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… of a noble thinker and his stupid, dishonest, and immoral secretary. The dictation is taken down correctly, and given to the world. The last person to be enlightened by it is the secretary [25] himself! So, I take it, is the case with all genius; only in many cases the man is in more or less conscious harmony with his genius, and strives eternally to make himself a worthier instrument for his master's touch. The clever man, so-called, the man of talent, shuts out his genius by setting up his conscious will as a positive entity. The true man of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
…eas, different embryos. I hope you notice how this theory removes the objection to reincarnation, that one's mind does not remember 'the last time.' Why should our cone make connexion between its different curves? Each is so unimportant to it that it would hardly think of doing so. Yet there might be some similarity between successive curves (in our case, lives) that might make an historian suspect that they were connected; just as a poet's style would be constant in some respects, whether he wrote a war-story or a love- lyric. "You see, of cou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…sions, he divided his forces, and deliberately created jealousy and hatred where co-operation and loyalty should have been the first and last consideration. Yet Simon Iff had used no spell but Love. [156]
1906 · PDF PAGE 73
… did wind Unspotted through that revel epicene, The pure faith of one woman that was true. 1 Disembowelled. 2 Used here to mean ‘‘at the last gasp.” 3 This circumstance was later fulfilled: I having judged her actions on insufficient evi- dence. —AUTHOR.
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…ation of all, tying up his gut in the Elusive Yam pattern, which, from the [183] greatest complexity, dissolves like a dream at a single last twist; the persons thus sympathetically treated would obviously perish no less miserably than did Eglon, King of Moab, or Judas Iscariot. The advantage of this operation is evidently its extreme simplicity and economy; while, if it works at all, it surely leaves nothing to be desired in such Teutonic qualities as thoroughness and frightfulness. Whether from any difficulty in identification or otherwise, i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 190
…he fifth, for love; the sixth, in sweet despair ; The seventh, to destroy us unaware 3 The eighth, to dive within the infernal deep. The last, to kill her-—-and myself as well! Ah! joy of sweet annihilation, The blackness that invades the burning sun, My swart limbs and her limbs adorable ! So nine times dead before the night is done, Even as Styx nine times embraces Hell. LOVE, MELANCHIOLY, DESPAIR! Derr melancholy—O, the child of folly !— Looms on my brow, a perched ancestral bird ; Biack are its plumes, its eyes melancholy, It speaks no word…
1910 · PDF PAGE 362
…his volume of Collected Works, and the alterations made by him were well within the dozen! [Yes; he was surprised ; it was his first—and last—experience of these strange ways.—ED.] If poets are ever going to make themselves heard, they must find some means of breaking down the tradition that they are the easy dupes of every —— [Satis—Ep.] 344
1910 · PDF PAGE 362
…his volume of Collected Works, and the alterations made by him were well within the dozen! [Yes; he was surprised ; it was his first—and last—experience of these strange ways.—ED.] If poets are ever going to make themselves heard, they must find some means of breaking down the tradition that they are the easy dupes of every —— [Satis—Ep.] 344
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…that she had so worked herself up by what she thought she might see that she also thought she saw it. So be on your guard!" [143] On the last day of the old moon he gave her an idea of the main programme. First, the honeymoon; their normal relations were to endure until there was evidence of the need to emphasize the crucial point of the operation. From that moment she was to see nothing of Cyril save in the ceremonies of invocation; all other relations were to cease. The lover would become the hermit. The magician had calculated the probable m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…rsuing [88] Priam, was close on the heels of the Poltergeist — 'jam, jam' as used by Vergil in the sense of prolonging the suspense — at last he made one grab in empty air. He overbalanced; must have touched the lamp-shade, I suppose — for a shower of prawns fell upon us like the gentle rain from heaven, blessing both him that gives and him that takes. "And oh! those spirit prawns were beautiful upon the table-cloth; for each had a bunch of blue ribbon, blue ribbon, to tie up its bonny red hair. I had not moved my eyes from that fair lady's fac…
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…e disciple. Leave her not, Sweet Jesus, in this madness. Who is this? Enter ULRIC; he carrtes a rasor. ULRICc.? I have a lovely bride at last, my dear ! A phantom with intolerable eyes Came close and whispered: I am Wisdom’s self, Thy spouse from everlasting. Mortal king Of my immortal self, I claim thy love ! So, we are wedded close. Justice demands The punishment of this accurséd one, Originator of the cruel crimes My mother-mistress carried to their close. It was your vile affection, Madeline, And your perverted hankering for me 1 The descri…
1906 · PDF PAGE 81
…re love’s gold and steel, The sharpness inlaid with sweet tracery Of talismans of virtue: she is leal To come and live and be my love at last. UNDER THE PALMS. THE woodland hollows know us, enchanted, Likewise the spaces of the ghostly sea, The lake’s abundant lilies, the pale slanted Moonlight on flowers, the wind’s low minstrelsy; For all the tropic greenery is haunted By youandme........ bird- The tall palms bend and catch love’s tender ditty To learn a sweeter song to lure their mate. The soft wind sighs in amorous self-pity, Having no love…
1906 · PDF PAGE 23
…that are, and still my nature’s sun, You, O my angel! You, my own desire! Yes! such will you be, queen, in graces that surpass, Once the last sacraments are said; When you depart beneath wide-spreading blooms and grass To rot amid the bones of many dead. Then, O my beauty! tell the worms, who will devour With kisses all of you to dust ; That I have kept the form and the essential power Divine of my distorted lust. THE DENIAL OF Sr. PETER. I. WnaratT makes God then of all the curses deep That daily reach his Seraphim divine? Like to a tyrant gor…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…x. The Child of 29 the Sons of the Mighty The: Sun? 6 Ai mas eae oa a Lk ‘The Lord of the Fire of the World . oes 30 Israfel blowing the Last Trumpet. The dead arising | The Spirit of the Primal Fire. . - 81 from their tombs * , Should contain a demonstration of the Quadrature | The Great One of the Night of Time . 32 of the Cres bs . i Ak: « |82 bis as artis . j . [81 bis
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
…hariot of fire and the horses thereof.”1 1 [II Kings 2:11, paraphrase.] This whole trouble comes from humanity’s horror of Love. For the last hundred years, every first-rate writer on morals has sent forth his lightnings and thunders, hailstones and coals of fire, to burn up Gomorrah and Sodom where Love is either shameful and secret, or daubed with dung of sentiment in order that the swinish citizens may recognize their ideal therein. We do not tell the artist that his art is so sacred, so disgusting, so splendid and so disgraceful that he mus…
1905 · PDF PAGE 59
…ul is dewed and pearled With tears of poetry. The strong mysterious spell is. cast ~ To bind and to release ; To give the devils hope at last, To the unburied peace ; To gladden the reluctant past With silent harmonies. The song grows wilder now and strives All heaven to enchain, As who should grasp a thousand lives, And draw their breath again Into some cavern where he dives, ._ A hell of grisly pain. And now behold! the barren Cross Bursts out in vernal flowers ; The music weeps, as on the moss The summer’s kissing showers, And there sweep, a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
…er of a monkey-house, and like the yells of a thousand savages, and like the moaning of damned souls. Meanwhile Vesquit proceeded to the last stage of his task. With his knife he hacked off the goat's head, [206] and thrust it into a cavity slashed in the abdomen of the other body. Other parts of the goat he thrust into the mouth of Gates, while the obscene clamour of the cats mingled with the maniac howls of his colleague. And then the one thing happened which they none of them expected. Abdul Bey flung himself down upon the carcasses, and beg…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
… 30 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, unto the which he oweth Obedience. He hath another Seal (which is the first of these,’ but the last is the best).” (27.) Ronové.—The Twenty-seventh Spirit is Ronové. He appeareth in the Form of a Monster. He teacheth the Art of Rhetoric very well, and giveth Good Servants, Knowledge of Tongues, and Favours with Friends or Foes. He is a Marquis and Great Earl; and there be under his com- mand 19 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, etc. (28.) Beriray.—The Twenty-eighth Spirit in Order, as Solomon bound …
1906 · PDF PAGE 42
…dy. Inscribed to T, Davidson. LURED by the loud big-breasted courtesan That plies trained lechery of obedient eyes, He sits, holds bed’s last slattern-sweet surprise, Late plucked from gutter to grace groves of Pan. 1 The seven Rishis are the great Sages of India. They received from the Gods the sacred Books.
1907 · PDF PAGE 93
… wild bird calls its mate—and I? Come to my tent this night of May, and cuddle close and crown me king! Drink, drink our full of love at last—a little while and we shall die, O kissable Tarshitering ! Droop the long lashes: close the eyes with eyelids like a beetle’s wing ! Light the slow smile, ephemeral as ever a painted butterfly, Certain to close into a kiss, certain to fasten on me and sting! Nay? Are you coy? Then I will catch your hips and hold you wild and shy Until your very struggles set your velvet buttocks all a-swing, Until their m…