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PASSAGE
A WHITE and alabaster colonnade,
Lit by
cressets deftly kid
Column-high and in each nook
Which the bats by night forsook.
Ranged and ranked in double rows
Plinth by plinth the long file goes
From forgotten aeons dead
To the unpublished days ahead.
—All the thought-filled moods of man
Down those flickering mind ways ran.
May 15, 1935.
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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Arjava/English/Poems By Arjava/A Griefless Moving And Untroubled Star.htm
A GRIEFLESS MOVING AND UNTROUBLED STAR
SOME bridges span .although they hold apart :
Through gulf ' twixt earth and sun, from shore to shore
The wavering "plumes of light made eager start—
Time's load lay on-those wings whose Fate they bore.
No bridge be woven out from soul to soul;
In utmost freedom may he thrive afar,—
Ungripped by alien words that seek control,
A griefless moving and untroubled star.
And may no dimness of mortality
Delay the chosen wings of his delight,
When others think of him and inly see
The joy they wish him wend forth through the night.
February 14, 193
TO BOBBY, AFTER HE HAD PROMISED A SNAPSHOT OF HIMSELF
WROUGHT by pencil or by unthinking lens,
A picture guards too well its midmost theme
Of puissant soul enclayed. Nor shall the pens
Of writers skilled in verse capture their dream
In any cage of words, even though they face
With bodily eye their dream's embodiment;
For eyes of flesh dazzle to mark the place
Where Truth's own light with rueful dust is blent.
Whether your body's form or shadowy trace
Of it be gazed upon, this heart will haste
To lift toward Light's abode its groping prayer ;
" Undying Beauty Who gleams upon the waste
Of our mortality, pi
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Arjava/English/Poems By Arjava/Have Lighted Fools The Way To.htm
"....HAVE LIGHTED FOOLS THE WAY TO...."
IF days were arches leading down to you,
If nights were portals opening one by one
On some far meeting with the shape of you,
O bounteous earth, no as kings more ; for I have done.
Yet even niggard earth can sunder less,
Should worse befall : your words my heart obeys ;
The dust of that fools' pathway I could bless
For a dream untroubled by the stars' indifferent gaze
March 13, 1938.
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MOHANA
(A MIDNIGHT RAGA)
HEAR the moon ring Sorrow's knell
(Listen to her silver bell),
Through the mind and through the heart
Sound like sword-blade shadows part.
Dark's misdeeming put to flight,
What espy by songcraft light ?
Prester's realm, or the uncharted lea—
Pentexoire and Femenye ?
Swift as arrow cleaves to goal
Music flings from pole to pole—
Earth from aeon-depth of trance
Silvered forth to utterance.
December 26, 1935.
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BARRIERS
NO, these are rags of the departing Night;
They speak no more the truth of I and thee ;
They'll come as phantoms of their vanished might,
And as false dreams at the" edge of knowing flee.
When I am nothing, that the rays of dawn
May pass unhindered on their flight to thee,
And when all merged in silences that yawn
Before the echoing cliffs of birdcall, we
Shall dream no more the differing adverse thing,
But now look forth upon the crested sea
Foam-white in clear dawn, and hear the tall wave fling
The sovran music of that victory.
February 20, 1938.
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UNATTAINED
THE bleak hills of separation rise
Between the
one spot greatly longed for
And the not longed for, bitterly present fact.
Absence and here ness and to-day,
The lifeless monstrous mound of this, this 'actual,'
Unterminate, infructuous existence ;
While there, like rareness sought in pilgrimage for healing,
The separation overcome,
The influence that makes oasis not a desert,
The so long hoped for, deeply craved, and ever more unbelievable
journeys' end.
November 21, 1936.
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THE SOLAR RACE-TO-BE
O THOSE unburied dead
By whom the
first word is said,
And the last,.... and all between :
Comes now a spectral power,
In their most arrogant hour,
Dreaming to life the thing that might have been ?
So may they, girt with pride,
As a doomed iceberg ride
On this great sea of lewth :
In their own falsehood penned
Utterly meet their end,
Probed mockingly by Spring-warm waves of truth.
They hated comely things,
Misprized the love that brings
Beauty and Strength and Calm......
Love gave the New Race light:
Singingly they dight
His breast with myrt
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Arjava/English/Poems By Arjava/Absolved Made Whole By That Beauty.htm
ABSOLVED, MADE WHOLE BY THAT BEAUTY
BEAUTIES are allwhere fading ;
Rain-misted
the April blue :
O star within a bubble,
O rose in a drop
of dew !
Endlessly filled is the graveyard ;
All our living
is centred by lack :
Every string of the lute will be broken,
And the
lamp will fast wane into black.
There are gods in the living ether
And they feast on
the nectar of joy :
Star-crowned is their life, with no dimming ;
And their roses no
shadows destroy.
Absolved, made whole by that Beauty
I would pour the senses' wine,
Offer truth in their glittering temple
And
love in their
MEMORY OF APRIL
THERE are shadows on the pathway in the wood
And a tracery of greenness overhead ;
In ecstasy the glistening cherry stood—
Her petal-hidden boughs with April sun spray wed.
Joy-burnished-is the air ; the autumn sod
With green flame of Dog's Mercury is lit-—
What raptured
air drift from the torch of God
By the slow splendour of the Spring hath lighted it ?
June 9, 1935.
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