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1905 · PDF PAGE 82

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…tars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Father ; but my lips must wreathe smiles no more, But set in fearful strength of purpose toward The blood of enemies, in horrid gouts And hideous fountains leaping from great gashes, Rather than that belo…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 23

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…piter. This planet is in many ways the opposite of Saturn; it represents expansion as Saturn represents contraction; it is the universal love, the selfless love whose object can be no less than the universe itself. This comes to reinforce the powers of Saturn when they agonise; success is not for self but for all; one might acquiesce in one's own failure, but one cannot be unworthy of the universe. Jupiter, too, represents the vital, creative, genial element of the cosmos. He has Ganymede and Hebe to his cupbearers. There is an immense and inac…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 23

Clouds Without Water

II There is an alchemy to heal the hurt Done to our love by shame the dragon of ill With his allies the fear, that wars begirt With clouds, and that sad sceptic in the will That sneaks within our citadel, that steals The keys and opens stealthily the gates When we are sleeping, when the dawn conceals Its earliest glimmer and our blood abates Awhile its tide ! O mystic maiden o’ mine, Did I not warn you of the insulting foes? Blind worms that writhe for envy, pious swine~ That gnash their teeth to espy the gold and rose Out flaming like the dawn…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 188

The Winged Beetle

… attitude to him is listlessness bordering on aversion, but constrained by politeness ; he mis- takes it for modesty striving with young love.]

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1913 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX God is He who gives life; Caesar can only give death. One must love God, and not fear Czsar; as it is written in the Holy Book, “ He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.” You wish to be good? Then be just. You wish to be just? Then be free. The vices which make man like the brute are the first enemies of his liberty. Consider the drunkard, and tell me if this unclean brute can be called free ! The miser curses the life of his father, and, like the crow, hungers for corpses. The goal of the ambitious man is—ruins; it is t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX God is He who gives life; Caesar can only give death. One must love God, and not fear Czsar; as it is written in the Holy Book, “ He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.” You wish to be good? Then be just. You wish to be just? Then be free. The vices which make man like the brute are the first enemies of his liberty. Consider the drunkard, and tell me if this unclean brute can be called free ! The miser curses the life of his father, and, like the crow, hungers for corpses. The goal of the ambitious man is—ruins; it is t…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 135

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ent, Nor do sea and storm-deny their music, Nor do flower and breeze refuse their kisses : So my soul.is flooded with their magic; So my love completes the joy of living. . I am like the earth, to whom there gather Rays of gold to bid the gray horizon Melt, recede, and brighten into azure. Let me sing, O holy one, Apollo! Sing as Horace sang, and flood the ocean With a living ecstasy of music Till the whole creation echo, echo, Echo till the tune dissolve the heavens? Still song lingers; lamely from the lute- string Steals a breath of melody; t…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 105

Oracles

…e of old time burst out the vulture fire Cyclopean, that is dead, now, as a man’s desire. The drowsy cries of night birds, then the song Lovely and lovelorn in the listening vale, So wild and tender, swooping down in long Notes of despair, then lifting the low tale In golden notes to skyward in one throng Of clustered silver, so the nightingale Tunes the wild flute, as dryads he would gather To roof with music in the palace of the weather, With love despairing, dying as music dies ; With lost soul’s weeping, and the bitter muse Of such as lift …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 61

Clouds Without Water

… The soul thereof exhaling scented dew Born in the utmost world where we in truth Abide like Bacchus with a Bassarid Drunk with our art, love, beauty, force and youth ; But place that head upon a pyramid Of snaky lightnings, lest — but that shall be Alwaysa secret between you and mie. —_ y i Or, an you will, evoke me as the Sphinx With lion’s claws, bull’s breast, and eagle’s wings ! You are my riddle, and the answer sinks Below the deep essential base of things, Rises above the utmost brim of thought And bubbles over as impatient song. Yet ‘ W…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 239

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

MR. TODD carr. —Anything I don’t know. EUPHEMIA. Oh, you laugh even at me! carr. Because I love you. So I laugh at humanity: if 1 took men seriously I should have to cut my throat. EUPHEMIA. So you don’t take me seriously either? carr. IfI did, I should have to cut- EUPHEMIA. What? carr. My lucky! EUPHEMIA. What a dreadful expression! Where do you learn such things? carr. I notice you don’t have to ask what it means. EUPHEMIA. Stop teasing, darling! carr. I’m not teething! That’s what I complain of; you always treat me as a baby! EUPHEMIA. Come…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 239

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

MR. TODD carr. —Anything I don’t know. EUPHEMIA. Oh, you laugh even at me! carr. Because I love you. So I laugh at humanity: if 1 took men seriously I should have to cut my throat. EUPHEMIA. So you don’t take me seriously either? carr. IfI did, I should have to cut- EUPHEMIA. What? carr. My lucky! EUPHEMIA. What a dreadful expression! Where do you learn such things? carr. I notice you don’t have to ask what it means. EUPHEMIA. Stop teasing, darling! carr. I’m not teething! That’s what I complain of; you always treat me as a baby! EUPHEMIA. Come…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 211

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ing ! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ; Till the Three Worlds flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy! [He [ranches a! Ihefeet af SPHINX, facing C.I.C.T. SPHINX. 1. C.I.C.T. I. [SPHINX play: mi emhanlment.* c.x.cm (recites) * Andante : Mendelssohn. 3]

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1911 · PDF PAGE 211

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ing ! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ; Till the Three Worlds flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy! [He [ranches a! Ihefeet af SPHINX, facing C.I.C.T. SPHINX. 1. C.I.C.T. I. [SPHINX play: mi emhanlment.* c.x.cm (recites) * Andante : Mendelssohn. 3]

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1913 · PDF PAGE 237

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…r were around us ... ... ... ... Here does she sit, her foot upon the wing ... Here in the evening curl white mists How did we meet , my love and I ... How splendid in the morning glows the lily 185 198 133 96 215 I built a palace high up in air I can hear the children clapping I faint . I can go no further ... I found a childish letter in a drawer ... If ever thou didst turn aside ... If there be breath of God in ocean 's rise and fall ... ... ... If there be soul in wood and strings ... If you will meet me where the moon I have a hope of deep…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…f us dark, demented, drunken? All in vain are we vowed before the veils? Were we false to the faith? Did hope desert us? Was not leonine love the grace that girt us? Why then bore we the shrine across the sea? Wait! the moment of midmost murk discloses Dawn, deep laden the winds of March with roses. Groans of travail announce the babe to be. Now the waves of the pool are stirred; the ocean Labours; Earth is awake; a murmured motion Marks the end of the tragic theme. Behold How the garden of Pan with subtle laughter Shakes, how Bacchus and Ceres…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…f us dark, demented, drunken? All in vain are we vowed before the veils? Were we false to the faith? Did hope desert us? Was not leonine love the grace that girt us? Why then bore we the shrine across the sea? Wait! the moment of midmost murk discloses Dawn, deep laden the winds of March with roses. Groans of travail announce the babe to be. Now the waves of the pool are stirred; the ocean Labours; Earth is awake; a murmured motion Marks the end of the tragic theme. Behold How the garden of Pan with subtle laughter Shakes, how Bacchus and Ceres…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 100

Liber Aleph

…. This therefore closeth the Circle of my Speech, for now I am returned to that which I spake aforetime concerning the general Method of love, and thy Development by that Way. n

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1910 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…the marriage bond, even if such unions were only of an ephemeral nature, there would be no necessity to procure young girls, for natural love-making would take the place of state-fostered abduction. The root of the evil lies neither in the inherent lust of man after woman, which is natural, or of woman after gold, which shows her business-like capabilities; but in the unhealthy point of view adopted by the general public. There is nothing more disgusting in the act of generation, or even in the pleasures asso- ciated with it, than there is in a…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…the marriage bond, even if such unions were only of an ephemeral nature, there would be no necessity to procure young girls, for natural love-making would take the place of state-fostered abduction. The root of the evil lies neither in the inherent lust of man after woman, which is natural, or of woman after gold, which shows her business-like capabilities; but in the unhealthy point of view adopted by the general public. There is nothing more disgusting in the act of generation, or even in the pleasures asso- ciated with it, than there is in a…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 304

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…o sing a song.” It is a philosophical treatise on How to do anything. The arts are one. There is nothing but creation. As it is written, Love is the law, love under will. It is apprehension of this fact that makes art- istry of any sort possible. It explains why there are no artists in America, or at 290

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