FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
78 matching pages
Page 1 of 41905 · PDF PAGE 218
…nds are flung In prayer to Heaven nay, to mine own crown, To raise myself, and not to drag it down !} O holiest Lord of the divine white flame Of brilliance sworded in the temple sky ! O thou who knowest my most secret name, Who whisperest when only thou and I Make up our universe: bestow thy kiss: Arise! Come, let us pierce the old abyss ! Rise! Move! Appear! Tet us go forth together, Into the solemn passionless profound, Into the darkness, and the thrilling weather, Into the silence louder than all sound, Into the vast implacable inane ! Come…
1905 · PDF PAGE 127
…t to spirit, with the like Insatiable desire, that never quenched, Nor lessened by sublime satiety, But rather crescent, hotter with the flame Of its own burning, that consumes it not, Because it is the pure white flame of God. I shudder, holding thee to me ; thy gaze Is still on me; a thousand years have passed, And yet a thousand thousand ; years they are As men count years, and yet we stand and gaze With touching hands and lips immutable As mortals stand a moment;... The universe is One: One Soul, One Spirit, One Flame, One infinite God, One…
1905 · PDF PAGE 258
TANNHAUSER 251 I sing not of that other flame of hell Wrapping with torture the delighted brow— But thou! who knowest, and hast known, so well, Sing thou ! [TANNHAUSER, entranced, imagines himself to be stillin Venusberg. TANNHAUSER (aszde). I have been dreaming that [I left this place, Escaped with life, wooed my Elizabeth; My dreams are always strange in Venusberg, [ Taking his harp. Sing thee again, dear lady, of our joy? Listen, then, listen! For some sombre finger, Other than mine, impulses on the string. This tune I knew not! See, the str…
1905 · PDF PAGE 22
… across the sea Stole sensuous breaths of Sapphic melody Ifrom the far strand of Lesbos; then there cume Into their eyes a new and awful flame Suddenly burning; now upon the beach The waves kept tune in unexpressive speech As the sad voice drew nigh ; the hero shrank Like one in awe ; the flame shot up and sank From the crimson-vestured altar; then the song Found in the wavering breeze from over sea a tongue. Here, on the crimson strand of blood-red waters, We, Cypris, not thy daughters, Clad in bright flame, filled with unholy wine, O Cypris, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 85
…he wheels unreturning that ran Return to the heart of the roses, And curl in the new blossom now, As the holiest fire that encloses Gray flame? on the holiest brow. So midnight with magic reposes, And slumbers to visions bow. For the soul of man, being free, shall pass the gates of God, | And_ the spirit find the Sea by the feet of clim ? untrod, And the flesh, a lifeless ember, in ashen fear vrow cold, As the lives before remember the perished hours of gold. [ xeunt all but JEPHTHAH. JEPHTHAH. Surely, my God, now I am left alone Kneeling befor…
1905 · PDF PAGE 267
…s these, as these ! HEINRICH. Speak, speak to me! Else, Iam feared. Why run these tears to earth ? Why shakes your bosom? Why does glory flame A crown, acincture? What befell you there ? TANNHAUSER. I came to Rome across the winter snows Barefoot, and through the lovely watered land Rich in the sunshine—even unto Rome. There knelt I with the other sinful folk At the great chair of Peter. Sobbed they out From full repentant hearts their menial sins, And got them peace. But I told brutally (Cynical phrase, contempt of self and him) My sojourn in …
1905 · PDF PAGE 208
THE HOLY PLACE 201 None may withstand the summons: like | The actual demon of my work is there ! dead flame Where is the glittering circle? Where, ah, Flares darkness deeper, and demandsits name. Mine eyes peer deeper in the quivering gloom— What horrors crowd upon the aching sight ! Behold! the phantom! Icy as the tomb, His head of writhing scorpions in the womb Of deadlier terrors: how a charnel-light Gleams on his beet!~ frame! What poison drips Of slime and blood from his disastrous lips ! What oceans of decaying water steam For his vast es…
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…quered 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, The spoiler of his father’s tomb, The slayer of the vineyard king. God’s judgment, and his fate, I bring. The city gleams afar; I see Samaria’s white walls on high ; The mountains echo back to me The vengeful murmur of the sky; All heaven and earth on me…
1905 · PDF PAGE 257
…y. [Szzys. He is the equal of the gods, my queen, He crowned and chosen out of men, Who sits beside thee, sees Love's laughing ecstasies Flame in thy face, and alter then To the low light of passion dimly seen In shaded woods and dells, Love’s wide demesne. But me! I burn with love! My lips are wan ! Thy face is turned—I flame! I melt! I fall! My heart is chilled and dark; My soul’s ethereal spark Is dulled for sorrow ; my despairs recall At last Thy name, O gracious Paphian, Lady of Mercy to the love of man ! Come, come, immortal, of the many …
1905 · PDF PAGE 38
…eep, We see our loved one, and vain eyes desire In vain to weep. Woeful our gaze, ifon lone Earth descendent, To view the absence of yon flame afar— Yetin the Heavens, anew, divine, resplendent, Behold a star! One light the less, that steady flamed and even Amid the dusk of Earth’s uncertain shore; One light the less, but in Jehovah’s ITeaven One star the more ! 1 A maternal aunt of the poet. THE QUEST. APART, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: The silence of deep heigh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 58
… wrought at his behest : And on his forehead, lo! a star, And on his breast. And on his feet I knew the sandals were More beautiful than flame, and white, And on the glory of his hair The crown of night. And I beheld his robe, and on its hem Were writ unlawful words to say, Broidered like lilies, with a gem More clear than day. And round him shone so wonderful a light As when on Galilee Jesus once walked, and clove the night, And calmed the sea. I scarce could see his features for the fire That dwelt about his brow, Yet, for the whiteness of my…
1905 · PDF PAGE 11
…he ecstasy, the trance of love— Life’s atom-bonds must strain—aye, and must move, And all the body be forgotten quite, And the pure soul flame forth, a deathless dove, Where all worlds end ! If thou art worthy God shall greet thee for a friend. XVII. Iam unworthy. In the House of Pain There are ten thousand shrines. Each one enfolds A lesser, inner, more divine, that holds A sin less palpable and less profane. The inmost is the home of God. Te moulds Infinity, The great within the small, one stainless unity! XVIII. I dare not to the greater sin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 61
…of long years, Sorrows of life and agonies of death, Hard caught-up breath, The labouring hands of love, the cheeks of shame, The gloomy flame Of lust, the cruel torment of desire More than hell fire, And bid them fade, as if the bryony Let her flower die, And banished them through space, as if a star Dropped through the far Vault of the sky, and, as a lamp extinct With blood-red tinct, Went out. So lonely in mysterious night A wild, strange light Flickers around the sacred head of man, And bids him scan The scroll of heaven, and see if there b…
1905 · PDF PAGE 41
…nity, thou sphere All-comprehensive, all-mysterious, Spirit of Life and Death, bow down and hear ! [Bends deeper and prays silently. The flame grows duller, and finally leaves the room in ab- solute darkness. Curtazz. SONNETS TO NIGHT. I. O NIGHT ! the very mother of us all, For from thy hollow womb we children came, A little space to flicker as a flame, And then within thy tender arms to fall Tired, fain of nothing but to lie at last Upon thy bosom, and gaze in thine eyes Clear, calm, dispassionate, supremely wise, And pass with thee the gates…
1905 · PDF PAGE 52
… wicked breath, And no angel warns the eur that this is death ? Is this fiend the Love that came when youth rose up Purple with its holy flame, and flower-fair cup, Gave me of his burning wine to fire my heart, Filled me with desires divine toward my art? Is he then the Love who robs me of my aim, Doubts me if my heart still throbs with that cold flame, 1 The Succubus, and its male counterpart the Incubus, bulk Jargely in medizeval litera- ture and philosophy. The poem explains itself, Calm and eager purpose yet to reach the goal That high hope…
1905 · PDF PAGE 179
…s swell— This monotone immortal lips Make in our infinite eclipse ! Formless, above all shape and shade ; Lampless, beyond all light and flame ; Timeless, above all age and grade ; Moveless, beyond the mighty name ; A mystic mortal and a maid, Filled with all things to fill the same, To overflow the shores of God, Mingling our proper period. The agony is passed: behold How shape and light are born again ; How emefald and starry gold Burn in the midnight ; how the pain Of our incredible marriage-fold And bed of birthless travail wane ; And how o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 129
122 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC A SONNET OF BLASPHEMY. EXALTED over earth, from hell arisen, There sits a woman, ruddy with the flame Of men’s blood spilt, and her uncleanly shame, And the thrice-venomous vomit of her prison. She sits as one long dead: infernal calm, Chill hatred,- wrap her in their poisonous cold. She careth not, but doth disdainly hold Three scourges for man’s soul, that know no balm. They know not any cure. The first is Life, A well of poison. Sowing dust and dung Over men’s hearts, the second scourge, abuve All shameful…
1905 · PDF PAGE 227
…Hail to Thee, Lord of us, Horus!! All hail to the warrior name! Thy chariots shall drive them before us, Thy sword sweep them forth as a flame. Rise! Move! and descend! I behold Thee, Heaven cloven of fieriest bars, Armed Light; and they follow and fold Thee, Thine armies of terrible stars. The Powers of Mars ! At the brightness that leapeth before Thee, The heavens bow down at Thine ire ; Thick clouds pass to death and adore Thee, Wild hailstones and flashings of fire. The mountains of Ages are shattered ; Perpetual hills are bowed down ; The …
1905 · PDF PAGE 236
TANNITAUSER 229 Iam the Grail and I the Glory now: I am the flame and fuel of thy breast ; I am the star of God upon thy brow ; Tam thy queen, enraptured and possessed, Hide thee, sweet river; welcome to the sea, Ocean of love that shall encompass thee ! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! [TANNHAUSER perceives that he ts in the palace of a Great Queen. Rise, rise, my knight! My king! My love, arise ! See the grave avenues of Paradise, The dewy larches bending at my breath, Portentous cedars prophesying death! ¢ See…
1905 · PDF PAGE 225
…t. Lo! I have written all the destinies Thy spirit bade me write. The noise of rushing water! And the sound Of tenfold thunder! Mighty a flame of fire Roars downward: asa maiden from a swound My spirit answers to its own desire. My feet are firm again upon the ground— Vea! but my head is higher. My face is shining with the fire of heaven. I move among my fellows as a ghost. With thought for bread and memory for leaven My life is nourished, yet my life is lost. I live and move among the starry seven, Nor count the deadly cost. Only I see the cen…