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Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.
Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
Thou idol of the human race,
Thou tyrant of the human heart,
The flower of lovely youth that art.
Angels’ song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock.
We should not in the field of Reason look to find
less vary and veer than elsewhere in the flux of Life.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God
and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies
In masterful administration of the unforseen.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Pure Reason left to herself
relieth on axioms and essential premises
which she can neither question nor resolve.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
I live in hope and that I think do all
Who come into this world.
The Growth of Love (1898)
To share the suffering
of them we pity ranks above redress.
I love all beauteous things,
I seek and adore them.
All women born are so perverse
No man need boast their love possessing.
If nought seem better, nothing's worse:
All women born are so perverse.
Poems (1873)
Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly
of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate
or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life,
whereon all function whatsoever in man is based.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.
Verily by Beauty it is that we come at Wisdom,
yet not by Reason at Beauty.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
But I can tell — let truth be told —
That love will change in growing old;
Though day by day is nought to see,
So delicate his motions be.
Shorter Poems (1879)
On such a night, when Air has loosed
Its guardian grasp on blood and brain,
Old terrors then of god or ghost
Creep from their caves to life again.
Goddes love
is unescapable as nature's environment,
which if a man ignore or think to thrust it off
he is the ill-natured fool that runneth on to death.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
I know
that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see
the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)