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1907 · PDF PAGE 103

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…r sensuous touch shall quit me quite : I am at swiving strain with sin— I'll touch the stars, the blood run thin From the torn breast of Night, my mother Night. Nor shall the mind revoke at ease These myriad cressets from the sun; Constrained in sober destinies Thought’s river shall its ripples run Into the one, the one, the one, the one. 1 The fundamental tone in Chinese music; supposed to be given by the Hoang-Ho river, according to Professor Rice. 2 Sacred mountain in the Himalaya, the abode of Shiva. 3 An eastern perfume. Dhammapada. VOL. I…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… Hues, colours, complexions?ינלוג Lucifer, the Herald Sun?לליה [Vide K. of S,, fig. 53] ”?לשוכ A lamenting, wailing?הלל The Pleiades?המיכ Night; by night?הליל NUIT,THE STAR GODDESS?םיוב Secret, put away ; a hiding-?ןויבה place Rest, peace nl'l‘J Slave, servant?ךנע Frayed ny: The river Gihon. [Gem ii. 13]?ןוחיג Ονἁτῆσννἰπς. [Ps. :»(₪. 5] [WI Towers, citadels?לדגמ The Influence from Kether?לזמ Strength; 3 he-goat?יע There are 78 cards in the Tarot. 2(I—r2)r The Mystic Number of Kether as Huar The sum 01 the Key-Numbers 01 the Super- nal Beard Angel…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… Hues, colours, complexions?ינלוג Lucifer, the Herald Sun?לליה [Vide K. of S,, fig. 53] ”?לשוכ A lamenting, wailing?הלל The Pleiades?המיכ Night; by night?הליל NUIT,THE STAR GODDESS?םיוב Secret, put away ; a hiding-?ןויבה place Rest, peace nl'l‘J Slave, servant?ךנע Frayed ny: The river Gihon. [Gem ii. 13]?ןוחיג Ονἁτῆσννἰπς. [Ps. :»(₪. 5] [WI Towers, citadels?לדגמ The Influence from Kether?לזמ Strength; 3 he-goat?יע There are 78 cards in the Tarot. 2(I—r2)r The Mystic Number of Kether as Huar The sum 01 the Key-Numbers 01 the Super- nal Beard Angel…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 106

The Soul of Osiris

…ll have a holier task, thy strength a goodlier stead.” Then I withdrew the light Of mine own Godhead up, As stars that close with broken night Their adamantine cup. I sought the solar airs : my soul on its own tears might sup. For in the vast profound Still burns the rescuing sign ; Beyond all sight and sense and sound The symbol flames divine. For He shall make all life, all death, His solitary shrine.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 14

Aceldama

…ence, home. VI. That was my madness. On bright plumage poised I soared, I hovered in the infinite ; Nothing was everything ; the day was night, Dark and deep light together, that rejoiced In their strange wedlock. Marvellously white All rainbows kissed Into one sphere that stood, a circumambient mist. 1 4

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1898 · PDF PAGE 87

Songs of the Spirit

…’s wakening hour I think it has the power To touch the soul of sleep With its tender thought, and bid me to awake for joy—and weep. This night I am earlier, No drowsy thought drew nigh 77

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1929 · PDF PAGE 184

Moonchild

…mbrella, and their ukulele, she suddenly stopped short, and asked Iliel point-blank if she would like to attend the Sabbath on Walpurgis-night — the eve of May-day — for "there's a short cut to it, my dear, from this country." Iliel revolted passionately against the idea, for she scented something abominable; but the Old Lady said: "Of course we should disguise you; it would never do for you to be recognized by Cyril, and Brother Onofrio, and Sister Clara; they wouldn't like to know you live — in this country." "I don't," said Iliel, rather ang…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 190

The Star in the West

…y blade to Ferrara ? Sadness stares around us with hollow tear -drowned eyes , and the days of our joys are wet with the weep ing of the night of sorrow . On , on we plod , through life's by -ways and alleys , through mud and slime , onward we must go if we are ever to win the gates of Wisdom and Understanding and attain the Kingdom of the Holy Crown . “ Self ” we must slay , it is the great sin of life : “ The scorpion kisses , and the stings of sin , cling hard within . " 2 The small still voice calls to us , yet we must overcome it , in its …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 24

The World’s Tragedy

…— in my ears (I seem to remember even now that her name was Mabel — thank you, Mabel !) and then I gazed upon the moon and vowed myself knight of Artemis, to bring the truth into this England of hypocrisy, light in its superstition of rationa- lism, love in its prudery, chastity into its whoredom ! So I swore, and rose up and kissed Mabel and went home in the might of the holy vision — for the god Pan appeared to me, and abode in me and I in him — and wrote for four nights night by night, until the World’s Tragedy lay finished and perfect befor…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 224

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…r-Goddess guideth us her ship ; The sails belly out with the light. Beautiful head ! We will sing on our bed Of the beautiful law of the Night ! We are lulled by the whirr of the stars ; We are fanned by the whisper, the wind ; We are locked in unbreakable bars, The love of the spirit and mind. The infinite powers Of rapture are ours; We are one, and our kisses are kind. EXPLICIT LIBER QUARTUS

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1919 · PDF PAGE 386

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… in protecting love over the heads of his ascetics. Both are now servants to Nyima (the Sun), left in his absence silent watchers in the night. Vet both in Kalpas past were bright Nyimas, and may in future “Days” again become two Suns. Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in Nature. The astronomy of the Author of this book is not equal to her poetic prose. Mercury can hardly be said to have a fiery aura, or to bea silent watcher in the night. Nor is it easy to attach any meaning to the statement that Mars and Mer- cury were once Suns.…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 9

White Stains

…............................................ 50 Yet Time to turn ................................................................ 51 All Night ............................................................................ 53 Ode to Venus Callipyge ...................................................... 58 Volupté .............................................................................. 64 Rondels ............................................................................. 66 Ad Lucium .........................................................…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 53

The Star in the West

…HE WEST As also does the song of Orpheus : O Hawk of gold with power enwalled , Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine , and the disc of flaming light Is on thee , seated in the prow Of the Sun's bark , enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee , thee girt round With leopard's pell , and golden sound Of planets choral in their course ! O thou self-formulated sire ! Self -master of thy dam's desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 52

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…a land of pleasant things, of woods and streams, Bind my slumber with a chain of pure delight, Though the canker of it stain at death of night, Fill with passion and distaste and wakened pleasure All the moments run to waste that else were treasure ? Who is Love ? a fury red with all men’s blood On his cruel altars shed, a deadly flood ? Or a veiléd vision black with shame and fear, Whose most loathliest attack at night is near, When the gates of spirit tense with angel’s tread Close, and all the gates of sense swing wide instead, When the will…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 79

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…the day’s due joys. She had not dared to speak one word, to tell How deep and pure a fountain sunward leapt In her life’s garden: but to-night she lay In my intense embraces : so the spell . Moved her: ‘I love you,” said she. So we kept, Remurmuring that one phrase until the day. THE NINETEENTH DAY. ‘« The boy is foolish, and I fear not him,” Richard I1, SHE dared not come into my room to-night. So? I was acquiescent, sharp despair And nervous purpose mixing in me there The while I waited: then I glided light (Clad in the swart robe of an eremi…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 210

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…he worm that never dies is thine; the fire that lingereth !” ‘¢ Three voices has thy frame, Their music is but one. Fool-demon, slave of night and shame, That canst not see the sun ! I am the Lord thy God:? make thou homage and orison !” The wild heads. sank in fear: Then, troubled, to those eyes Remembrance crept of many a year, Barred gates of Paradise. Again the Voice rolled in the deep, mingled with murmuring sighs : ‘¢T mind me of the day One? came from Death to me; His soul was weary of the day, His look was melancholy ; He bade me open i…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 9

Songs of the Spirit

….................................................... 9 The Alchemist ..................................................... 12 Sonnets to Night ................................................ 19 The Philosopher’s Progress ................................. 21 Sonnet ............................................................... 26 An Ill Dream ...................................................... 27 The Student ....................................................... 31 The Priest Speaks. (Boccaccio. Day IV. Tale VIII.) 32 Passover ............…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 76

Songs of the Spirit

…et The glory they have set Before their face, nor loose their hold upon the perfect prize. My hands no longer write : Communion with the night Is built, a bride of fiery truth across the subtle mind. God’s angels, and His fire, Consume the soul’s desire, And strike a lighter lyre. I seek ; the angels lead me on, all light and truth to find. 66

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1903 · PDF PAGE 58

Alice: An Adultery

… ship To laugh and leap and dip Her brows divine ; One kiss, a starbeam faint With love of a sweet saint, Stolen like a sacrament In the night’s shrine ! 38

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1913 · PDF PAGE 102

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

James Elroy Flecker . THE MASTER OF THE CARAVAN Open the gate, O watchman of the night ! THE WATCHMAN Ho, travellers, I open. For what land Leave you the dim - moon city of delight ? THE MERCHANTS ( with a shout ) We make the golden journey to Samarkand . [ The Caravan passes through the gate .] THE WATCHMAN ( consoling the women ) What would ye , ladies ? It was ever thus . Men are unwise and curiously planned . A WOMAN They have their dreams , and do not think of us . VOICES OF THE CARAVAN ( in the distance , singing ) We make the golden jour…

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