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…eble vow Ill sworn: all laws allow Pity, that is Kin unto love, and mild. List to the sad and wild Crying of the lonely child Who asks a kiss. One kiss, like snow, to slip, Cool fragrance from thy lip To melt on mine; One kiss, a white-sail ship To laugh and leap and dip Her brows divine ; One kiss, a starbeam faint With love ofa sweet saint, Stolen like a sacrament In the night’s shrine ! One kiss, like moonlight cold Lighting with floral gold The lake’s low tune; One kiss, one flower to fold, On its own calyx rolled At night, in June! One kis…
1906 · PDF PAGE 82
… sweet well-water rising in the well, Strong steep black currents thrust up, flooding, welling, Into the moonlight, swift, adorable,— So kisses cluster, so our bosoms swelling Abide and dwell... ....... Yet the twin faces, like Madonnas, meeting, Fear and draw back and gaze a little space ; Fear, lest they lose the moonlight frail and fleeting, Lose their own beauty in their own embrace, But feel how gladdening hearts and bosoms beating Kindle the face But not for long shall lilies strive with roses, Nor fear be fearful, nor delight repose, Nor…
1906 · PDF PAGE 76
…re 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 face each face might cling, Each kiss burn forth, a double fiery sting -Exalting us in joy foreseen to swell A mighty exultation ; it befell, However, that I saw the shadowy thing Lurk behind love, and fla…
1906 · PDF PAGE 85
…re, stop there. Mer. Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.” Romeo and Jultet. SWEET are the swift hard struggles ere the kiss, When the frail body blushes into tears, and short breaths cancel the long sigh3, and fears Constrain delight, until their import is Made foolish when the struggle’s synthesis Leads to hot armistice, as dewy spheres Glow, and increase the fury that reveres No God, no heaven but its own hell’s bliss. So after desperate shifts of modesty We could no more; loosened and lax we lay Breathing and holding: then …
1906 · PDF PAGE 86
… children born of us, Sacred and sinless, if unsanctified. LETHE. WE have forgotten all the days of fear, The nights of torment when the kiss expired, Lost upon lips with love not overtired, But fearing many things—the after year, The end, the man—O no, not him! the tear, The children’s sorrow, and our own shame fired Not less in doing all that love desired: We have forgotten, surely—being here! We have forgotten every shape of sorrow, Knowing no end to one night’s ecstasy In the night’s kiss from morning that we borrow, From the hard usurer, E…
1906 · PDF PAGE 113
…th known Artemis, again Turns to the warmer earth, or vows His secrets to another spouse. The moon resolves her beauty in The sea’s deep kisses salt and keen ; The sea assumes the lunar light, And he—their eremite ! In their calm intercourse and kiss Even hell itself no longer is ; For nothing in their 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…
1906 · PDF PAGE 135
…rifting I resigned the sleep For death’s diviner bliss ; As mists in rain of springtide weep, Life melted in the dewfall deep Of death’s kiss in a kiss.
1906 · PDF PAGE 18
…. Thus eternity Wheels vain wings round us, who may never die But cling as hard as serpent’s wedlock is, One writhing glory, an immortal kiss. - THE BLOOD-LOTUS. THE ashen sky, too sick for sleep, makes my face grey ; my senses swoon. Here, in the glamour of the moon, will not| some pitying godhead weep For cold grey anguish of her eyes, that look to God, and look in vain, For death, the anodyne of pain, for sleep, earth’s trivial paradise? Sleep I forget. Her silky breath no longer ‘fans my ears; I dream I float on some forgotten stream that h…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
…'s home? At every port the novel sights Charm for an hour—delusive bliss. On every shore the false delights Of maidens ply the barbarous kiss. But where did hero think to stay Lulled in their love beyond a day? No shoreland whistles to the wind So musically as Thrace: no town So gladdens the toil-weary mind As brave Athenae: no renown Stands so divine in war and peace As the illustrious name of Greece. This island of the subtle song Shall vanish as the shaken spray Tossed by the billow far and strong On marble coasts: we will not stay ! Dreams …
1906 · PDF PAGE 14
8 ORACLES A kiss of fire ; A touch of passionate yearning Steals higher and higiier— And kisses are returning ! The strong white grasp draws me still nigher and nigher, Our fusing forms in one fierce furnace burning ! Fails to us speech In Love’s exultant leaping ! Each merved in each The golden fruit is reaping ! Wilt slumber, dear? One last kiss, I be- seech ! Come to us, Death! My love and I are sleeping! EPILOGUE TO ‘‘GREEN ALPS.”? FAREWELL, my book, whose words I have not given One tithe of those fierce fires that in me dwell ! Now, after …
1906 · PDF PAGE 70
…lids amethyst, And looks from half-shut eyes, Gleaming with miracles of mist, Gray shadows on blue skies ; And on her whole face sunrise-kissed, Child-wonderment most wise. The whitest arms in all the earth Blush from the lilac bed. Like a young star even at its birth Shines out the golden head. Sad violets are the maiden girth, Pale flames night-canopied. O gentlest lady! Lift those eyes, And cur] those lips to kiss ! Melt my young boyhood in thy sighs, A subtler Salmacis ! Hide, in that peace, these ecstasies ; In that fair fountain, this! Sh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 90
…go, both weeping, both enough —- Heart-broken: no farewell went ever - through— Words came not: only ever: ‘I :love you !” - With broken kisses and stained cheeks of love. So all day long and. half the night we. wan- dered oO Down deep lanes and in gardens, like lost souls. Strong kisses that had surfeited a score Of earthly bridals in an hour we squandered ; And tears like fire, and looks like burn- ing coals, Without a word passed on for evermore. THE FIFTIETH DAY. Suffolk, ‘‘IfI depart from thee I cannot live.”’ Margaret. ‘*let me hear from …
1906 · PDF PAGE 77
…f art Because my lover has me curled I drew her down reluctant to my heart, In her own loveliness. When night was silence and my bed| No kiss be such a night as this !— the gloom. Unless my Alice be the kiss. So without sin we took strange sacrament, No blade of grass awaiting takes Whose wine was kisses, and whose bread The dew, fresh-fallen above, the flower Because my lover swoons, and slakes Of fast and fervent cleaving breast to Her body’s thirst of love. breast. This night no dewfall from the blue !— As lily bends to lily we were bent, Un…
1906 · PDF PAGE 80
…an. We had enough, no more. But I insist, Still thinking I was master of my heart: Saying, ‘ Another month to be a man, Another month to kiss her and be kissed, And then—all time to Magic and to Art!” 1 That is, the imaginary author. 2 Japan. 3 The dollar. THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY. ‘* He has strangled His language in his tears.” K. Hen, VII. My comedy has changed its blithe aspect To bitterest face of tragedy ; she said: ‘*Alas! O soul of mine! I am surely dead, Seeing my life is by a‘serpent wrecked Of sore disease: but spare me, and reflect That …
1906 · PDF PAGE 78
… I see the sweet face in a mist, A nimbus of glory unbidden That shades you or shows as you list. But I, as a bridegroom, unchidden, may kiss—and am kissed. In the light and the manifest splendour That shows you in darkness a bride, Pale blossom of moonlight and slender, A lily that sways in the tide, A star that falls earthward to bend her sweet breast to my side :— No depth of the darkness may shield you From eyes that with love are aflame, No darkness, but light, as you yield you To love that is stronger than shame, No music but kisses, that…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…nto the azure laden with love-lorn songs and cries. O Goddess of Nature and Love! is the lover I see. But thou art in the above, and thy kiss is not for me. Thyself Thou art all too far for my kiss; thou art hidden past my prayer. Thy wing too wide, and the bliss too sweet for me to share. Thou art Nature and God! Iam broken in the wheelings of thy car ; Thy love-song unheard or ‘unspoken, and I cannot see thy star.
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…nd mouth: I will not die But thou come with me o’er the gate of death. So, blood and body furious with breath That pants through foaming kisses, let us stay Gripped hard together to kiss life away, Mouths drowned in murder, never satiate, Kissing away the hard decrees of Fate, Kissing insatiable in.mad desire, Kisses whose agony may never tire, Kissing the gates of hell, the sword of God, Each unto each a serpent or a rod, No whispered Thick sweet salt tears, till, A well of wine and fire, each unto each, Whose lips are fain convulsively to rea…
1906 · PDF PAGE 166
…eath-bed of “Oh, very well!” I think you say, poet. Effect “Wait only till your dying day ! 645 of body on : . mind See whether then you kiss the rod, And bow that proud soul down to God !” I perfectly admit the fact ; Quite likely that 1 so shall act ! Here’s why Creation jumps at prayer. 650 You Christians quote me in a breath This, that, the other atheist’s death ; How they sought God! Ofcourse! Impair By just a touch of fever, chill, My health—where flies my vivid will? 655 My carcase with quinine is crammed ; I wish South India were damned…
1906 · PDF PAGE 63
…et scent is expressed, And a rose as of sunset excited In the strength of Her sunless breast. Her love is like pain, but enchanted : Her kiss is an opiate breath Amorously panted : Her fervours last granted Are sorrow, and death. Nor death as ye name in derision The change to a cycle of pain, To a cycle of joy as a vision Ye chase, and may capture in vain. Endeth you peace, and your change is Like the change in a measure that shrills And slackens and ranges; your passion estranges The love of the hills ! Nay ! death is a portal of passing To mi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 117
…ce. Jemember not ! The pleasant portals. CHORUS. Here is home at last. ORPHEUS. The sunset comes: the mist is lifted now To let the last kiss of the daylight fall Once ere night whisper. ‘‘ Sleep !” JASON. And see ! the ship Glides between walls of purple. MEDEA. The green land Cools the tired eyes. CHORUS. The rocks stand sentinel. MEDEA. Let still the song that saved us gladden us. Lift up thy lyre, sweet Orpheus, on the sea. ORPHEuS.,} Over a sea like stained glass At sunset like a chrysopras :— Our smooth-oared vessel over-rides Crimson and…