A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
I
How should I seek to make a song for thee
When all my music is to moan thy name?
That long sad monotone; the same; the same –
Matching the mute insatiable sea
That throbs with life’s bewitching agony,
Too long to measure and too fierce to tame!
An hurtful joy, a fascinating shame
Is this great ache that grips the heart of me.
Even as a cancer, so this passion gnaws
Away my soul, and will not ease its jaws
Till I am dead. Then let me die! Who knows
But that this corpse committed to the earth
May be the occasion of some happier birth?
Spring’s earliest snowdrop? Summer’s latest rose?
II
Thou knowest what asp hath fixed its lethal tooth
In the white breast that trembled like a flower
At thy name whispered. thou hast marked how hour
By hour its poison hath dissolved my youth,
Half skilled to agonise, half skilled to soothe
This passion ineluctable, this power
Slave to its single end, to storm the tower
That holdeth thee, who art Authentic Truth.
O golden hawk! O lidless eye! Behold
How the grey creeps upon the shuddering gold!
Still I will strive! That thou mayst sweep
Swift on the dead from thine all-seeing steep –
And the unutterable word by spoken.
A few random poems:
- A Wintry Picture poem – Alfred Austin
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Николай Заболоцкий – Противостояние Марса
- The Cottage Hospital poem – John Betjeman poems
- The Constellations by William Cullen Bryant
- Cologne by Paul Celan
- The French Revolution as it appeared to Enthusiasts by William Wordsworth
- Николай Глазков – Что ни год, идёт вперёд
- Fergus And The Druid by William Butler Yeats
- A Song To Eleonora Duse In “Francesca da Rimini ” by Sara Teasdale
- The Daughter Goes To Camp by Sharon Olds
- Solitude: An Ode poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet 7: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light by William Shakespeare
- Mary’s Song by Sylvia Plath
- Валерий Брюсов – Е.Т. (Кто глаза ее оправил)
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns
- Farewell to Eliza (Song) by Robert Burns
- On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
- Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots by Robert Burns
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army by Robert Burns
- Grace before and after Meat by Robert Burns
- Epitaph for Robert Aiken by Robert Burns
- Epistle to a Young Friend by Robert Burns
- Address to Beelzebub by Robert Burns
- A Grace after Meat by Robert Burns
- A Dream by Robert Burns
- A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton by Robert Burns
- A Bard’s Epitaph by Robert Burns
- Zion by Rudyard Kipling
- You Must n’t Swim… by Rudyard Kipling
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
- Wilful Missing by Rudyard Kipling
- White Horses by Rudyard Kipling
- When the Great Ark by Rudyard Kipling
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