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…heir music lulls you to unfathomable ecstasy, O kissable Tarshitering! Note.—This poem is probably the original of the well- known Hindu love song : ‘** Thora thairo, Tenduk, thora thairo, tum ! Thora thairo, thairo thora, thora thairo, tum !” 2!
This is our marriage; firmer than the root Of love or lust could plant our joy, my wife, We stand in this, the purple-seeded fruit Of yon youth’s fair and pitiable life. Do I not fear that you may treat me so? One day your passion slake itself somehow, Seek vigour from another murder? No! You harlot, for I mean to kill you—now.
AMPHORA XI QUEEN of Heaven, who didst conceive The ALMIGHTY without sin, Give us the rapture to receive Thy sinless love within ! Our souls are stained, our thoughts impure ; O Queen of Heaven, assoil Our error, our distemperature With Thine anointing oil ! Our censers fume before Thy feet. Through all the starry host Whisper the sacred words and sweet : “ Receive the HOLY GHOST ! ” Amen. O 15
100 MORTADELLO My passions lime in love and crime ; I hiss, the snake Of the mad earth, I writhe in mirth, I fix my fangs In the red eye of the Most High, the orb that hangs So high, so fiercemy poisons pierce, my cold gray lips Climb, cling, and close, devour the rose in black eclipse. MORTADELLO. Ah ! what a dance and what a song ! ALESSANDRO. These desert girls Show all their hideously hot hearts in the whirls That make us drunk. MORTADELLO. Oh ! let us drink ! ZELINA. Pass round the wine ! I have a fear, a fret. MORTADELLO. O damnably div…
…ot dead; he liveth, Pan ! Break down the bar ! To man I corne, the number of A man my number, Lion of Light; I am The Beast whose Law is Love. Love under will, bis royal right — Behold within, and not above, One star in sight ! ONE STAR IN SIGHT. A glimpse of the structure and System of the Great White Brotherhood. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. i. The Order of the Star called S. S. is, in respect of its existence upon the Earth, an organised body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qualities here enumera…
158 THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY Some notable disaster to the house Wherein such piety and love abide ; I saw some hateful spouse Carry away the bride. That feeble prescience of events to come, That stultified imagining, hath lied ; And I can see, though all the signs be dumb . And auguries unfruitful—lI can see, Now, some intolerable tragedy Fit for a god to picture, not a man! I see the breaking of the rosary, And Fate’s cold fingers snap the span Of three most innocent and pleasant lives. So terrible a happening dives Swift from God’s hand to the ab…
… remember to-day. Where do dogs go? do you say, O men of little observation? They go about their busi- ness. A business appointment; a love appoint- ment. Across the fog, across the snow, across the mud, beneath the burning dog-star, be- neath the rustling rain, they go, they come, they trot, they pass under carriages; excited by fleas, passion, necessity or duty. Like our- selves they rise early, and seek their livelihood or pursue their pleasures. There are some that sleep in a ruin of the suburb, and who come every day at a fixed hour to a…
AMPHORA XI QUEEN of Heaven, who didst conceive The ALMIGHTY without sin, Give us the rapture to receive Thy sinless love within ! Our souls are stained, our thoughts impure ; O Queen of Heaven, assoil Our error, our distemperature With Thine anointing oil ! Our censers fume before Thy feet. Through all the starry host Whisper the sacred words and sweet : “ Receive the HOLY GHOST ! ” Amen. O 15
…he sea , to quicken to life at last . Blithelier I depart , to a sea of sunnier kindness ; Hours of waiting are past ; I re - quicken to love .
Its love beneath the fronds; reply to strife With strife, and all its tiny being crumble Under my rough and warrior husband-kiss, Whose pain shall burn, and alter, and be bliss! J am: no word beside that solemn one Reigns in sound’s kingdom to express my station, Who, clothed and crowned with suns beyond the sun, Bear on the mighty breast of foam Thalassian, Bear on my bosom, jutting plenilune, Maiden, the fadeless Rose of the Creation ! The whole flower-life of earth and sky and sea From me was born, and shall return to me! I am: for men and b…
…bowl and groan. Ahl God is an unskilful surgeon; We both shall weep to be alone! For we are one and may not part; And though we hurt, we love, believe mel Nor would I in my inmost heart 0f one of all your stabs bereave me. No man can hurt the indifferent stranger, No woman wound the casual friend. There is a glory born of danger; What anger gat, desire may end. Give me the phrenzy of your lip! My heart accepts your usurpature. Your body leaps beneath the whip; Our pain is in love’s very nature. It is enough. The woe is over, The woe begins; the…
… agony of the meditated deed. For in the little coppice by the gate Wherein I drew you shy and sly, and kissed Yourlips, your hushed “TI love you” smooth and straight Sweeping to wrap us in the glittering mist Of hell that holds us — even there I heard The lacerating laugh of fate ring out, The dog-faced god pronounce the mantic word, And saw the avengers gather round about Our love. The Moirae neither break nor bend ; The Erinyes hunt us to — no happy end.
…nd deep-breasted woman To bring her naked body shining, shining With flowers of heaven or flames of Phlegethon Into his hermit cell, her love entwining Into his life with spells that murmur on Black words! For one thing be you sure the same My wine is as the music of your name! Marden. Believe me, mystic maiden 0’ mine, That title shall assure the throne of heaven To you — the more so that your love divine That maidenhood to me hath freely given? Nor have I touched the ark with hands unholy, Nor with unsaintly kisses soiled the shrine: Nepenthe…
AMBERGRIS 111 My love and I were awake When the noise of the dawn in our ears Burst out like a storm or a snake Or the rush of the Badawi spears. Dawn of desire ! But thy kiss was as fire To thy lovers and princes and peers. Then the ruin of night we beheld, As the sun stormed the heights of the sky With his myriad swords, and compelled The pale tremblers, the planets, to fly. He drave from their place All the stars for a space, From their bastioned towers in the sky. Thrilled through to the marrow with heat We abode (as we glode) on the river.…
… the rapture of your eyes ! So then I have forgotten all the other. Only those eyes pursue me through the æon, Whether by Gods grace we love one another, Whether I weave an ode or blare a pæan. There is no help, my vampire and my mother ! But I am snared within those eyes Circean That blaze at me from wall, or wood, or well Their final knowledge of their final Hell. For there is no soul, none, beyond ours, suave sister, In the fierce lightthe boon, the bane, the bliss, The bale !our eyes are born to burn and blister And blast Loves queen he…
…me back his face was full of gloom: "I'm afraid," he says, "that half a bottle has gone." Then the Englishman had his turn. He came in allover smiles, rubbing his hands, and said: "There's not a drop left, so that's that." Moral-Be English! Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
…." He: "To what end?" You: "That my body may be fortified thereby." He: "To what end?" You: "That I may accomplish the Great Work." He: "Love is the law, love under will." You, with a single knock: "Fall to." When alone make a monologue of it: thus, Knock 3-5-3. Do what, etc. It is my Will to, etc., that my body, etc., that I may, etc., Love is, etc. Knock; and begin to eat. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the times. You must no…
Breaks the frail. temple-doors of love asunder, And wakes the new life’s promise in pale wonder, Shattering the moulded glass, the shape Selenian. Fruits of the earth, our low song joins the crowd. We need not (to be heard) to thunder loud. Our hearts are lifted up, our heads with love low bowed. The tenderest light, the deepest hidden, is shed Up through dark earth—your home, O happy dead !— Crusted in darkness lie the secret lights. Formed in the agony of earth as tears, Clothed in the crystal mirror of the years, We dwell, sweet-hearted nun-…
IV Our love is like a glittering sabre bloodied With lives of men; upsoared the sudden sun; The choral heaven woke; the aethyr flooded All space with joy that you and I were one. But in the dark and splendid dens of death Arose an echo of that jewelled song : There swept a savour of polluted breath From the lost souls, the unsubstantial throng That tasted once a shadow of our glory And turn them in the evil house to adore The godhead of our sin, the tragic story We have set ourselves to write, the sombre score Our daggers carve with poesy subli…
… drink poison and awake in hell ; Or being but mortal, or nearly mortal, yield Exhausted spirit to the clamant flesh: The book of common love should be unsealed, And we be caught within the common mesh That catches common folk. O God ! bite hard! Smite down rebellious flesh with hideous pain ! Bite hard ! Smite hard! By bruises scarred and marred Love this exultant face! Again! Again! O Lola ! Lola! Lola! Kiss me, Kiss! Nay — nay ! Kiss not! I cannot bear the bliss.