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… and goblin , are but the fairies of Grimm or Andersen , or the gnomes who spring through the flooring of Drury Lane to the amazement of little children . The human first adores images , then imaginations ; the little girl who loves her doll will neglect it to tend her youngest little brother or sister , whom she will kiss and pinch in the true fashion of the human ; and when scarcely in her teens will commence those necessary and attractive adornments to enable her shortly to have a real little doll of her own . The little boy will forsake his…
1907 · PDF PAGE 298
…rand stage of the world on which the great actors have played their part , and have retired behind the So once more , much to the joy of little children , the little Rationalias , the little Secularias , the harlequinade has again begun . Sinbad has sailed away with all his treasure ; Aladdin has departed , and has not forgotten to take with him his wonderful lamp . No more Jinn are to be unbottled from their sleep of a thousand years ; the moon - faced ones have passed away , some singing , some laughing , some weeping ; and in their place hav…
1907 · PDF PAGE 203
…the present remain dark , and though at first the neophyte may think that the following solution , which I trust I shall be able in some little way to explain , is but one on a similar footing to that as set forward by those super naturalists who dogmatize concerning credo quia ab surdum , I must bid him now at the very outset re member , that “ except he become as a little child , he can in no way enter into the kingdom of heaven "; and further , becoming as a little child it must be re membered that it is as child - like to grasp at that whic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…weet notes of love , soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly . Here are the jewels of Heaven , of Havilah , and of Eden , with not a little of the fire of Hell , the flames of Gehenna , and the darkness of Dûat . If we look for pyramids and colossi disappointment will be our lot ; we cannot hold , as Hanuman of Ind , a mountain in one hand and a forest in the other , neither can we gaze on a celestial Meru or Olympus ; but as we look , and here it is only the searcher who is rewarded , we find a little jewel , then another , and still anoth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…idence of (the poet's ) plain speaking, have been wantonly misunderstood . The volume , as a whole , is neither profane nor indecent . A little more clothing in our uncertain climate might perhaps have been attended with advantage . To us this volume , for the first time , conclusively settles that Mr. is not a mere brilliant rhetorician or melodious twanger of another man's lyre , but authentically a poet ." So writes the critic . The name I have omitted is that of the last of the great Victorian poets , Algernon Charles Swinburne . In the dyi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…ine we however have , as the poet says “ leprous entanglements of sense " ; here is a magnificent pas sage heated with passion and not a little lust : Breast to great breast and thigh to thigh , We look , and strain , and laugh , and die . I see the head hovering above To swoop for cruelty or love ; I feel the swollen veins below The knotted throat , the ebb and flow Of blood , not milk , in breasts of fire ; Of deaths , not fluctuants , of desire ; Of molten lava that abides Deep in the vast volcanic sides ; Deep scars where kisses once bit in…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
… shows , by quoting the parable of the sheep and the goats , that the historical (?) Christ was to a great extent devoid of pity , and a little further on in the same poem , “ Ascension Day ,” that he was but a cantankerous divider and obstreperous upstart : Give me omnipotence ? To call me God I would exert That power to heal creation's hurt ; Not to divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm , a fire , a thirst for these ; A harp - resounding heaven for those !4 Concerning the mother of the eternal God , Crowley has li…
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…dulterers ” where women , the frailer sex , are the unfortunate victims . Man made God , and God made woman out of one of man's wretched little ribs . Regardless of manners , man sucks the wretched little bone as he would the leg of a chicken , tears off the flesh and casts it into the bin . The masses are but sheep , following the bell - wether convention ; deprive them of their initial , and they become neither lambs nor tigers but merely asses . Ahinoam in “ Jephthah " well described them when he addressed the assembled multitude as : 1 Ye a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
…y ; a morphia maniac also appears ,—this is Percy . Glenstrae is now the President of the Children's Special Service Mission -suffer the little children , etc. And Angela the head of a Zenana Mission . “ Think of the poor heathen kept in such terrible seclusion ! ” The end is as farcical as Society herself . Angela is suffocated in sulphuric acid whilst washing off her enamel , and Glenstrae sawn into thirty -eight pieces whilst playing with little children , by stumbling against a circular saw . · His Lordship was very fond of children , as yo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…girlhood which forms the better drift of vice , the first to be swallowed in the social Maelstrom . Yes : Nina was a thing of nought , A little laughing lewd gamine , Idle and vicious , void of thought , Easy , impertinent , unclean Utterly charming ! Yes , my queen ! She had a generous baby soul, Prattled of love . Should I control , Repress , perhaps, the best instinct The child had ever had ? I winked At foolish neighbours , did not shirk . Such café Turc I made her drink As she had never had before ; Set her where you are sitting ; chatted …
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
… sunny bars, And watched where through the silence of the lawn Came Charicles , the darling of the dawn , Slowly , and to his steps took little heed ; He came towards the pool , his god -wrought reed Shrilling dim visions of things glorious , And saw the maiden , that disported thus , And worshipped. . . ? As Percy , “ a moment , and he flashed towards her side. " He clasps her to his breast , kisses her , is dis mayed : Her perfect eyelids drooped , her warm cheek paled, A tear stole over it.3 He is tender , pitiful, this is no Angela . My per…
1907 · PDF PAGE 204
THE NEW WINE 197 down to Hell . He may become spontaneously , in the twinkling of an eye , a St. Francis preaching to his little sisters the birds , or Egg - Nogg who persists in a state of abnormal flatulency , because he considers himself identical with a bottle of ginger - beer . The state of illumination above mentioned is by no means an easy one to attain to , and the study of philosophy alone helps us , if we follow it under the shaded light of a critical scepticism ; for as a chemist reduces his compounds to their component parts , and t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…t us now see how the ideas in his own poems correspond . In the case of Nina, we have already seen that a good heart can throb in a lewd little breast , and can overcome all except a false society ; which overwhelms it not by bravery , or craft , or even by cunning , but by the dull and stunning power of a leaden club . In the “ Honourable Adulterers " we find a poem strik ingly reminiscent of “ Alice ," a boundless , and what Ydgrunites would call “ an illicit love ,” but more , a well - aimed shaft against the horrors of the social marriage t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…nce experienced in himself , and also the pleasure he felt was being ex perienced by the participator of his actions , changes , growing little by little from a spark into a flaming volcano of scorching pain , which he alone seeks , find ing new pleasures in the pain he himself endures , and fresh pleasures in the pain he himself inflicts . This is Lust . Peopled with all the horrors of inversion , we pass from the simple realms of prostitution , to the dismal Kingdoms of Sodom and Lesbos . Paederasts and Tribades flock round us , yet we break …
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…ern main , And turn with no heart -pang the vessel's beak Out to the oceans that all seamen seek. Another , this time a weird , charming little picture of a lewd little mistress with " a generous baby soul," 2 · Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol. I, p. 120. The woman is technically a harlot . 3 Ibid . vol. i, p. 121.
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…d as ever wooed nymph on the shaded slopes of Ida . Much has been written concerning stars , both terres trial and celestial , and not a little regarding that cap ricious star which gleamed over the humble manger bed of the Son of Man . Dark seas of blood have long since lapped that star of the morning into the crimson oblivion of day , whose empurpled strife has also rumbled into the distance as the droning of some drowsy fire - finger on the sleeping parchment of life , murmuring and moaning as the wind - kissed mouth of a dreamy drum . Yet w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
…s my vivid will ? My carcass with quinine is crammed ; I wish South India were damned ; I wish I had my mother's nursing , Find precious little use in cursing , And slide to leaning on another , God , or the doctor , or my mother . But , dare you quote my fevered word For better than my health averred ? The brainish fancies of a man Hovering on delirium's brink : Shall these be classed his utmost span ? All that he can or ought to think ? No ! the strong man and self -reliant Is the true spiritual giant . I blame no weaklings , but decline To t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…liar to our ears , set like a gem in the gold of the narrative . The following rondel I choose for its simplicity and sweetness : Sing , little bird , it is dawn ; Cry ! with the day the woods ring ; Now in the blush of the morn , Sing ! Love doth enchain me and cling , Love , of the breeze that is born , Love , with the breeze that takes wing . Love that is lighter than scorn , Love that is strong as a king , Love , through the gate that is horn , Sing ! The anger of Zeus is aroused . Aphrodite bids Charicles flee , but his passion is too grea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
…us we listen to the glittering and mystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . Beyond the splendour of the world , False glittering of the gold , A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom's sacred cold . Life is the flaming of that flame . Death is the naming of that name . That star upon the serpent's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
…sical , we find in “ The Spring after, ” of “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic " : No smallest cloud between me and my bride Came like a little mist ; one tender fear, Too sweet to speak of, closed the dying year 1 The Mother's Tragedy , vol. i, p. 157. ? Ibid . vol. i, p. 161.