Lilith the Legend of the First Woman - Brossura

Collier, Ada Langworthy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1480119237 ISBN 13: 9781480119239

Casa editrice: Createspace Independent Pub, 2012

Riassunto

From these few and meagre details of a fabled existence, which are all thatthe author has been able to collect from any source whatever, has sprungthe following poem. The poet feels quite justified in dissenting from thestatements made in the preceding extracts, and has not drawn Lilith as[6]there represented the bloodthirsty sovereign who ruled Damascus, thebetrayer of men, the murderer of children. The Lilith of the poem istransferred to the more beautiful shadow-world. To that country which isthe abode of poets themselves. And about her is wrapt the humanizingelement still, and everywhere embodied in the sweetest word the humantongue can utter lullaby. Some critics declare that true literary art inculcatesa lofty lesson has a high moral purpose. If poets and their work must fallunder this rigorous rule, then alas Lilith will knock at the door of publicopinion with a trembling hand indeed. If the poem have either moral aimor lesson of any kind (which observe, gentle critic, it is by no meansasserted that it has), it is simply to show that the strongest intellectualpowers contain no elements adverse to the highest and purest exercise ofthe affectional nature. That, in its true condition, the noblest, the mostcultured intellect, and the loveliest, sublimest moral and emotionalqualities, together weave the web that clothes the world s great soul withimperishable beauty. The possessor of highest intellectual capacity will bealso capable of highest developments in the latter qualities. The woman oftrue intellect is the woman of truest affection. For the rest let Lilith speak,whose life dropped unrecorded from the earliest world. It is the poet shope that the chords of the mother-heart universal will respond to the songof the childless one. That in the survival of that one word lullaby, may berevivified the pathetic figure of one whose home, whose hope, whose Edenpassed to another. Whose name living in the terrors of superstitiouspeoples, now lingers in Earth s sweetest utterance. That Pagan Lilith,re-baptized in the pure waters of maternal love, shall breathe to heathenand Christian motherhood alike, that most sacred love of Earth stillthrobbing through its tender lullaby.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Createspace Independent Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1480119237
• ISBN 13: 9781480119239
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 82
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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