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Page 62 of 1121898 · PDF PAGE 47
…gnat may make Riding for sport upon a little whirl Of moving breezes, so it glows and rolls, Caught in the furnace of the sun, opaque To eyes that seek its depth, but penetrable By those long filaments of light beyond. See, the spot darkens, and a horseman spurs A flagging steed with bloody flanks, and waves A cloudy sword to heaven—I am sure He brings us eagle-wingéd victory, And tiding of no battle lost for Israel. Yes, he grows great before the sun, and stands Now in his stirrups, and shouts loud, and waves A blade triumphant. Now the weary …
1899 · PDF PAGE 39
…the hideous nightbird of defeat. Mourn, mourn and cry ; bow down unto the dust O Israel, and O Gilead, for your son Comes with unpitying eyes and lips compressed To watch the desecration of thy shrine, Jehovah, and the ruin of our hearth. JEPHTHAH. I am your outcast brother. At my birth My father did not smile, nor she who bore These limbs dishonourable did not smile, Nor did my kisses soothe a mother’s woe, Because my thews grown strong were impotent To reign or be a captain any more, Though I might serve the children who had grown Less godlik…
1912 · PDF PAGE 168
…of the Earth, and execute the Judgment of the Highest! Unto you it 15 said: Behold the Face of your God, the beginning of Comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the Heavens, which provided you for the Government οἱ the Earth, and her unspeakable variety, furnishing you with a power of understanding to dispose all things according to 126
1912 · PDF PAGE 168
…of the Earth, and execute the Judgment of the Highest! Unto you it 15 said: Behold the Face of your God, the beginning of Comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the Heavens, which provided you for the Government οἱ the Earth, and her unspeakable variety, furnishing you with a power of understanding to dispose all things according to 126
1922 · PDF PAGE 1
…overlaid with beaten gold, Stands in the gloom; the stealthy tune Of singing maidens overbold Desires mad mysteries untold, With strange eyes kindling, as the fleet Implacable untiring feet ‘Weave mystic figures manifold That draw down angels to behold The moving music, and the fire Of their intolerable desire. For, maddening to fiercer thought, The fiery limbs requicken, wheel ‘That flashes in the fight: the peal Of amorous laughters choking sense, And madness kissing violence, Ring like dead horsemen; bodies reel Drunken with motion; spirits …
1898 · PDF PAGE 23
…usly, and each abode Safe in the shadow of his vine ; as when The peace of Joshua lay upon the land, And God turned not away His piteous eyes, Nor smote us with the fury of His hand, Nor clouded over His mysterious skies, And storm and wind had no more might at all, And death and pestilence forgotten were, And angels came to holy men that call, And gracious spirits thronged the happy air; When God was very gracious to all folk, And lifted from us the Philistian yoke, And all the iron power of Edom broke, And all the Earth was fair! Now, seeing …
1910 · PDF PAGE 504
…After Judgment—The Five Adorations—Telepathy—The Swimmer —The Muse—The God and the Girl—Rosemary—Au Bal—Dis- appointment—The Octopus—The Eyes of Dorothy—Bathyllus—The Mantra-Yogi—The Poet and his Muse—Lilith—Sport and Marriage— The Twins—The’ Convert—The Sorceress—The Child—Clytie— A Slim Gilt Soul—The Silence, of-Columbine—The Archzologist —The Ladder—Belladonna—The Poetat Bay—Ut—Rosa Decidua— The Circle and the Point—In Memoriam—Ad Fidelem Infidelem— The Sphinx—The Jew of Fez—The Pehtagram—Song—An Hymn —Prologue to Redin in Rime ~The Car§p Ri…
1910 · PDF PAGE 504
…After Judgment—The Five Adorations—Telepathy—The Swimmer —The Muse—The God and the Girl—Rosemary—Au Bal—Dis- appointment—The Octopus—The Eyes of Dorothy—Bathyllus—The Mantra-Yogi—The Poet and his Muse—Lilith—Sport and Marriage— The Twins—The’ Convert—The Sorceress—The Child—Clytie— A Slim Gilt Soul—The Silence, of-Columbine—The Archzologist —The Ladder—Belladonna—The Poetat Bay—Ut—Rosa Decidua— The Circle and the Point—In Memoriam—Ad Fidelem Infidelem— The Sphinx—The Jew of Fez—The Pehtagram—Song—An Hymn —Prologue to Redin in Rime ~The Car§p Ri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…respectable, society in the universe. To you the mysteries of M. are about to be revealed, and so bright a sun never shed lustre on your eyes. In this awful moment, when prostrate at this holy altar, do you not shudder at every crime, and have you not confidence in every virtue? May this reflection inspire you with noble sentiments ; may you be penetrated with a religious abhorrence of every vice that degrades human nature; and may you feel the elevation of soul which scorns a dishonour- able action, and ever invites to the practice of piety an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…respectable, society in the universe. To you the mysteries of M. are about to be revealed, and so bright a sun never shed lustre on your eyes. In this awful moment, when prostrate at this holy altar, do you not shudder at every crime, and have you not confidence in every virtue? May this reflection inspire you with noble sentiments ; may you be penetrated with a religious abhorrence of every vice that degrades human nature; and may you feel the elevation of soul which scorns a dishonour- able action, and ever invites to the practice of piety an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 45
…w of the heart That lends the reins to fancy’s charioteer. Lay them together, let us leave them there! There comes a vision to my mortal eyes Of things immortal. swell Of some wild clarion through the dazzling night, Whose fairy zther suddenly illumes With silver meteors innumerable And golden showers of stars—lost worlds of thought And poets’ dreams, and jewels of virgin sighs. Hark ! the broad rings of sound go wavering on Eddying and rippling through the desart sky That now is peopled with the diamond wings That float through all the palaces…
1901 · PDF PAGE 49
…es in the censer. So he passed, Laughing, and on the altar the flame fell, Till a great darkness was upon the room, And only the Queen’s eyes blazed out. So all Silently went, and left her naked there, Crowned, sceptred, and exultant, till a chant Rolled from her moving lips; and great fear fell Upon us, and the flame leapt, and we fled, Worshipping. But the mood passed, and we see A lecherous woman whose magician power
1913 · PDF PAGE 229
…ire sky; The winds of the world ran ever and ever through me, Until, at last, the end: then did I lie In dream, and dream that made mine eyes unclose, And so I lost thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I fall in swoon unstained by earth’s gray mire, Being wrapped about in a sheet of scarlet flame. Lo! through the fire the mantram comes to me, Shouted by the world in chorus, and I lie In utter rapture; the virginity Of the inmost Light, that knows not how to die. Oh, cast thy ma…
1913 · PDF PAGE 229
…ire sky; The winds of the world ran ever and ever through me, Until, at last, the end: then did I lie In dream, and dream that made mine eyes unclose, And so I lost thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I fall in swoon unstained by earth’s gray mire, Being wrapped about in a sheet of scarlet flame. Lo! through the fire the mantram comes to me, Shouted by the world in chorus, and I lie In utter rapture; the virginity Of the inmost Light, that knows not how to die. Oh, cast thy ma…
1928 · PDF PAGE 75
shapen gnomes, exceeding thin, whose plead- ing eyes demanded alms even more than did their trembling hands, and then there were old mothers carrying abortions slung at their wasted breasts, and many another was there. The great Satan knocked with his fist on his enormous belly, whence came a long, resound- ing clangour of metal, which ended in a vague groan as of many human voices, and he laughed, showing shamelessly his decayed teeth in an enormous and imbecile guffaw, just as do certain men in every country when they have dined too well. And…
1928 · PDF PAGE 97
divine and supernatural even into his most ex- travagant buffooneries. My pen trembles, and tears of an ever-present emotion rise to my eyes, while I seek to describe to you this un- forgettable evening. Fanciullo proved to me in a peremptory and irrefutable manner that the intoxication of art is apter than any other to veil the terrors of the abyss; that genius may play its part upon the edge of the tomb with a joy which prevents it from seeing the tomb, lost as it is in a Paradise which excludes all idea either of death or of destruction. The…
1938 · PDF PAGE 14
…made one with Him. To answer that, He sendeth forth His Will, that, casting shadows on the clouds of Life, may be half read by him whose eyes are lightened enough by the manhood of his love. Thus then do I learn how best to make myself fit to fulfil my Life, in the Life of the Master, and offer my blood to His Heart. 0. Know Naught! All ways are lawful to Innocence. Pure folly is the Key to Initiation. Silence breaks into Rapture. Be neither man nor woman, but both in one. Be silent, Babe in the Egg of Blue, that thou mayest grow to bear the La…
1899 · PDF PAGE 65
…gnat may make Riding for sport upon a little whirl Of moving breezes, so it glows and rolls, Caught in the furnace of the sun, opaque To eyes that seek its depth, but penetrable By those long filaments of light beyond. See, the spot darkens, and a horseman spurs A flagging steed with bloody flanks, and waves A cloudy sword to heaven—I am sure He brings us eagle-wingéd victory, And tiding of no battle lost for Israel. Yes, he grows great before the sun, and stands Now in his stirrups, and shouts loud, and waves A blade triumphant. Now the weary …
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
…e were a vile abortion Bitter and flat, foul, stagnant and abhorred Should one compare it with the tiniest tithe Of one soft glance your eyes on me might shed, One gesture of your body limber aiid lithe, One smile — the sudden white, the abiding red! Then — should one slander you in idiot verse By speaking of the subtle seven-fold sweetness Your lips can answer me, all fate to amerce In one mad kiss in all its mad completeness? O Gods and Muses ! give me grace for this To match my wine for sweet with Lola’s kiss. VII AMfine. ’Tis impossible, bu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 55
…ghastly kisses, Like mournful ghosts roused from their ruined sleep By clamorous cries of murder. Strange abysses Loom in the vista keen eyes penetrate, Vague forecasts of immeasurable fate. O thou belovd blood, that wells and weeps ! O thou belovd mouth, that beats and bleeds ! O mystic bosom where some serpent sleeps, Sweet mockery of a thousand saintlier creeds ! Even I, that breathe your perfume, taste your breath, Know, even this hour, ye are not life, but death ! No death ye bring more godlike than desire, When seas roar tempest-lashed,…