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1901 · PDF PAGE 16

The Mother’s Tragedy

…poke ? A smile, a tear? that trembling, in their deep Violet passion, of the beautiful Eyes that they half discover? Speak to me. I have long thought a secret was your spouse, Shared your deep fancies and your lightest word, Partook your maiden bed, and gave you dreams Somewhat too troublous to be virginal. MADELINE. My dear kind Cora, do they lie to you, These fancies of my idle hours? Believe, I seem to tremble at my inward thought ; My heart is full of wonder. When I go Nightward beneath the moon, and take my thoughts

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1905 · PDF PAGE 106

Oracles

NIGHT IN THE VALLEY I0I How pitiful, how beautiful, the faces ! The long hair shed on shoulders ivory white ! Each note shoots down the dim arboreal spaces Like amber or like hyaline lit with light. Each spirit glimmers in the shadowy places Like hyacinths or emeralds : or the night Shows them as shadows of some antique gem Where moonlight fills its cup and flashes into them. So, in the moony twilight and the splendour Of music’s light, the desolate nightingale Fills all the interlunar air with tender Kisses like song, or shrills upon the scale…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 75

Orpheus

… 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-lying crest That rears across the west. | Spring, maiden-footed, steals across the space, Sandalled with tremulous light, with flickering hair Blown o’er the sweet looks of the fair child-face, Like willows drooping o’er the liquid mere, 76

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1903 · PDF PAGE 14

Ahab and Other Poems

… fife, and Hrike! Doth God not fee? His car is dull? Or Dis fyrech ferangleo, Dis forw null? Nap, Yerilp! Chele potty fine Dis mercy and long-fuffering pardon. What final aime of orror Bins Le Cafe Wis gradous feart to Fardey? What one Café infamy (hal Bake Die anger, for Hie grat Wame’s abe? Ss Here one fin fo forriBee That no forgitenefs cay oBtain, Tha€ flings apare He Bars of Fell, is Wicd tepentance fa be Bain? 2 ut Hew is! One act of tufh one) inp xafh unBinBing pout! 6

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1903 · PDF PAGE 19

Alice: An Adultery

… and the in- famous 21st day as examples of what I mean. The secret of the 10th day is peculiarly obscure, and apparently refers to some long-past event in the author’s life. To turn for a moment to an examin- tion of the facts as found in the poem. 1st day.—They are on a tropical island in the Pacific. 6th day and 11th.—The man is a meddler with magic and a believer in the Theosophical Doctrines of Evolution (4th day), and yet also in existence of Gods.* 8th day.—He calls his island “ the extreme west of all the world.” 16th day.—“ Alice ” had…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 21

The Holy Books

…lphabet; 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 ones my servants:…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 190

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…insufferable perfume Beat the black air with golden fans As Turkis rip a Nubian's womb With damascenéd yataghans. Also the taste of dust long dead Ofancient queens corrupt and fair Struck through the temple, subtly sped By demons dominant of the air. Last, on the flesh there came a touch Like sucking mouths and stroking hands That laid their foul alluring smutch Even to the blood’s mad sarabands.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 190

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…insufferable perfume Beat the black air with golden fans As Turkis rip a Nubian's womb With damascenéd yataghans. Also the taste of dust long dead Ofancient queens corrupt and fair Struck through the temple, subtly sped By demons dominant of the air. Last, on the flesh there came a touch Like sucking mouths and stroking hands That laid their foul alluring smutch Even to the blood’s mad sarabands.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 140

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma- juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Totheone end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East: the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [Pazses glass] the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of cares how heavy! Drink! The peace of the Priest ! [He drinks…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 87

The Soul of Osiris

… of her ! So grew the mustard-seed, one moment’s lust. I too was wounded : shameful runs the song. She nursed me through that melancholy long Month of despair : she won my life from death. Ah God ! she won that most reluctant breath Out of corruption : love ! ah ! love is strong ! What waters quench it ? King Shalomeh saith. I am the king : you know it, friend ! We wed. That is the tale of how my wooing sped. And oh ! the quest : half won—incredible ? I am so brave, and pure—folk love me well. But oh ! my life, my being ! That is dead, And my w…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

The Holy Books

…7. Also these shall breed lust and power of lust in you at the eating thereof. 28. Also ye shall be strong in war. 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver or gold! 27

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1913 · PDF PAGE 27

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ooth arms , her waist and bosom free , Her shining shoulders , beautiful and bare , Her dabbled ankles dazzle those who dare To gaze too long . They follow hastily . A perilous quest ! Oh , whosoever follow Swift , pure Diana 's star , a harbinger By hill and heath , through stream and mossy hollow , Must too be pure . Swift torment fell on him Who , breaking on her bathing at the brim Of some cool streamlet , lusted after her .

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1926 · PDF PAGE 20

Liber Al vel Legis

…lphabet; 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 ones my servants:…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 118

Oracles

… inhospitable heather To the old stately tower—my own dear tower. He will not fail me for a sudden shower ! My friend ! How often have I longed to see Again his gallant figure and that face Radiant—how long ago we parted !—we The dearest friends that ever were ! Ah me ! I curse even now that hateful parting-place. But now—he comes ! How glad I am ! Apace Fly the glad minutes—There he is at last ! I know the firm foot on the marble floor. The hour-glass turns ! What miseries to cast For ever to the limbo of the past ! He knocks—my friend ! O joy…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ds : but he bears as a crest a winged angelic head with a penta— gram on the brows. Beneath the chariot are grey nimbus clouds. His hair long and waving in serpentine whirls, and whorl figures compose the scales of his armour, A drawn sword in one hand ; a sickle in the otherl With the sword he rules, with the sickle he slaysi Full of ideas and thoughts and designs, distrustful, suspicious, firm in friendship and enmity; careful, observant, slow, over-cautious, symbolizes A and 9; he slays as fast as he creates. 167

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1912 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ds : but he bears as a crest a winged angelic head with a penta— gram on the brows. Beneath the chariot are grey nimbus clouds. His hair long and waving in serpentine whirls, and whorl figures compose the scales of his armour, A drawn sword in one hand ; a sickle in the otherl With the sword he rules, with the sickle he slaysi Full of ideas and thoughts and designs, distrustful, suspicious, firm in friendship and enmity; careful, observant, slow, over-cautious, symbolizes A and 9; he slays as fast as he creates. 167

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1913 · PDF PAGE 534

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…when one undergoes them, and condemns them when one takes them. Axiom V To have the right to possess always, one must will patiently and long. Axiom VI To pass one’s life in willing what it is impossible to possess always, is to abdicate life and accept the eternity of death. Axiom VII The more obstacles the will surmounts, the stronger it is. It is for this reason that Christ glorified poverty and sorrow. Axiom VIII When the will is vowed to the absurd, it is reproved by eternal reason. Axiom IX The will of the just man is the will of God hims…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 534

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…when one undergoes them, and condemns them when one takes them. Axiom V To have the right to possess always, one must will patiently and long. Axiom VI To pass one’s life in willing what it is impossible to possess always, is to abdicate life and accept the eternity of death. Axiom VII The more obstacles the will surmounts, the stronger it is. It is for this reason that Christ glorified poverty and sorrow. Axiom VIII When the will is vowed to the absurd, it is reproved by eternal reason. Axiom IX The will of the just man is the will of God hims…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 27

Liber Al vel Legis

…7. Also these shall breed lust and power of lust in you at the eating thereof. 28. Also ye shall be strong in war. 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver or gold! 27

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1899 · PDF PAGE 173

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…istortions of a sodden mind. God did first work on earth when womankind He chipped from Adam’s rib—a thankless task I wot His wisdom has long since repined. Christ touched the leper and the widow's son ; And thou wouldst serve the work the Perfect One _ Began, by folding arms and gazing up o heaven, as if thy work were rightly done. I tell thee, He should say, if ye were met: “Thou hadst a talent—ah, thou hast it yet Wrapped ina napkin—thou shalt drain the cup Of that damnation that may not forget “The wasted hours!” Ah, bitter interest Of our …

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