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…y the kisses of slum- bering maids ; The nymph and the satyr, the fair and the faulty alike are the guests of these amorous shades 3 The hour of Love flickers and falters and : fades. Oh, listen, my love, to the song of the brook, its murmurs and cadences, trills and low chords ; Hark to its silence, that prelude of wonder| ringing at last like the clamour of swords That clash in the wrath of the warring of lords. Listen, oh, listen! the nightingale near us swoonsa farewell tothe blossoming brake; Listen, the thrush in the meadow is singing not…
1905 · PDF PAGE 155
… wander in the deep, or made secure As the high throne of her that dwells in heaven, Fruitful for life and death, Wisdom her name ! This hour the foolish ones shall see their souls Shrink at my manifest deity. This night My spirit on my spirit shall beget Myself for my own child. Behold! they come, Fantastically moving through the dance, The many mourners, and the fatal bier Looms in the dimness of the anteroom. It is enough. My hour is at hand! CHORUS exter and ctrcumarntbulate. Even as the traitor’s breath Goeth forth, he perisheth By the sec…
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) 220 CARMEN SAECULARE In the hour of Revolt that burns nigher Each hour as it leaps to the sky, We look to Thee, Lord, for Thy Fire ; We look—shall Thy Justice deny? Well, can we not die? But Thou, Thou shalt fall from the heaven As hail on the furious host. I see them : their legions are driven ; Their cohorts are broken and lost. Thy fire hath dispersed them and shattered ! They hesitate, waver, and flee! The tyrant is shaken and scattered, And Ireland is clear to the Sea! Green Erin is free! Hail! Hail to Thee, Lord of us, Horus!! All hail …
1905 · PDF PAGE 90
… JARED [aszde]. In our disgrace, behold! our vengeance strikes. I am inspired with so profound a hate— He shall not triumph: in the very hour When his o’ermastering forehead tops the sky I strike him to the earth. I need not move. Silence—no more—and all accomplishes. Leviathan, how subtle is thy path ! CHORUS. Not now may the hour of gladness fade, The wheel of our fate spins bright and beaming. God has fashioned a sun from shade. Mercy and joy in one tide are streaming. Fortune is powerless, to all good seeming. Fate is stricken, and flees af…
1905 · PDF PAGE 165
…an’s spirit in its shade, And make him, in his pride and happiness, In virtue’s mantle and love’s seemly dress, Immeasurably afraid. The hour is on them—let its weight express All blood, all life, from the disastrous grape! In God, in mercy, there is no escape, No anchor for distress. The hour strikes mournfully upon the bell Of the most awful precipice ‘That.merges hell in hell. There is deep silence in that dread abyss ; There is deep silence in the sphered sun ; There is deep silence where the planets run, Majestic fires! Before the throne o…
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…ill his rage Have lost its first excess—then may we wage A more successful war against his power.” But Charicles: “Shall I for one short hour Fly from his tyranny? Am I such man As should flee from him? Let the pale and wan Women have fear—in strength of justice, I {lis vain fierce fury do this hour defy !” There shot through Heaven an awful tongue of fire, Attended by its minister, the dire Black thunder. In clear accents, cold and chill, There sounded: ‘‘ Boldest mortal, have thy will! I do reverse the doom of Archais And lay it on thyself; n…
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…AH. 1899. sie) GERALD KELLY, POET AND PAINTER, I DEDICATE THIS TRAGEDY. CAMBRIDGE, November, 18098. JEPHTHAH. ‘*Let my Lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphear The spirit of Plato, to unfold What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those Dzemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With Planet, or with Element. Some time let Gorgeous …
1905 · PDF PAGE 160
…ror of the Egyptian land! [ Zhe soldiers salute and cheer. I am a leper: get ye hence! [Axeunt soldiers. Unclean! [Sz/ence. This was the hour that my ambitious hopes Centred upon: and now I grasp the hour— So fares mortality. [ Selence. Unclean ! unclean ! CURTAIN,
1905 · PDF PAGE 143
…agle} The faith of friendship stands the shocks aspires of time 5 To match the sun’s own fires, Seal with your voice the triumph of this hour, Children of our Jand, hear the children of | Your glory to our glory and our power, your sires. Alliance of one tongue, one faith, one clime ! Seal and clasp hands; and let the sea pro- We stretch out hands to-day when the white claim wings . 4 Friendship of righteous fame, ol eace are spread heneath you and your And lordship of two worlds that time can oe. never tame. O race of men that slay the slaves …
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…ed purple, round and sweet, Rich golden wheat Of night ! Pll kiss thee, lotus-flower, I'll pluck thee, yellow grain, Once and again This hour. There coos a dove to me Across the waves of space} O passionate face To see! I’ll woo thee, silver dove, Caress thee, lotus-flower; It is the hour Of Love. Cypris blushed deep; albeit for love did swoon At the song’s sweetness, while the cold dead moon Was still and pale; her nymphs are fain to sigh ‘With sudden longing filled, and like to die For vain delight, for still across the sea Stole sensuous bre…
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… of my damnation deep, Mine, if you will, as once your glances willed ! Take me, or break me, slay or soothe to sleep, If only yours one hour, vue perfect hour, Remembrance and despair and hope to steep In the infernal potion of that flower, My poisonous passion for your blood! Behold ! How utterly I yield, how gladly dower Our sin with my own spirit’s quenchéd gold, Clothe love with my own soul’s immortal power, Give thee my body as a fire to hold— O love, no words, no songs—your breast my bower ! A SAINT'S DAMNATION 133 LOT. ‘And while he lin…
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…bedeck the bed. | A| swifl white arrow at some recreant Lift up thine head ! star. For night is here, a dragon, to devour The slow sweet hour Filled with all smoke of incense, and the praise More loud than day’s That swings its barren censer in the sky And asks to die Because the sea will hear no hollow moan Beyond its own, Because the sea that kissed dead Sappho! sings Of strange dark things— Shapes of bright breasts that purple as the sun Grows dark and dun, Of pallid lips more haggard for the kiss Of Salmacis,? Of eager eyes that startle for…
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…E AMOROUS MOUNTAIN. To love you, Love, is all my happiness 5 Yo kill you with my kisses: to devour Your whole ripe beauty in the perfect hour That niagles us in one supreme caress 3 To drink the purple of your thighs ; to press Your beating bosom like a living flower3 To die in your embraces, in the shower Thatdews like death your swooning loveliness To knew you love me; that your body leaps With the quick passion of your soul; to know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so ; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps 5-- Ah tin the very tri…
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THE HOLY OF HOLIES 207 TO ALLAN BENNETT MACGREGOR.! O MAN of Sorrows: brother unto Grief! O pale with suffering, and dumb hours of pain! OQ worn with Thought ! springs again The Soul of Resurrection: thou art chief And lord of all thy mind: O patient thief Of God’s own fire! What mysteries find fane In the white shrine’ of thy white spirit’s reign, Thou man of Sorrows: O, beyond belief! thy purpose Let perfect Peace be with thee: let thy days Prosper in spite of thine unselfish soul ; And as thou lovest, so let Love increase Upon thee and about…
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… was softer than a virgin’s eyes: ‘Go! my true knight: for thither, thither lies The only road for thee ; thou hast a prayer Walted each hour—my spirit will be there !” Too late I knew what subtle Paradise [Ter dreams and prayers portend: too fresh, too fair! I turned more wretched than myself knew yet. + I told my nameless pain I should forget Its shadow as it passed. The king did start, Gripped my strong hands, and held me to his heart, And could not speak a moment. set A curb on sorrow and subdued its dart. Then he ‘Go! and the blessing of h…
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… I am waiting, watching still The treason of the powers of ill. Soft, moveless, as a tigress glides, Strange laughing devilry abides Its hour to poison. How they gloat, The fiends, upon her lips and throat ! They touch her heart, they speer/ her eyes, They linger on the lovely prize ! O dead she thought them! It is written: ‘¢ Eve’s heel is by the serpent bitten, His head she bruises.” No indeed ! Not woman, but the woman’s seed ! Hark ! in the cloak of ‘‘ Love of Truth” They whisper ‘‘ Memory of Youth” ; And, mindful of the deadliest sin, Hint…
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…seer Came to avenge, that might deliver him From this grim fight, whose horrid ranks are dim With mist of spuméd blood, whose long chill hour Beats out each second with the ghastly power, Reluctant tillthe morning. Shall they cease, These black battalions, and the dawn bring peace To a head holier? Or shall he succumb, Fight through long agonies and perish dumb, Sword gripped hard to the last? or shall he fall | Recreant, coward, and no more at all Reach the dim martyr-hall of heroes? Yet The surging shapes gape hideous, to heget Fresh arméd fo…
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…e: so fidgets about and does nothing. It is not illness that hath made them mad. I cannot guess what storm has lashed itself Thus in one hour from peace and happiness To such a fury that the very room Seems to my fancy to be tossed about, Rocking and whirling on some dizzy sea. There is a horrible feeling in the air. [She shudders SPIRIT OF TRAGEDY. [During this speech sighs, crtes, voices Jrom without indicate the action, The keystone of this arch of misery Is set by the unfaltering hands Of Fate. How desperate the anarchy Wrought in one hour …
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… are Chary to ask too much---didst thou refuse Kither my honour or thy love to lose Were a hard portion, for in sooth I love.’ ‘Ah happy hour, sweet moment! Fairest vrove Of all fair Ida, thou hast sealed my bliss Then with one long intense unpitying kiss Pressed on her bosom, he arose and swore By heaven and earth and all the seas that roar And stars that sing, by rivers and fresh flood, By his own essence, by his body and blood, To lay his godhead down, till night drew nigh, To be a mortal Ul the vesper cry Of dying breezes. So the morning pa…
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…e orderly ruling of events Shall change and blossom to a finer flower Until it serve to worlds and elements For aspiration in the nobler hour— Not mere repression, but the hope and crown Of fallen hierarchies no more cast down. O misery of triple love and grief And hope! O joy of hatred and despair And happiness! The little hour is brief, And the lithe fingers soothe the listless hair Less, and the kisses swoon to tenderer sighs And little sobs of sleeping ecstasies. No! for the envy of the infinite Crushes the juice from out the poppy’s stem, …