Lilith. The Legend Of The First Woman. Book Iv. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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| But Lilith walked heart hungered filled with shame | A |
| Naught comforted And in that shadow land | B |
| She sorrowing bore in after time a band | B |
| Of elfin babes that waked dim echoes long | C |
| Forgotten there and ghastly bursts of song | C |
| Then Lilith saddened more for that she knew | D |
| The curse was fallen now And cried she through | D |
| Fast falling tears Oh me most desolate | E |
| That shall not know in any time the fate | F |
| Of happier mothers Nay nor cool touch | G |
| Of baby hands Oh longed for loved so much | G |
| Alas my babes ere yet hour old ye fly | H |
| Out spreading shining wings with jeering cry | H |
| Afar from me Most hapless I from whom | I |
| The crown of motherhood yet white with bloom | I |
| Falls blighted Close in these empty arms fain | J |
| Would I clasp my babes My tender pain | J |
| But once could ye not solace Nay 'tis vain | J |
| I shall not kiss their lips nor hear again | K |
| As gladder mothers may low rippling sweet | L |
| The laughter children bring about their feet | L |
| Oh soulless ones can ye not wait awhile | M |
| 'Till on your loveless lips I wake one smile | M |
| But merrily out laughed the phantom crew | D |
| On shining pinions white swift seaward flew | D |
| Or upward rose slow fading in the blue | D |
| Or lured her trembling green morasses through | D |
| And 'mong the frothy waves they vanished fast | N |
| Or shrieked with glee borne on the wintry blast | N |
| And wilder raised their warlock song | C |
| While fairer grew each day that elfin throng | C |
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| To pluck the mangoes brown fair Lilith sped | O |
| One morn Quick throbbed her heart On mossy bed | O |
| Lay all her babes With face like morning shone | P |
| One there and wide her yellow hair out blown | P |
| As 'twere in play Red flushed her cheeks and deep | Q |
| About her lips the baby smiles Asleep | Q |
| Was one white gleaming pure as pearl unseen | R |
| In sunless caves close shut And one did lean | R |
| Against his fellow lithe sun flushed and brown | S |
| With rings of jetty hair that low adown | S |
| His bosom streamed And one there was whose dream | T |
| O'erflowed with laughter And one did seem | T |
| Half waking One with dimpled arms in sleep | Q |
| Thrust elbow deep in moss that sure did weep | Q |
| Ere yet he slept and on his cheek scarce dried | U |
| The wilful tears | V |
| Then low pale Lilith cried | U |
| As near she drew down bending tender eyes | W |
| And are ye here my babes and will ye rise | W |
| If I but break your sleep His naked feet | L |
| One faintly moved as low she leant and warm | X |
| His slumbrous breath stirred 'gainst her circling arm | Y |
| And slow aneath his closed lids slipped a waft | Z |
| Of wind that loosed a trickling tear Its craft | A2 |
| The mother heart forgot thereat At last | N |
| Close to my breast my babes she cried and fast | N |
| Laughing outstretched her eager hands and strong | C |
| Then lay with empty arms | B2 |
| The elfin throng | C |
| Breasted the pulsing air with mocking song | C |
| Alas she said could ye not give one kiss | C2 |
| One tender clasp of hands And must I miss | C2 |
| Your throbbing hearts from my cold barren breast | D2 |
| Ye soulless ones that flout my lonely rest | D2 |
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| There prostrate long lay Lilith and there late | F |
| 'Mid dew fall Eblis found his stricken mate | F |
| O Eblis say o'er me what curse hangs bare | E2 |
| For now no more she said this realm seems fair | E2 |
| Its fruits grow bitter all its light falls chill | F2 |
| With thee my prince poor Lilith mates but ill | F2 |
| Earth born with angel linked Alas is left | G2 |
| No joy to me of my sweet ones bereft | G2 |
| Methinks soft baby lips might erewhile drain | S |
| From Lilith's famished heart its wildest pain | S |
| Wherefore my Eblis it were wise to seek | H2 |
| Surcease of grief That Lilith is so weak | H2 |
| Who wedded thee and that she sinned knew not | I2 |
| Yet if we part mayhap may follow naught | J2 |
| Of other ills | K2 |
| Sweet love he laughed o'er late | F |
| Thou art so timorous At Eden's gate | F |
| Not so what time the angel barred her way | L2 |
| My Lilith stood Shelter within my arms Oh say | L2 |
| Was not our young love sweet Hath it grown cold | M2 |
| With me thou sharest endless life nor old | M2 |
| Nor shrivelled shalt thou be And not one trace | N2 |
| Of earth's decay sure doom of thy sad race | N2 |
| Shall taint thy babes For lo I give | O2 |
| Thy soulless ones immortal youth They live | P2 |
| Without a pang And yet methinks the cry | H |
| Of Earth adown the ages sounds when die | H |
| Its babes and mothers bend dumb lips above | Q2 |
| And fold still hands that answer not their love | Q2 |
| Lilith doth not indeed my love outweigh | L2 |
| Caresses missed from phantom babes Astray | L2 |
| From Eden long here in this fair domain | S |
| To bide and through long cycles fearless reign | S |
| Methinks were joy In summer sheen | S |
| Wide spreads thy land The marge of islets green | S |
| The palm trees skirt Soft shine the dusk lagoons | R2 |
| And inland mountains Mirk the jungle's glooms | R2 |
| And fair thy fertile plains Oh sweet the glow | S2 |
| When we together watch the day that low | S2 |
| Among the winds lies still Shut lilies blow | S2 |
| While here we wait Come for they fain would show | S2 |
| Their golden hearts Or love with me to float | T2 |
| Were it not sweet through flowery bays remote | T2 |
| Past coves and peaks Or pierce yon ocean's verge | U2 |
| And through wild tumbling waves our sails to urge | U2 |
| Yea sweet is love she said and sweet to roam | V2 |
| By listless currents lulled or 'mid the foam | V2 |
| Low dip our feathery oars she sighed yet sore | W2 |
| Is still the mother heart that hears no more | W2 |
| The lisping tongues And sad when baby smiles | R2 |
| Have left it desolate And baby wiles | R2 |
| Shall cheer it never more | W2 |
| Yet Eblis said | O |
| Lilith no longer mourn For I have read | O |
| Upon a scroll as samite glistening white | X2 |
| All coming fate close hid from human sight | X2 |
| Great peoples yet shall dwell in these dusk lands | R2 |
| Then shall thy children shadowy bands | R2 |
| That fly thy fond caress with them abide | U |
| In closest fellowship And though they hide | U |
| Sometimes from human ken their better selves | R2 |
| Still loved remain these tricksy elves | R2 |
| Though yet indeed some quips and pranks they play | L2 |
| 'Tis but a jest men know when far away | L2 |
| The flickering marsh fires swift they light | X2 |
| And children follow their false tapers bright | X2 |
| Among the spongy bogs The ship lad smiles | R2 |
| When distant 'mid the waves the phantom isles | R2 |
| Rise green 'Tis but a harmless jest that sets | R2 |
| On lonely plains domes mosques and minarets | R2 |
| And o'er the desert sands mirage uplifts | R2 |
| When glimmering waves shine through deep rifts | R2 |
| Of crested palms | R2 |
| Still dearer they when wide | U |
| To undiscovered lands men boldly ride | U |
| Across new seas and turn their venturous prows | R2 |
| When tempests shriek and wet about their brows | R2 |
| The salt spray dashes fierce one watching cries | R2 |
| 'Good mates no storm I fear for yonder rise | R2 |
| The Elf babes 'mid the foam Ye goblin crew | D |
| That sail these unknown seas we follow you | D |
| To harbor safe Ho ho With beckoning hands | R2 |
| Wind driven loud they cry My mates the lands | R2 |
| The golden lands we seek are ours ' | - |
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| In Earth's brown bosom pent the hardy wight | X2 |
| Long in deep caverns dwells and hard doth smite | X2 |
| The rocky caves Nor sees the golden spoil | Y2 |
| Through weary days of wasted lonely toil | Y2 |
| From his wild eyes far flying hides the prize | R2 |
| Till desperate angered worn aloud he cries | R2 |
| 'Vain vain The caves my labor answer not | X2 |
| Nor yellow threads that gleam in any grot | X2 |
| Hard cruel silent hills my strength ye mock | Z2 |
| And seal your treasures close in flinty rock | Z2 |
| So after toilsome years sweet wife I bring | A3 |
| To thee no sparkling love gift Nay nor anything | A3 |
| To cheer our failing time ' | - |
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| Then round him hears | R2 |
| He sturdy blows and listening almost fears | R2 |
| He dreams But swift the echoes rise and still | F2 |
| More loudly roll and quick replies the hill | F2 |
| Reverberant through all the caverns round | X2 |
| The uproar swells and fills the world with sound | X2 |
| Then lists he once again 'With lusty shocks | R2 |
| Your hammers ring against the hard ribbed rocks | R2 |
| Goblins ' he boldly shouts 'smite smite ye bring | A3 |
| My treasure forth dark beating goblin wing | A3 |
| Among the gleaming caves whose dusk veins hold | X2 |
| The gold At last At last the ruddy gold ' | - |
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| And lone in stricken fields the husbandman | S |
| Sits pale with anxious eyes that hopeless scan | S |
| The burning sky Hot lie the glimmering plain | S |
| And uplands parched 'Behold the bending grain | S |
| Fair in the springtide now is dead and dry | H |
| The brooks If yet the rainfall fail we die | H |
| Of famine sore No bleating lambs I hear in fold | X2 |
| Safe shut nor lowing kine nor on the wold | X2 |
| The whir of mounting bird Nor thrives about me | B3 |
| Any living thing So seemeth end must be | B3 |
| Of striving Since all the land is cursed | X2 |
| What matter if by famine scorched or thirst | X2 |
| We die ' he saith | C3 |
| And thick the warlock swarm | X |
| Above his head wide spreading dark wings warm | X |
| Fast flitted by The waiting fields he stands | R2 |
| Among And laughing claps exultant hands | R2 |
| 'Good speed ye Sprites that bring the welcome cloud | X2 |
| And pile the vapors thick ' he shouts aloud | X2 |
| Oh sweet shall bloom again the bending grain | S |
| And clothe afresh the wide the wasted plain | S |
| The clouds sweep black Ha ha Against my cheek | H2 |
| The big drops fall Merry the goblins shriek | H2 |
| Behold they mount they sink they rise again | S |
| Ho friendly elves that bring the longed for rain ' | - |
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| Thereat he smiling ceased And when soft crept | X2 |
| The listening stars across the sky they slept | X2 |
| Untroubled 'neath the mango trees | R2 |
| But when midway | L2 |
| The night was spent Prince Eblis waking lay | L2 |
| Soft Lilith's breathing 'mong the droopt leaves stirred | X2 |
| And he sore troubled mused on every word | X2 |
| That Lilith spake ere yet they slept In all | D3 |
| Foreseeing much of ill that might befall | D3 |
| Their love O queenly soul Of finer grain | S |
| Thou art than angels are And more in brain | S |
| Than man I hold thee Sooth yet taints thee still | F2 |
| One touch of womankind And since so chill | F2 |
| She finds her babes must I forego my vow | E3 |
| For one flaw Hope's clear crystal break Oh how | E3 |
| Ally her cause with mine So doth she long | C |
| For human love a baby hand is strong | C |
| To hurl my empire down From her soft heart | X2 |
| Red baby lips can drain revenge and start | X2 |
| Unbidden tears And pity wakes to life | F3 |
| When 'mong dead embers she sits lone and strife | F3 |
| Is done | S |
| Then at Regret's dull heels lo fast | X2 |
| Retrieving follows Happy days long past | X2 |
| She will recall If so for love she yearn | S |
| Back to her early home once more will turn | S |
| Pardoning her wilful lord And he again | S |
| Shall win the woman I so love and fain | S |
| Would hold forever Lilith thou one balm | G3 |
| Of my lost soul in all this world Shall calm | G3 |
| My sufferings or love me any one save thee | C3 |
| When thou in Adam's arms forgettest me | C3 |
| My only love Nay then 'twere surely wise | R2 |
| To shut these baby faces from her eyes | R2 |
| New seeds of wrath to sow her hate so feed | X2 |
| That all her rankling wounds afresh shall bleed | X2 |
| And in her ears 'Good Adam ' will I cry | H |
| Lest she forget Eden she lost thereby | H |
| Yea 'Adam ' I will laugh Till her red lips with guile | M |
| O'erflow And she shall curse him loud With subtlest wile | M |
| Safe won then shall she ever be mine own | S |
| Soul bound to me in hate more terrible than death | C3 |
| In hate that long outlasts Love's puny breath | C3 |
| O cunning craft that with the self same blow | S2 |
| Forever wins my love and smites my foe | S2 |
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| Last night when Lilith slept lest I might mar | H3 |
| Her dreams from our green couch I rose and far | H3 |
| Passed silent Know I not the spell that draws | R2 |
| My feet unwilling Edenward Its laws | R2 |
| I may not brave to rend my foe Nor there | E2 |
| The Angel pass unseen The night so fair | E2 |
| As prone among the glistening leaves I lay | L2 |
| On Adam shone Not sad as on a day | L2 |
| Erstwhile he seemed And I could almost swear | E2 |
| The sound of silvery laughter on the air | E2 |
| Fell soft And a fleet footfall 'mong the flowers | R2 |
| Scattered the dew Yet 'mid those silent bowers | R2 |
| Naught else I saw or heard save rippling flow | S2 |
| Of waters and the moonshine white Oh low | S2 |
| Speak Eblis lest aloud the night may tell | I3 |
| Thy secret to the stars Yet it were well | I3 |
| If lies the hidden cure for Lilith's woe | S2 |
| Close shut in Paradise | R2 |
| All would we know | S2 |
| If we close hid without those verdant walls | R2 |
| Together watched What fate soe'er befalls | R2 |
| I care not if with me she bide | X2 |
| Down bent | X2 |
| He o'er her hair thick with the night dew sprent | X2 |
| Soft kissed it crying Love the morn shines bright | X2 |
| Waken my Lilith now Through lands of night | X2 |
| Our happy course afar doth ever wend | X2 |
| Past smiling shores where mighty rivers bend | X2 |
| Past cove and cape and isle and winding bay | L2 |
| And still blue mists that hang athwart the day | L2 |
| Thereat she rose and joyously they sped | X2 |
| By broad lagoons where musky odors shed | X2 |
| New blooms About them coiled long wreaths of vine | S |
| And slim lianas drooped and marish lichens fine | S |
| And fared they on o'er many a slanting beach | J3 |
| And mountain crest past many an open reach | J3 |
| And forest wild till over Paradise | R2 |
| They saw the stars clear tender loving rise | R2 |
| Then 'neath the screen of those rose girdled walls | R2 |
| They hid without listing the waterfalls | R2 |
| Or bird belated twittering to its nest | X2 |
| So still the spot the very grass to rest | X2 |
| Seemed hushed | X2 |
| The garden close a clinging rose o'ercrept | X2 |
| Its lustrous stem without that drooping swept | X2 |
| Thick set with buds as tintless as the snows | R2 |
| On sunless hills when wild the north wind blows | R2 |
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| Lilith a tiptoe stood upreaching caught | X2 |
| The swaying boughs Her eyes with longing fraught | X2 |
| Close scanned her old deserted home Then came | A |
| Upon her spirit sadness as if blame | A |
| Unuttered breathed through those remembered glades | R2 |
| And touched the odors moist 'mong mirky shades | R2 |
| With wistful gaze she traced each bosky dell | I3 |
| Each winding path And sweet youth's memories fell | I3 |
| About her | K3 |
| Then was she ware of Adam slow | S2 |
| Pacing the pleasance ways With ruddy glow | S2 |
| Fresh shone his cheeks and crisp his hair out blown | S |
| By wanton winds His lips were mirthful grown | S |
| Once he made pause hard by the coppice green | S |
| That hid the watcher Once the leafy screen | S |
| So near he passed from the overhanging edge | L3 |
| He brushed a rose The hindering hedge | L3 |
| Quick through in sudden blessing slim white hand | X2 |
| Fain had she reached O Eden mine Dear land | X2 |
| She sighed And springing warm the tender tide | X2 |
| Of teardrops gemmed the roses at her side | X2 |
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| So greets the weary wanderer once more | W2 |
| His early home The lintels worn the door | W2 |
| Age stained the iris clumps in sheltered nook | M3 |
| The mill wheel rotting o'er the shrunken brook | M3 |
| The sunny orchard sloping west and far | H3 |
| And cold above his mother's grave a star | H3 |
| Then quick unbidden tears the heart's warm rain | S |
| O'erflow his soul and leave it pure again | S |
| So Lilith backward turned to holier days | R2 |
| Watching through misty tears where trod those ways | R2 |
| Her feet in other times | R2 |
| Sudden and sweet | X2 |
| Came down those paths a glimpse of flying feet | X2 |
| A sound of girlish laughter smote the air | E2 |
| In jealous rage Lilith uprose to dare | E2 |
| The guarding Angel's wrath But silver clear | N3 |
| The mocking laugh of Eblis caught her ear | O3 |
| Thou hast forgot he said this peaceful land | X2 |
| Living thou canst not enter | K3 |
| But her hand | X2 |
| Grasped once again the roses' shining strand | X2 |
| And 'neath her guileful touch like scarlet flame | A |
| The snowy flowers burned So first Earth's shame | A |
| Around them set the spik d thorns | R2 |
| Long there | E2 |
| Pale Lilith looked as coldly still and fair | E2 |
| As carven stone Then with a fierce despair | E2 |
| A sense of utter loss downbending there | E2 |
| With fingers hot she tore the hedge apart | X2 |
| And laid thereto her face With sorer smart | X2 |
| She gazed again For now the twain at rest | X2 |
| Were laid Pure as a dream Eve's sinless breast | X2 |
| A babe close pressed One pink foot small and warm | X |
| Among the leaves was hid One dimpled arm | Y |
| Aneath her head | X2 |
| Low Eblis sneered I wot | X2 |
| In young Eve's arms my Lilith is forgot | X2 |
| Oh soon he said these earth worms changeful turn | S |
| From the oped rose when red the shut buds burn | S |
| But wild eyes on the babe she fixed Oh blind | X2 |
| She cried was I Yea if the wanton wind | X2 |
| Doth mock I will not chide Was it for this | R2 |
| I wandered far and bartered Eden's bliss | R2 |
| For this have lost the very bloom of life | F3 |
| So Adam comfort finds not knowing strife | F3 |
| Look you that fragile thing at Adam's side | X2 |
| I heed her not But Lilith is denied | X2 |
| The treasure she so careless doth possess | R2 |
| See how the babe scarce waking doth caress | R2 |
| The mother Look Oh hear the mother croon | S |
| Above her child Ah Eblis love I swoon | S |
| I shall not know such joy Alas to me | C3 |
| No babe shall come Accurs d may she be | C3 |
| Cursed Adam too Thrice heavy on the head | X2 |
| Of this poor babe my wrong be visited | X2 |
| So trembling she brake off | P3 |
| Fast fades the light | X2 |
| Sweet love Once more to our dark realm of night | X2 |
| Let us return he said | X2 |
| As on fared they | L2 |
| With merry jest Eblis gan cheer the way | L2 |
| Nay otherwhiles mirth pleased she said Knowest thou | E3 |
| What name she bears who dwells in Eden now | E3 |
| When Lilith went long tarried Adam lone | S |
| She said Replied he All to me is known | S |
| Since that same hour you parted What befell | I3 |
| To thee as we wend onward I will tell | I3 |
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| Calm morn in Eden streaked the skies with red | X2 |
| And flushed the waiting hills above the grassy bed | X2 |
| Where Adam joyless saw new rise the sun | S |
| Unwinding golden webs night vapors spun | S |
| Athwart low meads Slow droning murmurs sent | X2 |
| The waking bees with bloom and fragrance blent | X2 |
| Unheeded poured her music blithesome Day | X2 |
| The reedy brooks beside and shallows gray | X2 |
| For lone to Adam seemed the place and cold | X2 |
| The landscape dumb as one aneath the mould | X2 |
| For Lilith's sake no more was Eden fair | E2 |
| Bloomless the days the nights bowed down with care | E2 |
| Oft pacing pathways dim he saw the gleam | T |
| Of strange faced flowers beside the purling stream | T |
| Or toyed with circling leaves or plucked the grass | R2 |
| And watched through rifted trees the clouds o'erpass | R2 |
| Wide roaming heard the waters idly break | Q3 |
| Far 'gainst the curving beach | J3 |
| And grieving spake | Q3 |
| 'Oh sweet with thee each hour each wilding way | X2 |
| And sweet the memory of each gathered spray | X2 |
| Could you not wait dear love Or come once more | W2 |
| Yea 'till you come vain doth great Nature pour | W2 |
| Her richest gifts ' He paused and heard alone | S |
| Respondent fall the wood dove's plaintive moan | S |
| And the spent winds among the scented glades | R2 |
| Moss couched beneath the glinting forest shades | R2 |
| He gazed when shadows o'er the hills crept light | X2 |
| Quick vanishing like phantom fingers white | X2 |
| Until on mead and mere and sounding shore | W2 |
| Eden found voice sad plaining 'Never more ' | - |
| Long time he pondered on blue peaks remote | X2 |
| When slow as stranded ships that listless float | X2 |
| Moved by the sunset clouds Or the white rack | R3 |
| Swept o'er the garden walls | R2 |
| 'Would I their track | R3 |
| Might take ' he said 'Lilith so long you stay | X2 |
| Whom my soul follows sorrowing alway ' | - |
| Thus ever mourned he comfortless that so | R2 |
| In after days the Master in the glow | R2 |
| Of morning tide the mother of the race | R2 |
| Gave for his solacement | X2 |
| Oh fair the face | R2 |
| Young Eve bent o'er his sleep Ere down the glade | X2 |
| The startled fawn leaps swift her glance dismayed | X2 |
| Questions the hunter mute Such eyes so brown | S |
| So soft so winning shy that looked adown | S |
| When Adam waked Like vagrant tendrils tossed | X2 |
| Dark hair about her brows And quaintly crossed | X2 |
| Her hands upon her breast Less red the dart | X2 |
| That deepest cleaves the folded rose's heart | X2 |
| Than her round cheeks Not hers the regal air | E2 |
| Of Lilith lost the white arms lissom bare | E2 |
| The slender throat the elbows dimpled deep whereto | X2 |
| Might scarcely reach Eve's head | X2 |
| Yet soft as through | D |
| Some pleasant dream the summer's spicy air | E2 |
| Stirs odorous 'mong seaward gardens fair | E2 |
| In southland hid so gently Eve straightway | X2 |
| To Adam's life unbidden came to stay | X2 |
| Forever there Sure entrance then made she | C3 |
| Into that heart untenanted by thee | C3 |
| So to some olden house from whose shut doors | R2 |
| One went erewhile another comes Its floors | R2 |
| All empty sees The lowly threshold worn | S |
| The moss grown roof the casements left forlorn | S |
| Amid the shadows round about him stands | R2 |
| Missing the footsteps passed to other lands | R2 |
| And whispers tenderly 'Since here no more | W2 |
| The owner bides what harm if on the floor | W2 |
| I pass Good chance it were the clambering vine | S |
| About the porch with fingers deft to twine | S |
| To draw the curtains ope the door For who | X2 |
| May know how soon these paths untended through | X2 |
| He comes again with weary way worn feet | X2 |
| Who made aforetime other days so sweet | X2 |
| Wherefore I enter now For whose dear sake | Q3 |
| These vacant rooms white fragrant clean I make | Q3 |
| And when world wearied he returns we twain | S |
| Perchance together bide Nor part again ' | - |
| So Eve found refuge Tender love the spell | I3 |
| Whereby she ruled Peaceful the pair did dwell | I3 |
| Fast fled the happy years till softly laid | X2 |
| In her glad arms the babe a winsome maid | X2 |
| He ended there Between them silence deep | Q |
| Fell as they journeyed And the furthest steep | Q |
| They crossed that o'er their shadow world rose high | H |
| Then saw they level plains their home anigh | H |
| And now seeking her pleasance once again | S |
| They came to their own land But all in vain | S |
| His care Silent she was and oft did grieve | H |
| Till Eblis wrathful cried Because this Eve | H |
| Adam holds dear art mourning Still dost yearn | S |
| To mate his sordid soul Or wouldst thou turn | S |
| From summer land to Eden walls | R2 |
| The man | S |
| Belike ne'er loved thee So is it young Eve can | S |
| His pulses sway Is she not passing fair | E2 |
| Her fancies wild it is her daily care | E2 |
| To bend beneath his ever fickle will | F2 |
| Red lipped and soft she deftly rules him still | F2 |
| Though he wist not Yet sweeter Lilith's frown | S |
| Than archest smile she wears Great Soul The crown | S |
| Thou bearest of fadeless life For fleeting dreams | R2 |
| In Paradise beside the winding streams | R2 |
| Wilt thou resign such boon Thou art in sooth | C3 |
| Of mold too firm for Adam's love In truth | C3 |
| A prince though fallen consorts best with thee | C3 |
| Say which were wise with Eden's lord to be | C3 |
| Or shining high the purer soul the star | H3 |
| That fadeless burns and Eblis lights afar | H3 |
| Were it not grand through endless spaces hurled | X2 |
| With me to drive above a shrinking world | X2 |
| Our chariot wide | X2 |
| For I foresee when dawn | S |
| Dark days upon our foes and hope is gone | S |
| Wherefore my Lilith now as seems thee good | X2 |
| Make choice Thereat she turning where she stood | X2 |
| With kisses hung about his neck and smiled | X2 |
| Crying Thine Eblis thine So were they reconciled | X2 |
Ada Langworthy Collier
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Lilith. The Legend Of The First Woman. Book Iv. is a poem by Ada Langworthy Collier. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.