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…ith God and Christ on either hand And all the angels’ choral band Playing sweet music. O the fool To treat earth as a baby’s school ! In hell one lives as one is wont. Punch said to would-be Don’t ! Might I advise the same to those Shapeless and senseless embryos Who seek to live? Yes, God is wise Enough to set a snare for lies As well as truths. The soul content On earth in his own element Will be content from flesh released. But he who strives to be a beast Or strives to be a god; would gain Long bliss for a few hours of pain, Or struggles fo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
…wift prayer, abide His word whate’er betide. What worse? RHADAMANTHUS, The Gods thy guide! Go and assail him ! MINOS. Stay, The Queen of Hell! ALACUS. That way Leads to the light of day. RHADAMANTHUS. A woman’s heart may yearn, To a man’s love may turn. MINOS. Should she, the ravished, spurn A man whose love is reft? ZEACUS. Meadows and flowers she left To Him—O bosom cleft With a wife’s loss !—a wife. RHADAMANTHUS., Too doubtful is the strife. MINOs. Yet go! perchance to life. ZEACUS. Go! and the Gods above Guard thee, O soul of love! RHADAMAN…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
… grown old and rotten And deeds undared his sceptre, sword, and globe. Keep us, O Mary maid, What time the King-Ghost goes arrayed ! The Hell-Wind whistles through his plume- less pinions ; Clanks all that melancholy host of bones ; Fate’s principalities and Death’s dominions Echo the drear discord, the tuneless tones. Keep us, dear God, from ill, What time the Hell-Wind whistles shrill. The King-Ghost hath no music but their rattling; No scent but death’s grown faint and fugitive; No light but this their leprous pallor battling Weakly with nig…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…the hate! Be ye mute ! MEGARA, Be of good cheer! Rend him apart! Hunger and lust we sate, Equal in terror on that heart of hate. ALECTO. Hell’s throne be kingless ! TISIPHONE. Mortal ! is it well, Our vengeance on the impious lord of Hell! ORPHEUS. Well ! it is well! And yet my eyes are wet To see such anguish. MEGAERA. Tear the fatal net ! ALECTO. Bite with strong acid his congealing blood ! TISIPHONE. Rend out the bowels ! MEGAERA., Pour the monstrous flood Of unclean wisdom in his soul ! PERSEPHONE. Desist ! ALECTO. O face of woman wretched …
1907 · PDF PAGE 198
…irring in my blood. Pours through my veinsa delicate pale flood Of memory. Not the pale and terrible Goddess whose throne is manifest in Hell —I am again a child, a playful child. ORPHEUS., And therefore, O most beautiful and mild Sweet mother! art the girl beloved again Of Hades mighty on the Nysian plain. And therefore are thine eyes with sorrow dim For me, and thy word powerful with Him. PERSEPHONE, Ah me! no fruit for guerdon, Who bore the blossom’s burden ; There shines no sunlight toward Persephone. Ravished, O iron-eyed ! From my young s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 202
…orments from thy being, us from [lel], Or Zeus from Heaven ! TISIPHONE. Or else obey ! MEG-ERA. Obey ! ALECTO. Obey ! HADEs. O throne of Hell! Onight! Oday Of anguish exquisite beyond control, Fibre and substance of my inmost soul ! There is a power not mine, and yet in me Burning its cold and cruel agony O pain ! With icy flames, its cutting poison fangs Striking my being with detested pangs. Alas ! of me and not to be expelled, Conjured, assuaged, averted. Grey as eld The juice of blood that stagnates in my veins Appals their current with ave…
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
… Ye shall force compassion With awful stress From the soul that hath mocked me, and turned his heart from my song’s excess. The ruler of Hell, The invisible Lord, Hath laughed at my spell, Hath slept at my word. He hath heard me well— Awake, O Sword ! Shall he flout a suppliant thus and no answer of favour accord? If mercy be sundered From splendour and power ; If he answer with thunder The plaint ofa flower ; Shall justice wonder If Furies devour So bitter a heart, set a term to his date that was aye but an hour? Avenge me, ye forces Of horror…
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…e large and lordly land Fertile of earth hath sent With dolorous intent Some shape or element. What spell of might hath rent The veil of Hell, and bent Death’s purpose to his hand? MINOS. What shaft from the bow of Apollo? ZIACUS., What quiver of wonder Hath cleft the black walls of the hollow RHADAMANTHUS, What terror ? MINOs. What thunder Hath shaken Hell’s gates to the base? AIMACUS. Withstanding the guards to their face? RHADAMANTHUS, Hath rent him asunder The portals of is in his wrath? MINOS. Hath made for his will An arrow of light for h…
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…od! I love yow! I shall faint with love. I love you so. [ANGELA, LADY BAIRD, 7s azscovcred behind the trees. She suffers the torments of hell, ANGELA (while the duet continues). Ah ! if there were a devil to buy souls, Or ifI had not sold mine! Quick bargain, God ! Hell catch the jade! cheeks ! Rot her snub nose! Poison devour her guts! Wither her fresh clean face with old grey scabs, And venomous ulcers gnaw the baby breasts ! Vermin upon her! Infamous drab! Gr! Gr! I would I had her home to torture her. I would dig out those amorous cyes with…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…nd its friend remorse. Crime we snatch, between spell and spell. Man is aglare, and is off unheard. Woman hath speech, of a single word. Hell may be heaven, for earth is hell! So do I laugh, and the hideous coarse Peals like applause re-echo and cease. Here in the close and noisome cave, Drunk on the breath of the thieves and whores Close as they cram in the maw of the pit, Sick with the stench of the kisses that rave . Round me, surfeiting sense, in scores } Mad with their meaning, I smoke and sit Rhyming at random through my teeth, Grey with …
1907 · PDF PAGE 180
174 ORPHEUS LIBER TERTIUS VEL LABORIS TO THE MEMORY OF IEHI AOUR, WITH WHOM I WALKED THROUGH HELL, AND COMPELLED IT ‘* Neither were his hopes frustrated : For having appeased them with the melodious sound of his voice and touch, prevailed at length so far, as that they granted him leave to take her away with him; but on this condition, that she should follow him, and he not to look back upon her, till he came to the light of the upper World; which he (impatient of, out of love and care, and thinking that he was in a manner past all danger) neve…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…sh souls the dead Chinese 1 Money-changer. long the sole currency on the Chinese coast. Mexican dollars were Are taxed) to pay my way in hell. On one pound sterling one lives well. For luxuries are cheaply paid Since Satan introduced I’ree Trade; And necessaries—woe is me !— Are furnished to the damned soul free. III. God’s hell, Earth’s heaven, are not so far. Dinner brought oysters, caviar, Anchovies, truffles, curried rabbit (Bad for the apoplectic habit), While ancient brandy and champagne Washed down the dainties. Once again I seemed to ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 205
…ayer Rejected— MEGAERA. Come, my sisters, we'll be there. HADES. Well, be it so. O wizard, by this strength Thou hast availed in deepest Hell at length. I grant thy prayer. Eurydice be given To the sweet light and pleasant air of heaven ! Even on this wise. With Hermes for a guide Up the dread steeps there followeth thee thy | bride, And thou before them singing. If thou yearn Towards her, if thy purpose change or turn While in these realms; if thou thy face revert ; That shall be hostage unto me for hurt Of further magic: she shall fade and fl…
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…d breathes great gasps of love ; He, like an hunter, hungers, leaps above, Attains, exults, despairs. This love is doomed, Were there no hell. In granite walls en- tombed Lies the true spirit and the soul thereof. The body is here—yet is it not enough, These litanies unchanted, unperfumed? Live in the shuddering marble they remain : Here is the infinite credo of pure pain. Here let life’s agony take hold enough Of all that lives: let partial tears for them Wake knowledge, brain-dissolving diadem Of white-hot woe upon the brows of love ! LES DEU…
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
…e destinies, So in the eyes of Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damnéd minion Of Set,! the accursed lord of Hell. Yea ! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. 1 The ass-headed deity of the Egyptians, slayer of Osiris. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Druse on Lebanon. Moreover pylon shouldered round To pylon an unearthly tune, Like phanto…
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… Life, death, strength, weakness, are but idle chatter. Nothing is lost or gained, we know too well. For heaven they balance us an equal hell. We discard both; an infinite Universe Remains; we sum it up—an infinite curse. So—amIaman? I lack my wife’s embrace. Am I outworn? I see the harlot’s face. Is the love better and the knowledge worse? Shall I seek knowledge and count love dis- grace ? Where is the profit in so idle a strife? The love of knowledge is the hate of life. DIOGENES. ‘* ALL things are good” exclaimed the boy. Who taste the sweet…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
… from my mouth, and rings Back iron curses to the blessings vain I pour in desperate fervour from the lyre. So, baffled by the echoes of hell’s pain, Blinded by grisly glamour of hell’s fire, I take my refuge in the solitude And grandeur of that irony of ire, That mockery of mercy: thus I brood Apart, alone, upon the cause of Things And wait those fearful Three. A lifeless mood Stirs my grey being: ay! no passion springs In flowerless halls as these: awhile the mind Wanders on void unprofitable wings No whither : gains new strength at last to f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…elight who doth not see Some lightning anger dart like love and strike Into the sacred heart its iterant glee Of scathing tortures worth Hell’s agony To melt—ah, sweet, I know ! in foam and free Lustre of love redoubled. Come to me! I will avenge that anger, like to like, With gentle fires of smitten love, will burn Into your beauty with the athletic rush Of conquering godhead; and your cheek shall] burn From red of wrath to shame’s adorable blush, And so in tears and raptures mix the cup Of dreadful wine we are wont to drain and —well !— Needs…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…. For while ye spake in tumult, in this ear A music rang from earth’s remotest mine, From star and comet, flaming wheel and sphere, From Hell’s deep vault and from the Ilouse divine. A voice diverse, a voice identical Called me this hour from bitterest woes and black, Constraining eloquence and mighty thrall Of cosmic agony, and wrung me back From my poor plea to challenge in my song The whole domain of deeply-seated law, Taunch thunders not Olympic at the strong Bars of the Order backed with strength and awe That men call Will of Zeus: the aft…
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… on my bosom’s throne ; She takes my muséd orisons To her, to her, to her alone. Oh Kali, Kali, Kali, quell This hooded hate, O Queen of Hell! iler ruby-studded brow is calm ; Her eyes shine like some sleepy flood ; Her breast is oliban and balm ; Her tongue lolls out, a-dripping blood ; She swings my body to and fro ; She breaks me on the wheel of woe ! To her eternal rapture seems Mere nature; underneath the crown Of dusky emeralds there streams A river of bliss to sluice me down With blood and tears, to drown my thought, To bring my being in…