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… life in thy light, and thy death Is part of my breath. My voices are many, Thy lyre is but one ; But thou art not as any Soul under the sun ! Thou hast power for an hour, The motherly dower. One voice of my voices Uncalled and unheard, No song that rejoices OF beast or of bird, No sound of my children sublime, But the spirit of time. Fear is his name, Nor flickers nor dies His blackening flame. Beware, were thou wise ! Not him shalt thou hail from the dusk with thy breath ; His name—it is Death! My seasons and years, Shalt thou traffic with th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 154
…on Guesses life’s law; all nature’s tune Tells that the hour is come when May musf grow to June. Then in the broad glare of the careless sun Apollo’s light is on her and within ; His shafts of glory pierce her one by one; His kisses darken, shivering and keen, Swift glories cold and clean Of that chaste bridal, and the earth gets gladness, Till the last winter’s traces Fall from the spring’s last cold wind—shining sadness !— And from the frail new faces Blushing through moss; and all the world is light With the unsufferably bright Full joy and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…he witless power! Cast the dead laurel inthe dust! The flower Of all the world is marred, the day’s desire Distorted in the eclipse, the sun’s dead hour. Let me fall down beside thee! Let me take The kisses that thou canst not give, and slake Despair in purposeless caresses, dire Shames fang-wise fastened of the eternal snake. Is there no warmth where beauty isso bright ? No soul still flickering in the lambent light Still shed from all the body’s excellence? No lamp unchidden of the utter night? Cannot my life be molten into thee, Or thy death…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
…une the loud lyre once again to the mother of men in her mirth. O mighty and glad In spring-time and summer ! O tearful and sad When the sun is grown dumber, When the season is mad, And the gods overcome her, When the sky is fulfilled of the frost and the fingers of winter numb her ! O marvellous earth Of multiple mood That givest men birth And delicate food, Red wine to make mirth Of thine own red blood, And corn and green grass and sweet flowers and fruits most heavenly-hued ! Borne skyward in swoon By arrowy hours, Girt round of the:moon And…
1907 · PDF PAGE 171
…s, think worthy to remember How the dust scattered from their fading ember Is their own sign and seal of fatherhood, Grey seas of sorrow sun-kissed into amber. Above me hangs the sun: horrid he hangs, A rayless globe of hell, shooting forth fangs Snake-wise to parch and burn my solitude, Nor leave me quiet lamenting, with these pangs Tearing my liver, more Promethean Than ever Titan knew—the sunbright span Of narrow water mocks me, brightening Far to the indigo Ionian. The sun hangs high, as in the Arabian tale Enchanted palaces defy the gale, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
… his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing. To his music plants 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,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 222
…s on the infinite maze of mortals. See we love that yearns to the golden portals Bound of the grey god. Love, thy children, laughter and sunlight, languish. Aphrodite, miracle of the flashed foam, Burns with beaten agony in the lashed foam; Down is the day-god. Ay! this first of Lesbian lamentations Still shall burn from zeon to idle zon ! (Chorus, epithalmy, ode, and pzean Dumb or dishevelled !) Still my songs shall murmur across the nations, Gain their meed of misery, praise, and yearning, Smite their stroke on centuries foully burning, Drunk…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…eace ; and death, a welcome wight. SAID. THE spears of the night at her onset Are lords of the day for a while, The magical green of the sunset, The magical blue of the Nile. Afloat are the gales In our slumberous sails On the beautiful breast of the Nile. We have swooned through the midday, ex- hausted By the lips—they are whips—of the sun, The horizon befogged and befrosted By the haze and the greys and the dun Of the whirlings of sand Let loose on the land By the wind that is born of the sun. On the water we stand as a shadow, A skeleton som…
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
…kes possession, and the tale Of earth is told and done. Then from the Sire of all the Gods, from War And Love and 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 jo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…e not In essence or in function one With these, the unpardonable blot On knighthood’s shield, the sombre spot Seen on the photosphere of sun. XXIII. ‘*Nay! that were nothing,” say you now, Poor baby of the weary brow, Struggling with metaphysic lore? “* But these, being women, gave you more: 3 $ You spoke of love!” Indeed I did, And you must counter me unbid, Forgetting how we must define This floral love of yours and mine. That love and this are as diverse As Shelley’s poems and my verse. And now the bright laugh comes in spite Of all the crue…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…e fleet as a fawn. THE WINDS. From fourfold quarters, The depth and the height, We come, the bright daughters Of day shed on night ; The sun and the waters Have brought us to light ; The sound of him slaughters Our soul in his sight. We hear the loud murmur; we know him; we rest 5 We breathe in his breast. ORPHEUs, By sunlight up-gathered As dust of his cars, By moonlight unfathered, Unmothered of stars, Unpastured, untethered, Unstricken of scars, Come forth! I invoke ye, O clouds! ye veils ! ye divine avatars ! THE CLOUDS. Sun’s spirit is cal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
104 GARGOYLES They hold him sacred from the sun, From death and dissolution. Within the charméd space is nought Possible unto thought. There in their equilibrium They float—how still, how numb ! There must they rest, there will they stay Innocent of the judgment day. Remote from cause, effect retires. Act slays its dams and sires. There is no hill, there is no pit. They have no mark to hit. It is enough. Closed is the sphere. There is no more to hear. They perish not ; they do not thrive. They are at rest, alive, The Seven Wise Men of Martaban;…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…e crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine, and the disc of flaming light Is on thee, seated in the prow Of the Sun’s bark, enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round With leopard’s pell, and golden sound Of planets choral in their course! O thou self-formulated sire! Self-master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name. For I am Yesterd…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…or the warrior’s feet. Be done with the paltry defences! She sleeps. O be done With the mists of the mountain! Awake to the light of the sun! Awake! Let the wave of emotions conflict- ing retire, Let fear and despair be engulfed in delight and desire. There is one thing of all that remains: that the sword may not bite: It is love that is true as itself; and their scion, delight. Jiue flower of the flame of love: true bloom of the ray of the sword ! ‘he lady is lost if she wit not the name of her lord. Awaken and hither, O warrior maiden! Above …
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…ght, 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, Whose journey is certain, Who speeds to the gate, The visible curtain Of visible fate. My soul takes no hurt in Their gloom: I await The portals to rise In the desolate skies, I trust to my song Irresistibly strong To sunder and shatter Those towers of matter. They rise! Oh! They rise, The terrible towers Of Hades: they lift Across the white skies Those terrible-cliffed Rocks, where the hours Beat vainly …
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…pon the summit. Of ages, daughter of ages, cast Mother The fatal die, and turn to death ! Let evolution turn, involving As when the gray sun sickeneth— Ghostly September ! so dissolving Into the pale eternal breath. When all is done, shall this be said. When all is said, shall this be done, The zeon exhaust and finishéd, And slumber steal upon the sun, My dear, when you and I are dead. LA CASQUE D’OR. A NINA OLIVIER, You laughing little light of wickedness, low ripples round you love and coils And twists the Casque of Gold about the child-face …
1907 · PDF PAGE 57
… cry is ever rapture, and whose tears For their own purity’s undivided sake Are molten dew, as, on the lotus leaves Silver-coiled in the Sun Into green-girdled spheres Purer than all a maiden’s dream enweaves, Lies the unutterable beauty of The Waters. Yea, arise, divinest dove Of the Idalian, on your crimson wings And soft grey plumes, bear me to yon cool shrine Of that most softly-spoken one, Mine Aphrodite! Touch the strings, Oh thou, immortal, throned above the moon! Inspire a holy tune Lichter and lovelier than flowers and wine Offered in …
1907 · PDF PAGE 153
…r kisses are Awaited by the tender mother lips, Earth’s, that is lonely and old, Grown sad, fearful, and cold With bitter winter and the sun’s eclipse ; So the child slips From bough to bough between the weep- ing trees, And with frail fingers smooths and touches them. They murmur in their sleep: the moonlight dips And laughs, seeing how young buds catch life from these Child-kisses on the stem. The leaves laugh low, and_ frosty-footed Time Shoulders a lighter burden ; in the dale Some distant notes of lovely music climb, Thrown from the golden…
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
…s, 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, And the waters under the hill, By the might of that which endures, The holy heaven of will ! I kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to sta…
1907 · PDF PAGE 197
…d there were jessa- mines And snaky columbines. So all these maidens played, and gathered them From sad green stem Rejoicing blooms with sunlight mixed therein, 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…