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1905 · PDF PAGE 35

Orpheus

…ark of thee blinds, Within and beyond As a thought of the mind’s In all, and about, and above! I invoke thee, my word as the wind’s. THE FIRE I, raging and lowering, I, flying and cowering, I, weaving and woven, Budding and flowering, Spiring and showering, Cleaving and cloven ! My being encloses Fountains of roses, Lilies, and light! I wrap and I sunder! I am lightning and thunder! The world-souls wonder At me and my might! All-piercing, all-winding, All-moving, all-blinding, All shaken in my hissing; My life’s light finding All spirits, and b…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 50

Amphora

AMPHORA I AINT MICHAEL ! by the altar stand And mark our praises sink and swell, The fire of heaven in Thine hand That bare the glad ensanguine brand, And smote the sons of hell. Be present all the starry host Of cherubim and seraphim, While, hasted by the HOLY GHOST, We raise on Time’s eroded coast Our rare and royal hymn. Let all the ripples of our song Exulting evermore converge In one the virgin wave and strong, Combine their chorus loud and long Re-quicken and up-surge ! Hail to the Virgin ! Hail ! we cry. Hail, Mary ! Hail ! All hail ! Al…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 264

The Book of Thoth

…ather and Mother. In the macrocosm they correspond to the Sun and Moon; and, by further descent into matter, are, on the masculine side, Fire and Air; on the feminine side, Water and Earth. The original concept of the Tao as developed by the Teh, is resumed in the name Thâi Kî. The Yang and the Yin are called the I or Yao. When these are combined two at a time, we obtain four figures, called the Hsiang, which may be compared to Tetragrammaton, and this stage of development is so secret in the Chinese idea that practically nothing is said about …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 107

White Stains

…d dule, Love glowing some unholy jewel Glittering frightful mid the mire. Oh ! Love, what utter sweetness yet ! What agony of curst hell-fire, Shame, lust, and infamy, and ire, Wrath in the highest heavens set, Shame in the soul, and leaping lust On pleasure’s flaming parapet, An Infamy that I forget.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 79

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

JEPHTHAH. 57 SEMICHORUS II. With hearts infused of fire, Eyes clear with many waters, With lips to air that quire, We, earth’s desirous daughters, Lift up the song of triumph, sound the lutes of our desire! Elohim ! SEMICHORUS I. With branches strewn before us, And roses flung In all the ways, we chorus With throat and tongue The glory of our warrior sires whose victor swords restore us Jephthah! SEMICHORUS II. With angels vast and calm That keep his way, With streams of holy balm, The prayers of them that pray, We go to bring him home and rais…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 48

Tannhäuser

…t In Thine own symbol, Beauty, were concealed Under her brows —how wider than the air ! How deeper than the sea I How radiant Beyond the fire ! Venus. O shun her devilish lures ! That Beauty is the sole detested fear That can annul our conquests, and arouse Our rapt dream-kisses. Tannhauser. That is my intent. It is the spiritual life of things I seek —Thou knowest ! Venus. Oh, I did not mean ! Remember my dilemma! Hear me speak The story of her. She is a wicked witch That seeketh to delude thy sleepy sense In vicious purpose and malignant hope…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 34

Orpheus

…The Hephestian hammer on the anvil of hell, In the hollows accurst, Falls for the knell Of the children of earth. By the strength of our fires, The fierce force of our sires, Let us roar, let us burst! By the wrath of our birth, Up! and boil over in rivers of lava! Uncover! Uncover! ORPHEUS Lift up thine amber Lithe limber limbs, Lissome that clamber Like god-reaching hymns ; The flame in its chamber Of glory that swims, The spirit and shape of the fire, mine eyes with fine dew that bedims ! 35

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1910 · PDF PAGE 331

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE POETICAL MEMORY This explanation aid make the matter quite clear to me; for I had all the time in my possession—not thrown in the fire after all!—their original account. ‘excenmne sooeese,"NIGGUMBOD.LONDONTM J.W.BENSON,L? JEWELLERS, GOLDSMITHS, SILVERSMITHS AND WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS secrcntons 25.OLD BOND ST renemcons Pen Ce ~ ae Factories Luocare Hitt} -- BB Sore,= 2 Oo ee ae, ESTABLISHED 1749 LP honee te 1H Lee Clore ryt Be — eee eae mene’ aa oe oe twee Hope en Cee F reece core A ea gar «een REPT Re. Pee eer Fowee oma = * we ceeeee x Sz or…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 331

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE POETICAL MEMORY This explanation aid make the matter quite clear to me; for I had all the time in my possession—not thrown in the fire after all!—their original account. ‘excenmne sooeese,"NIGGUMBOD.LONDONTM J.W.BENSON,L? JEWELLERS, GOLDSMITHS, SILVERSMITHS AND WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS secrcntons 25.OLD BOND ST renemcons Pen Ce ~ ae Factories Luocare Hitt} -- BB Sore,= 2 Oo ee ae, ESTABLISHED 1749 LP honee te 1H Lee Clore ryt Be — eee eae mene’ aa oe oe twee Hope en Cee F reece core A ea gar «een REPT Re. Pee eer Fowee oma = * we ceeeee x Sz or…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 50

Hail Mary

AMPHORA I AINT MICHAEL ! by the altar stand And mark our praises sink and swell, The fire of heaven in Thine hand That bare the glad ensanguine brand, And smote the sons of hell. Be present all the starry host Of cherubim and seraphim, While, hasted by the HOLY GHOST, We raise on Time’s eroded coast Our rare and royal hymn. Let all the ripples of our song Exulting evermore converge In one the virgin wave and strong, Combine their chorus loud and long Re-quicken and up-surge ! Hail to the Virgin ! Hail ! we cry. Hail, Mary ! Hail ! All hail ! Al…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 52

Sir Palamedes

… accurséd that disparts Them now, or seemeth so to do! Him will I pile the curses on ; Him will I hang, or saw him through, Or burn with fire, who doubts upon This doctrine, hotototon spells The holy word otototon.” The poor Sir Palamedes quells His rising spleen ; he doubts his ears. “ How may I catch the Beast?” he yells. The smiling sage rebukes his fears: ‘Tis easier than all, Sir Knight! By simple faith the Beast appears.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 105

Songs of the Spirit

I saw the Christ, with fire shod, Walk through the holy place, And the lilies rosier where he trod, Blushed for a little space. I saw myself, and still I sang With lips in clearer tune, Like to the nightingale’s that rang Through all those nights of June ; Such nights when stars in slumber hang Beneath the quiet moon. Still, in those avenues of light, No maid, with golden zone, And lily garment that from sight Half hides the ivory throne, Lay in my arms the livelong night To call my soul her own. The Christ’s cold lips my lips did taste On Time…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 88

The Argonauts

…SIA. O lover, I am lonely here! O lover, I am weeping! Each pearl of ocean is a tear Let fall while love was sleeping. A tear is made of fire and dew And saddened with a smile; The sun’s laugh in the curving blue Lasts but a little while.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 89

The World’s Tragedy

36 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. The doing is done ; Bare is mine head To the fire of the sun. But thou, o my Lord, are quiet and still ; And the feathers are clipt from the wings of the will. Still are thy lips And void of motion, Like red-sailed ships On a windless ocean ? Hast thou no lust To involve in a curse The insane dust Of the universe ? Speak, o my Lord ! I have journeyed afar In the wake of the terrible crimson star. A harp between mine hands, Murmurous and musical, I come from far-off lands To seek Thee who are All. Amid my warrior bands I …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 42

Songs of the Spirit

… its fancies weave— Fancies of starlight on the lucent sea Gleaming from wide horizon to the feet Of Cynthia’s bow, all silver-shot with fire, That virgin flame that lingers evermore 32

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1898 · PDF PAGE 106

Songs of the Spirit

…lay ; O Christ ! whose eyes have always been Fixed fast upon the way, Where dim Jerusalem was seen A city cold and grey ! The flowers of fire that grow beneath, And blossom on the Tree Are fed from his despair and death Who sings of land and sea, And all those mountains where thy breath, Jehovah, still must be. 96

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1913 · PDF PAGE 116

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… white shining of the Host When held in folds of blue, God lifts to -night the moon 's pale ghost To make old blessings new . A thousand fire- flies star His way , A thousand candle - lights ; Earth lit by other every day Can light her Lord at nights . Tall palms rear stately heads to grace The coming of the King , Incense to smoke before his face A thousand flowers bring . And all the world , as Eden was , Is hushed in holy fear , Only small creatures shrill because God holds them very dear . For earth 's an altar ; Golgotha Forbids to flee th…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 20

Songs of the Spirit

That is not seeing, but the light That secretly is kindled, Though oft time its most holy fire Lacks oil, whene’er my own Desire Before desire has dwindled. I see the thin web binding me With thirteen cords of unity Toward the calm centre of the sea. (O thou supernal mother !) The triple light my path divides To twain and fifty sudden sides Each perfect as each other. Now backwards, inwards still my mind Must track the intangible and blind, And seeking, shall securely find Hidden in secret places Fresh feasts for every soul that strives, New li…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 113

Songs of the Spirit

…e Is made most holy, beautiful, and pure, By this desire, if this desire endure. So to the altar of the Highest aspire Those souls whose fire Has on it cast one grain of pure incense, (Who guesses—whence ?) Those souls that cast their trammels off, and spring On eager wing, 103

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1898 · PDF PAGE 118

White Stains

112 ‘ • Á¼±ÆÁ¿´¯Ä¿Å ’ O½±Á My hot blood turns to fire, Seeing nor maid nor man. Not maid, not man—the breast Like palaces of gold, Yet where my lips caressed, In the wild dove’s wild nest A dove too soft to hold. No dove that Hylas knew, No dove that Sappho kissed, Nor in wide Heaven there grew This child of stranger dew Than God’s good spirit wist. Yet his wings bare him high, Divine beyond control, And, like for love to die, I felt his arrow fly Within my very soul. Ah Love ! the ambiguous kiss, Not man’s nor woman’s touch, In that ecstatic b…

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