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…now and then the distant Fugitive tunes. 18. Ah! Love! the hour is over! The moon is up, the vigil overpast. Call me to thee at last, () Rose, O perfect miracle lover, Call me! I hear thee though it be across The abyss of the whole universe, Though not a sigh escape. delicious loss ! Vhough hardly a wish rehearse The imperfection underlying ever The perfect happiness. 1 It will be noticed in fact that this poem is in an original metre, no stanza being com- plete in itself, but one running on into the next. Thou knowest that not in flesh Lies th…
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54 Thyself thyself surpassing; all were dull, And thou, O rose, sole, sacred, wonderful, Single in love and aim, Double in form and name, Triple in energy of radiant flame, Informing all, in all most beautiful, Circle and sphcre, perfect in every part, High above hope of Art: Though, be it said ! thou art nowhere now, Save in the secret chamber of my heart, Behind the brass of my anonymous brow. ! 12. Ay! let the coward and slave who writes write on ! He is no more harm to Love than the grey snake Who lurks in the dusk brake lor the bare-legged…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…an the orison Of myriad fools provoke the Crowned-with- Night Hidden beyond sound and sight In the mystery of Ilis own high essence? Lo, Rose of all the gardens of the world, Did thy most sacred presence Not fill the Real, then this voice were whirled Away in the wind of its own folly, thrown Into forgotten places and unknown. So I sing on! Sister and wife, dear wife, Light of my love and lady of my life, Answer if thou canst from the unsullied place, Unveiling fur one star-wink thy bright face ! Did we leave then, once cognisant, Time for some…
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ROSA MUNDI AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS 1905 I. Rose of the World ! Red vlory ot the secret heart of Love : Red flame, rose-red, most subily curled Into its own infinite flower, all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion, Its faint sweet passion, folded and furled In flower fashion ; And my deep spirit taking its pure part Of that voluptuous heart Of hidden happiness ! 2. Arise, strong bow of the young child Eros ! (While the maddening moonlight, the memoried caress Stolen of the scented rose Stirs me and bids each racing pulse ache, ac…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…‘* This is the folly of your youth, Achieving the exalted aim 3 Because you have gained a higher truth To call it by a lower name.” XIX. ROsE on the breast of the world of spring, I press my breast against thy bloom, My subtle life drawn out to thee: to thee its moods and meanings cling. I pass from change and thought to peace, woven on love’s incredible loom, Rose on the breast of the world of spring ! How shall the heart dissolved in joy take form and harmony and sing? How shall the ecstasy of light fall back to music’s magic gloom? O China r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
… edged the waning moon Out of the hollow of Sty Head Pass !? Gable! is grander for the gloom. Lingmell ! is silver! Ah, the bloom Of the rose of night ; oh, dulcet tune Of the dew falling on the grass ! I am the veritable Queen Of Night: my king is hither bound. A moment and he comes—oh, breast ! Heave if thou wilt !—such stir is rest. He comes, ah! steals to me unseen. The trees are high, the shades profound. Together over moor and lake ! Together over scaur and fell ! For ever let us travel so ; To stop so sweet a flight were woe. Even to sto…
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
…on- 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 not. O a breath of sudden sad- ness Hides your face as a mist grows up a mountain ! Mist is over my eyes, and darkness gathers Deep on violet i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…w her face to face, And died not : here in this consummate place, Immortal now, though the Antarctic sent Its mightiest coldest wave and rose and rent The coral and annihilated land, Or though the swarthy hand Or foot misshapen of the Hephaestian, (Hating the air-breathing man, In such sweet love as dwells, above all other places Ilere, in our hearts and faces, Nature’s and man’s) if his coarse hand or foot, The implacable forceful brute, Shifted towards the bellows, and one blast Blew through all the air aghast And in one vast ‘Vitanic war, Al…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…as fully come The dying man was dumb, But with his failing hand did make A sign: my heart doth ache. At that the kingly man, the fourth, Rose up and spat against the North. Then made the dying man a sign: My head is running like strong wine. The agéd man lifted his mouth And spat against the South. He clutched his throat in pang of death, As if he cried for breath. Whereat the second beat his breast And frowned upon the West. Then the man sighed, as if to say : The glow of life is gone away. At this the rusty and wroth released His eyes against…
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…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 of the world of spring, ill, Og So far my pen has touched with vivid truth, ili. 46 So fearful is the wrath divine, li. 120 So have the leaves departed, i. 127 So here is my tribute—a jolly good strong ‘un, il. 168 So, love, not thus for you and me! iii, 13 Some lives complain of their own happiness, i. 194 So…
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…reeze entwined, We are so safe; so happy we: Our love can never falter, fate can never close Hard on the flower of land and sea. Lift, O rose petals of my rose, Toward me, rest, dream on, we are here, we love. There is no shadow above, No ghost below; we are here. Kiss! Kiss/ for ever, Who would have believed, have thought of this ? Outside is nothing. Let what will uproll, Within all’s certain. Are we not aware (Who see the hand) What brain must know —and care? What wisdom formed the racers, find a goal? Careless and confident, let us love on.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 103
…ste, the taste unclean Of human flesh and blood that inean Some infinite horror to the light that laughed ! So let the scent of lily and rose, Of jasmine, taggara,® pass away ! Let patchouli, patchouli, repose My nostrils with your odour grey, Dead darlings exquisite in your decay ! So, silk and velvet, fur and skin, Your sensuous touch shall quit me quite : I am at swiving strain with sin— I'll touch the stars, the blood run thin From the torn breast of Night, my mother Night. Nor shall the mind revoke at ease These myriad cressets from the su…
1907 · PDF PAGE 152
…oss- grown side. . For now beyond, below the east, appears A hint as if a band, silvern and wide, The girdle of some goddess amber-eyed, Rose from the solemn company of the spheres. The sky is tinged, as if the amorous flesh Of that same queen shone through the girdle drawn By her own kissing fervour through its mesh. Last, glory of godhead! flickers, flames the fresh First faint frail rose and arrow of the dawn. SPRING. Mild glimpses of the quiet moon, let through Tall groves of cedar, stain the glade; gleams mild The kirtle of the unweaned sp…
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
…d 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 thorn of word and deed.
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
…M youth and love to sorrow is one stride. So to the thinker; to the lover’s self Rather it glides or swoons ; the idle elf That plucks a rose, scatters its petals wide, Is like the wind, is like the moon-wrought tide, Is most like life: so soft to man, so hard To the all-gathering brain of a great bard| Christ answered: Peace to man amid the strife | I am the Resurrection and the Life. Let the graves open: see the woman grip Her goodly love, her gainful fellowship ! - See the man, hungry, grasp the willing bride, Grope through the dark dawn to …
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…Q ZOI 1 The quotation is altered from Acts xvii. 23, ‘‘ Whom therefore (7.e. because of the poem) thou dost ignorantly worship, him do I Rose declare unto thee.” poet’s wife. Rose was the name of the
1907 · PDF PAGE 203
…ee To wake thy womb with monst:ous progeny, Yet more detested and detestable Than all the shapeless brood of hate and Hell. ECHIDNA. Ha! rose-lipped lover! Welcome to this bed ! MEGARA. She plays with words of love! ALECTO. Her black eyes shed Disease for tears. TISIPHONE. Her fangs and lips are red With gouts of putrid blood. MEG-ERA. Her guile employs The sweet soft shape of words of upper joys More bitterly to rack his soul. ALECTO. Ha, sister, The embrace ! TISIPHONE, She conquers. MEGAERA. Ile hath moved. ALECTO. [le hath kissed her! TISIP…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…e, The twin gods ‘‘ Thus-will-I”’ and “* May- be-yet.”” God, keep us most from ill, What time the King-Ghost grips the will ! Silver and rose and gold what flame re- surgesP What living light pours forth in emerald waves?P What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges? -—Shrieking they fly, the King-Ghost and his slaves. Lord, let Thy Ghost indwell, And keep us from the power of Hell ! Amen. Kneel down, dear maiden o’ mine, and let your eyes Get knowledge with a soft and glad surprise ! Who would have thought you would have had it in you? Say n…
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208 ORPHEUS O sacred soul of water. Kiss, ah kiss, With gentle waves like lips my breast, my two small breasts, Rose flames on ivory seas ! SECOND MANAD. Nay! Nay! Of ivy, clingst thou so for love? O soul A VOICE AS OF THE RUSTLING OF Ivy. For love. SECOND MAENAD. Cling not so close! O no! cling closer then ! Let thy green coolness twine about my limbs And still the raving blood: or closer yet, And link about my neck, and kill me so! THIRD M-ENAD. Soul of the rock ! Dost love me? A VOICE AS OF FALLING ROCK. I love thee. THIRD: MAENAD. Woo me th…
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…s gaze; He burns athwart the murky maze beyond into beatitude. A solemn rapture holds the faun: an holy joy sucks up the secr Within its rose-revolving sphere, the orient oval of the dawn. Light’s graven old cartouche is sealed upon the forest: groves are gray With filtered glamours of the day, the steely ray flung off his shield. She kneels, yon spirit of the earth; she kneels and looks toward the east. In her gray eyes awakes the beast from slumber into druid mirth. She is amazed, she eager, she, exotic orchid of the glade ! waits the ripe, e…