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Page 56 of 1121905 · PDF PAGE 175
…choly hearse Dressed as an altar: is she nun or nurse, The priestess chosen of the half-formed faces ? An abbess, child of the unsullied eyes ! Why? To blaspheme! Sweet child, dance grows madder. O I am faint with pleasure! Ah! be wise; One measure more, and then—the sacrifice? What victim? Guess—a woman or an adder? the Nay, fear not, baby! In your mother’s hand . You must be safe? that bare you !. Who comes toward us? Why, our God, the Grand ! You trust the womb Our Baphomet!' Come, baby, to the band : Our God may kiss you—yes, he will not sp…
1907 · PDF PAGE 8
2 THE STAR AND THE GARTER THE STAR AND THE GARTER. I, WHAT sadness closes in between Your eyes and mine to-day, my Queen? In dewfall of our glance hath come A chill like sunset’s in hot lands Mid iris and chrysanthemum. Well do I know the shaken sands Within the surf, the beaten bar Of coral, the white nenuphar Of moonrise stealing o’er the bay. So here’s the darkness, and the day Sinks, and a chill clusters, and I Wrap close the cloak : then is it so To-day, you rose-gleam on the snow, My own true lover? Ardently I dare not look: I never looke…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
… to swell The anguish into rapture—come, to sup The liquid lava of the lake of Hell ! XIII, EILEEN. THE frosty fingers of the wind ; the eyes Of the melancholy wind : the voice serene Of the love-moved wind: theexulling secrecies Of the subtle wind: lament, O harmonies Of the most musical wind! Eileen! 1 Night—an old English canting word. The peace of the nameless loch: the waiting heart Of the amorous loch: the lights unguessed, unseen, Of the midnight loch; the winter’s sorrow apart Of the ice-bound loch: O majesty of art Ot the most motionle…
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…breast But wakes no joy therein, And all his kisses sharp and keen Bring only now desire of rest, Not their old rapture: the warm violet eyes Melt into sweet hot tears ; subtler the sighs Are interfused of death ; The brave bright looks grow duller, And fear is mingled with love’s ecstasies Again, and all her breath Fails, and the shape and colour Fade, fail, are lost in the sepulchral seas. WINTER. Know ye mychildren? From the old strong breast Not weary yet of life’s grey change, not drawn Into the utter peace of death, the rest Of the dim ho…
1906 · PDF PAGE 41
… upon the crest, the silver- rolling comb ; Float like a warrior to his rest, majestically home. But oh! my soul, what seest thou, whose eyes are open wide? What thoughts inspire me idling now, lone on the lonely tide? Here in the beauty of the place, hope laughs and says me nay ; In nature’s bosom, in God’s face, I read Decay, Decay. Here in the splendour of the Law that built the eternal sphere, Beauty and majesty and awe, I fail of any cheer. Here, in caprice, in will divine, I see no perfect peace ; Here,in the Law’s impassive shrine, no ho…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 75 A sight as lovely to the wise As maggots in a maiden’s eyes. From chapel, church, and meeting-room, From brothel, hospital, and tomb, From palace, gin-shop, workhouse, prison, Factory, slum, their slime is risen. The Devil said “ Bestir thy wits! Spew out these dysenteric—" “ It ’s A pity " (thus I cut him short) “ Your boyhood was so badly taught. The riddle ’s simple—here ’s the key! There is none other God than He.” He conjures up the Universe, Men bitter bad, and women worse. The whole disgusting Pan is show…
1909 · PDF PAGE 127
…e a damned neophyte. je m'emmerde| Praise the Lord, I wake l If that can be called waking which is a mere desperate struggle to keep the eyes open. . Pranayama all wrong—very difficult. Rose, washed, drank a few drops of water. (N.B.—To—night have drunk several times, a mouthful at a time; other nights, and days, no. All entries into body recorded duly.) Have done 10 Breath»Cycles ; am quite awake. It will therefore now be lawful again to sleep. Awoke at 7.40, read a letter which arrived, and tried quite vainly to concentrate. Have risen, writte…
1910 · PDF PAGE 5
…resh Smudged to a smoky glow as one may see At sunset in the Factory lands ; the lips Thinned and their colour sickened into slate ; The eyes like common glass ; the hair’s gloss dull ; The muscles gone, all pendulous with fat ; The breath that was more sweet than Lebanon And all the flowers and honey and spice thereof Ripe for my soul’s kiss, eagerly to cull, Now like a corpse three weeks drowned, swollen by sun And water and vermin. There she sways and stares, And with the jaw dropped all awry—first swears, Then lurches ; then she slobbers un…
1910 · PDF PAGE 343
…As the fires which glance o’er the face of the treacherous deep, When none but the furies may rest, and the nereids weep,— So thy meteor eyes, brightest sirens alluring Love's barque. When hid in the wonderful maze of thy whispering hair, Alone with the shadows and thee, and away from the glare 325
1910 · PDF PAGE 343
…As the fires which glance o’er the face of the treacherous deep, When none but the furies may rest, and the nereids weep,— So thy meteor eyes, brightest sirens alluring Love's barque. When hid in the wonderful maze of thy whispering hair, Alone with the shadows and thee, and away from the glare 325
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
…s of her fan! She hath love by rhyme and rote, She is subtle and quick to man ! She danceth? Say she doth float ! Rapture is gold in her eyes ! She sigheth honey-sweet sighs Of the glory of Japan! Red are her lips and large, The delicate courtesan !” Then the officer’s voice Caught in his throat for joy. Like birds in spring that rejoice, Clearly and softly the boy Whispered : ‘* Now, let us charge !” Then leaping sheer o’er trench and mound, They rise as a single man ; They bound like antelopes over the ground For the glory of Japan. With glit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…ere absolutely familiar. They were those of the labarum of Constantine "In hoc signo vinces." "In this sign thou shalt conquer." But her,eyes gave the lie to her ears; for the word "signo" was spelt "Cygno"! The phrase was then a pun — " In this Swan thou shalt conquer." At the time she did not understand; but she was sure of the spelling, when she came afterwards to report her vision to Sister Clara. [194] It then came into her mind that this egg was a great treasure, and that it was her duty to guard it against all comers; and at the same mom…
1899 · PDF PAGE 76
…e, I do good To her, the milk-white virgin sacrifice, And only smite the bloody father down! A lie, Isay! A lie! Yet—dare I speak, Those eyes upon me, torturing my soul And threatening revenge? His fingers gross, Purple, and horrible, to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat. O Hell! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To putrefy this fair green earth with blood, But make not me the devilish minister Of such a deed as this! No respite ?—-Must? Irrevocable? I dare not call on God. Thou, thou wilt serve me if I do this thing? Oh, if this …
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
…tss of God, and set Chryselephantine columns curled like fires Below each misty opal minaret. Is there no window to the east? Behold The eyes of Love, your love, the essential gold!
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
… lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes follow the left forearm, and say: “The sign of the Mourning of Isis.” (See Illustration.) (v) Raise the arms at an angle of sixty degrees to each other above the head, which is thrown back, and say: ‘“ The sign of Apophis and Typhon.” (See Illustration.) (vi) Cross the arms on the breast, and bow the head, and say: “The sign of Osiris Risen.” (See Illustration.) (vii) Extend the arms again as in (iii) and…
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
… lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes follow the left forearm, and say: “The sign of the Mourning of Isis.” (See Illustration.) (v) Raise the arms at an angle of sixty degrees to each other above the head, which is thrown back, and say: ‘“ The sign of Apophis and Typhon.” (See Illustration.) (vi) Cross the arms on the breast, and bow the head, and say: “The sign of Osiris Risen.” (See Illustration.) (vii) Extend the arms again as in (iii) and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 142
…resh Smudged to a smoky glow as one may see At sunset in the Factory lands ; the lips Thinned and their colour sickened into slate ; The eyes like common glass ; the hairs gloss dull ; The muscles gone, all pendulous with fat ; The breath that was more sweet than Lebanon And all the flowers and honey and spice thereof Ripe for my souls kiss, eagerly to cull, Now like a corpse three weeks drowned, swollen by sun And water and vermin. There she sways and stares, And with the jaw dropped all awryfirst swears, Then lurches ; then she slobbers un…
1911 · PDF PAGE 293
…r Drops wine from her infinite snows, Ineffably, utterly, tender. O moon ! ambrosial moon! Arise on my desert of sorrow, That the magical eyes of me swoon With lust of rain to—morrow! Ages and ages ago I stood on the bank of a river, Holy and holy and holy, I know, For ever and ever and ever! 115
1911 · PDF PAGE 293
…r Drops wine from her infinite snows, Ineffably, utterly, tender. O moon ! ambrosial moon! Arise on my desert of sorrow, That the magical eyes of me swoon With lust of rain to—morrow! Ages and ages ago I stood on the bank of a river, Holy and holy and holy, I know, For ever and ever and ever! 115
1899 · PDF PAGE 153
…g to the vague expanse below O’ th’ unknown secrecies of mountain song. Dragging behind us beautiful weary limbs, We turned snow-blinded eyes towards the pass That shot a jasper wall above the mist Into the lightning-kindled firmament, Behind whose battlements a shelter lay, Rude-built of pine, whose parents in the storm Of one vast avalanche were swept away Into the valley. Thither we hasted on, And there, as night stretched out a broken wing