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…man, would I call you Of perfect passionate joy, the joy of wine, The drunkenness of extreme pleasure, hlled From sin’s amazing cup? Oh, mine, mine, mine, Mine, if your kisses maddened me or killed, Mine, at the price of my damnation deep, Mine, if you will, as once your glances willed ! Take me, or break me, slay or soothe to sleep, If only yours one hour, vue perfect hour, Remembrance and despair and hope to steep In the infernal potion of that flower, My poisonous passion for your blood! Behold ! How utterly I yield, how gladly dower Our sin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…orthy to be loved. Ah Fate ! if thou hadst cast the dies Whence no appeal, in any other wise! I am the soul of the grim face of things : Mine are the Sphinx’s wings; Mine own life lives with this event ! Yet even I, its very self, lament The execrable tyranny, The rayless misery Of this wild whirlpool sea of circumstance. Mine old eyes look askance : It is my punishment to dwell In mine own self-created hell. [Cora rushes tn. MADELINE. What curse of God hath smitten you? ‘I see Exceeding horror in abiding shape Blasting the countenance of peace…
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… Ulric ! bear with me awhile ! Speak no more words—each syllable strikes here, [Hand to heart. A cloud of winged scorpions, that rage In mine own deepest self; for there I know Tame harpies that had ceased to torture , me; And this more ghastly brood renews their sting, Adding a triple poison! O my soul Is torn with pangs more horrible than hell, Scorching the very marrow of my bones, Corrupting me—corrupting me, I say— O God! is any safety at Thy feet? Be silent, O be silent for awhile, And I will shrivel up thy wretched ears, Give thee to cur…
1905 · PDF PAGE 241
…ream Some deadly serpent or foul basilisk Sunning its scales, called kingly, in the mire. Strike, O my lover! I will drag thee down Into mine own unending pain and hate ‘To be one devil more upon the earth.— Come! ye my serpents, wrap his bosom round With your entangling leprosy! And me, Let me assume the belovéd limber shape, The crested head, the jewelled eyes of death, And sinuous sinewy glitter of serpenthood, That I may look once more into his face, And, kissing, kill him! Thus to hold him fast, Drawing his human spirit into mine For stren…
1905 · PDF PAGE 196
… onward. Credit me so far ! The harlot had my soul: my will, the star ! Thus I went onward, as a man goes blind, Into a torrent crowd of mine own kind ; Jostlers and hurried folk and mad they are, A million actions and a single mind. 1 The '‘ Higher Self.” ‘‘What is thy purpose, sweet my lord?” I pressed One stalwart.. ‘*Ah! the quest,” he cried, ‘* the quest.” God’s heart! the antics, as they toil and shove ! One grabs a coin, one life, another love. All shriek, ‘‘ The prize is mine!” as men possessed. . I was not fooled at anything thereof. R…
1905 · PDF PAGE 198
…dhead in thee dies. For we are many and thy name is One.” The Godhead in me! came The jealous secret and the guarded name. The quest was mine! And yet my thoughts confute My intuition ; and my will was mute. My voice—ah! flashes out the word of flame : ‘* Eternal Beauty, One and absolute !” As a flash there The overwhelming sweetness ofa voice Filled me with Godhead. ‘Still remains the choice! Thou knowest me for Beauty! bear The fuller vision, the abundant air?” I only wept. The elements rejoice ; No tear before had ever fallen there. Canst th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
…im Men used to call the minstrel Tannhauser ! ELDEST PILGRIM. A sombre blessing ! On you and yours ! May God’s mercy fall TANNHAUSER. On mine, ah mine! Amen to that ! Amen, ELDEST PILGRIM (smiles). On her you love, my friend ! We will pass onward, by your honour’s leave: PILGRIMS (szmg’). Hail, hail, O Queen, to Thee, Spouse of Eternity ! Avé Maria! Mother in Maidenhood ! Saintly Beatitude ! Queen of the Angel Host! Bride of the Holy Ghost ! Avé Maria ! [Axeunt Pilgrims. TANNHAUSER. The love of Isis! No mere love to Her That is inborn in every …
1905 · PDF PAGE 170
…r lives to save your modesty From my incestuous embrace! O God! My love is nobler—to defy the past, Deny !—your love is merely natural ; Mine, against Nature, is the love Divine ! What crime is this? Thy pale Son’s martyrdom Cleansed earth from no such vile hypocrisy As this my mother’s. And I call thee, God, ° To witness ; and I call mankind to hear ; This is my faith: I live and die by it. I, nobler, cast away the infamy, Break with my hands these rotten barri- cades, [He picks up his mother’s Bible, tears at, and casts tt into the fire. And …
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…! EsME [potnting to scattered papers on a table}. What have you been doing with those papers, father? VAUGHAN [astonished]. They are not mine, child. I did not see them till you showed me. [7Zaking papers.] Why, they are in your handwriting; what arethey? [Reading, cradually becomes aware that something strange has happened.| It is [ Curtazn.
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…e secret ones ; and we— See where our heritage is made; I, king, A leper, and thyself, the hideous fruit Of what strange poisons? But in mine own self I am the king and chief of all the priests ; And thou, in thine own eyes, art a young god, Strong, beautiful, and lithe, a leaping fawn Upon the mountains. We are priests SAFI. Yea, I am a god. I am fire against the fountain of my birth, The storm upon the earth that nurtured me !} Leave me: we twain have no more words to speak. THE LEEPER. Neither in heaven nor in hell. I go, The dead king, wors…
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258 TANNHAUSER We are not so feeble /—But death anyhow Cuts and not loosens the entangled life. Be mine the harder and the better way, The single chance: not hope; appeal no more $ Hardly the arrowy wisdom of despair ; Hardly the cowardice or courage yet To drift, nor cursing nor invoking God. ELIZABETH. I heard, I pure, I virginal, your song; The shameful story of your intercourse With—fiend or woman? And your burning will, Even in that horror, to the Highest ; at last Your choice of me—the middle course of them, Pure human love? And, if your …
1905 · PDF PAGE 219
…ongated, so that her body arches the firmament. 5 The Hawk-headed Lord of Strength, the Avenger of Osiris’ death. Usually shown as a Not mine own pains create these prayers : For them I claim the living Breath. O Lord Osiris,’ bend and bring All winters to thy sign of Spring ! Poor folly mine: I cannot see Save from one corner of one star ! So many millions over me; So many, and the next, how far! O Wisdom-crowned Ta-hu-ti,? lend Thy magic: let my light extend !3 I cannot comprehend one truth. My sight is biassed, and my mind— One snake-skin th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 93
…er; thou proud God That marshallest these petty thunder-clouds That blacken over the inane abyss But canst not tame one fierce desire of mine, Nor satiate my hatred, nor destroy This power of mine over thy devil-brood, The hatchment of thine incest, O thou God Who knowest me, me, mortal me, thy master, Thy master—and I laugh at thee, the slave ! Down from Thy throne, impostor, down, down, down To thine own Hell, immeasurable— O thou A VOICE. Strike| [The storm, gathering to a climax, bursts in a tremendous flash of lightning, and JARED zs kille…
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THE COURT OF THE PROFANE 167 Thy jet smooth body clung to mine awhile, Descending lke the thunder - pregnant night. Ominous, black, thy secret cruel smile Lured me. We lay like death; until the light Thy jet smooth body clung to mine awhile ! Thou wast a lion as an angel then, In copper-glowing lands that gnaws the prey He has regotten from the tribes of men. _ We lay like passion all that deadly day—- Thou wast a lion as an angel then ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover, Great hater of my body as my soul, To whom I gave my life and …
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…r a synthesized explanation of this ! entire philosophy. | 2 Commonty known as the Matterhorn. * In this volume and throughout Crowlcy’s Mine was the holy fire that drew Its perfect passion from the dew, And all the flowers that blushed and blew On sunny slopes by little brooks. Mine the desire that brushed aside The thorns, and would not be denied, And sought, more eager than a bride, The cold grey secrets wan and wide of sacred books. Thine was the hand that guided me By moor and mountain, vale and lea, And led me to the sudden sea That lies …
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… am the priest, the sacrifice, the shrine, I am the love and life of the divine ! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, are surely mine— Are mine ! Venus am I, the love and light of earth, The wealth of kisses, the delight of tears, The barren pleasure never come to birth, The endless, infinite desire of years. I am the shrine at which thy long desire Devoured thee with intolerable fire. I was song, music, passion, death, upon thy lyre— Thy lyre!
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…hose body melts as fire caught in wine Into the clasping soul? Whose breathing breasts control Her heart’s quick pulsing, and the sob of mine? O Venus, lady Venus, thou it is Whose fierce immortal kiss Abides upon me, about me, and within : Thou, lady of the secret of the Sea, Made one for love with me, Love and desire and dream, a sense of mortal sin ! Who cometh as a visionary shape Within my soul and spirit to abide, Mysterious labyrinth without escape, Magical lover, and enchanted bride? O Mother of my will! Set thy live body still Unto my …
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…e fairy throat, Whose clear trills float And dive and run about the crystal deep As sweet as sleep. Only, fas: loveof this full heart of mine, There lacks the wine Our kisses might pour out for them; they wait, And we are late; Only, my flower of all the world, the thrush (You hear him? Hush !) Lingers, and sings not to his fullest yet : Our love shall get Such woodland welcome as none ever had To make it glad. Come, it is time, cling closer to my hand. We understand. We must go forth together, not to part. O perfect heart ! O little heart that…
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…t All life, death, hatred, love : All self concentred in the sole desire— Hear thou the Voice of Fire! This hope was Zoroaster’s—this is mine! Not one but many splendours hath the Shrine: Not one but many paths approach the gate That guards the Adytum, fortifying Fate ! Mine was, by weariness of blood and brain, Mere bitter fruit of pain Sought in the darkness of an harlot’s bed, To make me as one dead : To loose the girders of the soul, and gain Breathing and life for the Intelligible; Find death, yet findit living. Deep as Hell I plunged the …
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…ul love, And be the sun to ripen and the rain To water it. My soul became the bride To its own body, and my body leapt With passion from mine own imperial loins Begotten, and made strong from my own soul To answer it. I hail thee, son of mine, Thou royal offspring of a kingly sire, Less kingly for the single flower of love! I hail thee, son, the secret spouse of me, King of my body and this realm to-day ! For lo! the child leapt up within my womb, Hailing me mother, and my spirit leapt, Hailing him brother! Son and spouse and king, Eexulting fa…