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Aleister Crowley's Poetry, by first line

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  • The Rose and the Cross
    Out of the seething cauldron of my woes,
    Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung;
    14 lines
  • The Quest
    A part, immutable, unseen,
    Being, before itself had been,
    42 lines
  • The Neophyte
    To-night I tread the unsubstantial way
    That looms before me, as the thundering night
    70 lines
  • Adela
    Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue
    Rides on the moon, a lilac conch of pearl,
    50 lines
  • Ave Adonai
    [Dedicated to G. M. Marston]
    31 lines
  • The Five Adorations
    I praise Thee, God, whose rays upstart beneath the Bright
    and Morning Star:
    16 lines
  • Arhan
    When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the
    glance
    61 lines
  • Pan to Artemis
    Uncharmable charmer
    Of Bacchus and Mars
    48 lines
  • The Atheist
    Nor thou, Habib, nor I are glad,
    when rosy limbs and sweat entwine;
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • Athor and Asar
    [Dedicated to Frank Harris, editor of Vanity Fair]
    On the black night, beneath the winter moon,
    17 lines
  • Au Bal
    [Dedicated to Horace Sheridan-Bickers]
    A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs,
    19 lines
  • A Birthday
    Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years
    Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres!
    146 lines
  • Boo to Buddha
    So it is eighteen years,
    Helena, since we met!
    66 lines
  • The Buddhist
    There never was a face as fair as yours,
    A heart as true, a love as pure and keen.
    28 lines
  • Colophon
    TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY
    Lamp of living loveliness,
    43 lines
  • Dionysus
    I bring ye wine from above,
    From the vats of the storied sun;
    45 lines
  • The Disciples
    Beneath the vine tree and the fig
    Where mortal cares may not intrude,
    37 lines
  • Dumb
    Gabriel whispered in mine ear
    His archangelic poesie.
    16 lines
  • Happy Dust
    For Margot
    128 lines
  • Elegy
    Here rests beneath this hospitable spot
    A youth to flats and flatties not unknown.
    16 lines
  • La Gitana
    Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced,
    The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced,
    26 lines
  • The Hawk and the Babe
    [Dedicated to Raymond Radclyffe]
    I am that hawk of gold
    31 lines
  • The Hermit
    AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT
    [Dedicated to George Cecil Jones]
    26 lines
  • Independence
    Come to my arms --- is it eve? is it morn?
    Is Apollo awake? Is Diana reborn?
    21 lines
  • The Interpreter
    Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake!
    Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are at
    37 lines
  • Linoz Isidoz
    Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star:
    Slain is Asar.
    50 lines
  • The Garden of Janus
    I
    The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam.
    257 lines
  • The Ladder
    [Dedicated to K.M.Ward]
    42 lines
  • Logos
    Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own!
    Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge
    14 lines
  • Long Odds
    How many million galaxies there are
    Who knows? and each has countless stars in it,
    32 lines
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