1910 · PDF PAGE 11
Ambergris
2 AMBERGRIS Grey desires invade the white. Love and life are but a span ; Woe is me ! and woe is man !
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Collected Works (Vol. II)
…he sleepy flood | In certain bough-wrought shapes of mystic meaning, As if the moon were weaning The king her babe from milk of life and love To milk new-dropped above From her sweet breast in vaporous light Into the willowy night That lay upon the river. So the king Heard a strange chant—the woods began to sing ; The river took the tune; the willows kept Time; and the black skies wept Those tears, those blossoms, those pear] drops of milk That the moon shed: and looking up he saw As if the willows were but robes of silk, The moon’s face stoop …
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1901 · PDF PAGE 91
The Soul of Osiris
THE GATE OF THE SANCTUARY. 79 Once more it seeks in memory for reverence, not regret, And it loves you still, my sisters ! as God shall not forget. It is ill to blaspheme the silence with a wicked whispered thought— How still they were, those nights ! when this web of things was wrought ! How still, how terrible ! O my dolorous tender brides, As I lay and dreamt in the dark by your shameful beautiful sides ! And now you are mine no more, I know ; but I cannot bear The curse—that another is drunk on the life that stirs your hair : Every hair was…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 40
Magick Without Tears
…ng of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego-or what not . By "love under will" one refers to the fact that the method in every case is love, by which is meant the uniting of opposites as above stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. Any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love," as you will understand when I come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point-event." But love has to be "under will" if it
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1901 · PDF PAGE 67
The Soul of Osiris
THE GATE OF THE SANCTUARY. 55 “ THE TWO LOVES.” HAT is my soul ? The shadow of my will. What is my will ? The sleeper’s sigh at waking. Osiris ! Orient godhead ! let me still Rest in the dawn of knowledge, ever slaking My lips and throat where yon rose-glimmering hill, The Mountain of the East, its lips is taking To Thy life-lips : I hear Thy keen voice thrill ; Arise and shine ! the clouds of earth are breaking ! The clouds are parted : yes ! And there above I bathe in ether and self-shining light ; My soul is filled with the eternal love ; I …
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1903 · PDF PAGE 43
Alice: An Adultery
…“ Keep you in the rear of your affection Out of the shot and danger of desire.” Hamlet. I was so hopeless that I turned away And gave my love to foul oblivion, Shuttered my bosom’s window from the sun, Kindled a corpse-light and proclaimed “ The day ! ”; Lurked in Aeaean fens to elude the ray Whose beauty might disturb me : I did shun The onyx eyes that saw me not as one Possible even for a moment’s play. Thus I was tangled in some house of hell, Giving mine own soul’s beauty up to lust, Hoping to build some fort impregnable Against my love : i…
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1903 · PDF PAGE 92
Alice: An Adultery
…re she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance.” Cymbeline. How sweet the soft looks shot, endearing shame With their warm fragrance of love’s modest eyes ! The secret knowledge of our secrecies Shone from their distance with a subtle flame, And gave to pudency a rosier name When the long lashes drooped, and saintlier sighs Took softer meanings, till my arteries Throbbed with the glad desire that went and came. “ I charge you in the very name of love.” Quoth she : “ We have all day to steal below And snatch short kisses out of danger’s throat.…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 33
In Residence
BALLADE OF THE MUTABILITY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS WILD briar’s a blossom that fades ; The lily as easily dies ; And the love of terrestrial maids Is tender, too tender to prize. In a minute it droops and it dies, And happiness spills at the brink ; Love opens the window and flies :— But Smith’s is a permanent ink. Prosperity favoureth trades. An hour, and then troubles arise. The workers drop axes and spades, And Brandenburg labour supplies The goods. It is very unwise Your money in labour to sink. It will vanish, the blue in the skies :— But Smith’s …
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1906 · PDF PAGE 86
Collected Works (Vol. II)
…inless, if unsanctified. LETHE. WE have forgotten all the days of fear, The nights of torment when the kiss expired, Lost upon lips with love not overtired, But fearing many things—the after year, The end, the man—O no, not him! the tear, The children’s sorrow, and our own shame fired Not less in doing all that love desired: We have forgotten, surely—being here! We have forgotten every shape of sorrow, Knowing no end to one night’s ecstasy In the night’s kiss from morning that we borrow, From the hard usurer, Eternity— Seeing we have it in our …
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1910 · PDF PAGE 102
Ambergris
… deep to deep Reverberating, lightning unto lightning Across the sundering brightening Abyss of sorrows sleep, There shone the sword of love, and struck, and clove The intolerable veil, The woven chain of mail Prudence self-called, and folly known to who May know. Then, O sweet drop of dew, Thy limpid light rolled over and was lost In mine, and mine is thine. Peace, ye who praise ! ye but disturb the shrine ! This voice is evil over against the peace Here in the West, the holiest. Shaken and crossed. The threads Lachesis wove fell from her han…
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1898 · PDF PAGE 34
Songs of the Spirit
…h His Desire. I knew that Voice was more than God, And echo trembled for its trust : Sleep’s feet, like Death’s, with fire are shod, And Love is likest Lust. So I returned and sought her breast, Our Lady of ten thousand Pains ; I drank her kisses, and possessed Her pale maternal veins. I said : Drain hard my sudden breath, Be cruel for the vampire thrust ! Let Sleep’s desire be sweet as Death, And Love be clean as Lust ! I died amid her kisses : so This last time I would not forget— So I attained The Life ; and know Her lips and God’s have met.…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 197
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…noticed years. A time for song and laughter, And tender tears that fall ; A time to think of after, One long sweet festival ; A time for love and gladness, For life and hope and madness, And scarce a tinge of sadness To sanctify it all. Then we may yet, together, Indwell the land of bliss ; In blue unclouded weather By some new Salmacis. A land where Love engages Life sweeter than the sage’s, Where cling we through the ages In one immortal kiss.
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1905 · PDF PAGE 8
Orpheus
…ow can one hour dissolve a year’s delight” Tells of his wooing— ‘‘ / child-like medttative mood” Eurydice’s song—‘‘ O shape half seen of love, and lost” Continues the tale of his wooing—"* Such teene my falling bt snapped” Invokes Aphrodite—‘‘ Danghter of Glory, child” Continues the tale of his wooing —" I cage the lavish ore and sate” Eurydice’s song—" Who art thou, love, m what sweet name I quicken” . Continues the tale of his wooing—‘‘So by some spelt divinely drawn” Orpheus’ song—'‘‘ Roll, strong life-current of these very veins” Concludes …
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1910 · PDF PAGE 161
The Scented Garden
…ypress-breasted boys of birth, attend the coming of the gloom ! Expose your breasts of jasmine, show your lily buttocks all abloom ! Let Love awake, and blush, as Love comes glimmering from the starry womb, With standing member all aglow, purpled with cloth from Rapture’s loom. O tulip cheeks ! O lips of rose ! the joy of Allah ye assume, Rejoicing in the luscious play, the slippery splendour of the spume Cast from the holy hiding-place for ever till the day of doom. Rejoice, O podex, in thy strength ! thy spasms like the stars illume Earth’s d…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 67
Magick Without Tears
…force is limited by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human environment. (Illustration: When a man falls in love, the whole world becomes, to him, nothing but love boundless and immanent; but his mystical state is not contagious; his fellow-men are either amused or annoyed. He can only extend to others the effect which his love has had upon himself by means of his mental and physical qualities. Thus, Catullus, Dante and Swinburne made their love a mighty mover of mankind by virtue of their power to put their thought…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 371
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Love under Will 357 exaltation of cocaine, could match that moment. The words were old; but their meaning was marvellously new. There had never been any “1” before, when I thought “I” was I, there had never been any “ you ” before when I thought of Lou as an independent being, and had not realised that she was the necessary com- plement of the human instrument which was doing “my” work. Nor had there been any love before, while love meant nothing but the manifold stupid things that people ordinarily mean by it. Love, as I meant it now, was an a…
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1903 · PDF PAGE 68
Alice: An Adultery
…d is put forth to the plough—beware ! I took my shrine down : at the night we lay Four hours debating between fear and sin : Whether our love went deeper than the skin, Or lower than the lips : love won the day. We nestled like young turtles that be twin Close till the morn-star chased the moon away. 48
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1903 · PDF PAGE 95
Alice: An Adultery
…IFTH DAY “ I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it, but adieu.” King Henry V. The third time bitterly came reason back. Is it a fault in love when mornings find The soul grown sober and rethroned the mind ? Or is it mere necessity to track The candid chequer cross-wise to the black, And love, not mutable, yet well inclined To take his pleasure in becoming blind After such sight mere day is wont to lack. So we were angry with ourselves and said We would not kiss—two days, and we would part. And she prayed heaven that she might be dead, And I cur…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 81
Rodin in Rime
ICARE' CARUS cries: “My love is robed in light And splendour of the summits of the sun. Wing, O my soul, thy plumed caparison Through ninety million miles of space beyond sight! Utmost imagination’s eagle-flight Out-soar!” But he, by his own force undone, His peacock pinions molten one by one, Falls to black earth through the impassive night. Lo! from uprushing earth arises love Ardent and secret, scented with the night, Amorous, ready. Sing the awakening bliss That catches him, from the inane above Hurled—nay, drawn down! What uttermost deligh…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 74
The Book of Lies
…as tom to rags: ——— nay! nay! my head was mashed into wood pulp, and thereon the Daily Newspaper was printed. Thus wrote I, since my One Love was torn from me. I cannot work: I cannot think: I seek distraction here: I seek distraction there: but this is all my truth, that Z who love have lost; and how may 1 regain? I must have money to get to America. O Mage! Sage! Gauge thy Wage, or in the Page of thine Age is written Rage! O my darling! We should not have spent Ninety Pounds in that Three Weeks in Paris! . 2. ee we ew wwe eee ewe Slash the Br…
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