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…me a prosti tute in body , and a virgin in spirit . He , Zeus , is weary of women's old lascivious breed ,” and of “ the large luxurious lips of Ganymede .” No freshness , no restraint , no virgin breast, no lips “ without a taint of lewd imagining ,” all the nymphs of those green wooded slopes , all are as brazen and cold as the meretrices of a suburrian lupanar , the fire of love having burnt itself out to the ashen lassitude of satiety . At length the god finds her asleep under some shady tree , and creeps towards her - little loath To waken…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
… till his tortured mind Drove his young limbs , the wolf that hunts the hind , Far through the forest . 1 And then again bursts from his lips the enraptured song : Ere the grape of joy is golden With the summer and the sun , Ere the maidens unbeholden Gather one by one , To the vineyard comes the shower , No sweet rain to fresh the flower , But the thunder rain that cleaves , Rends and ruins tender leaves . Ere the crimson lips have planted Paler roses , warmer grapes , Ere the maiden breasts have panted , And the sunny shapes Flit around to bl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
… are the guests of these amorous shades.2 The virility of lust is vividly illustrated in “ The Blood -Lotus " : Foam whips their reeking lips , and still the flower -witch nestles to my lips , Twines her swart lissome legs and hips , half serpent and half devil , till My whole self seems to lie in her ; her kisses draw my breath ; my face Loses its lustre in the grace of her quick bosom ; sinister The raving spectres reel ; I see beyond my Circe's eyes no shape Save vague cloud - measures that escape the dance's whirling witchery . Clothed with…
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62 THE STAR IN THE WEST And he with open lips voluptuous Closed her sweet mouth with kisses, and so pressed Her sobbing bosom with a manlier breast That .. She submits , not to the god , but to the man . Within the god , the godhood vanishes ; for the power of love rules all , and the god once again becomes in carnated in the form of a divine man .” So the morning past And found them linked inexorably fast Each in the other's arms . Their lips are wed To drink the breezes from the fountain - head Of vers ' breath .3 Then all her senses leap to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
… , “ prodigious offspring of the fatal graft ?” But the present is a sublime kiss , and the future as hollow as the emblem of two parted lips , “ while love was hovering and our lips were fain ? ” Soon the parting draws nigh , he attempts to detain her ; but he knows he must in evitably fail , as he knew his first kiss must inevitably lead to their great love and surrender . They spend the last melancholy day together : Strong kisses that had surfeited a score Of earthly bridals in an hour we squandered .? And at last : THE FIFTIETH DAY At noon…
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…sulted by her son , she still dares kiss him : Why I dare Now take your head between my hands and kiss Your forehead with these shameful lips of mine, These harlot lips , and kiss you unashamed ? ? Outraged , ravished by the offspring of her vice , yet child of her heart , she still can say as she sees him stand before her , a fiendish monster , with the bloody razor with which he has just slain Madeline , a pure and innocent girl : Kill yourself. Such was her love , her duty to her motherhood ; very different indeed was the love of Ratoum . Bu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 188
… , that its soul rises sublime purifying all ; our personality purified by death the great Time Soul lies cradled in our own as the four lips of two lovers are in their bridal kiss . Alone by trampling life's grapes do we gain the vintage of the Soul , the Medean draught of rejuvenescence . The whole of this wonderful philosophy the poet sums up in the following two verses of extraordinary and extravagant power : XXVIII . Aubrey attained in sleep when he dreamt this Wonderful dream of women , tender child And harlot , naked all , in thousands p…
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THE MOTHER 143 1 lips of the age -worn Sphinx , is one-Rosa Inferni, Rosa Coeli , for that which is below is as that which is above . The latter has still to be published , but the petals of its bursting bud have already in many a fair verse made bright the pages of this essay . ' Twixt these twain we find Rosa Mundi , “ the keystone of the Royal Arch of Sex " : Single in love and aim , Double in form and name ,? that arch which rests on the two great pillars of Solomon's temple , black and white , and contrary , yet their power is one , for th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…n struck with the horror of the still small voice , he bids God break his unrepentant will , and let the kiss of life : XXI . Melt on my lips to flame , fling back the gates of Dis ! This is the true conquest of life , the salvation of a soul wandering through the mazy depths of existence . At length filled with the experience of worldly things seeking the Sublime , he finds it. The kingdom of Dis , the terrors of Death are vanquished , “ and , like this in substantial pageant faded , leave not a rack behind .” Yet how difficult is all this wit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
…e Lamb of God, sprang from the immaculate womb of the Virgin -Mother , so shall this second incarnation spring blood -red from the snowy lips of the great Supernal Mother , androgynous, the Circe - Isis of the ages . In “ Alice , an Adultery ,” we see a woman passionate in her love , strenuous in her affection , yet in the end failing by abandoning her lover for her children . Not so , however , in “ Rosa Inferni ,” wherein we feel, as we read , a ferocity of passion which burns into us like a hail of molten glass : Aha ! the veil is riven ! Be…
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… . Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis , oh ye brave hearts , and cool eyes , and trembling lips ! I will put a live coal upon your lips , and flowers upon your eyes , and a sword in your hearts , and ye also shall see God face to face . Thus shall we give back its youth to the world , for like tongues of triple flame we shall brood upon the Great Deep - Hail unto the Lords of the Groves of Eleusis !' That which was to be said hereon is spoken , Amen without lie , Amen and Amen of Amen . 1 Eleusis , …
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…s Mes saline in “ The Jilt,” in which her new -found lover feasts off the agony of her last victim , which still moistens her blood -red lips : His death lends savour to our passionate life ; His is the heart I taste upon your tongue ; His death -spasms our love -spasms , my wife ; His death -songs are the love -songs that you sung ! Ah ! Sweet , each kiss I drink from you is warm With the dear life -blood of a man-a man ! The scent of murder lures me , like a charm Tied by some subtlety Canidian . Ay ! as you suck my life out into bliss, Its h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
…ceeding pain ?" Nay but to give my soul to thee , And have thee spit at me again !” She smiled - I know she smiled - she sighed , Bit my lips through , and drank , and died ! My veins poured out her marriage cup , For holy water her cruel tongue ; For blessing of white hands raised up , These perfumed infamies unsung ; For God's breath , her sharp tainted breath ; For marriage - bed , the bed of death . The host is lifted up . Behold The vintage spilt , the broken bread ! I feast upon the cruel cold Pale body that was ripe and red . Only , her …
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…e ." 2 Thus all changeability is uncertainty , from the Gods and the Suns which we worship , to the kisses we shower on our loved ones ' lips ; as Crowley sings : Why must despair to madness drive The myriad fools that fear to die ? God's but a fervid phantom drawn Out of the hasty - ordered hive Of thoughts that battle agony In the melancholy hours of dawn . When vital force at lowest ebbs Anæmic nerves weave frailest webs.3 And the five senses stand naked and shivering in the freezing night of doubt , the fire is dead , and on the hearth crou…
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…s are well worth quoting : We weep them as they slip away ; we gaze Back on the likeness of the former days , The hair we fondle and the lips we kiss Roses grow yellow and no purple stays . . Why not with time ? To - morrow we may see The circle ended - if to - morrow be 1 Oracles , vol . ii, p . 13 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 191 .
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…ce stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, Laughed with strong scorn , whose music knelled The empire of God's universe. And on my haggard face upturned She spat ! Ah God ! how my cheek burned ! Then as a man betrayed , and doomed Already , I arose and went , And wrestled with myself, consumed With passion for that sacrament Of shame . From that day unto this My cheek desires that hideous kiss. Her hate , her scorn , her crue…
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…loat are the gales In our slumberous sails On the beautiful breast of the Nile . are We have swooned through the midday exhausted By the lips -- they are whips - of the sun , The horizon befogged and befrosted By the haze and the grays and the dun Of the whirlings of sand Let loose on the land By the wind that is born of the sun . Thrilled through to the marrow with heat We abode ( as we glode ) on the river . Every arrow he launched from his seat , Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 86 .
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… With agony of sundering sense , beholding Thy mighty flower , blood - coloured death , unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled , Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus , the false Isis , Life ! Life ! This Kiss ! Draw in thy breath ! To me ! To me ! He is lost ! Act II opens with two beautiful songs . Venus sings the praise of spring and summer , and Tannhäuser that of autumn and winter . He finds the latter chill season the best : But best is grim Decembe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 185
…s no other choice : XIV . Thou must breathe in all poisons ; for thy meat , Poison ; for drink , still poison ; for thy kiss , serpent's lips ! ... Then the verse continues , and we see if we may so ex press it, the great nuptials with the Lords of Lust : An agony is this That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands , thy feet Ooze blood , thine eyes weep blood ; thine anguish is More keen than death . At last — there is no deeper vault of hell beneath ! Then comes the great reward . We have travelled knee deep through the mire of life , yet if o…
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… the store of love ! I lowly bend Before thee : I invoke thee at the end When other gods are fallen and put to scorn . Thy foot is to my lips ; my sighs unborn Rise , touch and curl about thy heart ; they spend 1 W. E. Henley , Rodin in Rime , vol . iii, p . 119 .