The Tent (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Only the stars endome the lonely camp, Only the desert leagues encompass it; Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, Embattled ...
Only the stars endome the lonely camp, Only the desert leagues encompass it; Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, Embattled ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
Song (Act V, scene i) And this place our forefathers made for man ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
I woke up, it was the house where I was born, It was night, trees were crowding On all sides ...
The sluggish clouds hang low upon the town, And from yon lamp in chilled and sodden rays The feeble light ...
O God! if this indeed be all That Life can show to me; If on my aching brow may fall ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
I threw my arms about those shoulders, glancing at what emerged behind that back, and saw a chair pushed slightly ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
Silent is the house: all are laid asleep: One alone looks out o'er the snow-wreaths deep, Watching every cloud, dreading ...
Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall. In every touch ...
Here in the dark, O heart; Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night, And Silence, and the warm strange smell ...
This youth too long has heard the break Of waters in a land of change. He goes to see what ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
When I am living in the Midlands That are sodden and unkind, I light my lamp in the evening: My ...
When I am living in the Midlands That are sodden and unkind, I light my lamp in the evening: My ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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