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1907 · PDF PAGE 145

The Star in the West

…aboth's field Still living , in her harlot's dress ; Her belly stript , her thighs concealed , For shame's sake and for love's no less . Night falls ; the gaping crowds abide No longer by her stiffening side . “ Ah ! prophet , come to mock at me And gloat on mine exceeding pain ?" Nay but to give my soul to thee , And have thee spit at me again !” She smiled - I know she smiled - she sighed , Bit my lips through , and drank , and died ! My veins poured out her marriage cup , For holy water her cruel tongue ; For blessing of white hands raised u…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 49

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TABLE V (continued) 33 CLXVI. CLXV. As Col. CLX. by Night. As Col. CLIX. by Night. Crow withsorethroat . . 2... ee ee ele Be . ROND | 15 Mermaid 2 2. ee fe RL "Nb) | 16 Lion on black horse carrying viper. . . . .... . «les 2 and @. - 3) | 17 Bull with gryphon’s wings . 8. - AIT | 18 3 heads (bull, man, ram), snake's tail, flaming eyes. Rides bear, . ‘) . ndy3 19 Wanton eth ducal crown rides gryphon. Trumpeters . . & and d OND | 20 Leopard . 8. -. » Wi} 22 Lion with gryphon’s wings. .@. wee bi) 24 Angel with raven’s head. Rides black wolf, carri…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 74

Book 4 (Part I)

…curs the improvementwill become apparent in the record. Any variation will probably be due to accidental circumstances; for example, one night you may be very tired when you start; another night you may have headache or indigestion. You will do well to avoid practising at such times. We will suppose, then, that you have reached the stage when your average practice on one subject is about half an hour, and the average number of breaks between ten and twenty. One would suppose that this implied that during the periods between the breaks one was r…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 236

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

a4 MYSTERIES: I have had hope in the spring— Trust that the God who has given Flowers, and the thrushes that sing Dawnwards all night, and at even Year after year, will be true now we are speaking of heaven. Breezes caress me and creep Over the world to admire it; Sweet air shall sigh me to sleep, Softly my lips shall respire it, Lying half-closed with a kiss ready for who shall desire it.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 116

Collected Works (Vol. II)

TIO THE ARGONAUTS With me the night is fallen in day ; The day swoons back to night; The white and black are woven in gray, Faint sleep of silken light. A strange soft light about me shed Devours the sense of time: Hovers about my sleepy head Some sweet persistent rhyme. Beneath my breast my love may hear Deep murmur of the billows— O gather me to thee, my dear, On soft forgetful pillows ! O gather me in arms of love As maidens plucking posies, Or mists that fold about a dove, Or valleys full of roses ! O let me fade and fall away From waking i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 134

Ambergris

…leaming. Now all the birds change tune, and all the light Glows lowlier, musing on departed day. Strange wings and sombre, heralding the night, Fleet far across the woods ; and gleaming bright The evening star looks from the orient way. Shadow and silence deepen : all the woods Take on a tenderer phrase of musical Breezes : the stream-sought homes and solitudes Murmur a little where the maiden moods Are sadder as the evening’s kisses fall. Like silver scales of serpenthood they fall Across the blind air of the evening ; Shadowy ghosts arise fun…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 300

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… In vain thou invokest our Lady of the Moon! TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation ! CANCER- 333'333'333- PAN. Must every star that saves the night Gleam fearfully afar, Give no man love, but only light, Or cease to be a star? Nay, there’s no man since time began Through the ages until now, But won the goal of his set soul, A star upon his brow! Oh ! though no star serene as thou Shine in my night forlorn, Come, let me set thee on my brow, And make its darkness morn! PAN. [Rises] Brother Satyr, scourge forth these that profane the sanctuary of our L…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 300

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… In vain thou invokest our Lady of the Moon! TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation ! CANCER- 333'333'333- PAN. Must every star that saves the night Gleam fearfully afar, Give no man love, but only light, Or cease to be a star? Nay, there’s no man since time began Through the ages until now, But won the goal of his set soul, A star upon his brow! Oh ! though no star serene as thou Shine in my night forlorn, Come, let me set thee on my brow, And make its darkness morn! PAN. [Rises] Brother Satyr, scourge forth these that profane the sanctuary of our L…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 139

Ambergris

130 AMBERGRIS And night falls faster, ere thine eyes appear Glittering through the mist. O face of woman unkissed Save by the dead whose love is taken ere they wist ! Thee, thee I call ! O dire one ! O divine ! I, the sole mortal, seek thy deadly shrine, Pour the dark stream of blood, A sleepy and reluctant river Even as thou drawest, with thine eyes on mine, To me across the sense-bewildering flood That holds my soul for ever !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 107

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Dermot Freyer . CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT NIGHT. IIKE balls of snow , - In the dark of the year The white chrysanthemums Appear . Like balls of snow , When the earth 's a-cold The white chrysanthemums Unfold . Like balls of snow , In a winter 's morn The white chrysanthemums Are born . Like balls of snow , In the garden gloom The white chysanthemums Out- loom . Like balls of snow , From dusk till dawn , Still as tapers they glow , Flooding light on the lawn .

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1909 · PDF PAGE 285

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ve said: Darkness of the Dark- ness ; are not the Countenances of Dark- ness fallen with the kings that were? Do Ww nN » the Sons of the Night of Time endure for j ever? Not yet are they passed away. ob ES8 “ Before all things are the waters; and the Darkness and the Gates of the land Bopad |_| of Night. Barnet tose. “And the Chaos cried aloud for the wl | VV unity of Form, and the Face of the Eternal | temp. aa fe} arose, prereaw ey Wate” “ EEN, incense © And before the Glory of That Coun- Om Gen MeAY tenance the Night rolled back, and the ||G…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 285

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ve said: Darkness of the Dark- ness ; are not the Countenances of Dark- ness fallen with the kings that were? Do Ww nN » the Sons of the Night of Time endure for j ever? Not yet are they passed away. ob ES8 “ Before all things are the waters; and the Darkness and the Gates of the land Bopad |_| of Night. Barnet tose. “And the Chaos cried aloud for the wl | VV unity of Form, and the Face of the Eternal | temp. aa fe} arose, prereaw ey Wate” “ EEN, incense © And before the Glory of That Coun- Om Gen MeAY tenance the Night rolled back, and the ||G…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 85

Ambergris

…ad of mine ; Light, that fulfils creation as with wine, Flows in the channels of the deep : light, rending The adamantine columns of the night, Is laden with the love-song of the light. Light, pearly-glimmering through dim gulf and hollow, Below the foam-kissed lips of all the sea ; Light shines from all the sky and up to me From the amber floors of sand : Light calls Apollo ! The shafts of fire fledged of the eagle follow The crested surf, and strike the shore, and flee Far from green cover, nymph-enchanted lea, Fountain, and plume them white …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 237

The Winged Beetle

…anish for ever every interest ! The cradling breeze shall woo us, soft and sweet, Ruffling the waves of velvet at your feet. When solemn night of swart oaks shall prevail Voice our despair, musical nightingale !

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1898 · PDF PAGE 4

Jezebel

…all not come again ; the wintry pall Of consciousness clouds o’er them ; they shall find No rest, no hope, no tear, no funeral. Into the night, despairing, bleeding, blind, They pass, nor know their former place at all, Lost to my soul, to God, to all mankind, Like leaves that fall.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 86

Sir Palamedes

80 White as a corpse, the hero hails The dawn, that night of fear still shaking His body. All death’s doubt assails Him. Was it sleep or was it waking? “ By God, I care not, I!” (quod he). “Or wake or sleep, or live or dead, I will pursue this mystery. So help me Grace of Godlihead!” Ay! with thy wasted limbs pursue That subtle Beast home to his den! Who knows but thou mayst win athrough, Sir Palamede the Saracen?

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1899 · PDF PAGE 108

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…pty caves In vain, no faster wheels the moon above, And still reluctant fly the hours of love. It is so peaceful in the castle: here The night of winter never froze a tear On my love’s cheek or mine; no sorrow came To track our vessel by its wake of flame Wherein the dolphin bathed his shining side ; No smallest cloud between me and my bride Came like a little mist ; one tender fear, Too sweet to speak of, closed the dying year With love more perfect, for its purple root Might blossom outward to the snowy fruit Whose bloom to-night lay sleeping…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 103

Ambergris

…Smite ! Smite ! Profaned adytum of pure light, Smite ! but I must sing on. Nay ! can the orison Of myriad fools provoke the Crowned-with-Night Hidden beyond sound and sight In the mystery of His own high essence ? Lo, Rose of all the gardens of the world, Did thy most sacred presence Not fill the Real, then this voice were whirled Away in the wind of its own folly, thrown Into forgotten places and unknown. So I sing on ! Sister and wife, dear wife Light of my love and lady of my life, Answer if thou canst from the unsullied place, Unveiling for…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 20

Rosa Mundi

— 15 — And light, shown ever as silence and deep night Secret as death and final. Let me long Never again for aught ! This great delight Involves me, weaves me in its pattern of bliss, Seals me with its own kiss, Draws me to thee with every dream that glows, Poet, each word ; maiden, each burden of snows Extending beyond sunset, beyond dawn ! O Rose, inviolate, utterly withdrawn In the truth : — for this is truth : Love knows ! Ah ! Rose of the World ! Rose ! Rose !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 322

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 38 Night Demon of 2"“1 Dec.?לארא He departed?לזא Gehazi, servant of Elishaח`ג1?י A City in the Mountains of?הלג Judah Innocent ”RD? The palate TH Το make a hole, hollow; to?לה violate Green?חל 39 Το abide, dwell?לבז Dew?לט The Eternal is Oneהוהי ?דחא Angel 01'3 P. `?הייח Metathesis ofוזוג ?הוהי He cursed?טל 40 Bildad?דדלב Liberator; a title of Jesod?לאונ Το cut off I?” A rope; ruin; to bind?לבה Milk?בלה The Hand of the Eternalדי ?הוהי To me, to mine?יל ?ווי4r Fecundity?נלהא Rain ; force; hence: a. hero?ליא Night Demon of 15‘ De…

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