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Page 6 of 1121911 · PDF PAGE 191
THE RITE OF SATURN So did the neophyte that would gaze Into dead Pharaoh’s awful eyes Start from incalculable amaze Το clutch the initiate‘s place and prize. He bore the blistering thought aloft: It blazed in battle on his plume: With sage and warrior enfeofi’ed, He rushed alone through tower and tomb, The myriad men, the cohorts armed, Are shred like husks : the ensanguine brand Leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed Το fire the pyramid heaven-spanned Wherein dead Pharaoh sits and stares, Swathed in the wrappings of the tomb, With eyes whose horro…
1911 · PDF PAGE 191
THE RITE OF SATURN So did the neophyte that would gaze Into dead Pharaoh’s awful eyes Start from incalculable amaze Το clutch the initiate‘s place and prize. He bore the blistering thought aloft: It blazed in battle on his plume: With sage and warrior enfeofi’ed, He rushed alone through tower and tomb, The myriad men, the cohorts armed, Are shred like husks : the ensanguine brand Leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed Το fire the pyramid heaven-spanned Wherein dead Pharaoh sits and stares, Swathed in the wrappings of the tomb, With eyes whose horro…
1899 · PDF PAGE 25
THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 17 But I am born of gods, and turn My eyes to thee, thyself divine. My vigorous heart and spirit yearn With love, my cheeks with passion burn— As thy clear eyes may well discern By gazing into mine. Thy heart is cool, thy cheeks are pale, Nor blush with shame like winter wine To understand my amorous tale, For words and looks of Love must fail To touch thee, since a snowy veil Is twixt my mind and thine. Dear goddess, at whose early breast I drank in all desires and woes ; Most reverend god, who oft caressed Her pale chaste…
1905 · PDF PAGE 33
MY WIFE DIES “ Marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”—SWINBURNE. THE sun of love shone through my love’s deep eyes And made a rainbow of her tender tears, And on her cheeks I saw a blush arise When her lips opened to say, loverwise, “ I love ”—and light broke through the cloud of fears That hid her eyes. The storm of passion woke in her red lips When first they clung to mine and rested there ; Lightnings of love were eager to eclipse That earlier sunshine, and her whole soul clips My soul—I kissed out life, within her hair Upon…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
48 THE PRINCESS OF PANORMITA O moon ! ambrosial moon ! Arise on my desert of sorrow That the magical eyes of me swoon With lust of rain to-morrow ! Ages and ages ago I stood on the bank of a river Holy and holy and holy, I know, For ever and ever and ever ! A priest in the mystical shrine, I muttered a redeless rune, Till the waters were redder than wine In the blush of the harlot moon. I and my brother priests Worshipped a wonderful woman With a body lithe as a beasts, Subtly, horribly human. Deep in the pit of her eyes I saw the image of de…
1913 · PDF PAGE 244
…nfinite, unheard-of, Dreams devouring and depraving, Songs no God may guess a word of, Songs of crime and songs of craving— By the drear eyes of the devil Bleak and sterile as they glitter I adore Thee, King of Evil, With these lips, as dry and bitter As the drear eyes of the devil! I adore Thee, I invoke Thee, I abase myself before Thee, By the spells that once awoke the Lust of Chaos I adore Thee, I adore Thee, I invoke Thee !
1913 · PDF PAGE 244
…nfinite, unheard-of, Dreams devouring and depraving, Songs no God may guess a word of, Songs of crime and songs of craving— By the drear eyes of the devil Bleak and sterile as they glitter I adore Thee, King of Evil, With these lips, as dry and bitter As the drear eyes of the devil! I adore Thee, I invoke Thee, I abase myself before Thee, By the spells that once awoke the Lust of Chaos I adore Thee, I adore Thee, I invoke Thee !
1898 · PDF PAGE 33
… solitude, I went Nightly upon a rock that stood alone Threatening the sandy wilderness, and prayed. Where many visions came before mine eyes So strange—these eyes have started from my head, And every hair, grown fearful, like a steed Reared in its frenzy ; see, these lips of mine Have blanched, these nails have bitten through my flesh For sundry things I saw—and these informed
1905 · PDF PAGE 90
HYMN TO APOLLO 85 O hear me ! hear me ! hear me ! for my hands, Dews deathly bathe them ; sinks the stricken song ; Eyes that were feeble have become the strong, See thee and glisten. Blindness is mine ; my spirit understands, Weighs out the offering, accepts the pain, Hearing the pæan of the unprofane ! Lycian, listen ! God of the fiery face, the eyes inviolate ! Lord of soundless thunders, lightnings lightless ! Hear me now, for joy that I see thee sightless, Fervent to follow. Grant one boon ; destroy me, let me die elate, Blasted with light…
1907 · PDF PAGE 334
…others , and drink of that lustral dew : I will return , my brothers , when I have seen God face to face , and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free . Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis , oh ye brave hearts , and cool eyes , and trembling lips ! I will put a live coal upon your lips , and flowers upon your eyes , and a sword in your hearts , and ye also shall see God face to face . Thus shall we give back its youth to the world , for like tongues of triple flame we shall…
1910 · PDF PAGE 315
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV winter, starved to madness, and had begun eating two cows in their shed, when little Ljubov chanced upon them and was discovered half an hour later, surrounded by two hundred of these wolves, which were pushing and kicking one another to lick her hands. On another occasion, extraordinary miracle, one glance from her eyes had stopped the tongue of a drunken pope who was swearing at a peasant in the foulest of language. She was, of course, a favourite with all in the village: the simpler and nearer Nature their souls, the m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 315
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV winter, starved to madness, and had begun eating two cows in their shed, when little Ljubov chanced upon them and was discovered half an hour later, surrounded by two hundred of these wolves, which were pushing and kicking one another to lick her hands. On another occasion, extraordinary miracle, one glance from her eyes had stopped the tongue of a drunken pope who was swearing at a peasant in the foulest of language. She was, of course, a favourite with all in the village: the simpler and nearer Nature their souls, the m…
1898 · PDF PAGE 71
JEPHTHAH. 67 With calm impenetrable eyes The after glory that shall be ; But we, of mortal bodies born, Laugh lies consoling unto scorn. The God of Israel is strong ; His mighty arm hath wrought this day A victory and a triumph-song— And now He breathes upon His clay, And we, who were as idols crowned, Lie dust upon the empty ground. She goes, our sorrow’s sacrifice, Our lamb, our firstling, frail and white, With large sweet love-illumined eyes Into the night, into the night. The throne of night shall be withdrawn ; So moveth she toward the daw…
1902 · PDF PAGE 62
…nus. She smiling luxuriously, he continues. Who Cometh wanton, with long arms outspread ? Who cometh with lascivious lips aflame ? Whose eyes invite me to the naked bed Stark open to the sun, dear pride of shame? Whose face draws close and near, Filling the soul with fear. Till nameless shudders course in every limb ? Whose breath is quick and fierce ? Whose teeth are keen to pierce The arms that clasp her ? Whose the eyes that swim For dear and delicate delight? And whose The lips that halt and choose The very centre of my mouth, and meet In o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 77
… brazen chain ; Far from the change that men call life ; fled higher Into the world immutable of sleep , We see our loved one , and vain eyes desire In vain to weep . Woeful our gaze , if on lone Earth descendent , To view the absence of yon flame afar Yet in the Heavens , anew , divine , resplendent , Behold a star ! One light the less , that steady flamed and even Amid the dusk of Earth 's uncertain shore ; One light the less , but in Jehovah 's Heaven One star the more ! THE CHALLENGE . TOW your grey eyes are filled with tears ; Your hands a…
1899 · PDF PAGE 51
… solitude, I went Nightly upon a rock that stood alone Threatening the sandy wilderness, and prayed. Where many visions came before mine eyes So strange—these eyes have started from my head, And every hair, grown fearful, like a steed Reared in its frenzy ; see, these lips of mine Have blanched, these nails have bitten through my flesh For sundry things I saw—and these informed
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
… you fooled the lot of us— Your spell is cracked within the ring! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared the man’s eyes! So the blind amorous Is blinded with the horror of the truth He sees this moment. Foolish prostitute! You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence, decay Of care to hold him—can I tell you which? Down goes the moon—one sees the howling bitch ! The salmon you had hooked in fin and gill You reel unskilfully—he darts away. Alas! you devil, but you hold me still! III. O first and …
1906 · PDF PAGE 121
Kneel down, dear maiden o’ mine, and let your eyes Get knowledge with a soft and glad surprise! Who would have thought you would have had it in you? Say nothing: on the contrary, continue! 113 I
1899 · PDF PAGE 89
JEPHTHAH. 67 With calm impenetrable eyes The after glory that shall be ; But we, of mortal bodies born, Laugh lies consoling unto scorn. The God of Israel is strong ; His mighty arm hath wrought this day A victory and a triumph-song— And now He breathes upon His clay, And we, who were as idols crowned, Lie dust upon the empty ground. She goes, our sorrow’s sacrifice, Our lamb, our firstling, frail and white, With large sweet love-illumined eyes Into the night, into the night. The throne of night shall be withdrawn ; So moveth she toward the daw…
1898 · PDF PAGE 107
The censer swings to slower time, The darkness falleth deep : My eyes, so solemn and sublime, Relent, and close, and weep : And on the silence, like a chime, I heard the wings of Sleep. 97