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…greet such tidings, and for joy to see Your joy exceed my joy. Then, MEDEA. Reward indeed Awaits thee from such folk as us, who stand In fear of life, when great Aeetes hears This news, and how. all came. MESSENGER. My lady’s smile Is the reward I sought, not place nor gold. MEDEA. Thou hast it, child. SECOND MESSENGER, The hero is at hand. CHORUS. O happy of mortals! O fronter of fear, The impassable portals ! Ye heavens, give ear ! Our song shall be rolled in the praise of the gold, and its glory be told where the heavenly fold rejoices to ho…
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…asleep. What horror came and crushed My whole soul’s life out as some shadow brushed My body and passed in? All sense allows At last the fearful truth—This is the house ! This is my old house on the marsh, and here, Here is the terror of the distant sea Moaning, and here the wind that wails, the drear Groans like a ghost’s, the desolate house of fear Whence I fled once from my great enemy— This is the house! O speechless misery ! Here the great silver candlesticks illume The agéd book, the blackness blazoned o’er With golden characters and scar…
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…o cursed our King’s desires Are branded in the brow for liars. SEMI-CHORUS OF WOMEN. We heard the aged prophet speak The doom of woe and fear. We wait with blanched and icy cheek The one-and-twentieth year : For Justice lies, as seeds lie, dead, But lifts at last a Gorgon head ! MEN. What fear can reach our Thessaly? What war disturb our peace? Long stablished is young amity Maid-blushing over Greece : And fair Iolchus stands sublime, A monument to lesson time. WOMEN. But if such fear were come indeed, Who reads the riddle dread Spoken in frenz…
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…handmaid unto happiness. CHORUS. What terror dost thou fill my heart withal ? MEDEA. O timorous heroes! Let the herald speak ! Who meets fear drives her back ; who flees from fear Stumbles; who cares not, sees her not. Speak on ! THE MESSENGER. Terrible bellowings as of angry bulls Broke from the stable as the first swift shaft Of dawn smote into it: and stainpings fierce Resounded, shaking the all-mother earth. Whereunto came the calm and kingly man, Smiling as if a sweet dream still beguiled His waking brows; not caring any more For spring or…
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…ICE: AN ADULTERY THE DAY WITHOUT A NUMBER. ‘*© never shall the sun that morrow see.” Macbeth. WE lost a day! Nor kisses, nor regret, Nor fear, nor pain, nor anything at all! The day was lost, evanished past recall, That saw no sunrise, never saw sun set— For East and West invisibly were met In gateways neither glad nor musical Nor melancholy nor funereal. Nought is there to remember nor forget. Yet in my westward journey many hours I stole, and now must pay them back again. I plucked not one flower, but an hundred flowers ; I bore an hundred pa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 88
…the mother stood behind the bride. In any other case what love and laughter Such tidings of an angel’s birth would waft her; Now, what a fear! And so she would abide Another vessel and another tide, Until we held the key of the hereafter. But this sad spectre could not change our calm. The day went by more peaceful than a dream Dreamt by a maiden in pure winds of balm ; Love’s sweet still music like a far-off psalm Thrilled our quiet pulses: with the in- tent supreme; ‘‘This one week more a century shall seem.” AT LAST. O TEARLESS sorrow of lon…
1906 · PDF PAGE 82
…TERY Two faces and two bosoms, breathing slowly In tune and time with the sea’s hymn below, Breathing in peace of love, mighty and holy, Fearing to fuse, and longing—be it so! And the world’s pulse stops, as God bends him lowly To hear and know. ....... For not the heights of heaven shall exalt her Whose heart is full of love’s dumb deity, Nor harp-strings lift me, nor the sound of psalter, Whose love is merged and molten into thee, Not incense sweeter be by shrine or altar For youandme.......... But like dove’s eyes where glamour lies a-dwelli…
1906 · PDF PAGE 78
…ower than the lips: love won the day. We nestled like young turtles that be twin Close till the morn-star chased the moon away. LOVE AND FEAR. THE rose of the springtime that bended Its delicate head to the breeze Is crimson and stately and splendid Now summer is here and at ease ; Love risen as the sun hath transcended its passion and peace. In a garden of dark foliage that clusters Round your face as a rosebud with- drawn, New splendour springs carmine and lustres Your cheeks with the coming of dawn, Love’s light as an army that musters its p…
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… I lay. my sceptre by, Put off my crown, descend the steps to thee. Here is my breast. Look firmly in my face, . i And slay me. Is there fear writ large and deep In mine old eyes? Or shudderest thou with fear? JASON. More hate than fear. In sooth, I cannot strike. ' PELIAS, A kingis not so slain—except a madman May fall upon him with averted head.? Indeed, I conquer. [Aszde.] Even so, beware! oe Victory ill-nurtured breeds the babe defeat. [Aloud.] Listen, my brother’:s son!- Nay, stoop not so, — Bending ashaméd brows upon the earth ! I am well…
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…rth the passion glowing to distil a doubtful tear. These are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, Choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. These are real, these illusion: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is fusion in the spirit’s shadow-veil, Till the Knowledge-Lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem ; END OF Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them. As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disapp…
1906 · PDF PAGE 76
…round her, more than shame or wrong, And the soft question murmured ‘‘ Love you—whom ?” The deepening rose; the heart’s quickening ; The fear ; the increasing ecstasy of this— A little cloud lifted a sombre wing Shadowing our secret breath from Artemis— Breasts met and arms enclosed, and all the spring Grew into summer with the first long kiss. pulse THE FOURTEENTH DAY. ‘* Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow’s bliss; There be fools alive, I wis.” Merchant of Venice. ALL day we chose each moment possible When to the other’s f…
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…y the power of heaven, Of my own mind, the Genii of the Seven, To come and live with me and be my dear, To love me in the spirit without fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s love—considering that all Wise men assure us that it may be bought! THE TWELFTH DAY. ‘* T grant thou wert not married to my Muse And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook The dedicated words wh…
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THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY 73 THE EIGHTEENTH DAY. ‘Touches so soft still conquer chastity.”’ Passionate Pilgrim. SHE grew most fearful, starting at slight noise ; As knowing that the sting of shame was hers Worse than a guilty love administers, Since our pure shame unworthily destroys The love of all she had, her girls and boys, Her home, their lives: and yet my whisper stirs Into live flame her passion, and deters Her fear from spurning all the day’s due joys. She had not dared to speak one word, to tell How deep and pure a fountain sunward leapt In…
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…ilence.on the shuddering Hill, and the unbeating wing Of the legions of His Father, and so died. But I, should I be still Poised between fear and will? Should I be silent, I, and be unsatisfied? For solitude shall bend Self to all selffulness, and have one friend, Self, and behold one God, and be, and look beyond the End. | VI. O Solitude ! how many have mistaken Thy name for Sorrow’s, or for Death's or Fear’s ! Only thy children lie at night and waken— How shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears? O Soul of Tears ! For never hath fallen a…
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…sail, Nay— might approach the wary warrior we}., So long as he was clothed in silver mail Of purity, and iron-helmeted With ignorance of fear : so through the hail Of flowers, of cries, of looks, of white and re«', Fear, hatred, envy, love—nay, self-conceit Of girls that preened itself and masqued in- stead Of love—he rode with head deep bowed— too sweet, Too solemn at that moment to respond, Or even to lift his evening eyes to greet The one he knew was nearest—too, too fond! He dared not—not for his sake but for hers. So he bent down, and pass…
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…I did not mean to jest. As brother to sister? CRIOSDA. Ah! that hurts, that hurts. Maurya. I am heavy? Criospa. Ileavy as my own heart’s fear, MAuRYA. You fear? Am Jin fault? Is Maurya maid The foe to Maurya goddess? CRIOSDA. Ah, indeed! Maurya. Is not the work nigh ready? [CRIOSDA grips his caduceus, which he has dropped, and presses it savagely to his breast. Then, with a mingled burst of ferocity and joy, dashes MAURYA aside to the ground, reaches his hand towards the empty throne, apostrophising it, and cries with a strident laugh:
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120 THE ARGONAUTS CHORUS, So fearful is the wrath divine, That once aroused it shall not sleep, Though prostrate slaves before the shrine Pray, praise. do sacrifice, and weep. Ten generations following past Shall not exhaust the curse at last. From father unto son it flees, An awful heritage of woe. Wives feel its cancerous prodigies Invade their wombs; the children know ' The inexpiable word, exhaust Not by a tenfold holocaust. Thus let mankind abase in fear Their hearts, nor sacrilege profane ‘The awful slumber of the seer, The dread adytum o…
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…of the wreaking of hatred upon the innocent. : And it came ‘to -pass that he gazed upon a ball of crystal wherein were shown him all the fears of the time unborn as yet on earth. And by his art he saw Perdu’ R ‘Abu, who had been his friend: for do what he would, the crystal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a Fear to him: even to him the Mighty One! But the selfish and evil are cowards; they fear shadows, and Jehjaour scorned not his art. ‘Roll on in time, thou ball!’ he cried. ‘Move down the stream of years, timeless and hideou…
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…and cap a tee, Gain the great prize all mortals snap at, he- Roic guerdon of Srotapatti ? With calm and philosophic mind, Our logical No fears, no hopes, devotions blind cna ioe a To hamper, soberly we'll state demonstrating The problem, and investigate erudition of In purely scientific mood poet. The sheer Ananke of the mind, A temper for our steel to find Whereby those brazen nails subdued Against our door-posts may in vain Ring. We'll examine, to be plain, By logic’s intellectual prism The spiritual Syllogism. We know what fools (only) call …
1906 · PDF PAGE 188
…ow dare you be on me encroaching ?” The beautiful young gentleman, With perfect courtesy approaching, Bowed deeply, and at once began: “ Fear nothing, Mary! Allis well! Lam the angel Gabriel,” She bared her right breast ; (query why ?) The angel Gabriel let fly * Concerning conception of a virgin. 720 745