■ ■aJI UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES THE HEPTALOGIA LONDON : PRINTED BY r TISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET Specimens of Modern Poets THE HEPTALOGIA OR THE SEVEN AGAINST SENSE A CAP WITH SEVEN BELLS I. THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL II. JOHN JONES III. THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE IV. THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE (idyl ccclxvi) V. LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET VI. SONNET FOR A PICTURE VII. NEPHELIDIA ITonbou CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1880 [ The right 0/ translation is reserved \ > ' • . ' ' ..... . .. ^ $50 t ( • • • # * • • THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL. One, who is not, we see : but one, whom we see not, is : Surely this is not that : but that is assuredly this. What, and wherefore, and whence ? for under is over and under : If thunder could be without lightning, lightning could be without thunder. Doubt is faith in the main : but faith, on the whole, is doubt : We cannot believe by proof : but could we believe with- out ? £ 2 4 THE HIGHER PANTHEISM Why, and whither, and how ? for barley and rye are not clover : Neither are straight lines curves : yet over is under and over. Two and two may be four : but four and four are not eight : Fate and God may be twain : but God is the same thing as fate. Ask a man what he thinks, and get from a man what he feels : God, once caught in the fact, shews you a fair pair of heels. Body and spirit are twins : God only knows which is which : The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a ditch. IN A NUTSHELL. 5 One and two are not one : but one and nothing is two : Truth can hardly be false, if falsehood cannot be true. Once the mastodon was : pterodactyls were common as cocks : Then the mammoth was God : now is He a prize ox. Parallels all things are : yet many of these are askew : You are certainly I : but certainly I am not you. Springs the rock from the plain, shoots the stream from the rock i Cocks exist for the hen : but hens exist for the cock. God, whom we see not, is : and God, who is not, we see : Fiddle, we know, is diddle : and diddle, we take it, is dee. JOHN JONES JOHN JONES. I. AT THE PIANO. Love me and leave me ; what love bids retrieve me ? can June's fist grasp May? Leave me and love me ; hopes eyed once above me like spring's sprouts, decay ; Fall as the snow falls, when summer leaves grow false — cards packed for storm's play ! io JOHN JONES. ii. Nay, say Decay's self be but last May's elf, wing shifted, eye sheathed — Changeling in April's crib rocked, who lets 'scape rills locked fast since frost breathed — Skin cast (think !) adder-like, now bloom bursts bladder- like, — bloom frost bequeathed ? in. Ah, how can fear sit and hear as love hears it griefs heart's cracked grate's screech ? Chance lets the gate sway that opens on hate's way and shews on shame's beach Crouched like an imp sly change watch sweet love's shrimps lie, a toothful in each. JOHN JONES. 1 1 IV. Time feels his tooth slip on husks wet from Truth's lip, which drops them and grins — Shells where no throb stirs of life left in lobsters since joy thrilled their fins — Hues of the prawn's tail or comb that makes dawn stale, l so red for our sins ! v. Years blind and deaf use the soul's joys as refuse, heart's peace as manure, Reared whence, next June's rose shall bloom where our moons rose last year, just as pure : Moons' ends match roses' ends: men by beasts' noses' ends mete sin's stink's cure. 1 ' Whose youth and freshness Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the morning.' — SllAKESTEARE. 1 2 JOHN JONES. VI. Leaves love last year smelt now feel dead love's tears melt — flies caught in time's mesh ! Salt are the dews in which new time breeds new sin, brews blood and stews flesh ; Next year may see dead more germs than this weeded and reared them afresh. VII. Old times left perish, there's new time to cherish ; life just shifts its tune ; As, when the day dies, earth, half afraid, eyes the growth of the moon ; Love me and save me, take me or waive me ; death takes one so soon ! JOHN JONES. 13 II. BY THE CLIFF. Is it daytime (guess), You that feed my soul To excess With that light in those eyes And those curls drawn like a scroll In that round grave guise ? No or yes ? i 4 JOHN JONES. ii. Oh, the end, I'd say ! Such a foolish thing (Pure girls' play !) As a mere mute heart, Was it worth a kiss, a ring, This ? for two must part — Not to-day. in. Look, the whole sand crawls, Hums, a heaving hive, Scrapes and scrawls — Such a buzz and burst ! Here just one thing's not alive, One that was at first — But life palls. JOHN JONES. 15 IV. Yes, my heart, I know, Just my heart's stone dead — Yes, just so. Sick with heat, those worms Drop down scorched and overfed — No more need of germs ! Let them go. Yes, but you now, look, You, the rouged stage female With a crook, Chalked Arcadian sham, You that made my soul's sleep's dream ail- Your soul fit to damn ? Shut the book. 1 6 JOHN JONES. III. ON THE SANDS. There was nothing at all in the case (conceive) But love ; being love, it was not (understand) Such a thing as the years let fall (believe) Like the rope's coil dropt from a fisherman's hand When the boat's hauled up — ' by your leave ! ' ii. So — well ! How that crab writhes — leg after leg Drawn, as a worm draws ring upon ring JOHN JONES. 1 7 Gradually, not gladly ! Nay, but, Meg, Is it more than the ransom (say) of a king (Take my meaning at least) that I beg ? in. Not so ! You were ready to learn, I think, What the world said ! ' He loves you too well (suppose) For such leanings ! These poets, their love's mere ink — Like a flower, their flame flashes — a rosebud, blows — Then it all drops down at a wink ! IV. ' Ah, the instance ! A curl of a blossomless vine The vinedresser passing it sickens to see And mutters " Much hope (under God) of His wine 1 8 JOHN JONES. From the branch and the bark of a barren tree Spring reared not, and winter lets pine — ' " His wine that should glorify (saith He) the cup That a man beholding (not tasting) might say ' Pour out life at a draught, drain it dry, drink it up, Give this one thing, and huddle the rest away — Save the bitch, and who cares for the pup ? ' VI. ' " Let it rot then ! " which saying, he leaves it — we'll guess, Feels (if the sap move at all) thus much — Yearns, and would blossom, would quicken no less, Bud at an eye's glance, flower at a touch — " Die, perhaps, would you not, for her? — "Yes JOHN JONES. 19 VII. ' Note the hitch there ! That's piteous — so much being done, (He'll think some day, your lover) so little to do ! Such infinite days to wear out, once begun ! Since the hand its glove holds, and the footsole its shoe- Overhead too there's always the sun ! ' VIII. Oh, no doubt they had said so, your friends — been profuse Of good counsel, wise hints — 'where the trap lurks, walk warily — Squeeze the fruit to the core ere you count on the juice ! For the graft may fail, shift, wax, change colour, wane, vary, lie — ' You were cautious, God knows — to what use ? c 2 20 JOHN JONES IX. This crab's wiser, it strikes me — no twist but implies life — Not a curl but's so fit you could find none fitter — For the brute from its brutehood looks up thus and eyes life- Stoop your soul down and listen, you'll hear it twitter, Laughing lightly, — my crab's life's the wise life ! x. Ah, now, look you — tail foremost, the beast sets sea- ward — The sea draws it, sand sucks it — he's wise, my crab ! From the napkin out jumps his one talent — good steward, Just judge ! So a man shirks the smile or the stab, And sets his sail duly to leeward ! JOHN JONES. 21 XL Trust me ? Hardly ! I bid you not lean (remark) On my spirit, your spirit — my flesh, your flesh — Hold my hand, and tread safe through the horrible dark — Quench my soul as with sprinklings of snow, then refresh With some blast of new bellows the spark ! XII. By no means ! This were easy (men tell me) to say — ' Give her all, throw your chance up, fall back on her heart ! ' (Say my friends) ' she must change ! after night follows day—' No such fool ! I am safe set in hell, for my part — So let heaven do the worst now he may ! JOHN JONES. XIII. What they bid me? Well, this, nothing more— ' Tell her this — " You are mine, I yours, though the whole world fail — Though things are not, I know there is one thing which is — Though the oars break, there's hope for us yet— hoist the sail ! Oh, your heart \ what's the heart ? but your kiss ! " XIV. 'Then she breaks, she drops down, she lies flat at your feet — Take her then ! ' Well, I knew it — what fools are men ! Take the bee by her horns, will your honey prove sweet ? Sweet is grass — will you pasture your cows in a fen ? Oh, if contraries could but once meet ! JOHN JONES. 23 xv. Love you call it ? Some twitch in the moon's lace (observe) Wet blink of her eyelid, tear dropt about dewfall, Cheek flushed or obscured — does it make the sky swerve ? Fetch the test, work the question to rags, bring to proof all — Find what souls want and bodies deserve ! XVI. Ah, we know you ! Your soul works to infinite ends, Frets, uses life up for death's sake, takes pains, Flings down love's self — ' but you, bear me witness, my friends ! Have I lost spring ? count up (see) the winter's fresh gains ! Is the shrub spoilt ? the pine's hair impends ! ' 2 4 JOHN JONES. XVII. What, you'd say — ' Mark how God works ! Years crowd, time wears thin, Earth keeps good yet, the sun goes on, stars hold their own, And you'll change, climb past sight of the world, shift your skin, Never heeding how life moans — "more flesh now, less bone ! " For that cheek's worn waste outline (death's grin) XVIII. Pleads with time still — " what good if I lose this ? but see—'" (There's the crab gone !) '"I said, ' Though earth sinks,"" (you perceive? JOHN JONES. 25 Ah, true, back there !) your soul now — ' " ' yet some vein might be (Could one find it alive in the heart's core's pulse, cleave Through the life-springs where ' you ' melts in ' me ) — XIX. c " ' Some true vein of the absolute soul, which sur- vives All that flesh runs to waste through ' — and lo, this fails ! Here's death close on us ! One life ? a million of lives ! Why choose one sail to watch of these infinite sails ? Time's a tennis-play ? thank you, no, fives ! 26 JOHN JONES. xx. ' " Stop life's ball then ! " Such folly ! melt earth down for that, Till the pure ore eludes you -and leaves you raw scoria? ? Pish, the vein's wrong ! ' But you, friends — come, what were you at When God spat you out suddenly? what was the story He Cut short thus, the growth He laid flat ? XXI. Wait ! the crab's twice alive, mark ! Oh, worthy, your soul, Of strange ends, great results, novel labours ! Take note, JOHN JONES. 27 I reject this for one ! (ay, now, straight to the hole ! Safe in sand there — your skirts smooth out all as they float !) I, shirk drinking through flaws in the bowl ? XXII. Or suppose now that rock's cleft — grim, scored to the quick, As a man's face kept fighting all life through gets scored, Mossed and marked with grey purulent leprosies, sick, Flat and foul as man's life here (be swift with your sword — Cut the soul out, stuck fast where thorns prick !) 2S JOHN JONES. XXIII. — Say it let the rock's heart out, its meaning, the thing All was made for, devised, ruled out gradually, planned — Ah, that sea-shell, perhaps — since it lies, such a ring Of pure colour, a cup full of sunbeams, to stand (Say, in Lent) at the priest's hand — (no king !) XXIV. Blame the cleft then? Praise rather! So — just a chance gone ! Had you said — ' Save the seed and secure souls in flower ' — Ah, how time laughs, years palpitate, pro grapples con, Till one day you shrug shoulders — ' Well, gone, the good hour ! Till one night — ' Is God off now ? or on ? JOHN JONES. 29 IV. UP THE SPOUT. Hi ! Just you drop that ! Stop, I say ! Shirk work, think slink off, twist friend's wrist ? Where that spined sand's lined band's the bay — Lined blind with true sea's blue, as due — Promising — not to pay ? 11. For the sea's debt leaves wet the sand ; Burst worst fate's weights in one burst gun ? 3 o JOHN JONES. A man's own yacht, blown — What ? off land ? Tack back, or veer round here, then — queer ! Reef points, though — understand ? in. I'm blest if I do. Sigh ? be blowed ! Love's doves make break life's ropes, eh ? Tropes ! Faith's brig, baulked, sides caulked, rides at road ; Hope's gropes befogged, storm-dogged and bogged — Clogged, water-logged, her load ! IV. Stowed, by Jove, right and tight, away ! No show now how best plough sea's brow, Wrinkling — breeze quick, tease thick, ere day, JOHN JONES. 31 Clear sheer wave's sheen of green, I mean, With twinkling wrinkles — eh ? Sea sprinkles winkles, tinkles light Shells' bells — boy's joys that hap to snap ! It's just sea's fun, breeze done, to spite God's rods that scourge her surge, I'd urge — Not proper, is it — quite ? VI. See, fore and aft, life's craft undone ! Crank plank, split spritsail — mark, sea's lark ! That grey cold sea's old sprees, begun When men lay dark i' the ark, no spark, All water — just God's fun ! 32 JOHN JONES. VII. Not bright, at best, his jest to these Seemed — screamed, shrieked, wreaked on kin for sin ! When for mirth's yell earth's knell seemed please Some dumb new grim great whim in him Made Jews take chalk for cheese. VIII. Could God's rods bruise God's Jews ? Their jowls Bobbed, sobbed, gaped, aped the plaice in face : None heard, 'tis odds, his — God's — folk's howls. Now, how must I apply, to try This hookiest-beaked of owls ? IX. Well, I suppose God knows — I don't. Time's crimes mark dark men's types, in stripes JOHN JONES. 33 Broad as fen's lands men's hands were wont Leave grieve unploughed, though proud and loud With birds' words — No ! he won't ! x. One never should think good impossible. Eh ? say I'd hide this Jew's oil's cruse — His shop might hold bright gold, engrossible By spy — spring's air takes there no care To wave the heath-flower's glossy bell ! XI. But gold bells chime in time there, coined — Gold ! Old Sphinx winks there — ' Read my screed ! ' Doctrine Jews learn, use, burn for, joined (Through new craft's stealth) with health and wealth— At once all three purloined ! 34 JOHN JONES. XII. I rose with dawn, to pawn, no doubt, (Miss this chance, glance untried aside ?) John's shirt, my — no ! Ay, so — the lout ! Let yet the door gape, store on floor And not a soul about ? XIII. Such men lay traps, perhaps — and I'm Weak — meek — mild — child of woe, you know ! But theft, I doubt, my lout calls crime. Shrink ? Think ! Love's dawn in pawn — you spawn Of Jewry ! Just in time ! JOHN JONES. 35 V. O FF THE PIER. I. One last glance at these sands and stones ! Time goes past men, and lives to his liking, Steals, and ruins, and sometimes atones. Why should he be king, though, and why not I king ? There now, that wind, like a swarm of sick drones ! ii. Is it heaven or mere earth (come !) that moves so and moans ? Oh, I knew, when you loved me, my soul was in flowerage — D 2 36 JOHN JONES. Now the frost comes ; from prime, though, I watched through to nones, Read love's litanies over — his age was not our age! No more flutes in this world for me now, dear ! trombones. in. All that youth once denied and made mouths at, ag owns. Facts put fangs out and bite us ; life stings and grows viperous ; And time's fugues are a hubbub of meaningless tones. Once we followed the piper ; now why not the piper us? Love, grown grey, plays mere solos ; we want anti- phones. JOHN JONES. 37 IV. And we sharpen our wits up with passions for hones, Melt down loadstars for magnets, use women for whetstones, Learn to bear with dead calms by remembering cyclones, Snap strings short with sharp thumbnails, till silence begets tones, Burn our souls out, shift spirits, turn skins and change zones ; v. Then the heart, when all's done with, wakes, whimpers, intones Some lost fragment of tune it thought sweet ere it grew sick ; (Is it life that disclaims this, or death that disowns ?) 383842 38 JOHN JONES. Mere dead metal, scrawled bars — ah, one touch, you make music ! Love's worth saving, youth doubts, but experience depones. VI. Think, what use, when youth's saddle galls bay's back or roan's, To seek chords on love's keys to strike, other than his chords ? There's an error joy winks at and grief half condones, Or life's counterpoint grates the C major of discords — 'Tis man's choice 'twixt sluts rose-crowned and queens age dethrones. VII. I for instance might groan as a bag-pipe groans, Give the flesh of my heart for sharp sorrows to flagellate, JOHN JONES. 39 Grief might grind my cheeks down, age make sticks of my bonef, (Though a queen drowned in tears must be worth more than Madge elate) ' Rose might turn burdock, and pine-apples cones ; VIII. My skin might change to a pitiful crone's, My lips to a lizard's, my hair to weed, My features, in fact, to a series of loans ; Thus much is conceded ; now, you, concede You would hardly salute me by choice, John Jones ? 1 First edition : — And my face bear his brand— mine, that once bore Love's badge elate ! THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE. Said a poet to a woodlouse — 'Thou art certainly my brother ; I discern in thee the markings of the fingers of the Whole ; And I recognize, in spite of all the terrene smut and smother, In the colours shaded off thee, the suggestions of a soul. 44 THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE. 'Yea,' the poet said, 'I smell thee by some passive divination, I am satisfied with insight of the measure of thine house ; What had happened I conjecture, in a blank and rhythmic passion, Had the sons thought of making thee a man, and me a louse. ' The broad lives of upper planets, their absorption and digestion, Food and famine, health and sickness, I can scrutinize and test ; Through a shiver of the senses comes a resonance of question, And by proof of balanced answer I decide that I am best. THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE. 45 ' Man, the fleshly marvel, alway feels a certain kind of awe stick To the skirts of contemplation, cramped with nympho- leptic weight : Feels his faint sense charred and branded by the touch of solar caustic, On the forehead of his spirit feels the footprint of a Fate.' ' Notwithstanding which, O poet,' spake the woodlouse, very blandly, 'I am likewise the created, — I the equipoise of thee ; I the particle, the atom, I behold on either hand lie The inane of measured ages that were embryos of me. 46 THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE. 'I am fed with intimations, I am clothed with conse- quences, And the air I breathe is coloured with apocalyptic blush : Ripest-budded odours blossom out of dim chaotic stenches, And the Soul plants spirit-lilies in sick leagues of human slush. ' I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings, Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee : And earth's soul yawns disembowelled of her pancreatic organs, Like a madrepore if mesmerized, in rapt catalepsy. THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE. 47 ' And I sacrifice, a Levite — and I palpitate, a poet ; — Can I close dead ears against the rush and resonance of things ? Symbols in me breathe and flicker up the heights of the heroic ; Earth's worst spawn, you said, and cursed me ? look ! approve me ! I have wings, 1 Ah, men's poets ! men's conventions crust you round and swathe you mist-like, And the world's wheels grind your spirits down the dust ye overtrod : We stand sinlessly stark-naked in effulgence of the Christlight, And our polecat chokes not cherubs ; and our skunk smells sweet to God. 4 8 THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE. ' For He grasps the pale Created by some thousand vital handles, Till a Godshine, bluely winnowed through the sieve of thunderstorms, Shimmers up the non-existent round the churning feet of angels ; And the atoms of that glory may be seraphs, being worms. ' Friends, your nature underlies us and your pulses overplay us ; Ye, with social sores unbandaged, can ye sing right and steer wrong ? For the transient cosmic, rooted in imperishable chaos, Must be kneaded into drastics as material for a song. THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE. 49 ' Eyes once purged from homebred vapours through humanitarian passion See that monochrome a despot through a democratic prism ; Hands that rip the soul up, reeking from divine eviscera- tion, Not with priestlike oil anoint him, but a stronger- smelling chrism 'Pass, O poet, retransfigured ! God, the psychometric rhapsode, Fills with fiery rhythms the silence, stings the dark with stars that blink ; All eternities hang round him like an old man's clothes collapsed, While he makes his mundane music — and he will NOT STOP, I THINK.' THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE E 2 THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. IDYL CCCLXVI. THE ACCOMPANIMENTS. i. The Monthly Nurse. 2. The Caudle. 3. The [Sentences. THE KID. 1. THE MONTHLY NURSE. The sickly airs had died of damp : Through huddling leaves the holy chime Flagged ; I, expecting Mrs. Gamp, Thought — ' Will the woman come in time ? ' 54 THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. Upstairs I knew the matron bed Held her whose name confirms all joy To me ; and tremblingly I said ' Ah ! will it be a girl or boy ? ' And, soothed, my fluttering doubts began To sift the pleasantness of things ; Developing the unshapen man, An eagle baffled of his wings ; Considering, next, how fair the state And large the license that sublimes A nineteenth-century female fate — Sweet cause that thralls my liberal rhymes ! And Chastities and colder Shames, Decorums mute and marvellous, And fair Behaviour that reclaims All fancies grown erroneous, Moved round me musing, till my choice THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. 55 Faltered. A female in a wig Stood by me, and a drouthy voice Announced her — Mrs. Betsy Prig. 2. THE CAUDLE. Sweet Love that sways the reeling years, The crown and chief of certitudes, For whose calm eyes and modest ears Time writes the rule and text of prudes — That, surpliced, stoops a nuptial head Nor chooses to live blindly free, But, with all pulses quieted, Plays tunes of domesticity — That Love I sing of and have sung And mean to sing till Death yawn sheer, He rules the music of my tongue, Stills it or quickens there or here. THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. I say but this : as we went up I heard the Monthly give a sniff And ' if the big dog makes the pup — ' She murmured — then repeated ' if ! ' The caudle on a slab was placed ; She snuffed it, snorting loud and long ; I fled — I would not stop to taste — And dreamed all night of things gone wrong. 3. THE SENTENCES. Abortive Love is half a sin , But Love's abortions dearer far Than wheels without an axle-pin Or life without a married star. THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. 57 11. My rules are hard to understand For him whom sensual rules depress ; A bandbox in a midwife's hand May hold a costlier bridal dress. in. ' I like her not ; in fact I loathe ; Bugs hath she brought from London beds.' Friend ! wouldst thou rather bear their growth Or have a baby with two heads ? 53 THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. IDYL CCCLXVI. THE KID. My spirit, in the doorway's pause, Fluttered with fancies in my breast ; Obsequious to all decent laws, I felt exceedingly distressed. I knew it rude to enter there With Mrs. V. in such a state ; And, 'neath a magisterial air, Felt actually indelicate. I knew the nurse began to grin ; I turned to greet my Love. Said she — ' Confound your modesty, come in ! — What shall we call the darling, V. ? ' THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. 59 (There are so many charming names ! Girls'— Peg, Moll, Doll, Fan, Kate, Blanche, Bab : Boys' — Mahershahal-hashbaz, James, Kit, Nick, Dick, Mark, Aminadab.) Lo, as the acorn to the oak, As well-heads to the river's height, As to the chicken the moist yolk, As to high noon the day's first white — Such is the baby to the man. There, straddling one red arm and leg, Lay my last work, in length a span, Half hatched, and conscious of the egg. A creditable child, I hoped ; And half a score of joys to be Through sunny lengths of prospect sloped Smooth to the bland futurity. 60 THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. O, fate surpassing other dooms, O, hope above all wrecks of time ! O, light that fills all vanquished glooms, O, silent song o'ermastering rhyme ! I covered either little foot, I drew the strings about its waist ; Pink as the unshell'd inner fruit, But barely decent, hardly chaste, Its nudity had startled me ; But when the petticoats were on, ' I know,' I said ; 'its name shall be Paul Cyril Athanasius John.' ' Why,' said my wife, the child's a girl.' My brain swooned, sick with failing sense ; With all perception in a whirl, How could I tell the difference ? ' Nay,' smiled the nurse, ' the child's a boy. And all my soul was soothed to hear THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE. 61 That so it was : then startled Joy Mocked Sorrow with a doubtful tear. And I was glad as one who sees For sensual optics things unmeet : As purity makes passion freeze, So faith warns science off her beat. Blessed are they that have not seen, And yet, not seeing, have believed : To walk by faith, as preached the Dean, And not by sight, have I achieved. Let love, that does not look, believe ; Let knowledge, that believes not, look : Truth pins her trust on falsehood's sleeve, While reason blunders by the book. Then Mrs. Prig addressed me thus ; ' Sir, if you'll be advised by me, You'll leave the blessed babe to us ; It's my belief he wants his tea.' LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET Bill, I feel far from quite right — if not further : already the pill Seems, if I may say so, to bubble inside me. A poet's heart, Bill, Is a sort of a thing that is made of the tenderest young bloom on a fruit. You may pass me the mixture at once, if you please— and I'll thank you to boot 66 LAST WORDS For that poem — and then for the julep. This really is damnable stuff ! (Not the poem, of course.) Do you snivel, old friend ? well, it's nasty enough, But I think I can stand it — I think so — ay, Bill, and I could were it worse. But I'll tell you a thing that I can't and I won't. Tis the old, old curse — The gall of the gold-fruited Eden, the lure of the angels that fell. 'Tis the core of the fruit snake-spotted in the hush of the shadows of hell, Where a lost man sits with his head drawn down, and a weight on his eyes. You know what I mean, Bill — the tender and delicate mother of lies, OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET. 67 Woman, the devil's first cousin — no doubt by the female side. The breath of her mouth still moves in my hair, and I know that she lied, And I feel her, Bill, sir, inside me — she operates there like a drug. Were it better to live like a beetle, to wear the cast clothes of a slug, Be the louse in the locks of the hangman, the mote in the eye of the bat, Than to live and believe in a woman, who must one day grow aged and fat ? You must see it's preposterous, Bill, sir. And yet, how the thought of it clings ! I have lived out my time — I have prigged lots of verse — I have kissed (ah, that stings !) f 2 63 LAST WORDS Lips that swore I had cribbed every line that I wrote on them — cribbed — honour bright ! Then I loathed her ; but now I forgive her ; perhaps after all she was right. Yet I swear it was shameful — unwomanly, Bill, sir— to say that I fibbed. Why, the poems were mine, for I bought them in print. Cribbed ? of course they were cribbed. Yet I wouldn't say, cribbed from the French — Lady Bathsheba thought it was vulgar — But picked up on the banks of the Don, from the lips of a highly intelligent Bulgar. I'm aware, Bill, that's out of all metre — I can't help it — I'm none of your sort Who set metres, by Jove, above morals — not exactly. They don't go to Court — OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET. 69 As I mentioned one night to that cowslip-faced pet, Lady Rahab Redrabbit (Whom the Marquis calls Drabby for short). Well, I say, if you want a thing, grab it — That's what I did, at least, when I took that danseuse to a swell cabaret, Where expense was no consideration. A poet, you see, now and then must be gay. (I declined to give more, I remember, than fifty centeems to the waiter ; For I asked him if that was enough ; and the jackanapes answered — Peut-etre. Ah, it isn't in you to draw up a menu such as ours was, though humble : When I told Lady Shoreditch, she thought it a regular grand tout ensemble.) 7o LAST WORDS She danced the heart out of my body — I can sec in the glare of the lights, I can see her again as I saw her that evening, in spangles and tights. When I spoke to her first, her eye flashed so, I heard — as I fancied — the spark whiz From her eyelid — I said so next day to that jealous old fool of a Marquis. She reminded me, Bill, of a lovely volcano, whose entrails are ava — Or (you know my penchant for original types) of the upas in Java. In the curve of her sensitive nose was a singular species of dimple, Where the flush was the mark of an angel's creased kiss — if it wasn't a pimple. OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET. 71 Now I'm none of your bashful John Bulls who don't know a pilau from a puggaree Nor a chili, by George, from a chopstick. So, sir, I marched into her snuggery, And proposed a light supper by way of a finish. I treated her, Bill, To six entrees of ortolans, sprats, maraschino, and oysters. It made her quite ill. Of which moment of sickness I took some advantage. I held her like this, And availed myself, sir, of her sneezing, to shut up her lips with a kiss. The waiters, I saw, were quite struck ; and I felt, I may say, entre nous Like Don Juan, Lauzun, Almaviva, Lord Byron, and old Richelieu. 72 LAST WORDS (You'll observe, Bill, that rhyme's quite Parisian ; a Londoner, sir, would have cited old Q.) These are moments that thrill the whole spirit with spasms that excite and exalt. I stood more than the peer of the great Casanova — you know — de Seingalt. She was worth, sir, I say it without hesitation, two brace of her sisters. Ah, why should all honey turn rhubarb — all cherries grow onions — all kisses leave blisters ? Oh, and why should I ask myself questions ? I've heard such before — once or twice. Ah, I can't understand it — but, O, I imagine it strikes me as nice. There's a deity shapes us our ends, sir, rough-hew them, my boy, how we will — OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET. 73 As I stated myself in a poem I published last year, you know, Bill — Where I mentioned that that was the question — to be, or, by Jove, not to be. Ah, it's something — you'll think so hereafter — to wait on a poet like me. Had I written no more than those verses on that Countess I used to call Pussy — Yes, Minette or Manon — and — you'll hardly believe it — she said they were all out of Musset. Now I don't say they weren't— but what then? and I don't say they were — 111 bet pounds against pennies on The subject — I wish I may never die Laureate, if some of them weren't out of Tennyson. And I think — I don't like to be certain, with Death, so to speak, by me, frowning — 74 LAST WORDS But I think there were some — say a dozen, perhaps, or a score — out of Browning. As for poets who go on a contrary tack to what I go and you go — You remember my lyrics translated — like 'sweet bully Bottom ' — from Hugo ? Though I will say it's curious that simply on just that account there should be Men so bold as to say that not one of my poems was written by me. It would stir the political bile or the physical spleen of a drab or a Tory To hear critics assign to his hand the Confessional, Bill, and the Laboratory. Yes, it's singular — nay, I can't think of a parallel (ain't it a high lark ? OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET 75 As that Countess would say) — there are few men believe it was I wrote the Ode to a Skylark. And it often has given myself and Lord Albert no end of diversion To hear fellows maintain to my face it was Wordsworth who wrote the Excursion. When they know that whole reams of the verses recur in my authorized works Here and there, up and down ! Why, such readers are infidels — heretics — Turks. And the pitiful critics who think in their paltry presump- tion to pay me a Pretty compliment, pairing me off, sir, with Keats — as if he could write Lamia ! While I never produced a more characteristic and exquisite book, 76 LAST WORDS One that gave me more real satisfaction, than did, on the whole, Lalla Rookh. Was it there that I called on all debtors, being pestered myself by a creditor, (he Isn't paid yet) to rise, by the proud appellation of bonds- men — hereditary ? Yes — I think so. And yet, on my word, I can't think why I think it was so. It more probably was in the poem I made a few seasons ago On that Duchess — her name now ? ah, thus one outlives a whole cycle of joys ! Fair supplants black as brown succeeds golden. The poem made rather a noise. And indeed I have seen worse verses ; but as for the woman, my friend — OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET. 77 Though his neck had been never so stiff, she'd have made a philosopher bend. As the broken heart of a sunset that bleeds pure purple and gold In the shudder and swoon of the sickness of colour, the agonies old That engirdle the brows of the day when he sinks with a spasm into rest And the splash of his kingly blood is dashed on the skirts of the west, Even such was my own, when I felt how much sharper than any snake's tooth Was the passion that made me mistake Lady Eve for her niece Lady Ruth. The whole world, colourless, lapsed. Earth fled from my feet like a dream, 78 LAST WORDS And the whirl of the walls of Space was about me, and moved as a stream Flowing and ebbing and flowing all night to a weary tune (' Such as that of my verses ' ? Get out !) in the face of a sick-souled moon. The keen stars kindled and faded and fled, and the wind in my ears Was the wail of a poet for failure — you needn't come snivelling tears And spoiling the mixture, confound you, with dropping your tears into that ! I know I'm pathetic — I must be — and you soft-hearted and fat, And I'm grateful of course for your kindness — there, don't come hugging me, now — OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET. 79 But because a fellow's pathetic, you needn't low like a cow. I should like— on my soul, I should like— to remember — but somehow I can't — If the lady whose love has reduced me to this was the niece or the aunt. But whichever it was, I feel sure, when I published my lays of last year (You remember their title — The Tramp — only seven- and-sixpence — not dear), I sent her a copy (perhaps her tears fell on the title-page — yes — I should like to imagine she wept) — and the Bride of Bulgaria (MS.) I forwarded with it. The lyrics, no doubt, she found bitter — and sweet ; So LAST WORDS But the Bride she rejected, you know, with expressions I will not repeat. Well — she did no more than all publishers did. Though my prospects were marred, I can pity and pardon them. Blindness, mere blind- ness ! And yet it was hard. For a poet, Bill, is a blossom — a bird — a billow — a breeze — A kind of creature that moves among men as a wind among trees. I with the heat of my heart still burning against all bars As the fire of the dawn, so to speak, in the blanched blank brows of the stars — I with my tremulous lips made pale by musical breath — I with the shade in my eyes that was left by the kisses of death — OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET 81 (For Death came near me in youth, and touched my face with his face, And put in my lips the songs that belong to a desolate place — Desolate truly, my heart and my life, till her kiss filled them up !) I with my soul like wine poured out with my flesh for the cup — It was hard for me — it was hard — Bill, Bill, you great owl, was it not ? For the day creeps in like a Fate : and I think my grand passion is rot : And I dreamily seem to perceive, by the light of a life's dream done, The lotion at six, and the mixture at ten, and the draught before one. 82 LAST WORDS Yes — I feci rather better. Man's life is a mull, at the best ; And the patent perturbator pills are like bullets of lead in my chest. When a man's whole spirit is like the lost Pleiad, a blown-out star, Is there comfort in Holloway, Bill? is there hope of salvation in Parr? True, most things work to their end — and an end that the shroud overlaps. Under lace, under silk, under gold, sir, the skir of winding-sheet flaps — Which explains, if you think of it, Bill, why I can't, though my soul thereon broodeth, Quite make out if I loved Lady Tamar as much as i loved Lady Judith. OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET 83 Yet her dress was of violet velvet, her hair was hyacinth- hued, And her ankles — no matter. A face where the music of every mood Was touched by the tremulous fingers of passionate feeling, and made Strange melodies, scornful, but sweeter than strings whereon sorrow has played To enrapture the hearing of mirth when his garland of blossom and green Turns to lead on the anguished forehead — ' you don't understand what I mean ' ? Well, of course I knew you were stupid — you always were stupid at school — Now don't say you weren't— but I'm hanged if I thought you were quite such a fool ! g 2 84 LAST WORDS You don't see the point of all this ? I was talking of sickness and death — In that poem I made years ago, I said this — ' Love, the flower-time whose breath Smells sweet through a summer of kisses and perfumes an autumn of tears Is sadder at root than a winter — its hopes heavy-hearted like fears. Though I love your Grace more than I love little Letty, the maid of the mill, Yet the heat of your lips when I kiss them ' (you see we were intimate, Bill) ' And the beat of the delicate blood in your eyelids of azure and white Leave the taste of the grave in my mouth and the shadow of death on my sight. OF A SEVENTH-RA7E POET. 85 Fill the cup — twine the chaplet — come into the garden — get out of the house — Drink to me with your eyes — there's a banquet behind, where worms only carouse ! As I said to sweet Katie, who lived by the brook on the land Philip farmed — Worms shall graze where my kisses found pasture ! ' The Duchess, I may say, was charmed. It was read to the Duke, and he cried like a child. If you'll give me a pill, I'll go on till past midnight That poem was said to be — Somebody's, Bill But you see you can always be sure of my hand as the mother that bore me By the fact that I never write verse which has never been written before me. 86 LAST WOUDS Other poets — I blush for them, Bill — may adore and repudiate in turn a Libitina, perhaps, or Pandemos ; my Venus, you know, is Laverna. Nay, that epic of mine which begins from foundations the Bible is built on — ' Of man's first disobedience ' — I've heard it attributed, dammy, to Milton. Well, it's lucky for them that it's not worth my while, as I may say, to break spears With the hirelings, forsooth, of the press who assert that Othello was Shakespeare's. When he that can run, sir, may read — if he borrows the book, or goes on tick — >. In my poems the bit that describes how the Hellespont joins the Propontic. OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET 87 There are men, I believe, who will tell you that Gray wrote the whole of The Bard — Or that I didn't write half the Elegy, Bill, in a Country Churchyard. When you know that my poem, The Poet, begins — ' Ruin seize thee ! ' and ends With recapitulations of horrors the poet invokes on his friends. \nd I'll swear, if you look at the dirge on my relatives under the turf, you Will perceive it winds up with some lines on myself — and begins with the curfew. Now you'll grant it's more probable, Bill — as a man of the world, if you please — That all these should have prigged from myself than that I should have prigged from all these. 88 LAST WORDS I could cry when I think of it, friend, if such tears would comport with my dignity, That the author of Christabel ever should smart from such vulgar malignity. (You remember perhaps that was one of the first little things that I carolled After finishing Marmion, the Princess, the Song of the Shirt, and Childe Harold.) Oh, doubtless it always has been so — Ah, doubtless it always will be — There are men who would say that myself is a different person from me. Better the porridge of patience a poor man snuffs in his plate Than the water of poisonous laurels distilled by the fingers of hate. OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET. 89 Tis a dark-purple sort of a moonlighted kind of a mid- night, I know ; You remember those verses I wrote on Irene, from Edgar A. Poe ? It was Lady Aholibah Levison, daughter of old Lord St. Giles, Who inspired those delectable strains, and rewarded her bard with her smiles. I recited her charms, in conjunction with those of a girl at the cafe, In a poem I published in collaboration with Templeton (Taffy). There are prudes in a world full of envy — and some of them thought it too strong To compare an earl's daughter by name with a girl at a French restaurant. 9 o LAST WORDS I regarded her, though, with [the chivalrous eyes of a knight-errant on quest ; I may say I don't know that I ever felt 'prouder, old friend, of a conquest. And when /Ve been made happy, I never have cared a brass farthing who knew it ; I Thank my stars I'm as free from mock-modesty, friend, as from vulgar fatuity. You may see by my shortness of speech that my time's almost up : I perceive That my new-fangled brevity strikes you : but don't — though the public will — grieve. As it's sometimes my whim to be vulgar, it's sometimes my whim to be brief ; As when once I observed, after Heine, that ' she was a harlot, and I ' (which is true) 'was a thief.' OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET 91 (Though you hardly should cite this particular line, by the way, as an instance of absolute brevity : I'm aware, man, of that ; so you needn't disgrace yourself, sir, by such grossly mistimed and impertinent levity.) I don't like to break off, any more than you wish me to stop : but my fate is Not to write half a million such rhymes without block- heads exclaiming — Jam Satis, SONNET FOR A PICTURE SONNET FOR A PICTURE. That nose is out of drawing. With a gasp, She pants upon the passionate lips that ache With the red drain of her own mouth, and make A monochord of colour. Like an asp, One lithe lock wriggles in his rutilant grasp. Her bosom is an oven of myrrh, to bake Love's white warm shewbread to a browner cake. The lock his fingers clench has burst its hasp. 96 SONNET FOR A PICTURE. The legs are absolutely abominable. Ah ! what keen overgust of wild-eyed woes Flags in that bosom, flushes in that nose ? Nay ! Death sets riddles for desire to spell, Responsive. What red hem earth's passion sews, But may be ravenously unripped in hell ? NEPHELIDIA H NEPHELIDIA. From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float, Are they looks of our lovers that lustrously lean from a marvel of mystic miraculous moonshine, These that we feel in the blood of our blushes that thicken and threaten with throbs through the throat ? ioo NEPHELIDIA. Thicken and thrill as a theatre thronged at appeal of an actor's appalled agitation, Fainter with fear of the fires of the future than pale with the promise of pride in the past ; Flushed with the famishing fullness of fever that reddens with radiance of rathe recreation, Gaunt as the ghastliest of glimpses that gleam through the gloom of the gloaming when ghosts go aghast ? Nay, for the nick of the tick of the time is a tremu- lous touch on the temples of terror, Strained as the sinews yet strenuous with strife of the dead who is dumb as the dust-heaps of death : Surely no soul is it, sweet as the spasm of erotic emo- tional exquisite error, Bathed in the balms of beatified bliss, beatific itself by beatitude's breath. NEPHELIDIA. 101 Surely no spirit or sense of a soul that was soft to the spirit and soul of our senses Sweetens the stress of suspiring suspicion that sobs in the semblance and sound of a sigh ; Only this oracle opens Olympian, in mystical moods and triangular tenses — ' Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day when we die.' 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