V

THE KASÎDAH V — • — The dreadest sound man’s ear can hear, the war and rush of stormy Wind Depures the stuff of human life, breeds health and strength for humankind: What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world … Read more

THE KASÎDAH V — • — What conscience has the murd’erous Moor, who slays his guest with felon blow, Save sorrow he can slay no more, what prick of pen’itence can he know? You cry the “Cruelty of Things” is myst’ery to your purblind eye, Which fixed upon a point in space the general project … Read more

THE KASÎDAH V — • — Who fought for female as for food when Mays awoke to warm desire; And such the Lust that grew to Love when Fancy lent a purer fire. Where then “Th’ Eternal nature-law by God engraved on human heart?” Behold his simiad sconce and own the Thing could play no … Read more

THE KASÎDAH V — • — Yon glorious Sun, the greater light, the “Bridegroom” of the royal Lyre, A flaming, boiling, bursting mine; a grim black orb of whirling fire: That gentle Moon, the lesser light, the Lover’s lamp, the Swain’s delight, A ruined world, a globe burnt out, a corpse upon the road of … Read more

THE KASÎDAH V — • — For Man’s Free-will immortal Law, Anagkê, Kismet, Des’tiny read That was, that is, that aye shall be, Star, Fortune, Fate, Urd, Norn or Need. “Man’s nat’ural state is God’s design;” such is the silly sage’s theme; “Man’s primal Age was Age of Gold;” such is the Poet’s waking dream: … Read more

THE KASÎDAH V — • — THERE is no Good, there is no Bad; these be the whims of mortal will: What works me weal that call I ‘good,’ what harms and hurts I hold as ‘ill:’ They change with place, they shift with race; and, in the veriest span of Time, Each Vice has … Read more