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… Wisdom and the eternal Sun Worship is torn afar : While unto Thee, O Hades, turn we now, Awful of breast and brow, And hear thee in the sea, behold thee in the Star. Ant. 1 [Echo of the Damned). Ay! is the earth and upper ether gone, And all the joy of earth, and gathered close The darkness and the death-wind and the snows On us on whom the sun of air once shone. What souls are left alive Vainly lament and strive, For they. shall join the dead of utmost eld; The concourse mystical Who see the seasons fall Shall soon behold what all we have beh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
…ASIS.! As I sit in the sound Of the wash of the surf, On the long low ground, The trees and the turf; In front the profound, The warrior seas, Upstirred of the breeze, by the far reef bound— I know the low music of love, I feel the sweet murmur in me, My soul is in tune with the sea. The stars are above me, The rocks are below me, The sea is around! Great Gods that love me Lead me, and show me Their powers profound. Their lightnings move me To stir me, to throw me As into a swound, The song of the infinite surf that is beaten and bound As a fie…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…nts and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart— Fall asleep, or hearing die. —FHenry VITI, . vocalem temere insecutze Orphea sylvz, Arte materna rapidos morantem Fluminum lapsus, celeresque ventos, Blandum et auritas fidibus canoris Ducere quercus. —Ffor, Carm,, Taib. I. xii. INTRODUCTORY ODE. When virgin I came to him stainless, When love was a pleasure and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
… earth, iil, I41 Our love takes on a tinge of melancholy, i. 84 Out of the seething cauldron of my woes, i. 202 Out of the waters of the sea, i. 79 Over a sea like stainéd glass, ii, 111 Over the western water lies a solar fire, 1. 214 O virgin! O my sister! Hear me, death! ill, 102 O voice of sightless magic, i. 103 O what pale thoughts like gum exude, ili, 12 O who shall overcome this earth, ii. 47 O world of moonlight, i. 205 PALE vapours lie like phantoms on the sea, i, 122 Paolo ignites, Francesca is consumed, iii. 120 Perfectly sad and pe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 155 Long called to in the forest, on the mountain, Reached after in the fountain, Grasped in the slumberous sea, And yet, ever, aye, ever! escaping me! g But here where the wise pen And silver cadences outrunning song, And clear sweet clean-chiselled English, sharp and strong, Of the one man! among the latter men Who lived with Nature, saw 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, O…
1907 · PDF PAGE 167
…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 fly westward shod with wings of fire And fi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 180
…he joys that smite, Wherein I travel And the loves disallowed. : O’er mountain and level, They are risen ; they leap ; The land, and the sea. They wing them in white, And the beings of air, Crying aloud And the lives of the land, Words widowed that keep And the daughters of fire, The frost of their fires forgotten and faded | And the sons of the Ocean, from Memory’s steep. Come unto me ; My chariot bear, ! | | | My tunes understand, | ‘ H | As I pass in my glory O’er sea and land, Share my emotion. I smite the loud tune They gather, they gather…
1907 · PDF PAGE 130
…empest. . Semichorus «3 Fountains. 7 B3 Jakes. ” y? Torrents, » 53 Rivers. » «3 Waterspouts, ” ¢3 Eagre. ” n3 Wells. 63 Bays. Chorus—The Sea. Massed Semichorus o! of Earth-Spirits. Massed Semichorus #* of Living Creatures of Earth, Chorus—The Earth. 124
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…ve’s own call, Not hers, Eurydice’s, But thine, thou sweet blood-breasted nightin- gale Waking thy choral wail From Mitylene to remotest seas ! THE RIVER HEBRUS, Was e’er a stream before So sad a burden bore Rolling a melancholy sorrow down from shore to shore ? CALLIOPE. O this is bitterness beyond belief. Grief beyond grief. Boots it to weep? I holp him not with force : What should avail—remorse? RIVER HEBRUS. Hear upon high the melancholy Antistrophe Matching the strophe’s agony ! Tides on a terrible sea ! CALLIOPE. Bear, bear the laureiled …
1907 · PDF PAGE 142
…are. 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 bays, Earth’s fugitive daughter In deep-riven ways, i Enamoured of slaughter, A mirage of grays, Deep blues, and pale greens unbegotten, I turn to your lyrical praise. I tune the loud lyre To the haunts of the vale As a sea-piercing fire On the wings of the gale. I lift my desire, I madden, I wail! Come forth! I invoke ye, O powers, in the waters that purple and pale. Come forth in your pleasure, O…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…tune that rejoices, The manifold measure Of feet tuned to voices Of terrible pleasure. We pass in our courses Above the grey treasure Of seas in Earth’s forces, Her girdle, her splendour. We bridle the horses Of sea as we lend her Tunes subtle and tender To sink in her sources. The air’s love? We rend her! We pass to the West, We sink on the breast Of the Ocean to rest. As I pass, as I madden In fury of flight, The sea’s billows gladden Invoking the light. The depths of her sadden Not seeing the sight Of the glorious one, Whose steed is the Sun…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…er yet given to men. The starry and heavenly wheels, The earth and her glorious dye, The light that the darkness reveals, The river, the sea, and the sky; 1 Counsel. All nature, or joyful or dire, Life, death, let them throng to the lyre, All sealed with the marvellous seals ! Let them live in my sob, let them love in my song, let them even be I! Let me in most various song Be seasons, be rivers that roll, Be stars, the untameable throng, All parts of the ultimate whole; All nature in various attire Be woven to one tune of the lyre, One tune wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 143
…ll again. There our calm sides shield the mortal, Bears his bark our breast, and we Follow to the mystic portal Where we mingle with the sea. Every life of earth we list to: should not we then answer thee? ORPHEUS. O see mixt with acther In whirls that awake, Roar skywards and wreathe her Bright coils as a snake, In agony seethe her Sad cries for the sake Of peace—I invoke ye! Come forth! spouts in the wave’s wild wake! O THE WATERSPOUTS. Whirling over miles of ocean, Lowering o’er the solemn sea, Hears our life the deep commotion That we know—…
1907 · PDF PAGE 174
168 ORPHEUS And there [ vowed a solemn oath To Aphrodite fair, Sealing that sacramental troth With a long curl of hair, And the strange prayer’s reiterant growth Sent shining through the air. (Lavoking Aphrodite) Daughter of Glory, child Of Earth’s Dione mild By the I'ather of all, the A2gis-bearing King ! Spouse, daughter, mother of God, Queen of the blest abode In Cyprus’ splendour singly glittering. Sweet sister unto me, I cry aloud to thee! I laugh upon thee laughing, O dew caught up from sea! Drawn by sharp sparrow and dove And swan’s wide…
1907 · PDF PAGE 144
…: Come forth! I invoke ye, O wells, ye: Come forth! I invoke you, ringed round dwellers of dim solitude ! | earth’s girdle, the manifold seas ! 1 | THE SFA. “THE WELLS. I hear but one voice in our voices ; One tune, multitudinous notes; One life that burns low or rejoices,. One song from the numberless throats. Where ice on my bosom is piled, Where palm-fronded islands begem My breast, where I rage in the wild White storms, where I lap the low hem . Of earth’s mantle, or war on her crags, I am one, and my soul is in them. Deep and calm to heave…
1907 · PDF PAGE 197
… But she, for sin And iron heart of the ill-minded Zeus, Caught up the dews Deep on her ankles, and went noiselessly Toward the laughing sea, And sought new blossoms—O the traitor, Earth, That brought to birth That day, as favouring the desire that swelled Beneath her heart of eld, Where dwelt the lonely, the detested one Intolerant of the sun, Hades! But Earth for love of him, for spite Of the young girl’s delight, And shame of her own age, brought forth that hour The fatal flower, Narcissus—which what soul of man shall smell Goes down to hell…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…ne mars. The eons foil All purpose ; rise, O Tower of Toil. Rise in thy radiance to proclaim The agony of the earth alive ! Stand by the sea, a marble flame, A lighthouse wedded to an hive! Still upward strive! O tower, arise An endless spiral to the skies ! Stand on the weather-beaten coast A flaming angel in the noon ; A silver, fascinated ghost In midnight’s revel with the moon 3 In silent swoon be still ! the spoil Of years is thine, O Tower of Toil. Let day, a glowing vigour, male ; And night, a virgin bowed and curled, Stand at the foot; …
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… not: then the chain divides From love-enlightened limbs, and swell The choral cries unutterable. Out of the salt, out of the tides, The sea, whose drink is death by thirst ! The triumph anthem overrides The ocean’s lamentable sides, And we are done with life; accurst Who linger; lost who find; but we Follow the gold wake of the first Who found in losing ; who reversed The dictates of eternity. Lo ! in steep meditation hearsed, Coffined in knowledge, fast we flee Unto the island from the sea. XXXITI. THE note of the silence is changed; the quar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
… tune from thy lyre hath found me. Thy words are as rushing of fire ; But I know not the lilt of thy lyre :— Thy voice is as deep as the sea ; Thy music is darkness to me. CALLIOPE. Child of Thracian sire, on me begotten,. Knowest thou not the laughter and the life ? Knowest thou not how all things are for- gotten, — . | Being with a maiden wife ? How a subtle sense of inmost being Wraps thee in, and cuts the world away ; Sight and sound lose hearing and lose seeing, All the night is one with all the day ? Hearken to her sighing ! Life droops d…
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… Away, away, my lady may! The wind is fair and free ; Away, away, the glint of day Is faded from the ghostly grey That shines beyond the sea.” The lordly bridegroom took the bride As giants grasp a flower. ‘A night of nights, my queen, to ride Beyond the midnight hour.” The bride still slept ; the lonely tide Of sleep was on the tower. ‘* Awake, awake ! for true love’s sake! The blood is pulsing faster. My swift veins burn with keen desire Toward those ebony wings of fire, The monarchs of disaster !” The golden bride awoke and sighed And looked…