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Page 23 of 841929 · PDF PAGE 434
…th my story "The Stratagem" on a subsequent page. A third symptom of the disease of the same individual is brought out in my poem, "To A New Born Child". The editor protested that it was rather rough luck on a kid to predict such misfortunes for it. In other words, he had not the remotest idea what the poem was about. Considering that this particular editor is quite justly reputed to be far and away the best man in England in the matter of appreciating first-class work, it is perfectly incomprehensible to me that he should be such an arrant blo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 530
…ts theory. But one must dismiss one's prejudice from the start. This theory, however antecedently absurd, is constantly bearing fruit of new facts and new discoveries. This after all is what science requires. I have already given a number of other instances where fresh facts confirm the old. For myself in particular the ultimate fact is that I have been able to govern my life quite satisfactorily year after year on the basis of this theory. My life, interpreted by it, is intelligible, and when guided by it, successful. Whenever I do anything re…
1902 · PDF PAGE 129
…e my mind in iron words. That my mind grows, o'erleaps the limit set, And I perceive the truth that lies beyond— One further step into a new-fallen night. Hear then — I hate to hurt your perfect soul ; 127
1913 · PDF PAGE 43
…noble , kill the two Who ' ve reached their second - best ? Being wise Break cleanly off, and get away , Follow down other windier skies New lures , alone ? Or shall we stay , Since this is all we ' ve known , content In the lean twilight of such day , And not remember , not lament ? That time when all is over , and Hand never finches , brushing hand ; 24
1907 · PDF PAGE 337
… Green wrapper , Demy 4to , pp . 30 , 25. 6d . TANNHÄUSER . Cloth , Demy 4to , 155. [ A few copies of the first edition , boards , 215 . NEW YEAR'S CARD , 1903. [ Out of print .] BERASHITH . 4to , pp . 24. China paper , 55 . SUMMA SPES . ( Out of print .] BALZAC . ( Out of print .] AHAB . Demy 4to , pp . 35 , Japanese vellum wrapper , 55 . ALICE . Pott 8vo , Japanese vellum wrapper , pp . xii + 85 , 5s . [A few copies of the first edition , China paper , 21s .] THE GOD - EATER . Crown 4to , pp.32 , green camel's hair wrapper , 2s . 6d . THE STA…
1898 · PDF PAGE 136
… The corpse among the living ! Intercede, Good pitying pitiable Christ ! My need Is viler than my sins ! Old sins, you tire ! Come, some new devilry to reinspire My lips with frenzied laughter ! Vain, ah, vain ! Th’ extreme of pleasure and the worst of pain, I have tasted all. No more, all hope must end— Hope ! Damn that word ! It mocks me like that friend
1899 · PDF PAGE 5
… on the land whose forehead kisses night And has the dawn upon its wings, whose might Is mightier for the lips of Liberty Pressed on its new-born cheek, when Church and State Drove forth to baffle Fate Our sires and yours, whose fame is grown this year so great. 3
1905 · PDF PAGE 142
…d pale, Her look’s surpassing loveliness Lulled its own light to fond distress, As if the soul were hardly yet Fit to remember or forget New-born! and though the goddess bade The nymph-bud blossom to a maid, And soulless immortality Reach to a soul, at last to die, For love’s own sake, bliss dearly bought For change’s altering coin ill-wrought, It seemed as though the soul were strange, Not fledged, not capable to range At random through the world of sense Opened so swift and so intense Unto the being. Thus she stood Impatient on the patient fl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 102
…er ! [They pass over to JULIAN. I am the camel brother of your priest, And we are come from north and south and east To build your God a new and nobler shrine. Give me the sign. [Done, each striking his breast Jive times with clenched hand] The sign is strict, averred. Hast thou the holy word? [Whispered.] The word is rightly spoken. Hast thou the secret token? [Given, each making a wide sweep with the arm, clapping hand to hand, and then clasping.] The token is right. All Hail! Pass to the veil ! (They pass on. The black man enters, his compan…
1913 · PDF PAGE 102
…er ! [They pass over to JULIAN. I am the camel brother of your priest, And we are come from north and south and east To build your God a new and nobler shrine. Give me the sign. [Done, each striking his breast Jive times with clenched hand] The sign is strict, averred. Hast thou the holy word? [Whispered.] The word is rightly spoken. Hast thou the secret token? [Given, each making a wide sweep with the arm, clapping hand to hand, and then clasping.] The token is right. All Hail! Pass to the veil ! (They pass on. The black man enters, his compan…
1919 · PDF PAGE 204
…ger, thurifer, chorister, Are one as they were one ere time began, Are one on earth as they are one in heaven; Where the soul is given a new name, Confirming with an oath the same, And with celestial wine and bread Is most delicately fed,
1905 · PDF PAGE 85
78. JEPHTHAH The spirit has God for a neighbour, And the wheels unreturning that ran Return to the heart of the roses, And curl in the new blossom now, As the holiest fire that encloses Gray flame? on the holiest brow. So midnight with magic reposes, And slumbers to visions bow. For the soul of man, being free, shall pass the gates of God, | And_ the spirit find the Sea by the feet of clim ? untrod, And the flesh, a lifeless ember, in ashen fear vrow cold, As the lives before remember the perished hours of gold. [ xeunt all but JEPHTHAH. JEPHTH…
1901 · PDF PAGE 50
…o, Haggard and weary, through the palace courts And through the temple, lusting for strange loves And horrible things, and thirsting for new steam Of thickening blood upon her altar steps. Her body wearies of desire, and fails To satisfy the fury of her spirit; The blood-feasts sicken her and yield no strength ; She is made one with hell, and violent force Slips and is weakness, and extreme desire Spends supple. }
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
…stain the glade; gleams mild The kirtle of the unweaned spring, stained blue From the blue breasts that suckle to the child. Through the new-leavéd trees The hidden stranger sees The moon’s sweet light, the shadows listening If a ghost-foot should fall: And if a ghost-voice call , Tremble the leaves and light-streaks of the spring. On wavering wing The small clouds gallop in the windy sky: The hoarse rooks croak and droop them to the nest: One sweet small throat begins to sing, Becomes the song, losing identity Ere its wail wakes the long low-l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
…irm old pinnacles, sky-defying ; Still the icy feet of the wind relentless. Walk in their meadows. Fields that flower not, blossom in no new springtide ; Fields where grass nor herb nor abounding darnel Flourish ; fields more barren, devoid, than oceans Pasture ungarnered. Deserts, stone as arid as sand, savannahs Black with wrecks, a wilderness evil, fruitless ; Still, to me, a land of the bluest heaven Studded with silver. Castles bleak and bare as the wrath of ocean, Wasted wall and tower, as the blast had risen,
1929 · PDF PAGE 463
…e actual situation, by the way, is critical. There are, roughly speaking, two and a half of the seven and a half million people of Great New York put to grave inconvenience by the congestion and all alike are embarrassed by the ratio of rent to income. In Europe we reckon that rent should not absorb more than one tenth or at most one eighth of one's earning. In New York, this proportion is rarely less than one fourth and sometimes more than on third. Again, despite all efforts to establish a satisfactory system of transport, conditions are appa…
1898 · PDF PAGE 40
…owering man, _ The spirit has God for a neighbour, And the wheels unreturning that ran Return to the heart of the roses, And curl in the new blossom now, As the holiest fire that encloses Gray flame on the holiest brow. So midnight with magic reposes, And slumbers to visions bow. For the soul of man, being free, shall pass the gates of God, And the spirit find the Sea by the feet of Him untrod, | And the flesh, a lifeless ember, in ashen fear grow cold,
1909 · PDF PAGE 401
…oom gives the best part of his flunkey’s life to the achievement. Even his own friendships—his sdiyspusiaj—are made but the pretext fora new servility. 393
1909 · PDF PAGE 401
…oom gives the best part of his flunkey’s life to the achievement. Even his own friendships—his sdiyspusiaj—are made but the pretext fora new servility. 393
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when you are sad know that I have for- saken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, and not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be kings for ever. The slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked o…