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…ll, I am freedoms friend : my sword is idle long. When I am wanted, send. LUCREZIA. God keep your purpose strong. But what a blistering night ! ZELINA. I stifle. LORENZO. Is there wind, Should we row seaward ? LUCREZIA. Light. ALESSANDRO. Well try it. Can you find A gondola ? LUCREZIA. Theres one in the shadow. ALESSANDRO. Gondolier !
A boy’s laugh and a maiden’s glance Are sweet as paramours ! Stay! is there naught some wanton wight May do to excite the glamoured knight? Yea! the song takes a sea-wild swell ; The dance moves in a mystic web; Strange lights abound and terrible; The life that flowed is out at ebb. The lights are gone; the night is come; The lads and lasses sink, awaiting Some climax—oh, how tense and dumb The expectant hush intoxicating! Hush! the heart’s beat! Across the moor Some dreadful god rides fast, be sure ! The listening Palamede bites through His th…
…mfort can we give For joy so frail , for hope so fugitive ? The yearning pain of unfulfilled delight , The moonless vigils of her lonely night ? For the abnormal anguish of her tears , And flowering springs that mock her empty years ? 166
…cloud and pencil all the blue Come away , you fools , you fools Come to where the wind is sighing 101 104 45 199 Do you know the soul of night ? Ere the snow lies sleek ... Exile from humankind ... 66 217 po
… central flawless fire, enthralled Like Truth within an emerald ! Thou shalt have a birchen bark On the river in the dark: And at the midnight thou shalt go To the mid-stream’s smoothest flow, And strike upon a golden bell The spirit’s call; then say the spell: “ Angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh!” Making the Sign of Magistry With wand of lapis lazuli. Then, it may be, through the blind dumb Night thou shalt see thine angel come, Hear the faint whisper of his wings, Behold the starry breast begemmed With the twelve stones of the twelve kings! H…
… central flawless fire, enthralled Like Truth within an emerald ! Thou shalt have a birchen bark On the river in the dark: And at the midnight thou shalt go To the mid-stream’s smoothest flow, And strike upon a golden bell The spirit’s call; then say the spell: “ Angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh!” Making the Sign of Magistry With wand of lapis lazuli. Then, it may be, through the blind dumb Night thou shalt see thine angel come, Hear the faint whisper of his wings, Behold the starry breast begemmed With the twelve stones of the twelve kings! H…
…es Gave her due thanks, and bent his ear to seize Her further words. days Shall flame and flicker into darkened ways Before the wings of night, ere Hermes fly Hither, the messenger of Zeus. But I Bid thee remain beneath the temple gate While I consider of our war on Fate. Till then, and I will tell thee everything That thou must do; but now let song take wing Till the pale air swoon with the deep delight That makes cool noontide from the sultry night. What are your dreams, my maidens? Your young dreams ? Are they of passion, or of rocks and str…
… ye hollow caverns whence there flee Foam-heads and blusterous waves, give ear to me, And O thou thunder, follow hard behind ! O womb of night, reverberate these chords, Ye clouds, ye stormy lords, With clamour and shrill voice as of ten thousand swords. 7
Oh God, Thy blinding beauty, and the hght Shed from Thy shoulders, and the golden night Of mingling fire and stars and roses swart In the long flame of hair that leaps athwart, Live in each tingling gossamer ! Dread eyes ! Each flings its arrow of sharp sacrifice. Eating me up with poison ! I am hurled Far through the vaporous confines of the world With agony of sundering sense, beholding Thy mighty flower, blood-coloured death, unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled, Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Warm b…
…its Hrd €pulfing Hrougs the mfinie Brand! Mp chariot wd With Syrian Sood! Mp footmey Wading Hrougs th flood ! Ay! Gat Bas life! efor the night Dipped its mol Wings, Heir holes Were ferickoy Aiko nigh itfelt before the fight. An Hundwd Houfand crpies fichey The air of FeaBey. Pet fome By fyxed €fay our Fengeane—ours, inxed! Fate, the md found, & ApHeA foloWed. Some (eBey and tWentp Houfand died, ae the great Bal uprifing followed fs Cetror, cafhed upon its fice, And Weeemed tom in (Ge win. Strife, Strength, courage, Bictory—that is Zift! +
…nd he, beginning vexed, Would end by sundry oaths in German, Whose tendency to edification Was not clear to his congregation. By day, by night, eternal stands ! One long continuous emission He left his cure in other hands And sought his cure of a physician, Who marvelled at his tale of tooling As at a pretty piece of fooling. But, soon convinced, he diagnosed This case as clearly as could be ; You suffer, sir (no, be composed !) From a mistaken chastity. Indulge your natural desires And quench those fires ! [94]
…h’s eclipse revealed. XI And as he clasped me, slim and slight, I roared with the pain he gave, And he cried, “I will hold thee here all night, My beautiful, dark-haired slave ; Kiss my lips and laugh in my eyes, And I'll bring magic out of the skies, And thy flame shall yield to my eyes’ fierce light Ere thine ashes are laid in the grave!”
…h’s eclipse revealed. XI And as he clasped me, slim and slight, I roared with the pain he gave, And he cried, “I will hold thee here all night, My beautiful, dark-haired slave ; Kiss my lips and laugh in my eyes, And I'll bring magic out of the skies, And thy flame shall yield to my eyes’ fierce light Ere thine ashes are laid in the grave!”
… and destinies excite me, The strange sad kiss. Thus may no moon tell Earth my story after, No virgin sing my fame as virginal. Yet some night-leaves the southern stream may waft her, Some amorous nymph across the wood may call A loud made chant ; love, tears, harsh sombre laughter. No more at all.
…ed us by the gambling gods ! I saw a painted dancing-girl Writhe, jerk, shake, snap her fingers, curl Her lips into a lecherous leer All night for sixpence and her beer. I met her eyes. We knew each other, In Gods womb sister and twin brother ! She blazed. Each belly-twitch set swinging The censers of the stars, set singing The myriad choirs of cherubim. All nature dived from sense, to swim In that past-space past-period Infinite ocean that is God. Such luck be yours ! You cannot tell The pulse that makes my forehead swell. You see me walk in …
…more: To me! To me! I am the azure-lidded daughter Of sunset ; the all-girdling water; The naked brilliance of the sky In the voluptuous night am I! With song, with jewel, with perfume, Wake all my rose’s blush and bloom | Drink to me! Love me! I love thee, My love, my lord—to me! to me! There is no harshness in the breath Of this—is life surpassed, and death ? There is the Snake that gives delight And Knowledge, stirs the heart aright With drunkenness. Strange drugs are thine, Hadit, and draughts of wizard wine! These do no hurt. Thine hermits…
…more: To me! To me! I am the azure-lidded daughter Of sunset ; the all-girdling water; The naked brilliance of the sky In the voluptuous night am I! With song, with jewel, with perfume, Wake all my rose’s blush and bloom | Drink to me! Love me! I love thee, My love, my lord—to me! to me! There is no harshness in the breath Of this—is life surpassed, and death ? There is the Snake that gives delight And Knowledge, stirs the heart aright With drunkenness. Strange drugs are thine, Hadit, and draughts of wizard wine! These do no hurt. Thine hermits…
…s an accurséd star. The Self, one moment held behind, Whirls like a dead leaf in the wind Down the Abyss. The soul is drawn To that Dark Night that is the dawn Through halls of patience, palaces 191
…auti- ful Féline, so well named, who is at once the glory of her sex, the pride of my heart, and the incense of my spirit, whether it be night, or whether it be day, in broad daylight or thick darkness, in the abyss of her adorable eyes I always read the hour most clearly. This hour is always the same; vast, solemn, wide as space, without division into minutes or seconds; a
…e Head to Kirkstone Pass There’s ne’er a lass like Kate : ’— The gentle child looked up and smiled And kissed me frank and straight. The night was dark, the stars were few :— Should love need moon or star? Let him decide who wins a bride The peer of Katie Carr. X. NORAH. NorAH, my wee shy child of wonderment, You are sweeter than a swallow-song at dusk ! You are braver than a lark that soars and tfills His lofty laughter of love to a hundred hills ! You lie like a sweet nut within the husk Of my big arms ; and uttermost content I have of you, m…