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Page 59 of 1961913 · PDF PAGE 27
E . N . da C. Andrade . A gleaming edge to sunder truth from lies, To cleave white love and wantonness apart, An edge against the banded infamies That throng the road , and powerful through the mart To pass unstained , a splendour through the dust, A sword to lay across the throat of lust, To make the liars fear to tell their lies . - Oh , you are fair , my love , and keen your kiss , Who shall avail to make your glories his, Who wed with you , my sword -like Thoralis ? DIANA IN THE OPEN . As the strong sun that leaps upon the sea, She runs ami…
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
…(Not caring if I lived or died) Erect against the sky: Then plunged into the wheeling tide, And vanished utterly. ‘*O shape half seen of love, and ost Beneath time’s sightless tide, What obolus of the vital cost Remains, or may abide? Or what perception memory steal, Once passed upon the whirling wheel? ‘©O hope half held of love, and fled Beyond the ivory gate, A dream gone from the hapless head By fury ofa fate! What image of the hope returns But stings with agony that which yearns? ‘*O face half kissed in faith and fear, Ieager and beautiful…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…'s Lord Curbed their black wrath , the stars of Heaven's vault Had rushed to whelm the sun with vehement assault ." Such is the power of Love , undaunted , infuriated in the cause of Freedom , Justice , and Truth . Charicles plunges into the waves of destiny , “ And with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped . ” Onward he swims striving against Poseidon , god of the ocean , who heaps the sea foam against him , as he makes for the Paphian isle to seek aid from the goddess of Love ; and in his blinding anger he sees her not , though she i…
1901 · PDF PAGE 40
…er as I see; I, passionless, the moulder of men’s hope, The slayer of them, cast no horoscope Divining what befell, And I am moved: Both love, and both are worthy to be loved. Ah Fate! if thou hadst cast the dies Whence no appeal, in any other wise! I am the soul of the grim face of things; Mine are the Sphinx’s wings; Mine own life lives with this event! Yet even I, its very self, lament The execrable tyranny, The rayless misery Of this wild whirlpool sea of circumstance. Mine old eyes look askance: It is my punishment to dwell In mine own sel…
1902 · PDF PAGE 42
…oses looked upon His hinder parts. And I —yes, goddess ! in this passionate Life in our secret mountain, well I know Thy beauty, and Thy love, (although they be Infinite, far beyond the mortal mind, Body, or soul to touch, to comprehend. And dwell in) that the utter intimate Knowledge of Thee, if once I ravelled out Thy secret, laid Thee naked to the bone— Nay, to the marrow ! were to come, aware. Face to face full with deity itself And this I strive at ! Therefore is my love Wholly in tune with that concealed desire Bred in each mortal, though…
1911 · PDF PAGE 35
… take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love; but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or to the Beast whereon She rideth; nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning. 27
1911 · PDF PAGE 35
… take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love; but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or to the Beast whereon She rideth; nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning. 27
1899 · PDF PAGE 124
SCENES. .I. THE ANGEL OF PITY. II. THE ANGEL OF LOVE. IItl. THE ANGEL OF DEATH. , IV. THE FORM OF THE FOURTH WAS LIKE THE SON OF GOD. PERSONS. PERCY BRANDON (a Poet). EsME VAUGHAN. Mr. VAUGHAN (her Father). MR. BRANDON (Father of Percy). A FRIEND TO VAUGHAN. Butler, Footmen, etc., etc.
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
…ike it with his forehead seven times. Now this altar is the earthen altar of Demeter. Then understanding all things by the light of that love, he shall know that this is love, that this is the soul of the earth, that this is fertility and understanding, the secret of Demeter. Nay, (even I) the Oracle may speak in his heart and foretell or foreshadow the greater mysteries of Persephone, of Death the daughter of Love. Those, too, who are thus reborn will understand that I who write these words am stretched on the wet earth on the day of Spring. I…
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
…ike it with his forehead seven times. Now this altar is the earthen altar of Demeter. Then understanding all things by the light of that love, he shall know that this is love, that this is the soul of the earth, that this is fertility and understanding, the secret of Demeter. Nay, (even I) the Oracle may speak in his heart and foretell or foreshadow the greater mysteries of Persephone, of Death the daughter of Love. Those, too, who are thus reborn will understand that I who write these words am stretched on the wet earth on the day of Spring. I…
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
At Telepylus 329 habit that had destroyed our love. It was only in sleep that she was beautiful at all in these last months. Waking, the expression of tenseness and wretchedness, the nervous twitching of her face and the destruction of her complexion by the inability of the liver to throw off the toxic effects of the drug, made her look not only twice her age but ugly, with that ugliness of vice and illness which is so much more repulsive than any merely zsthetic errors of nature. Lou, more than any girl I ever knew, depended for her beauty upo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 80
…Solve me the riddle of the dream who can ! That night I sought a new toy for a lure, And she would not: but knew how hard to endure | Is love like ours, the love of purity. So she: “ Dispute it like a man!” and I: “* But I must also feel it as a man!” Note. Eheieh is the Hebrew for ‘‘I] am that Iam.” Its numerical value is 21. I was not aware at the time that this was the 21st day.— AUTHOR.! THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY. ‘*T’ll have her: but I will not keep her long.” Richard Ill, IT was impossible that she should come Over the leagues of summer-colou…
1899 · PDF PAGE 166
…f the vessel feel I draw toward thee ; now the sails Hang id‘y, for the golden gales Drop as the vessel grates the sand. Come, thou true love, and hold my hand. I tremble (for my love) to land. I feel thy arms around me steal; Thy breath upon my cheeks I feel; Thy lips draw out to mine: the breath
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…hat, I don't feel that I have the idea at all. If you had only let me go on about the shaving soap, I should have made it into something lovely again — and all the time I should have perceived the absolute identity of even the two contradictory phases." But it was beyond her still, in each case as it came up "That is the Net!" a riddle? It might mean a thousand things; and to a woman of her positive and prosaic temperament (which she had, for all her hysteria and romanticism) doubt was torture. Love itself always torments women of this type; th…
1899 · PDF PAGE 13
…er and daughter of our loyal isle, Our hands reach out to you, our lips are fain To wreathe with yours in one delicious smile Of budding love, to grow a kiss awhile, And laugh like bride and groom, and kiss again ! Let our alliance like a marriage stand, Supreme from strand to strand, The likeness of our love, the clasp of hand in hand. 11
1899 · PDF PAGE 15
…in his stead have placed the demon of unbalanced force ; you have substituted a deity of disorder and jealousy for a God of order and of Love ; you have perverted the teachings. of the Crucified One !”"—McGregor Mathers. EFORE the darkness, earlier than being, When yet thought was not, shapeless and un-- - seeing, Made misbegotten of deity on death, There brooded on the waters the strange breath Of an incarnate hatred. Darkness fell And chaos, from prodigious gulphs of hell. Life, that rejoiced to travail with a man, Looked where the cohorts of…
1914 · PDF PAGE 15
…aggerates! If they could see me, they would all go gray ‘With horror, know there is no word in hate’s Roll to speak hate, just as in all love's lore There is no word for love—oh, snore, sow, snore! 1 am rigid with my hate; the brain stands still, Frozen in hate, the eyes one frightful glare. ‘Oh, may sleep save me—or the twitch and thrill Of ecstasy—and yet I hardly dare. Anything but to wake (dear God, I pray!) To the mad maulings of Chicago May.
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…e Brothers of A.*. A.’. are one with the Mother of the Child.+ The Many is as adorable to the One as the One is to the Many. This is the Love of These: creation-parturition is the Bliss of the One; coition-dissolution is the Bliss of
1898 · PDF PAGE 133
…condemned to agony Thrice Thine ! Have pity, hear me, virgin queen, Whose pangs of childbirth were seven times more keen Than all, since love and memory of joy Thou hadst not, but the fear of shame to cloy Even the hope of motherhood. But I, Cut off from love and joy ; its memory One black hell of distorted pain ; my shame More horrid than that first unholy flame,
1899 · PDF PAGE 49
THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 41 Flames love no more, but fierce defiance now Knotted the veins, suffused them with rich blood, And wrath restrained from sight the torrid flood Of tears ; her eyes were terrible ; she spake : Rise for thy life, and flee. Arise, awake, And hide thee in the temple ; Zeus hath spoken To me—me, Queen of Love—O sceptre broken !— O vainest of all realms ! that thou must die. This only chance is left thee yet, to fly Within that sanctity even he not dares To touch with impious hand ; thus unawares Creep in among the columns to…