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1902 · PDF PAGE 101

Tannhäuser

…lebrate In the old fashion, dear to Germany, My child's betrothal to this noble youth. Great lord, true knight, and honest gentleman, So long who journeyed on the holy quest Forgotten of these younger days, and now Come back among us to receive reward For those long sufferings ; in days of peace. In fruitful love, and marriage happiness. So, to the poet's tourney. Wolfram. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. Landgrave. Ha ! He is not here ! 99

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1903 · PDF PAGE 104

Alice: An Adultery

AT LAST O tearless sorrow of long years, depart ! O joy of minutes that be ages long, Come ! Let the choral pulse and strength of song Quicken, and the fire of lute and lyre dart, An arrow red with blood and bright with art, And cover all the fiery bloom of wrong With blossoms blacker where the blood runs strong As our lips pale, their life fled to the heart. Surely we are as dead, we loving so, So bitterly, so keenly : let no breath Persuade us we are living and must die ! Better believe eternal kisses flow Under the strong rude current miscal…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 104

Songs of the Spirit

…fleece of snow, I saw, and deep beyond the night, The steady mystic glow Of that lamp’s flame unearthly bright That watches Earth below. Long avenues of sleepy trees And bowers arched with love, And kisses woven for a breeze, And lips that scarcely move, Save as long ripples on the seas, That murmur like a dove. I saw the burning lips of God Set fast on Mary’s face, 94

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1913 · PDF PAGE 120

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ight Meshed in the quivering fabric of my soul Like tremulous visions of another sphere. O heart, are they sick memories of delight Lost long ago? Or glimpses of a goal That I shall win after long pain and fear? 80

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1913 · PDF PAGE 120

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ight Meshed in the quivering fabric of my soul Like tremulous visions of another sphere. O heart, are they sick memories of delight Lost long ago? Or glimpses of a goal That I shall win after long pain and fear? 80

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1910 · PDF PAGE 66

The World’s Tragedy

…HOS Heliorus, siren ! I have overmatched thee now ; From the bag of Chiron Drawn a luckier lot than thou ! SILENUS Come, we have dallied long enough With music and with love. Set to the wine, and slide Each twined like vines, fair boy, fair bride, Down the long glade of sleep, At the sun’s summoning. We shall be carolling, upon the steep, The happy dawn’s return. We shall wake — and bathe — and burn.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 219

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…of hell ; that of the south The songs I sung. Forget that I have trampled flowers, And worn the crown Of thorns of roses in the hours So long dropped down. Forget, O white-faced maid, that I Have dallied long In classic bowers and mystery Of classic song. Eros and Aphrodite now I can forget, Placing upon thy maiden brow Love’s coronet.

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1922 · PDF PAGE 372

Diary of a Drug Fiend

358 The Diary of a Drug Fiend bridegroom was the Work which could never be satiated so long as we lived, and so could never lead to weariness and boredom. This honeymoon would blossom and bear fruit perennially, season by season, like the earth our mother and the sun our father themselves, an inexhaustible, frictionless enthusiasm. We were par- takers of the eternal sacrament; whatever happened was equally essential to the ritual. Death itself made no difference to anything; our calm continuous candescence burst through the chains of circumstan…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 80

Alice: An Adultery

…ed her sorrowing, While the strong fever fought unconquering With native coolness of her life, o’er-worn Or poisoned ; thus I fought the long forlorn Battle all day, until the evening Brought back sweet health on sleep and noiseless wing : Strong love of the long battle was reborn. The child slept elsewhere that she might sleep well. Therefore, not fearing anything, I came ; Lit my love’s candle at her body’s flame, And fought not with the fevers now that swell Our burning lips and bosoms, until shame Nearly surrendered the sweet citadel. 60

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1910 · PDF PAGE 70

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…he Atman), and says ‘it is one and I am another’ is not wise, but he is like a house-dog of the gods.” And house-dogs shall we remain so long as we cling to a belief in a knowing sub- ject and a known object, or in the worship of anything, even of the Atman itself, as long as it remains apart from our- selves. Such a dilemma as this does not take long to induce one of those periods of “spiritual dryness,” one of those “dark nights of the soul” so familiar to all mystics and even to mere students of mysticism. And such a night seems to have clos…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 70

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…he Atman), and says ‘it is one and I am another’ is not wise, but he is like a house-dog of the gods.” And house-dogs shall we remain so long as we cling to a belief in a knowing sub- ject and a known object, or in the worship of anything, even of the Atman itself, as long as it remains apart from our- selves. Such a dilemma as this does not take long to induce one of those periods of “spiritual dryness,” one of those “dark nights of the soul” so familiar to all mystics and even to mere students of mysticism. And such a night seems to have clos…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 88

Collected Works (Vol. II)

82 ALICE: AN ADULTERY THE FORTY-SECOND DAY. ** Pol. No longer stay. Leon. One seven-night longer. Pol, Very sooth, to-morrow.” Winter's Tale. I COULD not let her leave me the day after. Also we must wait till the month decide Whether the mother stood behind the bride. In any other case what love and laughter Such tidings of an angel’s birth would waft her; Now, what a fear! And so she would abide Another vessel and another tide, Until we held the key of the hereafter. But this sad spectre could not change our calm. The day went by more peaceful…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 197

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…pc. And yet—perhaps to-morrow Response and joy and tears ; A respite unto sorrow, A putting-by of fears. A hope and a beginning Of sweet long days of sinning, While graying hairs and thinning Mark the unnoticed years. A time for song and laughter, And tender tears that fall ; A time to think of after, One long sweet festival ; A time for love and gladness, For life and hope and madness, And scarce a tinge of sadness To sanctify it all. Then we may yet, together, Indwell the land of bliss ; In blue unclouded weather By some new Salmacis. A land …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 50

White Stains

… tawny sands, False glittering woman, girt about with lies ! She steals toward me, the tigress sleek and fierce ! Destroying devil, with long sinuous hands And hate triumphant in blue-murderous eyes ! I nerve myself to spring upon and pierce With maddening fangs those firm white bosom towers, To tear those lithe voluptuous limbs apart And glut my ravening soul with vengeance. Heart Quickens as she draws near ; the scent of flowers Breathes round her damnéd presence. Shall she live To triumph with those tainted lips of song— She whispered “ Dear…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 32

Gargoyles

From this my voluntary pain, My dread initiation, long Desired and long deferred? The Master— Ts he the secret of the song, Portent of triumph or disaster The night wind breathes upon the air Still shimmering from the fearful heat? Can I still trust who have learned to dare? All others I have known effete, Bid them await. Who knows to-day The purpose of the dread essay? Surely I, earlier, further fared! I knew the deed that closes clay, Division’s sword by sense unbared, A living lie. The deep delusion! Dividuality—confusion ! These I unmasked …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 18

Handbook of Geomancy

…od | Med. | Med. Wife, &c. 5| Good | Evil Med. |V. good} Evil Good | Good | Med, Sex ofChild 6{ Son 5 5 Dau. 5 Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 |Long &| Death | Death | Asc. Asc. | Health |Perilous} Hard pining Prison 8 Tong Out with} Perilous} Long | Good Come Come Long Journey 9| Slow Med. [Good by| Good | Med. Evil Slow | Hard Thing Lost 10| Found | Found | Not | Found| Not | Found| Not | Found found found found CaRCER oe Life, &c. 1 | Good Med. | Good | Good | Med. |Suffic’nt| Evil Med. Money, &c. 2| Good} Evil Good | Med. | Med. |Suffic’nt) Evil M…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…od | Med. | Med. Wife, &c. 5| Good | Evil Med. |V. good} Evil Good | Good | Med, Sex ofChild 6{ Son 5 5 Dau. 5 Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 |Long &| Death | Death | Asc. Asc. | Health |Perilous} Hard pining Prison 8 Tong Out with} Perilous} Long | Good Come Come Long Journey 9| Slow Med. [Good by| Good | Med. Evil Slow | Hard Thing Lost 10| Found | Found | Not | Found| Not | Found| Not | Found found found found CaRCER oe Life, &c. 1 | Good Med. | Good | Good | Med. |Suffic’nt| Evil Med. Money, &c. 2| Good} Evil Good | Med. | Med. |Suffic’nt) Evil M…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…od | Med. | Med. Wife, &c. 5| Good | Evil Med. |V. good} Evil Good | Good | Med, Sex ofChild 6{ Son 5 5 Dau. 5 Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 |Long &| Death | Death | Asc. Asc. | Health |Perilous} Hard pining Prison 8 Tong Out with} Perilous} Long | Good Come Come Long Journey 9| Slow Med. [Good by| Good | Med. Evil Slow | Hard Thing Lost 10| Found | Found | Not | Found| Not | Found| Not | Found found found found CaRCER oe Life, &c. 1 | Good Med. | Good | Good | Med. |Suffic’nt| Evil Med. Money, &c. 2| Good} Evil Good | Med. | Med. |Suffic’nt) Evil M…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 179

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…rn, and Με latter swings against the door, making a startling clatter. MARTIN springs uþ in bed, trying loudly]— MARTIN. Who’s there? [A long pause; presently MARTIN gives a slight groan of abject terror. BOTH remain absolutely still. Another long þause. Then JACK again tries to open the lantern with infinite stealth; at last a single tiny dim ray shoots out and throws Martin‘s eye into startling brilliance. Another long fianse, but JACK should endeavour without the slightest movement to let the audience guess that he hears something. At length, …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 179

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…rn, and Με latter swings against the door, making a startling clatter. MARTIN springs uþ in bed, trying loudly]— MARTIN. Who’s there? [A long pause; presently MARTIN gives a slight groan of abject terror. BOTH remain absolutely still. Another long þause. Then JACK again tries to open the lantern with infinite stealth; at last a single tiny dim ray shoots out and throws Martin‘s eye into startling brilliance. Another long fianse, but JACK should endeavour without the slightest movement to let the audience guess that he hears something. At length, …

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