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Page 37 of 1031905 · PDF PAGE 162
…e’s pelf to pay the score For ale and cakes and venison and a soft “ Bed we have missed this three months—now no more Of folly ! Avaunt, old Merlin’s nonsense lore ! Ho there ! Travellers ! Mine host ! Open the door ! ” [In the second part—a joyous inn fireside—the Earl refuses power, knowledge, and love (offered him by a guest) by the symbolic drink of ale and the cherry cheeks of the maid. In part three she, coming secretly to him, warns him he must destroy the three vices, faith, hope, and charity. This he does easily, save the love of the f…
1911 · PDF PAGE 80
… our bones here to bleach And be saved, than go burn with the Paynim impostorl For the infidel swine Lack our spirit divine ; Their crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! Drink, every knight! God and my right! We’ll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-nightl SIR JAMES. Peace to thy ribaldry! Here comes the Preceptor. To saddle! JOCELYN. Why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? SIR JAMES. Who poises in his mind the destinies of Christendom needs not in his ear thy fool's prattle, or thy fool’s face at his elbow. Though he have s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 80
… our bones here to bleach And be saved, than go burn with the Paynim impostorl For the infidel swine Lack our spirit divine ; Their crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! Drink, every knight! God and my right! We’ll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-nightl SIR JAMES. Peace to thy ribaldry! Here comes the Preceptor. To saddle! JOCELYN. Why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? SIR JAMES. Who poises in his mind the destinies of Christendom needs not in his ear thy fool's prattle, or thy fool’s face at his elbow. Though he have s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 66
…ople to their own. Its we that build the church, its we that gild the throne. SHACKABACK. I have a great idea ; Our bonds are good as gold. Suppose we lent and borrowed, never bought or sold ? ISRAEL. What do you mean ? SHACKABACK. Suppose we made our paper pass All through the world, what use for silver, gold, and brass ? ISSACHAR. Why, thats a great idea ; we could do business then Without a coin ! SHACKABACK. Why yes ! what think you, gentlemen ? ISRAEL. That no one would accept our paper. ISSACHAR. Thats a bar ! SHACKABACK. When youre …
1914 · PDF PAGE 10
…'s pedlars all have treasure in their load ; ‘The toad has got a jewel in its head— O Christ of God | I wish you were a toad! A toad is cold and clammy, it is true; But you are hot and sticky, and smell too. VIIL ““T thought I was worth something!” Yes, you are; ‘Worth what the jeweller and the old-clothes-man ‘And the pork-butcher offer. Soul's a star, (And that is why no woman ever loathes man.) Tf you've that star, how could I “ guess it, say,” From the inspection of your Milky Way?
1905 · PDF PAGE 121
…ker, on wing. Only a primrose, a violet laden With the pale perfume of dawn ; Only a snowdrop, my delicate maiden ; These have no thorn. Old-fashioned love, yet you feel it a fountain Springing for ever, most pure ; Old-fashioned love, yet as adamant mountain Solid and sure. Yes, tender thoughts on your lips will be breaking By-and-by into a smile ; Love, ere he springs up divine at his waking, Slumbers awhile. So, my kissed snowdrop, you took its white blossom Tenderly into your hand, Kissed it three times, wear it yet in your bosom— I underst…
1906 · PDF PAGE 56
… and the shapeless toads Fed by their lovers duly on the draught That bloats and blisters, blackens and cor- rodes. These had he seen of old ; so now he laughed, Not without bitterness deep-lying, that erst He had esteemed such foolish devil’s craft Part of his quest, his quest when fair and first He flung the last, the strongest horseman back With such a buffet that no skill amerced Its debt but headlong in his charger’s track He must be hurled, rib-shattered bythe shock; And the loud populace exclaimed ‘‘ Alack !”, Their favourite foiled. sto…
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
ANIMA LUNAE I2I With gold hair curling like the spring sun’s gold, And blue eyes where stars lurked for happiness, And lithe with all a young fawn’s loveliness. Such are the dwellers of the fire that fold Fine wings in wanton ecstasy, and sleep Where the thin tongues of glory leap Up from the brazen hold And far majestic keep Of Djinn, the Lord of elemental light. But he beheld some sight Beyond that city’s joy : his gentle word The old king gently heard. (This king was Zôhra’s father) “ Lord and king Of love’s own city, give me leave to wing A…
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…orn houses tottering, like the fate That hangs above my head even now, and meets Prayer and defiance as not hearing it. They lean, these old black streets ! a little sky Peeps through the gap, the rough stone path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, fade away To other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where the heathen pray, See him relieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep : Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke Only the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 24
…ained in devilry, debauch, and dream : Lives logged in the morass of meat and drink, Loves dipped in Phlegethon, the perjured stream. Behold we would that hours and minutes pass, Watch the sands falling in the eager glass ; To wile their weariness is pleasures bliss ; But ah ! the years ! like smoke They fade, alas ! We weep them as they slip away ; we gaze Back on the likeness of the former days The hair we fondle and the lips we kiss Roses grow yellow, and no purple stays. Ah ! the old years ! Come back, ye vanished hours We wasted ; come,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 238
…otherland Love not the dead o'ermuch ... Love with light step passes ... ... 21 206 213 196 204 170 194 Majestic as lone ruins reared of old ... My eyes are blue with gazing on thy deeps My heart is like a meadow ... My son is mine no more .. . .. . Night stirs but wakens not ... Nothing of strange or exquisite or rare Now your grey eyes are filled with tears .. . O brilliant blossoms that strew my way O dearest , if the touch of common things O eyes that stop the souls of men
1928 · PDF PAGE 43
…slow or so dragging, he instantly deciphers innumerable legends of love deceived, of devotion misun- derstood, of effort unrewarded, of cold and hunger humbly and silently endured. Have you sometimes noticed widows upon these solitary benches? Widows who are poor; whether or no they be in mourning, it is easy to recognize them. Besides, there is always in the mourning of poor persons something lack- ing; an absence of harmony which makes it more heartbreaking. Poverty is obliged to hag- gle over its sorrow; Wealth weeps, regardless of expense. …
1961 · PDF PAGE 19
… sua Percipienda (Of Percieving one.s Nature) NDERSTAND, o my Son, in thy Youth, these Words which some wise One, now nameless, spake of old; except ye become as little Children ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. This is to say that thou must first comprehend thine original Nature in every Point, before thou wast forced to bow before the Gods of Wood and Stone that Men have made, not comprehending the Law of Change, and of Evolution Through Variation, and the independent Value of every living Soul. Learn this also, that even …
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…think your troubles must have turned your brain; there are other ways of settling such imbroglios among gentlemen. ALAIN. Alas, sir! Tam old. When I was younger I should have been delighted to honour you ; but Iam the sole male member of my ancient house. Faithful retainers are the sinews of age, and I were a fool did I not employ the strength I have. DENYS. Oh, hang me now, and have done with it ! ALAIN. No haste. An hour of life is always— an hour. And though one half that time is nigh lapsed already, yet—if you will give me your word of hono…
1905 · PDF PAGE 64
TRANSLATIONS FROM BAUDELAIRE 59 Coldly they set themselves to gaze on me, Like passers-by a madman that they see— I heard them laugh and chuckle, as I think, Now interchange a signal, now a wink. “ Let us at leisure view this caricature, This shade of Hamlet mimicking his posture, The doubting look and hair flung wide to wind ! A pity, eh ? to see this merry hind, This beggar, actor out of work, this droll, Because he plays artistically his rôle, Wishing to interest in his chanted woes Brooks, eagles, crickets, every flower that blows, And even…
1905 · PDF PAGE 65
…d fashioned and then riven, Invoke fresh song, with deep solemnity In noble notes of mastery answering thee, By some young tumult in our old hearts driven ; And this immortal path of splintered rock Shall lead the wild chant to the sky, and mock The nectared feast of Gods with its impassioned shock. Deep-mouthed, I, earthquake, wake in echoing thunder. I break my mother’s breast; I tear asunder The womb that bore me ; I arise in terror, Threatening to ruin her, crag, crown, and column, Reverberate music of that mighty and solemn Call of creatio…
1905 · PDF PAGE 86
Or saddening smile, the laughter not forbidden And love enfolding the green-woven sphere : Lastly, the burning year of flame and fume That burns men up in fire’s sepulchral womb. Fivefold: the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong laughing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion : then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening; the last lustre’s span Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefol…
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
… the Planes. Number III. — Pages 151-169 give details of certain magical formulae. Pages 170-190 are a very perfect example — classical, old style — of a magical ritual for the évocation of the spirit of Mercury. Pages 190-197 — a ritual for the consécration of a talisman. A very perfect example. Pages 198-205 — a very fine example of a ritual to invoke the Higher Genius. Pages 208-233 — Ritual of Initiation, with explanation of the same. Pages 269-272 — Ritual of obtaining the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel by the formul…
1905 · PDF PAGE 13
…in. So I have asked Messrs Turnbull & Spears to dig the grave and provide the coffin; the S.P.R.T. will oblige with the funeral service. Old Man of the Sea, these three years you have drummed your black misshapen heels upon me; I have had no ease because of you; I am bepissed and conskited of your beastliness; and now you are drunk with the idea that you are finished and perfect, I shall roll you off and beat your brains out upon that hardest of flints, the head of the British Public. I am shut of thee. Allah forget thee in the day when he reme…
1910 · PDF PAGE 147
138 AMBERGRIS For brighter from age unto age The weary old world shall renew Its life at the lips of the sage, Its love at the lips of the dew. With kisses and tears The return of the years I sure as the starlight is true. Yet the drift of the stars is to beauty, To strength, and to infinite pleasure. The toil and the worship and duty Shall turn them to laughter and leisure. Were the world understood Ye would see it was good, A dance to a delicate measure. Ye fools, interweaving in passion The lyrical light of the mind ! Go on, in your drivelli…