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…needle. Get a doctor to give you a prescription like this—they ask a hundred francs—oh! it is a shame! Buy a little syringe; and that is Heaven for all your life—How do you feel? Sirk PERCY. Why, I am well at once. I never felt better in my life. The devil take my trouble 1 A demagogue of the period. now! I shall go out and conquer the whole world. I shall be the great magician, the Lord of the Stars. I have it in me to write poetry. Yes, that, first. (Goes to table and takes pen and paper.) In praise of—what is your medicine called, dear March…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
… light and song into the sky to shoot. The laughing companies of corn awaken, Their wind-swept waves by Deedal music taken Into a golden heaven of festal song. We shake and glisten in the sun, we see The very soul and majesty of thee Thrill in the lyre and leave the lazy long Notes for crisp magic of sharp rustling sound, And thy life quickens and thy loves abound, Listening the answer of our dancing throng, Joy, sleep, peace, laughter, thought, remem- brance, came Even at our prelude, a death-quickening flame, And earth rejoiced throughout to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 144
138 ORPHEUS THE EAGRE. THE BAYS. Flings my single billow spuming Where the hills reach to heaven behind us Into midmost air the world, A voice 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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…her and survive. I shall not die—Ah! shall I be alive? This hath no part ineither: bale and bliss Forget me, careless ifI rot or thrive. Heaven forgot me—or she were not dead! And Hades— or I should not raise my head Now, and look wildly where I used to kiss, Gaze on the form whence all but form has fled! I am alone in all the universe, Changed to the shape and image of a curse, Muffied in self-confusion, and my brain Wakes not nor sleeps : its destiny is worse. It thinks not, knows not, acts not, nor appeals, But hangs, remembers ; it abides a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
…und me. As the dew Melts in the lake’s dissolving blue So to my arms she came. And now, Now, now I hold her ! Broke the brow Of all wide heaven in thunder! Hear Tremendous vortices of fear Swirl in the ether. What new terror Darkens the blue pool’s silver mirror ? How bursts the mountain-chasm asunder? Whose voice reverberates in thunder Muttering what curse? The sun dissolves In anguish ; the mad moon revolves Like a wild thing about its cage ; The stars are shaken in the rage Of—who but Zeus? Before our gaze, (My love’s in shuddering amaze, O…
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
…wind, Green leaves that have sounded My harp in your kind, Light boughs that are rounded, Grey tops that are shrined In the tears of the heaven as they fall in the blackening storm grown blind ! Ye fields that are flowered In purple and white, Embossed and embowered By the love of the light, Gold-sandalled and showered, Dew-kissed of the night, Your song is too faint and too joyous for mortals to hear it aright. Blue pansies, and roses, And poppies of red, Pale violets in posies Where Hyacinth bled, The flower that closes Its dolorous head ;— W…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…In their mountain of light? Is thy fugitive way Lost in uttermost night? Shalt thou not obey, Or my lyre not affright, If I call thee by Heaven and Earth with a God’s tumultuous might? If I curse thee or chide Shalt thou tremble not, Thou? Not move thee and hide From the light of my brow? Shall my arrows divide Not the heart of thee now? Art thou cased in strong iron to mock the spells that all others avow? Art thou muffled or hidden In adamant brass? Is my music forbidden In Orcus to pass? Have I cursed thee and chidden? My flesh being grass, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 205
… this strength Thou hast availed in deepest Hell at length. I grant thy prayer. Eurydice be given To the sweet light and pleasant air of heaven ! Even on this wise. With Hermes for a guide Up the dread steeps there followeth thee thy | bride, And thou before them singing. If thou yearn Towards her, if thy purpose change or turn While in these realms; if thou thy face revert ; That shall be hostage unto me for hurt Of further magic: she shall fade and flee A phantom frail throughout Eternity, Driven on my winds, adrift upon my seas ! These are t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
166 ORPHEUS Then growing grander as it swept Past bulrushes and ferns, Gathering the tears that heaven had wept, The water glows and burns In sunlight, where no shadows crept Around the lazy turns. | All on a sudden silence came Athwart some avenue Where through the trees arrowed the flame From the exultant blue ; And all the water-way became One heart of glittering dew. The waters narrowed for a space Between twin rocks confined, Carven like Gods for poise and grace, Like miracles for mind: K’ach fashioned like a kissing face, The eyes for joy…
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
…Rapture on rapture! Our hymns recapture The Bromian kiss. Blesséd our souls ! Blesséd this even | We reach to the goals Of the starriest heaven. Daphnis, and Atthis, and Chrysis, and Chloe, Mingle, O maidens! Evoe! Evoe! DIONYSUS. I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of ye love, And life for every one. Ye shall dance on hill and level ; Ye shall sing in hollow and height In the festal mystical revel, The rapturous Bacchanal rite! O sweet soul of the waters! What would’st thou? The rocks and trees are yours…
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
…ame forbear! It does not matter. Life, death, strength, weakness, are but idle chatter. Nothing is lost or gained, we know too well. For heaven they balance us an equal hell. We discard both; an infinite Universe Remains; we sum it up—an infinite curse. So—amIaman? I lack my wife’s embrace. Am I outworn? I see the harlot’s face. Is the love better and the knowledge worse? Shall I seek knowledge and count love dis- grace ? Where is the profit in so idle a strife? The love of knowledge is the hate of life. DIOGENES. ‘* ALL things are good” exclai…
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
LIBER TERTIUS VEL LABORIS 185 The steeps of heaven: but these, these chil- dren, cry Their bitter cry for justice. Mighty Ones, Lords of the Dusk, incline ye, mercifully, Rightly, to misery of all stars and suns And planets and all grains of dust that sorrow— Hark! from grim Tartarus, most doleful bound, Their throats of anguish notes of triumph borrow At my loud strain’s unprofitable sound. For who are ye? Poor judges of the dead, In your stern eyes the sadness is mine own, Mingled with sense that all your forces dread Are vain to take the spi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…ere then thy victory over Time? VI. Wilt thou seek deeper than the fact? Take refuge in a city of mind? Build thee an house, and call it heaven? Rush on! there foams the cataract, Blind steersman leader of the blind, Sole devil herald of the seven Thy garnished halls should house, O Christ, Thou being dead, thou sacrificed VII. Not for atonement, not for bliss ; Truly for nothing : so it was. Nay, friends, think well! the dream ! Seek not some mystery in the kiss, Some virtue in the chrysopras, Some nymph or undine in the stream. Things as we k…
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
…art thou to rise Out of Olympus’ ecstasies ! Omnipotent ! but to control The first breath of a human soul !—” The thunder rolled through heaven again, Void was the spring-delighted plain Of that gigantic phantasy. I turned to my Eurydice Evenassheturned. The faint breath glows,— The lightning of a living rose. The bright eyes gleam—night’s spotless stars Glimmering through folded nenuphars. The red mouth moves, still to the word: ‘* Ves, love!” and ‘‘yes, love!” Then I heard No sound and saw no sight—the world Folded its mighty wings, and curle…
1907 · PDF PAGE 202
…again ! TISIPHONE. Speak, murderer ! MEG-ERA. Hades! answer us! ALECTO. Expel These torments from thy being, us from [lel], Or Zeus from Heaven ! TISIPHONE. Or else obey ! MEG-ERA. Obey ! ALECTO. Obey ! HADEs. O throne of Hell! Onight! Oday Of anguish exquisite beyond control, Fibre and substance of my inmost soul ! There is a power not mine, and yet in me Burning its cold and cruel agony O pain ! With icy flames, its cutting poison fangs Striking my being with detested pangs. Alas ! of me and not to be expelled, Conjured, assuaged, averted. Gr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 188
…ant and chill The waters of Styx unappeased? The keys of our prison hath he seized. RHADAMANTHUS, A mortal ! MINOs. An ill Most alien to Heaven, by Zeus! ALACUS. But impiety’s doom, By Poseidon, shall fill for his use No well-omened tomb. RHADAMANTHUS. By Hades, our dogs let us loose ! Let death in the gloom Bring peace to the Hall of the Dead !
1907 · PDF PAGE 141
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 135 Black heavens that hover, Light gathered in sheaves Blind air that obeys, Of tenderest fears I come to thee over ' As dayspring enweaves The mountainous ways My soul into spheres— As a bride to the bridegroom: I blush, but] I hear, and I nestle upon thee, O lyrist I come supreme, And bow to thee dumb. Light loves in a dream. ORPHEUS. ORPHEUS. O blacker than hell, Child of sweet rain, © bluer than heaven, O fathered of frost ! O green as the dell Bitterest pain Lit of sunlight at even ! The birth of thee cost. © str…
1907 · PDF PAGE 158
…ven that comes to the lyre’s lilt silver-hewn. O bays of the wind, And shoreland of Thrace! O beaten and blind In the light of my face ! Heaven thunders behind, Hell shakes for a space, As I fling the loud sound to the sky, and the vaults of the Earth give place. O mystical tune Of a magic litten Of music, the moon, The stars unsmitten, The sun, the unhewn Stones deeply bitten By runic fingers of time, where decrees of the Fates are written ! Time listens, obeys me ; All Nature replies ; Nought avoids me, nor stays me, Nor checks, nor defies. T…
1907 · PDF PAGE 199
…he wave in the Scorpion den ! By the One that is Seven, The whirling eyes ; The Two made Eleven, The dragon’s devise ; The Eight against Heaven, All crowns of lies ; Come forth! I invoke ye, Erinyes, move, answer, take shape and arise! By the cross and the wheel I call ye to hear ; By the dagger of steel I command ye, give ear! By the word that ye feel, The summons of Fear ; Come forth! I invoke ye, Erinyes, move, answer, arise and appear !
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…e awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed ? | Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled! Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness! blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, IIence hidden for an hour : imagining This vast vain thing, We call it Go…