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Page 87 of 1061905 · PDF PAGE 205
…m, Dark fires of horror about it and within, A changing, dreadful Shape: Now a distorted ape ; Now an impending vampire, vast and lean ; Last, a dark woman pressed The world unto her breast, Soothed and caressed With evil words and kisses of the mouth of Sin. The Breath of men adoring. ‘‘ Worship we! ‘““The mighty Wisdom, the astounding power, "©The Horror, the immense profundity, ‘¢ The stealthy, secret paces of thy Bower ! ‘* Thee we adore and praise ‘Whose breast is broad as day’s ; ‘¢Thee, thee, the mistress of the barren sea, ‘‘Deep, deadl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
…The shadow of the buttress stays And dips its head and swims, While moss engirdles it with grays And greens that dew bedims. Now, at the last, the western end, Most miracle of all ! The groves of rock dispart and rend Their sacred cincture-wall ; All tunes of heaven their rapture lend To make the waterfall. There, steaming from the haze and mist Where dew is dashed in spray, Rises a halo sunrise-kissed And kissed at close of day From ruby unto amethyst, Within,the veil of grey. And there within the circled light I saw a dancing thing, Most like…
1929 · PDF PAGE 189
…. Arrived below, a corridor with three right-angled turns — this could, incidentally, be flooded at need, in a few moments, — led to the last of the defences, a regular door such as is fitted to a strong room. There was an emergency exit to the cellar, equally ingenious; it was a sort of torpedo-tube opening beneath the water of the Seine. It was fitted with a compressed air- chamber. Any one wishing to escape had merely to introduce himself into a shell made of thin cork, and shoot into the river. Even the worst of swimmers [267] could be sure…
1905 · PDF PAGE 111
…oad Of phantom memory-shapes return to quell The shaken fortresses. Till nature reassert her empery, And the full tide of wakefulness at last Foam on the shore of sleep To beat the white cliffs of reality In vain, because their windy strength is past, And only memories weep. Why is the Finite real? And that world So larger, so more beautiful and fleet, So free, so exquisite, The world of dreams and impearled With solitary shaft of Truth? O children of the Night, shadows, not Too sweet, Are your wide realms for our philoso- phers, Who must in ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…e held out her body to it like an offering. Just before the new moon of February, Abdul Bey, before leaving Naples, determined to seek a last sight of his adored Lisa. He had found her easily, and was amazed at the physical changes in her. They increased his passion beyond all measure, for she was now the very ideal of any Turkish lover. She appeared hardly conscious of his presence upon the wall beyond the little lane that wound below the Terrace of the Moon, but in reality she absorbed his devotion with a lazy hunger, like a sponge. For her a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…he personality, or by the sound of the voice, or by the handwriting, or by the contents of the mind. In the case of a dead man, only the last method is available. And here we are tossed on a dilemma. Either the 'spirit' says something which he is known to have known during his life, or something else. In the first case, somebody else must have known it, and may conceivably have informed the medium; in the second case, it is rather disproof than proof of the identity! "Various plans have been proposed to avoid this difficulty; notably the device…
1929 · PDF PAGE 198
wardrobe where her hairbrush was hanging, and she lost no time in digging for the necessary skylarks. At last the way was clear! The pine-woods on the left; the ant-hills on the right; straight through the surf to the heathery pagoda where the chubby clergyman and the Old Lady had already arrived, and were busy worshipping the Chinese God. Of course! It was Cyril, with Brother Onofrio [279] and Sister Clara all the time — how stupid she had been! But for all that the toads were a nuisance with their eternal chatter and laughter; and they wore t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 155
…r exaltation ; I must go Wailing and naked into the inane Cavernous shrineless place of misery, Forgetful, hateful, impotent, except The last initiation seize my soul, And fling me into Isis’ very self, The immortal, mortal. Let me know this night Whether my place is found among the stars That wander in the deep, or made secure As the high throne of her that dwells in heaven, Fruitful for life and death, Wisdom her name ! This hour the foolish ones shall see their souls Shrink at my manifest deity. This night My spirit on my spirit shall beget …
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
… so that they changed into butterflies; and there was a man who kept on telling everybody to be quiet and not make a noise. SO we came at last in the next house of the Palace. It was a great dome of violet, and in the centre the moon shone. She was a full moon, and yet she looked like a woman quite, quite young. Yet her hair was silver, and finer than spiders’ webs, and it rayed about her, like one can’t say what; it was all too beautiful. In the middle of the hall there was a black stone pillar, from the top of which sprang a fountain of pearls;…
1905 · PDF PAGE 184
…. To get the meaning you have to pause, and corrugate the brow, which would not matter much if you were sure that you had the thought at last, and that it was worth waiting for. It should be said that ‘ The Dedication ’ is a poem expressive of admiration of Swinburne,
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
… the Republic. You may kiss my hand. But you have pursued the defeated enemy; you have annihilated their strongest regiments; and, after last night, I am afraid that they will abandon the attack altogether. The situation is lamentable." "But they invoked the death-current themselves," objected Brother Onofrio. "How could I tell that they would send for poor old Vesquit, and prepare an operation so formidable that something definite was bound to happen, one way or the other?" "But you failed to deal gently with the young man Gates! " "I know I'm…
1905 · PDF PAGE 134
… The rampart of a people and their power. ELEGY, August 27/h, 18983 So have the days departed, as the leaves Smitten by wrath of Autumn blast ; So the year, fallen from delight, still grieves Over the happy past. The year of barren summer, when the wind Blew from the south unlooked-for snow, The year when Collon,? desolate and blind, Gloomed on the vale below, When logs of pinewood lit the little room, And friendship ventured in to sit Beside their blaze, to listen in the gloom To wisdom and to wit; ! When Dr. John Hopkinson and three of his ch…
1909 · PDF PAGE 55
NOTES 39 Cot. V. (continued)— ob l pl pa concealed manifested the last ol Jia! osyl charitable highest fosterer of all yl pixie wlgall pardoner avenger turner of hearts alSVy JME 93 otLST ell. 55! worthy of glory roidel’univers who pitieth and honour rich assembler divider yall eilell geal afflicter refuser enricher sold )gl al peace-giver la lumiere giver of advant- ages wy!) sll @ J| inheritor survivor inventor axall deel patient (? beginning) guide woolgo FAUT D gall at ge Hua is God; and there is none other God than Hua. Amen. Cot. VI., Lin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
… as to the existence of the Soul; but I will tell you what I know, and can prove; further, what hypotheses seem worthy of consideration; lastly what experiments ought to be tried. For it is in this last matter that you can aid us; and with this in mind I have come up from St. Jean de Luz to see you." Lisa's eyes danced with pleasure. "Do you know," she cried, "you are the first man that ever understood me?" [24] "Let me see whether I do understand you fully. I know very little of your life. You are half Italian, evidently; the other half probab…
1907 · PDF PAGE 103
…calls dis. tress. Enough ! when all is ended, when The poppied pleasure purples pain— Death—shall I laugh or smile? Amen! I'll wake, one last fond cup to drain, And then—to sleep again, to sleep again ! KALI} THERE is an idol in my house By whom the sandal alway steams. Alone, I make a black carouse With her to dominate my dreams. With skulls and knives she keeps control (O Mother Kali!) of my soul. She is crowned with emeralds like leaves, And rubies flame from either eye; A rose upon her bosom heaves, Turquoise and lapislazuli. She hath a kir…
1907 · PDF PAGE 238
…ut, The imprint — ‘t Chiswick Press :—Charles Whittingham and Co. | Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.”— is repeated at the foot of the last page. Edition: 2 copies on Roman vellum, 250 on hand-made paper. Issued in slate-blue, dull-green, and _brick- red boards with white holland backs, and white paper back label. The published price was five shillings, [THE HONOURABLE ADUL- TERERS: 1899] The | Honourable Adulterers | a tragedy | by | A. E. C. | 1899. Collation :—Demy 8vo, cut edges, pp. 8, pagi- nation from 119-126,! consisting of Title 1 Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…ad been the clairvoyant of the party; he had gauged clearly enough the result of his operation; but naturally he had left no note of the last act, and neither Arthwait nor Abdul Bey had been able to do anything. Arthwait had been scared badly until his pompous vanity came to the rescue, and showed him that accidents of that kind must be expected when one is handicapped with an assistant of inferior ability. Vesquit decided that the battle should be properly [175] prepared, and no trouble spared to make it a success. His fondness for corpses had…
1909 · PDF PAGE 58
…., Linz 10.—Contains the Earth. Cor. XCVI.—Add Daath, 7R}'74. Cot. XCIX.—Add among Archangels :— Azrael, Angel of Death (3). Israfel, of Last Trump (¥).° Cot. C.—Our order of Angelic Choirs is from R. Mosheh ben Maimon. R. Ishmael and the book Pliah prefer :— . Cherubim. Chaioth. Aralim . Seraphim. . Tarshishim. . Auphanim. . Auphanim. to. Taphsarim. And there are many other schemes. aati©GNAVAWN Cor, CII.—Add Daath, *15N. Cor. CIII.—Add Daath, Cerebrum medium, cujus locus est in parte capitis postica. But these have many other attributions, an…
1919 · PDF PAGE 311
THE TANK Here is another: THE NEW PLEASURE Last night I invented a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house. They met at my door and fought with each other over my newly created pleasure; the one crying, “Itis a sin !’—the other, “Itis a virtue!” Good boy! A.C. InpIA AND THE Future. By Wittiam Arcuer. Alfred A. Knopf. $3.50 net. Mr. Arcuer has been through India, I should judge for as much as six weeks, with a typewriter and a provincial third-rate mind. Edmund Burke said: “This mult…
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
…om. She had heard of him, of course; he was known for his writings on mysticism and had long borne the reputation of a crank. But in the last few years he had chosen to use his abilities in ways intelligible to the average man; it was he who had saved Professor Briggs, and, incidentally, England when that genius had been accused of and condemned to death for, murder, but was too preoccupied with the theory of his new flying-machine to notice that his fellows were about to hang him. And it was he who had solved a dozen other mysteries of crime, …