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5233 lines
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<h1 epub:type="title">The Book of Jade</h1>
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<p>By <b epub:type="z3998:author z3998:personal-name">David Park Barnitz</b>.</p>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Table of Contents</h2>
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<a href="#titlepage">Titlepage</a>
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<a href="#imprint">Imprint</a>
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<a href="#dedication">Dedication</a>
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<a href="#halftitlepage">The Book of Jade</a>
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<a href="#prelude">Prelude</a>
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<a href="#part-1">Part <span epub:type="z3998:roman">I</span></a>
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<a href="#ashtoreth">Ashtoreth</a>
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<a href="#parfait-amour">Parfait Amour</a>
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<a href="#opium">Opium</a>
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<a href="#sombre-sonnet">Sombre Sonnet</a>
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<a href="#languor">Languor</a>
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<a href="#ennui">Ennui</a>
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<a href="#litany">Litany</a>
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<a href="#harvard">Harvard</a>
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<a href="#pride">Pride</a>
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<a href="#son-of-golden-youth">Song of Golden Youth</a>
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<a href="#mais-moi-je-vis-la-vie-en-rouge" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie en Rouge</a>
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<a href="#louanges-delle" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Louanges d’Elle</a>
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<a href="#helas">Hélas</a>
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<a href="#sonnet-1">Sonnet: When I Contemplate How My State Is Low</a>
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<a href="#sonnet-2">Sonnet: Be Not Cast Down My Heart, and Be Not Sad</a>
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<a href="#rondeau">Rondeau</a>
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<a href="#autumn-song">Autumn Song</a>
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<a href="#ballad">Ballad</a>
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<a href="#changelessness">Changelessness</a>
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<a href="#madonna">Madonna</a>
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<a href="#poppy-song">Poppy Song</a>
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<a href="#consolation">Consolation</a>
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<a href="#liebes-tod" lang="de" xml:lang="de">Liebes-Tod</a>
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<a href="#liebes-tod-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
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<a href="#liebes-tod-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
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<a href="#evening-song">Evening Song</a>
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<a href="#song-of-the-stars-in-praise-of-her">Song of the Stars in Praise of Her</a>
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<a href="#aubade">Aubade</a>
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<a href="#remember">Remember</a>
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<a href="#song-1">Song: She Hath Liv’d the Life of a Rose</a>
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<a href="#song-2">Song: Cometh a Day and a Night</a>
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<a href="#constancy">Constancy</a>
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<a href="#requiem">Requiem</a>
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<a href="#autumn-burial">Autumn Burial</a>
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<a href="#sonnet-of-burial">Sonnet of Burial</a>
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<a href="#nocturne">Nocturne</a>
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<a href="#part-2">Part <span epub:type="z3998:roman">II</span></a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#mad-sonnet">Mad Sonnet</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-house-of-youth">The House of Youth</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#de-profundis" lang="la" xml:lang="la">De Profundis</a>
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<a href="#prayer">Prayer</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes">Sestettes</a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes-3" epub:type="z3998:roman">III</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes-4" epub:type="z3998:roman">IV</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes-5" epub:type="z3998:roman">V</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes-6" epub:type="z3998:roman">VI</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes-7" epub:type="z3998:roman">VII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sestettes-8" epub:type="z3998:roman">VIII</a>
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</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
|
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-of-the-instruments-of-death">Sonnet of the Instruments of Death</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#truth">Truth</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#hegel">Hegel</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#monotony">Monotony</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sepulture">Sepulture</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#miserrimus" lang="la" xml:lang="la">Miserrimus</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#scorn">Scorn</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-grave">The Grave</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#mummy">Mummy</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sepulchral-life">Sepulchral Life</a>
|
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</li>
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<li>
|
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<a href="#corpse">Corpse</a>
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</li>
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<li>
|
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<a href="#mankind">Mankind</a>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#the-defilers">The Defilers</a>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#the-grotesques">The Grotesques</a>
|
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<ol>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-grotesques-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
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<a href="#the-grotesques-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
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<a href="#the-grotesques-3" epub:type="z3998:roman">III</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
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<a href="#the-grotesques-4" epub:type="z3998:roman">IV</a>
|
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</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#dead-dialogue">Dead Dialogue</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#fragments">Fragments</a>
|
||
<ol>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#fragments-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#fragments-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#fragments-3" epub:type="z3998:roman">III</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#envoi">Envoi</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#postlude">Postlude</a>
|
||
<ol>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#song-of-india">Song of India</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#dedication-2">Dedication</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#after-life">After-Life</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#endnotes">Endnotes</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
||
<a href="#colophon">Colophon</a>
|
||
</li>
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<li>
|
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<a href="#uncopyright">Uncopyright</a>
|
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</li>
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<header>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Imprint</h2>
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<section id="dedication" epub:type="dedication frontmatter">
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<p>To the Memory<br/>
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of<br/>
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<b>Charles Baudelaire</b></p>
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<section id="halftitlepage" epub:type="halftitlepage frontmatter">
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<h2 epub:type="fulltitle">The Book of Jade</h2>
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<section id="prelude" epub:type="prologue z3998:poem bodymatter">
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<h2 epub:type="title">Prelude</h2>
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<span>I am a little tired of all things mortal;</span>
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<span>I see through half-shut eyelids languorous</span>
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<span>The old monotonous</span>
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<span>Gold sun set slowly through the western portal,</span>
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<span>Where I recline upon my deep dîwân,</span>
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<span>In Ispahân.</span>
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<p>
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<span>I am a little weary of the Persian</span>
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<span>Girl that I lov’d; I am quite tir’d of love;</span>
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<span>And I am weary of</span>
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<span>The smoking censers, and the sweet diversion</span>
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<span>Of stroking Leila’s jasmine-scented hair,</span>
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<span>I thought so fair.</span>
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<p>
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<span>At last I think I am quite tired of beauty;</span>
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<br/>
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<span>Why do the stars shine always in the sky?</span>
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<span>I think if I might die,</span>
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<br/>
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<span>Something more sweet, less tiring than the duty</span>
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<span>Of kissing her, might be; I am tired of myrrh,</span>
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<span>And kissing her.</span>
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<p>
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<span>Khaled, come, come, and slowly move the scented</span>
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|
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<span>Gold narghilé away; let the lyres cease.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now a little peace!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For see, moon-faced Leila hath repented</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of singing Hafiz’ songs melodiously,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And languidly.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Surely all things are vain, and great thanksgiving</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is due not; surely all things now are vain;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all my heart is fain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of something, something, far too great for living;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nothing is very sad, nor wonderful,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor beautiful.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well now, since all things are not worth the winning,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Goodbye! With these I have a little play’d;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And once, alas, I pray’d</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That gorgeous, golden sins be mine for sinning;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now I would not leave my palanquin</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For any sin.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And long ago I prov’d in great compassion</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For man, that Brahm is not nor ever was;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now, alas, alas</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I would he were, that in the olden fashion</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I might laugh once again ere all is said;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But Brahm is dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then with philosophy I bor’d me duly;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And since I could not slumber all the time,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I, in sweet golden rhyme,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On white papyrus scented with patchouli</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wrote masterpieces starry-beautiful.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The earth was full.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So beauty wearied me; in order slowly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Love, Joy, and Victory came unto me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I kiss’d them languidly;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And Virtue came, and Duty, stiff and holy;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To these I said—Pray come another day;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And turn’d away.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now since of all I am a little weary,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And since on earth I must a while sojourn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And since a while must burn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The censer of my long existence dreary,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All things shall walk, that own my mastery,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In luxury.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My Ennui shall in vestments falling lowly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stiff, purple, trailing, long, episcopal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sweep through her palace hall,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like to a consecrated bishop holy;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My Sin from golden goblets of Byzant</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall drink absinthe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And my gold-crowned wanton goddess Pleasure,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(My candles are all burning at her shrine)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall be made drunk with wine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And walk unto the velvet-falling measure</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of golden-voiced, solemn-sounding shawms.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No rhyme for shawms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All they that wait upon me in my glory,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My purple Pride, and my Luxuriousness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And my Voluptuousness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall show within their faces transitory</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Something more subtile than all life can give,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While I shall live …</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah, all is liv’d, all eaten, all is drunken!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Soul, is there anything now left for thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Excepting sanctity?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay, ev’n we too have been in virtue sunken,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We have been holy priest, we have confess’d,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Said, <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Missa Est</i>.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have drunk out of heavy goblets golden,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As from some hellish <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">tabernaculum</span></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cannabis, conium;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know quite all the poisons, all the olden</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sins, all the <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">ténébreux</span> dark secrets hid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And things forbid.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have had all things unto mortals given,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I all the women, all the passion I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the satiety;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have had all the pleasures known in heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Paradisiacal, purpureal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exstatical.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With all the sciences I am acquainted,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alas! I know quite all the languages,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the philosophies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alas! and all the pictures that are painted,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the palac’d capitals that be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Have wearied me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas, all art, all knowledge, and all passion</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have had: I have heard all the symphonies;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have sail’d all the seas;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have drain’d all life’s cup in languid fashion;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I am come to Persiä again,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Land of <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">cocagne</span>.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="part-1" epub:type="part bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2>
|
||
<span epub:type="label">Part</span>
|
||
<span epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</span>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<article id="ashtoreth" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Ashtoreth</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In thy blue pallid gown that shimmereth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So pale thou standest in the wan moonlight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where the gold censer near thy body white</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wraps thee around with its perfumed breath;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So wan thy high tiara glimmereth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Above thy mystical far eyes of light,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou seemest some dead goddess of the night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O starry love, O changeless Ashtoreth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Pallid thou standest in thy divinity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like some moon-idol of the buried time,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before whose face priests sing in solemn chime.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So I prostrate before thy deity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto thy face have solemn praises sung,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in my hands a golden censer swung.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="parfait-amour" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Parfait Amour</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It is not that thy face is fair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">As dying sunsets are,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor that thy lovely eyelids wear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The splendour of a star;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis the deep sadness of thine eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Hath my heart captive led,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And that within thy soul I prize</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The calmness of the dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O holy love, O fair white face,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">O sweet lost soul of thine!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy bosom is an altar-place,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Thy kisses holy wine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sweet incense offer’d for my bliss</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Is thy corrupted breath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And on thy stained lips I kiss</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The holy lips of Death!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wherefore because thy heart is all</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Fill’d full of mournfulness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thy gold head as with a pall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Hung o’er with sinfulness;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because thy soul is utterly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sinful unto the core—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore my heart is bound to thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Dear love, forevermore!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="opium" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Opium</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Naught is more sweet than gently to let dream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The pallid flower of life asleep alway;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where the dim censer sends up far from day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unceasingly its still-ascending stream,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O where the air winds its myrrh-scented steam</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>About thy naked body’s disarray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall not today’s gold to thy shut eyes seem</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Born and forgot in the dead ages gray?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sunk from life’s mournful loud processional,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For thee shall not with high uplifted urn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Night pour out dreams that awake and say,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—We were, O pallid maiden vesperal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before the world; we also in our turn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By the vain morning gold scatter’d away.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sombre-sonnet" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Sombre Sonnet</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I love all sombre and autumnal things,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Regal and mournful and funereal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Things strange and curious and majestical,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whereto a solemn savor of death clings:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Coerulian serpents mark’d with azure rings;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awful cathedrals where rich shadows fall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hoarse symphonies sepulchral as a pall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mad crimes adorn’d with bestial blazonings.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Therefore I love thee more than aught that dies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within whose subtile beauty slumbereth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The twain solemnity of life and death;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Therefore I sit beside thee far from day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And look into thy holy eyes alway,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy desolate eyes, thine unillumin’d eyes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="languor" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Languor</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Although thy face be whiter than the dawn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fairer than aught the dawning hath descried,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hast thou not now, O dear love deified,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Enough of kisses upon thy forehead wan?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The days and nights, like beads to pray upon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pass by before our eyes and not abide,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And so these things shall be till we have died,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until our bodies to the earth are gone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I think how pleasant such a thing must be,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That all thy lovely limbs should fall away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And drop to nothing in their soft decay.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then may thy buried body turn to me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With new love on thy changed lips like fire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And kiss me with a kiss that shall not tire.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="ennui" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Ennui</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I sat in tall Gomorrah on a day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Boring myself with solitude and dreams,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When, like strange priests, with sacerdotal tread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The seven mortal sins, in rich array,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Came in and knelt: one old, and weak, and gray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One that was shrouded like a person dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And one whose robes cast reddish-purple gleams</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon her scornful face at peace alway.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They swung before me <span lang="ar-EG" xml:lang="ar-EG">amschirs</span> of strange gold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And one most beautiful began to pray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dreamily garmented in pallid blue.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But I said only—I have dream’d of you.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Naught really is; all things are very old,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<span>And very foolish.</span>
|
||
<span>Please to go away.</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="litany" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Litany</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All the authors that there are bore Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the philosophies bore Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the statues and all the temples bore Me;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—All the authors that there are bore Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the philosophies bore Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the statues and all the temples bore Thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All the women of the earth weary Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The fruit of the vine wearieth Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the symphonies weary Me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—All the women of the earth weary Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The fruit of the vine wearieth Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the symphonies weary Thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Victory and defeat fatigue Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gladness and sorrowing fatigue Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Life and death fatigue Me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—Victory and defeat fatigue Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gladness and sorrowing fatigue Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Life and death fatigue Thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The earth and the heavens weary Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sun by day and the moon by night weary Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the great stars of heaven weary Me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—The earth and the heavens weary Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sun by day and the moon by night weary Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the great stars of heaven weary Thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The glorious company of the Apostles tireth Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The goodly fellowship of the Prophets tireth Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The noble army of Martyrs tireth Me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—The glorious company of the Apostles tireth Thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The goodly fellowship of the Prophets tireth Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The noble army of Martyrs tireth Thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All the race of men weary Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Cherubim and the Seraphim weary Me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Myself wearieth Me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—All the race of men weary Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Cherubim and the Seraphim weary Thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thyself wearieth Thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="harvard" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Harvard</h3>
|
||
<p epub:type="subtitle">On His Twenty-First Year</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Tired Muse, put faded roses on thy brow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Put thy bare arms about the harp, and sing:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—I am a little bor’d with everything.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Past the clos’d jalousies the <span lang="und" xml:lang="und">mlengkas</span> go;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They are not beautiful; no Greek they know;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They go about and howl and make a fuss;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I gaze through <i lang="und" xml:lang="und">sâd</i>-shap’d eyelids languorous,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far off from Ispahân where roses blow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Professors sit on lofty stools upcurl’d,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through Yankee noses drooling all day long;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I find all these things quite ridiculous.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Before despis’d old age comes over us,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let us step into the great world ere long.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We shall be very grand in the great world!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="pride" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Pride</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They come and go, they pass before my soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Desire and Love, weak Anguish and Distress,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shame and Despair: in phantom crowds they press,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Life’s poor processional, Time’s lowly dole.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Mournful their voices as slow bells that toll,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Voices of them that curse and do not bless;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ineffable things wrapp’d round with loathsomeness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The deeds that I have done in Fate’s control.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They leer and moan, they shriek and threat and lower,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ignoble faces that the sky do mar;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My changeless soul from her high pride of power</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<span>Looks down unmov’d.</span>
|
||
<span>So the calm evening star</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon the wallowing peaceless sea looks down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Set far aloft within the heaven’s crown.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="son-of-golden-youth" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Song of Golden Youth</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Quelle bêtise!</span> O Muse, no longer lappt in sadness let us lie,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bring the jars of old Falernum, bring the roses ere they die!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I love laughter, I love kisses, I love Lili, I love love,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But these dingy funeral dirges <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">ennuyer</span> us by-and-by;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fellows, <span lang="it" xml:lang="it">disinvoltamente</span>, when the lords of life depart,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lift the wine-cup to your haughty lips, and sing, Goodbye, goodbye!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We have laughter on our lips, and in our hearts the laughing spring,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nothing greatly can afflict us, nor our spirits mortify;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the laws and regulations under scornful feet we tread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We laugh loud at all the virtues underneath the shining sky;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have heard, when haughty Tarquin did his horrid deed of sin,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That Lucretia’s lily fingers slapp’d his face vivaciously;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though of all my life dear Lili make a gay dégringolade,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet to my ennuis doth Lili sing an endless lullaby;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We are Greeks and we are Tartars, we know all the languages,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the girls of Persia, India, China, we know how to sigh;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If the heartless heart of Lili tediously cruel prove,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go and dance the tarantella with the girls of Hôkusai!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the golden-citied world from Paris unto Tokiô</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We are quite at home, we saunter languidly through tall Shanghai;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span><span lang="el-Latn" xml:lang="el-Latn">Chairete</span>! the shaw of rosy Persia is a gentleman,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Charming people in Benares where the Ganges loiters by;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Allah akbar! O great world, O golden-tower’d cities gay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into all your gates with laughter and with roses enter I!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Kalliste, your Persian ghazal cease to sing: the sun is low,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the sacred hour of absinthe now is very very nigh.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="mais-moi-je-vis-la-vie-en-rouge" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 lang="fr" epub:type="title" xml:lang="fr">Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie en Rouge</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your soul is like a purple flower,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Mary, whose eyes are amethyst,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Whose lips are like red wine when kist,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With sweet life and sweet death for dower;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There are who will have none of these,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Who walk in peace all day upright,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in the night pray on their knees—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The pleasures of the life in white.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All cloth’d with virtues manifold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Are these—their souls are like white snow;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Fair love, around thy heart I know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My heart is bound with chains of gold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sweet youths whose life is in the spring,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The water is all wine they drink,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They sorrow not at anything—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The pleasures of the life in pink.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your gold hair’s like an aureole,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Your lips are gold wine bought and sold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Pure golden kisses bought for gold;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Each breast is like a golden bowl.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These things are for a scorn to those</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That read great books both night and day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That say, Joy dieth as the rose—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The pleasures of the life in gray.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sweet youths, white ladies, scholars sour,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Rejoice, and hasten on your way;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Mary, whose skin is white as whey,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your soul is like a purple flower.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="louanges-delle" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 lang="fr" epub:type="title" xml:lang="fr">Louanges d’Elle</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—O Muse of mine that sittest orientally</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With a green emerald snake about the waist of thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With henna-tinted feet, and almond eyes that dream,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Put down the opium-pipe of jade and ivory,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For she that is most fair is fain to hear thy song:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awake, O Muse, and sing her praises solemnly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That to the laughing heart of California</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath added all the grace of France and Italy;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She who, to put to sleep my pitiless ennuis</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is come from distant Paris and from Varsovie;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Athens is in her heart, and Paris in her eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dear European angel from beyond the sea!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—There is no use to sing; she is not to be sung;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What mortal praise can come unto her glory near?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And she hath quite forgot her natal English tongue;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She is too far, too high, thy languid praise to hear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Too delicate, too strange, too wicked, too divine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Too heavenly, too sweet, too bad, too fair, too dear!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">N’est-elle pas l’oasis où tu rêves et la gourde</i></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span><i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Où tu humes à longs traits le vin du souvenir?</i>”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="helas" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Hélas</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—Why sittest thou, O Muse, in grief enfolden?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—Thou hast me promis’d jewels rich and rare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To wear within my hair;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And for my slaves the kings of kingdoms olden;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And to abide in lofty castles golden,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because I am most fair.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo, I have no sandals for my feet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And little bread to eat.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of that far golden Irem I am dreaming,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whence for few kisses I did follow thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fair is that spot to see,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With far-off waving palms and towers gleaming;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Great deserts round that isle of blissful seeming</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lie stretching endlessly.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-1" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Sonnet</h3>
|
||
<p hidden="hidden" epub:type="subtitle">When I Contemplate How My State Is Low</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I contemplate how my state is low,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And how my pride that had the earth for throne</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In this dark city sitteth all alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My heart is fain for death to end its woe;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then when I think how all the great below</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had only sorrow and grief through all their days,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I, that with these shall some time stand in place,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My fortune like their bitter fortune know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Among whom also holy Baudelaire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though unto him the loftiest lot was given</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hear the blessed muses sing in heaven,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Past his few days in anguish and despair;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet did he not bow down his mournful head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until Peace found him in his glory dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So thou in this low lair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Although in sorrow and grief thou dost remain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though of all things whereof thy soul was fain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Remaineth only pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet be not thou, O soul, disconsolate:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forget not thou thy far-exalted state.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-2" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Sonnet</h3>
|
||
<p hidden="hidden" epub:type="subtitle">Be Not Cast Down My Heart, and Be Not Sad</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Be not cast down my heart, and be not sad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou like common men must sorrow know;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not only they that live and die below,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But ev’n the gods thy supreme sorrow had;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not unto Tammuz was this fortune given,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not to know grief; whom starry Ashtoreth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sought through the seven-gated realm of death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far from the great moon and the stars of heaven.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Osiris also could not but to die;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He reigneth king among the perisht dead;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And Christ, when his long grief was finished,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hid his great glory in the lowly ground.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All these had sorrow, that were great and high;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These also were august, these also crown’d.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="rondeau" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Rondeau</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>As shadows pass, in the misty night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Over the wan and moonlit grass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So passeth our glory out of sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">As shadows pass.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A little darkness, a little light,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sorrow and gladness, a weary mass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Glimmer and falter and pass in blight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So all our life, in waning flight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Fadeth and faltereth, alas;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Passeth our sorrow and our delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">As shadows pass.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="autumn-song" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Autumn Song</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Weep, far autumnal skies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Shrouded in misty air;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Weep, for thy solemn dearth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And for thy chill despair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">Earth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O stricken forest-trees,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Dead leaves that falter down</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Solemnly to your sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Golden, and red, and brown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">Weep.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="ballad" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Ballad</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The lady rode ’neath the strange sky’s pall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through the leafy woods funereal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the length of her moonlit way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was wanly white as the light of day;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Solemnly rob’d she rode along,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unmindful of their droning throng</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That throng’d her shadowy path, alas,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As though to see her funeral pass;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So through the mournful forest slow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her palfrey’s silken feet did go,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bearing her solemnly like a god</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Over the shadow-haunted sod;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She laught to see the dead desire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That even now her life should tire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She laught to think that to the earth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They call’d her that was full of mirth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And though before her horse’s head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Throng’d the wan legions of the dead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wanly attempting to stop her way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She halted not for their legions gray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But rode through the midnight’s mystic noon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Under the far gaze of the moon.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then out from the dying woods at last</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into the moonlit plain she passt;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The misty stars were almost dead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sunk in the heavens overhead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While low down in the solemn skies</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The white moon wan’d as one that dies.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Solemnly through the misty air</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She rode with gold gems in her hair;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bright were her holy eyes divine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And red her lips as the red red wine.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At last in the unceasing night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Down from her palfrey she doth alight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By the strange murmuring of the sea;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She climbs the tall stair fearlessly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And cometh at last to her chamber high</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beneath the wide face of the sky.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At last her journey being done,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She hath her golden stays undone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And being a little wearied,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath laid her naked on her bed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thinking to slumber like the dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="changelessness" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Changelessness</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When Death shall touch thy body beautiful,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thou that art of all the earth most fair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shalt close thine eyes upon the shining air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An unadorned gold urn to make full;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When that thou liest quietly inurn’d</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the dark bosom of the earth divine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Being turned unto a heap of ashes fine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For love of whose white face all men have burn’d;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then in the earth, O beautiful white love,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy beauty shall not wholly end and cease,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When that thou art gone to endless peace;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Though all things beneath the sky above</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fade away, it knoweth not to die,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But abideth changeless endlessly.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="madonna" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Madonna</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Anguish and Mourning are as gold to her;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She weareth Pain upon her as a gem,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And on her head Grief like a diadem;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And as with frankincense and tropic myrrh</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Her face is fragrant made with utter Woe;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And on her purple gorgeous garment’s hem</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Madness and Death and all the ways of them</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Emblazoned in strange carousal show.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Within her delicate face are all things met,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the sad years and the dolorous days</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are but as jewels round her forehead set,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Add but a little glory to her face,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A little languor to her half-clos’d eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That smile so strangely under the far skies.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="poppy-song" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Poppy Song</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i1">O poppy-buds, that in the golden air</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wave heavy hanging censers of delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Give me an anodyne for my despair;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">O crimson poppy-blooms, O golden blight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O careless drunken heavy poppy-flowers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Make that the day for me be as the night.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Give me to lie down in your drowsy bowers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That having breathed of your rich perfume,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My soul may have all-rest through all the hours;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">So shall I lie within my little room,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While the poor tyrants of the world go by,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Restfully shrouded in your velvet gloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Beneath the wide face of the cloudless sky.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i1">—Even so, when thou shalt eat of us,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even so, thy life shall be a sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Empty of all things fierce and piteous;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Even as a sailor on the tossing deep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hears vaguely the vain tumult on the shore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shouts of the fighters, songs of them that reap.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Life is all vanity, a loathed sore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A scatter’d dust, a vain and soiled heap.—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou shalt have golden rest forevermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i1">O poppy-flowers, golden, sleepy, sweet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O yellow tawny fading blooms of gold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Give unto me your holy fruit to eat;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Make me forget all things above the mould;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Make me forget that dolorous vow that sears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not to be lesser than the great of old;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Make me forget the heavy old dead years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all that lives from out the writhing past,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Old struggles, dead ambitions, buried tears;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And that white face that I shall see the last.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i1">—Sweet is forgetfulness, most sweet to lie,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sunken from sorrow, in our pleasant vale,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where but the sun shines, and the clouds go by;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Even as to them that through deep waters sail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The toiling shore fades and becomes a sky,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And evermore behind the billows fail.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sweet to forget the death-like things that were,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Green pastures where the clouds sail by on high,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dead sundawns over pathless prairies fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And suns long sunk beneath the wall of the sky.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i1">Under the sun my spirit lies alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drunken with slumber and mild exstasy …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sleep, sweet sleep, long unto mine eyes unknown.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drops on me as ripe fruit drops from a tree;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My dim eyes see the valley poppy-strown;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The clouds fade and the gold sun over me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the world’s murmur sounds within my lair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like the far tossing of some infinite sea;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Within the heavy slumber-laden air</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All fades, all fades, and grows afar afar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leaving my soul alone, empty of care,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Even as happy long-dead bodies are.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even so I slumber in my tireless close,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While the whole world fades like a fading star,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Dies like the perfume of a dying rose.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="consolation" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Consolation</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Among all sorrows that my heart hath known,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Among all sorrows that my spirit keep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forever buried ’neath their mountains steep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Standeth one consolation, one alone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know that earth shall be for death a throne,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And evermore within their burials deep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The banded nations of the earth shall sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sunken in sepulchres of sculptur’d stone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then all the world shall be a quietness:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dead women beautiful with their delights;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All they that had such striving and distress,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And endless weariness in all the lands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>White faces, eager heart-strings, soiled hands;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And peace shall hold the valleys and the heights.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="liebes-tod" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 lang="de" epub:type="title" xml:lang="de">Liebes-Tod</h3>
|
||
<section id="liebes-tod-1">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy splendour-lighted face before mine eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shines like a flaming sunset evermore;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thee only I behold on the earth’s floor,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thee only I behold within the skies;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy coming on is like a conqueror,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before thy footsteps the world’s glory dies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within mine ears thy voice doth ever rise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a loud ocean beating on the shore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou art made kindred with eternity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Daughter of glory, daughter of consolations;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy face is set above the constellations;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of Death! O love! be I made one with thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That on thy holy lips and in thy love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world may perish and the light thereof!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="liebes-tod-2">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, now my life is gone unto eclipse</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon thy perilous bosom; lo, I die,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Faint with the utter whole of exstasy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With unassuaged lips against thy lips,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That can give no more joy; lo, at the place</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of utter joy, lo, at joy’s far-off throne,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which none shall reach, with eyes now weary grown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I lie slain at its utmost golden base.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, we have call’d the white stars to behold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our pale and fainting faces sick with joy;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O regal lips that shall death’s sting destroy,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have suck’d bare life’s cup upon thy breath!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<span>Kiss me to death!</span>
|
||
<span>Lo, now our lips are cold,</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wilt thou not bring new joy, O Death, O Death?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="evening-song" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Evening Song</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, all the passionate pale evening</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I lay between the breasts of my beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Among the lilies, in the lily garden.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sky was pale, and all the sunset faded,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the stars I saw not in the heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because the glory of her face above me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I saw alone, wrapt in a dream of slumber;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo, she was more fair than all the lilies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Among the lilies, in the lily garden.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all her hair was golden chains to bind me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all her mouth was crimson fire to burn me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the world became as wind before me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But as the wind before her face that passes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Among the lilies, in the lily garden.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo, her face was fairer than the stars are,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo, her breasts were whiter than the moon is,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whiter than the moon, and tipp’d with crimson coral.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And low she bow’d her body, low before me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And gave me of her joy unto fulfilling:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She bow’d her head whereto the stars do homage,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before whose face the years wax dim and fading,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before whose eyes the ages pass and vanish;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bow’d her low down before me like a lily,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Among the lilies, in the lily garden.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now at last I care not if the morning</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come at all, or the pale stars have setting,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay I care not if the whole world perish,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perish and die, or if the white stars falter,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay I care not if the night forever</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hold me by her, and all things have ceasing;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yea, because her lips are more than roses,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yea, because her breasts are more than Heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yea, because her face is more than God is,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Among the lilies, in the lily garden.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="song-of-the-stars-in-praise-of-her" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Song of the Stars in Praise of Her</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O starry light of the dim universe!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The night adoreth thee, the planets high</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That reign far off within the desert sky</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Praise thee as with the sound of dulcimers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the temples of the night rehearse</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy solemn glory everlastingly!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O thou for whom the moon’s pale-lighted star</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the planets and the milky gleam,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But as a little of thy praising seem,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the great lights that swim through heaven afar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But the reflection of thy glory are;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou only art; these are but shine and dream;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou art that light that doth the stars illume,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art the glimmer of the moon divine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All these are but the garment that is thine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art the wonder and the glow, the bloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art the lonely lamp in night’s great gloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art the skyey light, the starry shine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Starlight is but the glory of thy face,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The shimmer of the silver planets pale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is but the dim effulgence of thy veil;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the great passing of the nights and days</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is all but as the perfume of thy praise.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Holy, Holy, Holy, hail, O hail!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="aubade" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Aubade</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The lady awoke before the cold gray dawn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And had no joy thereof;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—What joy is mine of all the joy of love,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When love is gone?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, all the air is strange unto mine eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo, all the stars are dead;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only the moon appeareth overhead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As one that dies.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, all the garden lieth desolate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And very strange to see,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherein, the roses and the grass for me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Blossom’d of late.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O rose-garden wherein my roses grew,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O odorous dim ways,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why are ye strange to me as perish’d days,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And cold with dew?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Through the wide window creeps the cold sweet air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Faint with sweet rose-perfume,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It stealeth o’er my body in the gloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And o’er my hair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Surely I have drunk full of love’s delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now my lips are cold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While the pale day in silence doth behold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The dying night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="remember" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Remember</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Remember, ye whom the skies delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Whose faces flame with the falling sun,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That after sunset cometh the night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That sorrow followeth all delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">When love, and lover, and lov’d are one.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O ye whose days are as sands that run,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">One house there is unknown of delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One garden is there belov’d of none,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One place there is unseen of the sun,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Remember, ye whom the skies delight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="song-1" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Song</h3>
|
||
<p hidden="hidden" epub:type="subtitle">She Hath Liv’d the Life of a Rose</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>She hath liv’d the life of a rose,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">She that was fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Blown on by the summer air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grown tall in a golden close.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>An ending is set to delight;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Now thou art as grass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">As the leaves, as the blossoms that pass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Made pale at the touch of the night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="song-2" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Song</h3>
|
||
<p hidden="hidden" epub:type="subtitle">Cometh a Day and a Night</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Cometh a day and a night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">When the lamps of life burn dim,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When peace is secur’d for delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And poppies for the red-rose flower;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">When the lamps of life burn dim,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cometh a day and a night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A day and a night and an hour.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Cometh the end of the years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">When the cheeks have the lilies’ bloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When slumber is given for tears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And the breasts to the worm belong;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">When the cheeks have the lilies’ bloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cometh the end of the years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">As silence after the song.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Cometh a day and a night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">For him to whom all is thrown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose own is the bosom white,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Whose own are the lips of gold;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">For him to whom all is thrown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cometh a day and a night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To have and to own and to hold.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="constancy" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Constancy</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Surely thy face, love, is a little pale,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And somewhat wan thy lips that were so red,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And though my kisses might raise up the dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To waken thy deep sleep they naught avail.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Before thy stillness some poor men might quail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I shall not desert thy holy bed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Although thy passionate lips have no word said,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thine adored breasts are cold like hail.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou art gone down to Death, thou art gone down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the dead things shall nestle in thy hair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the dust shall profane thy golden crown,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And the worms shall consume thy perfect face;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even so: but Death shall bring thee no disgrace,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And to the stars I cry, Thou art most fair!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="requiem" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Requiem</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>White-rose perfume</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go with thee on thy way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto thy shaded tomb;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Low music fall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lightly as autumn leaves</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>About thy solemn pall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Faint incense rise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From many a censer swung</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Above thy closed eyes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the sounds of them that pray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Make thy low bier an holy thing to be,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That all the beauty underneath the sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Carries unto the clay.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Odour of musk and roses</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Make sweet thy crimson lips</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whereon my soul hath gone to deep eclipse;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Poppies’ and violets’ scent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be for thy burial lent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And every flower that sweetest smell discloses.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon thy breast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before which all my spirit hath bow’d down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>White lilies rest;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And for a crown upon thy mortal head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be poppies red.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And for eternal peace</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be poppies strown upon thy holy eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till also these shall cease</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Turning to that which man is when he dies.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And poppies on thine unassuaged mouth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be strown, until death shall be done with thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until the white worms shall be one with thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="autumn-burial" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Autumn Burial</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The moon shone full that night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fill’d with misty light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The solemn clouds hung white</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Above her pall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Waiting the golden dawn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The silent woods stood wan,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While through their aisles mov’d on</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Her funeral.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Palely their torches flare,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While rob’d in white they bear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her corpse that was most fair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Of them that die,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By sleeping forests tall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And woods funereal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through the decaying fall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Beneath the sky.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The orbed moon looks down</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon her golden crown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From out the forest brown</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The wood-things stare;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The holy stars behold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her woven hair of gold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And slumbering and cold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Her bosom bare.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The moon shines full o’erhead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And they with bowed head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>About her body dead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In silence stand;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There where no foot hath trod</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They bury her with sod</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alone with only God</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In all the land.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Tall forests stand around</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>About her grassy mound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And over all the ground</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Lie shadows hoar.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She ’neath the passing moon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sees not the shadows strewn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sunk in her golden swoon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Forevermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-of-burial" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Sonnet of Burial</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now that the earth thy buried corpse doth hold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now that thy soul that hath so much desired,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is gone down to the places of the tired,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far from the dawning and the star-light cold;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thine eyes shall not again the sun behold;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now shall thy body that all men hath fired</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Have ceasing, and thy grave shall be admired,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That doth the fairest thing o’ the earth enfold.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now that thine ashes are all buried,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thou art gone to slumber with the blessed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy buried body shall be no more distressed;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Being now number’d with the placid dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thine eyes forever more have ceas’d from weeping,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For evermore thy spirit shall have sleeping.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="nocturne" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Nocturne</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, how the moon, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far in the heavens gleaming,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Over the ocean dreaming</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her pallid light doth throw;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, where the endless ocean,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where softly the night wind bloweth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into the darkness floweth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thither at last I go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Listen, how sweet the ocean</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto our spirits sigheth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo, where our pinnace lieth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awaiting, with sails unfurl’d;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Come thou with me, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come thou with heart unquailing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There where no ships come sailing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out of the dreary world.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Come thou with me, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out of the world and its seeming,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where all things are only dreaming,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And shadows all we know;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The heart hath not found its longing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here, nor shall find it ever;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behold of my life’s endeavour</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Remaineth only woe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Behold, my desire, my anguish,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Trouble and toil surpassing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are all but as shadows passing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shadows the fame thereof;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here, where the heart attaineth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not, what the heart desireth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where beauty too early tireth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And kisses mean not love.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here where what man hath desired,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He shall not find forever,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But ever and only ever</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unending vanity;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not in this world, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My only longing hideth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But in farther lands abideth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And over a wider sea.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There, when the spring shall blossom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There, when the winter is vanisht,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My spirit that long was banisht</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall come to its home, though late;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There in mine olden kingdom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where nothing is transitory,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I in exceeding glory</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall hold mine ancient state.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here let us leave our anguish,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here at the hour of leaving,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leave we our woe and grieving</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like garments long outworn;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Leave we our mortal sorrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our longing and our repenting,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The anguish and the lamenting</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That made our hearts to mourn.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Others may weep and anguish,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Others may talk of laughter,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ever a little after</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sorrow is theirs the more;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But we two have done with laughter</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sadness that hath no reason,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We two in the springtime season</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Push out from the weary shore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Past are the storms of winter,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Past is the rainy weather,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Past are the snows, together</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With sadness and sorrowing;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Past are the rains, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Past is the time of weeping,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo, o’er the green earth sleeping,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Laugheth the world-wide Spring!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Come thou with me, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O let us now be starting!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All things, at the hour of parting,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall be made new for thee;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Listen, how sweet the ocean</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto our spirits calleth;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Softly the starlight falleth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Over the dreaming sea.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fadeth the land, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That long hath our spirits tired,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before us lies that desired</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far country, strange and new;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Far off lies that dream’d-of country</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eternally fair and blessed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eternally undistressed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far over the ocean blue.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Knowst thou the land, beloved?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Year-long with gentle motion</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There the unending ocean</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Batheth the tropic shore;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There never storms blow loudly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There never wet rain falleth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There never loud wind calleth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor stormy waters roar.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fairer the stars that lighten</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There, than to us is given,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There in a fairer heaven</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shineth a larger moon;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fair stand the castles golden</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There, and o’er stranger flowers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There through the long long hours</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wandering breezes swoon.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There in that land, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is never a sound of living,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Never is heard thanksgiving</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There, nor the noise of moan;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There naught is heard of sorrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And nothing is there begotten;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There, with all life forgotten,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We two shall come alone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There, O my one beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through twilight never-closing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We two shall sit reposing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forever, thou with me;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There ’neath the stars eternal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We two shall sit, we only,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While from the heavens, lonely,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The moon sinks in the sea.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="part-2" epub:type="part bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2>
|
||
<span epub:type="label">Part</span>
|
||
<span epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</span>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<article id="mad-sonnet" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Mad Sonnet</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, in the night I cry out, in the night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>God! and my voice shall howl into the sky!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am weary of seeing shapeless things that fly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And flap into my face in their vile flight;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I am weary of dead things that crowd into my sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am weary of hearing horrible corpses that cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>God! I am weary of that lidless Eye</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That comes and stares at me, O God of light!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All, all the world is become a dead blur,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>God! God! and I, stricken with hideous blight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Crouch in the black corners, and I dare not stir.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I am aweary of my evil plight.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If thou art not a dead corpse in thy sky,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Send thou down Death into my loathed sty!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-house-of-youth" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">The House of Youth</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Far in the melancholy hills it stands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Far off; and through the vista of the years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Down which my soul its helpless journey steers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It flames a fire to lighten all the lands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A fire that burns me and a flame that brands</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Me, whose dead days pass slow as heavy tears.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The road my footsteps tread is dim and still,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">There darkness abides and silence endlessly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And the low way mine eyes can scarcely see;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And yet the light and sound from that far hill</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like the sky’s fire my weary pathway fill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">So that it seems a place of life to be.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The world is but a background for it there,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">There where it stands, loud like a beaten lyre,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And flames blood-red like some vast funeral-pyre,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whereat my heart to fail doth not forbear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of all the things that have been made soe’er</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Only the House remains, a quenchless fire.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah God, that this thing were not in the world—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The hateful House that flames with light and song</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And weary singing all the ages long;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah that ev’n this might in the dust be hurl’d,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And crush’d and slain, even as my heart, where curl’d</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The kindly armies of the worm do throng.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, surely I have seen it long ago,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Far sunken in the weary dust of time;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Yea surely even that stair so hard to climb</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I climb’d, and strode its hallways to and fro;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The which were bright with many lamps aglow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And loud with choristers in ceaseless chime.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="de-profundis" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 lang="la" epub:type="title" xml:lang="la">De Profundis</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Out of the grave, O God, I call to thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Be thou not deaf unto my dolorous cry;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My soul is fallen down into the sty,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the dead things are crawling over me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O thou my God, give me the worm to flee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Out from the pit’s depths I would rise on high.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Again am I fallen down into the grave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My soul is sunken in the place of slime,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I am too weak its loathed walls to climb,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou, only thou, O God, art strong to save;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo, in mine eyes the worms have made their cave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And squatting toads oppress me all the time.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, from this pit I have crawl’d out before;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With groans and cries and many a dolorous fall,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I have climbed up its impregnable wall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall not rise now from its slimy floor;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O God, hear thou my lamentable call,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Or from the grave I come not evermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I am become a housing for the toad;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">All things are fled wherein I took delight;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">There is no joy here, and there is no light;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O God, O God, I have reap’d what I sow’d;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am become a dead thing in the night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And in my heart the worms have their abode.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, from my body all my might is fled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And all the light is gone out of mine eyes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Mine ears hear only lamentable cries,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And eyeless things stand round about my head;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am made as a man that slowly dies;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I am made as a man already dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="prayer" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Prayer</h3>
|
||
<p epub:type="subtitle">In Time of Plague</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, holy Pestilence, gird thee with might,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, come thou upon them, come thou at night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, put on thy mantle, put on thy crown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, come on the cities, come and strike down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, let them all perish, touch’d with thy breath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, let them grow rotten, moulding in death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, put on thy garments, a crown on thy head,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, let all the nations fall at thy tread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, let them all perish, let them be dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, then shall the cities sink with thy might,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, they shall lie desert, plague-struck at night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, then shall the rulers, crown’d with a crown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, feeling them stricken, reel and fall down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, then shall the nations faint with thy breath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, then shall the valleys be cover’d with death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, peasant with ruler, body with head,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, all shall be stricken under thy tread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holy Pestilence, all shall be rotten, all shall be dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sestettes" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Sestettes</h3>
|
||
<section id="sestettes-1">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou shalt rejoice for woe:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The pallid goblet old,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That holds thy life’s dull wine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is made thereby divine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stain’d with a purpler glow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And wrought in stranger gold.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="sestettes-2">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>From the suck’d lees of pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We have won joy again:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Death shall thee not distress:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That sleepy bitterness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To thy kist lips shall be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The supreme exstasy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="sestettes-3">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">III</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Put ashes on your golden body bare,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Puissant as musk, bitter-sweet as to die,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ashes upon your arms that grow not old,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And on your unassuaged lips of gold:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So we will wanton in love’s sepulchre,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And mock the face of Death with blasphemy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="sestettes-4">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IV</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I love you more than Death: your mournful head,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your shrouding hair, and your unfathom’d eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And your white body beautiful, alas,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Priestess and victim in love’s holy mass …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your flesh that loves, and loving ever dies …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I could not love you more if you were dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="sestettes-5">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">V</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Death is death; the little host that squirms,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The smell, the dark, the coffin clos’d, and I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So soft, so soft; no movement, and no breath;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No ears, no nose, no eyeballs; Death is Death;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sepulchre, no sight, no sound, no cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And always; Death is Death; the worms! the worms</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="sestettes-6">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VI</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not for your evil is my spirit sad—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I mourn because you are not really bad;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because your beauty’s perfect cruelty</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is ever marr’d with pity and distress,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And you still show within your wickedness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The poor stale weakness of humanity.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="sestettes-7">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I am as one that thirsteth for all things,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As one that holdeth to his lips the cup,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With lower’d eyes searching the wine’s dull flame.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No thing may I refuse among all things,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till, having drain’d unto its dregs the cup,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I may return into the astral flame.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="sestettes-8">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VIII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Heart, we have wholly drain’d the cup of sadness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And found in sadness no reality;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now from the night of sadness let us go.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Henceforward let us drain the cup of gladness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And find in gladness no reality;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From sadness then and gladness let us go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-of-the-instruments-of-death" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Sonnet of the Instruments of Death</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Adorned daggers, ruby-hilted swords;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Huge mortal serpents in gold volumes roll’d;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All-holy poisons in wrought cups of gold;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unfailing crucifixes of strong cords;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Mortal baptismal waters without fords,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherein lie death’s communicants untold—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which of these instruments blessed and old,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is meetest for life’s purple-robed lords?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ye that commune in death’s ciborium,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of all the vessels in his sacristy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which will ye choose to make of you a clod—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sharp swords, bright lightnings, orient opium?—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All these, brave souls, are of one sanctity;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All ways are good whereby ye pass to God.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="truth" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Truth</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It is not that I have not sought thy face</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ceaselessly through the world’s eternal lie,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>More than all things and throughout every place,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which having seen I were content to die.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But I have sought thee and I have not found;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherefore my soul is banish’d from delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sitteth joyless as a madman bound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seeing vain visions in the loathed night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know not even that I do not know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But all things waver before me to and fro;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As one half head that would be dead I lie.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And thou, Death, if thy face be really fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know not, or but renewal of vanity;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherefore mine eyes have seen the last despair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="hegel" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Hegel</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Because my hope is dead, my heart a stone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I read the words that Hegel once did write—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An idiot gibbering in the dark alone—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till on my heart and vision fell the night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="monotony" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Monotony</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A dead corpse full of wormy questionings,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beneath the open sky my soul lies dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shameless and rotten and unburied,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For whom eternity no difference brings.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Only the wind my loathed incense flings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Afar afar; only above my head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Day passes, night returns when day is fled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unchangeable return of changeless things.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Unto the dead all things bring only pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And evermore my perish’d heart is woe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For the vile worms that gnaw it lying low;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>While the dead days, like to an endless chain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pass ever o’er my body cruelly slow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And evermore with pain return again.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sepulture" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Sepulture</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My heart is but a tomb, where vain and cold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My dead hopes lie: encoffin’d there my Pride</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lies dead, and my Life’s Gladness crucified,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And there my Morning Joy long turn’d to mould;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And there like once-lov’d corpses dead and old</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My Victory that long long since hath died,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all my Hopes lie shrouded side by side,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For whom no eyes have wept, no dirges toll’d.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And there insensate on the darken’d floor</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Despair a maniac still doth howl and scream,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Among all these long dead alive alone;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Among these things I sit upon a throne,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In endless contemplation evermore;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor these suffice to break my iron dream.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="miserrimus" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 lang="la" epub:type="title" xml:lang="la">Miserrimus</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In the last hopeless depth of hell’s dark tomb</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherein I sit for aye with bowed head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In anguish and great sorrow buried</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where never sun the blackness doth illume,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw pass by me through the bitter gloom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All them whom life with deepest grief hath fed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whom also here among the hopeless dead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through hell pursueth maniac, gnashing doom.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Me there forever crusht to hopeless stone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They passt by, all the damn’d; they shall not know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through all eternity but only woe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now hear no sound but sound of them that groan.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And unto me that sat than these more low,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These seem’d like happy gods that heaven own;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They past away; and there in hell alone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My heart took up again its ancient woe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="scorn" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Scorn</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Dead am I, and ye triumph o’er me dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye that within mine eyes have found your home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye that are soft and blind and white like foam,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye that have made of me your meat and bread.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Unto the worms I am abandoned;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Over my flesh their loathed cohorts roam;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon my heart whereto their hosts have clomb</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their hungry lips shall evermore be fed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here am I but a dead corpse in a tomb;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall not out from my accurs’d abode,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Inhabited by the dull worm and the toad;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ye vile sojourners in my rotten room,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Torment me with your everlasting goad!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I scorn you till the end shall come of doom.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-grave" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">The Grave</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The loathed worms are crawling over me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">All the dead hours; about my buried head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Their soft intolerable mouths are gathered,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in my dead eyes that have ceas’d to see.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am full of worms and rotten utterly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The lifeless earth lies close against mine eyes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I know that I have rotted long ago;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My limbs are made one with the worms I know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where all my head and body putrifies.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So in the earth my coffin’d ordure lies</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Within my loathed shambles strait and low.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There is no thing now where my face hath been,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And all my flesh lies soft upon the floor;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Unto my heart the worms have found a door,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all my body is to the worms akin;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They long time since their feasting did begin,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And they shall part not from me evermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here lie I stretch’d out through the rotting years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And I am surely weary of the grave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And I have sometimes thought that I might rave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And my two perish’d eyes almost shed tears.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There is no one that sees and none that hears;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I shall not out from my corrupted cave.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here now forever with the lustful worms</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I lie within my putrid sunken sty,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And through eternity my soul shall die.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O thou toward whom all my dead spirit squirms!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forevermore I love thee through all terms</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Until the dead stars rot in the black sky.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="mummy" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Mummy</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou art at last made perfect; from the estate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of mushy life Death hath thee petrified.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The soft the flowing and the putrified</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That made thee up, is by that artist great</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now crystalliz’d unto a changeless state.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thing thou walkedst, nos’d and ear’d and eyed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eternally severely doth abide,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sunk from the bands of them that drank and ate.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Green mummies walk above thy walled gloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unripen’d mummies; they intemperate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seek in life’s beauty their high-crowned doom</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In vain. But thee no passion doth illume</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stiff in the musked darkness of the tomb</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hard in stiff bands of red and nacarat.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sepulchral-life" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Sepulchral Life</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo, all the world as some vast corpse long dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fadeth and perisheth and doth decay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even as a corpse, in whose unhonor’d clay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The worms have long the inmost secrets read;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Even as a corpse, upon whose lowly head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sun beats, and the holy rain doth play;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even as a corpse, whereof the people say,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—We would that these dead bones were buried.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Even so: and in the earth’s vast sepulchre</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our fainting souls their doubtful footsteps bear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dreaming of that which no dead men may see;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And in our passage to the second death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We whisper strange names with our pesty breath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Love, and Honour, and great Victory.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="corpse" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Corpse</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A dead corpse crowned with a crown of gold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sits thron’d beneath the sky’s gigantic pall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gold garments from its rotted shoulders fall,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And regal purple robes funereal.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Before its face a vast processional</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Goes by with offerings for its great knees cold;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its soft hand doth a golden sceptre hold;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in its flesh lie sleeping worms uproll’d.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They that pass ceaseless by see not at all;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They know not that beneath its garments’ fold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is but a corpse, rotted, and dead, and tall.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He is accurst that sees it dead and old;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He is accurst that sees: the white worms call</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For him: for him have funeral dirges toll’d.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="mankind" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Mankind</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They do not know that they are wholly dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor that their bodies are to the worm given o’er;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They pass beneath the sky forevermore;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With their dead flesh the earth is cumbered.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Each day they drink of wine and eat of bread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And do the things that they have done before;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And yet their hearts are rotten to the core,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And from their eyes the light of life is fled.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Surely the sun is weary of their breath;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They have no ears, and they are dumb and blind;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Long time their bodies hunger for the grave.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How long, O God, shall these dead corpses rave?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When shall the earth be clean of humankind?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When shall the sky cease to behold this death?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-defilers" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">The Defilers</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O endless idiocy of humankind!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O blatant dead that howl and scream and roar!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O strange dead things the worms have gambled for!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O dull and senseless, foolish, mad and blind!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How long now shall your scent defile the wind?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How long shall you make vile the earth’s wide floor?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How long, how long, O waiting ages hoar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall the white dawn their gaping faces find?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O vile and simple, blind of heart and mind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When shall your last wave roll forevermore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back from the sick and long-defiled shore?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When shall the grave the last dead carcass bind?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O shameless humankind! O dead! O dead!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When shall your rottenness be buried?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-grotesques" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">The Grotesques</h3>
|
||
<section id="the-grotesques-1">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw a dead corpse lying in a tomb,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Long buried and rotten to the core;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behold this corpse shall know not evermore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Aught that may be outside its wormy room;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It lies uncover’d in the pesty gloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eyeless and earless, on the charnel-floor,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While in its nameless corpse the wormlets hoar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Make in its suppurated brain their room.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And in that charnel that no lights illume,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It shriek’d of things that lay outside its door;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And while the still worms through its soft heart bore,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It lay and reason’d of the ways of doom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in its head thoughts mov’d as in a womb;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in its heart the worms lie evermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="the-grotesques-2">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw a dead corpse in a haughty car,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whom in a high tomb phantom horses bore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Aye to and fro upon the scatter’d floor;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His dead eyes star’d as though they look’d afar,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>His gold wheels myriad perish’d souls did mar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While through his flesh the ravenous wormlets tore;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He in whose eyes the worm was conqueror,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Held his high head unmoved like a star.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And as with loud sound and reverberant jar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And as with splash of crusht flesh and dull roar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The death-car thunder’d past the tomb-walls hoar,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Within those dead dominions the dead tsar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Receiv’d his plaudits where dead bodies are;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in his heart the worms lie evermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="the-grotesques-3">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">III</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw a dead corpse making a strange cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With dead feet planted on a high tomb’s floor;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The dead stand round, with faces that implore;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His dead hands bless them, stretched forth on high.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—And art thou God?—and art thou majesty?—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And art thou he whom all the dead adore?—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And art thou he that hath the skies in store?—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay, nay, dead dust, dead dust, and vanity.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And wouldst thou rise up to the lighted sky?—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay, nay, thy limbs are rotten on the floor;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou shalt not out from thy polluted sty;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou wouldst become divinity once more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou dreamest of splendour that shall never die;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in thy heart the worms lie evermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="the-grotesques-4">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IV</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw a dead corpse lying on the floor</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of a tomb; worms were in its woman’s head,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its black flesh lay about it shred on shred,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the dead things slept in its bosom hoar.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And evermore inside that loathed door,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It turn’d itself as one upon a bed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It turn’d itself as one whom sleep hath fled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As one that the sweet pangs of passion bore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And from its passionate mouth’s corrupted sore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And from its lips that are no longer red,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Came forth love’s accents; and it spake, and said.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—The Pleiades and night’s noon-hours are o’er,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I am left alone in wearyhead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in its heart the worms lie evermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="dead-dialogue" epub:type="z3998:drama">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Dead Dialogue</h3>
|
||
<table>
|
||
<tbody>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">1st Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I would now that the sweet light of the sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Might once again shine down upon my face;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So weary am I of my rottenness.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">2nd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Rejoice that now at least thou art done with life;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This thing shall nevermore return.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">1st Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i15">At last</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My body is aweary of the tomb;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It is a hundred years since in the grave</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have lain down between four narrow walls,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shut up with putrid darkness and the worm.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There is no flesh upon my body now,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That was so long a-rotting; on my shelf</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here am I now nothing but stinking bones,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That have had life beneath the face of the sun.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">3rd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span><em>I</em> am not yet utterly putrified,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the worms yet within my flesh abound;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I do repent me that I did not learn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What life was, while I liv’d beneath the sun—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At least then I might think of what I had done;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I am rotten, and I have not liv’d.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">1st Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I would that I might leave this place of ordure</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And look once more upon the face of the world,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where the sun is.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">2nd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i12">O foolish ragged-bones,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wouldst thou show forth thy dripping excrements,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And shredded rottenness to the face of day?—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stink and be still, and leave us here in peace.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">1st Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Envy me not, O stench, slop-face, dung-eyes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My bones are clean and dry as the tomb’s walls,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And stink not; as for thee, thou art a sink.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">2nd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Envy me not, thou, that I am so sweet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The black worms love me; hungry were that worm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That on thee preys.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">4th Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Be silent, both ye dead and rotten things;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo I, that was unburied yesterday,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Am fair and smooth and firm, and almost sweet;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If that I were not dead, one might me love.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">3rd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Is it so sweet a thing, this love, this love?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">2nd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy lips are green for kissing, and streaks of black</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Streak over thee where the worms have not yet been!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">4th Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ha, ha, I know wherefore thou speakest so:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because thy torture is too great for thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the worms’ gnawing, and thy body’s rottenness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the rottenness in thy bones and in thy brain!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">1st Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O beautiful, O dead, O spit upon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He speaketh well that is but lately dead;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy flesh lies all along thee like green slime,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O pudding gravied in thine own dead sauce!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">2nd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Rotten one!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">1st Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i5">Dung-heap!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">2nd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i10">Dead one!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">1st Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i15">Beast! beast! beast!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span><em>Therefore</em> perhaps, thou art so early dead?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">2nd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They say that those thou lovedst were not men,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O goat-face—Shall I say what was thy death?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">4th Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Come, come, my brothers, be not so slanderous;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We have all been the same upon the earth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">3rd Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou sayest true, new brother.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">1st Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i15">Thou sayest true.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">2nd Corpse<br/>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Aside.</i></td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I shall not suffer anything any more;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have left all that; I am evermore releas’d;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall not struggle and suffer any more;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This seemeth strange and very sweet to me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I shall grow accustom’d to the worms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">5th Corpse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Rejoice not thou, that thou art fallen</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into a pit where people leave their dung;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There is no reason here for any joy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sepulchre</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Be silent, now, ye spindle-shankèd dead!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye will learn to be silent when y’are here</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For a long time; ye always spout and roar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At first, before the time of rottenness;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But so I suppose it must be—y’are not the first,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ye shall not be the last; so fast i’ the world,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So eagerly they are begotten, and they die,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And they are begotten again; just for this end</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hideously propagated evermore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">A voice above singing</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Golden is the sunlight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When the daylight closes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Golden blow the roses</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ere the spring is old;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All thy hair is golden,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Falling long and lowly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Round thy bosom holy;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thy heart is of fine gold!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="fragments" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Fragments</h3>
|
||
<section id="fragments-1">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And since I understood not what so strong</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Driveth all these at such exstatic pace,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I too went down and joined in the throng;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And many sitting in a lowly place</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I saw, where sense and vision darkness clogs,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With one flat-breasted wife with munched face</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bestial litter as of rats or hogs;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">These are all they that eat and multiply</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In the same manner with low apes and dogs;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like these they live and like these they shall die.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">—Pass thou from these, said then to me that voice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And heed not thou the stinking of that sty.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then saw I them that did with wine rejoice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Crowning their heads with roses of the earth;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I too sat down and joined in that noise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But ask’d me soon—Why do all these have mirth?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">From these I past, weary of myrrh and wine.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Others apart whose spirits had more dearth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sat solitary as who would fain divine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Of seeing and of hearing ill content;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With these I sat, half drunken with the vine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sick of visions that aye came and went;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">But all the knowledge that their striving found</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Was but one vision more than wine had sent;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All these also shall moulder in the ground.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">From these I past as from dead flesh and bones.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Then came I where the kings of earth sat crown’d</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Neath purple canopies on golden thrones;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">These offer’d me part in that changeless state,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Until my soul wearied of brass and brônze.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Others whose sweating nothing could abate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Kingdoms and cities build and overthrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Till my soul wonder’d at the striving great</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of all the puppets in that puppet-show:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">—Doth the string move them with such urgency,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That all their limbs such strange grimaces show?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—These are all they that do, one made reply;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In all their actions never could I find</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">What they were doing these things for nor why.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From these I past as from the deaf and blind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And ever as I went the solemn brawl</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Of all these mad and idiot howl’d behind.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I came to those that ceased not to call.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The world unto them, shouting o’er and o’er;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My heart knew not why these so loudly bawl;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And some stood round with faces that implore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Asking for peace; and ever those that gave</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Did but like these delude themselves the more;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But rottenness shall stop all these that rave.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Last, some there were that did with vanity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Toil ever with unwearied hands to save</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And to eternize all things great and high;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With these I stay’d, till my heart questioned:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">—What are the things thou doëst here and why?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whereat all these became as persons dead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Then I arose from among these the last,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And follow’d then where’er my footsteps led;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And among them that reigned then I past,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And among them that ever fain would know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And among them whose lot with wine was cast;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I past the prophets and the puppet-show,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And among them that joy’d in marble and in song,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And all that Seven tir’d of long ago.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And is this all the meaning of that throng,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">This all, O heart, that wast of seeing fain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">But like a circle that still seemeth long</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because it goeth round and round again?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Not in all these doth any reason hide</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">No more than in the words of the insane.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There is no ground for sorrow; nor in pride</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">For pride; nor in them that in gladness sate;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Wherefore with none of these shall I abide.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sought is vanity; the seeking great</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Vanity; the not-seeking vanity;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">For none of these change I my solemn state.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="fragments-2">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then since no one could answer unto me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The question, and since no one could me tell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The wherefore of this endless Vanity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of all the spirits that on earth did dwell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I said—I go unto the Absolute;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">He will perchance release me from this hell.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Him that made noisy what before was mute</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I found upon a heap of filthy dung</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Low-sitting in the fashion of the brute.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In strange grimaces still his face he wrung,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Up to the chin within that filth immerst,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Which still his busy hands about him flung.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—Do thou those clothes wherein he is inhearst</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Take off, said I to one, and do not shirk.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">He did, while still that being howl’d and curst.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For there so thick and muddy was the murk,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And he still bore of clothes so thick a weight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I knew not well what thing therein did lurk.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Three coverings then that one removed straight—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Omniscience, Omnipresence, Omnipotence,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">From off the thing that in the ordure sate.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then did his truth show clear to every sense,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A filthy idiot so foul and low,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That decency the perfect tale prevents.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I—O thou whose nakedness doth show</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Like one not in the womb to fulness brought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Why are all things that are; if thou dost know?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then he replied from out the ordure hot:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">—Brahma, great Brahma, Everlasting, I!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And I—Not such reply my question sought.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Answer thou me! And he still made reply:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">—Brahma, great Brahma! repetition vain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I asked again: and—Brahma! he did cry.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then one thereby to me—Why art thou fain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">
|
||
<span>Knowledge to have from It?</span>
|
||
<span>It knows not, It;</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Why seek for truth among the low insane?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then he that did within the ordure sit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Out of the filth that lay about his feet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Such things as children make with little wit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Made, and then broke, and did the act repeat.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">—I have made all the worlds, he gibbered;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And I his labour with these words did greet.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—Why dost thou these things? why, O why? I said.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">No word vouchsaf’d the mouth of him that stank,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">But giggling sounds and idiot uttered.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then seated in that place of ordure rank,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With his two lips he made a cackling sound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And back within the friendly ordure sank.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then I with a great sad and awful voice</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Cried out—O thou that rottest in this sty,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">O thou whose soul in ordure doth rejoice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What art thou doing these things for and why?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Then one to me—His bliss is not to know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The infiniteness of his own Vanity;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore the soul of him that stinketh so,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Because his sense is blind and deaf and mad</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Forever, knoweth not eternal woe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo from the first his soul no reason had;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">He thinketh he himself is everything,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">
|
||
<span>And nothing is but him!</span>
|
||
<span>He is not sad.</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ignorance, ignorance, shrouds him like a pall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Therefore thus low upon the fetid floor</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">He sits, and knoweth naught outside his stall.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I—He maketh naught outside his store.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Why doth he this? and in this fetid tomb</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sitteth he here in madness evermore?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How long shall iron, awful, gnashing doom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Leave him thus naked old and idiot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Blind deaf and stinking, in the loathed gloom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How long shall This within the ordure squat?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">How long shall This cease not to beck and nod?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">How long shall This cease not to rot and rot?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And he—This rottenness that seemeth God</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">More woe than this nor any other mode</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Shall know not, till It ceaseth in the sod.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And as a gnat, a viper, or a toad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Because its nature is not infinite,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">It too shall perish in the worm’s abode;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till then It suppurateth in the night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="fragments-3">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">III</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then from the world I turn’d my steps afar;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I came there where the holy Trinity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And all the blessed saints in glory are,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And did the beatific vision see,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And how those happy are that once did mourn;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">But my heart said—All this is naught to me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor knew I why all these should be reborn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Where moon-fac’d houris wanton arms do fling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Round Mahmud’s blessed, I past by in scorn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For my heart dream’d a deeper revelling.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Then came I to that banquet more divine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That Jayadeva and that Jami sing;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the fair goblet fill’d full of the wine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Brought the cup-bearer clad with wantonness;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And there with the beloved and the vine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My heart grew weary of that blessedness.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">From life I past, finding no joy therein.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The vision and the vine and drunkenness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Still like a circle ever closing in.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Then I departed to the final peace,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sick of what is and shall be and hath been,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Brahma, as the drop sinks in the seas:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I past out from the bonds of thee-and-me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Lost in that Infinite whose being is</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Glory in all things and reality;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">But therein I that was not I, alas</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In that deliverance from me-and-thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where all illusion fadeth like to grass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Found naught that equall’d my undimm’d desire;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">—If that reality then real was,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What is that real more than trodden mire?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Then from all being did my spirit pass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sick of all being whether low or higher.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out of that circle unto nothingness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I came, unto Nirvana, the far goal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Of many a holy saint, where visions cease;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But nothingness did not my heart console.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Ah not in nothingness is any peace,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Nor in peace any peace, nor in the whole,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor in the vine nor in the vision, nor</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In being nor non-being, nor in all</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That man hath dream’d of and hath anguisht for.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay not in joy nor the vine jovial,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Nor in the perfume of the lov’d one’s breath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Nay nor in anything anywhere at all;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor in illusion; nor what sundereth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Illusion; in the sundering of that chain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">There is no joy; and not alas in death</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Find I that thing whereof my soul is fain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">All these things also are all vanity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">No less than sun and stars that wax and wane</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forever in the everlasting sky.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="envoi" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Envoi</h3>
|
||
<p epub:type="subtitle">At the End of the Century</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now I am come to the nadir at last, to the absolute sorrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Now all the stars are gone out of my sky;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Night everlasting is mine without hope or desire of the morrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">All my life’s hopes are gone tombwards to die.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All my life’s glories lie perisht around me; and lo with great laughing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Laugh I out loud, and I care not at all;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here with mine Anguish, my Sorrow, my Madness, my Grief, I sit quaffing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Wine, in high state in my echoing hall.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This is the last night I drink with you, maniac wassailers dreary!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Lift up your goblets and drink ere I go!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo, I am easily bor’d, I am easily tired and made weary;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Now at the last I am weary of Woe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo, I that walk in the flower crown’d season of youthfulness golden,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Think ye that all things my gladness can slay?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sorrow is fitting for dotards and them that are loathsome and olden;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1"><em>I</em> am as one that goes ever away.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo, I laugh out at Grief, lo, I laugh in unending rejoicing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I that have nightshade entwin’d in my hair;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Heart of me, what dost thou here in the wearisome darkness, revoicing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Yesterday’s stale and forgotten despair?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now it is midnight; but soon shall the wakening glory of morning</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Shine in the East, when the darkness is gone;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now in my spirit that sat for a time in the darkness of mourning</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Waketh in gladness the mystical dawn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>New spring laugheth without—to thy heart it is calling! and o’er thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Soon shall the banners of dawn be unfurl’d;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wait thou no longer, O heart, O heart that art strong, for before thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Lieth the pomp of the great high world!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now it is midnight; my Anguish, my Mourning, my Sadness, my Sorrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Crown you with nightshade, and once more with me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drink and make merry; farewell! I am here with you now; on the morrow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sail I over the mighty sea.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="postlude" epub:type="epilogue bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Postlude</h2>
|
||
<article id="song-of-india" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Song of India</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now at the last, Zulaikha, all my sorrows olden</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are farther off than Europe or than China seem,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And like an idle dream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The North is faded far off in the distance golden;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And here with thee I sit in perfect peace enfolden</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beside the Ganges-stream.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Full well I knew that ne’er those northern promontories</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Could give to me the dream that did my soul desire;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For there my heart did tire;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For always me allur’d the strangely whisper’d stories</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of skies that burn with more consuming languid glories,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And suns of mightier fire.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I dream’d of heavier suns than burn in skies of ours,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And heavier airs that through the long long evening swoon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Under a larger moon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And heavier-scented gardens fill’d with stranger flowers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And tropic palms that wave through all the long long hours</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of endless afternoon.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>At last now from that northern dream am I awoken,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At last I am come home over the watery main;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Long long I sigh’d in vain;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now under tropic palms I lie in peace unbroken,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And mine own land I see, beloved, and hear spoken</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My natal tongue again.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Zulaikha, past is all the longing and endeavour;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The palm-trees sleep, and sleeping move not any leaf;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perisht is woe and grief;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stilly the padmas float upon the holy river;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Among all these we two with languid eyes forever</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lie sunk in endless kief.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Before us riseth white our marble-builded palace;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou hast let fall from out thy hands that weary are</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The volume of Attár.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy hand hath spill’d the wine within the silver chalice;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon the river winding through the distant valleys</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sleepeth the <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">nénufar</span>.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>From out the oleanders languid slumber steepeth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thou, Zulaihka, dost, in rest too deep for dream,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like one enchanted seem;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy beauty now in waking slumber sunken sleepeth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And dreaming past thy wholly closëd eyelids creepeth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sleepy-flowing stream.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou hast the light of Asia in thy face divinest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in thy scented mouth and in thy lotus-eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O wine of Paradise!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O moon-fac’d love that by the sacred stream reclinest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath this world anything for which in vain thou pinest?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thing shall be thy prize.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The caravans that in the desert, heavy-laden,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By unknown oases pitch their sun-blacken’d tents,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall bring thee all sweet scents</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherein delight in heaven the houris ever-maiden—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Patchouli, nard, and myrrh, from many a distant aden</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of heavenly indolence.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All kinds of gems wherefore thine almond eyes have yearning,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In heaps, wherein to bathe thy beauties languorous,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O maiden amorous,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They shall bring home to thee from distant isles returning—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pearl, sapphire, diamond, topaz, and ruby burning,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And opal luminous.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou art that sweet whereof all poets dead have chaunted,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore my soul hath sought thy face o’er pathless seas,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here to have endless peace;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art the garden of delight with slumber haunted,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy perfume maketh dream of desert lands enchaunted,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And far-off oases.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou hast that beauty in thine all-consuming glances</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That openeth the ways to far enchanted skies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in thy lotus-eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou hast the light that shineth in the countenances</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of them whose eyes have seen the glory which entrances</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The blest of Paradise.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou art all sweets that unto perfect joy devote us,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In thee all spices and all scents together come,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O lute that now art dumb!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art musk, frankincense, amomum, stephanotis,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art the fragrant wine, the paradisal lotus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art the opium.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hashsheesh nor opium are worth not thy caresses,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sweeter than opium to still the spirit’s drouth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thine unassuaged mouth;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Him that hath known thy love no mortal grief distresses;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sweeter thy kisses are than incense which oppresses</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The breezes of the South …</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>At last I am come home, come home; and all regretting</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is with the North afar from thee and me away.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behold O love, the day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is past, in Indian skies the holy sun is setting;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The mûzin from his tower calleth unforgetting,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The faithful ones to pray.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Under the velvet night wide Indiä reposes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now in the scented dark the champak odours swoon;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Slowly the summer moon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Riseth into the azure night made drunk with roses;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo the camel-bells, now that the daylight closes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tinkle their quiet tune.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Behold, O well-beloved, ’neath the moonlight gleaming</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The travellers depart from out the sleeping khan,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O perfume Asiän!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And past the moonlit palace, where we two lie dreaming,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With camels and with horsemen like to shadows seeming</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Departs the caravan.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It is the starting hour, O most melancholy!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In long procession underneath the moon’s pale gleams,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like something that but seems,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The caravan departeth to the desert slowly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There far afar to seek through endless time the holy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mirages of their dreams.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="dedication-2" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Dedication</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>These paltry rhymes, which loftier shall pursue</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than aught America of high or great</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath seen since first began her world-wide state,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I dedicate, my brother, unto you.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<section id="ite-missa-est" lang="la" xml:lang="la">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<b>Ite missa est</b>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="after-life" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">After-Life<a href="#note-1" id="noteref-1" epub:type="noteref">1</a></h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I leave the sound, the sorrow, and the strife;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Long long ago</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I lived within the hopeless world of life;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now on my heart forever stilled from strife</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Slow falls the snow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My heart is still at last, mine eyes no more</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Their lids unclose;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I lie low in the house without a door;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While I forever sleep, my spirit sore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Grows in a rose.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="endnotes" epub:type="endnotes backmatter z3998:non-fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Endnotes</h2>
|
||
<ol>
|
||
<li id="note-1" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>The poem “After-Life” was published in <i epub:type="se:name.publication.magazine">Overland Monthly, <abbr>vol.</abbr> 37, <abbr>no.</abbr> 1</i>, and was not included in the original publication of <i epub:type="se:name.publication.book">The Book of Jade</i>. <cite>—<abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">S.E.</abbr> Editor</cite> <a href="#noteref-1" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="colophon" epub:type="colophon backmatter">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Colophon</h2>
|
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