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Page 79 of 921905 · PDF PAGE 199
…rd. My soul was hating me. He bade me draw. I silently obeyed. My eye shirked his as blade encountered blade. I was determined he should take my life. ‘Went your glance back—-encountering my wife ?” ‘““Taunt me afraid !” My whole soul weary of the coward strife. _ 17? I cried; ‘‘I will not be He seemed to see no opening I gave, But hated me the more. Serene and suave, He fenced with deep contempt. I stumble, slip, Guard wide—and only move his upper lip. ‘* You know I will not strike, Sir pure and brave ! Fight me your best—or I shall finda whip…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…apture. Who should pour lis ravings in the air for winds to whirl, Far from the central pearl Of all the diadem of the universe? Let God take pen, rehearse Dull nursery tales ; then, not before, O rose, Red rose ! shall the beloved of thee, Infinite rose ! pen puerile poetry That turns in writing to vile prose. no more; who would 11. Were this the quintessential plume of Keats And Shelley and Swinburne and Verlaine, Could I outsoar them, all their lyric feats, Excel their utterance vain With one convincing rapture, beat them hollow As an ass’s …
1906 · PDF PAGE 131
…ute kind. I have two prides ; in justice, one: In mercy, one: ‘‘ No ill I find In this just man,” I cried; ‘‘the sun Is not defiled, and takes no hurt When the worm builds his house of dirt. ‘Curse ye Jehovah! He abides, Hears not, nor smites; the curse is pent Close with the speaker; ill betides When on himself the curve is bent, And like the wild man’s il]-aimed blow,? Hlits nought, swerves, swoops, and strikes him low. 1 In the East the inferior dare not leave the presence of his superior without permission. 2 Another reference to the boomer…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…, and the kiss Too soft to call the breath of sleep. And, if you are woman, even there I do decline: we stand above. I ask not, and will take no share With you in what mankind call love. We know each other: you and I Have nought to do with lesser things. With them—’tis chance or destiny : With us, we should but burn our wings. We love, and keep ourselves apart : Mouth unto mouth, heart unto heart, Thus ever, never otherwise. The soul is out of me, and swings In desperate and strange surmise About the inmost heart of things. This is all strange:…
1939 · PDF PAGE 12
…mpletely obsessed by its own function, which it must naturally consider as the Be-All and End-All of its existence. For instance, if you take a glass tube open at both ends and put it over a bee on the windowpane it will continue beating against the window to the point of exhaustion and death, instead of escaping through the tube. We must not confuse the necessary automatic functioning of any of our elements with the true Will which is the proper orbit of any star. A human being only acts as a unit at all because of countless generations of tra…
1907 · PDF PAGE 20
…n every truth essential mocks Its truth in figure of a phrase? How should I care for this, and tire Body by will to sing thy praise, Who take this lute, throw down the lyre | As I have done to-day, to win No guerdon differing from the toil, Were that accomplished: pain and sin Are needed for the counterfoil Of joy and love: if only so All men had these in keen excess Those were forgotten : indigo Is amber’s shadow, but—confess For all men but ourselves the tint | ay! Of all the earth is dull and black ! Only some glints of love bestow The knowl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…Enough; [see This I can answer—or Ernst Llaeckel can ! Now, God Almighty, rede this mystery ! What of the love that is the heart of man? Take stars and airs, and write it down ! Mill all the interstices of space With myriad verse——own Thy disgrace ! Diminish Thy renown ! Approve my riddle ! This Thou canst not do. 17. O living Kose ! O dowered with subtle dew Of love, the tiny eternitics of time, Caucht between flying seconds, are well filled With these futilides of fragrant rhyme ; In Love’s retort distilled, [In sunrays of fierce loathing pur…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…ER laboured in a mine. (The poet dreamed) By coarse and fine He shovelled dust into a trolley. ‘* But this” (the poet said) ‘‘is folly ! Take up your pick, engage in shock At the foundation of the rock !” The miner swore. ‘‘ You You clever —— ! go to school And college and be —~-! Strike you! There ain’t no sense in forty like you ! If I don’t clear this muck, the pick Will foul and jam, slip, swerve, or stick. Clear off the chips, the blow goes true. Now, mister, off, my to you!” The last oath faded in the air. The poet woke and was aware Of p…
1906 · PDF PAGE 138
… Angus is the man—he saved poor Kenneth ! [ Aloud. No help comes Janet ! Angus! Oh, miserable! here. Criosda ! wake ! wake !— Oh, I must take him out—no man may enter here !—It is ill luck. Old Andrew found the passage ! and the next day he was dead —murdered, murdered ! Oh, how horrible! —what a horrible place this is with all its beauty and love! and my worship—oh, how strange it all is. Criosda! come! [She begins to carry him to the great door, then notices his white robe. This must come off: they must not see the holy robes. Criosda! my dar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
… deeper in the mind ! VII. O piteous lot of humankind Whose history repeats itself ! Dinner is cleared by gnome and elf; I pay the bill, take Baal’s receipt, And stroll off smoking. Soon I meet The fairest foulest whore that burns. High feeding pays: desire returns. She willing (for a copper rin)! For any ecstasy of sin Gaily embraces me. A room Starts up in the half-light, half-gloom, Perfectly purposed for debauch. In mirrors shines a wicked nautch, And on the floor Hawaian belles Rave in a hula-hula?—Hell’s ! Fragonard, Rops, had lined the w…
1939 · PDF PAGE 61
…ousness becomes concentrated in that small part. I used to practise this a good deal in my retirement by Lake Pasquaney. I would usually take a finger or a toe, and identify my whole consciousness with the small movements which I allowed it to make. It would be futile to go into much detail about this experience. I can only say that until you acquire the power you have no idea of the sheer wonder and delight of that endlessly quivering orgasm.
1939 · PDF PAGE 36
…ustomary to do it with a dog. You stick him in a bell-jar, pump in oxygen or carbonic acid or something, and the dog goes stiff. You can take him out and wave him around by a leg as if he were frozen. This is not quite the same thing, but near it. 25. Men of science are terribly handicapped in every investigation by having been trained to ignore the immeasurable. All phenomena have subtle qualities which are at present insusceptible to any properly scientific methods of investigation. We can imitate the processes of nature in the laboratory, bu…
1939 · PDF PAGE 50
…berof them.) If, for example, we say that Nothing is a square triangle, we have had to invent a square triangle in order to say it. But take a more homely instance. We know what we mean by saying 'There are cats in the room.' We know what we mean when we say 'No cats are in the room.' But if we say 'No cats are not in the room,' we evidently mean that some cats are in the room. This remark is not intended to be a reflection upon this distinguished audience. 16. So then, if Nothing is to be really the absolute Nothing, we mean that Nothing does…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
… shore Beyond the Pleiads: until the Universe Moved at my mantra?: Heaven and Hell obeyed ; | Creation at my orders stayed or swayed. ‘* Take back,” I cried, ‘‘ the mockery of a curse !” “T wield Thy Power.” With my magic rod Again I strode before the Throne of God. ‘*Forgone my Virgin Splendour ! I aspire No longer as a maiden to thy Love. We twain are set in majesty above : My cloud is mighty as thy mystic Fire.” Vanished the mist, the light, the sense, the throne ! Vanished the written horror of the curse ; Vanished the stars, the sun, the U…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
… flower Of all the world is marred, the day’s desire Distorted in the eclipse, the sun’s dead hour. Let me fall down beside thee! Let me take The kisses that thou canst not give, and slake Despair in purposeless caresses, dire Shames fang-wise fastened of the eternal snake. Is there no warmth where beauty isso bright ? No soul still flickering in the lambent light Still shed from all the body’s excellence? No lamp unchidden of the utter night? Cannot my life be molten into thee, Or thy death fall with rosier arms on me, Or soul with soul commin…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
…rfume, saffronfor my libation some preparation of opium or a generous yet sweet and powerful wine such as port. For my magical weapon I take the sceptre; in fact, I continue choosing instruments for every act in such a way that I am constantly reminded of my will to evoke Jupiter. I even constrain every object. I extract the Jupiterian elements from all the complex phenomena which surround me. If I look at my carpet, the blues and purples are the colours which stand out as Light against an obsolescent and indeterminate background. And thus I c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…t love and this are as diverse As Shelley’s poems and my verse. And now the bright laugh comes in spite Of all the cruel will can do. “T take,” you say, ‘‘a keen delight In Shelley, but as much in you.” There, you are foolish. And you know The thing I meant to say. O love! What little lightnings serve to show Glimpses of all your heart! Above All, and beneath all, lies there deep, Canopied over with young sleep, Bowered in the lake of nenuphars, Watched by the countless store of stars, The abiding love you bear me. Hear Ylow perfect love casts …
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
…overs, Nor is my bed made lovely with my lovers ! I long for purple and the holier kiss Of mortal lyrist ; in these arms to gladden ; To take him to the spring and source of bliss, And in his vast embrace to rouse me, madden Once with the light of passion, not to miss Uttermost rapture till the sweet loves sadden To sweeter ecstasy— Ah! man’s high spirit may not reach to Me! peace thrilled with young 1 J.e,, terrestrial: from Gaia, a form of yj, the earth. Iam Nature and God: I reign, Iam, alone. None other may abide apart: they perish, Drawn i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 39
…ord and scales, while the card called Lust shows a woman and a lion. It was quite impossible to understand why this reversal should have taken place until the events of March and April, 1904, which are recounted in detail in “The Equinox of the Gods”. One need here give only one quotation: “All these old letters of my Book are aright; but x is not the Star”. (AL. 1.57.) This was making darkness deeper. It was clear that the attribution of “The Star” to the letter Tzaddi was unsatisfactory; and the question arose, how to find an‐ other card whic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 489
…the war. It was Europe's business and nobody else's. It would be a crime, a blunder and stark treason to the constitution for America to take a hand. Since my last visit San Francisco had been rebuilt. The old charm had vanished completely. It had become a regular fellow. The earthquake had swallowed up romance, and the fire burnt up the soul of the city to ashes. The phoenix had perished and from the cinders had arisen a turkey buzzard. I hurried south, stopping off at Santa Cruz, to see the famous big trees. I snatched a meal in the town and …