Nature might find
In her inheritance
The seedlings of a race
Less infinitely base.
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Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star:
O twinned with me in the womb of Night!O son of my bowels to the Lord of Light!O man of mine that hast covered meFrom the shame of my virginity!Where art thou? Is it not Apep thy brother,The snake in my womb that am thy mother,That hath slain thee by violence girt with guile,And scattered…
So it is eighteen years,
A season so endears,Nor you nor I forgetThe fresh young faces that once cloveIn that most fiery dawn of love.We wandered to and fro,Who knew not how to woo,Those eighteen years ago,Sweetheart, when I and youExchanged high vows in heaven’s sightThat scarce survived a summer’s night.What scourge smote from the starsWhat madness from the moon?That…
[Dedicated to G. M. Marston]
In the dawn’s pearl-pure pavillion,I wait for thee, with my dove’s breastShuddering, a god its bitter guest-Have I not gilded my nailsAnd painted my lips with vermillion ?Am I not wholly striptOf the deeds and thoughts that obscure thee?I wait for thee, my soul distraughtWith aching for some nameless naughtIn its most arcane crypt-Am I…
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own!
Constant my heart through the abyss unknown,Its glory my sole guide while space surgeAbout me. Seventy light-yaers! As I nearThat gate of light that men call death, its coldPale gleam begins to pulse, a throbbing sphere,Systole and diastole of eager gold,New life immortal, wartmth of passion bleedTill night’s black velvet burn to crimson. Hark!It is…
Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
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…
Here rests beneath this hospitable spot
The Plymouth Brethren gave it to him hot;Trinity, Cambridge, claimed him for her own.At chess a minor master, Hoylake setHis handicap a 2. Love drove him crazy;Thrre thousand women used to call him “pet”;In other gardens daffodil or daisy?He climbed a lot of mountains in his time.He stalked the tiger, bear and elephant.he wrote a…