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…me? O Goddess, queen, and wife ! O Lady of my life! Who set thy stature as a wood to wave? Whose love begat thy limbs? Whose wave-washed body swims That nurtured thee, and found herselfa grave? ‘But thou, O thou, hast risen from the deep! All mortals mourn and weep To see thee, seeing that all love must die Beside thy beauty, see thee and despair ! Deadly as thou art fair, I cry for all mankind—they are slain, even as I! [TANNHAUSER pauses, bends eagerly towards VENUS, She smiling luxu- viously, he continues. Who cometh wanton, with long arms o…
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… disloyalty. AMENHATEDP. Beware ! How died thy father? S’AFTI. That amazing god Incarnate in him chose a nobler form, And in my mother’s body sought his home, Whose double incarnation is divine Beyond the old stories. Yes, Iam a god. AMENTATEP. Beware the fatal magic of her heart ! For she is great and evil, and her voice Howls blasphemy against yet living gods. Thou knowest not the story of thy birth, The truth. S’AFI. Then speak the truth, if so a priest May tune his tongue to anything but lies. AMENHATEP. Sixteen strange seasons mingle gold …
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…hee, The seeking and the striving to the light Deep in thine eyes, where Hell flames steadily ? I am not clinging thus Despairing to the body of thy sin For mere delight—Ah, deadly is to us The pleasure wrapping us, and holding in All love, all hate—the miserable way ! Dawns no devouring day Still on the infinite slow tune of limbs Moving in rapture ; sleepy echo swims In the dissolving brain, Love conquering lassitude at last to win Pain out of peace, and pleasure from a pang ; Then, scorpion-stung of its own terrible tang, Burnt of its own fi…
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… reaper, challenging a kiss ; The lips of her were fresher than the morn, The perfume of her sxin was ambergris ; The sun had kissed her body into brown ; Ripe breasts thrown forward the summer breeze ; ) Warm tints of red lead fancy to the crown, Her coils of chestnut, in abundant ease, That bound the stately head. What joy of youth Lifted her nostril to respire the wind? What pride of being? What triumphal truth Acclaimed her queen to her imperial mind? to I watched, a leopard, stealthy in the corn, As if a tigress held herself above ; My bod…
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THE COURT OF THE PROFANE 167 Thy jet smooth body clung to mine awhile, Descending lke the thunder - pregnant night. Ominous, black, thy secret cruel smile Lured me. We lay like death; until the light Thy jet smooth body clung to mine awhile ! Thou wast a lion as an angel then, In copper-glowing lands that gnaws the prey He has regotten from the tribes of men. _ We lay like passion all that deadly day—- Thou wast a lion as an angel then ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover, Great hater of my body as my soul, To whom I gave my life and …
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…, merry be the meet! LANDGRAVE. Hands off me, fellow! Who are you? TANNHAUSER. My lord, Your cousin. Is my face so changed with care, My body shrunken with my suffering (That was not ever of the body) so? WOLFRAM. I know you, my old friend! Our chiefest bird ! Sweetest of singers ! TANNHAUSER. No, the naughty one! HEINRICH. Tannhauser! Yes! you dead. And we have thought LANDGRAVE. Friends, will you swear to him? HEINRICH. Yes, yes, ‘tis he! WOLFRAM. I know the blithe look in the sober eyes ! LANDGRAVE, Changed verily. It was most urgent, cousin…
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…ly The unconsuméd bush where God privily. lurks IX. This was a dream—and how may I attain? How make myself a worthy acolyte? How from my body shall my soul take flight, Being constrained in this devouring chain Ofselfishness? Tow purge the spirit quite Of gross desires That eat into the heart with their corrupting fires ? Old Buddha gave command ; Jehovah spake ; Strange distant gods that are not dead to- day Added their voices ; ITeaven’s desart way Man wins not but by sorrow—let him break The golden image with the feet of clay !! Let him desp…
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…im that saith: “*T will!” Droop lower to my knees ! Sink gently to the leopard’s skin !1 I must not stoop and take my ease, Or touch the body lithe and thin. Bright body of the myriad smiles, Sweet serpent of the lower life, The smooth silk touch of thee defiles, The lures and languors of a wife. Slip to the floor, I must not turn : There is a lion in the way !? The stars of morning rise and burn: I seek the dim supernal day! Sleep there, nor know me gone: sleep there And never wake, although God’s breath Catch thee at midmost of the prayer Of …
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…eawind tunes, The song that soars, and reads the starry runes, And swoons ! None but the dead can tune the lyre of love! Come, love, thy body serpentine and bright ! What love is this, the heart of sombre light, Impossible, and therefore infinite? Sheer height ! None but the dead can twine the limbs of love ! Come, love! My body in thy passion weeps Tears keen as dewfall’s, salter than the deep’s. My bosom! leaps, And sleeps! None but the dead can sleep the sleep of love! How its fortress wakes, and Come, love, caress me with endearing eyes! Li…
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… That bound our passion with an iron hand. DE PROFUNDIS.! BLoob, mist, and foam, then darkness. On my eyes Sits heaviness, the poor worn body lies Devoid of nerve and muscle ; it were death Save for the heart that throbs, the breast that sighs. The brain reels drowsily, the mind is dulled, Deadened and drowned by noises that are lulled By the harsh poison of the hateful breath. All sense and sound and seeming is annulled. 1 Composed while walking home through the starry streets from an evil evening in St. Petersburg, Vv. 1-3 are the feelings, v…
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Passion to feed upon your shoulders bare, And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair That clothe my body from your head; you win The devil’s bargain; Tam yours to kill, Yours, for one kiss; my spirit for your skin! O bitter love, consuming all my will! O love destroying, that hast drained my life Of all those fountains of dear blood that fll My heart! wife ? Would I content you with one touch divine To flood your spirit with the clinging strife O woman, would I call you Of perfect passionate joy, the joy of wine, Th…
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…ves? A strong man sobbing! The earth quakes Responsive. Hillo-ho! there? [TANNHAUSER enters. He appears old and worn; but from his whole body radtates a dazzling light, and his face ts that of the Christ cruct- Who comes by fred. Save us, Saints, save us! I have looked on God ! TANNHAUSER. Heinrich! my friend, my old true-hearted friend ! Fear not ! Iam not ghost, but living man ! Ah me, ah me, the sorrow of the world ! HEINRICH. Thou, Tannhauser ! what miracle is this? Your body glows—with what unearthly light ? TANNHAUSER, I did not know. Ah!…
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…at Fat. And so I violated Death, and died ; But in the other land my spirit cried For incarnation : conquering I came Within my soulless body as a flame. Endowing which with sacred power I sought A little while, as thought that seeks for thought. [ found his changeless love endure as mine, His passion curl around me as a vine. So clinging fibres of desire control My perfect body, and my perfect soul Shot flakes of light toward him. So my eyes, Seeking his face, were made divinely wise. So, solemn, silent, ’mid a merry folk I bound him by my for…
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…oftness of her skin. Her pleasures and her passions purr For the delight I have of her. Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons; my eyes Absorb her eyelids’ lazy light, And read her bosom to devise I'resh blossoms of the heart of hell And secret joys of Jezebel. Her lips are fastened to my breast To suck out blood in feverish tides ; The token of her I possessed, Still on my withered cheek abides. Thus slowly the desire grows To kill and have her yet—who knows? Part II. T know. When Ramoth-Gilead's field Grew bloody with ho…
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…kwards: Tem. o. h. p. ab. =Templi omnium hominum pacis pater (Heb. Ab, father). Some assert the word to be really a synthesis of a great body of secret doctrine, discoverable by any one who knows the Qabalistic meaning of each letter. Fall down, my baby ; worship him with me. There, go; I give you to his monster kisses ! Take her, my God, my God, my infamy, My love, my master! take the fruit of me! — Shrieks every soul and every demon hisses ! Out ! out ! the ghastly torches of the feast ! Let darkness hide us and the night discover The shamele…
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130 JEZEBEL; AND OTHER TRAGIC POEMS The desert wind my body burns, The voice of flesh consumes my soul; My body towards the city turns, My spirit seeks its fierier goal ; In wells of heaven to quench my thirst, And take God’s hand among the first. I conquered self; I grew at last A prophet chosen of the Lord ; I blew the trumpet’s iron blast That called on Zimri Omri’s sword; My voice inflamed the fiery steel That was to smite upon Jezreel. And now, I haste from yonder sands, With fervour filled, to say God’s doom To Ahab of the bloody hands, T…
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…ay of this house of Hell? VENUS. Thou canst not find it! Fool! TANNHAUSER. And yet I will. 1 Which would have given her power to use his body as an habitation, according to legend. VOL. I. VENUS. Meanwhile my chant shall tremble in the air, And rack thy limbs with poison, wither up The fine full blood, breed serpents in thy heart, And worms to eat thee. Living thou shalt be A sensible corpse, a walking sepulchre. Come, come, Apollyon! Come, my Aggereth !} Belial, cheat his ears and blind his eyes ! Come, all ye tribes of serpents and foul fish …
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…irst breath the gods were patient still, Till the abomination filled its cup, And hatred took her heart. She slew thy sire, And made his body the banquet of her sin In the infernal temple. ‘‘ So,” she said, ‘*T reap the incarnation of the god.” So, gloomy and hideous, she would prowl about Seeking fresh human feasts, and bloody rites Stained the white altar of the world. And yet [fer power is gone, and we behold her go, Haggard and weary, through the palace courts And through the temple, lusting for strange loves And horrible things, and thirst…
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…ked me down, And mocked me through the highways of the town, And brought me where they sang to censers swung A grotesque hymn before her body brown. For Sin was like a woman, and her feet Shone, and her face was like the windy wheat ; Her eyes cold, Her bronze loins girdled with the sacred gold ; Her lips were large, and from afar how sweet ! Ilow fierce and purple for a kiss to hold! were keen and horrible and But somehow blood was black upon them; blood In stains and clots and splashes; and the mud Trampled around her by the souls that knelt,…
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… To carry up the prayer, as incense teems Skyward, to those immeasurable streams ! Breathe the creative Sigh upon my mouth That even the body may become the soul: Cry, as the chainéd Eagle of the South, ‘* A house of death,” ! and make my spirit whole! Touch with pure balm the five mysterious wounds ! Come! come away! but not your mighty sounds !2 O wind of all the world! O silent river ! O sea of seas! O flower of all the flowers O fire! O spirit! Beam thou on for ever Through zons of illimitable hours ! Kiss thou my forehead, let thy tender b…