Poems

The Mantra-Yoga 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 Neophyte 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 […]

The Pentagram [Dedicated to George Raffalovich] In the Years of the Primal Course, in the dawn of terrestrial birth, Man mastered the mammoth and horse, and […]

The Priestess of Panormita Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, joyful endeavour. […]

The Quest A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: The silence of deep […]

The Rose and the Cross Out of the seething cauldron of my woes, Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung; Where charmed music gathered from […]

The Tent 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 […]

The Titanic 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 […]

The Twins [Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare] Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my brain and spine : […]

The Wild Ass I The secret of the House of Set Is hidden in my sevenfold veil; For I am he that doth beget The Rood, […]