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A band of light is now the horizon's line:
565
A Black Swan broods over the waters
374
A cave eaten by time in a mountain's flank
591
A cry of gold piercing the spine's dark sleep,
183
A demon's grip is the wide universe —
339
A diamond is burning upward
140
A flight of vultures from their channel home.
29
A giant earth-oblivion numbs the brain,
168
A glory You've made my days
635
A Goddess rapt in the sun of her timeless self
350
A godless temple is the dome of space:
142
A golden hand has plucked the deep heart's string
351
A grip is broken loose
242
A huge sky-passion sprouting from he earth
15
A kiss will break the quiet whole
112
A line is there that runs like sudden sleep
616
A little more, a little less
631
All that heavenly lustres
37
A love has sealed us one with paradise—
114
A madrigal to enchant her—and no more?
77
A month has flown like some Archangel's form
288
A monument of music
747
A mount keeps vigil here beneath vague skies,
520
A myriad voices
272
A nectar-dew falls glimmering from the Unknown
160
A pecking bird's desire
596
A quick stiletto's smile of poignany
167
A rainbow-sound
600
A rose of dawn, her smile lights every gaze—
104
A rose of fire like a secret smile
88
A scorching shadow masked as living light,
129
A secret of far sky burns suddenly close.
149
A small bird crimson-hued
131
A sudden sorrow has covered her eyes
506
A sudden Vast breaks forth above the brain—
555
A tremulous net is thrown
728
A viewless Will, an undiscovered sun.
568

 


Page 769

A violet wisdom gathers in cool eve
50
A voice of myriad raptures with one soul,
340
A woman, white-veiled, crowned with olive, came—
384
Above, the calm blue light quelling each sigh—
617
Above all time he towers..., Voronoff
262
Above my head I am one with God's huge gold,
567
Abysmal shadow of the summit-soul—
185
After the equatorial dithyramb
580
Agelong the query, "What is truth?"
319
All dumb things draw us by a secret love
512
All forms have vanishing edges!
313
All griefs flung at my darkness I devour
508
All heaven's secrecy lit to one face
87
All hurt should go
559
All men can die where the battle's blaze is red.
369
All mirrors in which we seek the bliss
228
All night long
485
All things are lost in Him, all things are found:
109
All things express themselves in hues
471
All's struck away.
713
Alone, like the horn of the rhinoceros—
576
Always a rapture
25
Always the Light came down from the limitless blue.
561
Amazed I hear tonight
475
Amid the whining of the saxophone
8
An arctic or an alpine night
371
An unknown sky breaks through my sleep today.
383
And now that I have spoken of all things else.
470
"Ardent your gaze - yet sorrowful, mystery-haunted, lone
410
As each gigantic vision of sky-rim
188
As the lotus of a lamp
248
As with unthinkable rapidity
523
Ask not yourself: "How shall I climb God's steep?"
370
At last the unfading Rose—
651
At sight of thee upon thy blissful path.
403
"Ayesha" I'll call you when the day resounds
415

 

Bard rhyming earth to paradise.
297
Because You never claim of us a tear,
459
Behind the broken world is the shattered self—
529
Between the brief heart-beats small silences—
643
Between two loves
543
Breath of the boundless blue,
256
Brims there a fathomless blue?
438
Bring not your stars the very same
180
By unexplored vague vistas speechless-stirred.
448

 

Cast out all fear—
722
"Children at arms!" Toussaint cried; out,
421
Climb the white hush within, and you shall pierce
483
Closing your eyes, outstretch vague hands of prayer
171
Coil after coil, now large, now small.
375
Colours so deeply quiet here upbrim
548
Cool vigil by rapt ear and far-drawn sight
658
Coward who criest to lose a single soul.
237
Crystal of calm held deep in the heart.
598

 

Dark quietudes in a quiet gleam.
141
Darkness once more!—enveloping tired despair
11
Dearest of girls, too little is the time
749
Death broke our lives
633
Deep after deep is your heart's home, O flower, O flame!
727
Deep in heart's space a self-enraptured void
648
Descend, O Joy!—in sorest need of Thee
463
Dim archipelago of the endless sea
30
Doctor Gogarty
709
Doors in the ultimate Secrecy cleave wide
594
Draw near, O Love, draw very very near
53
Dream not with gaze hung low
132
Dream-piercing by an apex of intent
443
Drink in the tranquility, drink it in to the full:
606
Dumb dusk has taught his heart to sing
627
Dumb echo of the Mother-mystery
414

 

Each child to him a new star's halt bore.
589
Each drop of beauty brings a power to slake
517
Each form a dancer whose pure naked sheen
95
Each moment now is fraught within immense
433
Each mood's oblation of world-sacrifice
445
Each thought is griding like a stone.
549

Page 771

Each time your eyes of longing rose above
197
Earth gives its patience to your calm heartbeat
659
Earth's lamp is lit on the Master's table,
608
Earth's roof is heaven's floor
284
Edging earth's beauty shadow-wise.
447
Einstein of the super-science of the soul,
564
Encliffed above the day's sky-fall,
43
Enhaloed love, why flowerest thou to bless
431
Eternal rest, the Almighty's deepest power—
328
Evening! The west is a giant Tamburlaine
343
Everything points now
18
Explosion of sunrise never can be heard:
593
Eyes like blue lotuses,
289
Eyes see you not—
361
Eyes shut when the lips break the Spirit's seal
605

 

Facing you, hill,
603
Fall shut, vain eyes, for you have never seen Him:
20
Falling in love 1 fell
737
Far flute throbbing across earth's somnolence.
6
Farewell, sweet earth, but I shall find you sweeter
751
Feel, mid time's fret and fall and fevered noise,
654
Fingers of light fall on my vague heart-strings
346
Fold now to quiet fragrance your rich rose:
390
Forsake me not, Sweet Power!
352
Frail boat of mine,
539
From heaven you came—•
518
From Her each pore as from a womb
444
From hills inaureoled by a twilight trance,
149
From quivering parts we've pierced to the calm whole
732
From the dark silence of the sod
418
From the stunned rapture of a single rock
531
Fuelled with forests I come, an ape on fire,
171

 

Giant roses,
175
Gigantic wood-glooms fill my consciousness,
460
Give her no name.
423
Gloam-infinites of trance!—but like a wound
130
Gloom-bird they call me—for I brood apart,
34
God is asleep!
326
God is the refuge of lions,
581
God's sun makes all life the same black—the white
639
God's victories are
540
Great is your beauty, earth!
477
Great Mother, grant me this one boon I crave:
158
Great poems came to him begging for birth,
609
Great wings, one white and one cf gold
294
Greatness and gaiety go hand in hand.
662
Greatness of earth—high mountain, ocean deep—
315

 

Haloed by some vast blue withhend from us,
96
Hard hills that bar my view,
532
Has fire already answered us
619
He brought the calm of a gigantic sleep:
113
He is gone from us—deep within Truth's secrecy beyond,
534
He sat aloof
12
Heart whose each beat cried "Brother" to my heart,
645
Hearts have great hungers—some would stand, earth-free,
720
Her eyes embrace all life;
516
Here on night-hills all passion-clamours cease:
111
Hers the still charm, the cold magnetic spell
32
Hidden within the temple space
511
Holier is the wife's name—
704
How can I tread life's mean thronged way
413
"How can thy reverie's molecule of sight
166
How can you say our day is dimming?
660
How earth-strange on the etherenal way
51
How had this little face
721
How oft I ask myself: "Whence wandered you?
419
How shall I praise You, Charmer,
456
How shall mortality's grey golden to God?...
337
How shall the witness mind's tranquillity
198
How shall those immortalities
719
How shall you see
174
How would I pass into the soul's great stillness?
10
Humble and calm will I wait
612

 

I am a tree of time, a swaying shadow.
3
I am an agony of glooms that know
454
I am one who seeks on hidden hills of trance
382
I build Thee not on golden dreams
259
I crave not poised perfection in my words.
260
I grieve not when I see you in my dream.
637
I have become a secret pool
72
I have been quiet a long while
247
I have come to the secret hour
553
I have loved thee though thy beauty stands
401
I have mastered the antinomies of Kant
367
"I have not trod on thorns: do I deserve
499
I have seen the inmost truth behind mam's form
303
I have viewed many miracled whitenesses—
484
I heard in gloam like a withdrawing wave
472
I live not from hour to hour
244
I long for your soul but not your soul alone:
740
I love thee for the scented rumour clinging
479
I merge in her rhythm of haloed reverse
73
I scarce can tell what love's communion
481
I see your limbs aglow
181
I shut my eyes and saw a Face
449
I sought earth's lake of love, but she
7
I stand here for all time, rooted in God,
578
I thought of a thousand marvels to implore—
52
I want you—ere my body break in two
734
I was a worshipper of gorgeous sound —
27
I woke up in the night and found
363
I would be very still
436
If each delightful cadence
56
If every look I turn tramples your flesh
94
If she had been a statue with lost arms,
387
If the whole cosmic utterance sudden y ceased,
341
Immense blue Light that has marred
493
Immortal overhead the gold expanse--
64
Importune not the evanescent hour
405
In a deep dusk between the known
298
In a grave of trance my flesh lies dead:
510
In a little while to lie
589
In cloud-suspense the faint breeze dit d;
48
In her virginity there is no pain
476
In one night—one dread night
506
In the body's crowded city.
380
In the cave of Altamira, hidden afar
323
In the hidden face of my own mind
429
In the hour of death oh lonesomely
533
In the palace of our love
742
In this full moon no golden mean can live.
557
In veil on veil of silken gloom
36
Infinite Bliss at work
587
Infinity's void whose loneliness is the All—
583
Infra-red:
535
Intangible she glimmers
4
Into the depths of night
620
Intolerable hung the white noonflush
473
Is it Archangel Gabriel by God's throne
611
"It is inconstancy
22
It was the last day of my life—bsit not
741
It's not the darkness that brings tout
393
I've visioned many barenesses—the beach
655

 

Jet stone fringed with pale grass, I crave to know
589
Joy is the homing luminous,
302

 

"Keen spirit, sleepless breath,
748

 

Let me not utter five things in five words.
276
"Let the pang pass!
646
Let the tears tremble
362
Lie not in the arms of day,
701
Life has no aim for me
491
Like the bird
417
Like the dim voice of vagrant
426
Long have I sought Him
16
Lord of the Flame!
13
Lord of the lampless lonelihoods of drowse
230
Lost are the ancient mournings the old mirths
235
Love is a nectar never still
726
"Love makes the world go round"—yes, ever round
653
Love through a death of colour everywhere—
745
Lustre whose vanishing point We call the sun—
186

 

Magic gem-cutter, lapidary of light,
271
Majestic master of the immutable Light!
561
Make me thy child, wrap round thy viewless vault,
278
Many have sworn to follow you
743
Maya could never bind him, for he camp
464
Men call Thee bare because they fear Thy light,
26
Men say: "What can't be open to the world
710
Milk in almighty breasts for the magic babe
309
Mind free from thought, heart void of hunger's bond
647
Mine be the veilless word,
250
Moon of my soul,
468
Moon shadowed by earth-love
644
Moon-quarried tower before which marble Troy
702
Most heart-consuming, most intensely cold,
348
My dawn's first glimpse, the last glimpse of my night
293
My dream is spoken
153
My feet are sore. Beloved,
157
"My land of birth is seated on the shore
500
My limbs are heavy—
480
My silence I lay at your feet.
551
My soul draws inward from horizonries
602
My soul's deep glimmerings
494
My thoughts are a quiet lake beneath your sky:
724
My victories of song shrivel up now
478
My words would bring through atmospheres of calm
191
Mystery before and Mystery behind,
233

 

Naked and hungry, abject, pale with fright,
420
Name after name I give to God:
325
Never through Angelo's eye, Beethoven's ear
268
Night has a core
21
Night has its wakefulness
650
Night's noon! Does mystery reveal a rent
304
No clamorous wing-waft knew the deeps of gold.
105
No clay-dream curves with rapture
424
No creature of rare moments white and gold
331
No delicate flower finds its perfume-poise
47
No fragile joy were those song-briefnesses:
466
No hope for me unless you break
595
"No man to immortal beauty woke
133
"No more shall thy hearth show thee welcoming fire,
416
No more the press and play of light release
167
No mortal breath you bring us: love divine
162
No movement is worth while
708
No power could span
46
No surface-silvering fugitive aeroite.
607
No words can tell down what enkindled ways
406
Not every hour can glow a perfect gem:
388
Not far enough our mystic soul has strained.
322
Not first nor last, but in a timeless gyre
130
Not for the light of limbs
173
Not from the day but from the night he's born.
89
Not in the God at my heart's core but the God
712
Not like a sky of scattered kindlings I come to you, Master!
586
Not lowly is the grass:
521
Not memory's load
381
Not mine the changeful flame of love that burns
23
Not only with the voice of mighty things,
505
Not the cool mind blinking with a million eyes
336
Not the ghost food of a mortal mouth's caress
584
Not the mind's soul but the dim soul of body
640
Not with new altar-plan but with new flame
359
"Nothing the kindled soul has known is lost:
647
Now cosmic rhythms are a laughter in my pulse,
231
Now dream-gods die, extinguished by a deep
490
Now earth and air are Gods and a God flows
738
Now from the bitter monotony of tears
440

 

O Beatrice, one word's saluting grace
33
O beauty swirling in the heart,
385
O body, modern tongue swayed by thought's flicker
317
"O courteous soul of Mantuan poesy.
502
dry lips longing in a face grown pale!
530
O face of scorn, you winter not my will:
168
O Fire divine, make this great marvel pass.
86
O Ganga of the in-world! lumine us
504
"O give me chastity, but not too soon!"
566
O glory of unimaginable love
412
"O heart that would be saint,
378
O I am earth's idolater! Truth's peak
333
O I would give myself to you
386
O keep the sacred fire
154
O Love, O Lustre,
546
"O Moslem men, keep all your gazes town!"
311
O not that I may shed on earth
407
O scarlet trembling into sleep.
599
O secret celibate sword,
582
O smile of heaven locked in a seed of light
134
O take from me
498
O the blind bellow in the pit of sleep!
310
O the dew-dipped delicious drudgery
545
O this old age that makes a mockery
625
"O thou who wast enamoured of earth's bloom
54
O vanished Face beyond the reach of thought,
450
O vastness waiting for my small heart's touch
301
"O Virgin Mother, Daughter of thy Son!
192
O voiceful words, strive only to instil
446
O Void where deathless power is merged in peace!
86
O waste me not—a hill is in your hams!
739
O we must plunge to the Great Face behind
286
O when shall I frame
482
O where in painter's hue, musician's tone
270
O who shall tame the tarpan,
344
O Wide-winged crucifixion in the sky,
251
O wound of splendour that can never heal!
563
Often I strive to flee
442
One curve ethereal white, one earth-embrowned
514
One magic day
718
Only a troubled, brief, foreshadowing power
702
Only our hands made love—all time was a touch
745
Our heart is a time-bomb
541
Our spirit is a paradise blown down,
109
Out of each dawn
554
Out of my heart love pours and pours and pours
389
Out of our darkness lead us into light
398
Out of the eyes the thought took wing, to the clouds;
622
Out of the heart a fire goes flowering lap
647
Out of the unknown, like meteor-rain
121
Out of what lampless grief with what dark cry
624
Over an endless groove that plunges and plunges.
232
Paint not the thing but its quiver in your brain.
613
Pierced by a shaft
239
Pillar on massive pillar plunging down
558
Poems are dreams
590
Poet, be yours the sculptor's art-
435
Poise of the tense noon, tremulous between
566
Preach pity to the lammergeyer's breast,
377

 

Quiet as a candle
746

 

Rapt in her virgin smile I had no room
44
Rapture that cuts away time-transient shows
111
Read not with eye alone,
281
Remember that my pulse is a poet's blood.
528
Remote, disdainful, the celestial Bear
31
Rise upward, stream of passion in the gloom!
159
Rooted in deep on measureless deep of love
40

 

Sages who scan the solitudes of thought
409
Sandals of the great Wanderer's feet rest here—
527
Seated above in a measureless trance of truth
227
Seeing you freed from the long tremor of human breath,
636
Seeing You walk our little ways they wonder
102
Seven suns are plunging down like diamonds
396
Sharp-hewn yet undertoned with, mystery,
234
She danced, a mournful wave below the dusk:
39
She seems but playing tennis—
579
She was born with so great love
634
She's lifting no small hand to draw
750
Silent I roam by the tumultuous sea
110
Silently in the dark
437
Since her own flight, two months have flown
632
Six queens in the chill air straddled
706
So few can understand
641
So many ways I had gone,
255
So much of the moment's beauty I demand,
390
So passing sweet
408
So very poor the life 1 brought You, Sweet!
455
Some praise You for Your blue hush without end.
537
Soul of poet, be thou quiet
441
Soul of the Sun, the Deathless. He am I!
577
Space is the infinite of God's witness Self
338
Spurning the narrow cities of your mind ,
169
Still water, reverie's gymnast, standing seven
621
Stoop your calm beauty—let your shining hair
150
Strange tunes are now struck on the mortal nerves
474
Strange with half-hewn god-faces that upbear
67
Stunned by that flash of limitless unity
194
Suddenly life's sweetest love was snatched away
652
Sunk in a gulf that seems to reach no cose
258
Sun's centre a rapt earth no man has viewed.
604
Surely, that organ is
716
Surely in future ages some
366
Sweep down, keen dweller on the eyrie height
425
Sweet Calm! forgive the many times I hurled
486

 

Take all my shining hours from me.
42
Tell. Dante when he shows
715
Tell not your joy to even your own heart.
711
Thank God for all this wretchedness of love—
184
That blow upon his face
522
The Alps soar to lone pinnacles of light,
291
The Archangels burn before the Perfect Face—
283
The archetypal Rose thy singer sought
513
The body's fire takes birth to fill a void
9
The breath of night grows calm,
467
The bull's body uplifted by eagle wing:
570
The core of a deathless sun is now the brain
573
The crescent edges up. A ghost wind grieves.
638
The crocus like a sun made soft and small,
55
The day floated for the last time on the sea.
391
The day is not the dumb earth glowing red
575
The ear is a flame,
496
The expanses of the moon
725
The Eyes that make all heaven their worshipper
193
The forest cathedrals are tolling their loud leaves.
307
The full moon comes to make all life complete,
335
The glamour-tide calling across each day
35
The golden sphere of the sun in earthly skies
305
The hallowing moon-white
141

Page 780

The heart has many secrets.
717
The heart's sweet lava, lips trembling to star-shine,
365
The heat of all this universe's heart,
745
The illimitable chamber of the soul
497
The immortal music of her mind
161
The mystic ray comes stealthily o earth—
590
The nameless dust is aureoled by his mood
411
The noon of night: twelve sounds linger and cease...
38
The other side of the moon.
597
The Parthenon's pillars built to upbear the sky
395
The sage has seen love blind because
390
The sea, one quivering grey,
610
The solitude before the world was made—
614
The strokes of time have left no scar on her:
334
The sun through shutters loosed on the poet's floor
654
The swift soliloquy of a waterfall—
492
The tides of gold and silver sweep the sky
187
"The trees grow dangerous at eight"—
373
The unapproachable sea-rim
451
The Unknown above is a mute vacancy
151
The unreachable horizon is my love—
567
The valley of life drowns in a sea of vapour
469
The white of the moon
592
The whole earth blotted by a blind space within
552
The whole world is poverty-stricken now: what shall
569
The wondrous lure
560
The "utmost Indian isle.
394
Their music knows no back-tug on heart-strings:
730
There are two ways of bowing
397
There is a falling-off
657
There is a moment of deep night
585
There is no going to the Gold
139
There is no lack of love in Thee,
159
There is no turning back
649
These arms, stretched through en hollow years, have brought her
98
These small hands offer
714
They ask me: was she not your life's joy-breath?
427
They gauge not the whole godhead of true love
735
They give us life with some high burning breath.
112
They will laugh at me and scoff at me
462

Page 781

They will not vex thee with their lowland chatter
526
This errant life is dear although it dies;
70
This hand, small hungerer for infinities
618
This hour of dusk
300
This is my prayer: let me all things forget
404
This scattered Life, both flux and flame.
654
This too is her love—that with unseeing gaze
588
Thought after thought bears up a storm of wings:
330
Through my abysmal solitude vainly pass
461
Through smallest whorls of colour I sucked song
525
Till now you've drawn my soul
571
Till the fall of your body a void was my day.
556
To a oneness of invisible sun
705
To Christ gave Magdalen her exquisite soul.
28
Together we walked just once in a summer night.
731
"Torment not with intangible fulgences!
126
Towards the visionary calm of night
432
Treasure of the Infinite
229
Turn your back on everything
320
Twas day nor night
24
Two are the mystic makers of earth's life.
349
Two months of song have swept my soul
332

 

Unfathomed harmonies roll, drowning our sight
148
Untamable
457

 

Vain is the immensity of the one God
253
Voices of large-eyed day
515

 

Wanderer of hell's chimerical abyss,
137
Was it not enough to show
392
We deem the darkness and the throe
295
We love, but scarcely know
372
Weary, for the world brings nothing new.
538
What country shall I take as mine? Iran
544
What deep dishonour that the sou1 should have
190
What power is in that Blue asleep forever
550
What secrets suddenly peer
246
"What use that now like a bird o' love
707
What's a well?
376
When a rose meditates,
364
When glow and gloom are one before day-rise
489
When He went abroad
524
When lips go singing love,
49
When poems are born
368
When shall my heart be broken
267
When the heart hushes to the night,
661
When the purple
487
When the rose opens.
615
When to your marge the slow night comes
5
When will I break through this blind stone of a breast?
347
"Whence astray
428
Where ghostlike gleamed the vanishing day
402
Where is the glassy gold of Pharpliar
177
Where lie the past noon-lilies
133
Where the mountains cast their shadow.
547
Where was I when my face lay numb
729
White birds of magic depths,
536
White horse, white horse,
142
White stallion champing the barley
264
"Who knows the travail of my earthward vow—
453
Who rings those bells,
656
Why, Soul, look ever ahead to the unborn Gods?
245
Why art thou slow, with grey somnambulist gait.
279
Why is she silent to the ear of day?
17
Why need I fear to merge with Him my heart?
452
Why should I fear the body's burning siege,
252
Why this indignity that from the brave
172
Wide art thou. Fire, priest of our offering, free
601
Wild rose with petals of crackling' fire
733
Will water ever be itself?
642
Will you not know
430
With a pen dipped in many-coloured mist
519
With arms that curve to a garland of brief foam
509
With skill of mortal tongue how shall I phrase
41
With song on radiant song I clasp the world,
199
With the Far-away's call
628
With you unseen, what shall my song adore?
176
Within this vast and vacant night
626
Without a word you went.
629
Worship and wideness—gold fire in calm space—
623
Would you conceive her self? A sheer abyss
171
Would you dream-pierce
439

 

Yoga by force of the titanic will.
576
"You deem me a bliss
488
You fear clay's solid rapture will be gone
186
You know how vain it is.
744
You learned to love.
748
You love frail hamlets sunk amid soft green
736
Your benediction is to me
434
Your buried limbs are a midnight to themselves
703
Your face unveils the cry
182
Your little passions tire me-I would Clasp
465
Your little purities, your temperated pleasures
360
Your love for me is like unearthly water
723
Your touch is ever so soft upon my heart
542
"Your work is ended, your time over.
630
Yours is a universe-filling smile
574
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