A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT
[Dedicated to George Cecil Jones]
At last an end of all I hoped and feared!
Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard.
Then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred.
I doubt me soerly if the hermit heard.
To all God’s questions never a word he said,
But simply shook his venerable head.
God sent all plagues; he laughed and heeded not,
Till people certified him insane.
But somehow all his fellow-luntaics
Began to imitate his silly ticks.
And stranger still, their prospects so enlarged
That one by one the patients were discharged.
God asked him by what right he interfered;
He only laughed and into his elfin beard.
When God revealed Himself to mortal prayer
He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire.
Our Hermi had dispensed with Sinai’s thunder,
But on the other hand he made no blunder;
He knew ( no doubt) that any axiom
Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom.
But!-all who urged that hermit to confess
Caught the infection of his happiness.
I would it were my fate to dree his weird;
I think that I will grow an elfin beard.
A few random poems:
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- Done is a battle by William Dunbar
- The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
- Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- The Unborn by Sharon Olds
- Sonnet Xiii
- A Form Of Women by Robert Creely
- After the Battle by Thomas Moore
- Николай Гумилев – Ночь
- There is a Community of Spirit by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот для чего мужику самолет
- Dark spring by Yvor Winters
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