Ring out ye Crystal spears, Once bless our human ears, (If ye have power to touch our senses so) And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the Base of Heav’ns deep Organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony. Make up full consort to th’ Angelike symphony. For if such holy Song …
This soaring, sacred thirst, Ambassador of bliss, approached first. Making a place in me That made me apt to prize, and taste, and see. For not the objects, but the sense Of things doth bliss to Souls dispense, And make it, Lord, like Thee. Sense, feeling, taste, complacency, and sight, These are the true and real …
“Awake, Æolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon’s harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Thro’ verdant vales, and …
“O! hast thou seen a vernal Morning bright. Gem every bank and trembling leaf with dews, Tinging the green fields with her amber hues, Changing the leaden streams to lines of light? Then seen dull Clouds, that shed untimely night, Roll envious on, and every ray suffuse, Till the chill’d Scenes their early beauty …
“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews …
‘gagan math gaib nisân gade’ – Kabir. – ‘The Hidden Banner is planted in the temple of the sky; there the blue canopy decked with the moon and set with bright jewels is spread. There the light of the sun and the moon is shining: still your mind to silence before that splendour. Kabîr says: …
He who bends to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy ; But he who kisses the joy as it flies. Lives in eternity’s sunrise. If you trap the moment before it’s ripe, The tears of repentance you’ll certainly wipe ; But, if once you let the ripe moment go. You can never wipe …