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1903 · PDF PAGE 39

Ahab and Other Poems

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1904 · PDF PAGE 110

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…I fart for all I know. She will not hear my music. So ? It is split ? Devil a bit ! Suppose Pauline had bade me shit ! III My whole life long I learned to frig. This hour I play the supreme pig And suck her pussy. Pox or clap ? She will riot give me syph ? Mayhap ! Pox who may — I still can say “ Those who get chancre, lucky they ! ” [112]

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1904 · PDF PAGE 12

The Argonauts

ARGONAUTAE Long stablished is young amity Maid-blushing over Greece: And fair Iolchus stands sublime, A monument to lesson time. WOMEN. But if such fear were come indeed, Who reads the riddle dread Spoken in frenzy by the seer Against the royal head? We know the Rhyme’s involving spell— Its purport is impenetrable. MEN. We heard his foolish maundering: But, bred in wiser ways, We have forgotten: do ye sing The rune of ancient days! To-day his curse cacophonous Shall earn at least a laugh from us! WOMEN. “OQ! when the arméd hand is nigh, Tolchus…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 232

The Book of Thoth

…letely. The background is an angry, ugly red with yellow mark‐ ings. The general effect is one of intense strain; yet the symbol implies long‐continued inac‐ tion.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 50

Songs of the Spirit

…lossom, and bent very low, And put it to her lips—and even so His lips were set on them ; the flower sighed For deep delight, and in the long kiss died. Years fled and faded, yet a flower was seen Gracious and comely in its nest of green, And tender hands would water it and say “ O happy sister, she that went away ! “ For she brought back my lover to my heart, And knew her work was perfect, and her part Most perfect when she died between the breath, And in the bridal kisses kissed to death.” So grew the newer blossom and was glad : Sweet little…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 31

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…LEAZAR. Nor on the sun, lest he too eat us up. CHORUS. The heart of a man as the sea Beats hither and thither to find Ease for the limbs long free, — Light for the stormy mind,

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1902 · PDF PAGE 83

Tannhäuser

…dest Pilgrim. Cling to the Cross, sir, there is hope in that ! Tannhauser. You know not, friend, the man to whom you speak. I have lived long in miracles enough, Myself the crowning miracle of all, That I am merely here. God speed you, sirs ! I ask your blessing, not to stay therewith My soul's own need (though that is dire enough) But —he that blesseth shall himself be blessed ! My blessing were small help to you, my friends. L 8i

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1906 · PDF PAGE 111

Gargoyles

…ent On earth in his own element Will be content from flesh released. But he who strives to be a beast Or strives to be a god; would gain Long bliss for a few hours of pain, Or struggles for no matter what, Continues. I would rather not. Vv. That puzzle’s grief I did not share Because on earth I did not care. I met a grave philosopher— Had sought most nobly not to err Probing God’s Nature. See his lobes Swell with hell’s torment! Still he probes 103

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1913 · PDF PAGE 183

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…t love and the lover Are mingled in me Night shall discover: Dreams shall not be The veil of the world that my heart doth disclose : The long night is over, And I am the Rose. “Night, like a cancer, Spread over my breast; There was no answer, No truce to this rest, That, holding the world in a shower of white snows, Chilled the mad dancer Who bore me, the Rose. “ Day, like a vision, Before me is fled; Hate and derision Have fouled my soft bed. In the heart of the water the quenched vision glows ; Unborne, in division, By me, the world’s Rose.” …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 183

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…t love and the lover Are mingled in me Night shall discover: Dreams shall not be The veil of the world that my heart doth disclose : The long night is over, And I am the Rose. “Night, like a cancer, Spread over my breast; There was no answer, No truce to this rest, That, holding the world in a shower of white snows, Chilled the mad dancer Who bore me, the Rose. “ Day, like a vision, Before me is fled; Hate and derision Have fouled my soft bed. In the heart of the water the quenched vision glows ; Unborne, in division, By me, the world’s Rose.” …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 286

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ey had been maps and he was trying to work out his overland route from Bokhara to Khatmandu |! Ultimately he said, “‘ There seems a very long gap here—fifteen hours—g to 12, that’s right, isn’t it?” He turned to Maisie for confirmation. He was, so he said, quite unable to trust himself to calculate. Maisie entered into the spirit of the absurdity and counted it solemnly out on her fingers. The tone of his voice had been mournful, as if his plans had been seriously disconcerted. That was another trick of his that put people off. It was Lou’s spa…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 323

Magick Without Tears

…plexity utterly unfathomable! But-I fear that you are only too likely to ask-is not this system (a) absurd, (b) wrong, as certain in the long run to defeat its own object? Well, as to (a), everything is absurd. The Universe is not constructed to gratify the mania of "social planners" and their tedious kind. As to (b), there you said something; the refutation will lead us to open a new chapter. Ought not X to have laid down a comprehensive scheme, and worked out the details, so that he would not break down half-way through for lack of foresight …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 379

Magick Without Tears

…dn't give any credit because he was being pressed by the man who supplied his materials, a man in great trouble on account of his wife's long illness, and the necessity of an immediate and very expensive operation. So the doctor went round, very lordly, to the local estate agent, and made the first payment on the new house he had wanted for so long. "Hullo! HuBo!" laughed the agent; "here we are again. It's curious, but I paid out that note only ten days ago!" So there were seven hampered and worried men all made

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1901 · PDF PAGE 11

Carmen Saeculare

… stern gray seas ; I listen for your voices in the throng ; I languish for your deadly melodies ! Yet, when I hear the sound for which I long, My soul is not at ease. N 9

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1903 · PDF PAGE 98

Alice: An Adultery

THE THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY “ By long and vehement suit I was seduced To make room for him in my husband’s bed.” King John. Mortals are not for nectar all the time : Ambrosia feeds not men ; nepenthe’s sip Is only for a moment : then we dip Back to the earth and leave the bed sublime, And tune our kisses to a terrene rhyme. So, once again before we left the ship With right good will our bodies cling and slip, And the life’s flame sinks as the kisses climb. There never has been such a supreme kiss Since heaven and earth began to be as this ! Doubt no…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 469

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ar; Yet all the horror of the pit Clad it with all the arms of fear. Moreover, though he sought to scan Some feature, though he listened long, No shape of God or fiend or man, No whisper, groan, shriek, scream, or song Gave him to know it. Now it chanced One day Sir Palamedes rode Through a great wood whose leafage danced In the thin sunlight as it flowed From heaven. He halted in a glade, Bade his horse crop the tender grass; Put off his armour, softly laid Himself to sleep till noon should pass. 93

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1910 · PDF PAGE 469

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ar; Yet all the horror of the pit Clad it with all the arms of fear. Moreover, though he sought to scan Some feature, though he listened long, No shape of God or fiend or man, No whisper, groan, shriek, scream, or song Gave him to know it. Now it chanced One day Sir Palamedes rode Through a great wood whose leafage danced In the thin sunlight as it flowed From heaven. He halted in a glade, Bade his horse crop the tender grass; Put off his armour, softly laid Himself to sleep till noon should pass. 93

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1922 · PDF PAGE 132

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… of the inferior animals. I humour them to some extent in their delusions, because they’re lunatics and ought to be humoured. But it’s a long way between that and admitting that their hallucinations have any basis in fact. I had been in their silly world of sense a million years or so ago, when I was Peter Pendragon. But why recall the painful past? Of course, one doesn’t come to one’s full strength in a minute. Take the case of an eagle. What is it as long as it’s in the egg? Nothing but an egg with possibilities. And the first day it’s hatche…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 266

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… King Lamus is the first to endeavour to make a practical effort to embody this conception in a practical way. I seem to have wandered a long way from our fare- well dinner party; but my mind is still unable to -concentrate as it should. Heroin and cocaine enable one to attain a high degree of concentration artificially, and this has to be paid for by a long period of reaction in which one cannot fix one’s mind on a subject at all. I am very much better than I was, but I get impatient at times. It is so tedious to build oneself up on biological…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 3

An Appeal to the American Republic

AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC. HOU fair Republic oversea afar, Where long blue ripples lap the fertile land, Whose manifest dominion, like a star, Fixed by the iron hands and swords of war, Now must for aye, a constellation, stand— Thou new strong nation ! as the eagle aspires To match the sun’s own fires, Children of our land, hear the children of your sires. We stretch out hands to-day when the white wings Of Peace are spread beneath you and your foe. O race of men that slay the slaves of kings ! We, whom the foam-crowned ocean still enr…

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