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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'<br>And so we may arrive by Talmud skill <br>And profane Greek to raise the building up <br>Of Helen's house against the Ismaelite, <br>King of Thogarma, and his habergeons <br>Brimstony, blue and fiery; and the force <br>Of King A baddon, and the beast of Cittim; <br>Which Rabbi David Kimchi, Onkelos, <br>And A ben Ezra do interpret Rome.<br>' <br>-THE ALCHEMIST. <br>I </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The mind has shown itself at times <br>Too much the baked and labeled dough <br>Divided by accepted multitudes. <br>Across the stacked partitions of the day- <br>Across the memoranda, baseball scores, <br>The stenographic smiles and stock quotations <br>Smutty wings flash out equivocations. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The mind is brushed by sparrow wings; <br>Numbers, rebuffed by asphalt, crowd <br>The margins of the day, accent the curbs, <br>Convoying divers dawns on every' corner <br>To druggist, barber and tobacconist, <br>Until the graduate opacities of evening <br>Take them away as suddenly to somewhere <br>Virginal perhaps, less fragmentary, cool.<br>There is the world dimensional for <br>those untwisted by the love of things <br>irreconcilable… <br>And yet, suppose some evening I forgot <br>The fare and transfer, yet got by that way <br>Without recall,-lost yet poised in traffic. <br>Then I might find your eyes across an aisle, <br>Still flickering with those prefigurations- <br>Prodigal, yet uncontested now, <br>Half-riant before the jerky window frame. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There is some way, I think, to touch <br>Those hands of yours that count the nights <br>Stippled with pink and green advertisements. <br>And now, before its arteries turn dark <br>I would have you meet this bartered blood. <br>Imminent in his dream, none better knows <br>The white wafer cheek of love, or offers words <br>Lightly as moonlight on the eaves meets snow. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Reflective conversion of all things <br>At your deep blush, when ecstasies thread <br>The limbs and belly, when rainbows spread <br>Impinging on the throat and sides <br>Inevitable, the body of the world <br>Weeps in inventive dust for the hiatus <br>That winks above it', bluet in your breasts. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The earth may glide diaphanous to death; <br>But if I lift my arms it is to bend <br>To you who turned away once, Helen, knowing <br>The press of troubled hands, too alternate <br>With steel and soil to hold you endlessly. <br>I meet you, therefore, in that eventual flame <br>You found in final chains, no captive then <br>Beyond their million brittle, bloodshot eyes; <br>White, through white cities passed on to assume <br>That world which comes to each of us alone. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Accept a lone eye riveted to your plane, <br>Bent axle of devotion along companion ways <br>That beat, continuous, to hourless days- <br>0ne inconspicuous, glowing orb of praise. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">II </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Brazen hypnotics glitter here; <br>Glee shifts from foot to foot, <br>Magnetic to their tremulo. <br>This crashing opera bouffe, <br>Blest excursion! this ricochet <br>From roof to roof- <br>Know, Olympians, we are breathless <br>While nigger cupids scour the stars! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A thousand light shrugs balance us <br>Through snarling hails of melody. <br>White shadows slip across the floor <br>Splayed like cards from a loose hand; <br>Rhythmic ellipses lead into canters <br>Until somewhere a rooster banters. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Greet naively-yet intrepidly <br>New soothings, new amazements <br>That cornets introduce at every turn- <br>And you may fall downstairs with me <br>With perfect grace and equanimity. <br>Or, plaintively scud past shores <br>Where, by strange harmonic laws <br>All relatives, serene and cool, <br>Sit rocked in patent armchairs. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">0, I have known metallic paradises <br>Where cuckoos clucked to finches <br>Above the deft catastrophes of drums. <br>While titters hailed the groans of death <br>Beneath gyrating awnings I have seen </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The incunabula of the divine grotesque. <br>This music has a reassuring way, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The siren of the ' springs of guilty song- <br>Let us take her on the incandescent wax <br>Striated with nuances nervosities <br>That we are heir to: she is still so young, <br>She cannot frown upon her as she smiles, <br>Dipping here in this cultivated storm <br>Among slim skaters of the gardened skies. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>III </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Capped arbiter of beauty in this street <br>That narrows -darkly into motor dawn, <br>You, here beside m/e, delicate ambassador <br>Of intricate slain numbers that arise <br>In whispers, naked of steel; <br>religious gunman! <br>Who faithfully, yourself, will fall too soon, <br>And in other ways than as the wind settles <br>On the sixteen thrifty bridges of the city: <br>Let us unbind our throats of fear and pity. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We even, <br>Who drove speediest destruction <br>In corymbulous formations of mechanics,- <br>Who hurried the hill breezes, spouting malice <br>Plangent over meadows, and looked down <br>On rifts of torn and empty houses <br>Like old women with teeth unjubilant <br>That waited faintly, briefly and in vain: </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We know, eternal gunman, our flesh remembers <br>The tensile boughs, the nimble blue plateaus, <br>The mounted, yielding cities of the air! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">That saddled sky that shook down vertical <br>Repeated play of fire-no hypogeum <br>Of wave or rock was good against one hour. <br>We did not ask for that, but have survived, <br>And will persist to speak again before <br>All stubble streets that have not curved <br>To memory, or known the ominous lifted arm </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">That lowers down the arc of Helen's brow <br>To saturate with blessing and dismay. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A goose, tobacco and cologne- <br>Three winged and gold-shod prophecies of heaven, <br>The lavish heart shall always have to leaven <br>And spread with bells and voices, and atone <br>The abating shadows of our conscript dust. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Anchises' navel, dripping of the sea,- <br>The hands Erasmus dipped in gleaming tides, <br>Gathered the voltage of blown blood and vine; <br>Delve upward for the new and scattered wine, <br>0 brother-thief of time, that we recall. <br>Laugh out the meager penance of their days <br>Who dare not share with us the breath released, <br>The substance drilled and spent beyond repair <br>For golden, or the shadow of gold hair. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=402910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Distinctly praise the years, whose volatile <br>Blamed bleeding hands extend and thresh the height <br>The imagination spans beyond despair, <br>Outpacing bargain, vocable and prayer.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Harold+Hart+Crane">Harold Hart Crane</a></strong></div>