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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Arjava/English/Poems By Arjava/From The Lighted Way To The Self-Subsistent Light.htm
FROM THE LIGHTED WAY TO THE SELF-SUBSISTENT LIGHT
NOW the upward flight
Of the
wide-winged eagle-headed being
Breaks through the last thin layer
Of rack and dimness,
And pinions spirit-ward
Through wide fields of sun-drenched ether
Passing from the lighted way
To the Self-Subsistent Light,—
Immortal Flame of knowledge that is perfect love,
Heart's un flickering glow made one with shadow less Sight.
November 17, 1936.
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VISTAS OF A DREAM
I
ON high trees the silver blooms of light
Mingle with intenser brilliances
Of gold's perfection, blinding to earth-sight.
The ail, like harpstrings, thrilled with fragrances
Changed and renewed at every veering breeze
In shimmer-time with bird-wing radiances.
II
Burden less the skies that here release
Their dream-glow of ineffable joy-white
Rim of pearl and zenith of sheer peace.
In whose deep heart the fountain's rainbow height
From an undying worship-rapture flows ?
Or whose thoughts hold lagoons and plumage-bright
Flamingoes that no ruffling zephyr blows—
Y
THE SEEKING AND THE SOUGHT
I SAW the moving flood of crystal sweep
Over
translucent gold,
Aureate boulders, topaz jut and peep
Where argent
Silence rolled.
I saw the tall flamingoes waiting there ;
And the
stream held, mirror-wise,
Dream-tokens, unspotted by shadow or care,—
A strangeness, a
timeless prize.
I felt the hushed sublimity of noon
In that
flashing silver dew—
Insurgent sun's at-one-ness with the moon—
As in Time
glimpsed the Timeless through.
December 13, 1934.
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ACROPOLIS
CEASELESS was the seeking,
Golden
was the light,
Sullen was the bleaking
Of encircling Night.
Reason's sigil sealing
All things from great to least:
No man to tyrant kneeling ;
No proud usurping priest.
Friendship's bond uniting
Cities of Man set free ;
Beauty from soul's inviting
Earthly dungeon's key !
January 17, 1935-
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ALIEN STAR-FRAUGHT SHAPE
Write for the bill of lading
" Square
root of minus one,"
Dream to a shore whose shading
Is
brighter than our sun,
Die beyond all aiding' *
From
syringe or gland of ape,
—And fare far off from fading
In some
alien star-fraught shape.
What was the earth but ashes
Dropped
from the furnace bars,
From the flame-like Song which lashes
Tops that
are gyring stars ?
O hearts that are empty of giving,
Lips that
lie famished for song,
How you hiddenly hunger for living
And dream to the
star born throng.
December 15, 1937.
P
LA BEAUTE'
(From Baudelaire)
I AM loveliness infrangibly, the dream of adamantine stone,
Omortals, and my bosom where each one is bruised in turn
Inspires the Poet's love to burn
Like matter's dumb mute ecstasy, eternal and alone.,
Enthroned in my unfathomed thought under the sky's blue rafter,
—Asphinx with unravaged heart of snow, winged with the swan's white gift —
I hate distorting shift
Of lineaments and never wry to weeping or to laughter.
The austere poets who see the aspiring coil
Of my composure, which inmost essence takes
From all sublimity of stone,
Give sedentary hours of ceaseless toil;
For I have
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Arjava/English/Poems By Arjava/Memory's Backwash In The Time Held .htm
MEMORY'S BACKWASH IN TIME HELD IT
SWIFT stream of the mountains,
Tumbling foam,
Rocks jutting out of the tumult.
Rushes and
ling and loam.
But mist closes over the mountains ;
That keen
air is gone :
Memory's backwash in Time held it—
Time that
goes plundering on.
October 2, 1936.
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AN ASPIRATION
WHEN Night is rolled away from eastward ocean
And
Dawn's translucent sky is, very calm,
And waves of trance have nigh forgot their motion
In mirror
poise of day dawn colour-psalm,
O then to be the bird so whitely gleaming
Out out into
the orient of rose,
When through dissolving wisps of shadow-seeming
To merge
within Light's vastitude he goes.
June 8, 1936.
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WAVES
A SETTING star,
A rising sun,
Or
Zenithing of moon
May leave a scar
When they are done
Unsmoothed by the wave-soft croon.
By day and night
The lilting sea
Sings of a rhythmic whole ;
Yet come delight
And misery
To vex and revex the soul.
Behind the curve
Of yonder most
Sea-line or mountain rim,
With tautened nerve
The new spear-host
Glamour the dawn light dim.
May 15. 1935.
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PURPOSE
I HAVE come to the windless place,
To the high rock set
In the midst of the tedious valley
Where the embrangled joys and sorrows race
And will nowise let
Fulfilling and intendment tally.
I have come to the lonely place
Of friends unmet—
One sole resolve up bear me :
" May the rock melt and breathe itself to space
Rather than I forget
The so-long-striven-for goal now near me.'
March 9, 1934.
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