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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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…me of her skin was ambergris ; The sun had kissed her body into brown ; Ripe breasts thrown forward to the summer breeze ; Warm tints of red lead fancy to the crown, Her coils of chestnut, in abundant ease, That bound the stately head. What joy of youth Lifted her nostril to respire the wind ? What pride of being ? What triumphal truth Acclaimed her queen to her imperial mind ? I watched, a leopard, stealthy in the corn, As if a tigress held herself above ; My body quivered, eager to be torn, Stung by the snake of some convulsive love ! The leo…
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106 AMBERGRIS OTHER LOVE SONGS Eileen Under the stars the die was cast to win. The moonrays stained with pale embroidered bars The iridescent shimmer of your skin, Under the stars. Great angels drove their pearl-interwoven cars Through the nights racecourse : silence stood within The folded cups of passions nenuphars. You were my own ; sorrowless, without sin, That night this night. Sinks the red eye of Mars ; The hand of Hermes guides us as we spin Under the stars.
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…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 more I, I am concentrate In the unshakable state Of constant rapture. Who should pour His ravings in the air for winds to whirl, Far from the central pearl Of all the diadem of the universe ? Let God take pen, rehearse Dull nursery tales ; th…
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120 AMBERGRIS FROM RODIN IN RIME Acrobates My little lady light o limb Twirls on her lovers twisting toes. Lithe as a lynx, red as a rose, She spins aloft and laughs at him. So gay the pose, so quaint the whim, One stares and stares : it grows and grows. So swift the air she seems to skim Ones senses dazzle ; wonder glows Warm in ones veins like lovewho knows ? One follows till ones eyes are dim My little lady light o limb.
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…....................................... 65 FROM ALICE : AN ADULTERY Margaret ........................................................ 68 Red Poppy...................................................... 70 Alice............................................................... 73 FROM THE ARGONAUTS Chorus of Shipbuilders .................................. 75 At Waikiki ...................................................... 76 The Harbour, Vera Cruz ................................. 78 The Song of the Siren Leucosia....................... 81 Hong Kon…
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70 AMBERGRIS FROM ALICE : AN ADULTERY Red Poppy I have no heart to sing. What offering I may bring, Alice, to thee ? My great loves lifted wing Weakens, unwearying, And droops with me, Singing the sun-kindled hair Close in the face more fair, The sweet soul shining there For God to see. Surely some angel shed Flowers for the maiden head, Ephemeral flowers ! I yearn, not comforted. My heart is vainly bled Through age-long hours. To thee my spirit turns ; My bright soul aches and burns, As a dry valley yearns For spring and showers. Splendid, re…
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…; Your love exceed the starry vault for height, The heaven for might ; Your faith wax firmer than a ship at sleep On the grey deep, Anchored in some most certain anchorage From oceans rage ; Your patience stand when mountains shake and quail Before the gale Of Gods great tribulation. Make thee sure Thou canst endure ! And work, work ever, sleep not, gird thy head With garlands red Of blood from swollen veins forced in bitter toil To win some spoil Of knowledge from the caverns of the deep ! So shall the steep Pathways of heaven gleam with lof…
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…eity, be immortality ! Shame ! treachery of the spouse Of the Olympian house, Hera ! thy grim device against the sweet carouse ! Lo ! in red roar and flame Did Zeus descend ! What claim To feel the immortal fire had then the Theban dame ! Caught in that fiery wave Her love and life she gave With one last kissing cry the unborn child to save. And thou, O Zeus, the sire Of Bromiushunter dire ! Didst snatch the unborn babe from that Olympian fire : In thine own thigh most holy That offspring melancholy Didst hide, didst feed, on light, ambrosia,…
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…old is gone, And round the storm-caught shape hard gusts of wind Blow, and her leaves are torn, a flying throng Of orange and purple and red ; the sombre sun Shines darkly in her breast But wakes no joy therein, And all his kisses sharp and keen Bring only now desire of rest, Not their old rapture : the warm violet eyes Melt into sweet hot tears ; subtler the sighs Are interfused of death ; The brave bright looks grow duller, And fear is mingled with loves ecstasies Again, and all her breath Fails, and the shape and colour Fade, fail, are lost…
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…, and loud ; the harp is glad to die And give the clarion one note silver-high. It was too sweet for music, and I weave In vain the tattered woof of memory. Ashes and dust ! Cold cinders dead ! Our swords are rust ; Our lives are fled Like dew on glass. In vain we lust ; Our hopes are sped, Alas ! alas ! From heaven we are thrust, we have no more trust. Alas ! Gold hairs and gray ! Red lips and white ! Warm hearts, cold clay ! Bright day, dim night ! Our spirits pass Like the hours away. We have no light, Alas ! alas !
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AMBERGRIS 85 FROM THE ARGONAUTS At Prome When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blos- soms dance With the light that stirs and lustres of the dawn, and with the bloom Of the winds cheek as it clusters from the hidden valleys gloom : Then I walk in woodland spaces, musing on the solemn ways Of the immemorial places shut behind the starry rays ; Of the East and all its splendour, of the West and all its peace ; And the stubborn lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hush …
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…er flower die, And banished them through space, as if a star Dropped through the far Vault of the sky, and, as a lamp extinct With blood-red tinct, Went out. So lonely in mysterious night A wild, strange light Flickers around the sacred head of man, And bids him scan The scroll of heaven, and see if there be not, Black with no blot Of cloud, but golden lettered on the blue That mothers dew,
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… εσπερους οιον, οιον αλγος επαθον, φιλαι EURIPIDES. Amsterdam, December 23rd, 1897. Let me pass out beyond the city gate. All day I loitered in the little streets Of black worn houses tottering, like the fate That hangs above my head even now, and meets Prayer and defiance as not hearing it. They lean, these old black streets ! a little sky Peeps through the gap, the rough stone path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, fade away To other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where the heathen …
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…ses seem Constrained in devilry, debauch, and dream : Lives logged in the morass of meat and drink, Loves dipped in Phlegethon, the perjured stream. Behold we would that hours and minutes pass, Watch the sands falling in the eager glass ; To wile their weariness is pleasures bliss ; But ah ! the years ! like smoke They fade, alas ! We weep them as they slip away ; we gaze Back on the likeness of the former days The hair we fondle and the lips we kiss Roses grow yellow, and no purple stays. Ah ! the old years ! Come back, ye vanished hours We…
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50 AMBERGRIS Yea ! from the limit of the fallen day, And barren ocean of ungathered Time, Bring Night, and bring Eternity, and stay With white wings pointing where tired feet may climb : Even the pathway where shed blood ran deep To build red roses in the land of Sleep. O 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 …
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…th vacant eyes, as one Lost in the labyrinth of some ill dream, Move and move on, and never see the sun Lap all the mist with orange and red gold, Throw some lank windmill into iron shade, And stir the chill canal with manifold Rays of clear morning ; never grow afraid When he dips down beyond the far fiat land, Know never more the day and night apart,