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!

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