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!
A few random poems:
- A Riddle by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – Королевский крокей
- Be there for me by Tanisha Avarsekar
- A New Year’s Gift by William Strode
- Sex – Hinduism Shows the Scientific Way!
- The Withdrawal by Robert Lowell
- On The Death Of Swinburne by Sara Teasdale
- Олег Бундур – Где живут мысли
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Талисман
- Валерий Брюсов – Город женщин
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The Lantern Out Of Doors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sonnet Iv
- Владимир Бенедиктов – При иллюминации
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
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
- Forex Trading Strategies – Divining the Mysteries of Candlestick Charts and Patterns
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- Different World Views of Art
- Distributive Trade II – The Wholesaler
- 12 Surefire Brainstorming Techniques
- Factors Affecting the Labor Market – Determination of Wages and The Activities of Trade Unions
- How To Achieve Self-Realization, The Mother of All Knowledge?
- The Cosmic Eggs
- What Are Solar Roofing Shingles?
- Howard Stern’s Wine
- Style Ideas For Vests For Women
- A Life Of Lorenzo Da Ponte:Talent Flies; Practical Reason Walks
- How to Make Money Online Writing and Selling eBooks
- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
- God’s Work Ethics
- Article Writing – Revealed – 4 Priceless Methods to Make Money Through Article Writing
- 71 Ways For A Writer To Make Money
- Secrets of Academic Success: Passion
More external links (open in a new tab):
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
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
