair deep laden with the scent of earth, iil, I41 Our love takes on a tinge of melancholy, i. 84 Out of the seething cauldron of my woes, i. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 236
230 EPILOGUE AND DEDICATION The comment is the Qabalah, and that I! Then will I choose you and test you and have indeed read as deeply as my poor!instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis, powers allow: but the text is decipherable!oh ye brave hearts, and cool eyes, and only under the stars by one who hath|trembling lips! I will put a live coal upon drunken of the dew of the moon. Under the stars will I go forth, my brothers, and drink of that lustral dew: I will return, my brothers, when I have seen God face to face, and read within those etern…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…i. 27 Blood, mist, and foam, then darkness, i. 109 Blow on the flame, ii. 7 Brethren, what need of wonder, ili. 186 Brutal refinement of deep-seated vice, iii. 123 Buddham Saranangachami, ii. 259 But first ; I must insist on taking, ii. 149 But if das Essen ist das Nichts, ii. 171 ‘* But if,” youcry, ‘‘ the world’s designed, ii. 157 But never mind! Call them idolaters, ii. 156 But now (you say) broad-minded folk, ii. 156 But, surely, (let me corner you!), ii. 180 But then you argue, and with sense, ii, 180 But thou, O Lord, O Apollo, ii. 35 But…