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…die. So dream, possessing all; so dream, Possessing nothing: I esteem These twain as one, since dreams they are. Thus mayst thou journey far and far And far! to climes unguessed, to seas Proud with seignorial argosies, To mountains strange with golden snows, To gardens green with many a rose, To secrets past the sense of sense, Skies virgin of experience, Untrodden avenues of mind, Things far from hurrying humankind. Thus spins out life its splendid charm :— Live, love, enjoy, yet do no harm, No rose of thought may bear or breed The poisonous t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 147
…the rainbow cloven, A never-fading path of golden glory, Whereof the lone Leucadian promontory Holds one divinest gate: the other troven Far, far beyond in interlunar skies, Where the Himalayas stir them, and arise To listen to the song that swells our arteries. O moving labyrinth sun-crowned, dread maze Ofstarry paths, of Zeus-untrodden ways, Of mystic vales unfooted of the deep, Our mother, virgin yet in many places Unseen of man, beholden of the faces Only of elemental shapes of sleep That are ourselves, her daughters wild and fair Caught ny…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…ideous lust, a twiforked dart Even from the fatherly and healing hand— The double death without a counterpart In hell’s own deepest pit, far, far below Phlegethon’s flame and Styx’s stifling flow, Far below Tartarus, below the land Thrust lowest in the devilish vertigo. IfI could weep or slumber or forget! If love once left me, with his eyelids wet With tender memory of his own despair Or frozen to a statue of regret ! If but the chilling agony, that turns Yo bitter fever-heat that stings and burns Would freeze me, or destroy me, or impair My s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
… sees. Immense disdain, Egyptian silence, mastery of pain, Gargantuan laughter, shake or still the ignited Stature of the Master, vivid. Far, affrighted, The stunned air shudders on the skin. In vain The Master of ‘‘ La Comédie Humaine ”’ Shadows the deep-set eyes, genius-lighted. Epithalamia, birth-songs, epitaphs, Are written in the mystery of his lips. Sad wisdom, scornful shame, grand agony In the coffin-folds of the cloak, scarred mountains, lie, And pity hides 7’ th’ heart. grips The essential manhood. Balzac stands, and laughs. Grim know…
1907 · PDF PAGE 87
… like a good comrade? No! you get round my neck like a lover! Oh! was ever gallant VOL. III. in such a scrape before? But dawn cannot be far off: I shall—swing myself lightly out of it. BLANCHE, [ Sobbing. } Denys ! Monsieur Denys! Monsieur DENYS. She has my name pat enough. O poor little girl! If only I didn’t love her, with what a good will would I marry her. The nearer one comes to it, the clearer one sees that death is a dark and dusty corner, where a man lies hidden and forgotten till the archangel’s — broom. I have few friends now : once …
1907 · PDF PAGE 144
…ce is rolled over 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 a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…nassian founts, A thousand garters heralded Thy flawless solitary star : A million garters shall bestead The poet’s turn, when, lone and far, All are dismissed: Some man, low brute, Cry ‘‘ Shame, O star that would not shoot, And yet went out!” But I, my dear, (Good-bye!) get neither shriek nor groan: Kiss, curse, cat’s hiss, I shall not hear, My dear, for I shall be alone. III. What change of language! Ah, my dear, The reason is not far to seek. You know of old how oft I veer From French to Zend, from Jap to Greek. Teste der titre polyglot Del …
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…, 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, and let the fragrant sleep Perfume our eyelids with dew-dropping death, And silence be the witness of the will. Fall, fall, fall back in …
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…t by Kandy Lake. VOL. Ill. I invoke the urgent elemental powers To bring all to an end for Buddha’s sake. I must bid all ye matrons fond farewell, Knowing your inmost thoughts; that, had ye dared, Ye would be just as far e rouze for hell As Angela, the gentle Lady Baird ; And all ye youths, aware that Percy’s fall Is something to be envied of ye all ; And all ye parsons, seeing that ye pray Your Father for the Luck of Lord Glen- strae. Enough of this! Insistent Fates Bid me return to rhyming 8s. I say what I have seen ill done In honest clean-l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 219
…reemen, What thou art, and what thy heart, And what they are, that they are thee, All creation, whole and part, Thine and thee, near and far :— Come! I call thee, I who can. Pan! Iknowthee! Pan! I show thee! Burst thy cofhn open, Pan! What have I said? What have I done? M.-2ZNADS. Pan! Pan! Evoe, Iacche! Pan! AGAVE. The victim ! AUTONOE. Rend The sole pure thing in this impure gross lump, The shapeless, formless horror that is us And God—Ah! rend him limb from limb! This is the end of all. No power urges on. This is the night. No force detains.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
…thery slopes, With footfalls softer than tne antelope’s. We listen and obey: the sacred slumberer swoons More tranced than deacn in this far follow- ing, Careless of winter, not invoking spring ; And all the witless woods company us and sing. But not the glades by song of thee unstricken ? Not they? Shall they refuse the pulse to quicken, Soft smiting the low melody of light? Tuned without fingers, the wild woods lift high The wordless chant, the murmurous melody, The song that dwells like moon-enkindled night. We draw from low palm groves and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
…y down the stream was sent Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Lycidas. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star. Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. Another Orpheus sings again And loves, and weeps, and dies, MOUNT IDA. THE COMPANY OF THE M<AENADS. M-ENADS. Evoe! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Iacche! Hail, O Dionysus ! Hail ! Wingéd Son of Semelé ! Hail, O Hail! The:stars are pale. Hidden the moonlight in the vale ; Hidden the sunlight…
1907 · PDF PAGE 167
…fall And breathe—but no breath answers me at all. All of my kisses stir no blush, no sigh ; She will not hear me ever if I call! Let the far music of oblivious years Sound in the sea beneath! Are not its waters one with all my tears? Hath Atropos no comfort in her shears? No Muse for me one wreath? Were I now dead and free to travel far Whither I will, ah me! Not whither I must—were there no avatar Drawn like my love from some close kindred star? No shape seen on the sea? Were I now free of this intense desire, By swift magician power I might f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
…s, But winged against the black eclipse Of sense: my soul on wings did poise Her glory in the vast turquoise Of the whole sky : expanded far Beyond the farthest sun or star, Beyond all space, all time. I saw The very limits of the law That hath no bounds: beheld the bliss Of that first wonder of the kiss In its true self: how very love Is God, and hath its substance of Pure light : and how love hath its cause Beyond religions, worlds, and laws; Is in itself the first : and moves All evolution, and disproves God in affirming God: all this In tha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 20
…t is a better love, exists Only because of these below it: Mountains loom grander in the mists: The lover’s foolish to the poet. I know. Far better strive and earn The rest you give me than remain Ever upon the heights that burn Sunward, and quite forget the plain. Beauteous and bodiless we are; __ Rapture is our inheritance ; You shine, an everlasting star, I, the rough nebula: but whence, Whither, we know not. But we know That if our joy were always so We might not know it. Strange indeed This earth where all is paradox, Pushed to the truth :…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…e. Hear Ylow perfect love casts flying fear | Are utterly apart. Forth from its chambers! Those and this The bliss Of this small quarrel far exceeds That dervish rapture, dancer deeds Strained for egregious emphasis. These touch you not! You sit alone Passionless upon passion’s throne, And there is love. Look not below, Lest aught disturb the silver flow Of harmonies of love! Awake ! Awake for love’s own solar sake ! Diverse devotion we divide From the one overflowing tide. Despise this fact! So lone and far Lies the poor garter, that I gaze Th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 212
…We are ready. AGAVE. Strong now and steady ! First MANAD. The tiger is harnessed. SECOND MAENAD. The nightingale urges Our toil from her far nest. THIRD MANAD. Ionian surges Roar back to our chant. FOURTH M-ENAD. Aha ! for the taunt Of Theban sages Is lost, lost, lost ! The wine that enrages Our life is enforced. We dare them and daunt. AGAVE. The spirits that haunt The rocks and the river, The moors and the woods, The fields and the floods, Are with us for ever! MAZNADS. Are of us for ever. Evoe! Evoe! AUTONOE. Agave! He cometh! AGAVE, Cry ho!…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…k, come back, Eurydice.” “ Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power.” Complains of the antithesis of desire and power --‘' Le¢ the far music of oblivious years,” Laments—'‘ How can one hour dissolve a year's delight,” Tells of his wooing—'"' Jn child-like meditative movd,”’ Eurydice’s song—*' O shape half seen of love, and lost.” Continues the tale of his wooing—'‘‘ Such tune my fulling body snapped.” Invokes Aphrodite—‘' Daughter of Glory, child.” Continues the tale of his wooing—'‘' / caught the lavish lyre, and sate.” Eurydice’s song—‘…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…Serpent and the revelation of Jehovah as the arch-enemy of man. The above doctrine is the most secret of Qabalistic arcana. you were not far of from the Heart of the Qabalah. The occasion of thts letter 1s. the insertion ofa scene equivalent toan “appreciation of the Brixton Chapel” in my masterpiece “Why Jesus Wept.” You asked me for tt ;} Ipromtsed 7t;* and I hope you will like tt. Can [do more than make your Brixton my deus ex machind ? You see, when I wrote ‘* The Soul of Osiris,” Europe was my utmost tn travel. To-day, what country of the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
… 145 Small coffin-worms that burrow in thy brain, ii. 8 Snow-hills and streams, dew-diamonded, i. 14 So faded all the dream, iii. 169 So far at least. I must concede, li. 181 RAIN, rain in May. The river sadly flows, i, 116 Recall, my soul, the sight we twain have looked upon, il. 17 Red is the angry sunset, ii. 5 Rest, like a star at sea, i. 45 Roll, strong life-current of these very veins, iil, 171 Roll through the caverns of matter, i. 211 Rose of the World! iii. 51 Rose of the world! Ay, love, in that warm hour, ili. oI Rose on the breast o…