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, like a Lamp.
It burns ! beyond the sands, beyond the stars.
It burns ! beyond the bands, beyond the bars.
And so the Expanse of Mystery, veil by veil,
Burns inward, plume on plume still folding over
The dissolved heart of the amazéd lover-
The angel wings upon the Holy Grail!
W’aint t’ Aissha.
A few random poems:
- In The Arc Of Your Mallet by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: My Peggy’s Charms:
- ‘In the Pink’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ольга Берггольц – Подбирают фомки и отмычки
- Ольга Ермолаева – Будет весь день долбить
- I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
- The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Robert Burns: Thomson’s Edward and Eleanora.:
- A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid by William Butler Yeats
- Ольга Берггольц – Память (Всей земною горечью и болью)
- Ballades II – Of The Book-Hunter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Pensive and Faltering. by Walt Whitman
- Athor and Asar poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- At A Calvary Near The Ancre by Wilfred Owen
- Владимир Маяковский – Версаль
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
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