Colophon poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster

A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)

TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY

Lamp of living loveliness,

Maid miraculously male,

Rapture of thine own excess

Blushing through the velvet veil

Where the olive cheeks aglow

Shadow-soften into snow,

Breasts like Bacchanals afloat

Under the proudly phallic throat!

Be thou to my pilgrimage

Light, and laughter sweet and sage,

Till the darkling day expire

Of my life in thy caress,

Thou my frenzy and my fire,

Lamp of living loveliness!

Thou the ruler of the rod

That beneath thy clasp extends

To the galaxies of God

From the gulph where ocean ends,

Cave of dragon, ruby rose,

Heart of hell, garden-close,

Hyacinth petal sweet to smell,

Split-hoof of the glad gazelle,

Be thou mine as I am thine,

As the vine’s ensigns entwine

At the sacring of the sun,

Thou the even and I the odd

Being and becoming one

On the abacus of God!

Thou the sacred snake that rears

Death, a jewelled crest across

The enchantment of the years,

All my love that is my loss.

Life and death, two and one,

Hate and love, moon and sun,

Light and darkness, never swerve

From the norm, note the nerve,

Name the name, exceed the excess

Of thy lamp of loveliness,

Living snake of lazy love,

Ithyphallic that uprears

Its Palladium above

The enchantment of the years!

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random poems:

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 

• Three Songs Of Zahir U Din by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Thoughts Mahomed Akram by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine by Adela Florence Nicolson
• This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar by Adela Florence Nicolson
• There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Window Overlooking The Harbour by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Tom Toms by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Temple Dancing Girl by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Teak Forest by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Singer by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The River Of Pearls At Fez Translation by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Rice Was Under Water by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Rice Boat by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Rao Of Ilore by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Plains by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Net Of Memory by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Masters by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca by Adela Florence Nicolson
• The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl by Adela Florence Nicolson

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

Parallel Translations of Poetry

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works