The Dance Of The Seven Sins (Arthur Symons Poems)
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
FAUSTUS Why am I fettered with eternal change? I follow after changeless love, and find Nothing but change; I seek, ...
Is it the petals falling from the rose? For in the silence I can hear a sound Nearer than mine ...
I dreamed that the Chimaera came, A wandering angel, white with flame From some cloud's height or moonless deep, And ...
I am the prisoner of my love of you. I pace my soul, as prisoned culprits do, You Stand like ...
These are the women whom no man has loved. Year after year, day after day has moved These hearts with ...
Beautiful demon, O veil those eyes of fire, Cover your breads that are whiter than milk, and ruddy With dewy ...
I pray to the old kindness of the Earth, Which is a spirit moving in the world, Closer to life ...
I buy no more from merchants of bought dreams, For I have greater memories than these bring Back from their ...
When I am old, and think of the old days,And warm my hands before a little blaze,Having forgotten love, hope, ...
The little Stones chuckle among the fields: "We are so small: God will not think of us; We are so ...
I am the torch, she saith, and what to meIf the moth die of me? I am the flameOf Beauty, ...
Your hair, that burning gold Naked might not behold, Shall tarnish, and your skin Wrinkle its satin in. And your ...
This beauty is vain, this, born to be wasted, Poured on the ground like water, spilled, and by no man ...
Beauty of woman, savour of her kiss, The mystery of love that turns to be The bite of an eternal ...
Who shall quench the soul's desire Of the moth, that is God's fire? Who shall with a painted cloth Stain ...
If I think of your soul, I see Your body's beauty; and then I pray to your body again, And ...
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