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1939 · PDF PAGE 49

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…the simplest element of that theorem; the fact that in order to describe anything at all, you must have four measurements. It must be so far east or west, so far north or south, so far up or down, from a standard point, and it must be after or before a standard moment. There are three dimensions of space and one of time. 6. Now what do we mean by space? Henri Poincaré, one of the greatest mathematicians of the last generation, thought that the idea of space was invented by a lunatic, in a fantastic (and evidently senseless and aimless) endeavou…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 24

The Star and the Garter

…o. For me, The suicide stands grand and free Besides these others. Was it fear Drove him to stand upon the bank ? The Paris lights shone far and drear; The mist was down; the night was dank; The Seine ran easily underneath ; The air was chill : he knew the Seine 22

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1899 · PDF PAGE 72

Tale of Archais

…dwell, bids them glint amorously, While the intense hushed music of his breath Sighs, till her longing grows divine as death— So, fairer far, drew dawn on Ida’s grove. The young sun rose, whose burning lips of love Kissed the green steeps, whose beamy locks of flame Brushed o’er the dewy pastures, with acclaim Of tuneful thrushes shrill with mountain song, And noise of nightingales, and murmur long— A sigh half-sad, as if remembering earth And all the massy pillars of her girth ; Half-jubilant, as if foreseeing a world Fresher with starlight an…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 35

In Residence

BALLADE OF GUIDELESS CLIMBING “ THE climbers who guidelessly scale The rocks of the Eiger are rash. Far wiser the tourists”! who fail On the Breithorn, and horribly gnash Their teeth as they shell out the cash To their leaders decidedly drunk ; They stick to the full calabash And turn from the wall of the Ménch. The climber should never be frail, Should thrive on a morsel of hash. At cliffs he must not become pale Nor tremble when glaciers crash. He must carelessly knock out the ash From his pipe while a terrible chunk Of rock hurtles by like a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nform my songs; for I, of the pure brow And the soul that glows With the fervency of eld, invoke thee; for I have known thee : Wandering far into the cities I found thee, Unsuspected still, and round thee The idle worshippers that the wind hath blown thee. It is well; for I know thee and thy magic grace, And the history of thy race, And the times of eld When thou wast born, compelled By sundawn to ope thine eyes.— Ah! Wise! Thou hast not shadowed the thunder, And thereunder Is set the manifold wonderment of thee, Star, star of the seal... 135

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1913 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nform my songs; for I, of the pure brow And the soul that glows With the fervency of eld, invoke thee; for I have known thee : Wandering far into the cities I found thee, Unsuspected still, and round thee The idle worshippers that the wind hath blown thee. It is well; for I know thee and thy magic grace, And the history of thy race, And the times of eld When thou wast born, compelled By sundawn to ope thine eyes.— Ah! Wise! Thou hast not shadowed the thunder, And thereunder Is set the manifold wonderment of thee, Star, star of the seal... 135

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1899 · PDF PAGE 27

Tale of Archais

… was not, and the piercing flame Of love struck through him, till his tortured mind Drove his young limbs, the wolf that hunts the hind, Far through the forest. Lastly sleep, like death, With strong compulsion of his labouring breath Came on him dreamless. When he woke, the day Stooped toward the splendour of the western bay, And he remembered. Like a wild bird’s cry The song within him flamed, a melody Dreadful and beautiful. The sad sea heard And echoed over earth its bitter word. SONG Ere the grape of joy is golden With the summer and the su…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 47

Tale of Archais

THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 39 From the far strand of Lesbos ; then there came Into their eyes a new and awful flame Suddenly burning ; now upon the beach The waves kept tune in unexpressive speech As sad voice drew nigh ; the hero shrank Like one in awe ; the flame shot up and sank From the crimson-vestured altar ; then the song Found in the wavering breeze from over sea a tongue. Here, on the crimson stand of blood-red waters, We, Cypris, not thy daughters, Clad in bright flame, filled with unholy wine, O Cypris, none of thine !— Here, kissing in the…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 64

The Mother’s Tragedy

…of the seas profound ; The thunder of death; the might Of the eloquent silence of black light ! RATOUM. The noise of many planets fallen far! CHORUS. Death listens for the voice of life; night waits The dawn of wisdom: winter seeks the spring! RATOUM. The music of all stars arisen; the breath Of God upon the valley of the dead!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 462

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ss sea, That the keen whisper of the wind May bring him that which never men Knew—on the quest, the quest, rides he! So long to seek, so far to find ! So weary was the knight, his limbs Were slack as new-slain dove’s; his knees No longer gripped the charger rude. Listless, he aches ; his purpose swims Exhausted in the oily seas Of laxity and lassitude. The soul subsides; its serious motion Still throbs ; by habit, not by will. And all his lust to win the quest Is but a passive-mild devotion. (Ay! soon the blood shall run right chill —And is not…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 462

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ss sea, That the keen whisper of the wind May bring him that which never men Knew—on the quest, the quest, rides he! So long to seek, so far to find ! So weary was the knight, his limbs Were slack as new-slain dove’s; his knees No longer gripped the charger rude. Listless, he aches ; his purpose swims Exhausted in the oily seas Of laxity and lassitude. The soul subsides; its serious motion Still throbs ; by habit, not by will. And all his lust to win the quest Is but a passive-mild devotion. (Ay! soon the blood shall run right chill —And is not…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 85

Songs of the Spirit

… should grant but one kiss ere the demons descended and tore him Limb from wet limb, and devoured, and bore this stained soul into space Far from the regions of hope and the lands that are holy with grace. Alway the battle proceeds and alway the tempest re-quickens, Pregnant with thunder, delivered when the swift knife is let flash ; Alway the wind has its will and the slaughter-steam rises and thickens, Alway the sea is a lion, enraged by the wind and its lash, Alway the heavens resound with the thunder’s unchangeable crash. Heaven has conquer…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…hyst . Around the cities sacred groves , Fulfilled of sunny pleasure , lay , Soft with the rumour of the doves ; While sounds of singing far away Told how the priests in ancient wise Led heifers to the sacrifice .

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1904 · PDF PAGE 109

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…re ! Yet. Though his outlook’s rough, his whore is due. All will be gay when sucking wakes anew The bollocks, every lousy bitch’s dower. Far creamier than this gaudy dildo-shower ! [111]

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1904 · PDF PAGE 109

The Argonauts

… abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice II

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1905 · PDF PAGE 146

Oracles

…rnestness, Dispersion Death’s disciples tread : The earnest never die, the vain are even as already dead. Who understand, have travelled far on concentration’s path, delight In concentration, have their joy, knowing the Noble Ones aright. In meditation firmly fixed, by constant strenuous effort high, They to Nirvana come at last, the incomparable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure, His thoughts aye fixed on Law, the fame of that con-centred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thought, by s…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 17

Jephthah

…ear! Hear, Most High, oh, hear! ° Enter Messenger. MESSENGER. My lords, take heed now, prayer is good to save - While yet the foemen are far off ; but now They howl and clamour at our very gates. ‘ ELEAZAR. Blaspheme not God, but tell thy woeful news. CHORUS. I fear me for the sorrow that he speaks. MESSENGER. The tribe of Ephraim went forth to fight Armed, and with bows, and turned them back to-day.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 183

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…e? Thou art a Dian, crescent o’er the sea That beats sonorous on the craggy shore, Or shakes the frail earth-dyke. So calm and still and far, that never more Thy silken song shall quiver through the land ; Only by coral isle, by lonely strand Where no man dwells, thy voice re-wakens wild and grand. Thou artan Aphrodite. From the foam Of golden grape and red thou risest up Immaculate ; thou hast an ebon comb Of shade and silence, and a jasper cup Wherein are mingled all desires. Thine home Is in the forest shade. M

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1913 · PDF PAGE 50

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…id in the grass ," the dear domestic nest , The secret , splendid , common paradise . The strangest joys are not the loveliest : Passion far - sought is dead when it is found , But love that 's born of intimate common things Cries with a voice of splendour , with a sound That over stranger feeling shakes and rings . The better love , the higher ecstasy Lie in the intimate touch of you and me . * SONG . M Y heart is like a meadow ! Where clouds go over , Dappling the mingled grass and clover With mingled sun and shadow , With light that will not…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 67

Jephthah

…s resound Only to the rending roar Of the shattering streams that pour Rocks by ice eternal bound, Myriad cascades that crowned Once the far resounding throne Of the mountain spirits strong, All the treacherous souls that throng Desolate abodes of stone, Barren of all comely things, Given to the splendid kings, Gloomy state, and glamour dark, Swooping jewel-feathered wings, Eyes translucent with a spark Of the world of fire, that swings Gates of adamant below Lofty minarets of snow. Thence the towering flames arise, Where the flashes white and …

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