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Page 116 of 1301907 · PDF PAGE 73
…to the calm of the moon: I would mingle them all in a kiss, and draw from it The soul of a sensitive tune. All lovers should hear it and know it: not needing the words of a poet In ebony hewn. Obeam of discovery under the eyelids awaking The 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 I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 346
…one hope to understand the world if one persists in regarding it from the conning tower of one's own personality? One can increase one's knowledge and nature by {559} travelling and reading; but that does not tell one how things look to other people. It is all very well to visit St. Peter's and the Vatican, but what would be really interesting would be to know how they look to the Pope. The greatness of a poet consists, to a considerable extent, in his ability to see the world through another man's eyes; and my training in science is always sug…
1905 · PDF PAGE 102
THE FIVE KISSES 95 Struck from a diamond; listen, wife, and know How perfectly I love to watch you so. Wake, lover, wake, but stir not yet the child : Wake, and thy brow serene and low and mild Shall take my kisses, and my lips shall seek The pallid roses on thy perfect cheek, And kiss them into poppies, and thy mouth Shall lastly close to mine, as in the south We see the sun close fast upon the sea ; So, my own heart, thy mouth must close on me. Art thou awake? Those eyes of wondering love, Sweet as the dawn and softer than the dove, Seek no q…
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
…hat youth—scarce thirty—bowed like sixty?” ‘* Oh, A woman jilted him.” ‘‘ Absurd!” ‘ Con- ceit ! Some youths take life—are Puritans, you know!” I heard it, sitting in the window—glowed, Rushed to my wife and kissed her. Lithe and young The rapture of some ardent madness flowed ; And — bye-and-bye —its miracle found tongue. Guess, guess the secret why I burn for you These years so cold to woman as I was! Guess why your laugh, your kiss, your touch run through My body, as it were a tunéd glass ! 1 Holy Queen-—one of the many thousand titles of th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 170
…, the main idea has never become clouded. I feel far more determined in every way than I did, although less certain of any fixed goal. I know also that I have problems to face, now, or in the future, but have learnt to keep doing what comes to hand, without wa- vering or despairing. I do not seem to have made much definite progress, yet there are signs which give me to understand that all is as it should be; perhaps Iam more in tune and so do not notice such vivid changes. I have found nature very fair and beautiful, this summer. I have got to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 216
… and specialized and organized and disciplined. Here endeth the first lesson. I think I'll turn in." "It's a bit beyond me, Cyril. All I know is that I'm willing to risk my life in a good cause." "But it's a rotten bad cause! We have isolated Germany and hemmed her in for years exactly as we did a century ago with Napoleon; Wilhelm, who
1905 · PDF PAGE 122
… choice, Creation hymns its God with an united voice. There is a storm without. The hoary trees Stagger; the foam is angry on the sea: I know the secret mountains are at ease, And in the deepest ice-embroidery Where great men’s spirits linger there is peace. Heed not the unquiet wind! Dawn’s finger shall be raised, its wrath shall cease, The sun shall rouse us whom the tempest lulled, And thy poor poet’s mind For respite by its own deep anguish dulled Shall wake again to watch the cruel day Drift slowly on its chill and. wasted way With but thy…
1905 · PDF PAGE 188
…he shower Thatdews like death your swooning loveliness To knew you love me; that your body leaps With the quick passion of your soul; to know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so ; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps 5-- Ah tin the very triumph-hour of Tell Satan himself remembers whence he fell! CONVENTIONAL WICKEDNESS. Berore the altar of Famine and Desire The Two in One, a golden woman stands Holding a heart in her ensanguine hands, The nightly victim of her whore’s attire. Quick sobs of lust instead of prayers inspire some oracl…
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
…nificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the number on it : I must hide it somewhere where he cannot see." So instead 01 slipping it into one of the hundreds 01 books on the shelves, he hid it behind my back, i.e. on the mantelpiece, where it was duly found! I must tell just one other story to the point, It throws possibly some light on one or two 01 the “miracles” which Blavatzsky performed in order to disgust the mo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
…nificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the number on it : I must hide it somewhere where he cannot see." So instead 01 slipping it into one of the hundreds 01 books on the shelves, he hid it behind my back, i.e. on the mantelpiece, where it was duly found! I must tell just one other story to the point, It throws possibly some light on one or two 01 the “miracles” which Blavatzsky performed in order to disgust the mo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…ad brows: the heart shrinks up and sinks, Seeing no gallery to slip between And pass those agéd ones—oft a man thinks He faces truth ! I know this hour, alas ! That face to face with naked truth he shrinks. His web of woven fiction may not pass (Though he believes it to be truth) with them Who see his mind as though it were a glass Without a shadow. Yet the ninefold gem And million-facet glory of my song Glittering, made splendid in the diadem Of flashing music shall assoil the wrong, A finer truth interpret. Though the heart And core of music …
1906 · PDF PAGE 38
… pinioned light Lends life to death, and love and colour unto light. How flames that scarlet stronger than Apollo, Too swift and warm to know itself a bird! How the light winds and waves of moonlight follow, Shot from the West, cadence of Daylight’s word ! How flock the tribes of wings within the hollow, Even as darkness summons home the herd ! The still slow water slackens into sleep. The rose-glow dies, leaves cold Citlaltepetl’s? steep. The chattering voices of the day depart. Earth folds her limbs and leans her loving breast Even to all her…
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
…erish 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 cheek the kiss of hell, The hatred of ny Jezebel. I waited many days. At last The rushing of a chariot grew Frightful through all the city vast : Men were afraid. But I—I knew Jehu was here, whose sword should dip Deep in my love’s adulte…
1905 · PDF PAGE 265
…em, Pure human love? And, if your song be true, As I, who heard the voice, the earnestness, Saw the deep eyes, and truth aflame in them, Know—then the choice be Mary’s and not mine } I love you better, were that possible ; Will make you a true wife, and lead your hand, Or be led by you, in the pleasant path. For me, I enter not—Blesséd be God !— In those dark problems that disturb your soul. Mine is the simple nature. Look at me! TANNHAUSER, O Lady pure, miracle of true love, I have a bitter word and harsh to say. This is my curse—no sooner do …
1906 · PDF PAGE 36
…ind’s breath. ) Thou art all too fierce and calm, too bitter and sweet, alas ! Thou weavest a cruel charm on my soul that is as glass. I know thee not, who art naked; I le be- neath thy feet Who hast called till my spirit achéd with a pang too deathly sweet. Thou hast given thee to me dying, and made thy bed to me. I shiver, I shrink, and, sighing, lament it cannot be. I have no limbs as a God’s to close thee in and hold : Too brief are my periods, and my hours are barren of gold. I am not thewed as Jove to kill thee in one caress ! / Not agold…
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…led with love’s ecstasies Again, and all her breath Fails, and the shape and colour Fade, fail, are lost in the sepulchral seas. WINTER. Know ye mychildren? From the old strong breast Not weary yet of life’s grey change, not drawn Into the utter peace of death, the rest Of the dim hour that lingers ere the dawn, Spring these that laugh upon thee. In the snow See forests bare and gaunt, Where wingéd whispers haunt, Lighting the dull sky with a slumberous glow ; Hear the strange sounds of winter chaunt; Feel the keen wisdom of the winter thrill Y…
1906 · PDF PAGE 96
…ith age. Forgive my violence ! PELIAS. [Aszde.] The fish bites hard. [A/oud.] There is a prophecy : ‘“QOnce stirred, Iolchus never shall know peace Tillin its temple hangs the Golden Fleece.” Now thou hast so disquieted our days, The time is come: seek thou Aea’s? isle, And hang this trophy on our temple walls ! - JASON. Tell me what iiS - s this fleece. PELIAS. Let women sing. WOMEN. In Ares’ grove, the sworded trees, The world’s heart wondering, © Hangs evermore the Golden Fleece,’ The glory of the spring, The light of far Aea’s coast. Such g…
1907 · PDF PAGE 12
…e red scalpel, scorns reply. My argument to please you swerves, Becomes a mere defence of nerves. Why they are thus, why so they act, We know not, but accept the fact. How this for my peccation serves? Marry, how? Tropically! Pact I bind with blood to show you use For this impertinence—and add A proverb fit to make you mad About the gander and the goose,! Till you riposte with all your force A miserable pun on sauce. The battle when you will! This truce I take in vantage, hold my course. I see mechanic causes reach Back through eternity, inform…
1907 · PDF PAGE 178
…iviner sun, An exultation Of life to life, of light to light untold. I? I remain, and see Across eternity My lover’s face, and gaze, and know the worth Of love’s life to the glowing earth, The kiss that wakes all life unto a better birth. So the swoon broke. I saw the face (Shining with Love’s reverberate grace) Of my own love across the lawn, As warm and tender as the dawn Tinting the snows of heaven-born hills, Enamelling the mountain rills With light’s chameleon-coloured dyes ; So shone the love-light in grey eyes, Changing for laughter and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…riumph of the "sons of the oak" as they dashed forward upon her ravished treasure. "Mitos ho Theos!" they shouted — Sister Clara did not know, or would not tell, its meaning. As the iridiscent galaxy in which she was floating gradually faded, she became aware that she was no longer in the wood, but in a strange city. It was crowded with men and women, of many a race and colour. In front of her was a small house, very poor and squalid, in whose doorway an old man was sitting. A long staff was by his side, leaning against the door; and at his fee…