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… thou whose bedy is one perfect prayer, One long regret, one agony of shame, Lost in the fragrance, speeding, subtle and rare, Up to the sky, an avenue of Hamc! My soul, thy body, in the same sin curled, With vivid lust annihilate the world. A WVODLAND IDYLL. FResH breath from the woodland blows sweet O’er the flowery path we are roaming, On the dimples of light lover’s feet In the mystical charm of the gloaming, Yvonne! On the buds that blush bright as we meet In the mystical charm of the gloaming ! A tear for the stars of the night, And a smi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 51
…the storm Lofty and multiform Close the bright glimpse of summer and the hope of everything, Silence her throne assumes, Stars mount the sky, and looms The misty monarch of the dale on high : About the silver fect I worship, as is meet, The warrior God that fixed sky, Rent the cavernous earth, Moulded in awful birth The terror of the cloudy canopy, And tore from underground The lake’s immense profound, And clad the mountains now with this faint snow embroidery. the curved Now the white flakes decrease. Wastwater lies in peace, Kissed by the bre…
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…leep,” that blest' Dove flies away, the fountains are re- pressed, 1 J,e,, to serve as a direction. The grass is withered, and the angry sky Rages more fierce that day, and from the crest Of black foul mountains comes a bitter cry: ** He that returneth now shall in destruction die.” So I press on. day Girds up my loins and beckons me on high. So I depart upon the desert way, So I strive ever toward the copper sky, With lips burnt black and blind in either eye. I move for ever to my mystic goal Where I may drain a fountain never dry, And of Life…
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…ht And poets’ dreams, and jewels of virgin sighs. Hark ! the broad rings of sound go wavering on Eddying and rippling through the desart sky That now is peopled with the diamond wings That float through all the palaces of God. O now to join them rise the armies vast Of the lone spirits of the empty tomb, And there I see the lovers piteous Splendidly flash within the silver sphere Of light, and there I lose them at the last Most wonderfully passed within the veil Of Time ; caught up into the Infinite. Lay them together. And the hollow hill Shall…
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
134 W hose |bowers of“flame shall tell the sky of God How we despised his feet) with thunder shod, And conquered, clasping, all the host) of death. Turn to me, touch me, mix thy very breath With mine to mingle floods of fiery dew With flames of purple, the 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 deligh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 92
…ds that kiss the sea With heavy lashes drooping over it, A mother watching her own daughter swoon To sleep. But look toward the southern sky ; It is my father. Let us go to him, Maidens, with song and gladness of full hearts. SEMICHORUS OF MAIDENS I. The conqueror rides at last To home, to love; The victory is past, The white-wing dove Sails through the crystal air of eve with a pean deep and vast. Jephthah ! SEMICHORUS OF MAIDENS II. Forth, maidens, with your hands White with new lilies ! Forth, maidens, in bright bands, Virgins whose one swee…
1905 · PDF PAGE 66
… something that I couldn’t say before, because my heart choked me. oSME. Come out, Percy, the moon is so white, looking out of the black sky. The sky is quite black near the moon; only far down where there are no more bright stars it is a deep, deep blue. It is bluer and deeper than the sea, PERCY. It is like your eyes. [Comes oud into corridor.) Esmé! I have looked into your eyes as your eyes look into ifleaven, and thereI have found my Ileaven. O serene depths! O faultless face of my desire! O white brow too clear! I sin against your holiness…
1905 · PDF PAGE 249
…heir pangs begin ! I have one word, one cry, one exorcism : Avé Maria ! VENUS. Mercy! Mercy, God! [ Zhunder rolls in the lightning-riven sky. All the illusion vanishes, and TANNHAUSER finds himself in a cross-way of the forest, where is a Crucifix. eis kneeling at the foot, amazed, as one awakening from a dream, orfrom aviston of mysterious power. "TANNHAUSER. I am escapéd as a little bird Out of the fowler’s net. I thank Thee, God! For in the pit of horror, and the clay Of death I cried, and Thou hast holpen me, Set me upon a rock, established…
1905 · PDF PAGE 131
… On the cold rocks of yonder icy isle, And your sire’s passion must forget the chase As I forget, the moment that you smile, And sea and sky are brighter for your face— I hear the sound of many oars ; perchance Your father’s, but within this iron place The heavy dragons will not dare advance Where our light vessel barely skimmed the rock : Their anger may grow cool, the while they dance Like fools before the bar we crossed, and mock Pursuit. Behold! one dragon strikes the reef, ) Breaks in the midst before the dreadful shock, Shattered and stri…
1905 · PDF PAGE 190
…hed ancestral bird ; Biack are its plumes, its eyes melancholy, It speaks no word. Like to a star, deep beauty’s avatar 2 Pales in the dusky skies so far above : Seven rays of gladness crown its passionate Star, One heart of love. ! This poem is partially composed on Mr. Poe's scheme of verse—zzde ‘‘ The Philosophy of Composition.”—A, C. * Incarnation, The fringing trees, marge of deep-throated Seas, Move as I walk: lke spectres whispering The spaces of them: let me leave the trees— It is not spring ! Spring —no! but dying autumn fast and flyin…
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…r sprang here Within this soul of mine, WHEAT AND WINE. When foemen bade good cheer To foemen, grew one clear CLEAR, deep, and blue, the sky Concept, ideal, divine, Is silvered by the morn, Ofa god of light and laughter, of a god of And where the dewdrop’s eye Catches its brilliancy Strange lights and hues are horn: I have seen twelve colours hover on a single spray of thorn. There is a great grey tower! Cut clear against the deep ; In the sun’s wakening hour I think it has the power To touch the soul of sleep With its tender thought, and bid m…
1905 · PDF PAGE 161
…d. SPIRIT OF TRAGEDY. HERE, in the home of a friend, Here, in the mist of a lie, The pageant moves on to the desolate end Under a sultry sky. Noon is upon us, and Night, Spreading her wings unto flight, Visits the lands that lie far in the West, Where the bright East is at peace on her breast : Opposite quarters unite. Soon is the nightfall of Destiny here ; Nature’s must pass as her hour is gone by. Only another than she is too near, Gloom in the sky. One who can never pass over shall sever Links that were forged of Love’s hand ; Love that was…
1905 · PDF PAGE 159
…Till Osiris justified In the supreme sacrifice Take his kingdom. Hear the ery That the wailing vultures make, Circling in the blackening sky Over the abysmal lake. Spirit, for our spirit’s sake Give the token of thy fire Trident in the lambent air, Till our spirits unaware Worship and aspire ! Hear, beyond all periods, Timeless, formless, multiform, Thou, supreme above the storm, Spirit of the Holy Ones, Spirit of the Gods ! Enter MESSENGER. MESSENGER. The battle rages: even now the shock Of hostile spears makes the loud earth re- sound, The wi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 134
…sed our hopes, and told the stories Of happy climbing days gone by ; The stubborn battle with the cliffs, the glories Of the blue Alpine sky. The keen delight of paths untrodden yet, And new steep ice and rocky ways Too dangerous and splendid to forget. Those dear strong happy days! And now what happier fate to your brave souls Than so to strive and fighting fall? Think you that He who sees you, and controls, Did not devise it all? The mountains that you loved have taken you, And we who love you will not weep. Shall we begrudge? Your last look …
1905 · PDF PAGE 133
…O’er wood and wold, A summons as of angels that rejoice, A peean glad and bold, ; A mighty shout of infinite acclaim Shrieks through the sky some dread forgotten Name. Trembles the demon on his perch Of crags ice-bound ; Tremble near forest and far church At that quick sound ; The silver arrows that bedeck the birch Shiver along the ground : Priest, fiend, and harpy answer to the call, And hasten to their ghastly festival. There in the vale below my feet I see the crew Gather, blaspheming God, and greet Their shame anew. A feast is spread of so…
1905 · PDF PAGE 129
…r lands where day, with plumes of gold, Flaps like a lazy eagle in the air; Where night, a bird of prey divinely bold, Wings through the sky, intangible but fair, And pale with subtle passion; and no wind Turns our prow southward, till the canvas bear No more up into it, but still behind Follow like flame, and lead our love along Into the valleys of the ocean, blind, But seeing all the world awake with song Of many lyres and lutes and reeds of straw, And all the rivers musical that throng In bright assemblage of unchanging law, Like many flute-…
1905 · PDF PAGE 87
… But welcome, death, thou looked-for spouse of mine! Thy kiss is pleasant as the shaded well That looks through palm leaves to the quiet sky. [ Dies. JEPHTHAH. Thou didst no evil in the slaying him, For God is a consuming fire ; high zeal Against idolatry lacks not reward. And now the sun is up: for Israel, march! JARED. Good luck be with your spears; and home- coming Gladden victorious eyes ere set of sun. [Axeunt JEPHTHAH azd Soldiers. Enter ELEAZAR, AHINOAM, Chorus of Elders. CHORUS. The sun is past meridian. No sound Of trampling hoofs assa…
1905 · PDF PAGE 146
…th million flames candescent 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 fr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 218
…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, let us journey thither once again ! THE …
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…e tender ground That summer showers may shed a trembling lear, And summer breezes whisper melodies Of pity. Lay them there, and when the sky Opens a lingering eyelash of deep cloud, And the sea sparkles out from under it To kiss the earth into awakening From the dream-slumbers that its fancies weave— ‘ancies Of starlight on the lucent sea Gleaming from wide horizon to the feet Of Cynthia’s bow, all silver-shot with fire, That virgin fame that lingers evermore In the sweet phantasies of subtle sleep— Ifancies of lonely shadows darkly strewn Abou…