A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced,
The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced,
In the starlight as we wove us in a web of silk and steel
Immemorial as the marble in the halls of Boabdil,
In the pleasuance of the roses with the fountains and the yews
Where the snowy Sierra soothed us with the breezes and the dews!
In the starlight as we trembled from a laugh to a caress,
And the God came warm upon us in our pagan allegresse.
Was the Baile de la Bona too seductive? Did you feel
Through the silence and the softness all the tension of the steel?
For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns,
And the midnight came upon us worth a million crazy morns.
Ah! my Gipsy, my Gitana, my Saliya! were you fain
For the dance to turn to earnest?; O the sunny land of Spain!
My Gitana, my Saliya! more delicious than a dove!
With your hair aflame with roses and your lips alight with love!
Shall I see you, shall I kiss you once again? I wander far
From the sunny land of summer to the icy Polar Star.
I shall find you, I shall have you! I am coming back again
From the filth and fog to seek you in the sunny land of Spain.
I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old
With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold.
I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south
With our passion in your body and our love upon your mouth;
With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew!
My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you!
A few random poems:
- He Remembers Forgotten Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- The Novelist by W H Auden
- Creativity Leads to Family Enrichment
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- Robert Burns: On My Ever Honoured Father:
- Олег Сердобольский – Угадай, в какой руке
- If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Певец
- The Epic of Jack and Jill by Robby Charters
- Алексей Жемчужников – Раскаяние
- Камышева Ю. – На далёком полюсе, где метёт пурга
- The Alchemist’s Petition by Vachel Lindsay
- Apostroph. by Walt Whitman
- Think Of It Not, Sweet One poem – John Keats 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
- time by tulip
- The Sound Of Music -a Ghazal by Umamaheswari Anandane
- the secrets , we hide by tulip
- The Tears In Cupid’s Eyes by Tupac Shakur
- The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
- said, unsaid by tulip
- Quest for Thee by Vanessa Perkins
- Paradise On Earth! by V. Muthu Manickam
- Overnight at the Riverside Tower by Tu Fu
- once i saw a old man’s shop by tulip
- On a Prospect of T’ai-shan by Tu Fu
- Morning Rain by Tu Fu
- Moonlit Night by Tu Fu
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
- In The Event Of My Demise by Tupac Shakur
- In The Depths Of Solitude by Tupac Shakur
- Gazing at the Sacred Peak by Tu Fu
- Full Moon by Tu Fu
- Fallen Star: Dedicated to Huey P. Newton by Tupac Shakur
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