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1899 · PDF PAGE 182

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…Only a primrose, a violet laden With the pale perfume of dawn ; Only a snowdrop, my delicate maiden ; These have no thorn. Old-fashioned love, yet you feel it a fountain Springing for ever, most pure; Old-fashioned love, yet as adamant mountain . Solid and sure. Yes, tender thoughts on your lips will be breaking By-and-by into a smile; Love, ere he springs up divine at his waking, Slumbers awhile. So, my kissed snowdrop, you took its white blossom Tenderly into your hand, Kissed it three times, wear it yet in your bosom— I understand.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 36

White Stains

…we wander, over dale and how, Sweet with green sward, faint flower, and tender tree. There all the winter may we idly dream Still of our love, and there forgetfulness Of the past sorrow may steal o’er thy brow In the new birth of stainless happiness, Rich harvest of the blossoms desire, Satisfied alway, yet for ever fresh In hearts so passionate, and there may’st thou Love to thy fulness, nor for ever tire Of linking me to thee with dainty mesh Of auburn ripples of delicious fire. 5 Doubt not, dear love, nor hesitate to say ; Blush if thou wilt…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 70

Collected Works (Vol. III)

64 ROSA MUNDI, AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS Of mind: they roll, a rippling stream Hurrying, hurrying : hour by hour The brain throbs: shall I never rest? Ay! fora little: peace supreme Receives my head that lies a flower Borne on the mountain of thy breast. XVIT. SPEAK, O my sister, O my spouse, speak, speak ! Sigh not, but utter the intense award Of infinite love ; arise, burn cheek by cheek ! Dart, eyes of glory ; live, O lambent sword O’ the heart’s gold rushing over mount and moor Of sunlit rapture ! rise all runes above, Dissolve thyself into one …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 21

Handbook of Geomancy

…e Good in all Very good Good, exc. in war Good Good in all Good, exc, for war Good A messenger brings letters Excellent in all Good, and love of ladies Ir Very good Good in all 12 Marvellously good Purr ConyuncrTio Evilinmostdemands,exceptthoserelatingtowarandlove Indifferent; best in war Good, but with trouble Good fortune Evil, exc. in war and love Medium good Medium Evil, save in war Evil, exc. in love Evil, exc. for war Evil rather ; good for love and war; else medium Medium ; good favour Very good in all Recoveryofthingslost SHOOTANAOOH ||…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 193

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ou on my breast your dear forehead reclining, You with an arm to encircle my head ; You with your eyes all my secret divining Rest in my love, as divine as the dead. Peace is the prize of our passion. Love springs unfading, a flower unfolding Petals of marvellous fashion ; Scarlet and green to our eyes unbeholding, Fixed on each other so deep ; Only the light of them flushes our being, Fills us with music and silence, but seeing Love, and the vision of Sleep.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 90

Ambergris

AMBERGRIS 81 FROM THE ARGONAUTS The Song of the Siren, Leucosia O Lover, I am lonely here ! O lover, I am weeping ! Each pearl of ocean is a tear Let fall while love was sleeping. A tear is made of fire and dew And saddened with a smile ; The sun’s laugh in the curving blue Lasts but a little while. The night-winds kiss the deep : the stars Shed laughter from above ; But night must pass dawn’s prison bars : Night hath not tasted love. With me the night is fallen in day ; The day swoons back to night ; The white and black are woven in gray, Fain…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 32

Oracles

“ ’TIS PITY—” 27 Fails to us speech In Love’s exultant leaping ! Each merged in each The golden fruit is reaping ! . . . . . . . Wilt slumber, dear ? One last kiss, I beseech ! . . . . . . . Come to us, Death ! My love and I are sleeping !

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1954 · PDF PAGE 505

Magick Without Tears

…a Dictionary . Follow the Axioms, the Postulates, the Theorems ; finally, the Experiments. And that is what all these letters are about. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1912 · PDF PAGE 74

Mortadello

56 MORTADELLO 57 LUCREZIA. Oh how I love you. MONICA. Ah ! your love. I pay its price ! Quick, to the door girl. Footsteps. ’Tis Orlando. LUCREZIA. Yes. MONICA. Do up your hair. Give me one kiss. Oh loveliness ! [A knock. Come in ! Come in ! I have waited long. Enter ORLANDO. LUCREZIA. Farewell, Princess ! MONICA. Farewell—and see the guard is strong. [Exit LUCREZIA. ORLANDO. The bloodhounds press Hard on my heels. MONICA. Are we safe here ? ORLANDO. They cannot find The secret passage ; have no fear. MONICA. Oh, love is blind. Did you do wisel…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 140

Little Poems in Prose

XXXIX THOROUGHBRED SHE is ugly enough, in all conscience, and yet how delicious she is! Time and Love have set the mark of their claws upon her, and taught her cruelly how much of youth and freshness each minute and each kiss carry away. Verily, she is ugly! She is an ant, a spider, if you will; even a skeleton:—but also she is a love-draught, a magistry, a sorcery! Take her all in all, she is exquisite. Time has not been able to destroy the sparkling rhythm of her walk, or the indestructible elegance of her ap- parel. Love has not altered the …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 165

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e Good in all Very good Good, exc. in war Good Good in all Good, exc, for war Good A messenger brings letters Excellent in all Good, and love of ladies Ir Very good Good in all 12 Marvellously good Purr ConyuncrTio Evilinmostdemands,exceptthoserelatingtowarandlove Indifferent; best in war Good, but with trouble Good fortune Evil, exc. in war and love Medium good Medium Evil, save in war Evil, exc. in love Evil, exc. for war Evil rather ; good for love and war; else medium Medium ; good favour Very good in all Recoveryofthingslost SHOOTANAOOH ||…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 165

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e Good in all Very good Good, exc. in war Good Good in all Good, exc, for war Good A messenger brings letters Excellent in all Good, and love of ladies Ir Very good Good in all 12 Marvellously good Purr ConyuncrTio Evilinmostdemands,exceptthoserelatingtowarandlove Indifferent; best in war Good, but with trouble Good fortune Evil, exc. in war and love Medium good Medium Evil, save in war Evil, exc. in love Evil, exc. for war Evil rather ; good for love and war; else medium Medium ; good favour Very good in all Recoveryofthingslost SHOOTANAOOH ||…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 104

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…of gleet and tabes, Grey penis or green twat ; If clap were what the babe is And pox were like the cot. If I were what the turds are And love were like the arse. With double sound and single Delight our farts would mingle, With music filled as birds are That walk about the grass ; If I were what the turds arc And love were like the arse ! If you were crabs, my darling, And I your love a taenia ; We’d scratch and strain together My rubber and your leather Until we both were crazy (My stage and your proscenia) If you were crabs, my darling. And I…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 181

Magick Without Tears

…ents a very favourable case. You are only too likely, and that not only at the beginning, to meet all sorts of difficulties and dangers. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally , 666

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1914 · PDF PAGE 25

Chicago May

… CHICAGO MAY ‘Oh, never falter! never fail! forget No second of the wonders that are past, Foresee the greater wonders may be yet— ‘Nail Love, the Son of Man, to murder's mast! Let us be something unachieved before, Something intolerable, something new! Who was the fool that preened himself and swore ‘There was no further destiny to do? ‘Why, every thought is a new spasm of sun! Is there a new or old in love? What odds, Since every one of us—yea, every one !— Is beyond doubt the darling of the gods? ‘Why then, let us die young, let us die young…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 198

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…HE EQUINOX acceptit. And the moment you desire to do so you have only to remember this—Look at things from the point of view of the Sun. Love is the law, love under will. 186

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1904 · PDF PAGE 88

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

… trate her dainty nostrils. All round her he wrapped his soft green folds and their gentle pressure warmed her blood that shuddered with love to feel him, cold and slimy, embrace her bosom and her lissom thighs. Always his tail penetrated her half- opened fountain and gently tickled the rosy tongue of love, that now grew swollen and stiff with ex- citement. Eve broke into a hot, foul sweat. “ Sa- tan ! I love you ! When Adam kisses me he is so hot and heavy ; he chokes me ! You lift me, you hold me, you — Ah ! ” The tail gave a determined push,…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 91

Tale of Archais

…o would violate your peace ; Lightning shall keep watch and warden through the sea-born isles of Greece. Sleep ! Sleep ! Sleep, ye happy lovers, sleep, Soft and dreamless, sweet and deep, Sleep ! Sleep ! We will steal away Till the break of day. ARCHAIS In the arms of love at last Love is anchored fast, Firm beyond the rage of Heaven, safe beyond the ocean blast. CHARICLES In the arms of love close prest, And thy tender breast Pillows now my happy head ; softly breezes from the west Both Stir the ring-dove’s nest.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 28

White Stains

22 A FRAGMENT Th’ Eternity of an immortal self That is, and shall be while the stars endure, Or while a God of Love is pitiful Of all men’s sorrows, and most happy in Their joys— She. Ah ! joys are fleeting !— He. But our love Is anchored in the portals of the dawn Where heaven begins. She. And heaven begins with us This day. Behold the flowers, whose kindly gaze Of modest love is on us as we stand, And clasp fond hands before high Heaven to swear Truth an eternal bond, no parchment scroll Of perishable matter ill devised And scored upon with p…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 88

Book 4 (Part II)

…h is so pure that a single drop ot it cast into the water of the Cup will for the time being bring all to perfection. This dew is called Love. Even as in the case of human love, the whole Universe appears perfect to the man who is under its control, so is it, and much more, with the Divine Love of which it is now spoken. For human love is an excitement, and not a stilling, of the mind; and as it is bound to the individual, only leads to greater trouble in the end. This Divine Love, on the contrary, is attached to no symbol. It abhors Hmitation,…

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