A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Come to my arms — is it eve? is it morn?
Is Apollo awake? Is Diana reborn?
Are the streams in full song? Do the woods whisper hush
Is it the nightingale? Is it the thrush?
Is it the smile of the autumn, the blush
Of the spring? Is the world full of peace or alarms?
Come to my arms, Laylah, come to my arms!
Come to my arms, though the hurricane blow.
Thunder and summer, or winter and snow,
It is one to us, one, while our spirits are curled
In the crimson caress: we are fond, we are furled
Like lilies away from the war of the world.
Are there spells beyond ours? Are there alien charms?
Come to my arms, Laylah, come to my arms!
Come to my arms! is it life? is it death?
Is not all immortality born of your breath?
Are not heaven and hell but as handmaids of yours
Who are all that enflames, who are all that allures,
Who are all that destroys, who are all that endures?
I am yours, do I care if it heals me or harms?
Come to my arms, Laylah, come to my arms!
A few random poems:
- A Hermit Thrush poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. by Walt Whitman
- Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought by William Shakespeare
- Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness poem – Alexander Pope
- The Princess: A Medley: Thy Voice is Heard poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Гавриил Державин – Храповицкому (Храповицкий! дружбы знаки)
- Her Vision In The Wood by William Butler Yeats
- Why? by Tiffany Ann Monroe
- Ecologue IX by Virgil
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на слова, заданные мне Хлoeю: миг, картина и дверь
- Candles by Sylvia Plath
- Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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