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1905 · PDF PAGE 135

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ny songster of the forest, In the stream’s song, all the words of passion, Echoes of the deeper words unspoken In thy breast and mine, O heart of silence ! Will they pierce one day to other nations Clear and strong and triumphing? It may be. Then we shall not envy you, my Horace !

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1907 · PDF PAGE 124

The Star in the West

…of wealth and majesty are done : Men trample her for mire !! and for her eldest daughter , America , he also has but scant praise , Thou heart of coin beneath a brazen breast ! Rotten republic , prostitute of gain !? Wealth and luxury are her curse , as they are every where else : The politician and the millionaire Regain maternal dung.3 Nevertheless in a patriotic poem entitled “ An Appeal to the American Republic ,” he strongly urges union between Great Britain and the United States . That friendship and dominion shall be wrought Out of the w…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 73

Clouds Without Water

…g Strike through the liver with its fiery dart, The hope — the horrid hope — whose gleaming fang Now stirs, a serpent’s, underneath your heart! For lo! not vainly we invoked the god That looseneth the girdle of a maid; Even now draws nigh the dreadful period That maketh all the mother-world afraid. With rotten fruit your belly is grown big — Thanks to the bastard god that cursed the fig? : V Your swollen neck is grown a swollen breast Gushing with poisoned milk ; your breathis caught In quick sharp gasps; you get nor sleep nor rest, The monster…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 68

Ambergris

…ed, And on my bark. I know not how yon world may prove, nor whither Hermes conduct me to what farther end. Yet if these bays abide, this heart not wither, It cannot be I shall not find a friend. Some pale immortal lover draw me thither ! To kiss me bend ! Moreover, as Apollo re-arisen Flames, with a roaring of the morning sea, Up from the stricken gray, the iron-barred prison, Flashes his face again upon the lea, And diamond dews the woodland ones bedizen ; So—so for me !

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1911 · PDF PAGE 211

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… sweep of the sword! I strike to the deep That thou stir in thy sleep! Rise up from mine innermost being! Lift up the gemmed head to the heart! Lift up till the eyes that were seeing Be blind, and their life depart! Till the Eye that was blind Be a lamp to my mind! Coil fast all thy coils on me, dying, Absorbed in the sense of the Snake! Stir! leave the flower-throne, and up-flying! Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake! Then crown me and cling! Flash forwardaand spring ! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ; Ti…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 211

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… sweep of the sword! I strike to the deep That thou stir in thy sleep! Rise up from mine innermost being! Lift up the gemmed head to the heart! Lift up till the eyes that were seeing Be blind, and their life depart! Till the Eye that was blind Be a lamp to my mind! Coil fast all thy coils on me, dying, Absorbed in the sense of the Snake! Stir! leave the flower-throne, and up-flying! Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake! Then crown me and cling! Flash forwardaand spring ! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ; Ti…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 98

Little Poems in Prose

terrifying hearts and stupefying minds; frus- trated of his hopes and deceived in his fore- sight; such suspicions, not exactly justified, yet not altogether without justification, shot across my mind as I looked upon the countenance of the Prince, upon which a new-found paleness ceaselessly increased upon its ordinary pale- ness like snow falling upon snow. His lips tightened more and more, and his eyes flamed with an interior fire like that of jealousy and bitterness, even while he ostensibly applauded the talents of his old friend, the stran…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 178

Little Poems in Prose

…for himself, and who eats more soup than four comedians? How many times have I contemplated with a smile on my lips and tenderness in my heart all these four-legged philosophers, complai- sant, submissive or devoted slaves which the republican dictionary might equally well call “worthies,” if only the republic who, too much occupied with the happiness of men, had time to think of the honour of dogs. And how many times have I thought that there was perhaps somewhere—who knows af- ter all?—to recompense so much courage, so much patience, so much …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 11

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…al. Master, the sons of Freedom are but few— Yea, but as strong as the storm-smitten sea, Their forehead consecrated with the dew, Their heart made mighty: let my voice decree, My spirit lift their standard: clear and true Bid my trump sound, “ Let all the earth be free!” With thine own strength and melody made strong, And filled with fire and light of thine own song. Only a boy’s wild songs, a boy’s desire, , I bring with reverent hands. The task is ended— The twilight draws on me: the sacred fire Sleeps: I have sheathed my sword, my bow un- b…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 74

The Soul of Osiris

…ew yet. I told my nameless pain I should forget Its shadow as it passed. The king did start, Gripped my strong hands, and held me to his heart, And could not speak a moment. Then he set A curb of sorrow and subdued its dart. “ Go ! and the blessing of high God attend Thy path, and lead thee to the doubtful end. No tongue that secret ever may reveal. Thy soul is God-like and thy frame is steel ;

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1909 · PDF PAGE 67

Clouds Without Water

… your passion gleams and grows. It shakes me to the soul: by that you arestilled : You hold yourself together, like a man Stabbed to the heart, who, knowing he is killed, Lets his whole life out in his yataghan, ° And strikes one masterstroke. So now you breathe Close on my face; you strip me of defence; You sing in obscure words whose crownsenwreathe My forehead with their viewless violence, So that I lie, as at the appointed term, Awaiting the foul kisses of the worm.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

Book 4 (Part II)

…orces which nourish the body. There is also a lotus in the Solar plexus which receives the nervous forces. The six-petalled lotus in the heart corresponds to Tiphereth, and receives those vital forces which are connected with the blood. The sixteen-petalled lotus opposite the larynx receives the nourish- ment needed by the breath. The two-petalled lotus of the pineal gland receives the nourishment needed by thought, while above the junction of the cranial structures is that sublime lotus, of a thousand and one petals, which receives the in- flu…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 15

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ead, And watched her weeping. [His forgotten reed Floated away, a ship for fairy folk, Along the limpid rivulet. Then broke From smitten heart and ravished lips the tongue Of fire that clad its essence with the robe of song. O love! O mistress of my SONG OF CHARICLES. Man’s days are dim, his deeds are dust, His span is but a little space, He lusts to live, he lives to lust, His soul is barren of love or trust, His heart is hopeless, seeing he must Perish, and leave no trace ; With impious rage he mocks the bounds - Of earth, albeit so wholly ba…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 73

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…al. Master, the sons of Freedom are but few— Yea, but as strong as the storm-smitten sea, Their forehead consecrated with the dew, Their heart made mighty: let my voice decree, My spirit lift their standard : clear and true Bid my trump sound, ‘‘ Let all the earth be free!” With thine own strength and melody made strong, And filled with fire and light of thine own song. Only a boy’s wild songs, a boy’s desire, I bring with reverent hands. The task is ended— The twilight draws on me: the sacred fire Sleeps: I have sheathed my sword, my bow unben…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 234

Collected Works (Vol. I)

TANNHAUSER 227 ‘This were my guerdon: to fade utterly Into the rose-heart of that sanguine vase, And lose my purpose in its silent sea, And lose my life, and find my life, and pass Up to the sea that is as molten glass. I mind me of that old Egyptian, Met where Aurora streamed her rainbow hair, Who called me from the quest. man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him: he bade me not despair. An holy ‘* The Blouu of the Osiris !”” was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) ‘‘The life, the tears, the tomb ! ‘¢The Love of Isis is its na…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 100

The Mother’s Tragedy

…den arms: the far-off queen She guessed so happy in her golden crown She never envied after: for she wrung Love’s secret, understanding, heart and tongue, Its strange desire; sage heads the linnets nod, Chirping: ‘‘So Lilian has found her God!” No! For she might not in her joy discern The real fountain of delight. She took The carrion crow to be the golden erne, Saw dainty covers, and misread the book. The world was open to her now—she went From passion unto passion, sacrament To profanation: and the village knew She asked for lovers, and cared…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

John St. John

…Questions. z. The 4 ordeals. Warning and comfort as an appeal to the Officers. 3. The Threshold. The Chorus of Purification. The Hymn " My heart, my mother ! " as already written, years ago. 4. At the altar. The accusation and defence as antiphonies. 5. The journey. Bar and pass, and the 4 visions even as a mighty music. 6. The Hanged Man—the descent of Adonai. 7. The installation—signs, etc. ... Sealing as for opening; but insert Sacrament. During a lunch of 12 oysters, Cépes Bordelaise, Tarte aux Cerises, Cafe Noir, despatched without Yoga or c…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e Bible turns in a dextro-rotary manner the answer is “ yes”; if in the opposite direction, “no.” This sublime method of tearing out the heart of destiny is evidently derived from a slightly more elaborate one in the “Key of Solomon” (Book I., chap. ix.) for detecting theft, which is done with a sieve, and which I supposed (until “Adam” advised me to the contrary) to represent the lowest debauchery in which the human intellect could wallow. The game is, however, much esteemed by charlatan clairvoyants; and I can well understand their indignatio…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e Bible turns in a dextro-rotary manner the answer is “ yes”; if in the opposite direction, “no.” This sublime method of tearing out the heart of destiny is evidently derived from a slightly more elaborate one in the “Key of Solomon” (Book I., chap. ix.) for detecting theft, which is done with a sieve, and which I supposed (until “Adam” advised me to the contrary) to represent the lowest debauchery in which the human intellect could wallow. The game is, however, much esteemed by charlatan clairvoyants; and I can well understand their indignatio…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 148

Ambergris

…e as done. Reality closes Our life into roses ; We are infinite space : we are one. There is one that hath sought me and found me In the heart of the sand and the snow : He hath caught me, and held me, and bound me, In the lands where no flower may grow His voice is a spell, Hath enchanted me well ! I am his, and I will it or no. But I will it, I will it, I will it ! His speck of a soul in its cars Shall lift up immensity ! fill it With light of his lyrical bars. His soul shall concentre All space ; he shall enter The beautiful land of the star…

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