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Poems by Aleister Crowley

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A Birthday

... With us? --- my darling, you would now be here!But no! we must fight on, win through, succeed, ...

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Adela

... Adela! Your breath ruffles my soul in the gondola! Through maze on maze of silent waterways, ...

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An Oath

... (An Oath wrtitten during the Dawn Meditation)Aiwaz! Confirm my troth with thee ! my will inspire ...

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Arhan

... night and day. These are real, these illusion : I am of them, false or frail, ...

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At Bordj-an-Nus

... we are alone; May not our mouths meet, madden, mix, melt in the starlight of a kiss ...

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At Sea

... In sanctifying solitude! Man is so infinitely small ...

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Athor and Asar

... [Dedicated to Frank Harris, editor of Vanity Fair]On the black night, beneath the winter moon, ...

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Au Bal

... [Dedicated to Horace Sheridan-Bickers]A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, ...

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Ave Adonai

... Till my tongue is torn and bleeding!Have I not gilded my nails ...

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Boo to Buddha

... As it had never left the light! For fiercer from the South ...

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Colophon

... On the abacus of God!Thou the sacred snake that rears ...

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Dionysus

... In spite of the spite that is day’s ...

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Dumb

... In those curst furrows, quick or dead!A tithe of what I know would cleanse ...

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Elegy

... Some not. Plays, essays, pictures, tales -my aunt!He had the gift of laughing at himself ...

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Happy Dust

... region beyond? So, still though I sit, as for ever, I stab to the heart of my ...