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82 THE STAR IN THE WEST Her brows divine ; One kiss , a starbeam faint With love of a sweet saint, Stolen like a sacrament In the night's shrine ! One kiss , like moonlight cold Lighting with floral gold The lake's low tune ; One kiss , one flower to fold , On its own calyx rolled At night , in June ! One kiss , like dewfall , drawn A veil o'er leaf and lawn Mix night , and noon , and dawn , Dew , flower , and moon !? That Alice was charmed , that the above was a love philtre , the thirteenth day discloses — the birthday of their first kiss : B…
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…t to say , that it was that of Phædra and Hippolytus , the sexes however being reversed . Shamed , insulted by her son , she still dares kiss him : Why I dare Now take your head between my hands and kiss Your forehead with these shameful lips of mine, These harlot lips , and kiss you unashamed ? ? Outraged , ravished by the offspring of her vice , yet child of her heart , she still can say as she sees him stand before her , a fiendish monster , with the bloody razor with which he has just slain Madeline , a pure and innocent girl : Kill yoursel…
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84 THE STAR IN THE WEST Kiss , as we could not ever kiss again ! Kiss me , between the music of our sighing , Lightning and rain ! 1 A curious conflict this ’twixt love and fear , “ honour and lust , and truth and trust beguiled ; " they wan dered in the scented garden of man's heart , and all their restraint was as ephemeral as the fleeting hour . “ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was pleasant to the eyes , and a tree to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat , and gave al…
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…he less reproach followed , if shame did not , the celebra tion of love's mystic eucharist . Reproach rises , but falls enamoured to his kisses ; all is extremes , there is no heaviness , no deadness of sentiment , the smoke curls as high as the flashing flames , and tears wash out smiles , and blushing cheeks dry tears ; all is effluent glory , glorious as a Sun of gold lingering on the blushing bosom of Dawn : We lay in naked chastity , caressed Child - like or dreaming , till the dawn repressed Our sighs : that nuptial yet hath never ceased …
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…g all ; our personality purified by death the great Time Soul lies cradled in our own as the four lips of two lovers are in their bridal kiss . Alone by trampling life's grapes do we gain the vintage of the Soul , the Medean draught of rejuvenescence . The whole of this wonderful philosophy the poet sums up in the following two verses of extraordinary and extravagant power : XXVIII . Aubrey attained in sleep when he dreamt this Wonderful dream of women , tender child And harlot , naked all , in thousands piled On one hot writhing heap , his sha…
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THE MOTHER 133 kiss , then is it also good to know where kisses may lead to . We have already seen them rising upward from youth through the passion of maturity , concrete and abstract , earthly and spiritual ; now let us turn about and descend the slippery road of lust , so essential to the basic knowledge of the good . Among the extraordinary antipathies and sym pathies of the human mind , few are so startling as the frequent attraction of contraries . Good attracts bad , and bad good , in the love - history of life over and over again shall …
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… then comes the poem , which Alice receives and reads . Every verse is as charming , simple , and fascinating as the following two : One kiss , like snow , to slip , Cool fragrance from thy lip To melt on mine ; One kiss , a white - sail ship To laugh and leap and dip · Alice , an Adultery , vol . ii, p . 66 . G
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…he cry of the inner self, ever striving to overcome it . Again the cursed cry : “ What quest is this ? Is it worth heaven in thy lover's kiss ? A queen , a queen , to kiss and never tire ! Thy queen , quick - breathing for your twin desire !" I shudder , for the mystery of bliss ; I go , heart crying and a soul on fire !? . . Still , I stepped onward . Credit me so far ! The harlot had my soul : my will , the star ! Thus I went onward , as a man goes blind , Into a torrent crowd of mine own kind ; Jostlers and hurried folk , and mad they are , …
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… ! My heart is like a fountain of the sea . I burn , I tremble ; in my veins there swims A torrid ecstasy of madness . Ah ! Ah , God ! I kiss you , kiss you ! O you faint ! Sweetheart , my passion overwhelms your soul ! 1 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 150 . 2 Compare story of Semiramis and Ninyas .
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…upon your tongue ; His death -spasms our love -spasms , my wife ; His death -songs are the love -songs that you sung ! Ah ! Sweet , each kiss I drink from you is warm With the dear life -blood of a man-a man ! The scent of murder lures me , like a charm Tied by some subtlety Canidian . Ay ! as you suck my life out into bliss, Its holier joy is in the deadlier thirst That drank his life out into the abyss Of torture endless , endless and accurst . I know him little ; liking what I know . But you —you offer me his flesh and blood . I taste it - n…
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…l , about whose sticky lips buzz the blue blow - flies of decay ; but rather a divine goddess , whose arms are ever about us , and whose kiss is the kiss of a mother closing the eyes of her child in gentle sleep : | The Kasidah . R. Burton .
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…. This is the world ! Love ! Love ! I love you so , my darling . Oh my white golden heart of glory !' Eternity is moulded in form of her kiss , and even if “ Hell belch its monsters one by one to stop the way ! I would be there ” cries Sir Percy as he and Molly rush backwards and forwards kissing and kissing before they can finally part . And no sooner has he parted with her , having sworn eternal love and to meet her at moonrise , than he stumbles across a bedizened hag of sixty - three ( society ), and in ten minutes , because she calls herse…
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…e to seek me and gather one by one The threads of labyrinthine love new spun , Cretan for monstrous shadows serpent - eyed . So the last kiss passed like a poison - pain , Knowing we might not ever kiss again . Mad tears fell fast : “ Next year !" in cruel distress We sobbed and stretched our arms out , and despaired , And - parted . Out the brute - side of truth flared ; “ Thank God I've finished with that foolishness !"1 all my This last line is almost staggering , but such a cruel truth is soon given the lie : “ I am a fool , tossing a coin …
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…Why Jesus Wept .” Percy , the youth flatulent with love , chants to his Angela - society --thus : To me she is The rosy incarnation of a kiss , The royal rapture of a young delight , The mazy music of virginity, Sun of the day , moon of the night , All , all to me ! 1 And again : Love , love , these raptures are like springtide rain Nestling among green leaves .2 One more example of the diversity of Crowley's pen , before we deal with his place in the history of poetry . In the " God -Eater we come across a most weird form of poetic imagination…
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…breaking of the chain of psychosexual sensations , dimming that lustre which thrills through these mag nificent verses , from the chaste kiss of a mother to the Phaedrian embrace of a Sadistic sow . In “ Why Jesus Wept," we have the ephemeral and headstrong passion of youth ; whilst in “ The Tale of Archais we find it burning only as a pure and lambent flame , overcoming all adversity , sacrificing self - love and even self - honour to attain the ideal of its purpose . Love is the predominant power in the universe ; over and over again we shall…
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…nt however extraordinary is impossible ." 2 Thus all changeability is uncertainty , from the Gods and the Suns which we worship , to the kisses we shower on our loved ones ' lips ; as Crowley sings : Why must despair to madness drive The myriad fools that fear to die ? God's but a fervid phantom drawn Out of the hasty - ordered hive Of thoughts that battle agony In the melancholy hours of dawn . When vital force at lowest ebbs Anæmic nerves weave frailest webs.3 And the five senses stand naked and shivering in the freezing night of doubt , the …
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…ll worth quoting : We weep them as they slip away ; we gaze Back on the likeness of the former days , The hair we fondle and the lips we kiss Roses grow yellow and no purple stays . . Why not with time ? To - morrow we may see The circle ended - if to - morrow be 1 Oracles , vol . ii, p . 13 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 191 .
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…nt , And wrestled with myself, consumed With passion for that sacrament Of shame . From that day unto this My cheek desires that hideous kiss. Her hate , her scorn , her cruel blows , Fill my whole life , consume my breath ; Her red - fanged hatred in me glows , I lust for her , and hell , and death . I see that ghastly look , and yearn Toward the brands of her that burn .? Sleep shuns him , and his parched throat thirsts for the blood of her veins , “ Aching with all the pangs of night ”; his vision grows more monstrous , a horrible 1 Jezebel …
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…ut to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus , the false Isis , Life ! Life ! This Kiss ! Draw in thy breath ! To me ! To me ! He is lost ! Act II opens with two beautiful songs . Venus sings the praise of spring and summer , and Tannhäuser that of autumn and winter . He finds the latter chill season the best : But best is grim December , The Goatish God his power ; The Satyr blows the ember , And pain is passion's flower ; When blood drips over kisses , And madness sobs through wine : Ah mi…
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… itself , there is no other choice : XIV . Thou must breathe in all poisons ; for thy meat , Poison ; for drink , still poison ; for thy kiss , serpent's lips ! ... Then the verse continues , and we see if we may so ex press it, the great nuptials with the Lords of Lust : An agony is this That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands , thy feet Ooze blood , thine eyes weep blood ; thine anguish is More keen than death . At last — there is no deeper vault of hell beneath ! Then comes the great reward . We have travelled knee deep through the mire o…