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…men That hath 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 tha…
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106 THE ARGONAUTS Through me and burns me: all my flesh is teeming With the live kisses of the sea, my mate, My mistress, till the fires of life abate And leave me languid, man-forgotten, deem- ing I see in sleep, in many-coloured night, More hope than in the flame-waves of the light. Light ! ever light ! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light in- vades 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;…
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…. I know 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 eternity Exists alone the Star, And utter Knowledge rise and cease In that which …
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… ORPHEUS. My song breaks baffled on the rocks of time If thy bewitching beauty be the theme. MEDEA. Sing me thy song, sweet poet, of the sea, That song of swimming when thy love lost sense Before the passion of the Infinite. JASON. The more so as my master warns me oft Of late how near that island is, where dwell The alluring daughters of Melpomene. 1 The ‘‘ fable" is Crowley's own, ORPHEUS.! Light shed from seaward over breakers bend- ing Kiss-wise to the emerald hollows : light divine Whereof the sun is God, the sea his shrine; Light in vibra…
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… me distinct, but shining with that Light Wherein the Sphinx and Pyramid unite. ON WAIKIKI BEACH.! UPHEAVED from Chaos, through the dark sea hurled, Through the cleft heart of the amazéd sea, Sprang, ’mid deep thunderous throats of majesty, Titanic, in the waking of the world; Sprang, one vast-mass of spume and molten fire, Lava, tremendous waves of earth; sprang higher Than the sea’s crest volcano-torn, to be Written in Cyclopean charactery, Hawaii. Here she stands Queen of all laughter’s lands That dance for dawn, lie tranced in leisured noon…
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…rayer? Where was life when the sultry air, Hot with the lust of night and shame, | Brooded on dust, when thy shoulders bare Shone on the sea with a sudden flame Into all Time to abundant fame? Daughter of Lust by the foam of the sea! Mother offlame! Sister of shame ! Tiger that Sin nor her son cannot tame! ~Worshtp to thee! Glory to thee! Venus Callipyge, mother of me. 1 A statue in Naples. Callipyge means ‘* having beautiful buttocks,” - Fruitless foam of a sterile sea, Wanton waves of a vain desire, Maddening billows flecked with fire, Storms…
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76 ALICE: AN ADULTERY 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 glam…
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… is no pity, But in the desolate halls and lonely vales of sand : Not in the laughter loud, Nor crying of the crowd, But in the farthest sea, the yet untravelled land. Where thou hast trodden, I have trod ; Thy folk have been my folk, and thine abode Mine, and thy life my life, and thou, who art thy God, my God. VII. Draw me with cords that are not; witch me chanted Spells never heard nor open to the ear, Woven of silence, moulded in the haunted Houses where dead men linger year by year. I have no fear To tread thy far irremeable way Beyond the…
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34 ORACLES Here, in the crescent beach and bay, the sea, Curven and carven in warm shapes of dream, Answers the love-song of the lilied stream, And moves to bridal music. The lion-shapen headland guards the shore 3; The ocean, the bull-throated, evermore Roars; the vast wheel of heaven turns above, Its rim of pain, its jewelled heart of love ; Sun-waved, the eagle wing Of the air of feathered spring Royally sweeps, and on the musical marge Watches alone the man. O silvern shape and span Of moonlight, reaching over the grey, large Breast of the …
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…urth virgin, having a fourth riddle: Griphus IV. What egg hath no shell? And our Father pondered a while and then said: On a wave of the sea: on a shell of the wave: blessed be her name ! The fifth virgin issued suddenly and said : Griphus V. I have four arms and six sides: red am I, and gold. To whom our Father : Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ! (For wit ye well, there be two Arcana therein.) Then said the sixth virgin openly: Gripbus VI. Power lieth in the river of fire. And our Father laughed aloud and answered: I am come from the waterfall. So …
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…Il. Thoth, from the starry space Flash out the splendid face! Wisdom, immortal grace, Thoth, turn to usward ! III. Deep, deep thy sombre Sea, Spouse of eternity ! Mother, we cry to Thee: Hear us, Maut, Mother! IV. Sound, sistron, sound afar ! Shine, shine, O dawning Star! Flame, flame, O meteor Car ! Isis, Our Lady ! Vv. ‘“rike, strike the louder chord! Draw, draw the flaming sword, Crowned child and conquering Lord: Horus, avenger. Vi. Dawn-star of flaming light, Five rays in one unite, Light, Life, Love, Mercy, Might, Star of the Magi. VII. L…
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…Chorus of Heroes, ¢he Sirens. SCENE: Zhe -lrgo. MEDEA. Ay ! I would murder not my brother only, But tear my own limbs, strew them on the sea,! To keep one fury from the man I love! CHORUS. This act and speech are much akin to mad- ness. MEDEA. Remember that your own skins pay the price. CHORUS. I now remember somewhat of the voice Of the oracle, that Madness should hunt hard On the thief’s furtive track, upon the prow Brooding, and at the table president, And spouse-like in the bed. 1 The Argonauts being pursued by Aeetes, Medea threw the sever…
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…ing of the axe on the pine! The joy of the ended labour, As the good ship plunges free By sound of pipe and tabor To front the sparkling sea ! The mystery-woven spell ! _ The voyage of golden gain! The free full sails that swell On the swell of the splendid main ! The song of the axe and the wedge! The clang of the hammer and chain ! Keen whistle of chisel and edge ! Smooth swish of the sliding plane | Hail to the honour of toil ! Hail! to the ship flown free ! Hail !.to the golden spoil, And the glamour of all the sea! HERACLES. A good stout s…
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…ine for an hour ! THE THIRTEENTH DAY. ‘‘If it be a sin to make a true election, she is damned.” Cymbeline. In the dim porchway where the sea’s deep boom Under our very feet made ceaseless song, We sate, remote, the lone lanai! along Sequestered from the young mcon in the gloom 1 The South Sea word for balcony, or rather verandah.
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…ed.” Sonnets to Sundry Notes of ALuste. ANOTHER day rose of unceasing fire: Kisses made monstrous for their sterile storm Maddening with sea-sounds, as of lute or shawm Fluting and clashing in extreme desire ; The silly ‘* Thus far and no farther,” nigher Each hour to break (poor arbitrary form !) As each kiss bade our bodies wed and warm Give love one chance before its wave retire. Not so: this trial was the tiniest Man ever knew, confronted afterward With giant fears and passions ;—long to fight And last to yield a Maenad-swelling breast Unto…
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…I not do? RuPuHa. Tell! Tell! Tis a spell. CriosDa. I will tell all. me up With the last word ! RupuHa. It obeys? No! No! Ho! Ho! All! O sea, swallow CriospA. Thou sinister one ! I duly did ; That drugged (and dancing with delight thereof The maiden’s mind) the maiden’s body prone Lay on her altar. Then she gave consent, And I smote once. RupHa. Ha! Ha! What came then? Criospa. I tore out her heart, and held its flame aloft. The blackening Thy rite blood Gushed on my arms—and then— Rupua. Ho! Ho! CriosDA. With red lips reeking from the sweet fo…
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UNDER THE PALMS 75 Hating the earth, the sea, the witchery Of all the universe : my breast I bared And cursed God, hoping lightning; and I dared Not ask my love ‘‘In very truth—you |" die !” I could not bear it longer; then she spake: ‘“‘T lied indeed, love, for mine honour’s sake,” And I reproached her for her love’s dis- | trust, - Saying ‘‘I would not so in any wise Have lowered love unto the level of lust But now—” I hid my thought in tears and sighs. THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY. ‘‘T am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.”’ Richard Il, ALIGE w…
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…n any space serene or slack Some colour, blushing o’er the fawn Dim-lighted lawn. At grave harmonious intervals. The grand voice of some seaman calls, Just as the picture fades, aware How it was fair. JASON. A thousand victories bring us to the shore Whence we set out: look forth ! The people come Moving with lights about the anchorage ‘To greet the heroes of the Golden Fleece. My Queen ! Medea! Welcome unto Greece | EXPLICIT ACTUS QUARTUS. ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS QUINTUS. ARES. Jason, Mrvea, PELIAs, ACASTUS, AL- CKSTIS and her Sisters, MADNESS. And …
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…rt of every the tiniest spark of man? ls He not moulded also in His own eternal plan? Even so; as the woes of earth is the angry crested sea. Even so; as Her great peace abideth in the deep—so He! What wreck floats by us? What pale corpse rolls horribly above, Tossed on the unbewailing foam, cast out of light and life and love? The sea shall draw thee down, O brother, to her breast of peace, Her unimaginable springs, her bridal secre- cles. Even so draw me in life, O Mother, to thy breast ! Below the storm, below the wind, to the abiding rest !…
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… rest, ‘Because my lover loves the dark, And has me in her breast. No song this happy night be heard !— Unless my Alice be the bird. The sea that roared around the house - - Ts fallen from alarms, Because my lover calls me spouse, And takes me to her arms. This night no sound of breakers be !— Unless my Alice be the sea. LasT night—but the boy shrieked in’s sleep —then, there I had ended all! track That leads from green or white-crowned hours to black, The pleasant portals of the scorpion snare, First gleaming toils of an enchantress’ hair That…