Pan Poetry

topic posted Sun, November 6, 2005 - 2:23 AM by  siobhan
PAN
(From the Hymns of Orpheus trans. by R.C.Hogart)

Great Pan, God of the wild
We honor you, ruler of the sky
sea and earth, Light
ensouling all.

The world is yours
Every thing reflects you

Delighted by shady groves'
dancer under the stars
you rule the seasons

Pan, shepherd of goats,
giver of milk, meet and skin,
your horns sprouted
and the world began.

Inspire us
with dance and song.
Protect us from fear.

You love the hunt,
Echo's solitary song
and playful nymphs

All your works
reach fruition.
You rule increase.

Pan, splendid as a cloudless sky
sweet as fruit,
obscure as the deepest cave,
subtle as a snake'

wise as a wolf
no man can resist
your panic.

You hold up the Earth.
You rule the restless sea,
even ancient Ocean, Earth hugger,
loves your law

Air nourishes fire,
fire inspires life.
even the shining blue sky
loves your law.

Protect and care for
matter dancing everywhere.
Grace us.

Lift us, mighty Pan
come near, excite us.
Give us creative power
and freedom from fear.

By far my favorite hymn to Pan
posted by:
siobhan
Hawaii
  • Re: Pan Poetry

    Mon, November 7, 2005 - 7:41 PM
    Here's one:

    My Sacred Lover
    by Storm Faerywolf
    11/7/05

    Long ago on moonlit night
    standing naked on the earth
    I called to Pan with open heart
    and so he came with pleasure's touch.

    From wooded darkness he did come
    from fervent rut and primal throb
    and horned he stood like blackened flame
    to touch my skin and warm my blood.

    My hands were his and so they worked
    with fevered pitch and soft caress
    and as our bodies writhed as one
    a moonlit river
    deluge of stars.

    As seed was spilled upon the earth
    as lightning flashed across my mind
    the chill of sweat upon my flesh
    so marked as his was I that night.

    IAO! Pan! My sacred lover,
    Who warms my bed on winter's night,
    I bow before your starry rise
    And rest within your starry fall.
  • Re: Pan Poetry

    Mon, November 21, 2005 - 7:07 AM
    Don't forget that Crowley fellow.....

    "HYMN TO PAN

    Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
    O man! My man!
    Come careering out of the night
    Of Pan! Io Pan!
    Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
    From Sicily and from Arcady!
    Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
    And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
    On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
    To me, to me,
    Come with Apollo in bridal dress
    (Shepherdess and pythoness)
    Come with Artemis, silken shod,
    And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,
    In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
    The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!
    Dip the purple of passionate prayer
    In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
    The soul that startles in eyes of blue
    To watch they wantonness weeping through
    The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
    Of the living tree that is spirit and soul
    And body and brain---come over the sea
    (Io Pan! Io Pan!)
    Devil or god, to me, to me,
    My man! my man!
    Come with trumpets sounding shrill
    Over the hill!
    Come with drums low muttering
    From the spring!
    Come with flute and come with pipe!
    Am I not ripe?
    I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
    With air that hath no boughs to nestle
    My body, weary of empty clasp,
    Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp---
    Come, O come!
    I am numb
    With the lonely lust of devildom.
    Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
    All-devourer, all-begetter;
    Give me the sign of the Open Eye,
    And the token erect of thorny thigh,
    And the word of madness and mystery,
    O Pan! Io Pan!
    Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
    In the grip of the snake.
    The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
    The gods withdraw:
    The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne
    To death on the horn
    Of the Unicorn
    I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!
    I am thy mate, I am thy man,
    Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
    Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
    With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
    Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
    And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
    Everlasting, world without end,
    Mannikin, maiden, maenad, man,
    In the might of Pan
    Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!"
  • Re: Pan Poetry

    Tue, November 29, 2005 - 11:57 PM
    aye..... thanks Siobhan! on the morrow i will post a poem i love too... for it is the wee hours approaching for me.
    • Re: Pan Poetry

      Wed, November 30, 2005 - 12:31 AM
      laughing..... i guess its best to scroll down and read the rest before commenting.... lol

      thanks everyone! i really loved the one from storm! i soooo love this tribe!
      • Re: Pan Poetry

        Wed, November 30, 2005 - 12:48 AM
        Yay! Thank you! :)
        • Re: Pan Poetry

          Wed, November 30, 2005 - 9:31 AM
          Your welcome. Here's another . . .

          From the Homeric Hymns, Thelma Sargent Translator


          Speak to me, Muse, of the son beloved of Hermes
          Goat-footed, two-horned lover of noisy confusion,
          Who cavorts through the woodland dells with the dancing nyphs-
          They who lightly tred the steep rocky cliffs that are shunned
          Even by goats,
          Calling aloud to the shepherd god Pan,
          Bright-haired and disheveled,
          Who has for his share every snow- covered ridge
          The towering summits of mountains,
          and sheer rock-slabbed steeps.
          Hither and thither through the dense thickets he wanders,
          Now drawn from his course by gently murmuring streams,
          Now clambering over high rocky cliffs,
          Ascending thethe uttermost peak that stands watch over flocks as they graze.
          Often he runs through the lofty white-shining mountains
          And ofter over the slopes in the chase,
          keen eyed and alert, Killing wild beasts.
          Home from the hunt returning at evening
          He sounds his lonely note,
          playing sweet songs On his pipes of reed,
          Not even that bird can surpass him in song
          Who in blossoming springtime
          pours forth her lament from leafy bower
          Greiving in honey-sweet tones.
          Then the clear-singing nymphs of the mountain
          who wander the woodland lightfooted, with Pan
          sing by a spring of black water,
          And about the high peak of the mountain Echo resounds.
          The God glides in and out in the dance,
          On this side and that,
          Now prancing on nimble hooves in the very midst of the chorus,
          Wearing the tawney pelt of the lynx on his shoulders.
          His heart exalting in musics shrill sweetness
          there in the soft meadow
          Where, tangled in grass, crocus and sweet smelling hyacinth
          bloom intermingled
          the Blessed Gods they chant
          and lofty Olympus
          and they sing of luck-bringing Hermes above all others:
          How he as swift messenger serves all the Gods,
          And how he arrives in Arcadia, land rich in fountains.
          Mother of flocks
          Where lies his sacred precinct Cyllene.
          There though a God, he tended a flock of shaggy-fleeced sheep
          In the hire of a mortal,
          For tender longing came of a sudden upon him
          and grew, to lie united in love
          With the daughter of Dryops, nymph with beautiful tresses,
          And he brought to pass the felicitous marriage.
          Dryope bore in the women's halls of the palace a dear son to Hermes
          From the beginning a marvelous sight to behold:
          Goat footer, two horned, delighting in noice Gaily laughing.
          The nurse, when she looked on his hideous fade, fully bearded,
          Sprang up and fled from the baby, sorely afraid.
          But luck-bringing Hermes, receiving his son at once
          Took him into his arms, his heart filled with joy beyond measure,
          And swiftly he went to the seat of the undying gods
          With the child warmly wrapped
          in the skins of mountain-bred hares,
          And laid him down beside Zeus
          and presented his son to the other immortals.
          All the undying gods rejoiced in their hearts,
          But Wild Dionysus beyond all the rest,
          And they called him Pan, because he delighted all hearts.

          Thus Lord, Farewell:
          With my song may I please you
          I will always remember you,
          and with still more songs

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