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…ses Through sickly wastes and burning wilder- nesses To the lascivious shade of Ida’s deep re- cesses. FAIRER than woman blushing at the kiss Of young keen Phoibos, whose lips’ nectar is More fresh than lies, whose divine embrace Flushes the creamy pallor of her face, And, even in those depths of azure sea Where her eyes dwell, bids them glint amorously, While the intense hushed music of his breath Sighs, till her longing grows divine as death— So, fairer far, drew dawn on Ida’s grove. The young sun rose, whose burning lips of love Kissed the g…
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…e sea shot through With golden glances of a fiercer star. Turn to me, bend above me, you may char These olive shoulders with an old-time kiss, And fix thy mouth upon me for such bliss Of sudden rage rekindled, Turn again, And make delight the minister of pain, And pain the father ofa new delight, And light a lamp of torture for the night Too grievous to be borne without a cry To rend the very bowels of the sky And make the archangel gasp—a sudden pang, Most like a traveller stricken by the fang Of the black adder whose squat head splings up, A …
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…ERCY. Iam going away, Esmé. - I shall see you often. When you think of me I shall always be with you. One day you will come to me, Esmé! Kiss me! Your kisses must finish my poem. One day your pen must finish it. ESME. You know I cannot write a line. Oh, how sorry I am for that ! PERCY [Zo VAUGHAN]. Good-bye, my dear, dear friend. Take care of Esmé for me. [ shall watch over her myself, I and God together. She is so frail and white, and she understands. She sees my soul, and IIeaven is always open to her eyes when she looks up, and she is so bea…
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… above the sea With song more noble, the divinest potion Of poet’s wonder and bard’s melody. Delight, thou Moon, to ARCHAIS, Cold is the kiss of the stars to the sea, The kiss of the earth to the orient grey That heralds the day ; Warmer the kiss of a love that is free As the wind of the sea, Quick and resurgent and splendid. CIARICLES, Night her bright bow-string has bended ; last flies her arrow unsparing Through the beech-leaves, “lsther it cleaves Rapid and daring. Ah! how it strikes as with silver! how the sun’s laughter is ended ! ARCHAIS…
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…ve lived in all this year? Or is it that you do not under- stand? Or are you sorry? Or are you glad ? | ESME. Iam very, very glad. [7#ey kiss. af littl: cloud passes across the moon wethout dimming tls hrévhiness.| Vercy! Percy! PERCY. My wife, my own wife, will you kiss me? EsME. Iam too happy to kiss you ! PERCY. [’smé, my Esmé. And we will write our poem now together. FisM&£. I cannot write ; we will live our poem now together. PERCY. Dear heart, dear heart! And she will give us light, our dear moon out yonder, always a pure cold light: and …
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…t me see your face Or hear your voice or touch you. Ah! the hour! Fle moves. Come back, come back, my life’s one flower ! Come back. One kiss before you leave me. So! Stop—turn—one little kiss before you go ; It is my right—you must. Ohno! Ohno! EPILOGUE. To die amid the blossoms of the frost On far fair heights; to sleep the quiet sleep Of dead men underneath the snowy steep Of many mountains ; ever to have lost These cares and these distrusts 3 to lie alone, Watched by the distant eagle’s drowsy wing, Stars and grey summits, and the winds tha…
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ACELDAMA 5 And lose ourselves, together, far above . The highest heaven, in one sweet lover’s kiss, So sweet, so strong, That with it all my soul should unto him belong. XXIV. An ecstasy to which no life respends, Is the enormous secret I have learned : When self-denial’s furnace- flame has burned Through love, and all the agonising bonds That hold the soul within its shell are turned ‘To water weak ; ‘hen may desires obtain the cypress crown they seek. XXV. Browning attained, I think, when Evelyn Hope Gave no response to his requickening kiss …
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…me the last illusion !—She is gone! VENUS. Save me, my knight! To thy sufficing arms I cling in this distress of womanhood ! TANNHAUSER, Kiss me the last time. VENUS. Whom have I but thee, Thee in the ages? Barren were my bliss And shorn my Godhead of eternal joy, Barred from thy kiss. TANNHAUSER. Call not thyself again Goddess. I saw thee in the Presence there. The scales are fallen, and mine eyes see clear. VENUS. Then you would leave me! Serpent if I were, My cvils should press in dolorous delight Thy straining bosom, and my kiss were death!…
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…ent Builds its own mystic monument, And carves above its vaulted tomb The Phoenix on her fery plume, To their own souls to testify Their kisses’ immortality. THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE. O CRIMSON cheeks of love’s fierce fever ! O amber skin, electric to the kiss ! O eyes of sin! O bosom of my bliss ! Sorrow, the web, is spun of Love the weaver. Twelve moons have circled in their seasons 3 The earth has swept, exultant, round the sun$ Our love has slept, and, sleeping, made us one: The thirteenth moon, be sure, the time o1 treasons! Another spirit …
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…m For dear and delicate delight? whose The lips that halt and choose The very centre of my mouth, and meet In one supreme and conquering kiss, and cleave Unto the wound they leave, Bringing all heart’s blood to one house, too sore and sweet? And Who rageth as a lioness bereaved, If, fora moment’s breathing space, I move Back from the purple where her bosom heaved, Back from the chosen body that I love? Whose lips cling faster still In desperate sweet will? Whose body melts as fire caught in wine Into the clasping soul? Whose breathing breasts c…
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… as the dew, Red flowers too queenly for a mortal name ! The sea is pregnant with green stars; the land, The sky, like lovers stand With kiss half-consciously exchanged, hand fast in hand. O lovers fair and free, the wings of peace Bear this voice onward ; linger as you will By moon-wrought glades, and softly mur- muring seas, Lands white with summer, and the guiet leas ! Linger, and let no word of music thrill Your hearts; young love is all the harp ye need : Your kiss in very deed Is keen to echo song well tuned from Milton’s reed. O lovers, …
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…of our loyal isle, Gur hands reach out to you, our lips are fain To wreathe with yours in one delicious smile Of budding love, to grow a kiss awhile, And laugh like bride and groom, and kiss again ! Let our alliance like a marriage stand, Supreme from strand to strand, The likeness of our love, the clasp of hand in hand. And men who come behind us yet unborn, Nor dimly guessed at down the brook of time, Shall celebrate the brave undying morn When the free nations put aside their scorn For friendship, rock no sundering surge may climb, the sea, …
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… bliss. Love, God be with you! He is overhead And watches us, that nothing be amiss— Love! our hearts bleed as one in the last lingering kiss. Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye! the echo rings A harsh, jarred sound in my self-tortured ears, And agony, a fount of blood, upsprings And tears our bosoms with dividing fears. The cruel sea its final billow rears And I must pass to seek an unknown sky; We dare not see each other's face for tears, And the last kisses—Did we. only die! Love! Ah! Onekiss! Onekiss ! One kiss ! Good-bye, Good-bye! A SPRING SNOW…
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…y Mars my world’s wisdom. (Szddenly.) Can you tell me why I loved you as a child, and why I dare Now take your head between my hands and kiss Your forehead with these shameful lips of mine, These harlot lips, and kiss you unashamed? ULRIC. Strange are these words, and this emotion strange ! CORA. Strange is the truth, and deadly as an asp. ULRIc. Wear me no more with this anxiety. CoRa. How can I speak? For this will ruin us. ULRIc. Unspoken, I demand thy heart of thee. CORA. My heart is_ broken. thine. This will murder ULRIc. Kill, but not tor…
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…e fire! VENUS. O shun her devilish lures ! That Beauty is the sole detested fear That can annul our conquests, and arouse Our rapt dream-kisses. TANNHAUSER. That is my intent. It is the spiritual life of things I seek—Thou knowest ! VENUS. Oh, I did not mean ! Remember my dilemma! Hear me speak The story of her. She is a wicked witch That seeketh to delude thy sleepy sense In vicious purpose and malignant hope To ape my Godhead. [ Thunder. TANNHAUSER. Thunder rolls again. I am uneasy. VENUS. Feed it not at all! May not my servants of the elemen…
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48 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT THE STORM. In the storm that divides the wild night from the passionate kiss of the morn- ing Stands there a tower by the sea un- shaken by wave and by wind ; Lightning assails, and the sea breaks-vain on the battlements, scorning Even to fling back the foam shattered before and behind ; Save for one window its height rears up unbroken and blind. tere may a man gaze out to the night by the stars of it stricken, Out to the blind black air that the lightning divides, and is dumb; Ifere, and look back in the tower’ where pal…
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…namoured of Just the one thing that is impossible. But in this carnal strife the Intimate Achieves for one snatched swiftness. me, love! Kiss TANNHAUSER. Ah, but the waking! As [ sink to sleep >illowed in nuptial arms —so fresh and cool— (Yet in their veins I know the fire that runs Racing and maddening from the crown of flame, The monolithic core of mystical Red fury that is called a woman’s heart) Sinking, I say, from the supreme embrace, The Good-night kisses; sinking into sleep-— What dreams betoken the dread solitude? VENUS. What dreams? A…
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…cks Long since, ere God did vex My soul with sacrifice. These press upon my lips What lips of flame To burn me, unless slips Some cooler kiss, from shame Washed clean by God’s desire, To save me from their fire— Those kiss me and respire The perfume of the Name.} Remorse and terror banished By pitying lovers, Who from my eyes have vanished, (The Lidless Eye ° discovers), Repenting souls that turn, Whose hearts with pity burn For me, who now discern Their love around me hovers. Their love wards from my head. The furious hate Of those loves doubl…
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…t I love thee ! 1 ‘The refercuce is to the five acts of the play. i | know what secret thought once blossomed Into a blush that seemed a kiss, Some swift suppressed extreme of bliss 'In thy most fearful sigh embosomed. What oracle should prate of this ? I know the secret thought that blossomed ! Extol the truth of love’s disdain ! Love, daring by no glance to gladden A heart that waits but that to madden In purple pleasure plucked of pain. | Nay! let our tears, that fail to sadden, . Extol the truth of love’s disdain ! Let deeper silence shield…
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…ed you so! My heart is like a fountain of the sea. I burn, I tremble; in my veins there swims A torrid ecstasy of madness. Ah! Ah God! I kiss you, kiss you! O you faint! Swectheart, my passion overwhelms your soul. Your virginal sweet spirit cannot reach My fury. You are silent. Yet you love! I read it in the terror of your eyes, The crimson of your burning face. I know you love me! me! O she will rough— My overmastering desire to you— My queen, my wife, this maddens me. I know, Cora, Cora, tell die! JI would not—I was CORA (recove: zig). You f…