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Page 100 of 2031907 · PDF PAGE 128
… the gray battlefield of ancient thought, The market places of intelligence, Save need and greed ; whose royal words incense The jealous God of Israel is distraught. No jewels in the casket nobly wrought. The shrine is grand; the god is ravished thence. On clawing hands and hardened knees the King Exists, no more; is it a little thing? King Demos, hear my parable! We pass, We poets, see you grovel at our feet, Despise our love, and tender flesh, and wheat, Clamour for lust, and carrion, and grass. MORT D’ADONIS. ADONIS dies. (Imagination hears …
1898 · PDF PAGE 5
… of kings. Anon, and I am driven out In desert places by desire ; My mouth is salt and dry ; I doubt If hell hath such another fire ; If Gods damnation can devise A lust to match these agonies. The desert wind my body burns, The voice of flesh consumes my soul ;
1902 · PDF PAGE 57
…ld Egyptian ; who bestowed The magic word, which, when I had pronounced, Called up thine evil corpse-light in the sky. He riddled me —ah God ! I see it now ! The bloody winepress .'' The ascending sun ? Thy dawning beauty and thine evil bed ! The double meaning ! I had evil thoughts When I pronounced it —else had She Herself, Hathoor or Mary, risen. Misery! Incessant mystery of the search for Truth ! Venus Search out my mystery a little while ! TannhAuser. There is a flush of passion in thine eyes. An hunger in them ; fascinate me now, 55
1903 · PDF PAGE 73
…diate face. And we will heal them. Dragon men And serpent women, worm and clod, Shall rise and look upon us then, And know us to be very God, Finding a saviour in the sight Of power attaining unto peace, And meditation’s virgin might Pregnant with twins—love and release. Are you not ready? Let us leave This little Paris to its fate! Our friends a little while may grieve, And then forget : but we, elate, Live in a larger air : awake, Compassion in the Halls of Truth! Disdain love for love’s very sake! Take all our beauty, strength, and youth, An…
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
… Bowles to the heavenly goals But we asked at the end of the tunnel : Is this No. Seven ? Or can it be heaven ? He said : I am God and not Stannl. We begged the Lords pardon walked round in his garden : This bower dont smell nice ; Ill destroy it. The mistakes on Thy part ! Its only my fart ! I hope J. and the Ghost will enjoy it. [124]
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…, when I say I languish ? Who is she, if I call her mine ? And the fool’s and the wise man’s anguish Are burnt in the bitter shrine. The god is far as the stars, and the wine and fire Salt with desire. Desunt cetera.
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
164 THE OPIUM-SMOKER Boy, as you love me, I charge you to fold Pipe over pipe into gardens of gold Such as a god may be glad to behold. Seated on high in the æons of doom, Sucked as a seed to the infinite womb, Sealed is my soul in the sheath of its tomb. Boy, as you love me, I charge you to mould Pipe after pipe, till the heavens are rolled Back and are lost as a tale that is told ! III Silence and darkness are weaving a web Broidered with Nothing at uttermost ebb : Cover, oh cover the shaming of Seb ! Fling the wide veil, O Nuit, on the sham…
1938 · PDF PAGE 17
…peech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play! XX. Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship! Be every Act the Fiat of a God! Be every Act a Source of radiant Glory! XXI. Treat time and all conditions of Event as Servants of thy Will, appointed to present the Universe to thee in the form of thy Plan.
1944 · PDF PAGE 189
…icates that one cannot establish one’s work without tact and gentle‐ ness. The wands are headed by the Ram, sacred to Chesed, the Father‐god Amoun‐Ra, as also to Aries; but at the other end of the wands are the Doves of Venus. In the symbol, the ends of the wands touch a circle, showing the completion and limita‐ tion of the original work. It is within this circle that the flames (four double, as if to assert the balance) of the Energy are seen to play, and there is no intention to increase the scope of the original Will. But this limitation be…
1944 · PDF PAGE 242
… enlightenment. b The Word of Wisdom weaves the web of lies, Weds irreducible Infinities. g Mother, moon‐maiden, playmate, bride of Pan; God’s Angel‐Minister to every man. d Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above Thought’s reach: the wholeness of the world is Love. x Sire and inceptor, Emperor and King Of all things mortal, hail Him lord of Spring! v Wisdom to each apportioned to his want By modes of Light, shed forth, great Hierophant! z To each his Understanding sooth discovers Wordless: your mode, immortal Twins and Lovers! h Behold, the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 233
…ter at what cost, to ‘*true Wisdom and perfect Happiness.” So may all happen! KANDY, CEYLON, Sepé. 1901. PERSONS CONCERNED. THE WORLD OF GODS. IsIs. HATHOOR. THE WORLD OF MEN. TANNHAUSER,. ELIZABETH. AN UNKNOWN MINSTREL. THE LANDGRAVE., WOLFRAM, BERTRAM, HEINRICH, A SHEPHERD Boy. PILGRIMS, FORESTERS, COURTIERS, ETC. \a t the Court of the Landgrave. THE WORLD OF DEMONS. THE EVIL AND AVERSE HATHOOR, CALLED VENUS, TANNHAUSER. ACT I. ‘‘ Therefore we are carefully to proceed in Magic, lest that Syrens and other monsters deceive us, which likewise do…
1906 · PDF PAGE 73
…e could not be offended: and moreover— When at the nightfall I sought Heaven’s light, All my work grew unspotted, done aright ! The high Gods came above my head to hover, Because I worked with a diviner might, The perfect sage being the periect lover. THE NINTH DAY. ‘** How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit Before thou make a trial of her love?”’ 1 Henry VI, I wAs most weary of my work: the mind Shuddered at all the wonders it had written, And the whole body by the spirit smitten Groaned : so I went and left my love behind, Danced the gros…
1898 · PDF PAGE 16
…longer the desire for vengeance. So far have I risen, but not far enough to forget that you are the most abominable villain that plagues God’s beautiful world with his infesting life. BRANDON [wth sudden calmness]. This to his father! What does the Bible say, you wretch ? PERCY [fo Vaughan}. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [suddenly breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. Percy, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. …
1901 · PDF PAGE 15
…) but herald thy renewed renown. Mad Christians see in thee the Second Beast, But shall not shake thee down. Therefore reign thou, saith God, august, alone, White-winged to East and West, an albatross, “ Abdul the Damned, on thy infernal throne ! ” Allah can wed the Crescent and the Cross ! According to the wisdom thou hast shown Mete thou thy gain and loss ! 13
1901 · PDF PAGE 27
…ave loved you so! 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!
1902 · PDF PAGE 30
…passion, death, upon thy lyre — Thy lyre ! I am the Grail and I the Glory now : I am the flame and fuel of thy breast ; I am the star of God upon thy brow ; I am thy queen, enraptured and possessed. 28
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…lly to thy most pardonable failing, Sentiment ; one will rot, the other rust us. Let us just listen to the spirit ailing : — ’Tis like a God in bliss, or like a damned soul wailing ! (A word to bid you notice with what mastery Of technique that last stanza there was written. I risk a poet’s license on one cast, Ery ! (Pet name for thee, Eros !) The lines are smitten Into due harmony double-rhymed, well knitten. Wherefore, to show I can repeat the effort, This verse inserted like a playful kitten To usher in the youth’s c. d. e. f., ert Or inert…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…he wet and writhing dust, Never black and never dried Hearts blood of a suicide. He had plucked the hazel rod From the rude and goatish god, Even as the curved moons waning ray Stolen from the King of Day. He had learnt the elvish sign ; Given the Token of the Nine : Once to rave, and once to revel, Once to bow before the devil, Once to swing the thurible, Once to kiss the goat of hell, Once to dance the aspen spring, Once to croak, and once to sing, Once to oil the savoury thighs Of the witch with sea-green eyes With the unguents magical. Oh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 131
…te upon her poop; she shakes; He strings a sudden arrow. Ocean sweeps Over his curséd craft. The arrow takes The straight swift road—-Ah God !—to her who sleeps, To her bright bosom as at peace she lies. She is dead quickly, and the ocean keeps The secret of my sorrow from her eyes. I will not weep; I cannot weep; I turn And watch the sail fill with the wind that sighs A little for pure pity—I discern The cowards shake with fear; the vessel springs Light to the breezes, as the golden erne That seeks a prey on its impetuous wings : The reef is p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
… was published in "The" "Christian;" it began: I am a blind man on a helmless ship Without a compass on a stormy sea. I cannot sink, for God will hold me up, etc. Again, I wrote a poem on the death of my Aunt Ada, which I thought good enough to include in my Songs of the Spirit, and is entirely irreproachable on the score of piety. It seems as if I possessed a theology of my own which was, to all intents and purposes, Christianity. My satanism did not interfere with it at all; I was trying to take the view that the Christianity of hypocrisy and…