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Page 34 of 2031905 · PDF PAGE 110
… them live or die. So sweet, so sad, so lonely, In silent noontide only Thy song-wings float and lie On cloud-foam scarred and riven, By God’s red lightnings shriven, And quiet hours are given To him that lingers nigh. Fain would I linger near thee Amid the poppies red, Forget this world, and hear thee As one among the dead ; Amid the daffadillies, Red tulips and white lilies, Where daisies’ tears are shed ; Where larkspur and cornflower Are blue with sunlight’s hour, And all the earth is spread As in a dream before me; While steals divinely o’…
1899 · PDF PAGE 49
…ame With iron, massacre, and flame, And turn their own devouring blade On city fired and violate maid, That Israel conquer, and men know God is our God against a foe. For the web of the battle is woven Of men that are strong as the sea, When the rocks by its tempest are cloven, And waves wander wild to the lee; When ships are in travail forsaken, And tempest and tumult awaken ; When foam by fresh foam overtaken Boils sanguine and fervent and free. For its sides are a million of paces; Its centre is Death as he stands Pale-horsed, where the icie…
1901 · PDF PAGE 38
… ! ” She smiled—I know she smiled—she sighed, Bit my lips through, and drank, and died ! Her murders and her blasphemies, Her whoredoms, God has paid at last ; Upon my bosom close she lies, Her carnal spirit holds me fast. My blood, my infamy, my pain, Seal my subjection and her reign. My veins poured out her marriage cup, For holy water her cruel tongue ; For blessing of white hands raised up, These perfumed infamies unsung ; For God’s breath, her sharp tainted breath ; For marriage bed, the bed of death. The hounds that scavenge, fierce and l…
1930 · PDF PAGE 79
upon the lips, so that you are in the characteristic position of the God Harpocrates. (f) It is a sign that the student is performing this correctly when a single “Vibration” entirely exhausts his physical strength. It should cause him to grow hot ali over or to perspire violently, and it should so weaken him that he will find it difficult to remain standing. 6. It is a sign of success, though only by the student himself is it perceived, when he hears the name of the God vehemently roared forth, as if by the concourse of ten thousand thunders; …
1905 · PDF PAGE 11
…st move, And all the body be forgotten quite, And the pure soul flame forth, a deathless dove, Where all worlds end ! If thou art worthy God shall greet thee for a friend. XVII. Iam unworthy. In the House of Pain There are ten thousand shrines. Each one enfolds A lesser, inner, more divine, that holds A sin less palpable and less profane. The inmost is the home of God. Te moulds Infinity, The great within the small, one stainless unity! XVIII. I dare not to the greater sins aspire5 I might—so gross am I—take pleasure in These filthy holocausts,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 223
216 CARMEN SAECULARE The temple of their God is broken down ; Yea, Mammon’s shrine is cleansed! The house of her That ‘cowed the world with her malignant frown, And drove the Celt to exile and despair, Is battered now—God’s fire destroys the town ; London admits God’s air. They scorned the God that made them; yea, they said : ‘‘Lords of this globe, the Saxon race, are we. ‘* Europe before us lies, as men lied .; “ Britannia—ho! Britannia rules the sea!” This night thy kingdom shall be finished, Thy soul required of thee. Hail! France ! rebelled…
1906 · PDF PAGE 21
…sniffs loud and holds aloof. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) The Angel has not come again. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) Why did God deal her out such pain? (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) Her love-hours held the Holy Ghost. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh: !) Where is he now she needs him most? (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) Joseph drinks deep outside the inn. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She is half hated by her kin. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) The agony increases fast. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) Each spasm…
1901 · PDF PAGE 60
…nchable dead lustrous eyes Toward impossible things grown possible In Egypt. I will cleanse the land of this. Let me remember I am yet a god! Re-enter LEPER. THE LEPER. Thou must be brought before her presently Borne in a coffin. See thou fill it not, But take the lion’s mask and play his part Before the throne. Be ready, and be strong. PACHAD. I shall do so. Come, let us go together In hateful love and sacrilegious hate, Disease and godhead. I am still the god. [ Exeunt. Enter RATOUM. RATOUM. I stood upon the desert, and my eyes Beheld the spl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…sure force with them ! Ah ! these locks flow down , a river , as the earth's before the Sun , As the earth's before the sunset , and the God and I are One. I who entered in a Fool , gain the God by clean endeavour ; I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever. Such is the living poetry that abides and ever lives on , knowing no youth or age, alone an eternal man hood . Lavishly scattered , we find it throughout the works before us ; in “ Aceldama ,” “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic ,” “ The Temple of the Holy Ghost, ” “ Tannhäuse…
1912 · PDF PAGE 76
…NDO. They are mad. MONICA. But wait ! Alls silent now. ORLANDO. No ! I hear cries, and blows rung hard On sconce and skull MONICA. Ah ! God, hope dies. [Another detonation is heard. ORLANDO. Theres the petard. They must have blown in the two gates. MONICA. Then we are dead. ORLANDO. Not while this swords unbroken. MONICA. Fates no friend. ORLANDO. Unsaid The holiest, happiest things. Here comes a guard. Pre- pare For evil tidings. MONICA. Martyrdoms to be our share. Well, tis the accustomed crown of true virginity ! Ha Ha ! How God must l…
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…s I slumber, “ Yea ! “ Heaven of your accurst creation Shall become a hell of fire ; Death for kisses, and damnation For your love shall God require.”
1907 · PDF PAGE 127
…ws the utmost now; what waters white She held from heaven’s crystal fountains ; flight Of what celestial birds struck down :—Ah me! What god or demigod hath struck remorse Into that close-crouched, cold, and desolate corse, Wailing her violate virginity? LA TENTATION DE SAINT- ANTOINE. In mystic dolour wrapt, the ascetic turns His vague untutored thought to love, and sees Himself exalted at the amber knees Of God the Father : his bowed forehead burns With chastity’s white star: no spirit yearns More keenly from the abyss; yet, God! are these Su…
1954 · PDF PAGE 250
DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD? 217 exactly how, or to what end, she did not make clear. An exclamation: "Then there is the Devil!" She went on without a word from me for a long while, tying herself up into fresh knots with every phase . She became irreverent, then downright blasphemous; stopped short and began to laugh at herself. And so forth-but, what struck me as curious and significant, in the main her argument followed quite closely the lines which came naturally to me, at the beginning of this letter! In the end, "curiouser and curiouser," she ar…
1901 · PDF PAGE 32
…ce of burning flame, That is not quenched, although I weep. (For even my tears are tears of fire, For loathing, madness, and desire.) Ah God ! the traps for fervent feet ! The morrow beaconed, and I came By where the golden groves of wheat In summer glories fiercely flame ; To those white courts, by princes trod, Where Ahab sat, and mocked at God. Where Ahab sat, but lo ! I saw No king, no tyrant to be curst ; But she, who filled me with blind awe, She, for whose blood my thin veins thirst ;
1912 · PDF PAGE 110
…ng in his ear he had. Nay! he saw all. He saw the Curse That wrapped in ruin the World primeval. He saw the unborn Universe, And all its gods coeval. He saw, and was, all things at once In Him that is ; he was the stars, The moons, the meteors, the suns, All in one net of triune bars; Inextricably one, inevitably one, Immeasurable, immutable, immense Beyond all the wonder that his soul had won By sense, in spite of sense, and beyond sense. “Praise God!” quoth Palamede, “ by this I attain the uttermost of bliss. . . . God’s wounds! but that I ne…
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
… the innumerable leapings of the sap; before it stands the Himalayan goat, with an eye in the cen‐ tre of his forehead, representing the god Pan upon the highest and most secret mountains of the earth. His creative energy is veiled in the symbol of the Wand of the Chief Adept, crowned with the winged globe and the twin serpents of Horus and Osiris. 1The Early Christians also were accused of worshipping an Ass, or ass‐headed god. See Browning, The Ring and the Book (The Pope). “Hear me, Lord of the Stars, For thee have I worshipped ever With sta…
1898 · PDF PAGE 20
… cloud, about me, and I could not see—and I am so happy. VAUGHAN. Esmé, I am here, your father. ESME, Ah! it comes back. He is dead. Oh, God! Oh, God! And we were to have been married a month to-day. . VAUGHAN. And he left the poem and could not finish it. ESME [ pointing to scattered papers on a table}, What have you been doing with those papers, father ?
1909 · PDF PAGE 177
…w, by applying to the Text the Keys of the Qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. In the Beginning, created, God, the Essence of the Heavens, and the Essence, of the Earth. In the Beginning God f th In Wisdom Created j The Elohim the Essence + e In the Head* The Holy Gods. eavens of the and the Essence } marth Contained therein also are the Divine, Magical, and Terrestrial Formule of the Passage of the Incomprehensible Nothingness of the Ain Soph to the Perfection of Creation * Ie, the White Skull. Vide Idra Zuta Qad…
1909 · PDF PAGE 177
…w, by applying to the Text the Keys of the Qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. In the Beginning, created, God, the Essence of the Heavens, and the Essence, of the Earth. In the Beginning God f th In Wisdom Created j The Elohim the Essence + e In the Head* The Holy Gods. eavens of the and the Essence } marth Contained therein also are the Divine, Magical, and Terrestrial Formule of the Passage of the Incomprehensible Nothingness of the Ain Soph to the Perfection of Creation * Ie, the White Skull. Vide Idra Zuta Qad…
1907 · PDF PAGE 323
…AR IN THE WEST exalted in one single mono-ideism and the result is a very high state of contentment . * And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and with all thy soul , and with all thy mind , and with all thy strength : this is the first com mandment , ” to all who would arrive at their true state of “ Self - hood .” God here represents any one object , for in the end all objects are the same . I look at a bug and my five senses tell me it is flat , of a certain odour , brown , etc. , etc .; only phenomena which I cannot get b…