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Page 1 of 11909 · PDF PAGE 51
…erhoods! Call upon Artemis! She will not bend Dare black Aornos with Daedalian wings! To lift you from your seas of bitter foam! oo, All words! words! there’s a hunger to express Nay! wrap yourself and rub yourself in silk! ° press The infinite pangs, the infinite mighty blisses Drink of my blood, engorge my fruitless sperm! Stored in the house of rapture and distress For you were suckled on the poisonous milk Whose key is one of our blood-tainted kisses That betrays virgins to the deathless worm. Whose fume arises from the accursed sod Are we …
1909 · PDF PAGE 4
…ote the great apostle nearly two thou- sand years ago ; and surely in these latter days, when Satan seems visibly loosed upon earth, the words have a special and dreadful significance even for us who —thanks be to God for His un- speakable mercy ! — are washed in the blood of the Lamb and freed from the chains of death — and of hell. Surely this terrible history is a true Sign of the Times. We walk in the last days, and all the
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
…t, or I of loving: Tire? O thou sea of love, thy ripples run Into themselves, to my serener sun! AIT! For you I built this faery dome of words And crowned it with the cross of my desire. I circled it with songs of blessed birds And cradled all in the celestial fire. The stars enfold it ; the eternal sun And moon give light; nor clouds nor rain intrude ; Only the dews of Dionysus run In this intoxicating solitude. I have begemmed its marble flame of spires With jewels from the bitss of God, and set Chryselephantine columns curled like fires Belo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
…to me! Come closer ! Is not this as close as death? Are we not one to all eternity Jewelled with joy? Mix me your subtle breath Into the words well-known and never worn, Into the kiss well-kissed and never tired, Into the love well-loved and not forlorn, The love beyond all that ever was desired ? Ay. all the cloudy must of life is strained To clearer liquor that our souls attained.
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…g 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, amaranth, vervain, myrrh and moly Are deathless blooms about…
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…e out in his yataghan, ° And strikes one masterstroke. So now you breathe Close on my face; you strip me of defence; You sing in obscure words whose crownsenwreathe My forehead with their viewless violence, So that I lie, as at the appointed term, Awaiting the foul kisses of the worm.
1909 · PDF PAGE 41
…ir own kisses all this happy day. Nay, but blaspheming you put hope aside, Bade me forget you, swore yourself a liar, Smiled through the words because you knew you lied Knew that — what waters can put out our fire? So we amused ourselves with cunning brisk Careful arrangements to forget each other, You cut that love-curl from your neck at risk ‘ Of comment — at the slightest — from your mother. You gave it me — God forget me, dear girl, When I forget to treasure up that curl! — 56 — Vil Your loveliness should help me to forget you ; Your murmur…
1909 · PDF PAGE 5
…f phrasing— always, indeed, a profound dramatic feeling — is to be found in these poems, Alas ! that we should be compelled to write the words! That an art essentially spiritual, an art dignified by the great names of Gascoigne Mackie, Chris- tina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, George Herbert, should here be prostituted to such “ ignoble use ”, Truly the corruption of the best is the lowest —- corruptio optimi pessima. Nor can one gleam of Hope, even in the infinite mercy of our loving Father, tinge with gold the leprous gloom of our outlook. These…
1909 · PDF PAGE 81
… which he shall be damned for ever? “ For he that believeth not 1s condemned already, Mother. — Nature. How true would be these striking words, if only for “ the love-taught magus, the hermaphrodite ” with all its su- perstition, blasphemy, and obscenity, one were to write “ The Christ-saved sinner, brought into the light”, The arcanum in the adytum. — More classical affectation for “ the secret thing in the holy place ”, THE VAMPIRE Savonarola. — An ascetic Florentine doctor, For a good modern account of vampires and their habits, consult Mr B…
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
…livered us. But until that happy day we are bound to work on silently and strenuously in His service. May the perusal of these atrocious words en- lighten us as to the very present influence of Satan in this world — naked and unasha- med. May it show us the full horror of the Enemy with whom we are bound to fight ; may it reveal his dispositions, so that under our great Captain we may again and again win the Victory. It is my prayerful hope that He who turns