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Page 102 of 1121907 · PDF PAGE 85
…o go, stops.| Sir, you are young, you think me a hard man, and perhaps a coward. Remember, pray, that the tears of age are frozen at the heart ere they can spring to the eyes. You may yet think better of the lonely old Sire de Malétroit, and the honour of his house may one day be your own. [Axzt. [BLANCHE comes over to DENYS, who remains leaning heavily on the table. BLANCHE. Oh, sir, how cruelly have I done in my girl’s folly, to bring a gallant gentleman to such a pass. DENYS. Ah ! life isa little thing, fairlady. [Szgzs, gradually getting pl…
1939 · PDF PAGE 42
…ident, that you all jump about busily like frogs when not seriously levitated; and that your Mantra is as regular as the beating of your heart. The remaining four limbs of Yoga are Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. I will give you the definition of all four at a single stroke, as each one to some extent explains the one following. Pratyahara may be roughly described as introspection, but it also means a certain type of psychological experience. For instance, you may suddenly acquire a conviction, as did Sir Humphry Davy, that the univers…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…reme desire, Mingling, tingling, mixed with thee Even to all Eternity. These, and all that of them is, Take from Calliope in this Single-hearted, many mouthéd, kiss. ORPIHIEUS, SEATED UPON OLYM.- PUS, TUNES HIS LYRE. ORPHEUS. First word of my song, First tune of my lyre, Muse, loved of me long, Be near and inspire! Bright heart! Mother strong! Sweet sense of desire ! Be near as I lift the first notes impassioned of fervour and fire! Not ever before Since Nature began Hath one cloven her core, Found the soul of her span ; No son that she bore He…
1905 · PDF PAGE 146
…-wrought glades, and softly mur- muring seas, Lands white with summer, and the guiet leas ! Linger, and let no word of music thrill Your hearts; young love is all the harp ye need : Your kiss in very deed Is keen to echo song well tuned from Milton’s reed. O lovers, and ye happy groves that hear Their whispers, and ye vales that know their feet, And all ye mountains that incline your ear To the still murmur of the love-lorn sphere, And all ye caves their murmurs who repeat; Your music throbs in unison with mine ; The world is flushed with wine …
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
…ly thy victorious sword ! Wagner ! creator of a world of light As beautiful as God’s, bend down to me, And whisper me the secrets of thy heart, That I may follow and dispel the night, And fight life through, a comrade unto thee, Under Love’s banner, with the sword of Art! THE TWO EMOTIONS. [low barren is the Valley of Delight ! Swift the gaunt hounds that nose the warm close trail Ofall my love’s content ; in vain I veil My seeret of remorse ; from their keen sight And scent my poor deception takes to flight. I borrow perfume from young loves w…
1905 · PDF PAGE 202
… the dead ; Yet am I not unaware of the splendour of the height, Yet am I lapped in the glory of the Sun of Life and Light :— Even so my heart looks out from the harbour of God’s breast, Out from the shining stars where it entered into rest— Once more it seeks in memory for reverence, not regret, ; And it loves you still, my sisters! as God shall not forget. It is ill to blaspheme the silence with a wicked whispered thought— How still they were, those nights ! when this web of things was wrought ! How still, how terrible! O my dolorous tender b…
1905 · PDF PAGE 236
…cross the cloven sky ; Stripped off thy body of mortality— - Nay, but on steeper slopes my love shall Strive ! Our bodies perish and our hearts revive Vainly, unless the shaking sense beware The crested snakes shot trembling through our hair, Their wisdom ! unite, One crownéd column of avenging light, Fixed and yet floating, infinite, immense, Caught in the meshes of the cruel sense, Two kissing breaths of agony and pleasure, Mixed, crowned, divided. beyond age or measure, Time, thought, or being! Now thine eyes awake, Droop at my kisses ; the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 225
… to uncover her wing ; Through skies that be hollow and vaulted Exulting the shouts of him ring: The Sign of the Spring. How hollows the heart of the heaven ! How light swells his voice for a cry ! The winter is shaken and riven, And death and the fruits of him die. The billow roars back to its tyrant, The wind; the red thunderbolts roar 5 The flame and the earthquake aspirant Leap forth as an herald before The trumpet of war. In crimson he robes him for raiment, In armour all rusted and red : Spear shakes and sword flashes, exclaimant To share…
1906 · PDF PAGE 130
…took pleasure in the seeing, And the full rapture of well-being. Would God that I had stayed, and smote My favourite captain through the heart, Caught my young daughter by the throat, And torn her life and limbs apart, Stabbed my queen dead : remorse for these Might ape, not match, these miseries. For, hard behind the palace gate, I spied a vineyard fair and fine, Hanging with purple joy, and weight Of golden rapture of the vine: And there I bade my charioteer Stay, and bid Naboth to appear. The beast! <A gray, deceitful man, With twisted mouth…
1905 · PDF PAGE 164
…d in the all-absorbing love of him My child, my child! And now my selfishness Is shamed, and J have made the sacrifice To give this pure heart to that maidenly, And let mine old age grow upon my hair, Finding my happiness in seeing him The all-devoted, and in God’s good pleasur Have little children playing at my knees, That I may listen, in their innocent prayers, For Jesus’ voice. And I will never break The secret of his being to my boy Lest he despise me. ‘This one reticence I think my long-drawn agony may earn. For I will do without a mother…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…ll to anything, Work and be sober: dotage thinks By worth of words to slay the Sphinx. > X. Things as they are—of these take hold, Their heart of wonder throb to thine! All things are matter and force and sense, No two alone. All’s one: the gold Of truth is no reward divine Of faith, but wage of evidence. The clod, the God, the spar, the star Mete in thy measure, as they are! XI. So lifts the agony of the world From this mine head, that bowed awhile Before the terror suddenly shown. The nameless fear for self, far hurled By death to dissolution…
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
…this is torn and rended— Scorned and forsaken the lone lyre lies. Hath that not yet some sympathy with me? That lyre that was myself, my heart’s decree And ruler, subtle at the dawn, and splendid Noonwards, and soft at day’s declivity! I flung it in my anguish to the ground, I raise it, and its music hath not found One string or snapped or loosened, and the tune Is the old triumph garlanded and crowned ! Folly and hate! Blithe mockery of sorrow ! Shrill me no harsh lies of some sweet to- morrow !1 Soothe me no hateful mysteries of the moon, How…
1929 · PDF PAGE 318
…h, I mean contrary to my interest and hope in A.'.. By wicked I mean contrary to my will. A.'. goodish; lengthy and reverie-like. Yet my heart is well. I spake it audibly. Before this time I had been haunted by the first of the two terrible doubts which I subsequently described in sections 36 and 38 of Sir Palamedes, but during the abominable "wind draught" of the first week of March I had made a partial image of this doubt in the "King-Ghost". I did not understand the essence of the doubt and it is hard to explain it in prose, even now. It see…
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
…ul; you loose the torrent stream Of my desire ; you make my lips your prize, And on them burns the whole life’s hope: you deem You buy a heart; but I am well aware How my damnation dwells in that supreme
1906 · PDF PAGE 229
…ass into the S. P. P., and that utterly ! With that our Father sighed deep and laid back his reverend head, and was silent. But from his heart came a subtle voice of tenderest fare- well, so that we knew him well dead. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not, but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about tis body; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, yat they might poss…
1943 · PDF PAGE 5
LIBER CL DE LEGE LIBELLUM L L L L L PREFACE. THE LAW Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In righteousness of heart come hither, and listen; for it is I, TO MEGA THERION, who gave this Law unto everyone that holdeth himself holy. It is I, not another, that willeth your whole Freedom, and the arising within you of full Knowledge and Power. Behold! the Kingdom of God is within you, even as the Sun standeth eternal in the heavens, equal at midnight and at noon. He riseth not: he setteth not: it is but the shadow of the earth wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…o a deadly cup, Whose devilish spirit squats and gloats Upon the thirst that rots our throats. Gape wide, O hideous mouth, and suck This heart’s blood, drain it down, expunge This sweltering life of mire and muck ! Squeeze out my passions as a sponge, Till nought is left of terrene wine But somewhat deathless and divine ! Not by a faint and fairy tale We shadow forth the immortal way. No symbols exquisitely pale Avail to lure the secrets grey Of his endeavour who proceeds By doing to abolish deeds. Not by the pipings of a bird In skies of blue …
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
…eined in the strength of the obsidian Flowing and growing, joining vein to vein, Like fresh blood in the arteries of man, Up to the very heart. And as I go Loosen the knees of anguish and grow dim The shattering flames of pain: the songs of woe Flicker and alter to a solemn hymn Chanted in slowest measure in deep awe. Now as a yew-tree sends a mighty limb Shooting to sunset, the black road’s black maw Gapes to the westward; the great trunk divides And all the armies of infernal law Stand ranked about the venerable sides Of the black cave: they …
1905 · PDF PAGE 150
…ll me of his death. AMENHATED. At thy first breath the gods were patient still, Till the abomination filled its cup, And hatred took her heart. She slew thy sire, And made his body the banquet of her sin In the infernal temple. ‘‘ So,” she said, ‘*T reap the incarnation of the god.” So, gloomy and hideous, she would prowl about Seeking fresh human feasts, and bloody rites Stained the white altar of the world. And yet [fer power is gone, and we behold her go, Haggard and weary, through the palace courts And through the temple, lusting for strang…
1905 · PDF PAGE 193
…eautiful shall touch the chaos cold Of earth that is grown old. Then, shameful sisterhood of earth’s disdain, Your lips shall speak your hearts, and understand ; Your lovers shall assuage the amorous pain With spiritual lips more keen and bland, And ye shall take God’s hand. THE NAMELESS QUEST.! Tue king was silent. In the blazoned hall Shadows, more mute than at a funeral True mourners, waited, waited in gloom ; Waited to hear what child was in the womlh Of his high thoughts. As dead men were we all; As dead men wait the trumpet in the tomb. t…