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1910 · PDF PAGE 109

The World’s Tragedy

…) And all my being flows In a flood to my lips, and I kiss kiss kiss Madly, madly kiss, Out of rhythm, out of rime, Out of space, sense, time, Thy mouth — and I am thine : Sealed, sealed at last, enthroned upon The very star thou ridest on. O wine ! o wine ! Wine of thy luminous body rushing, gushing,

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1904 · PDF PAGE 90

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…g his head.” But at this point a prowling megatherium wailed and Adam snatched up a sling and started off to drive him away. Eve lost no time in knocking violently on her belly. “ Time to get up, sir. I’ll bring your hot water in a minute ! ” Satan awoke, and not being fond of wa- ter, hot or otherwise, unless with a considerable portion of Mammon’s old Highland Hell-fire, climbed down, put his head out, and asked what the devil the knocking was about. “ Get away, dear, Adam’s gone out for an hour, quick, and don’t hurt me.” “ No, Eve, I will s…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 207

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… where I was. It was getting dark. He groped his way round the room looking for me; but he passed me twice before he found me. The third time he stumbled up against me, gripped me by the shoulder, and began to strike. I sat as if I were paralysed. I could not even scream. Again and again he swore and struck me savagely, yet so weakly that I could not feel the blows. Besides, I was dulled to all possible pain. Presently he collapsed, and rolled over on the. bed. I thought for a moment he was dead, and then he was seized by a series of spasms ; h…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 36

The Law is for All

…Freedom itself to have an organiza­ tion; and every organization must have a highly-centralized control. This is especially necessary in time of war, as even the so- called “democratic” nations have been taught by Experience, since they would not learn from Germany. Now this age is pre­ eminently a “time of war,” most of all now, when it is our Work to overthrow the slave-gods. The injunction “seek me only” is emphasized with an oath, and a special promise is made in connection with it. By seeking lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby a…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 293

The Law is for All

… ein Buhnenweihfestspiel, trans. Marga­ ret H. Glyn and Alfred Ernst. Mainz: Schott, c. 1926; rpt. New York: Dover 1986. Wells, H.G. The Time Machine, an Invention. London: Heinemann, 1895. Also in The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition, ed. Harry M. Geduld (Bloomington, in: Indiana University Press, 1987).

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1954 · PDF PAGE 19

Magick Without Tears

…Beast whose number was 666. He ultimately identified himself with that Beast, without question aided and abetted by his mother. When the time came to revolt and to turn against the religion of his family, with all the venom and brilliance that he, and only he, could muster, there could be no alternative but that he had to ally himself with those forces which were opposed to the stupidities his mother stood for. So he became the Beast. And since Revelation counted the number of the Beast and found it to be 666, the number of a Man, he turned all…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 118

Songs of the Spirit

No chords for my memory bring ; Those lips like a soul that are clinging most silently cling. Take though for these verses, though time be So sure and so swift for thy feet, Though far from this England thy clime be In years that sway slow as the wheat, Take thought, for an hour let my rhyme be not wholly unsweet. For truth and desire and devotion May lend through the verses a voice, They tremble with violent motion, They yearn to be fair for thy choice As billows and winds of the ocean that roar and rejoice. For winds that are shaken and riven…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 66

The Star and the Garter

XXIX So, love, not thus for you and me! And if I am man, no more, expect I shall remain so, till, maybe, The anatomist, old Time, dissect Me, nerve from flesh, and bone from bone, And raise me spiritual, changed In all but love for you, my own; The little matter rearranged, The little mind refigured. This Alone I hope or think to keep :— The love I bear you, and the kiss Too soft to call the breath of sleep. And, if you are woman, even there I do decline : we stand above. I ask not, and will take no share With you in what mankind call love. We …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 126

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

Celia I When Celia frigs my fat J.T., Her mouth is luscious as a pig’s : I come three times in minutes three When Celia frigs. But when she fucks, what randy jigs She dances on my stiff pee-wee ! I leave plain buggery to prigs ! Her twat is deeper than the sea ; Her ulcers are like rotten figs ; — It is a holy time for me When Celia frigs. II When Celia spends I send a card Inviting all my oldest friends To tea, if they can get a hard When Celia spends. It should be easy to make ends Meet, O good comrades of the bard ! Her twat gapes wide : wha…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 136

The Winged Beetle

… ! Well, if you insist ! Like an enamoured lutanist Graven on some bishop’s amethyst, So there is graven by fate’s steel And polished by time’s emery wheel This passion that consumeth me, Music that mars man’s dignity ! My love is like an unhealed scar That throbs and bleeds at the word war ! My love is like a masterless Hound, running wide on a false scent. I am the plaything of distress ; The marionette of the Event ! Yet this red lust that rots my sword Is the same flame that tempered it. Though my death be my birth’s reward, And folly be th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 140

The Winged Beetle

…n-flower unexampled In gardens goodlier than Arcady. O Thou ! whose body was my lyre, whose soul Lay on my mouth like a live coal ! This time thou hearest not my song ; thine ears Are stopped with worse than death ; And all this wasted breath Of mine—those songs of six most memorable years Of ecstasy and agony—may not attain To charm thy being into love again. . . .

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1913 · PDF PAGE 217

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…andy bounded , Stretching to the flowery highlands Of the heart of Old Japan . Here are things that Westerns share not , Here business , time and haste compare not In the dull or in the clever With the peace of mind of man ; Here with joy in mist and glamour , Droning chant and ringing clamour , Naked children play for ever Simple games of Old Japan . 198

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1913 · PDF PAGE 239

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…roke the bars Was quintessential June, When you and I beneath the trees Bartered our bold virginities. Eighteen—years, months, or hours? Time is a tyrant’s toy! Eternal are the flowers! We are but girl and boy Yet—since love leapt as swift to-night As it had never left the light! 201

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1913 · PDF PAGE 239

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…roke the bars Was quintessential June, When you and I beneath the trees Bartered our bold virginities. Eighteen—years, months, or hours? Time is a tyrant’s toy! Eternal are the flowers! We are but girl and boy Yet—since love leapt as swift to-night As it had never left the light! 201

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1922 · PDF PAGE 105

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…it. He had repressed the original impulse to touch his hat. I myself felt a curious sense of enjoyment of my own importance. At the same time, I was in a violent hurry to get back to Lou. My brain was racing with the thought of her. I signed my name where they told me, and the consul dabbed it all over with stamps, and we drove back to the hotel, where the clerk extracted a locked leather wallet from a mysterious inside hip pocket and counted me out my six thousand in hundred- pound notes. Of course, I had to ask the fellow to lunch, it was onl…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 113

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… voices of the Six, may he obtain in sense the subtlety of the Seventh. 7- ATMrN. (We add the following, contributed by a friend at that time without the A.-. A .'. and its dépendent orders. He worked out the method himself, and we think it may prove useful to many. O. M.). i. The beginner must first practise breathing regularly through the nose, at the same time trying hard to believe that the breath goes to the Ajna and not to the lungs. The Pranayama exercises described in the Equinox Vol. i, No. 4, p. ioi must next be practised, always with…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 190

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…must be practical. . . I am lying down for a bit. It was a frightful nuisance getting ready to go out. Cockie nagged and bullied all the time. I’m stiff all over, and it seems such waste of time to wash and dress, besides, the irritation of the interruption, and my clothes are impossible. I’ve been sleeping in them. I wish we'd brought some trunks from the Savoy. No, I don’t, it would have been a lot of trouble, and interfered with our heroin honeymoon. It’s best the way it is. I wish I had Jacqueline here all the same. I need a maid, and she c…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 12

Alice: An Adultery

… in a great curse. The hoarse anger of drunken harlotry snarled back. “ Not a drop more,” shouted my friend, adding many things*. It was time for my return. “ I will let them know,” I whispered. “ Good- bye.” “ ‘ There is not one thing with another ; But Evil saith to Good : ‘ My brother—’ ” he went on unheeding. I left him to his peace. My re-appearance restored harmony. The * The substance of his remarks, and subsequent adven- tures are detailed in my “ Three Screams at Mid- night.”—ED.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 108

Alice: An Adultery

…ng comfort in a babe beyond belief. God would not curse and bless us to such measure ; We were not sad enough nor glad enough ! A little time of misery and pleasure ; Pain strangling half the ecstasy thereof— Such all our gain, who gained the utmost treasure, Gift of the wizard wand and cup of love. 88

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1907 · PDF PAGE 123

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ike love-—who knows? One follows till one’s eyes are dim My little lady light 0’ limb. LAGE D’ATIRAIN. FRESH in the savage vivour of the time, The golden youth stands in the golden prime, Erect, acute, astrain. We look and long For those bronze lips to blossom into song. He is silent. We reflect. Ourselves grown old Yearn somewhat toward that sensuous glow of gold. All this is folly. Rodin made him so, Evoked the strength, the goodliness, the glow. The form is little: in the mind there dwells Force to avail the childish heart that swells With a…

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