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…4 AMBERGRIS FROM ORPHEUS Orpheus invokes the Lords of Khem Unity uttermost showed, I adore the might of thy breath, Supreme and terrible God Who makest the Gods and death To tremble before thee : I, I adore thee ! O Hawk of gold with power enwalled, Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine, and the disk of flaming light Is on thee, seated in the prow Of the Suns bark, enthrones above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round With l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 24
…e snaky lightning through a thundercloud Up to the awful precipice-skirted place Where deaf, blind, palsied, mute There sits the leprous God ; we laugh aloud Seeing him face to face, Blowing him like a shaken sheaf of snow With a brief gust of wind Over the cliffs of his ensanguine throne ; Seating ourselves thereon, as men shall know, Above soul, spirit, heart, thought, being, mind, Allbut most irrevocably entwined And irrevocably alone. XV There was a boy with O ! the face of dawn, The mother-of-pearl that shimmered on his skin. The breasts …
1912 · PDF PAGE 93
…ul deeds and fruitless flowers, He grows so maudlin in his love That even the knaves of his own house Mock at him in their merry hours. “God’s death!” raged Palamede, not wroth But irritated, “laugh ye so? Am I a jape for scullions ?” His curse came in a flaky froth. He seized a club, with blow on blow Breaking the knave’s unreverent sconce! “Thou mock the Questing Beast I chase, The Questing Beast I love? ’Od’s wounds!” Then sudden from the slave there brake A cachinnation scant of grace, As if a thirty couple hounds Were in his belly! Knight,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
…esiastic rout Leaves but a startled sleeper - out , Grey heavens , the first bird 's drowsy calls , The falling house that never falls . God ! I will pack , and take a train , And get me to England once again !
1898 · PDF PAGE 24
20 JEPHTHAH. Wherefore our tribute to thy feet we bring ; Conquer our foes, and reign our king! JEPHTHAH. | . Ye have no king but God: see ye to that! ELEAZAR. — _ Behold, these people are as children, hiding Thoughts beautiful and true in profuse words, Not meaning all the lofty flight that fancy And the strong urgement of a tune discover. Be thou our judge, as Joshua long ago. JEPHTHAH. Swear by the Name unspoken that the truth Flashes between the lips that tremble thus! Ye love me not; ye fear me; ye might thrust Some petty obstacle before m…
1901 · PDF PAGE 53
… I drew My queen from the clasp of the water ; I crowned her with roses and blue, With yellow and lilies anew ; I called her my love and God’s daughter ! I gave her a sceptre of may, I gave her a girdle of green, I drew her to music and day, I led her the beautiful way To the land where the Winds lie between. So still lingers sun upon sea, Still twilight draws down to the world ; The light of my spirit is she, The soul of her love is in me ; Lithe kisses with music are curled. Like light on the meadows we dwell ; Like twilight clings heart unto…
1905 · PDF PAGE 122
… of life : and failing plumes Wrought through ancestral looms In the man’s brain : and so he dreamed of death. And slower still the grey God wrought Dividing consciousness from breath, And life and death from thought. So the king dreamed of Nought. Yet subtly-shapen was this Nothingness, Not mere negation, as before that dream
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
Unripe, are blasted in the blossoming spring— This is a miracle, not the other thing! Nature insults herself, blasphemes her God, Thus cutting short the life’s hard happening. Nor would I suffer thus, nor she repine Had my wife faded (as rose-tinted wine Bleached in the sunlight) reached her period And fallen gently in the arms divine, Caressing arms of pale Persephone, And bathed her in death’s river tenderly, Washing the whole bright body, the long limbs, The clothing hair, the face, the witchery Of all the smiling shape in the dark stream, A…
1907 · PDF PAGE 11
…hild whose life encloses Our lives, is therefore I, may wander ever By the fritillary-fringéd river, Through lotus gardens of the sleepy gods, On hills where every timid oread tries Blue gentian as disguise From holier (though she think profaner) eyes, On seas where, it may be, (to even the odds !) Each nymph and undine issues from the foam Armed with a pearly mirror and with a coral comb To tire her beauty, lure me to the lakes Of light where strikes the day to hyaline floors Whereon blithe fish and emerald water snakes Play all the day, and a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 21
…dismayed, Pines in her prison an unsullied maid. Penned by the master mage to his desire, She baffles his seductions and his ire, Praying God‘s all-annihilating fire. The Lord of Hosts gave ear unto her song: The Lord of Hosts waxed wrathful at her wrong. He loosed the hound of heaven from its thong. Violent and vivid smote the levin flash. Once the tower rocked and cracked beneath its lash, Caught inextinguishable fire; was ash. But that same fire that quelled the robber strife, And struck each being out of lust and life, Left the mild maiden a rej…
1911 · PDF PAGE 21
…dismayed, Pines in her prison an unsullied maid. Penned by the master mage to his desire, She baffles his seductions and his ire, Praying God‘s all-annihilating fire. The Lord of Hosts gave ear unto her song: The Lord of Hosts waxed wrathful at her wrong. He loosed the hound of heaven from its thong. Violent and vivid smote the levin flash. Once the tower rocked and cracked beneath its lash, Caught inextinguishable fire; was ash. But that same fire that quelled the robber strife, And struck each being out of lust and life, Left the mild maiden a rej…
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
… I stand, climacteric, Having found you. Was it by fall of chance? Then what a stake against What odds I have won | Was it determined in God’s ordinance? Then wondrous love and pity for His son ! Or was it part of an eternal law? Then how ineffably beneficent! Each thought excites an ecstasy of awe, A rapture tending the mind's firmament. 61
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
… I stand, climacteric, Having found you. Was it by fall of chance? Then what a stake against What odds I have won | Was it determined in God’s ordinance? Then wondrous love and pity for His son ! Or was it part of an eternal law? Then how ineffably beneficent! Each thought excites an ecstasy of awe, A rapture tending the mind's firmament. 61
1905 · PDF PAGE 61
… deep, Anchored in some most certain anchorage From ocean’s rage ; Your patience stand when mountains shake and quail Before the gale Of God's great tribulation, Thou canst endure! And work, work ever, sleep not, gird thy head With varlands red Of blood from swollen veins forced in bitter toil To win some spoil Make thee sure Of knowledge from the caverns of the deep ! So shall the steep Pathways of heaven gleam with loftier fires Than earth’s desires. So shalt thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time, And by the golden path the g…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
…e as real as those of the other man. And the figure himself was strained, even in his pride. Now came a marvellous person[10] — almost a god, she thought. For about him were a multitude of bones that built themselves up constantly into the loveliest living forms, that changed from one into another, ever increasing in stature and in glory. And in his broad brow she read the knowledge of the Unity of Things, and in these eyes the joy unspeakable which that knowledge gives. Yet they were insatiable as death itself; she could see that every ounce o…
1901 · PDF PAGE 26
12 THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY Majestic fires! Before the throne of God Deep silence waits the lifting of the rod, The moving nod. Silence, reflected thence, still and intense, into the firmament; Such silence as befits the event. Re-enter CORA. CORA. This is the hour, O child whom I have loved With love more tender than a mother’s love, Being thy friend; this moment have I sought, Awaiting always the propitious time, To speak some purpose grown more definite Than is our wont. We spent the honey days In gentle intercourse: high souls have stood Watchi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 80
…TO SOLITUDE 75 Touch, draw me with thy kiss Into thine own deep bliss, Into thy sleep, thy life, thy imperishable crown ! Let that young godhead in thine eyes Pierce mine, fulfil me of their secrecies, Thy peace, thy purity, thy soul impenetrably wise. II All things which are complete are solitary ; The circling moon, the inconscient drift of stars, The central systems. Burn they, change they, vary ? Theirs is no motion beyond the eternal bars. Seasons and scars Stain not the planets, the unfathomed home, The spaceless, unformed faces in the do…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
… all was enchaunted ground, The flames like scented tendrils of a vine Or sensitive rays that spell Strange curves to match their master-gods emotion. 11 A
1910 · PDF PAGE 99
…ne-drawer and his beloved boy Unite above in the ecstatic state. Nor doth the Sufi need a heaven in Heaven :— Earth’s heaven to who hath God to heart for mate ! And if at first thy virgin podex bled4— He smiteth, for He is compassionate ! O Zahid, hear thou El Qahar5 the wise : “ By love hate ends ; hate never ends by hate.”6 1. They who worship Allah give pleasure to themselves, but He profiteth not at all there- by. [Mahbub’s comment]. 2. This doctrine of Freewill as the prize of Theurgy is curiously parallel to that of Zoroaster,
1910 · PDF PAGE 45
…-denial week ” ! The raptures of Teresa are hysteric ; But — let us giggle at some fulsome cleric ! “ The age refines ! You lag behind.” God knows ! Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. That Crowley knows you as you are — that frets. He buys not doctored dung for violets ! Your smug content, your Puritan surprise, All lies, and lies ; all lies, and lies, and lies ! Pathics from Eton, ever on their knees, Amazed at their twin brothers the Chinese ! Pathics from Harrow, reeking of Patchouli, Shocked at the vice of the Mongolian coolie ! Cano…