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Page 101 of 1121907 · PDF PAGE 73
…sense of delight! O assent Slow dawning through cream into roses ! white bosom shaking The myrtles of magical scent In the groves of the heart! O the pleasure that runs over all overmeasure, The wine of Event ! O Overmastered the hurl of the world in the hush of our rapture ; Entangled the bird of success Inthesnare of bewildering fancies. Wecapture Delight in the toils of a tress Rough gilded of sunlight and umber with virginal shadows of slumber— Ah ! sorrow, regress ! Till the idle abyss of eternity swoon to our pinions With music of wings a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…nees, and he for the first time appears a little awkward and at a loss.| Uncle, you cannot be in earnest. Why, Pll kill myself first—the heart rises at it—God forbids such marriages. Will you dishonour your white hair? ALAIN. Nay, mistress, I will save my brother's memory from shame. BLANCHE, O sir, pity me. There is not a woman in the world but would prefer death to such an union. Is it possible [fa/ters] that you still think this [fozzts to Dinys, who stands embarrassed and ashamed] to be the man ? ALAIN. Frankly, I do. But let me explain to …
1905 · PDF PAGE 149
…ody sought his home, Whose double incarnation is divine Beyond the old stories. Yes, Iam a god. AMENTATEP. Beware the fatal magic of her heart ! For she is great and evil, and her voice Howls blasphemy against yet living gods. Thou knowest not the story of thy birth, The truth. S’AFI. Then speak the truth, if so a priest May tune his tongue to anything but lies. AMENHATEP. Sixteen strange seasons mingle gold and grey Since in this very temple she, the Queen, Spake, and threw open to our reverent gaze A royal womb made pregnant with that seed Of…
1905 · PDF PAGE 201
… light ; My soul is filled with the eternal love; I am the brother of the Day and Night. I AM! my spirit, and perhaps my mind ! But O my heart! I left thy love behind ! A RELIGIOUS BRINGING-UP. WiTH this our ‘‘ Christian” parents marred our youth; ‘One thing is certain of our origin. We are born Adam’s bastards into sin, Servants to Death and Time’s devouring tooth. God, damning most, had this one thought of ruth To save some dozens—-Us : and by the skin Of teeth to save us from the devil’s gin— Repentance! Blood! Prayer! Sackcloth! This is tru…
1910 · PDF PAGE 352
…“little bit of fluff”? Now don’t be too bored or too serious, Joseph, be a good fellow even towards those who are unlike you, for a good heart is worth a dozen good heads and heaven only knows how many bad ones. Eat your “scoff” and enjoy it; give the girl a kiss—even if among the boats; and shake hands with the Chaplain— after all he probably agreed with you over the Boulter Case. Here surely is a link between you! Drop the “insufferable” and the “Christmas-card-curate” description of him, use your tea-spoon like an ordinary decent Christian a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 352
…“little bit of fluff”? Now don’t be too bored or too serious, Joseph, be a good fellow even towards those who are unlike you, for a good heart is worth a dozen good heads and heaven only knows how many bad ones. Eat your “scoff” and enjoy it; give the girl a kiss—even if among the boats; and shake hands with the Chaplain— after all he probably agreed with you over the Boulter Case. Here surely is a link between you! Drop the “insufferable” and the “Christmas-card-curate” description of him, use your tea-spoon like an ordinary decent Christian a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
…he pangs of night My shuddering body swoons; my eyes Absorb her eyelids’ lazy light, And read her bosom to devise I'resh blossoms of the heart of hell And secret joys of Jezebel. Her lips are fastened to my breast To suck out blood in feverish tides ; The token of her I possessed, Still on my withered cheek abides. Thus slowly the desire grows To kill and have her yet—who knows? Part II. T know. When Ramoth-Gilead's field Grew bloody with hot ranks of dead, IT smote amain with sword and shield ; My brows with mingled blood were red ; And on my …
1905 · PDF PAGE 265
…USER. Define, give utterance to this ‘‘Good.”” You see God slips you, He the Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise! Not anything at all That heart can grasp, or reason fram’, or soul Shadow the sense of ! ELIZABETH. He is far too great ! I see! TANNHAUSER. Not great! The consciousness of man Their many generations moulded so To fix in definite ideas, and clothe Their Maker in the rags. If sk?es are vast, So gems are tiny : who shall choose between? Who reads the riddle of the Universe? All words! Thus, from his rock-wrought peeking-point Out speers…
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…Lighting the dull sky with a slumberous glow ; Hear the strange sounds of winter chaunt; Feel the keen wisdom of the winter thrill Young hearts with passionate foretaste Of death in some wild waste Of deserts darkening at some wild god’s will, Of frozen steppes awaiting the repose That only death discovers, never sleep. My misery is this That I must wake to childhood gold and rose, And maidenhood, and wifehood, and still keep Bound on Life’s fatal wheel—revolv- ing bliss. O that worn wisdom and the age of sorrow Could learn its bitter lesson, a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
… to the poor watchmen then to drink your Excellency’s health, and luck to your honour’s love. Ah! we're gay when we’re young—I’ve a sweetheart myself. FLORIMOND, And now be off! [Grves money. Lxeunt. Cold !—the devil! Ah! but to-night— at last I shall touch my Blanche. May Blanche warm me well with a hearty kiss! The little white cat! Three months! And I’ve not so much as exchanged a word. There must bean end to all that. Faith, but she makes me think of Biondetta, that I knew in the Italian campaign. O my Blanche! One moment, and I am in thine…
1907 · PDF PAGE 147
… sound, as spring Had whispered, ‘ Follow.’ hiding in her wing Her glorious head and flowing breast of wine. Though in the hollow of her heart be set So deep and awful a fire, though the net Of all her robes be frail as we are fine, We gather, listening to the living lyre Like falling water shot with amber fire, And blown aloft by winds even to heaven’s desire. Deep starry gems set in a silver sea, Sullen low voices of dark minstrelsy, Light whispers of strange loves, of silver woven, Dumb kisses and wild laughter following: All these as lives …
1905 · PDF PAGE 198
…st see thee as thou art! Then on my withered gaze that Beauty grew— Rosy quintessence of alchemic dew ! The Self-informing Beauty! In my heart The many were united: and I knew. Smitten by Beauty down I fell as dead— So strikes the sunlight on a miner’s head. Blind, stricken, crushed! That vast efful- gence stole, Flooded the caverns of my secret soul, And gushed in waves of weeping. I was wed Unto a part, and could not grasp the whole. Thus, I was broken on the wheel of Truth. Fled all the hope and purpose of my youth, The high desire, the secr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
…hole. I love my wife. The many-coloured throne Of Grecian meadows hath nor charm nor lure Now she is gone. Lamenting and alone My dulled heart aches, most that it must endure. Give this decree, O masters! Few the days And light the hours since Heracles de- scended The dusky steep, the intolerable ways, And one prey—Theseus—from your prisons rended By might of godhead and the skill of man. But now with music from a Muse’s breast Sweetened with milk of tenderness, I scan Your eyes with hope, and with a man’s unrest And a man’s purpose I appeal. B…
1938 · PDF PAGE 25
…trength, saith the Lord of the Aeon, and ye shall turn not back for any. While he thus spoke, I felt constantly in myself a cleansing of heart; and my stature was increased, because of the straightening of my nature. And as I thought thus, mine instructor, perceiving it, smiled upon me saying: In truth, O Khaled Khan, O child of the dawn of the Aeon, thou hast divined aright and profited in thy being by the Law of Thelema. For the Law is a just Law; it demandeth not the crooked knee of slavery, and the bowed head of shame. Nay, shouldst thou sp…
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…, riding ever to the stubborn east, I came upon a shore whose ocean bent In one long curve, where folk were making feast. at So with no ‘heart to feast, I joined the mirth, Mingled the dances that delight the earth, And laughing looked in every face of guile. Quick was my glance and subtle was my smile; Ten thousand little loves were brought to birth, Ten thousand loves that laughed a little while. No; for one woman did not laugh, too wise ! But came so close, and looked within my eyes So deeply that I saw not anything. Only her eyes grew, as a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 216
…egnant Goddess is delivered ! Happy, yea, happy ! happy is he That hath looked forth upon the Bier That goeth to the House of Rest ! His heart is lit with melody ; Peace in his house is master of fear ; His holy Name is in the West ‘When the sun sinks, and royal rays Of moonrise flash across the day’s! I have risen! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the world enfold. I alight in mighty splendour from the thronéd boats of light; Companies of Spirits follow me; adore the Lords of Night. Yea, with…
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
… ye shall have me to keep. A The sleep-god laments, and the love goddess pardons, When love atthe last sinks unweary to sleep. The green-hearted hours shall burst into flowers. The winds shall waft roses from uttermost Ind. Our nuptial dowers shall be birds in our bowers, Our couches the delicate heaps of the wind, Where the lily-bloom showers all its light, and the powers Of earth in our twinning are wedded and twinned. So singing I make reverence and retire; Not with high words of worship fairly flung To that sad monarch from the magic lyre, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 129
…l-simulated lore Of learning, Baal’s great hierarchs go Into the gold god’s graven shell And moan the ambiguous oracle. In my own inmost heart I feel, Deep as a pearl in seas of Ind, A vision, keen as tempered steel, Lofty and holy as the wind, And brighter than the living sun : If these be gods, then there is none ! Baal and Jehovah, Ashtoreth And Chemosh and these Elohim, Life’s pandars in the brothel, Death! Cloudy imaginings, a dream Built up of fear and words and woe. All, all my soul must overthrow. For these are devils, nothing doubt ! Y…
1906 · PDF PAGE 137
…MAURYA. I did not mean to jest. As brother to sister? CRIOSDA. Ah! that hurts, that hurts. Maurya. I am heavy? Criospa. Ileavy as my own heart’s fear, MAuRYA. You fear? Am Jin fault? Is Maurya maid The foe to Maurya goddess? CRIOSDA. Ah, indeed! Maurya. Is not the work nigh ready? [CRIOSDA grips his caduceus, which he has dropped, and presses it savagely to his breast. Then, with a mingled burst of ferocity and joy, dashes MAURYA aside to the ground, reaches his hand towards the empty throne, apostrophising it, and cries with a strident laugh:
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…And bare breasts tinctured with the south. For lo! the harlot Jezebel ! Her hands dropped perfume, and her tongue (A flame from the dark heart of hell, The ivory-barred mouth, that stung With unimaginable pangs) Shot out at me, and Hell fixed fangs. Her purple robes, her royal crown, The jewelled girdle of her waist, Her feet with murder splashed, and brown With the sharp lips that fawn and taste, The crimson snakes that minister To those unwearying lusts of her. And all her woman’s scent did drift A steam of poison through the air; The haze of…