BONBONS

(astral)

BY

FRANCIS

P.

SAVINIEN

LONDON

GEORGE

ROUTLEDGE

"

SONS

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Times.
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a

colour

and
a

new

of

Some

these

to

fragrance

new

Spectator.

poesy.

"

short

will

rank

poems

with

the

best

in

the

language.

Truth.
"

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Life

(the

Tickled

by

whim

happy, dead,

was

spirit,dim)

The

of

the

Formed

With

Trying

Whose

air

of

Light

within

to

old,

and

breath

whose

dream.

first, of

whose

Peace

soul

its

light.

is cold,

is

abyss

glimmer

brighten

last

seem,

phantasies,

three

Fashioning

Vapors

deities

fancies

vague

Love,

of

throng

And

(Air

shed,

Death

world

the

When

Doth

smile

DISASTER.

OF

FLAG

THE

night).

mars

fair,

up

the

hope looks

stars

down

on

despair.

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Next

Paints

While,

Glutting

Within

And

blood

Of

torn

mystery

And, in the

The

rags

brazen

Truth

with

van

of

prest

doubt,

breast

out

true

face,

flay

doth

herself

flows

with

is her

mask

olden

its sombre

flashed

there,

sorrows

of

tears,

through

flag of flame

herself

Of

and

when, drunk

the cloud

stabbed

expire,

cloud

fire with

Truth, whose

And

With

becomes

the

wind

The

fire)

flame

lusts of

the

as

of

bed

air

the

brush

Her

For

(upon

Hope

trace

every

away

and

Hope

Love,

unfurled

vagueness

falsehood,

prove

proper

spiritof

the world.

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HUMANITY.

"Save

thrilling

The

But

his

And

o'er

The

reeking

One

cry,

solid

all

of

hopes,

mass

reptile,

!"

save

This

is

humanity,

falls

hearkens

who

he

sake,

God's

for

me,

all

o'er

of

sore

crawls.

he

worshipped

humanity,

by,

the

cry,

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FREEDOM.

Nature,

When

Awed

with

the

Paused,
Kissed

But

Nature

Took

And

When

And

up

pressed

Freedom

the

cheeks

of

death-still,

death-still

had

the

forth

classic

the

(for

Nature

day

crescent's

forth,

came

And

the

while

Freedom

Then

of

dream,

delight,

through

unto

threshold

the

on

struck

putrid
it to

her

then

did

night

her

from

not

out

the

drc;...-

seem.

gone

one

mind

thoughts,

was

night,

blind)

her

little

was

beam

born

voracious

and

born

hordes,

worm.

did

squirm

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FAITH.

let him

Here

And

For

Of

the

his

death

Sorrow

Long
For

he

men

below

And

found

And

strip

Until

black

Here

lies

seeming

the

her

Truth

ignorance
the

Sorrow's

but

mask,

he

to

as

will

her

with

always

and

price

dare

pay.

through

won

lies

vice

lay

to

grief

Nemesis

of

scars

kisses,

shew.

mystery

here

of

salts

prove

pitted

wretch,
Truth

of

life,

strife.

copse

cease

dregs

what

out

the

of

eclipse

an

passion's

let him

nor

mystery

woo

his

lips,

flames

rained

within

drain

his

crumpled

upon

lain

would

against

tears

crops

he

has

soul

His

The

hands

with

has

bitter

Where

All

corpse

his

in

he

lie, a

the

seem

coward

to

die.

Lie

BONBONS.

KISMET.

His

life-blood

And

As

heart

in

the

It must

can

open

To

Life

So,

take

he

dare

air

better

of

woe

days,
and

melt

sorrow

raise

not

pulse of

the

flow.

that

love

and

hate

to

bind

the

ways

of

up

the

happiness

All

slay

to

it be

Combine
Or

hopes

above

to

victory

to

eternity.

droop,

not

His

his

in

perish

can

Say,

thee

helps

And

For,

away

helps, thee, Death,

he

He

itself

ebbs

may

thy

gulf
by
have,

tribute

of

evil

fate

sought?

Death,
and

thought

it must

let live I

give;

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AMARGOZA.

The

wolf

white
woeful

In

And

courtship
winds

dewless

O'er

of

ghosts

Yon

obfuscant

As

All

faint

And

The

gaunt

Here,

grief

And

the

to

lament

love

of

shrill

Panamint's
from

with

noon

and

vomits

seems

has

the

wan,

blood

gleam

stars

which

palace

the

Add

Unbounded

that

companion

where

dark

tune.

sanguine

Death's

Over

ruin

cataract

arch

an

i^-

woo

sinking, cold

the

weave

sally

forever

night's

at

Cozo's

mist

Whose

the

valley

lagoon.

its savage

moon,

Through

moon,

phantom

hell emits

The

of

green

death

by fits

when

the

forever

Amargoza's

The

across

howls

ages

voiced

on

ghastly
ever

stood

gone.

niches

of

everswelling
Cozo's

plenty

leafless

once

dawn

did

the
flood

wood,
bloom

tomb

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10

Till

Met

Freedom

naked

the

most

herald

His

Peace

Who

This

The

the

blizzard

and

as

With

than

dawn

sun

the

moon

clouds

The

snowclad

that

Arctic

mount,

to

departs
adore.

Death

breath

him

flame

day

frozen

ray;

air

blizzards

vale

came

fierce

chiller

the

hearts

hence

frosted

his

Sin.

more;

mirror

sun's

ends

broken

ever

with

the

described

And

has

marching

but

he

play with

injure

with

came,

did

bright

comes

he

eve

harvester,

but

home,

slowly

hither

the

and

not

in Life's

face

Born

His

at

brood

in,

saunter

Shame,

could

Death's

to

would

entered

Hell

Which

cankered

were

Remorse

as

has

love

Here

Here

Fear,

draped

Each

Beauty

Desire

when

And,
The

and

her

doom.

monstrous

Liberty

Here

with

bear,

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captive

At

Upon

the

And,

cold

His

shade

with

Bidding
His
k

Let

though

be

weep;

it will,
it must,
it still

downed

by the

dust;

it forth, let it fly,

With
In

visions

while

on

ineffable

ecstasy

where

it on,

Will
Let

it

hell

spiritcreep,

greeded
on

soon.

to

the
Where

the wild

jaws
the

of

winds
the

of

hell,

sky

thunderbolts

waste

embraced,

shape

leads

man's

Along

moon,

slowly o'er the

every

that

tree

misery

lay long prostrate

Will

Let

steals

having

lone

dying

ever

shade

And,

Let

as

as

of

wastes

gale;

tyrant

stood

he

noon

Let

the

to

ii

dwell

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ia

Let

it out

And,

Jump

like

from

Onto

For

And

the

here

only

Intensely

That

rose

the

to

pale

the

dim

the

jaws

Death,

to

of

by

as

smiling

in

the

its

wake,

tiger

"

beauty

bearing

that

Gciger

snake

the

the

prevails

sweet

wilds

of

fangs

of

peak

of

shades,

woe-winged

Heaven

the

from

tomb

can

bloom

farewell

hopeless

hell.

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13

RHAPSODY.

The

moody

love,

rearing o'er his head

And,

Sinks

all his

soul

And

While,
He

his sad

Indian, king of

Poor

His

makes

savage

he

mixes

sucks

with

makes

his flesh

struck

Has

And

He's
A

Of

an

child

Without

there.

his

on

in the

the

of

Passion's

claw

land,

Christian's

love

domain,

own

forest, vale

Stript by

of

law,

ebon

outcast

stranger

veins

disease.

iron

imprint

its

field and

Sad

the

of

her

Tophet's
fixed

Has

tube

Despair

his brow

Upon

Sin

with

covert

dream.

of

frame

warm

stream

tent,

unholy

Pleasure's

fillinghis

linen

his

flood

in the

Carson's

near

in love's

soul

lament,

and

friend,

and

plain

hand.

liberty,

Ease

kin,

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14

Shall

misery

Still compass
Since

thee
will

man

mend?

never

Sharl foreign slaves, the brood

of toil,

with

from

Pursue
And

thee

grime, the gifts

and

greed

Freedom

sweet

of

Of

which

palaces but

find her
serf

the

The

as

savage,

Along
Crushed

the

the

The

rest.

Oh, hero, sad but

That
But

Dying, thou
And

within

white

sigh,

the sky

night unknown

The
But

free,

soul is but
God

confines

who

in eternal

Whose

declines

sun

breast,

clayey lover

Love

prepares?

earth, his soul resigns

idol Vice's

To

graves

scarlet west,
the

to

for Avarice

home

soil

foreign slaves,

Degrade thy noble soul till it is theirs

Shall Freedom

the

to

thee,

passing by

man

pallid tyranny,

givest this lie,the world, the lie

goest where

the

moon

and

Nature

may

converse

with

thee.

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15

NEMESIS.

Begot

but

by

love-born

The

Found

all

death

Men

spurned

As

And

every

Had

eyes

too

The

joys

that

Struck

Were

like

That

But

And

opened

those

Fortune

gave

was

so

herself

his

unto

heart,

by Cupid's
surrounding

is ne'er

shrivelled

came

sweet.

his

hate

lust

fire

meet

be

to

chaste,

Adversity

she

would

to

with

warm

desire

wanton

woman's

kept

as

he

through

Where

He

with

woman

ground

found.

uncastigated

him

Phonais

forbidden

world

society's sole

soft

embrace,
fair

of

son

the

And

fond

one

at

ease.

much

at

mate

him

his

to

touch,
see

free.

dart,
seas

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16

For

The

Sips

erring
still

No

maiden,

And

He

not,

saw

trusted

Consoled

And,

the

cute

but

as

her

bound

astute

smiles,

maidish

guiles,

would

act

of

full

tact.

could

hopes

her

hyena's

tearful

his

see

jealousy,

but

wound

the

the

errors

when

sting in love

Grieved

with

their

primed

Each

for

eager

moves

barm:

alkali.

sweet

guilelessly

more

from

butterfly

waste

maidens,

Made

And

the

harm

no

results

gorgeous-colored
from

him

did

nun

bread

sweetest

When

He

the

hurts

What

with

tears

prove.

weapon

smile,

crocodile

man

can

Publicly praised hypocrisy.

be,

love

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led

He

Her

burdened

He

loved

Which

From

like

with

warmed

Jove,

He

in

So

Bacchus

his

of

light step

brushed

But

when

he

The

soft

Ionic

Man

blushed

And

knew

by

soft

like

tongue

and

that

of

joy,

boy

silken

gods

shame

thigh.

above,

love

dropped

Woman

only

move.

fly

could

some

spoke,

love

could

his

up

forth

only

of

paternal

sewed

bowl

soul

sick

eye

youth

by

thighs

estate.

his

to

twinkling

the

Fate

brimming

the

life

such

hair

her

brute's

the

naught

where

cruel

by

with

out

Like

When

charm

gave

Woman

within

sleeps

best

her

Is

He

willing

warm,

beauty

For

17

is sin.

her

chin

BONBONS.

i8

He

flew

And

To

them

all

Caught

please

Though
He

pleasures

his

kept

high

the

virgins

kept

And

when

His

fancy

all

smiles

that

wove

or

better

Memory
with

wing

his

gave

slave.

his

whim

him

was

love

string

beauty

pleased
under

women

Hag

that

so

monarch

the

on

the

his

scene.

queen

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I9

SYLPHIDAE.

About

the

Their

with

Empearled
By

When

as

What

Heaven

And,

They

each

sucking

And

when

O'er

weary

drawn

from

at

the

they

the

her

star

the

adds

wine

angel's honey
sweep

courtier

rolls

the

stars

that

drunk

get

from

the

wanness

Night
are

with

lights from
weird

birth,

mirth.

their

unto

strip twinkles
moon,

into

earth,

realm

noiseless

airs

bears.

Heaven

from

sad

skies'

the

bursts

moon

lifts itself

wit.

wears

sigh that

each

East

weeps

from

steal

tears

that

bird

softly round

They

circlet

the

through

Light

As

silver

pluck

who

sylphs

madman's

the

up

nymph

flit

planet twit,

every

laughs light

little

subtle

Each

fancies

their

while

And

fairies

midnight

the

moon

bright

light.

skies

weeping
lies.

eyes

BONBONS.

20

with

dance

They

death

The

pallid princess

Her

subject-shadows

When

They
And

from

the

Edenites

And,

wrapping

They

veil

Breathing
His

mists

Make

The

And

Than

skirts

of

on

his

bondage

bodies

of

and

with

Sorrow

desert

of

shake

they
soul

light

the

his

her

of

out

of

sight.

ease

the

these,

knees.

silken

bring
sting

shade-hued

with

blacker

dungeon

height

Sin, they

wreathe

roll

wand,

round

to

hand,

wanton

land.

souls

sweet

putrid breath

Death

of

gossamer

sexless

sombrous

brow

of

worlds

to

the

cast

in

with

lustrous

upon

revel

they

the

her

needle-pointed

structures

their

while,

pyramids

on

every

up

With

wields

joy

spirits step
glide

and,

mortal

doom

the

tomb.

wing.

gloom

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BONBONS.

That

But

the

now

Like

couriers

And,

when

Within

Grim

the

orbs,

And

Echo,

For,

thorough

for

cleave

clouds

though

rough,

maggots,

smile

while.

the

air

upper

they

hurricanes

their

build

they

they

the

and

storms

when

all

sicken

heavens

they

in

expanded

face

plump

her

they

light,

they

devour

care,

and

nests

glide

reiterates

guile

their

with

Nature

tickled

they

when

'Twas

serenely

the

cry

sky.

pair.

by

BONBONS.

22

MEDUSA.

Her

Which

And

dense

glimmer

but

Hell

her

Father
Give

her

From

Or

For

God,
As
But

As

the

shelter

e'er her

naught
dead

the

moon

form

her

world

heart

haunt

her

heart

repose

of

make

flower's

still her

to

never

can

years

breast

your

shall

spurn

of

night.

love

of

spirit rest,

wild

from

beauties

shades

night.

at

troubled

light,

hope

And

but

bright

are

through

of

the

briny spheres

are

gloom

shines

grant

Sweet

stars,

in

As

Oh,

like

eyes,

lips
turns

cold

woes.

her

to

depart

fair

to

view,

zephyr's sighs
all to

winter's

you

skies.

BONBONS.

Truly
Once

But

love

to

envious

And

know

And

And

it

daunts

And

What

to

fault, God,

Where'er

desert

her

her

dim

her

hopes

springs

trace

you

mother's

never

work

work.

weeps,

tear,

laughs

subject

ever

in

harm.

face

snakes

she

her

brother's

her

is she

she

of

was

beauty's

when

her

was

do

to

charm

view

the

at

battered

hair

her

sad

Since

it

know

Though

her

see

God,

And,

leaped

her

to

languished

all its minions

you

knew

she

added

heaven

Father,

lore

only

movement

every

And

Oh,

the

the

is

may

and

visage

creeps

career.

world's

not

found

chance

serpents

rebuke

in

to

her?

look

stir.

BONBONS.

24

Loveless,

God

Since

And,

soul's

her

in

Uncheered

Yet,

Is

Oh,

when

by

each

multiplied
God,

They'll

if

you

grow,

of

to

is

heart

intervened,

dreams

her

her

hopeless,

cell,

void

flame

hell

or

charms

her

fiend.

that

seven,

pluck
like

her

Hell,

eyes

in

out

Heaven.

dies

out

BONBONS.

25

SALMATIA.

When

in

Bathed
hid

Each

The

Venus

buxom

devil, coming

Shed

out

The

bevy

But

kept

Though

waded
their

last the

And

hastened

The

devil

And

rain

soon

flowers

dr}r

blond

to

coaxed

that

waves

at

them

they lost the

flushes.

at

her

subtle

swearings.

tickles

little lily trickles

chill of

vices.

bearings

sighs and

with

their

starings

beyond

with

on

blushes

crisis

every

many

out

aid

and

gushes,

jumping

with

swim

through

smiles

depth entices

were

saw

her

oasis.

own

virgin's faces

the

Graces

piebald

their

where

blue

the

her

usually

he

fire that

the

The

As

that

Salmacis

of

flowers

through

Graces

blushing

the

waters

bashful

with

shyness

At

limpid

the

With

and

icicles.

26

BONBONS.

Satan

Then

Saying

Is

Eden's

plucked

"This

fruit

oasis

but

the

which

Satan's

flowers

from

waste

ground

the

bewitches

enriches."

niches,

BONBONS.

27

VENERIS.

planet's smiles

Where

their

while

The

For, if

is not

The

sky

The

stars,

While

to

And

the

stars

earth

sparkles

we

may

goblets brimmed

Though,

as

to

stars

Our

to

us

is

day

light,

is night

light.

love, laugh

of

From

of

darkness

our

sweet

ever,

ever;

day

the

smiles

Since
Life's

us

Night,

the

of

brood

mortal

thus

last, my

wears.

her, sparkling

Hence,
to

tears,

love

robe

live, darkling

shade

In

Time's

offspring

the

we,

love,

light

are

the

fair
o'er

Swarm

At

in

planets

the

bright

are

gown,

gauzy

sky, dissolves

The

love,

down,

sit thee

and

Come

our

are

brief.

quaff
with

grief,

night is day,

night alway.

28

BONBONS.

its

But

win

And

As

Lo

And

and

foam

is

Life

we

scorns

foam

blow

it

is

love

is

heaven

love,

scoff

we

the

! Virtue

strife,

of

life,

love,

off.

dawn

recreant

from

its

aerie

drawn.

BONBONS.

29

WOMAN.

not

woman's

stars

with

Angels
Nor

For

with

Dazzles

angel
Which

E'er

Light
In

'Neath

By

face, though

bright

stars

the

or,

moody

its

her

own

blush

soul

things

cloud,

as

is in

lightning

lie

fly

face.

all

whom

doth

doth

wings,
woman's

man,

woman's

that

fairness

from

sky

as

embrace,

taking

idols,

e'en

And

naught.

smiles

Starred

By

brilliancy

thunderbolts

in

fraught,

to

shew

be

jewelry

briefest

and

Angels

No

angels

heaven's

woman,

dare

slaves

abash,

o'erpraised

ashes

that

dazed.

dash

flash

BONBONS.

30

is

Heaven

Its

For

air

is

when

Woman,

Makes

lit

with

woman's

the

woman's

eyes,

breath,

life

of

burst

of

luxury

of

mortal

paradise,

death.

flies

BONBONS.

SEVEN

THE

An

soul

The

hearing

To

zenith

and

to

Elysium

is immortalized

In

of

milk

paradise

The

Light
An

Love

is

The

world

so

honey

from

for

the

keeps

taste

thought,

Olympia

and

stars

sphere
the

ear.

of

dra'wn

forever

bright that
in

doth

when

sight.

of

embrace

souls

rolls.

lighter reverie

Olympia

is merged

for

wear.

by light

in

immersed

when

doth

every

crumbles

but

joy

world

and

air

honey

to

the

serves

Attuned

But

much

touch.

turns

or

revel

doth

of

temple

solves

that

scent

HEAVENS.

and, smiling, lengthens

silken

the

Within

In

lives

Eden

31

distilled,

build.

it falls

from

everlasting night.

sight

BONBONS.

32

PSYCHE.

with

love

My

Beneath

Her

robe

Of

My

winds

beside

while

And

the

then

On

wings

of

grown

gown

wars.

soul's

true

guise

ecstasy

in

rushed

we

down

Mars,

warclouds,

of

spirit

radiance

layed

stars,

her

in

swoon

Wove

of

paradisial

soul

The

of

relucent

woven

Did

shades

bank

wild,

Her

eyes

the

couch

With

shining

of

her

eyes

me

through

victory.

Paradise

33

BONBONS.

BACCHANTE.

like

Swells

Then

in

beauteous

Thou

In

love, while

For

And,

as

even

Love

itself

thou,
Gainst

his

thine

will

melt

together

you

away

lay,

of

dreams

Itself

ravished

and

love

of

hour

an

touch,

shape.

nights

hundred

lover's

cloyed

thy pleasure

Two

it drip:

grape,

he, though

Will

charm

sweeter

bids

warm

press,

lip

the

upon

grape

which

that

Than

As

arm

eager

burst, enjoys

Which,

And

his

against

form

Thy

the

heavens

do,

and

eats,

enjoys
eager

own

service

sweets.

through,

much,

BONBONS.

34

NIGHT.

Sweet

Undress.

Who

wraps

all

Round

For

love,
Is

And

on

As

as

soon

for

Undress

For

blush

love

And

who

charm

love's

crave

lusts

whom

of

the

she

dead

lusts

embrace

into

fills tired

shame

away

wed.

was

Night's

sway.

prey,

passed

spouse

Night's

day,

the

rosy

earliest

the

Night's

And

of

widow

Dear

is warm,

Night

play

lust's

place

smiles

to

day.

BONBONS.

35

MONTANA.

The

last

And

art

Oh,

shall

bright beam
thou

see

we

Wherein
And

winds

Whose

The

Or

flash
An

the

sympathies

of

her

spell about

each

wouldst
hour

tetons

their

dim

feed
will

buy

in the

alcahest

tarns,

And

round

like
them

which,

fire,

passions

deity

each

shadow
the

lie,
desire

sweet

to

dry.

minute

Roman

with

tear

year.

on

the

sky

night's faint

like sparks, the

sapphires, shine

fade

moonlight

outlines

to

of

of

tears

like opal through

The

air?

web

an

snowy

of

her

thou

half

Till

with

day,

outpair

cannibals

grief needs

Though
Here

loves

our

arises

moon

joys decay

our

eagles, droop with

feathered

These

The

leave

we

shall

Or

day's departed

too, love, brokenhearted?

like the

And,

of

from

shade,

demons

each

pines, like stalactites,grow

fly.

ravine

green.

36

BONBONS.

Hail,

blessed

Earth

With

for

moon

The

Is

And

fever

Like

with

As

its

when,

The

spicy

So,
Ere

we

may

as

light's white

thou

the

awhile,

woo

guile

in

the

shaft

mayst

of

nude

breasts

of

dawn

forth

into

Night,
silk

runs

it control

coasts

warmly

breathes

break

majesty.

thee

on

Day

light

thee

perfumed

coast

silver

would

its lust-chaste

fragrance

opens

is,

Which

strike

of

thee.

than

faultless

we

like

feel

near

ocean

in

whom

moves

sight

shoon

earth

love,

my

shalt

thou

The

the

and

soft

and

night

lovely

fairer

crown

walkest

night,

But

boast

not

can

Thou

Montana's

nymph,

skin

up

of

the

the

Ceylon,

its

soul

drawn

ocean

Delight
back

of

Night.

BONBONS.

37

REGRETS.

When

Sweet

And

would

But

we

By

the

true

Lest

shame

Salt

And

sorrows

all

we

That

When

our

what

Are

And

are

we

are

Prudence

he

old,

love,

fold

around

heart's

desires

regrets

hold

coldly

told,

patroled

tongue

around

my

stung

love,

my

Passion's

slung

be

us,

stung,
of

strains

sung

around

be

not

us

Passion

clung

sweetly

More

around

honest

that

love,

my

hung

honey

songs

Now

young,

were

we

us

us.

us

behold

round

my

with

around

us

love,
his

us.

cold

BONBONS.

38

Time

tells

the

his

With

tooth

rightly

And

Like

knew

We

had

And

enjoyed

died

around

with

us

he,

around

lust,

we

love,

my

prowls

sleuth,

For

truth,

uncouth,

so

us

Love's

this

youth

ruth,

life,

my

forsooth,

around

us.

love,

BONBONS.

39

SOFIA.

Ah,

with

bide

If thou

us

leave

'Tis

not

The

dark

us

that

we

slower

love

thee

the

when

Though

shall

Sorrow

of

sea

sky's pale denizens

And

love

fills up

less

far

language

Thy

pathos-laden

Till

all

Into

our

But

As

The

love

our

thou

dost

dolorously
soft

Outspreads

our

hearts

lie within

crepuscular
its

rainbow

to

from

leaps

joy

doth

has

told

and

Sin's

the

tomb,

sky,
thy soft

sighs have

our

their

turn

eye.

hold

and

tears

to

flown

stone

den

false

beauty

thy gloom

thee

den, the

to

in

be

vanished

has

sweet

flows

dazzled

tongue

banished

feel

but

bespangle

than

which

The

go.

its stellar

light

slow,

that

stars

The

With

life, so

since

of

plumage

as

when

thy dying
along

day

the

eastern

way.

BONBONS.

40

Thine

thine

And

But

now

spirit

No

nymph

And

We

the

to

sunk

to

drink

thy

that

midst

like

Death,

shrinks

soul

love

ghost

for

to

that

Death

and

fades

away,

day,

waning

the

shades,

western

(the

death

us

gave

paths

with

watch

smile

thy

as

breath

us

gave

midnight

the

on

that

breath

find,

we

No

Which,

life

the

was

moon

expires

dead

love

drinks

to

in

haze

gave)

the

grave.

so

soon,

BONBONS.

41

IRMA.

Irma,

gulf of

thou

All

the

Our
On

sad
blue

the

Where

amber

And

Where,

But

the

Those
Ere
When

fair

And

hell

or

the

grief

had

all

on

rainbow

were

in

Expectant
Ere

music

the

down,

ecstasy

from

each

find

bounds
down

to

of

mean

forth

head

high

ill

no

young

with

hope

deathless

in

fullblown

woes,

hung

pleasure

their

they fluttered

its form.

was

whence

heaven

mocks

but

all is storm

love
his

decked

sand.

locks

that

where

when

the

lingers still

-voice

hymns

swung

land

for

thy

pushing

days

bodies

air and

from

tongue,

impelled,

our

rainbows

against far skies

Echoed

once

thy laughter

its soft
in

songs

dulcid

breeze

the

sally

souls

our

Irma,

Like

the

zephyrs

on

where

between

wave

mistook

we

The

glide

souls

love's

balmy

by Memory's

held

lips have

whose

of

music

sweet

Backward,

love,

constant

rose

yearnings
taste

of

fell

hell.

BONBONS.

42

GERALDINE.

The

love

As

music

More

from

Thou

thy

to

hadst

And

The

life to

Vice

Hate's

while

now,

winds

Are

Purely
Fair

thou,

Death's

the

griefs

live

sanguine

and

dawn

of

that

haunts

themselves

amuse

rose

sunshine

sin and

blind

the

waste

hadst

could

mind,

are

speakst

multitude

newborn

world

the

and

far
of

superscription signed

and

less

tears

with

fears.

too

soon

the

moon,

days of old

with

musing

and

on

withered

Baltic's

upon

Love

they forsook

the

shame,

loved

thy love

thy teeth's ripe

adorns

form.

freely press

web

but

plain

the

diamonds

melody

to

of

grass

life's melting

soul

hell-blackened

thou

long

the

brain,
thunderstorm,

love, if thou

of

weirdly wooing

so

thy cheeks
as

which

leanness

that

through

comb

touches

that

frail,fantastic

Which

breaks

better, sweetest

things whereof

The

peak

dews

memory

thy bewildered

through

light winds

the

loved

jealousy,

Thy

distant

nurtured

When

flutters

sadly

softly than

Lures

But

that

wold.

painted

snow

love

bay

shalt

thy

sadly
brow

move

for

"

aye.

BONBONS.

43

GLADDYS.

Her

in ecstasy

Presses

And,

dress

cnarming

while

amid

smiles

intoxicate

Her

glance

is killing

which

And

love's

Her

lip is Cupid's ruby

Her
Made
She

eye

by

are

insatiated

her

the

her

For

Pain

And

despotism

alone

to

murder

suits

darts

hearts.

Lucifer

impotent
her

shafts

shoots

those

loved, unsated,
sin grew

bow

of

heart

And

dust

lust.

smile

quiver

planets fly

heaven's

to

which

sky

that

as

And

From

air.

naked

the

sylphs

her

the

her

through

swoop

Her

Through

storm

form

her

winds

the

the

on

her

thoughts
her

soul.

condole

of

woe,

hair,

BONUONS.

44

The

trembling

Her

breast,

Unless

change

of

when

Her

lust,

Her

sleighbelled

The

zephyr

as,

mounts

of

with

shall

heart

priest

pulseless

throe,

beats

ecstatic,

her

Although

of

basis

woe,

be

ever

misery

supply

sex

the

upon

voice*

the

so

sky

gently

strains

glides,

and

rides.

BONBONS.

4s

ANOMALY.

As

is

pureness

with

Wind

For

When,

solaced

He

paints,

be

In

as

love

pure

the

fire

of

so

kiss

with

lithe

the

dead

the

Day,

of

deep

black

Havana's

he

dolor

his

o'er

night

thine

of

lie

dye

deathless

in

the

while

color,

no

locks

thy

lightnings

char

eyes

is

stars,

as

pure

must

black

steals

for

thee

soothed

laughter's

Where

To

by

darkness

What

colorless

fair

as

sky.

eyes

dreaming

bathes

the

of

he

daughter.

lies

slaughter?

BONBONS.

46

ZELLA.

As

the

clouds

that

By

the

winds

of

And

soften

To

So, but
Falls

As

tossed

are

Luna

And

Drips

scented

The

ghost

couch

Zella's

sighs

the

and

sky

freshness

like

of

east

and

sinks

she

its mesh

earth

on

in

fleeced

the

west

rest,

makes

of

goddess

Hersa

treads

brightly o'er

genial burden

rise

assembled

the

fair,

of

bounding

of

as

more

depths

the

Zephyr,

The

Which

the

wooes

moon

of

mounts

hair,

sweet

breathes

his

the

glories

Zella's

in

to

are

nightmaiden's

with

love

When

the

dawn

the

the

on

repose

gently

on

the

his

nest.

the

dawn,

the

the

lawn

buoyant

plain,

grain

seems

dreams

from

the

haunts

where

love

has

lain.

BONBONS.

We

And,

like

sunset's

Enriching
Of

She

With

searched

For

the

When

We

And

While

into

though

Love

fresh

threw

certainly

opal

sea,

and

idolatry

melancholy
lightened

glow
bliss

to

woe,

sighs

our

soul

the

and

voice

vigor
off

the

with

of

lute

and

love

love's

that

sin

voluptuous
of

warmness

new-found

each

her

lids

twilight

her

upon

through

charmed

the

passion

the

whiteness

with

with

an

eyes

through

We

And,

of

glances

Flashing

glories

all

answered

has

in

tinctured

that

joys

with

palace

golden

Zella

gentle

the

adored

47

charm,

some

her

must

fire

beauty

and

fainting

with

wild,

loose

ballad

rose

its throes

flowers

smelt

sweeter

as

she

know.

sang.

desire

sin,

we'd

sprang

hang,

BONBONS.

48

Her

voice

Just

as

beneath

the

And

it

And

music

Beneath

is

the

Whereto

And

well

hum

the

the

for

us

of

tongue

our

hymns

fleets

song

lust

is

to

but

all

seems

the

sin

much

too

sweets

small,

lisp

of

warbles

love

of

skies

blue

pale,

lift

we

for

with

tune

warm

Columbia's

below

sea

was

lute's

her

eyes

of

hell

that

haunt

the

heavens

above.

did

pall,

BONBONS.

49

CAPITOLA.

kept

She

Which

with

bloomed

They

For

the

And

down

the

Where

drunk

When

heart

her

fell

to

She

soft

with

the

on

find

could

her

her

sigh

her

their

joys by
tears

that

home

of

timidly
than

thighs.

the

hour

she

shed.

dolor

there

mixed

in

eyes

bed

Death's

kissed

breasts

her

bower

honor

when

not

of

seemed

too

of

reposes,

was

less

was

roses

dews

cream

dear

wandered

pallor

the

Though

And

in

its fairness

And

Or

her

the

was

Death

But

hair

of

laid

they

Her

in the

her

roses

the

roses

in marble

like love, that

And,

For

fed

she

of

couple

young

color

with

by her

the

maddened

dismay

fair

love

her

sweet

was

soul

air.

saddened

away.

5o

IS O

S
.

When

Swept

Like

wind

the

the

gulf

up

she'll

Sweet

the

girdle

balm

calmed

the

the

dark

pinions

of

wake

as

fair

her

of

shades

Night's

But

stream,

motion

pacific

round

fragrantly

current

Folding

with

sad

from

with

music

their

her

heard

roses

form

of

ocean,

storm.

sorrow,

tombs

she

has

drawn

tomorrow

through

sleep

at

dawn.

51

BONBONS.

DIANA.

That

the

nun,

color

her

And

cloister

her

From

shows

She

her

up

The

Her

dusk

As

the

But, like
On

Her

Her

gaudy

too

smile.

her

much

more

of

fair

dames,

between's

as

showy

beauty

Than

The

of

being

cusps

while,

makes

wanness

body

white

all the

calmness

Her

brooks.

musing

And,

looks

surely

mutely

Incest

demurely

moon,

shade

of

shames.

love-lorn

lady

lone, smooth

sea,

hopes
fears

turn

are

always

shady,

all set

free.

snowy

BONBONS.

52

Yet,

she

Her

And

has

smiles

virtue,

Wreathe

beauty,

such

the

love

the

whole

and

legs

world

duty

of

sin.

win

BONBONS.

LUNA.

Lovely
For

wind,

that

the

clouds

With

When

f rothe

And

When

his

And

If

thou

And

with

him

him

thee

show

thee

imaged

will

force

thee

fair

thee

below

soft

thee

know

bestow

sex

grow

upon

find

thee,

assaults.

always

art

his

he

And

his

waves

thou

him

clothe

lightnings

the

hugs

Let

doth

to

the

Although

bethrothe

might

will

thec

false;

are

stript for

wind

The

He

smiles

thy

The

all loathe

moon,

there.

thee

with

o'erflow

throw

intertwine.

thine

thee

thee

BONBONS.

54

And

For,

And

his

have

to

his

he

sex

grow

throw

moon,

his

with

him

Let

wind,

the

Upon

twine

person

force

bestow

soft

thee

o'erflow

thee

with

thine.

thee,

BONBONS.

55

DEATH.

Death,

the

on

Once

met

With

her

Love's

who

Rose
And

her

And

souls

cannibal

Heaven

smile.

in the

our

our

swaying

tresses

vanished

Death,
Undoes

awhile,

dream

Still, thus,

awhile.

sparkle playing

with

smile,

mask

off his

love,

is

pursuing,

phantasy

Threw

hair.

by wooing

won

So, Death,

In

playing

tresses

is not

Love

fair.

sweetheart

my

laying in her

And

My

straying,

ocean

fair

of

pursuing,
air,

undoing

smiles

"

snare.

BONBONS.

56

LULLABY.

In

In

from

That

This,
Sinks

That,

of

when

water

the

darkness

'neath

plucked

vale

mossy

for

pleading
melts

morning
herd

the

for

lily

fond

praying

the

the

dale,

glossy

frail,

This

pond-lily

pale

The

pale
Dreads

The

for

dew;
night,

frosted

the

when

the

in

follows

stars

bruise

for

more;

no

lily
dews

no

drip

flight

pond-lily

frail, fond

Thirsts

light,

the

and,

beauty,

"

more.

through,

BONBONS.

57

EROS.

first

Virtue

pearly

His

The

well

the

pupil

In

his

face

The

repose

in

of

his

doth

Eden

hath

Like

the

pureness

snow.

doth

feel

cherubs

no

lie

eye.

wisdom

which

For

the

show

truth

where

Is

hair.

doth

brow

bathing

Honor

his

lily of

the

From

fair

issues

steal:

part
of

his

heart.

BONBONS.

58

UTOPIA.

the

Beneath

Still

And

Freedom's

Which,
Through
Shines

in

fair

wooing
the

Hope
soft

of

the

tear,

sally

in

from

tyranny

"mpyreally.

right

immortal

ally,

Freedom's

fire, sweet

cheer,

sight

Eden

garbed

hosts

of

valley.

Freedom's

sacred

out

light,

divorcees

sweet

etherial

each

Through

And

the

with

Forever

Armed

ushers

that

brightest harbingers

From

rally

dirges mystically,

Upraising

Joined

Night,

phantoms

orb

every

Sends

banner,

starry

her

of

false

the

tear

sphere,

BONBONS.

Out

Faith's

phalanx,

forth

Pours

wings

Vast

volleys

Against

of

height

planet

dally

Zephyrs

Freedom's

Where

On

Ocean's

that

on

59

floods

from

sprung

of

light,

continually

love

and

flashing

Night's

sincere,

choruses

from

savage

the

pregnant

galley.

tear

BONBONS.

60

HATE.

Whither

the

Through
Whither?

In

the

moves

such

Why

Would

you

murky

crowds?

have

Scowl

the

Never

shall

Scare

heavens

sky

to

of

skull

the

you

have

her

thunderbolt

yon

Through

moon

clouds

of

throng

descends

Would

withered

vile

storm?

revolt

down?

tempest's
better

frown

form.

swoon

BONBONS.

PSYCOSOPHY.

To

clear

That

is to

The

thirst

of

mind

the

all

of

glory and

the

to

there,

life's obscurities

leave

live;

soar

and, liberated

clouds

the

Beyond
To

all sentiment, to

rise above

"

earthly things,
wealth,

of

greed

Love, hope, ambition, pride, despair and

To

the petty selfishness

spurn

Existence

And,

rising

There

which

True

mockery

distant

the

all

ignore

to

From

to

psychic

matter

that

"

is

Where

are

senses

earth

is odious.

sensual

From
However

stroke

refined

faint
of

shocks
their

Set
of

leads

which

any

so

free

every

subtle

silk benumbs

sense,

every

consciousness

self ! to

Oh,

The

dross

happiness.

Surrender

Of

zone,

the

as

spirit is apart

the

makes

which

contentment

storm,

hate,

to

heights

trace

mind

the

link

of

flesh

tyranny.
the

sense

of

touch,

62

BONBONS.

Soft

music

taste, the rose's odor

Dulls
And

hearing, sparkling

muffles

fairness

woman's

drugs

blurs

wine

the scent

sight

the

Rise, self!
From
The

mind

The

senses,

Of

will grieve

noise

Where

shock

Where

harmony

Where

riven

Is that

fantastic

within

obstructed

orders

only

No

exhalation

Of

scent,

Tentative

no

waves

in sound,

mourns

intercourse

is liberty and

crowds

energy

the

of thought.

is wafted

there,
is rest.

limpid

scope

palpable impedes

substance

flight,no

night

the flash of mind

bridge, exchange

beyond

will writhe

more

dismal

the

makes

vigor tires not,

Where

no

by chaotic

of matter

free

yearnings

more,

no

tortured

glare and

Afar

futile

From

vanity.

pabulum
and

No

sound

No

shape is outlined

and

Rise, self! above

the

no

no

offends,
discord
shadow

gnawing

heard,
formed.

joys of earth.

63

BONBONS.

die and

Sensations

folly of

Leave
Art

is

Of

him

Of

him

who

Of

him

below

the

seen;

He

all those

Beyond

the

So

the

high

folly of
world

Traversing

effortless

Enchanting

touch

And
Finds

soars

not

in

or

the

in the

Rise

worldlings.
be

at

seen

or

flight,

psychic

space,

intangible

vapidity exalting scent,

silence

supreme

Rise, oh, self !

insipiditysatiety,

Unbroken

gaze

them,

to

him.

can

will

Poised

steadfast

higher

such

the

follow!

joy

below

slave

chastity.

his

since

breaks

sullies

spiritstationary

Where

makes

and

invisible

when,

conceit.

dream.

in the

poet

is

Love

worldlings

revels

Ecstatic

sees

is

love

trifles

those
be

spirit dead.

it; power

wooes

statesman

Is to

world

intellect

it crowns;

What
The

the

fancy, science

weakens

Fame

the

leave

perfect harmony,

see

"

aloft,

BONBONS.

64

Pure

beauty

chastity

And

the

Isolated

loftiness

Eternal

light

voluptuosity

Interminable.

By

uninterrupted

of

happiness

thought,

and

thus

the

death

mind

defy.

shall

reach

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