Hymn to Lucifer poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act? Without its climax, death, what savour hath Life? an impeccable machine, exact He paces an inane and pointless path To glut brute appetites, his sole content How tedious were he fit to comprehend Himself! More, this our noble element […]
Happy Dust poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, the abode of ineffable things, Quintessence of joy and of strength, that, abolishing future and past, Mak’st the Present an infinite length, my soul all-One with the Vast, […]
Elegy poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Here rests beneath this hospitable spot A youth to flats and flatties not unknown. The Plymouth Brethren gave it to him hot; Trinity, Cambridge, claimed him for her own. At chess a minor master, Hoylake set His handicap a 2. Love drove him crazy; Thrre thousand women used […]
Dumb poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Gabriel whispered in mine ear His archangelic poesie. How can I write? I only hear The sobbing murmur of the sea. Raphael breathed and bade me pass His rapt evangel to mankind; I cannot even match, alas! The ululation of the wind. The gross grey gods like […]
Dionysus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And life for every one. Ye shall dance on hill and level; Ye shall sing in hollow and height In the festal mystical revel, The rapurous Bacchanal rite! The rocks […]
Colophon poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil Where the olive cheeks aglow Shadow-soften into snow, Breasts like Bacchanals afloat Under the proudly phallic throat! Be thou to my pilgrimage Light, and laughter sweet and sage, […]
Boo to Buddha poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) So it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh young faces that once clove In that most fiery dawn of love. We wandered to and fro, Who knew not how to woo, Those eighteen years ago, Sweetheart, […]
Ave Adonai poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) [Dedicated to G. M. Marston] Pale as the night that pales In the dawn’s pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, with my dove’s breast Shuddering, a god its bitter guest- Have I not gilded my nails And painted my lips with vermillion ? Am I not wholly […]
Au Bal poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) [Dedicated to Horace Sheridan-Bickers] A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life in its delirium of dances! The white world glitters in the void, and swims Through the infinite seas of transcendental trances. Yea! all the hoarded seed of all […]
Athor and Asar poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) [Dedicated to Frank Harris, editor of Vanity Fair] On the black night, beneath the winter moon, I clothed me in the limbs of Codia, Swooning my soul out into her red throat, So that the glimmer of our skins, the tune Og our ripe rythm, seemed the hideous […]
At Sea poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of her lips Hints her innavigable soul. Such lights she gives as guide my bark; But I am swallowed in the swell Of her heart’s ocean, sagely dark, That […]
At Bordj-an-Nus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own! O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is That poises head and hood, and makes his body tremble to the drone Of tom-tom and of cymbal wooed by love’s assassin sorceries! El Arabi! El Arabi! The moon is […]
Arhan poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms dance With the light that stirs and lustres of the dawn, and with the bloom Of the wind’s cheek as it clusters from the hidden valley’s gloom : Then […]
An Oath poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) (An Oath wrtitten during the Dawn Meditation) Aiwaz! Confirm my troth with thee ! my will inspire With secret sperm of subtle, free, creating Fire! Mould thou my very flesh as Thine, renew my birth In childhood merry as divine, enchenated earth! Dissolve my rapture in Thine own, […]
Adela poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947) Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, “May” 19″th”, 1910. Jupiter’s foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a lilac conch of pearl, As if the dread god, charioted anew Came conquering, his amazing disk awhirl To war down all the stars. I see him through The […]
Winter Dream poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Oh wind-swept towers, Oh endlessly blossoming trees, White clouds and lucid eyes, And pools in the rocks whose unplumbed blue is pregnant With who knows what of subtlety And magical curves and limbs– White Anadyomene and her shallow breasts Mother-of-pearled with light. And oh the April, […]
Waking poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Darkness had stretched its colour, Deep blue across the pane: No cloud to make night duller, No moon with its tarnish stain; But only here and there a star, One sharp point of frosty fire, Hanging infinitely far In mockery of our life and death And […]
Vision poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) I had been sitting alone with books, Till doubt was a black disease, When I heard the cheerful shout of rooks In the bare, prophetic trees. Bare trees, prophetic of new birth, You lift your branches clean and free To be a beacon to the earth, […]
Valedictory poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) I had remarked–how sharply one observes When life is disappearing round the curves Of yet another corner, out of sight!– I had remarked when it was “good luck” and “good night” And “a good journey to you,” on her face Certain enigmas penned in the hieroglyphs […]
Topiary poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Failing sometimes to understand Why there are folk whose flesh should seem Like carrion puffed with noisome steam, Fly-blown to the eye that looks on it, Fly-blown to the touch of a hand; Why there are men without any legs, Whizzing along on little trollies With […]
The Reef poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) My green aquarium of phantom fish, Goggling in on me through the misty panes; My rotting leaves and fields spongy with rains; My few clear quiet autumn days–I wish I could leave all, clearness and mistiness; Sodden or goldenly crystal, all too still. Yes, and I […]
The Louse-Hunters poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) (From the French of Rimbaud). When the child’s forehead, full of torments red, Cries out for sleep and its pale host of dreams, His two big sisters come unto his bed, Having long fingers, tipped with silvery gleams. They set him at a casement, open wide […]
The Life Theoretic poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) While I have been fumbling over books And thinking about God and the Devil and all, Other young men have been battling with the days And others have been kissing the beautiful women. They have brazen faces like battering-rams. But I who think about books and […]
The Flowers poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Day after day, At spring’s return, I watch my flowers, how they burn Their lives away. The candle crocus And daffodil gold Drink fire of the sunshine– Quickly cold. And the proud tulip– How red he glows!– Is quenched ere summer Can kindle the rose. Purple […]
The Elms poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Fine as the dust of plumy fountains blowing Across the lanterns of a revelling night, The tiny leaves of April’s earliest growing Powder the trees–so vaporously light, They seem to float, billows of emerald foam Blown by the South on its bright airy tide, Seeming less […]
The Defeat of Youth poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) I. UNDER THE TREES. There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapes Of this and this occasion, sisterly In their resemblances, each effigy Crowned with the same bright hair above the nape’s White rounded firmness, and each body alert With such swift loveliness, that very rest Seemed a […]
The Decameron poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Noon with a depth of shadow beneath the trees Shakes in the heat, quivers to the sound of lutes: Half shaded, half sunlit, a great bowl of fruits Glistens purple and golden: the flasks of wine Cool in their panniers of snow: silks muffle and shine: […]
The Alien poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) A petal drifted loose From a great magnolia bloom, Your face hung in the gloom, Floating, white and close. We seemed alone: but another Bent o’er you with lips of flame, Unknown, without a name, Hated, and yet my brother. Your one short moan of pain […]
Summer Stillness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) The stars are golden instants in the deep Flawless expanse of night: the moon is set: The river sleeps, entranced, a smooth cool sleep Seeming so motionless that I forget The hollow booming bridges, where it slides, […]
Stanzas poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Thought is an unseen net wherein our mind Is taken and vainly struggles to be free: Words, that should loose our spirit, do but bind New fetters on our hoped-for liberty: And action bears us onward like a stream Past fabulous shores, scarce seen in our […]
Song of Poplars poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Shepherd, to yon tall poplars tune your flute: Let them pierce, keenly, subtly shrill, The slow blue rumour of the hill; Let the grass cry with an anguish of evening gold, And the great sky be mute. Then hearken how the poplar trees unfold Their buds, […]
Social Amenities poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) I am getting on well with this anecdote, When suddenly I recall The many times I have told it of old, And all the worked-up phrases, and the dying fall Of voice, well timed in the crisis, the note Of mock-heroic ingeniously struck– The whole thing […]
September poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Spring is past and over these many days, Spring and summer. The leaves of September droop, Yellowing afid all but dead on the patient trees. Nor is there any hope in me. I walk Slowly homeward. Night is as empty and dark Behind my eyes as […]
Scenes Of The Mind poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) I have run where festival was loud With drum and brass among the crowd Of panic revellers, whose cries Affront the quiet of the skies; Whose dancing lights contract the deep Infinity of night and sleep To a narrow turmoil of troubled fire. And I have […]
Revelation poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) At your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx, I taste a strange apocalypse: Your subtle taper finger-tips Weave me new heavens, yet, methinks, I know the wiles and each iynx That brought me passionate to your lips: I know you bare as laughter strips Your charnel beauty; […]
Return From Business poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Evenings in trains, When the little black twittering ghosts Along the brims of cuttings, Against the luminous sky, Interrupt with their hurrying rumour every thought Save that one is young and setting, Headlong westering, And there is no recapture. Poetry Monster – Home […]
Private Property poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) All fly–yet who is misanthrope?– The actual men and things that pass Jostling, to wither as the grass So soon: and (be it heaven’s hope, Or poetry’s kaleidoscope, Or love or wine, at feast, at mass) Each owns a paradise of glass Where never a yearning […]
Points And Lines poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Instants in the quiet, small sharp stars, Pierce my spirit with a thrust whose speed Baffles even the grasp of time. Oh that I might reflect them As swiftly, as keenly as they shine. But I am a pool of waters, summer-still, And the stars are […]
Poem poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Books and a coloured skein of thoughts were mine; And magic words lay ripening in my soul Till their much-whispered music turned a wine Whose subtlest power was all in my control. These things were mine, and they were real for me As lips and darling […]
Panic poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) The eyes of the portraits on the wall Look at me, follow me, Stare incessantly: I take it their glance means nothing at all? –Clearly, oh clearly! Nothing at all … Out in the gardens by the lake The sleeping peacocks suddenly wake; Out in the […]