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Page 51 of 1121901 · PDF PAGE 16
…into woe. CORA. Why did your eyelids quiver as I spoke ? A smile, a tear? that trembling, in their deep Violet passion, of the beautiful Eyes that they half discover? Speak to me. I have long thought a secret was your spouse, Shared your deep fancies and your lightest word, Partook your maiden bed, and gave you dreams Somewhat too troublous to be virginal. MADELINE. My dear kind Cora, do they lie to you, These fancies of my idle hours? Believe, I seem to tremble at my inward thought ; My heart is full of wonder. When I go Nightward beneath the …
1901 · PDF PAGE 29
THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY 15 The downcast eyes and delicate white throat, The lily, when I saw the rose before me ? Your full delicious beauty was as God! You are a bunch of admirable grapes Fit to intoxicate my being! Yes! I would not give that sunny fruit of yours For twenty such frail flowers as Madeline. I am a man—you mate me with a girl ? CORA. Stop! not a word! My blasphemy to hear, Yours to speak out—when you are told the truth! ULRIC. What truth? This word hath first an ugly sound. The truth! God curse it to His blackest hell If but it stan…
1905 · PDF PAGE 142
…he world of sense Opened so swift and so intense Unto the being. Thus she stood Impatient on the patient flood With wonder waking in her eyes. Thus the young dove droops wing, and dies, In wonder why the wingéd thing Loosed from yon twanging silver string Should strike, should hurt. But now she wakes, Wreathes like a waterfall of snakes The golden fervour of her hair About the body brave and bare Starred in the sunlight by the spray, And laughed upon me as I lay Watching the change: First dawn of fire First ghost of nightfall’s grey desire 143
1906 · PDF PAGE 132
…dreams might shape or recollect, Hideous with fasting, madness, grief, Beyond all speaking or belief. But the first glance at those bold eyes! Ah! let me fling me at her feet ! Take me, O love! Thy terror flies. Kiss me again, again, O sweet ! O honeyed queen, old paramour, So keen our joy be and so sure! ‘‘The king would be alone !”’ Fast fly The trembling lackeys at her voice. Lapped in her billowy breasts I he, And love, and languish, and rejoice, And—ah—forget ! The ecstatic hour Bursts like a poppy into flower. Back ! thou black spectre! I…
1905 · PDF PAGE 10
…ess of autumn gold. . . . . . . Pillowed on linen of the purest white, Half-hidden by her locks’ luxurious night, Maddened by those soft eyes of melting glow, Enamoured of that breast of breathing snow, Caught in the meshes of her fine-spun hair, Rocked by the beating of her bosom fair, Held by her lips too tempting and too warm, Bewitched by every beauty of her form, The blush upon her cheek is deeper red, Half glad, and half repenting what she said. A moment’s struggle, as her form I press ; One soft sad sigh. Love conquers. I possess. * From…
1909 · PDF PAGE 145
…k to the shade of the sheltering trees ; And I found my sheep on the shady leas; And my body was flushed, and my cheeks were red, And my eyes too bright to weep. 135
1909 · PDF PAGE 145
…k to the shade of the sheltering trees ; And I found my sheep on the shady leas; And my body was flushed, and my cheeks were red, And my eyes too bright to weep. 135
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
…e in a distant vision Rise as before me. Here (it seems) my feet by a tiny torrent Press the moss with a glad delight of being : Here my eyes look up to the riven mountain Split by the thunder, Rent and rifted, shattered of wind and lightning, Smitten, scarred, and stricken of sun and tempest, Seamed with wounds, like adamant, shod with iron, Torn by the earthquake. Still through all the stresses of doubtful weather Hold the firm old pinnacles, sky-defying ; Still the icy feet of the wind relentless. Walk in their meadows. Fields that flower no…
1910 · PDF PAGE 29
…s not so divine I count it little grief to part with such ! We are wild serpents in a ring of fire ; Our necks stretch out, our haggard eyes aspire In desperation ; from the fearful line Our coils revulse in impotence and ire. An idle song it was the poet sang, A quavering noteno brazen kettles clang, But gentle, drooping, tearful. Nay, achieve ! I can remember how the finish rang Clear, sharp, 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 me…
1922 · PDF PAGE 168
154 The Diary of a Drug Fiend Her cranial dome is vaulted, Her mad Mongolian eyes Aslant with the ecstasies Of things immune, exalted Far beyond stars and skies, Slits of amber and jet— Her snout for the quarry set Fleshy and heavy and gross, Bestial, broken across, And below it her mouth that drips Blood from the lips That hide the fangs of a snake, Drips on venomous udders Mountainous flanks that fret, And the spirit sickens and shudders At the hint of a worse thing yet. Olya! the golden bait Barbed with infinite pain, Fatal, fanatical mate O…
1899 · PDF PAGE 32
… foam ; The sin that loves the hollows of the night, The sin that fears ; the sin that hates the light ; The sin that looks with wistful eyes ; the sin That trembles on the olive of the skin ; The sin that slumbers ; these divide the day And all the darkness, and deceive, and slay. And these regather in the womb of hell To marry and increase, and by the spell Of their own wickedness discover sin Unguessed at, but slow treason creeping in, To spread corruption, and destroy the earth. But in the holy hour and happy birth That swam through stars p…
1901 · PDF PAGE 41
…m God! Loathsome bull-men in their corruption linked Whisper lewd fancies in my ear. Great fish, Monstrous and flat, with vile malignant eyes, And crawling beetles of gigantic strength, Crushed, mangled, moving, are about me. Go! Go! do not touch the carcase of myself That is abased, defiled, abominable.
1902 · PDF PAGE 139
…eth thee Out from His glory !" Stricken, smitten, slain— When—one unknown, a pilgrim with the rest. Darting long rugged fingers and deep eyes. Reached to the sceptre with his word and will — Buds, roses, blossoms ! Lilies of the Light ! Bloom, bloom, the fragrance shed upon the air ! ^i7
1909 · PDF PAGE 223
…er. From the Lamb and his prison fare And the owl’s blind stupor, arise! Be ye wise, and strong, and fair, And the nectar afloat in your eyes! Arise, O ambrosial moon By the strong immemorial spell, By the subtle veridical rune That is mighty in heaven and hell! 213
1909 · PDF PAGE 223
…er. From the Lamb and his prison fare And the owl’s blind stupor, arise! Be ye wise, and strong, and fair, And the nectar afloat in your eyes! Arise, O ambrosial moon By the strong immemorial spell, By the subtle veridical rune That is mighty in heaven and hell! 213
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
… be a King, thou canst not hurt him. 60. Therefore strike hard and low, and to hell with them, master! 61. There is a light before thine eyes, Ο prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. 20
1912 · PDF PAGE 83
…t beast is throbbing in my blood How turn the fast to feast, the drought again to flood ? If I could guess the thought behind those icy eyes. I would have blithe, lithe sport with the cunning cockatrice ! T
1899 · PDF PAGE 34
…pain Of uttermost despair. At last her strength Failed, and she flung her weary body at length Amid the bruiséd flowers ; while from her eyes Surged the salt tears ; low moans she multiplies Because her love is blasphemous ; the wind Sighs for all answer, sobs and wails behind Among the trees ; the streams grows deadly pale Hearing her weep, and like a silver sail
1905 · PDF PAGE 102
…deprived of life and death, Sensible only to that sombre breath. Thus wait I on the spring-forgotten shore ; Looking with vain unweeping eyes, for aye Into the wedding of the sea and sky, (That do not wed, ay me !) for evermore
1912 · PDF PAGE 49
…e to-day ? Oh, we have heard of that, But that same rogue will turn your plumpness into fat. LUCREZIA. You scurril thing ! ZELINA. Cats eyes, cows belly, and bears feet ! If these can bring success LUCREZIA. Be off, and walk the street !