A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
[Dedicated to Frank Harris, editor of Vanity Fair]
On the black night, beneath the winter moon,
I clothed me in the limbs of Codia,
Swooning my soul out into her red throat,
So that the glimmer of our skins, the tune
Og our ripe rythm, seemed the hideous play
Of death-worms crawling on a corpse,afloat
With life that takes its thirst
Only from things accurst.
Closer than Clodia’s clasp, Death had me down
To his black heart, and fed upon my breath,
So that we seemed a stilness -whiter than
The stars, more silent than the stars, a crown
Of Stars ! For in the icy kiss of death
I found that God that is denied to man
So long as love and thought
And life avail him aught.
A few random poems:
- “If I Must Go” by Sara Teasdale
- In Memoriam 16: I envy not in any moods poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Глазков – Эпилог
- An Old Doll
- A bat flits by Yosa Buson
- Olney Hymn 60: Abuse Of The Gospel by William Cowper
- Tears
- Harrow-on-the-Hill poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Epigram at RoslinInn by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – О горе, горе сердцу, где жгучей страсти нет
- The Eclipsed Past by Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy
- Вероника Тушнова – Яблоки
- Михаил Лермонтов – Война
- Владимир Корнилов – Лермонтов
- Psalm 9 by Mahmoud Darwish
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- do you believe in always by Steve Troyanovich
- cascades of emptiness by Steve Troyanovich
- … and the moon was sleeping by Steve Troyanovich
- ambiguities of absence by Steve Troyanovich
- Who Would Of Knew…..About Your Concept!!! (July 10th) by Stevens Cadet
- The Future Promise Letter by Stevens Cadet
- Sometimes….Life’s A Beach by Stevens Cadet
- Passion Of My Heart by Stevens Cadet
- Nobody Told Me Of These Nights (A Poem For Melanie) by Stevens Cadet
- A Night With Passion! by Stevens Cadet
- Lyfe by Stevens Cadet
- Cupid’s Reign Of Terror (March 2012) by Stevens Cadet
- The Captain by Stevens Cadet
- Better Days by Stevens Cadet
- A Poem For Ashleigh (July) by Stevens Cadet
- A Pen Wrote The Funeral by Stevens Cadet
- A Morning Letter by Stevens Cadet
- The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith
- The Jungle Husband by Stevie Smith
- Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
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