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Page 101 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 6
…e following papers for kind permission to reprint poems which have appeared in their pages :- The Times ( Women 's Supplement ), Country Life , Poetry and Drama , The Poetry Review , The Equinox , The Nation , The New Age , The Westminster Gazette , The Eyewitness , The Cambridge Review , The Cambridge Magazine , and The Granta ; (5) to the following firms of publishers for allowing me to make use of copyright matter : Mr . Heineman , for poems from “ The Bird of Time ," by Sarojini Naidu ; Mr . Edward Arnold , for two extracts from “ Week - da…
1913 · PDF PAGE 287
…“La vie pour lui suffisait a lexpiation des plus grands crimes, puis qu'elle était la consequence d’un arrét de mort” — According to him life was sufficient for the greatest crimes, since these were the result of a death sentence.” “Vos meilleurs amis ont df concevoir des inquiétudes ”— “Your best friends have been reasonably anxious.” (The mistranslation here turns the speech into an insult.) Vv
1913 · PDF PAGE 370
… either exists, or does not exist, in such and such a soul; but, whether one accepts it or denies it, it is in humanity; it is, then, in life, it is in nature itself; it is an incontestable fact of science, and even of reason. The true religion is that which has always existed, which exists to-day, and will exist for ever. Some one may say that religion is this or that; religion is what it is. This is the true religion, and the false religions are superstitions imitated from her, borrowed from her, lying shadows of herself ! One may say of reli…
1913 · PDF PAGE 374
THE EQUINOX charity, has breathed upon this dust; and all that which was dead has taken life again so really that one recognizes no more yesterday’s corpses in these living creatures of to-day. And why should one recognize them, since the world is renewed, since St. Paul burned at Ephesus the books of the hierophants? Was then St. Paul a barbarian, and was he committing a crime against science? No, but he burned the winding-sheets of the resuscitated that they might forget death. Why, then, do we to-day recall the qabalistic origins of dogma? W…
1913 · PDF PAGE 287
…“La vie pour lui suffisait a lexpiation des plus grands crimes, puis qu'elle était la consequence d’un arrét de mort” — According to him life was sufficient for the greatest crimes, since these were the result of a death sentence.” “Vos meilleurs amis ont df concevoir des inquiétudes ”— “Your best friends have been reasonably anxious.” (The mistranslation here turns the speech into an insult.) Vv
1913 · PDF PAGE 370
… either exists, or does not exist, in such and such a soul; but, whether one accepts it or denies it, it is in humanity; it is, then, in life, it is in nature itself; it is an incontestable fact of science, and even of reason. The true religion is that which has always existed, which exists to-day, and will exist for ever. Some one may say that religion is this or that; religion is what it is. This is the true religion, and the false religions are superstitions imitated from her, borrowed from her, lying shadows of herself ! One may say of reli…
1913 · PDF PAGE 374
THE EQUINOX charity, has breathed upon this dust; and all that which was dead has taken life again so really that one recognizes no more yesterday’s corpses in these living creatures of to-day. And why should one recognize them, since the world is renewed, since St. Paul burned at Ephesus the books of the hierophants? Was then St. Paul a barbarian, and was he committing a crime against science? No, but he burned the winding-sheets of the resuscitated that they might forget death. Why, then, do we to-day recall the qabalistic origins of dogma? W…
1928 · PDF PAGE 19
…a bail- iff, who comes to torture me in the Name of the Law, an infamous harlot who comes crying pity, and to ass the frivolities of her life to the sorrows of mine, or the guttersnipe errand-boy of an editor who wants the continuation of my manuscript. The heavenly room, the Idol, the Queen of Dreams, the Slyphide, as the great René calls her, all this magic has disappeared at the spec- tres brutal knock. Horror! I remember, I remember! This hovel, this dwelling-place of ennui eternal, is indeed my own. Here is the foolish, dusty, bat- tered …
1944 · PDF PAGE 200
… her in the lower world, even after the most powerful influence had been brought to bear. The lesson seems to be that the good things of life, although enjoyed, should be distrusted.
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…ar. This also is secret; my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: cer- tainty, not faith, While in life, upon death; peace unalterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods and gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60. My number is II, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, and the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue and gold are seen of the seei…
1910 · PDF PAGE 165
…it burned ? Am I No living lyre because my songs must die ? Is not Becoming Beings twin ? Be mute ! Is Deaths low drumming louder than Lifes lute ? Was I the ass, that fed my body on That crackling grass, long after midnight gone ; Or thou, that shivered all night long for fear The sun delivered no dawn upon the meer ? More, canst thou tell what god may watch thy beacon, Feed it from hell or heaven, ere it weaken, From some anointed sceptre, fiery dew For this appointed, that my soul win through ? Nay ! all we know not anything. Yet raise, T…
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
…d have a thorough grounding in classics, mathematics and science; also enough general knowledge of modern languages and of the shifts of life to enable him to travel in any part of the world with ease and security. History and geography he can pick up as he wants them; and what should interest him most in any subject is its links with some other subject, so that his Pantacle may not lack what painters call " com- position." He will find that, however good his memory may be, ten thousand impressions enter his mind for every one that it is able t…
1961 · PDF PAGE 137
… against Environ- ment. Thus the State need suppress only such Heresies as directly threaten its political Stability, only such modes of Life as work manifest and proven Hurt to others, or cause general Disorder by their Scandal. Therefore save and except he interferes thereby with the root Laws of common Weal, a man is free to develop as he will according to his true Nature. s
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
…nd subtle points, ii. 151 I see the centuries wax and wane, i. 207 I shall not tell thee that I love thee, i. 222 Isis am I, and from my life are fed, i. 228 Isis am I, and from my life are fed, i. 262 Is it your glance that told me? Nay, iii. 2 Is love indeed eternal? ii. 85 Is there a soul behind the mask ? iii. 6 I stole her money, even then to prove, ii. 84 I stood within Death’s gate, i. 202 It has often been pointed out, ii. 58 I think, Sir, that I have you still, ii. 157 I think the souls of many men are here, 1. 44 It is a commonplace o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…ve Of thoughts that battle agony In the melancholy hours of dawn. When vital force at lowest ebbs Anzemic nerves weave frailest webs. OF LIFE 85 IX. So, be content! Should science cleave The veil of things and show us peace Well :—but by wild imagining Think not a golden robe to weave ! Such moulder. By fantastic case Ye come not well to anything, Work and be sober: dotage thinks By worth of words to slay the Sphinx. > X. Things as they are—of these take hold, Their heart of wonder throb to thine! All things are matter and force and sense, No t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
… from the high treasure, The inexhaustible treasure of delight The gods have poured us, pouring overmeasure Because we love with all our life and might. Believe me, it is better than ali prayers To show the gods our love surpasses theirs !
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
…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.
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…ght sun broadens over all the earth. The green leaves fall, fall into his caresses, And all the worlds heart leaps, again addresses Its life, and girds it in the golden girth. Then noon full-fashioned lies upon the steep. The large sun sighs and turns his bridle-rein, Thinks of the ocean, turns his heart to sleep, Laughing no longer, not yet prone to weep, Feeling the prelude of the coming pain. The hills and dales are dumb beneath the heat, And all the world lies tranced or mutely dreaming,
1910 · PDF PAGE 117
…at easy-going, conventional materialist, self-styled orthodox, common to all religions, and the despe- rate devotee who does not set his life at a pin’s fee when heaven is at stake. El Haji probably wishes to kill the two birds with one stone. 2. Another hint that all Religion is subjec- tive ; and that consequently mean men are Evan- gelicals, gross men Roman Catholics, cowards be- lievers in Eternal Punishment, sensual and senti- mental men Universalists, and so on. Such a ra- tionalistic view of the Genesis of Creed is uncom- mon enough in E…
1926 · PDF PAGE 11
…ar. This also is secret; my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: cer- tainty, not faith, While in life, upon death; peace unalterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods and gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60. My number is II, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, and the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue and gold are seen of the seei…