Lyric of Love to Leah poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster

A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)

Come, my darling, let us dance

To the moon that beckons us

To dissolve our love in trance

Heedless of the hideous

Heat & hate of Sirius-

Shun his baneful brilliance!

Let us dance beneath the palm

Moving in the moonlight, frond

Wooing frond above the calm

Of the ocean diamond

Sparkling to the sky beyond

The enchantment of our psalm.

Let us dance, my mirror of

Perfect passion won to peace,

Let us dance, my treasure trove,

On the marble terraces

Carven in pallid embroeideries

For the vestal veil of Love.

Heaven awakes to encompass us,

Hell awakes its jubilance

In our hearts mysterious

Marriage of the azure expanse,

With the scarlet brilliance

Of the Moon with Sirius.

Velvet swatches our lissome limbs

Languid lapped by sky & sea

Soul through sense & spirit swims

Through the pregnant porphyry

Dome of lapiz-lazuli:-

Heart of silence, hush our hymns.

Come my darling; let us dance

Through the golden galaxies

Rythmic swell of circumstance

Beaming passion’s argosies:

Ecstacy entwined with ease,

Terrene joy transcending trance!

Thou my scarlet concubine

Draining heart’s blood to the lees

To empurple those divine

Lips with living luxuries

Life importunate to appease

Drought insatiable of wine!

Tunis in the tremendous trance

Rests from day’s incestuous

Traffic with the radiance

Of her sire-& over us

Gleams the intoxicating glance

Of the Moon & Sirius.

Take the ardour of my impearled

Essence that my shoulders seek

To intensify the curled

Candour of the eyes oblique,

Eyes that see the seraphic sleek

Lust bewitch the wanton world.

Come, my love, my dove, & pour

From thy cup the serpent wine

Brimmed & breathless -secret store

Of my crimson concubine

Surfeit spirit in the shrine-

Devil -Godess -Virgin -Whore.

Afric sands ensorcel us,

Afric seas & skies entrance

Velvet, lewd & luminous

Night surveys our soul askance!

Come my love, & let us dance

To the Moon and Sirius!

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