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…ails Tess humanly than that—I will go down And seek the stranger. [Alaking as to leave room. F’en this rocky isle Shall prove a friend A Voice. Stand still. Philosopher. Again! The warning of a mind o’er-strained? [Afowrng towards door. Voice. Stand still And see salvation in Jehovah’s hands. fh, Is this the end of life? Voice. Thy Life begins. Is this Lh. Strange Voice, I hear thee, and obey. Perchance I have not lived so far. Perchance to-day, Like a spring-flower that slowly opens out Its willing petals to the tender dawn, My soul may open t…
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… Kiss me the last time! (good-bye, my dear friends. I wish I could take your hands, but I am so weak. Kiss me, Esmé, quickly. I feel the voice of God come hke a shudder in my blood ; T must go to Him. Esmé! Esmé! Esmé! To am so happy ! [Dres. [smi fines herselfpasstonately on o the body, weeping and kisstug the dead face. Crrlain. SCENE IV. The next morning. Esm® in bed asleep. Enter VAUGHAN. VAUGHAN. Poor child, poor child, how are you? You have not slept, I. know. Why, she is still asleep! Hush! How calmly and regularly she breathes! How fres…
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…balances, And knowest best of men the heart of man? ANWINOAM. Ye are as children, and nowise your tongues Speak sense. I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling. perchance ! The voice of old men is a pleasant thing. Sing to him CHoRrus, What say ye, brethren? him Some sweet low ditty, or the louder pean? Shall we sing to AHINOAM. They verily think I speak, not mocking them. CHORUS, Who shall uncover such a tongue for wiles, And pluck his meaning from his subtle words? AHINOAM, Who shall speak plain enough for such as these To und…
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…all the plain To its own ugliness. I looked again, And saw its magic in another mood. A shapeless truth took image in my brain. A hollow voice from every quarter cries : ‘*Q thou, zelator of this Paradise, Tell thou the secret of the pillar! None Can hear thee, of the souls beneath the sun. Speak, or the very Godhead in thee dies. For we are many and thy name is One.” The Godhead in me! came The jealous secret and the guarded name. The quest was mine! And yet my thoughts confute My intuition ; and my will was mute. My voice—ah! flashes out the …
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…am, I went To the high throne—they shook the firma- ment With foolish cheers. queen And wept in silence. Then, as it had been An angel’s voice and touch, her face she bent, Lifted and kissed me—oh! her lips were keen! I knelt before the ler voice 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.…
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…se and proclaim : The Lord is His Name! O Lord! Thou didst march out of Edom! Thou leapedst from the Mountains of Seir! The breath of hy voice was as Freedom ! The nations did tremble with fear. The heathen, their fury forsook them ; The Moabites trembled and fled. O Lord, when Thy countenance shook them, Thy voice in the House of the Dead. O Lord! Thou hast said ! The lightnings were kindled and lightened, Thy thunder was heard on the deep; The stars with Thy Fear shook and whitened, The sun and the moon in the steep. The sea rose in tumult an…
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…nd all my body crucified. Ofttimes the Spirit of the Lord Descends and floods me with his breath ; My words are fashioned as a sword, My voice is like the voice of death. The thunder of the Spirit’s wings Brings terror to the hearts of kings. Anon, and I am driven out In desert places by desire ; My mouth is salt and dry; I doubt If hell hath such another fire ; If God’s damnation can devise A lust to match these agonies. 1 Not Elijah, as the sequel shows. Foolish contemporary reviews, however, made this silly blunder. * Under this name the poe…
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…, Thy master—and I laugh at thee, the slave ! Down from Thy throne, impostor, down, down, down To thine own Hell, immeasurable— O thou A VOICE. Strike| [The storm, gathering to a climax, bursts in a tremendous flash of lightning, and JARED zs killed. Enter JePUTHAI and Soldiers. JuPHTIAIL A terrible peal of thunder! And the sky Seems for an hour past to have been in labour And, safely now delivered, smiles again. For see, the sun! O happy sunlight hours— What is this blackened and distorted thing? A SOLDIER. Some fellow by the altar that kept w…
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- 50 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT For truth and desire and devotion May lend through the verses a voice, They tremble with violent motion, They yearn to be fair for thy choice As billows and winds of the ocean that roar and rejoice. For winds that are shaken and riven I bound by my power unto me; For these have I battled and striven With winds that are rapid and free; : With weapons of words I have driven the| pulse of the sea. | There steals through my coldness a fire, Between my slow words is a sword, One lit by the heart of desire, One sharp in the h…
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…s, underneath the spire That the moon silvers with magnetic fire ; But not a moon-ray ts it, that so clear Shines on the pavement, for a voice of fear It hath, mocks My ear, and waves his old majestic locks About his head. There fell upon my ear : unless it be the breeze that ‘*Q soul contemplative of distant things, Who hast a poet’s heart, even if thy pen Be dry and barren, who dost hold Love dear, Speed forth this message on the fiery wings Of stinging song to all the race of men: That they have hope ; for we are happy here.” 1 The ‘‘ Voice”…
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…of death; the might Of the eloquent silence of black ight ! RATOUM. The noise of many planets fallen far ! CHORUS. Death listens for the voice of life; mght waits dawn of wisdom: spring ! winter seeks the The RATOUM. ‘The music of all stars arisen; the breath Of God upon the valley of the dead ! CHORUS. The silence of the awaiting soul asleep ! RATOUM. The murmur of the fountain of my life! CHORUS. The whole dead universe awaits the Word. RATOUM. Now is the hour of life ; my voice leaps up In the dim halls of death, and kindling flame Roars lik…
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… thunders from the roaring West ; I worship in the storm, and fires flee From my gripped lightnings and my burn- ing crest ; And when my voice rolls, master of the weather, A thousand mighty angels cry together ! BRIGHTON, January 1899. CERBERUS. I stoop within Death’s gate, And blew the horn of Hell: Mad laughters echoing against Fate, Harsh groans less terrible, Ifowled from beneath the vault ; in night the avenging thunders swell. The guardian stood aloof, A monster multiform. His armour was of triple proof, His voice out-shrilled the storm.…
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…st is clean as Love. I slept upon Fis breast ; and Death Came like Sleep’s angel, and I died, And tasted the Lethean breath. There was a voice that cried: sehold, I stand above His head With feet made white with whitest fire, Above His forehead, that is red As blood with His Desire. I knew that Voice was more than God, And echo trembled for its trust : Sleep’s feet, like Death’s, with fire are shod, And Love is likest Lust, So I returned and sought her breast, Our Lady of ten thousand [Pains ; I drank her kisses, and possessed Her pale maternal…
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…peuple were sad for his wrath ; The elders were bowed with despair, And death was the piteous path ; With ashes we covered our hair; The voice of the singer was dumh, the voice of the triumph of prayer.
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…h brilliance of the Light above ! Draw into nought All life, death, hatred, love : All self concentred in the sole desire— Hear thou the Voice of Fire! This hope was Zoroaster’s—this is mine! Not one but many splendours hath the Shrine: Not one but many paths approach the gate That guards the Adytum, fortifying Fate ! Mine was, by weariness of blood and brain, Mere bitter fruit of pain Sought in the darkness of an harlot’s bed, To make me as one dead : To loose the girders of the soul, and gain Breathing and life for the Intelligible; Find deat…
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…~ frame! What poison drips Of slime and blood from his disastrous lips ! What oceans of decaying water steam For his vast essence! And a voice rolls forth With miserable fury from that stream Of horror: ‘‘Thou hast called me by the beam Of glory, by the devastating wrath Of thine accurséd godhead:: tell me then My Name! Thou hardiest of the Sons of Men !” ‘‘Thy name is—stay! thou liest! I discern In Thee no terror that my spells evoke. Begone, thou wandering corpse of night ! return Into thy shadowy world! My symbols burn cgainst thee, shade of…
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130 JEZEBEL; AND OTHER TRAGIC POEMS The desert wind my body burns, The voice of flesh consumes my soul; My body towards the city turns, My spirit seeks its fierier goal ; In wells of heaven to quench my thirst, And take God’s hand among the first. I conquered 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, T…
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…saw the Night of Time begin ; Chaos, a speck ; and space, a span ; Ruinous cycles fallen in, And Darkness on the Deep of Time. Murmurous voices call and climb; Faces, half-formed, arise ; and He Looked from the shadow of His throne, The curtain of Eternity; He looked—and saw Himself alone, And on the sombre sea, the primal one, Faint faces, that might not abide ; Flicker, and are fordone. So were they caught within the spacious tide, The sleepy waters that encased the world. Monsters rose up, and turned themselves, and curled Into the deep agai…
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98 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC Sounded the voice we knew as God’s. The words Were not a question any more, but said : ‘The last and greatest is within you now.” Then fire too subtle and omniscient Devoured our substance, and we moved again Not down, not up, but inwards mystically Involving self in self, and light in light. And this was not a pain, but peaceable Like young-eyed love, reviving ; it consumed And consecrated and made savour sweet To our changed senses. And the dual self Of love grew less distinct and I began To feel her heart i…
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…ith all the splendours of the avenging God. I see him and I tremble! But my hand Still flings its gesture of supreme command Upwards; my voice still dares to tongue the word That hell and chaos and destruction heard And ruined, shrieking! yea, my strong voice rolls, That martyr-cry of many slaughtered souls, Utterly potent both to bless and ban— I, I command thee in the name of Man! He trembled then. And far in thunder rolled Through countless ages, through the infinite gold Beyond existence, grew that master-sound Into the rent and agonized pr…