Uncharmable charmer <br />Of Bacchus and Mars <br />In the sounding rebounding <br />Abyss of the stars! <br />O virgin in armour, <br />Thine arrows unsling <br />In the brilliant resilient <br />First rays of the spring! <br /> <br />By the force of the fashion <br />Of love, when I broke <br />Through the shroud, through the cloud, <br />Through the storm, through the smoke, <br />To the mountain of passion <br />Volcanic that woke --- <br />By the rage of the mage <br />I invoke, I invoke! <br /> <br />By the midnight of madness: - <br />The lone-lying sea, <br />The swoon of the moon, <br />Your swoon into me, <br />The sentinel sadness <br />Of cliff-clinging pine, <br />That night of delight <br />You were mine, you were mine! <br /> <br />You were mine, O my saint, <br />My maiden, my mate, <br />By the might of the right <br />Of the night of our fate. <br />Though I fall, though I faint, <br />Though I char, though I choke, <br />By the hour of our power <br />I invoke, I invoke! <br /> <br />By the mystical union <br />Of fairy and faun, <br />Unspoken, unbroken - <br />The dust to the dawn! - <br />A secret communion <br />Unmeasured, unsung, <br />The listless, resistless, <br />Tumultuous tongue! - <br /> <br />O virgin in armour, <br />Thine arrows unsling, <br />In the brilliant resilient <br />First rays of the spring! <br />No Godhead could charm her, <br />But manhood awoke - <br />O fiery Valkyrie, <br />I invoke, I invoke!<br /><br />Aleister Crowley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pan-to-artemis/
