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… as done. Reality closes Our life into roses ; We are infinite space: we are one. There is one! that hath sought me and found ine In the heart of the sand and the snow: He hath caught me, and held me, and bound ine, In the lands where no flower may grow. His voice is a spell, Hath enchanted me well ! I am his, did I will it or no. But I will it, I will it, I will it! His speck of a soul in its cars Shall lift up immensity ! fill it With light of his lyrical bars. His soul shall concentre All space ;. he shall enter The beautiful land of the sta…
1905 · PDF PAGE 105
…nsumed And consecrated and made savour sweet To our changed senses. And the dual self Of love grew less distinct and I began To feel her heart in mine, her lips in mine. ... Then mistier grew the sense of God without, And God was I, and nothing might exist, Subsist, or be at all, outside of Me, Myself Existence of Existences. We had passed unknowing to the woody crown Of the little hill. There was a secret Vault. We entered. All without the walls appeared As fire, and all within as icy light ; The altar was of gold, and on it burnt Some ancient…
1939 · PDF PAGE 18
… your experiment. Even when you have discovered what your code is, you will have to modify it as you progress; 'remould it nearer to the heart's desire'Omar Khayyam. Just so, in a Himalayan expedition your rule of daily life in the valleys of Sikkim or the Upper Indus will have to be changed when you get to the glacier. But it is possible to indicate (in general terms expressed with the greatest caution) the 'sort' of thing that is likely to be bad for you. Anything that weakens the body, that exhausts, disturbs or inflames the mind is depreca…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…h an hook 2?) Enough; [see This I can answer—or Ernst Llaeckel can ! Now, God Almighty, rede this mystery ! What of the love that is the heart of man? Take stars and airs, and write it down ! Mill all the interstices of space With myriad verse——own Thy disgrace ! Diminish Thy renown ! Approve my riddle ! This Thou canst not do. 17. O living Kose ! O dowered with subtle dew Of love, the tiny eternitics of time, Caucht between flying seconds, are well filled With these futilides of fragrant rhyme ; In Love’s retort distilled, [In sunrays of fierc…
1906 · PDF PAGE 62
…st, Though stiller the rocks be and dumber That the soul of its slumber oppressed. For stronger control is than urging, And mightier the heart of the sea Than her waves deep-merging and striving and surging That deem they are free. In spirit I stand on the mountain, My soul into God’s withdrawn, And look to the East like a fountain That shoots up the spray of the dawn. And the life of the mountain swims through me (So the song of a thrush in me thrills) And the dawn speaks to me, of old for it knew ne The soul of the hills. I stand on the mount…
1905 · PDF PAGE 113
…Their desecrated Moloch. The impure Godhead is powerless, even on the slave, Who once could scar the forehead of the brave, Break love’s heart pitiful, and reach the strong Through stricken children, and a mother’s wrong. Day after darkness, life beyond the tomh ! Manhood reluctant from religion’s womb Leaps, and sweet laughters flash for freedom’s birth That thrills the old bosom of maternal earth. The dawn has broken ; yet the impure fierce fire Kindles the grievous furnace of desire Still for the harpy brood of king and priest, Slave, harlot…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
IMAGES OF LIFE go! ROSA INFERNI.! ‘Ifa ha! John plucketh now at his rose ‘To rid himself ofa sorrow at heart. Lo,—petal on petal, fierce rays unclose; Anther on anther, sharp spikes outstart ; And with blood for dew, the bosom boils; And a gust of sulphur is all its smell : And lo, he is horribly in the toils Of a coal-black giant flower of hell!” —BROWNING, Heretic's Tragedy, ix. I. Rosk of the world! Ay, love, in that warm hour Wet with your kisses, the bewitching bud Flamed in the starlight; then our bed your bower Ifeaved like the breast of…
1905 · PDF PAGE 29
…o men I give to one, but thou, most high, (For woman’s wits through your deceptions Spy And know ye for Olympians) shalt know A maiden’s heart no lover may win so. Farewell, and find a fairer maid to love! Farewell!” But he: ‘‘ Through all the silent grove I sought thee sighing—for thy love would I Consent to be a man, consent to die, Put off my godhead.” ‘‘ If thou sayest sooth, And thy fair words bedew the flowers of truth Nor wander in the mazy groves of lying, I will be thine—speak not to me of dying Or abdication, sith I deem so far To tem…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
… ugly now! Blood-spattered ebony eyelash and white brow ! Blood on my lips, and hair, and breast! ‘‘ Thou fool !” A horrid torture in my heart—and then I licked my lips: the tigress tasted blood. My changéd features—wash them in the flood Of murder! This is power over men And angels. I will lift the twisted rod, And make my power as the power of God ! I made my beauty as it was before. I learned strange secrets; by my love and skill I bent creation to my wanded will. I tuned the stars, I bound the bitter shore Beyond the Pleiads: until the Univ…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…n you.” There, you are foolish. And you know The thing I meant to say. O love! What little lightnings serve to show Glimpses of all your heart! Above All, and beneath all, lies there deep, Canopied over with young sleep, Bowered in the lake of nenuphars, Watched by the countless store of stars, The abiding love you bear me. Hear Ylow perfect love casts flying fear | Are utterly apart. Forth from its chambers! Those and this The bliss Of this small quarrel far exceeds That dervish rapture, dancer deeds Strained for egregious emphasis. These touc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
…irst half foot and the second foot: Come, save me, save Thy Maiden! Strike each barbed dart Home to the grave convent and cloister of my heart. 9. After the fifth foot: Last, to the lords who by their attitude applaud This day of burial to faction, feud and fraud. 10. After the second and fourth feet, but each line rimed within itself: Of for the blind kiss of the wind, the desert air Thrilling the blue and shrilling through my soul's despair. ("Thrilling" and "shrilling" are here thrown in without extra charge. This device frequently recurs.) …
1905 · PDF PAGE 19
122 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Righteous in ange:, doomed, for fiery sin Kindled by hell-flames, cherishéd within TTer lustful heart, for sin most damnable, To suffer torment in remotest hell, Where the grim fiend grinds down with fiery stones The unrepentant marrow of men’s bones, Or chills their blood with poisonous vials of death, Or dooms them tu the tooth and venomous breath Of foul black worms; and on the earth to dwell For a long space, and there (most terrible !) To change her shape at times, and on her take The fierce presentment of a loathly…
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
…, Weep for the pain, the travail, the old curse ; Weep, weep, and die. Grail, The Glory of the Crucified ! Dear friend, Be happy, for my heart goes out to you, And most to that poor pale Elizabeth— Were it not only that the selflessness That fills me now, forbids the personal, Casts out the individual, and weeps on For the united sorrow of all things. For if I die, it is not Tannhduser, Rather a spark of the supreme white light That dwelt and flickered in him in old time ; That Light, I say, that hides its flame awhile To shine more fully—to re…
1905 · PDF PAGE 78
JEPHTHAH 71 lale spouses whom his heart despised, but thou Wast of a fairer face and brighter eyes, And limbs more amorous assuaged thy sire ; And fuller blood of his is tingling thus Now in thy veins indignant at our sin. But thou art strong and we are weak indeed, Nor can we bear the burden, nor sustain The fury of the Children of the East That ride against us, and bright victory Is thronéd in their banners, while on ours Perches the hideous nightbird of defeat. Mourn, mourn and cry ; bow down unto the dust QO israel, and O Gilead, for your s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…e buds of roses on the sunny slope Of lily gardens falling toward a stream That flashes back the intolerable beam Of sunlight with light heart. They fled away At Cypris’ word, beyond the bounds of day Into the awful caverns of the night, Eerie with ghosts imagined, and the might Of strange spells cast upon them by the dead. So, ere the dying autumn-tide was fled, There, in a lonely cleft of riven rock, Whose iron fastnesses disdain and mock Fury and fire with impassivity, Archais rested, there alone must’she Wait the event of Aphrodite's wiles.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 72
…cifixion of Sedan Thy thought the lightning, and thy word the thunder ! See her supreme, kingly, republican, New France arisen, with her heart in sunder— Yet throned in Heaven on ever-burning wheels, Freedom resurgent, sealed with seven seals. 1 Napoleon III. VO}... 1. The seal of Reason, made impregnable: The seal of Truth, immeasurably splendid : The seal of Brotherhood, man’s miracle: The seal of Peace, and Wisdom heaven- descended : The seal of Bitterness, cast down to Hell: The seal of Love, secure, not-to-be-rended : The seventh seal, Equ…
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
…hyll. Down by the cold gray lake the sun descends from his hunting, Shadow and silence steals over the frozen fells. Qh, to be there, my heart ! bells awaken ; Colleges call their children; Lakeland fades from the sight. Only the sad slow Cam like a sire with age grown heavy Wearily moves to the sea, to quicken to life at last. And tne vesper Blithelier I depart, to a sea of sunnier kind- Ness $ Hours of waiting are past ; I re-quicken to love. ASTRAY IN HER PATHS.! COPENHAGEN, January, '97. I FEEL thee shudder, clinging to my arm, Before the b…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
…A Staggers to altar ; and, with his hand on tt, turns towards door. Mouths of God’s mercy ! I would her eyes were bleeding wounds*sin my heart! Ah though! If she were a dog I could not do it. She is my sister—— |Zurns wth a cry to throne and flings up his hands. and I will! Death! Death! It is a year to-night. I arrayed her first In yon gold ornaments—-My brain is sick ! I want coffee—or hashish—No! That is for her ! I must be very clear and calm, very clear, very calm, How I must be ill— [Correcting himself with effort.) I I must be. Ha! [Goes…
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…et there taketh him A strong man’s one short moment of despair. He fell, the last of Titans, his loose hair Tangled in roses ; while his heart and mind Broken and yet imperishable, blind, Hateful, desire they know not what, and turn Lastly to pray for death ; his wild eyes burn, And bitter tears divide his doubtful breath. So grew his anguish to accomplish death, Had not the goddess with the rosy shoon Stoop’d o’er the silver surface of the moon To touch his brow with slumber, like a kiss Whose dreams perfused the name of Archais, Till the swee…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
…r the heaven at sunset is sundered ; Its gates to the sages unclose, ‘And through waters that foamed and that wondered There flashes the heart of a rose; In its petals are beauty and passion, In its stem the foundation of earth, Its bloom the incarnadine fashion Of blessings that roar into birth ; And the gates+ that roll back on their hinges The soul of the sage may discern, Till the water® with crimson that tinges Beyond them miraculous burn ; And the presence of God to the senses Is the passion of God in the mind, As the string of a harp tha…