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Page 60 of 1541911 · PDF PAGE 56
… all the stars and all the sky begem, For Thou art all the radiance of them. The lean scourged body and the tortured brain Glow with the light of Thy celestial rain. Thou art the secret of the pure keen pleasure Whose fountain springs from the abyss of pain. Thee do we praise in many a merry measure Who art of GOD most high the single treasure. He hath ten jewels in His holy House ; All these be mystic, clear and luminous ; But only Thou art worthy of the throne, O Mother and O daughter and O spouse Of Him that reigns above, triune, alone, And …
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
… untravelled land Where never a human soul is known, A desert by a wizard banned, A soulless wilderness of stone. Nor grass, nor corn, delight the vales ; Nor beast, nor bird, span space. Immense, Black rain, grey mist, white wrath of gales, Fill the dread armoury of sense. Nor shines the sun; nor moon, nor star Their subtle light at all display ; Nor day, nor night, dispute the scaur: All’s one intolerable grey. Black Ilyns, grey rocks, white hills of snow! No flower, no colour: life is not. This is no way for men to go From Severn-mouth to Ca…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
… to make sense of it ? Mine of so many pounds—pouch even pence of it ?17 Try something easier,18 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find comes in dreams to me. Even as he takes to feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to launch my old barge upon Analyse, get hints from Newton19 or Faraday,20 Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships ? Ah me ! shall his soul, Far in some glory, take hurt from a mole Grubbing i’ th’ ground ? Shall his spirit not see, Lightning to lightning, the spirit in me ? Par…
1898 · PDF PAGE 76
…ierce to the portals of passion And satiate thy longing and lust In the fearless Athenian fashion, A rose amid dust. We will taste all delights and caresses And know all the secrets of joy, From the love-look that chastity blesses To the lusts that deceive and destroy ; We will live in the light of sweet glances, By day and by night we will move To the music of manifold dances, O Lucius, love !
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
ACTUS SECUNDUS 13 That Wisdom crieth in the streets aloud And none regardeth her? Obey my voice. JASON. O master of Apollo’s lyre and light! We are not wise—and for that very cause We meet to-day to call on Wisdom. ORPHEUS. Well! The altar stands, shadowing the Universe That with my fire of Knowledge I destroy— And there is Wisdom—but invoke Her not, Friends, Who is only when none other is. JASON. Let us begin: the hour draws on apace. Drive off the demons from the sacrifice! ORPHEUS. Let all the demons enter and dwell therein! My friends, ye a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…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, and moly. Ay ! and with serpent hair And limbs divinely fair Didst thou, Dionysus, leap forth to the nectar air ! Ay ! thus the dreams of fate We dare commemorate, Twining in lovesome curls the spoil of mate and mate.
1912 · PDF PAGE 19
… dreadful front uprears ! The tall towers blaze, to illume the fight; While many a myriad heathen spears March northward at the earliest light. Falls thy last comrade at thy feet, O lordly-souled Sir Palamede? Tearing the savage from his seat, He leaps upon a coal-black steed. He gallops raging through the press : The affrighted heathen fear his eye. There madness gleams, there masterless The whirling sword shrieks shrill and high, They shrink, he gallops. Closely clings The child slung at his waist; and he Heeds nought, but gallops wide, and s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 59
…d Wrapping the flaming sun with rose, They hide her from the hero’s sight. Then doth he muse thereat morose, When in one wild cascade of light The 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 ins…
1913 · PDF PAGE 146
…Luring the hungry with bright deadly fruit, Like poisoned snakes mocking the shapes of plants. And birds flew then like living things of light, Knowing at worst the arrow swift and free ; Their voices and the chirp of cicadae Seemed then the chain of an unending song That interlaced the woods and crowned its dells With living coruscations of sweet sound . The magic motions of the forest then Spanned the free arches of a simple age When man was part of nature and his work Seemed but a slighter fashioning of her own . As once did sleep the presen…
1913 · PDF PAGE 168
…ht together . I sing beneath the waning moon ; An ancient god -forgotten rune Springs to my lips to taste , and soon The way behind with light is strewn. O silent city silver - lit, O rainy roads 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 . D…
1961 · PDF PAGE 28
…ect not the Performance of the Mass of the Holy Ghost, as Nature herself prompteth thee. Travel also much in the Empyrean in the Body of Light, seeking ever Abodes more fiery and lucid. Finally, exercise constantly the Eight Limbs of Yoga. And so shalt thou come to the End. n
1898 · PDF PAGE 84
…lac- able river Foaming from heaven and hell, two armies of crimson and white ; Flecked is the sky with their blood shed as by sabres of light. Now they are clutching his arms, the phantoms that throng there behind him, Foul and distorted, whose sight may not on men ever dawn ; Now they entice and entreat, now strive with fresh fury to bind him, Cords that are cut by an angel whose sword is unceasingly drawn, Glitters, and bids them fall back as if struck by the eye of the morn. Would he but turn he should see a woman laid naked before him, 74
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…e-yet. God, keep us most from ill, What time the King-Ghost grips the will ! Silver and rose and gold what flame resurges ? What living light pours forth in emerald waves ? What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges ? Shrieking thy fly, the King-Ghost and his slaves. Lord, let Thy Ghost indwell, And keep us from the power of Hell ! Amen.
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…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 rapture of that sudden sun The knowledge of your love, The assumption of me into that sweet shrine Whose godhead duly knows Only the one wind of the utmost heaven Through hyacinthine deeps Down from the sapphiri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 149
MARJORY MINES. CHRISTMAS . Morning . THE light was grey When shrill cocks crew , They knew that day Was peering through Her mantle dim , her mantle blue , And heard her say : “ O dear world , help me to count less This once , the feet that stray , The hands that do not bless That men forever may Feel my caress .” Afternoon . W E cannot , like the wise men three , W Journey away to seek and see , But we can keep with feast and mirth The winter blossoming of earth ; Nor shut our doors , for we may then Shut out the travelling Wise Men , Who alway…
1904 · PDF PAGE 127
…When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun m illion-crested, and the forest blossoms dance With the light that stirs and lustres of the dawn, and with the bloom Of the wind’s cheek as it clus ters from the hidden valley’s gloom; Then I walk in woodland spaces, musing on the solemn ways Of the im memorial places s hut 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 hus and cease. In the wheel of heaven revolving…
1907 · PDF PAGE 321
314 THE STAR IN THE WEST beauty of bodies, nor the glory which passes , nor the light which our eyes love ; it is not the varied harmony of sweet songs , nor the aroma of perfumes and sweet flowers , nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No , it is none of these that I love when I love my God ; and yet in this love I find a light , an inner voice , a perfume, a savour , an em brace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself . There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space, there a word is heard which has no…
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…w good ! How sweet of her hands! How dainty and airy ! How perfect, how kind! How bright in her thoughts! How subtle, refined, The least light of her mind ! Let me approach ! O fear! O sorrow! I fear to encroach. Scree-king, I borrow Thy frown, thy pride, Thy magical targe. To her side I glide, To the mystical marge Of this lake enchaunted. O waters elf-haunted, Bear me toward her, A cruel marauder, A robber of light ! O beauty! O bright ! How shall I sing thee? Nay ! do not fly me! My bird, why wing thee? Be kind! O be nigh me! She speaks not.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
… By Nature’s assistance, I, I, not another Demand my desire, Rebuke your resistance, By mighty Apollo Whose power yet abides, Though his light may not follow Through Stygian tides ! By my power over things Both living and dead, By my influence splendid In heavenly court, The song of me springs. My favour is dread. Be your portals rended! Your bolts be as nought ! The ethereal kings Encompass my head. My soul hath transcended The limits of thought ! Unbar me the gates! Revolve me the hinges! Mine be the Fate! Mine be the springes Wherein ye have…
1899 · PDF PAGE 234
…old petals that sunrise had riven! See, like my life is the stream Now its desire is grown quiet; Life was a passionate dream Once, when light fancy ran riot, Now, ere youth fades, flows in peace past woody bank and green eyot. Highest, white heather and rock, Mountain and pine, with young laughter, Breezes that murmur and mock Duller delights to come after, Wild as a swallow that dives whither the sea wind _ would waft her. Lower, an ocean of flowers, Trees that are warmer and leafier, Starrier, sunnier hours Spurning the stain of all grief he…