1899 · PDF PAGE 39
Tale of Archais
…ilently ; Whom now beholding, checked her eager team, Dipped to the foam from which she sprang, whose gleam Bore the sweet mirage of her eyes, and bent
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The Winged Beetle
45 THE TWO SECRETS SHE used to lie, superbly bare Wrapped in her harvest flame of hair, And shooting from her steel-grey eyes Inexorable destinies : Mute oraclesmysterious A soul in a sarcophagus ! For I, through all my life astrain, Through all the pulsing of my brain, Through all the wisdom I had won From this one and the other one Saw nothing. Nothing. Had I known And loved some Sphinx of steel or stone While countless chiliads rolled, may be I had not guessed her mystery. So there she lay, regarding me. And I ?I gave the riddle up. I dra…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 85
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…odes of stone, Barren of all comely things, Given to the splendid kings, Gloomy state, and glamour dark, Swooping jewel-feathered wings, Eyes translucent with a spark Of the world of fire, that swings Gates of adamant below Lofty minarets of snow. Thence the towering flames arise, Where the flashes white and wise Find their mortal foe. Let us thither, caring not Anything, or any more, Since the sorrow of our lot Craves to pass the abysmal door ; Never more for us shall twine Rosy fingers on the vine ; * Never maiden lips that cull Myriad blosso…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 54
Tale of Archais
46 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS So stood she there, with eyes of victory Fixed on the sun, about to sink his rays Beneath the ocean, that the pallid bays Fringed with white foam. But, as in pity, yet The sun forgot his chariot, nor would set, Since as he sank the maiden thought to leap Within the bosom of the vaulted deep From that high pedestal. And seeing this, That yet an hour was left her, Archais Lift up her voice and prayed with zeal divine To Aphrodite, who from her far shrine Heard and flew fast to aid over the night-clad brine. PRAYER OF ARCHAI…
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1901 · PDF PAGE 38
The Mother’s Tragedy
… Madeline! [ He vatses her to lead her from the room. CORA. Where would you lead me? I am blind with tears. ULRIC. I have no tears. Mine eyes are hard and cold As my intention. Help me, Madeline. CORA. God will avenge me bitterly on you If you stretch hand to aid this infamy. ULRIC. You shall not wreck her life. Be silent now! Believe me, it 1s nothing, Madeline! She often falls into a fit like this. Excess is danger, equally in prayer (Her vice is prayer) as in debauchery. [He ts again going mad. fe drags CORA from the room. MADELINE. It is no…
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1901 · PDF PAGE 51
The Soul of Osiris
… delight. Slow feet are our measures that move ; Swift songs are more soft than the breeze ; Our mouths are made mute for our love ; Our eyes are made soft as the dove ; We mingle and move as the seas. The light of the passionate dawn That kissed us, and would not awaken, Grew golden and bold on the lawn, The rays of the sun are withdrawn At last, and the blossoms are shaken. I
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1905 · PDF PAGE 136
Oracles
… love missed them, Awaiting the moon ? But thou, who art Light, and above them, Who art fire and above them as fire, Shall thy sightless eyes not love them Who are all of thine own desire ? Immaculate daughters of passion, Shalt thou as they pass be past ? And thy people bewail thee, Thalassian, Lost, lost at the last ? III Nay, ere ye pass your people pass, As snow on summer hills, As dew upon the grass, As one that love fulfils, If he in folly wills Love a lass. Yet on this night of smiles and tears A maiden is the theme. The universe appears…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 174
The World’s Tragedy
…e by thy Work — Itself its loveliness transplant To a flawless field whose grace should grant Life to that bright inhabitant. ISSA These eyes are blind with blood and tears ; They strain across the doubtful years ; They search the stars : the earth they scan ; All, all spells Misery to Man. Of whom I am. First, fables gross and foul Hooted and hissed by human snake and owl About me, twisted into doleful engines Of greed, hate, envy, jealousy and vengeance.
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1912 · PDF PAGE 59
Sir Palamedes
… pageant breaks, and thunder roars: Down flaps the loathly wing of night. He sees the lonely Breton shores Lapped in the levin: then his eyes See how she shrieking soars and soars Into the starless, stormy skies. Well! well! this lesson will he learn, How music’s mellowing artifice May bid the breast of nature burn And call the gods from star and shrine. So now his sounding courses turn To find an instrument divine Whereon he may pursue his quest. How glitter green his gleeful eyne 53
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1913 · PDF PAGE 34
Cambridge Poets 1900–1913
…e and burn This solid world to spirit . But we two Have caught love back by the escaping wing , Therefore shall life be perfect, for our eyes Are opened and our stooping souls stand up Full - statured under the roofless heaven of love .
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1913 · PDF PAGE 168
Cambridge Poets 1900–1913
…s reflecting Tall houses where the old ghosts fit , Their shadows thin projecting Across my path — the street lamps glare Before my soft eyes everywhere . Ah ! men forget my face is fair , The tangled glory of my hair . O sobbing wind ! O hedges dark ! 0 hills bereft and lonely ! They ' ve snatched the hidden boundary - mark , And left the ruins only . Dimly the flickering shadows stray Across the lonely hillside way : Why should I weep and howl and pray ? They sleep , and wait the empty day . 149
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1898 · PDF PAGE 75
White Stains
…emble With a passion past pity and fear ; I will speak from my heart till thou listen With the soft sound of wings of a dove, Till thine eyes answer back till they glisten O Lucius, love ! I will touch thee but once with a finger, But thy vitals shall shudder and smart, And the smile through thy sorrow shall linger, And the touch shall pierce through to thine heart ; Thy lips a denial shall fashion, Thou shalt tremble and fear to confess, Till thou suddenly break into passion With yes, love, and yes. I will kiss thee and fondle and woo thee And…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 16
The Argonauts
…everend and refined, Saw majesty in all that tottering gait, And honour in the goat-like beard of him! FIRST WOMAN. A week ago your blue eyes were in tears, Sidelong regarding the old mountebank. SECOND WOMAN. To-day I would not be his concubine For all Iolchus—for all Thessaly! THIRD WOMAN, I see the same glance seek out Jason now. SECOND WOMAN. Ay, there’s a man! What muscles! What fine fire In the quick eye! What vigour and warm strength! FIRST WOMAN. Yes, in your wishes, But indeed he is A proper man. Away, you ancient egg! PELIAS. With wha…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 86
The Argonauts
…soon divide Into the likeness of a curse. Have we no maidens, slender, strong, Daughters of tender-throated song? I swear by Aphrodite’s eyes Our Grecian maids are fairer far! What love as sweet as theirs is lies
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1907 · PDF PAGE 57
Rodin in Rime
…ful fingers, may let loose This answer: Thus a kiss I brought to being Which by no other way were possible. Measure, O man! Balance with eyes true seeing If I were right or no to have made Hell! Then would He stand forgiven—nay! acquitted! I, as I look on this tight coil of bliss, Swift clasp of Rodin’s magical mind love-witted, See all creation fade; abide, one kiss. Then to my own soul’s bow this shaft be fitted; Thank God for all, seeing that all is this! 33 F
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1910 · PDF PAGE 65
Ambergris
…y, and celestial. I rose within the elemental ball, And lo ! the Ancient One of Days did sit ! His head and hair were white as wool, his eyes A flaming fire : and from the splended mouth Flashed the Eternal Sword ! Lo ! Lying at his feet as dead, I saw The leaping-forth of Law : Division of the North wind and the South, The lightning of the armies of the Lord ; East rolled asunder from the rended West ; Height clove the depth : the Voice begotten said : Divided be thy ways and limited ! Answered the reflux and the indrawn breath : Let the…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 7
The Winged Beetle
…o the memory of Hippolytus 79 AU BAL. To Horace Sheridan-Bickers 82 DISAPPOINTMENT. To Sadie B 83 THE OCTOPUS. To my Mother 85 THE EYES OF DOROTHY. To Dot 86
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1910 · PDF PAGE 11
The Winged Beetle
… bright veins of God Caught in the chalice of your heart, and pearled With dew at many a melting period When the amethyst lustre of your eyes dissolves The veil that hides your naked splendour From these infirm resolves And halting loves of your poor poets soul With radiance mild and tender, So that I see awhile the golden goal ! Yea ! all your light involves Me, me tenebrous, me too cold and base Ever to kindle to the maiden face (Three years my wife, three years of me unwon !) That would be mine, be mine, Were I but man enough To endure the …
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1913 · PDF PAGE 149
Cambridge Poets 1900–1913
…n hand from near and far ," And as we , brothers that we are , Shake our heads and turn away , Wonderful ! oracular ! We see in mother - eyes the Ray . 130
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1913 · PDF PAGE 205
Cambridge Poets 1900–1913
… the turbid crowd , You , like a star in a wrack of cloud . “ Now you have seen me - now the surprise Dawns in the dark of your dreaming eyes . “ You ,- oh for you the palace , the song , You that I built it for fair and strong , “ Will you come to me ? Answer me while you may , Ere the wind has caught my palace away .' Loud laughed the throng as I drifted by : " The mad magician has learnt to fly .” 186
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