Couplets on Wit poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) I But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne. II Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest. III Some who grow dull […]
Chorus of Youths and Virgins poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Semichorus. Oh Tyrant Love! hast thou possest The prudent, learn’d, and virtuous breast? Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim, And Arts but soften us to feel thy flame. Love, soft intruder, enters here, But ent’ring learns to be sincere. Marcus with blushes owns he loves, And Brutus tenderly […]
Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Strophe I. Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought; Groves, where immortal Sages taught; Where heav’nly visions of Plato fir’d, And Epicurus lay inspir’d! In vain your guiltless laurels stood Unspotted long with human blood. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades, And steel now glitters in the […]
Autumn – The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Beneath the shade a spreading Beech displays, Hylas and Aegon sung their rural lays, This mourn’d a faithless, that an absent Love, And Delia’s name and Doris’ fill’d the Grove. Ye Mantuan nymphs, your sacred succour bring; Hylas and Ægon’s rural lays I sing. Thou, whom the Nine […]
To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Begone, ye Critics, and restrain your spite, Codrus writes on, and will for ever write, The heaviest Muse the swiftest course has gone, As clocks run fastest when most lead is on; What tho’ no bees around your cradle flew, Nor on your lips distill’d their golden dew; […]
Argus poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) When wise Ulysses, from his native coast Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss’d, Arrived at last, poor, old, disguised, alone, To all his friends, and ev’n his Queen unknown, Changed as he was, with age, and toils, and cares, Furrow’d his rev’rend face, and white his […]
An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o’er all this scene of man; A mighty […]
An Essay On Criticism poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ‘Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense: Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes […]
An Essay on Man: Epistle II poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) I. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic’s pride, He […]
The Wizard Way poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) [Dedicated to General J.C.F. Fuller] Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew Where its ray fell light as dew Lighting up the shimmering veil Maiden pure and aery frail That the spiders wove to hide Blushes of the sylvan bride […]
The Twins poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) [Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare] Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my brain and spine : oh let them Flame like the ancient city Swallowed up by the sulphurous rivers When men let angels fret them ! Yea ! […]
The Titanic poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel, Consummate crown of man’s device; Down crashed upon an immobile And brainless barrier of ice. Courage! The grey gods shoot a laughing lip: – Let not faith founder with the ship! We reel before the blows of fate; Our stout souls […]
The Tent poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Only the stars endome the lonely camp, Only the desert leagues encompass it; Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, Embattled Cold, Imagination’s Cramp. Now were the Desolation fain to stamp The congealed Spirit of man into the pit, Save that, unquenchable because unlit, The Love of God burns steady, […]
The Rose and the Cross poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Out of the seething cauldron of my woes, Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung; Where charmed music gathered from my tongue, And where I chained strange archipelagoes Of fallen stars; where fiery passion flows A curious bitumen; where among The glowing medley moved the tune unsung Of […]
The Quest poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: The silence of deep height was drawn A veil across the silver dawn On holy wings that hovered. The music of three thoughts became The beauty, that is […]
The Priestess of Panormita poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, joyful endeavour. Hear me, O lily-white goat! O crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for Thy throat, A scarlet bow for Thy horns! […]
The Pentagram poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) [Dedicated to George Raffalovich] In the Years of the Primal Course, in the dawn of terrestrial birth, Man mastered the mammoth and horse, and Man was the Lord of the Earth. He made him an hollow skin from the heart of an holy tree, He compassed the […]
The Neophyte poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must stop, and pray One little prayer, and then; what bitter fight Flames at the end beyond the darkling goal? These are my passions that my feet must read; This […]
The Mantra-Yoga poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
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 […]
The Interpreter poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are at stake. By the Rose and the Cross I conjure; I constrain by the Snake and the Sword; I am he that is sworn to endure -Bring us the […]
The Hermit poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
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 […]
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 […]
The Garden of Janus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above the West, brave hippodrome Whose gladiators shock and shun As the blue night devours them, crested comb Of sleep’s dead sea That eats the shores of life, rings […]
The Four Winds poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) The South wind said to the palms: My lovers sing me psalms; But are they as warm as those That Laylah’s lover knows? The North wind said to the firs: I have my worshippers; But are they as keen as hers? The East wind said to the […]
The Five Adorations poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) I praise Thee, God, whose rays upstart beneath the Bright and Morning Star: Nowit asali fardh salat assobhi allahu akbar. I praise Thee, God, the fierce and swart; at noon Thou ridest forth to war! Nowit asali fardh salat assohri allahu akabr. I praise Thee, God, whose […]
The Buddhist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) There never was a face as fair as yours, A heart as true, a love as pure and keen. These things endure, if anything endures. But, in this jungle, what high heaven immures Us in its silence, the supreme serene Crowning the dagoba, what destined die Rings on the […]
The Atheist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Nor thou, Habib, nor I are glad, when rosy limbs and sweat entwine; But rapture drowns the sense and self, the wine the drawer of the wine, And Him that planted first the grape- o podex, in thy vault there dwells A charm to make the member mad, […]
Thanatos Basileos poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) The serpent dips his head beneath the sea His mother, source of all his energy Eternal, thence to draw the strength he needs On earth to do indomitable dees Once more; and they, who saw but understood Naught of his nature of beatitude Were awed: they murmured with abated […]
Prologue to Rodin in Rime poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is not the music mingled with the form When all the heavens break in blind black storm? Are we not veiled as Gods, and cruel as they, Smiting our […]
Power poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends his hand, His awful hand to bless, to curse; or moves Toward the dimmest den In the thick leaves, not known of loves Or nymphs or men; […]
Pan to Artemis poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Uncharmable charmer Of Bacchus and Mars In the sounding rebounding Abyss of the stars! O virgin in armour, Thine arrows unsling In the brilliant resilient First rays of the spring! By the force of the fashion Of love, when I broke Through the shroud, through the cloud, Through […]
Optimist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Kill off mankind, And give the Earth a chance! Nature might find In her inheritance The seedlings of a race Less infinitely base. Poetry Monster – Home A few random poems: External links Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus […]
On; On; Poet poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street – Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That day we chanced to meet? I with a heart that’s sound, You with sick fancies of pain – Which of us two Would the earlier rue If we […]
Lyric of Love to Leah poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of the hideous Heat & hate of Sirius- Shun his baneful brilliance! Let us dance beneath the palm Moving in the moonlight, frond Wooing frond above the calm Of […]
Long Odds poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) How many million galaxies there are Who knows? and each has countless stars in it, And each rolls through eternities afar Beneath the threshold of the Infinite. How is it that will all that space to roam I should have found this mote that spins and leaps In […]
Logos poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart through the abyss unknown, Its glory my sole guide while space surge About me. Seventy light-yaers! As I near That gate of light that men call death, its cold […]
Linoz Isidoz poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! O son of my bowels to the Lord of Light! O man of mine that hast covered me From the shame of my virginity! Where art thou? Is it […]
La Gitana poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced, In the starlight as we wove us in a web of silk and steel Immemorial as the marble in the halls of Boabdil, In the pleasuance of the roses with […]
Independence poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Come to my arms — is it eve? is it morn? Is Apollo awake? Is Diana reborn? Are the streams in full song? Do the woods whisper hush Is it the nightingale? Is it the thrush? Is it the smile of the autumn, the blush Of the spring? Is […]
Hymn to Pan poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of Pan ! Io Pan . Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Come over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady ! Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards And […]