Eternal, thence to draw the strength he needsOn earth to do indomitable deesOnce more; and they, who saw but understoodNaught of his nature of beatitudeWere awed: they murmured with abated breath;Alas the Master; so he sinks in death.But whoso knows the mystery of manSees life and death as curves of one same plan.
Maid miraculously male,Rapture of thine own excessBlushing through the velvet veilWhere the olive cheeks aglowShadow-soften into snow,Breasts like Bacchanals afloatUnder the proudly phallic throat!Be thou to my pilgrimageLight, and laughter sweet and sage,Till the darkling day expireOf my life in thy caress,Thou my frenzy and my fire,Lamp of living loveliness!Thou the ruler of the rodThat…
Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres!A year of infinite love unwearying —No circling seasons, but perennial spring!A year of triumph trampling through defeat,The first made holy and the last made sweetBy this same love; a year of wealth and woe,Joy, poverty, health, sickness — all one glowIn the pure light that filled…
El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own!O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent isThat poises head and hood, and makes his body tremble to the droneOf tom-tom and of cymbal wooed by love’s assassin sorceries!El Arabi! El Arabi!The moon is down; we are alone;May not our mouths meet, madden, mix, melt…
Proud in adamantine poiseOn the pillars of torqoise,See,beyond the starry fold,Where a darkling orb is rolled.There, beneath a grove of yew,Plays a babe. Should I despiseSuch a foam of gold, and eyesBurning beryline, so blueThat the sun seems peeping through?Did I swwop, were Heaven amazed?With my beak I strike but once;Out there leap a million…
In the sounding reboundingAbyss of the stars!O virgin in armour,Thine arrows unslingIn the brilliant resilientFirst rays of the spring!By the force of the fashionOf love, when I brokeThrough the shroud, through the cloud,Through the storm, through the smoke,To the mountain of passionVolcanic that woke —By the rage of the mageI invoke, I invoke!By the midnight…
Come careering out of the nightOf Pan ! Io Pan .Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Come over the seaFrom Sicily and from Arcady !Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pardsAnd nymphs and styrs for thy guards,On a milk-white ass, come over the seaTo me, to me,Coem with Apollo in bridal dress(Spheperdess and pythoness)Come with…
The simple truth of me that is yours.Is not the music mingled with the formWhen all the heavens break in blind black storm?Are we not veiled as Gods, and cruel as they,Smiting our brilliance on the shuddering clay?Silence and darkness cover us, confirmOur splendour to its unappointed term:For all the men homunculi that danceAround us…
Over the untrodden road,Through the giant glades of yewWhere its ray fell light as dewLighting up the shimmering veilMaiden pure and aery frailThat the spiders wove to hideBlushes of the sylvan brideEarth, that trembled with delightAt the male caress of Night.Velvet soft the wizard trodTo the Sabbath of his God.With his naked feet he madeStarry…
Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossomsdanceWith the light that stirs and lustres of the dawn, and withthe bloomOf the wind’s cheek as it clusters from the hidden valley’sgloom :Then I walk in woodland spaces, musing on the solemnwaysOf the immemorial places shut behind the starry raysOf the East and all its splendour,…
