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ACTUS QUARTUS 19 MEDEA. Thine therefore should be sweeter. ORPHEUS. The Gods grant it! Lift up this love of peace and bliss, The starry soul of wine, Destruction’s formidable kiss, The lamp of the divine: This shadow of a nobler name Whose life is strife, whose soul is fame ! I rather will exalt the soul Of man to loftier height, And kindle at a livelier coal The subtler soul of Light. From these soft splendours of a dream T turn, and seek the Self supreme. This world is shadow-shapen of The bitterness of pain, Vain are the little lamps of love…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…heir love abides That passes not beneath their tides, And whoso bathes in light of theirs, And water, changes unawares To be no separate soul, but be Himself the moon and sea. Not all the wealth that flowers shed, And sacred streams, on that calm head; Not all the earth’s spell-weaving dream And scent of new-turned earth shall seem Again indeed his mother’s breast To breathe like sleep and give him rest ; He lives or dies in subtler swoon Between the sea and moon. So standing, gliding, undeterred By any her alluring word That calls from older f…
1904 · PDF PAGE 110
… dealest in such arts? THIRD WOMAN. Ay! for this hate’s sake. Are we sisters all Herein? CHORUS. True sisters! THIRD WOMAN. The familiar soul Sucks at her mouth—She sickens not nor dies; More poisonous than he. FIRST WOMAN. Ah! beast of hell! What may avail us? SECOND WOMAN. Jason is quite lost In her black sorceries.
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
…5. 6d. THE TALE OF ARCHAIS. 55. JezeBeL. Out ofprint. A few copies at £1 15. An APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IS. JEPHTHAH. 75. 6d. THE SouL oF OsiRIS. 55. THE MoTHER’s TRAGEDY. 55. CARMEN SAECULARE. IS. TANNHAUSER. 55. BERASHITH. Out ofprint. A few copies at 5s. AHAB. 55. THE Sworp oF Sone. Jn the press. 55. THE STAR AND THE GARTER. 55. Tue Gop-EaTER. 2°. AS EDITOR. THE GOETIA OF THE KEy or SoLomon. Jn thepress. 10s. ALICE: AN ADULTERY. Out of print. A few copies at Avis. These books may be obtained through the Author, Boleskine House, Foyers…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…d arméd men shall spring from earth In vain to ward the gloomy girth! But thou, Athena, didst devise Some end beyond our mortal ken, Thy soul impenetrably wise Shines not to us unthinking men, O guard the warrior band of Greece, And win for us the Golden Fleece!
1904 · PDF PAGE 109
… veil of sky, And speak immortal things ! Dream, lady, dream through summer noon, Lulled by the sleepy tune! The sense is riven, and the soul Goes glimmering to the abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice II
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
… Let there be silence while the sleeper wakes! O coiled and constricted and chosen! O tortured and twisted and twined! Deep spring of my soul deep frozen, The sleep of the truth of the mind! As a bright snake curled Round the vine of the World! E
1904 · PDF PAGE 92
…he nenuphar Sleeps for her couch. All darkness dreams The thing that is not, only seems. That star upon the serpent’s head Is called the soul of man: That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life’s plan. The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought’s abyss of tears and woes. Leave Sirenusa! Even Greece Forget! they are not there! By worship cometh not the Peace, The Silence not by prayer! Leave the illusions, life and time And death, and seek that star sublime— Until the lotus and the sea And snake no longer are, And single through etern…
1904 · PDF PAGE 57
…tles) yet so calm And mild (with all that vigour) that to me Came a swift pity—the enchanter’s bane. That I flung from me. But my subtle soul Struck its own bosom with the sword of thought, So that I saw not pity, but desire! CHORUS. Surely a bane more potent than the first. MEDEA. Love is itself enchantment! CHORUS. Some kind god Whispers from this a little light of hope. MEDEA. Only the hopeless are the happy ones. CHORUS. But didst thou turn him from his gleaming goal? Cover that shame with sweeter shame than this? MEDEA. Thou knowest that h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…! O dream of delight! How splendid the sight for the dwellers of Greece! Gained is the guerdon! The prize is won. The fleecy burden, The soul of the sun! The toil is over; the days discover high joys that hover of lover and lover, and fates above her are fallen and done. JASON, Queen of this people! O my heart’s desire Spotless, the Lady of my love, and friends By whose heroic ardours I am found Victor at last, well girded with the spoil Of life in gleaming beauty, and this prize Thrice precious, my Medea—all is won! Needs only now the favourin…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…n in the flame-waves of the light. Light! ever light! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light invades My desolate soul, and all the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow The bitter draught of Truth; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine; the whole sea’s glades And hills and springs are void of my Apollo— The Sea herself my tune and my desire! The Sun himself my lover and my lyre! CHORUS. This song is sweeter than the honeycomb. MEDEA. Nearly as sweet …