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Aleister Crowley's Poetry, by title

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  • A Birthday
    Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years
    Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres!
    146 lines
  • Adela
    Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue
    Rides on the moon, a lilac conch of pearl,
    50 lines
  • An Oath
    (An Oath wrtitten during the Dawn Meditation)
    Aiwaz! Confirm my troth with thee ! my will inspire
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Arhan
    When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the
    glance
    61 lines
  • At Bordj-an-Nus
    El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own!
    O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is
    32 lines
  • At Sea
    As night hath stars, more rare than ships
    In ocean, faint from pole to pole,
    24 lines
  • 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
  • Ave Adonai
    [Dedicated to G. M. Marston]
    31 lines
  • Boo to Buddha
    So it is eighteen years,
    Helena, since we met!
    66 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
  • Dumb
    Gabriel whispered in mine ear
    His archangelic poesie.
    16 lines
  • Elegy
    Here rests beneath this hospitable spot
    A youth to flats and flatties not unknown.
    16 lines
  • Happy Dust
    For Margot
    128 lines
  • Hymn to Lucifer
    Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act?
    Without its climax, death, what savour hath
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Hymn to Pan
    Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
    O man ! My man !
    67 lines
  • Independence
    Come to my arms --- is it eve? is it morn?
    Is Apollo awake? Is Diana reborn?
    21 lines
  • La Gitana
    Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced,
    The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced,
    26 lines
  • Leah Sublime
    Leah Sublime,
    Goddess above me!
    155 lines, 3 comments
  • Linoz Isidoz
    Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star:
    Slain is Asar.
    50 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
  • Lyric of Love to Leah
    Come, my darling, let us dance
    To the moon that beckons us
    66 lines
  • On - On - Poet
    I to the open road,
    You to the hunchbacked street -
    79 lines
  • Optimist
    Kill off mankind,
    And give the Earth a chance!
    6 lines
  • Pan to Artemis
    Uncharmable charmer
    Of Bacchus and Mars
    48 lines
  • Power
    The mighty sound of forests murmuring
    In answer to the dread command;
    76 lines
  • Prologue to Rodin in Rime
    To Kathleen-
    Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures
    17 lines
  • Thanatos Basileos
    The serpent dips his head beneath the sea
    His mother, source of all his energy
    10 lines
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