The Hawk and the Babe poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster

A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)

[Dedicated to Raymond Radclyffe]

I am that hawk of gold

Proud in adamantine poise

On the pillars of torqoise,

See,beyond the starry fold,

Where a darkling orb is rolled.

There, beneath a grove of yew,

Plays a babe. Should I despise

Such a foam of gold, and eyes

Burning beryline, so blue

That the sun seems peeping through?

Did I swwop, were Heaven amazed?

With my beak I strike but once;

Out there leap a million suns.

Through the universe that blazed

Screams theit light, and death is dazed.

In my womb the babe may leap;

Seek him not within my eye!

Nor demand thou of me why

I should plunge from crystal steep

Like a plummet to the deep!

See yon solitary star!

What a world of blackness wraps

Round it! Unimagined gaps!

Let it be! Content thy car

With the voyage to things that are!

Nor, an thou perchance behold

How I plunge and batten on

Earth’s exentrate carrion,

Deem torquoise match midden-mould

Or deny the Hawk of Gold!

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