Mandragora

by John Cowper Powys

MANDRAGORA

POEMS

by

JOHN COWPER POWYS

"Give me to drink Mandragora —"
Antony and Cleopatra.

1917
G. ARNOLD SHAW
NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
G. ARNOLD SHAW

Copyright in Great Britain and the Colonies

DEDICATED
to
MARIAN POWYS

Oh lace-maker, what joys, what fears
   Do you weave into your thread?
What sorcery from the far-off years
   Hovers above your head?
Your flickering fingers are dipped deep
   In the magic-flowing stream.
Is there a sleep beneath this sleep
   And a dream beyond this dream?

CONTENTS

	page
The Flute-player	1
The Cup	3
The Vigil	4
Her Love	5
Wayfarers	7
Episode	9
Invocation	10
The Writer	11
Blasphemy	12
The Flower	13
Veni Creator Spiritus	15
The Blood	17
The Wind	19
Escape	20
The Old Cry	21
Waiting	22
A Face	23
The Sea-bird	24
At the End of the World	25
Night	26
The Daughter of the Sphinx	27
The Little Flame	28
The River	29
Ave Maria	30
The Recluse	32
The Leaves	33
In the Night	34
Requiem	35
The Traitor	36
The Tears	37
Spring	38
A Look	39
The Horizon	40
Demeter Consolatrix	42
The Golden Cup	43
The Poplar-leaves	44
The Mist	45
Optimism	46
The Appeal	47
God	49
Persephone	50
The Visitor	51
With Flowers in our Hands	51
War	52
To Lulu	54
The Oracle	55
They Say	56
Over	57
The Willow-seeds	59
Reversion	60
For Once	61
The Saturnian	63
The Hour	65
Obsequies	65
Accusation	66
The Monk	67
Deserted	69
Remorse	70
To Isadora Duncan	71
Travellers	72
The Dance	74
Twilight	75
The Tune	76
Reaction	77
Saturn	78
The Shoes	83
Eternity	84
The Mask	85
What We Say	86
"Be Hard!"	88
Many Waters	90
The Bassarid	91
The Cry	93
Renewal	94
Understanding	96
There It Is!	97
Pax Vobiscum	98
The Lane	99
Condemned	100
The Rose-leaves	102
The Exile	104
Mortmain	105
First and Last	106
Piety	107
Evasion	108
The Gods	109
The Water	111
The Rose	112
The Wood	113
The Book	115
Supreme Unction	116
A Question	117
Euthanasia	118
A Farewell	120
The Garden	122
Nunc Dimittis	124
Moments	124
Noon	125
Lost	127
Obsession	128
Exiles	129
Memory	130
Nothing	131
Whiteness	132
Silence	133
Finis	134
The Grave	135
The Return	137
The Ship	138