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…back Adam and Even beneath the apple tree. Or, like the comet, the wild race may end Out into darkness, and our circle bend Round to all glory, in a sudden sweep, And speed triumphant with the sun to friend. Love will not leave my home. She knows my tears, My angers and caprices ; still my ears Listen to singing voices, till I weep Once more, less sadly, and set hounds on fears. She will not leave me comfortless. And why ? Through the dimmed glory of my clouded eye She catches one sharp glint of love for her ; She will not leave me ever till I …
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…y is tinged, as if the amorous flesh Of that same queen shone through the girdle drawn By her own kissing fevour through its mesh. Last, glory of godhead ! flickers, flames the fresh First faint frail rose and arrow of the dawn.
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AMBERGRIS 17 Glory and love and work precipitate The end of mans desireso sayeth Fate. Man answers : Love is stronger, work more sure, Glory more fadeless than her shafts abate. Though all worlds fail, the pulse of Life be still, God fall, all darken, she hath not her will Of deeds beyond recall, that shall endure : For us, these three divinest glasses fill, Fill to the brim with lustrous dew, nor fail To leave the blossom and the nightingale, Loves earlier kiss, and manhoods glowing prime ! Let these suffice. Shall man or Fate prevail ? Low…
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AMBERGRIS 55 The self-begotten, the impassive shrine, The seat of Heavens archipelagoes ; Yet lighted not the glory whence it came, Nor shone upon the surface of the sea. Time, and the Great One, and the Nameless Name, Held in their grip the child, Eternity. Silence and Darkness in their womb withheld That spiritual fire, and brooded still : Nature and Time, their soleness undispelled, Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten : uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then g…
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…nging ocean, Laps the bright night, with unsubstantial motion Winnowing the starlight, plumed with feathery flowers Of foam and phosphor glory, the strange glow Of the days amber fallen to indigo, Lit of its own depth in some subtle wise, A pavement for the footsteps from the skies Of angels walking thus Not all unseen of us, Nor all unknown, nor unintelligible, When with souls lifted up In the Cadmean cup, As incense lifted in the thurible, We know that God is even as we, Light from the sky, and life on earth, and love be- neath the sea.
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… sister, O my spouse, speak, speak ! Sigh not, but utter the intense award Of infinite love ; arise, burn cheek by cheek ! Dart, eyes of glory ; live, O lambent sword O the hearts gold rushing over mount and moor Of sunlit rapture ! rise all runes above, Dissolve thyself into one molten lure, Invisible core of the visible flame of love ! Heart of the sun of rapture, whirling ever ; Strength of the sight of eagles, pierce the foam Of ecstasys irremeable river, And race the rhythm of laughter to its home In the heart of the woman, and evoke the…
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…he streams that flow In ether to the sky, The moving archipelago, Stars in their seigneury. Thine be the kingdom ! Thine the power ! The glory triply thine ! Thine, through Eternitys swift hour Eternity, thy shrine Yea, by the holy lotus-flower, Even mine !
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…ense. Intelligence Grows as we go. Alas : its icy glimmer Show dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed ? Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky ? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled ! Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness ! Base and blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insu…
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…FROM ORPHEUS The Star-Goddess sings of Orpheus dead Enough. It is ended, the story Of magical æons of song ; The sun is gone down in his glory To the Houses of Hate and of Wrong. Would ye see if he rise ? In Hesperian skies Ye may look for his rising for long. The magical æon beginneth Of song in the heart of desire, That smiteth and striveth and sinneth, But burns up the soul of the lyre : There is pain in the note : In the sorcerers throat Is a sword, and his brain is afire ! Long after (to men : but a moment To me in my mansion of rest) I…
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…hed as cave-rolling sea ; I lift the cup : deep draughts of blue Lethean ! My wine to me. O lamentable season of Apollo, When swoops his glory to the golden wave ! As all his children, so their lord shall follow ! The flower he slew, the maiden he would save, As Itylus, light woven, tuned ! O swallow, Bewail their grave ! The gracious breast of Artemis may light me To menyet loved I ever Artemis ? Surely the vine-song and the dance delight me, The sea-blue bowers where Aphrodite is. Terrible gods and destinies excite me, The strange sad kiss. …
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90 AMBERGRIS Rosa Mundi 1. Rose of the world ! Red glory of the secret heart of love ! Red flame, rose red, most subtly curled Into its own infinite flower, all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion, Its faint sweet passion, folded and furled In flower fashion ; And my deep spirit taking its pure part Of that voluptuous heart Of hidden happiness ! 2. Arise, strong bow of the young child Eros ! (While the maddening moonlight, the memoried caress Stolen of the scented rose Stirs me and bids each racing pulse ache, ache !) Bend in…
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…s illusion, and free to cherish Joys of life diviner than war and passion Falsest of phantoms. Only now true love, like a sun of molten Glory, surging up from a sea of liquid Silver, golden, exquisite, overflowing, Soars into starland. Sphere on sphere unite in the chant of wonder Star to star must add to the glowing chorus ; Sun and moon must mingle and speed the echo Flaming through heaven. Night and day divide, and the music strengthens, Gathers roar of seas and the dirge of moorlands ; Tempest, thunder, birds, and the breeze of summer Join…
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… the terror of thy wrong : How Hades ride across the promontory, Snatch my pale body in mid over-song, Drag me from sight of my Apollos glory With horses strong. Nay ! as Apollo half the day is shrouded, As Artemis twice seven nights is dark ; Surely he shines in other lands unclouded, Surely her shaft shall find another mark. So dawns the day on Acheron ghost-crowded, And on my bark. I know not how yon world may prove, nor whither Hermes conduct me to what farther end. Yet if these bays abide, this heart not wither, It cannot be I shall not f…
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AMBERGRIS 47 Of hideous engines shatteringthis strife Clears the straight road of Glory and of Life ! Nay : but the hateful death that stings the soul Into rebellion ; the insensate death That chokes its own delight with words that roll Mightier-mouthed than the archangels breath ; The death that murders courage ere it drink The souls own life-blood on the desperate brink ! So, from the languid fingers in my curls And dreamy worship of a womans eyes, I look beyond the miserable whirls Of foolish measures woven in the skies ; Beyond the thou…
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…in mere lips and eyes The secret of these bridal ecstasies, Since thou art everywhere, Rose of the World, Rose of the Uttermost Abode of Glory, Rose of the High Host Of Heaven, mystic, rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows) How every word awakes its own reward In a thought akin to thee, a shadow of thee ; And every tune evokes its musical Lord ; And every rime tingles and shakes in me The filaments of the great web of love. 19. O Rose all roses far above In the garden of Gods roses, Sorro…
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…ate alone ! III. I sate upon the mossy promontory Where the cascade cleft not his mother rock, But swept in whirlwind lightning foam and glory, Vast circling with unwearying luminous shock To lure and lock Marvellous eddies in its wild caress ; And there the solemn echoes caught the stress, The strain of that impassive tide, Shook it and flung it high and wide, Till all the air took fire from that melodious roar ; All the mute mountains heard, Bowed, laughed aloud, concurred, And passed the word along, the signal of wide war. All earth took up …
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…arm with strength to smite : Achieve some act ; its name shall not depart. Christ laid Loves corner-stone, and Cæsar built The tower of glory ; Sapphos life was spilt From fervent lips the torch of song to ignite : Thou mayst add yet a stoneif but thou wilt. And yet the days stream by ; night shakes the day From his pale throne of purple, to allay The tremors of the earth ; day smiteth dark With the swift poignard dipped in Helios ray. The days stream by ; with lips and cheeks grown pale On their indomitable breast we sail. There is a favour…
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… the memory of this rose Out of my mind, what misery matters then ? Or, if they leave it, all the woes of men Are as pale shadows in the glory of That passionate splendour of Love. 10. Ay ! my own voice, my own thoughts. These, then, must be The mutiny of some worms misery, Some chained despair knotted into my flesh, Some chance companion, some soul damned afresh Since my redemption, that is vocal at all, For I am wrapt away from light and call In the sweet heart of the red rose. My spirit only knows This woman and no more ; who would know mor…
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… guardian of the pallid hours of night ! O tireless watcher of the smitten noon ! O sworded with the majesty of light, O girded with the glory of the moon ! Angel of absolute splendour ! link of mine Old weary spirit with the All-Divine ! Ship that shalt carry me by many winds Driven on limitless ocean ! Mighty sword, By which I force that barrier of the minds Miscomprehension of its own true lord ! Listen, and answer, and behold my brow Fiery with hope ! Bend down, and touch it now ! Press the twin dawn of thy desirous lips In the swart masse…