NOCTURNE.

Look out upon the roofs, Hal, in the night
Innumerable ranks of hanging stars
Watch this our holy secret peafect night.

The moon is very young,
The night her Mother is as yet a girl
Laying upon her breast her baby's shape of pearl.
Our windows are wide-flung.

Soon that tall black chimmney shaft will cleave the moon
like a spear.

Stand back my lover.

Your hour will come soon soon, so very soon....
And for a space be to me as my brother.

Snafts o' the moon

Make exquisite our tiny hired room,
Ghostly I strip

And in the pool of light my fragrant garments dip.

Steadfast, griefless, triumphant...

Lo! it has stirred...

The enduring strength of the earth is in the splendour of
my body,

And for the earth am I.

Drifted down the sky

The moon touches the chimneys-shaft.

Beloved of my soul, the Winger Eros that possessed me,

The Spear-Bearer, the Terrible,

That lifted me, a God upon a God's right hand,

Passeth out upon the sky wholly fulfilled in us.

Through a shining veil mist see now my body tender,

Quivering... and honey-coloured hair...

Delicate... fierce... and delectable...

I am a woman again.

Come to me, make me yours, and the love of a God outlive.

Now all is changed for us....
Naked I stand, apart,
(Patience awhile, my Heart)
Austere, miraculous.....

And we two are one again with the Gods who bore us.

O Winged Lover from the skies! cast now Thy spear.

Hal you have known me, woman and singer, lover and comrade,
Know me again, O my Brother.

Out over London

Stands brooding a Titan-girl, naked and splendid in the moon.

Daughter of Earth and the Stars,
Daughter of Chaos and night,
Not in pity

Not as one asking, not as one granting a boon,

But made one with the Earth and the Beasts and the Gods in Thei
Thei might

Benoldeth this city.

Even as a bird,

As an eagle watches the paths os the dawn and the sinking stars