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…an Splendours of the under sky ! If the loud infernal pcean Be our marriage-melody, We are careless, we Achzean Moulders of our destiny. Hell, it may be, for his playing, Renders Orpheus the decaying Love—in Hell, if Hell there be, I would seek Eurydice ! If she be the demon sister Of my brain's mysterious womb ; If she brand my soul and blister Me with kisses of the tomb; If she drag me where the bistre Vaults of Hell gape wide in gloom ; Little matter ! I have kissed her ! Little matter ! as a loom She has woven love around me, As with burnin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 192
THE GATE OF THE SANCTUARY 185 THE LESBIAN HELL. THE unutterable void of Ifell is stirred By gusts of sad wind moaning ; the inane Quivers with melancholy sounds unheard, Unpastured woes, and unimagined pain, And kisses flung in vain. Pale women fleet around, whose infinite Long sorrow and desire have torn their wombs, Whose empty fruitlessness assails the night With hollow repercussion, like dim tombs Wherein some vampire glooms. Pale women sister breast ; Lone sisterhood of voiceless melancholy That wanders in this Hell, desiring rest From tha…
1905 · PDF PAGE 61
54 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT Should rise and utter secrets of the tomb, And from hell’s womb Or heaven’s breast bring all the load of fears, Toils 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…
1905 · PDF PAGE 205
…oundest thought Was less than She I sought, It was as nought ! I drew my soul, I dived beneath the burning lake. Thrice, in the vault of Hell, my Word was born, Abortive, in the empty wilderness. False echoes, made malicious, turn to scorn The awful accents, the Supreme address. The Fourth, the final word ! All chaos shrank and heard The terror that vibrated in the breath. Hell, Death, and Sin must hear, Tremble and visibly fear, Shake the intangible chain that hungereth. That Mother of Mankind Sprang in the thunder-wind ! The strong words bind…
1905 · PDF PAGE 263
…as one dead : To loose the girders of the soul, and gain Breathing and life for the Intelligible; Find death, yet findit living. Deep as Hell I plunged the soul; by all blind Heaven unbound The spirit, freed, pierced through the maze profound, And knew Itself, an eagle for a dove. So in one man the height and deep of love Joined, in two states alternate (even so Are life and death)—shall one unite the two, My long impulsive strife? Did I find life ?. The real life—to know The ways of God. Alas! I never knew. Then came our Lady of the Sevenfold …
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
…131 Her hate, her scorn, her cruel blows, Fill my whole life, consume my breath ; Her red-fanged hatred in me glows, I lust for her, and hell, and death. I see that ghastly look, and yearn Toward the brands of her that burn. Sleep shuns me; dreams divide the night, (My parched throat thirsty for her veins) That she and I with deep delight Suck from death’s womb infernal pains, Whose fire consumes, destroys, devours Through night’s insatiable hours. And altogether filled with love, And altogether filled with sin, The little sparks and noises mov…
1905 · PDF PAGE 165
…old fingers snap the span Of three most innocent and pleasant lives. So terrible a happening dives Swift from God’s hand to the abyss of hell, And in its torment thrives, Gathering curses from the darkest cave, Calling corruption from the grave To form one shape of aspect multiple Divided in its single spell ; One spectre smooth and suave, More horrible than any fear or active doom, Beckoning with its lewd malignant finger, Beckoning, beckoning, to no pious tomb Where pitiable memory might linger. A creeping, living horror hems me in, A masterp…
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
…ouded, (By whom, and for whose sake ?) With visions dimly lighted, By its own shade affrighted, In its own light benighted, The doors of hell may shake. Unbidden spring the spectres (Whence come, where bound ?) To baffle those protectors Whose wings are broad around. Uprise they and upbraid, Till life shrinks back afraid, And death itself dismayed Sinks back to the profound. Unholy phantom faces (Of self? Of sin?) Grin wild in all the places Where blood is trodden in : The ground of night enchanted With deadly blooms is planted, Where evil beas…
1905 · PDF PAGE 10
…the thong Of lust’s imagining perversely dim That no man’s spirit may keep pace, so strong No Its pang must pierce} Nor all the pains of hell may be one tithe as fierce. XIII. All degradation, all sheer infamy, Thou shalt endure. Thy head beneath the mire And dung of worthless women shall desire As in some hateful dream, at last to lie; Woman must trample thee till thou respire That deadliest fume 31 The vilest worms must craw], the loathliest vampires gloom.* XIV. Thou must breathe in all poisons; for thy meat, Poison; for drink, still poison;…
1905 · PDF PAGE 111
…as when consciousness half rouses up And hurls back all the gibbering harpy crowd 3 And sleep’s draught deepeneth, And all the furies of hell’s belly sup In the brain’s palaces, and chant aloud Songs that foretaste of Death. Maddened, the brain breaks* from beneath the goad, Flings off again the foe, and from its hell Brings for a moment peace, Till weariness and her infernal load Of phantom memory-shapes return to quell The shaken fortresses. Till nature reassert her empery, And the full tide of wakefulness at last Foam on the shore of sleep T…
1905 · PDF PAGE 260
…hable Yet bounded, made time endless to transcend Man's thought to comprehend : Builded the Tower | Of life, and girded it with walls of hell, The name of Death. This limit in all things Baffles the spirit wings, Chains the swift soul; for even Death is bound. In its apparent amplitude I saw, I, who have slept through death, have surely found The old accurséd law, And death has changed to life. alone Shoots to the starry throne : That if man lack not purpose, but succeed, Reaching in very deed Impersonal existence ;—Lo! Man is made one with God…
1905 · PDF PAGE 181
…rcase with the stealthy tread Reverent, in presence of the silent place; Then you burned, afire, caught up the ghastly head, Looked like Hell right into it, and spat} upon the face ! O Madonna of the Golden Eyes! ‘‘Come with me,” you whispered, ‘‘ come, and let the moon Lend her light to madden us through the hours of pleasure ; Let thedayspring pass and brighten intonoon! Yet no limit find our love, nor passion find a measure !” O Madonna of the Golden Eyes! Dawn brought reason back, and the violet eyes are sadder :-— O they were golden once, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 209
…nal Plan, The right to hang on the eternal Cross! THE LORD’S DAY. THE foolish bells with their discordant clang Summon the harlot-ridden Hell to pray : The vicar’s snout is tuned, the curates bray Long gabbled lessons, and their noisy twang Kills the foul worshippers with hate ; the fang Of boredom crushes out the holy day, Where whore and jobber sit and gloom, grown grey For hating of each other ; the hours hang. But where cliffs tremble, and the wind and sea Clamour, night thunders from the roaring West ; I worship in the storm, and fires fle…
1905 · PDF PAGE 179
…usic infinitely fixed. Music that throbs, and soars, and burns, And breaks the possible, to dwell One moving monotone, nor turns, Making hell heaven, and heaven hell, The steady impossible song that yearns And brooks no mortal in its 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, Mi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 145
138 AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC Priestcraft and tyranny in this defeat Shake, and the walls of hell with fear re- sound ; The sun laughs gladlier on the heavier wheat, Because the fates must weave a winding- sheet At last for Fear. Who will deliver. brake, Lone wood, and sleepy lake, Are peopled with bright shapes that sing for freedom’s sale. Deliverers are found Mountain, stream, and Rocks, and pale fountains, and tall trees that quiver, And all the clouds that deck the sunset sky Move like the music of a mighty river Where ripples bre…
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…breasts tinctured with the south. For lo! the harlot Jezebel ! Her hands dropped perfume, and her tongue (A flame from the dark heart of hell, The ivory-barred mouth, that stung With unimaginable pangs) Shot out at me, and Hell fixed fangs. Her purple robes, her royal crown, The jewelled girdle of her waist, Her feet with murder splashed, and brown With the sharp lips that fawn and taste, The crimson snakes that minister To those unwearying lusts of her. And all her woman’s scent did drift A steam of poison through the air; The haze of sunshine…
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…urgle on the ground; I drop to drink, and hear the horrid strain Of chuckling devils, that grimace around, And think I catch the note of Hell’s three- headed Hound. Up still and staggering to the doubtful goal, Feet dragging horribly behind, I move Deathlike for dearth and for despair of soul ; At last Idrop. From Heaven there comes a Dove Bearing the semblance of the Man I love, And fountains and fresh grass by magic spell Are suddenly around me. And above I hear the voice my visions know so well : ‘Well striven all this day against the power …
1905 · PDF PAGE 47
…ars to tell, And every blade of grass that makes the dell Is counted and divined by me, who stare With eyes half blinded by the fires of Hell That my wild brain imagines everywhere, Roaring and raging round with red infernal glare. The yellow sand toward the deep sky extends: A dusky mirage would confuse my view ; Far, far away, where desolation ends, There is a water of serenest blue ; And by it stands, as patient and as true As in the past, his form to whom I turn, And break my bondage and would touch anew His holy lips; my body and spirit ye…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…r angels: the oppressive skies See them dislink from bodily form and shape, Unloved and unforgiven, Unwept, unpenitent, unshriven! Their hell of horror knows no gate of any escape. This tragedy is terrible to me. Even I, its spirit, shudder as I see ; I, passionless, the moulder of men’s hope, The slayer of them, cast no horoscope Divining what befell. And I am moved: Both love, and both are worthy to be loved. Ah Fate ! if thou hadst cast the dies Whence no appeal, in any other wise! I am the soul of the grim face of things : Mine are the Sphi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 199
… oracle, a shrine, A saviour! Yet my misty spirit conned The secret murmur: ‘‘ Gereth, Iam thine !” [ must have listened to the voice of hell. The earthly horror wove its serpent spell Against the Beauty of the World: I heard Desolate voices cry the doleful word “*Unready !”’ All the soul invisible Of that vast desert echoed, and concurred. The voices died in mystery away. I passed, confounded, lifeless as the clay, Somewhere I knew not. Many a dismal league Of various terror wove me its intrigue, And many a demon daunted: day by day Death dogg…