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Page 106 of 1231899 · PDF PAGE 248
…e Quest’ and that strange ‘ Philosopher's Progress,’ which begins ‘That which is highest as the deep Is fixed, the depth as that above ; Death’s face is as the face of Sleep; And Lust is likest Love,’ share at least Blake’s impenetrable simplicity of form, and their symbolism is, like his, curiously seductive, even where it seems turned to obscurantism; elsewhere Mr. Swinburne is (if only superficially) recalled; and ‘ Vespers’ is by no means unworthy of Rossetti. Similar preoccupations, again, direct the muse of Mr. Francis Thompson ; but the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 249
… power. "TANNHAUSER. I am escapéd as a little bird Out of the fowler’s net. I thank Thee, God! For in the pit of horror, and the clay Of death I cried, and Thou hast holpen me, Set me upon a rock, established me, And filled my mouth, and tuned mine ancient lyre With a new song—praise, praise to God above,} And to Our Lady of the Smitten Heart, 1 Psalm xi. That David never knew : my pettiness Exceeding through Her mercy and Her might The King and Priest of Israel; for I know Her love, and She hath shewn to me Her face, And given me a magic star …
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…ur young friend for a long time. I put my hand on him at the right moment. I showed him that spying was a dog's [334] game, with a dog's death at the end of it. He has renounced his errors, and he is now a Probationer of our Holy Order." The young men greeted each other, the Turk stammering out an appeal for pardon, the other laughing off his embarrassment. "But you are ill, Cyril!" cried Sister Cybele. And in truth the boy could hardly stand. "Action and reaction are equal and opposite," explained Simon Iff, cheerily. "You will sleep, Brother …
1929 · PDF PAGE 167
the shadow logomachoepy's — (my) story's of death nodal puncts — limits With these striking words the official Report of Douglas' chief commissioner began. It would be tedious to quote the 488 folio pages in full. Douglas himself did not read it; the transcript made by Vesquit of Abdul Bey's "inspiration," with a few [235] practical questions to the latter, told him all that he needed. Audience over, he dismissed Arthwait and his companion with orders to hold themselves in readiness for a renewal of the campaign. Douglas had many a moment of bi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 256
…utiful it is to see Old age in perfect unanimity, Affections smooth, and buzzing like a bee. The sun sets, in conjunction with the moon. Death comes at last, a pleasure and a boon, And they arrive in heaven very soon. [ /mmense, Spontaneous, uncontrollable applause sweeps like a whirlwind through the court. AN UNKNOWN MINSTREL (breaking tn unheralded), Tender the phrase, and faint the melody, When poets praise a maiden’s purity ; Platitude linked to imbecility. [Murmurs of surprise. As ’mongst spring’s sprigs sprouts sunshine’s constant face ; …
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…fied, I am he who is clothed with the Body of Flesh: Yet in whom is the Spirit of the Mighty Gods. I am the Lord of Life triumphant over Death. He who partaketh with me shall rise with me. I am the manifester in Matter of those whose abode is in the Invisible. Iam purified ; I stand upon the Universe: I am the Reconciler with the Eternal Gods : I am the Perfecter of Matter: And without me the Universe is not !” 260
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…fied, I am he who is clothed with the Body of Flesh: Yet in whom is the Spirit of the Mighty Gods. I am the Lord of Life triumphant over Death. He who partaketh with me shall rise with me. I am the manifester in Matter of those whose abode is in the Invisible. Iam purified ; I stand upon the Universe: I am the Reconciler with the Eternal Gods : I am the Perfecter of Matter: And without me the Universe is not !” 260
1996 · PDF PAGE 56
…ced: “The Honest Lawyer.” Every time that his wife gave birth to a child, or miscarried, she lay for weeks—often months—between life and death, with peri typhlitis or peritonitis set up by the difficulties of parturition. Yet this man, knowing this well, had gone on and on remorselessly. When I knew him he had 18 children living, and two more were born during that period. It was evidently his view that he had an absolute Right to impregnate his wife, and that it was her business whether she lived or died. During all these years she was no soon…
1905 · PDF PAGE 257
…laden kiss Cleaves where thy bosom is A throne of beauty for thy throat and face! In these dark joys and exquisite despairs, O Love, let Death lay finger unawares ! LANDGRAVE. Passion and music—but no Principle ! How different is Tannhauser ! (70 the unknown minstrel) You, sir, next! Sing of pure love and noble womanhood. Our court loves not these wastrel troubadours, Loose locks, flushed faces, —»ul’s unseemli- ness. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL (sizg5). Amid earth’s motley, Gaia’s cap and bells, This too material, too unreal life, Sing, sing the crow…
1906 · PDF PAGE 11
…ndon’s wicked city? Perhaps you might yourself have one wee fling, If you were pretty. What might not hard starvation drive you to, With Death so near and sure? Perhaps it might drive even virtuous you, If you were poor. But is it just, or grateful to the One That keeps even you from wrong, Or even humble to shriek, ‘‘ Get you gone, - For I am strong” ? Temptation has not touched you, Mrs.C. Forsooth, I do not lie there, For you are only not the thing you aren’t Through being neither. And since some fall in Life’s tremendous storm, And you are …
1907 · PDF PAGE 205
…wift coursing in my velns Shoot dazzling pains, The Word of Selfhood integrate of Nought, The Ineffable Amen ! the Wonder wrought. Bring death if life exceed ! Bid thy pale Hermit bleed, Yet Life exude; And Wisdom and the Word of Him
1996 · PDF PAGE 107
…love it with fearful fer vour; it is the face of his Fate that craves his kiss, and in her eyes Enigma blazes and smoulders; she is his death, her body his coffin where he may rot and stink, or writhe in damned dreams, self slain, or rise in incorruption self-renewed, immortal and identical, fulfilling himself wholly in and by her, splashing all space with sparkling stars his sons and daughters, each star an image of his own infinity made manifest, mood after mood, by her magick to mould him when his passion makes molten her metal. Thus then …
1902 · PDF PAGE 146
…ant yet somewhat leprous style . . . gilded pastiness. " " Veils a morbidly exaggerated Catholicism under an ultra- Egyptian passion for death. . . . Aleister Crowley is a true poet." " We quote . . . There is a good deal of similar drivel further on." " Real and striking gifts both of im.igination and expression." "Mr Crowley out-Swinburne's Mr Swinburne. . . . Shows no mean technical accom- plishment." "The pupil is in some ways greater than the master (Mr Swinburne)." " Most exalted moods of mysticism . . . richness and visionary splendour o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 169
…e Thou pity yet ; . Sustain me in this vile extremity ! [He prays silently. CORA (watching him). How wonderful! He will abide the shock. Death and mute horror fight within his face Against a will made masterful to Fate. ULRIC (raises his eyes and lifts his arm in act to strike). Mother! Treacher- Then I detest you! ous! Vile as the worm that battens on the dead ! CORA. Ulric! He’s mad! this ? [Cora 7s now hysterical, ULRICc does not notice. She shrieks at each mew i12sult. Sweet heaven ! what is Uric, Say rather, what are you? I loved you once …
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…trong : wound up as his muse is to tragedy, he retains in Edmund the sublime heroism, the simple honesty, of the true Christian ; at the death of his beloved mistresses he cries, “I was contracted to them both : all three Now marry in an instant——” At the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“I pant for life : some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature. 1 Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle ; for my w rit Is on the life Le…
1929 · PDF PAGE 164
…m and their mist of blue, licked up in the swirl of the vortex. The whole of the invoked forces were sucked up into her as Malkah in her death-agony took possession of that basis of materialization. Heroic — and presumptuous; for of all the qualities that go to make humanity she had but one, and she would have to shift, for the rest, with orts of inheritance. Among mankind she would be a stranger, a being without conscious race-experience, liable to every error that a partial view of life can make. Ill indeed for such a one who is without the w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
… is a deliberate disguise dictated by their criminal cunning. Far from it, they are only too sincere in their “virtues”; their terror of death and of supernatural vengeance is genuine; it proceeds from a section of themselves which is in irreconcilable conflict with their rascality. Neither si de can conciliate, suppress, or ignore the other; yet each is so craven as to endure its enemy’s presence. Such men are therefore without pure principles; they excuse themselves for every dirty trick that turns to their apparent advantage. The first step …
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…ntensifying torture that His endurance is beyond belief. Inexplicable are the atrocities which accompanied every step in His Initiation! Death dragged away His children with slow savagery; the women He loved drank themselves into delirium and dementia before His eyes, or repaie! His passionate dévotion with toad-cold treachery at the moment when long years of loyalty had tempted Him to trust them. His friend, that bore the bag, stole that which was put therein, and betrayed his Master as thoroughly as he was able. At the first distant rumour th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 134
…sh. At the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand, as an harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the end is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is water in the cavern of the glacier, and water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and through the ramparts of the hills and through t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 206
…d all its peace; And the stubborn lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hush and cease. In the wheel of heaven revolving, mysteries of death and birth, In the womb of time dissolving, shape anew a heaven and earth, Ever changing, ever growing, ever dwindling, ever dear, Ever worth the passion glowing to distil a doubtful tear. These are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, Choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. These are real, these illusion: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is …