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Page 1 of 11906 · PDF PAGE 66
To little children, as the storm-tossed bark Hails in the dark Some hardly visible harbour light; we hold The hours of gold To our own breasts, whose hours are iron and brass :— } So swift they pass And grind us down :—we hold the wondrous light Our scattering sight Yet sees, the one star in a night of woe. We trust, and so Lift up our voices in the dying day Indeed to pray: O little hands that are so soft and strong, Lead us along !
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
… so I of love. I am a-many folk (let Buddha prove !) And many a month you fooled the lot of us— Your spell is cracked within the ring! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared the man’s eyes! So the blind amorous Is blinded with the horror of the truth He sees this moment. Foolish prostitute! You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence, decay Of care to hold him—can I tell you which? Down goes the moon—one sees the howling bitch ! The salmon you had hooked in fin and gill You reel unskilfully—he …
1906 · PDF PAGE 26
…e Of cinnamon curls! Tremble with pleasure, O wonder of girls! Il. Rest is bliss, And bliss is rest, Give me a kiss If you love me best! Hold me like this With my head on your breast! 18
1906 · PDF PAGE 29
Nay? Are you coy? Then I will catch your hips and hold you wild and shy Until your very struggles set your velvet buttocks all a-swing, Until their music lulls you to unfathomable ecstasy, O kissable Tarshitering! Note.—This poem is probably the original of the well- known Hindu love song : ‘** Thora thairo, Tenduk, thora thairo, tum ! Thora thairo, thairo thora, thora thairo, tum !” 2!
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
… die. The seventh in silence tended it Against the horror of the pit. ITI. Thus in a cage of wisdom lay The dead man, live as they. They hold him sacred from the sun, From death and dissolution. Within the charmédd space is naught Possible unto thought. 94
1906 · PDF PAGE 81
… of death! There is no light, nor any motion. There is no mass, nor any sound. Still, in the lampless heart of ocean, Fasten me down and hold me drowned Within thy womb, within thy thought, Where there is naught—where there is naught ! 73
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
Hath attributes. This sand is gold :— Deem’st thou a gilder lurks within The atom? What should Nature hold Of aureate save a mind begin Colour-conception? Then we win To think our thought itself a chance Grafted upon the circumstance Of cerebrin and lethicin. A. Til fares the rifleman that holds The muzzle to his eye. Yon gold’s Mental: enough! the mind is all. N. No: this is but a slave in thrall To matter’s motion. We deny A causeless cause, an entity Beyond experience, that tricks Our folly with his idle claim To be because we feel it. A. St…
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…Ye come not well to anything. Work and be sober: dotage thinks By worth of words to slay the Sphinx. x. Things as they are—of these take hold, Their heart of wonder throb to thine! All things are matter and force and sense, No two alone. All’s one: the gold Of truth is no reward divine Of faith, but wage of evidence. The clod, the God, the spar, the star Mete in thy measure, as they are xi. So lifts the agony of the world From this mine head, that bowed awhile Before the terror suddenly shown. 9