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1913 · PDF PAGE 78

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… Your scent is keen as floral wine , Inviting me and love -- to death . You , whom I kept a sacred shrine, Will Aling the portals to the day ; Where shone the moon the sun shall shine, Silver in scarlet melt away . There is yet a pang ; they gave me this Who can ; and you who could have failed ? Is it too late to extend the kiss ? Too late the goddess be unveiled ? O but the generous flower that gives Her kisses to the violent sun , Yet none the less in ardour lives An hour , and then her day is done . Back from my lips, back from my breast ! I…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 13

Ambergris

…he earthward, Rent and uprooted. Such rock-ruins people me tribes and nations, Kings and queens and princes as pure as dawning, Brave as day and true ; and a happy people Lulled into freedom ; Nations past the stormier times of tyrants, Past the sudden spark of a great rebellion, Past the iron gates that are thrust asunder Not without bloodshed : Past the rule of might and the rule of lying, Free from gold’s illusion, and free to cherish Joys of life diviner than war and passion— Falsest of phantoms. Only now true love, like a sun of molten Glo…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… And having uttered my thanksgiving Thus for the sacrament of living, Tlit my pipe, and made my way To break fast, and the labour of the day.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 16

The Winged Beetle

…ssues from the foam Armed with a pearly mirror and with a coral comb To tire her beauty, lure me to the lakes Of light where strikes the day to hyaline floors Whereon blithe fish and emerald water snakes Play all the day, and all their innocence adores Is some old anchor with its rusty flakes Fallen from God knows what forgotten ship. No ! not in Fancy’s palace will I play, Nor in imagination’s deep will dip The timid foot ; but rather will I strip Each rag of thought, and leap Into the sunset deep Still glowing with the glamour Of your life’s …

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1902 · PDF PAGE 93

Tannhäuser

…ich. You are the poet ! To your instinct then ! Here's to the insight given us by God ! Landgrave. Wolfram is right ; a truce to jest to-day. The dogs are loose. Ride forward, gentlemen ! [Amid the winding of horns and cries of the hunts- men the company moves off. Heinrich. They hate his very name I Dear Tannhauser ! \Exit. 91

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1904 · PDF PAGE 50

In Residence

BALLADE OF SERIOUS BALLADES And one day you may recollect That I always said Heaven was blue, And you owe, that your life is not wrecked, To a serious ballade or two. ENVOI Princess, it is ill superseding The old and well-tried with the new. Still, for once, lend your ear not unheeding To a serious ballade or two.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 174

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…lory; Sappho’s life was spilt _ From fervent lips the torch of song t’ ignite : Thou mayst add yet a stone—if but thou wilt. And yet the days stream by; night shakes the day From his pale throne of purple, to allay The tremors of the earth ; day smiteth dark With the swift poignard dipped in Helios’ ray. The days stream by; with lips and cheeks grown pale On their indomitable breast we sail. There is a favouring wind ; our idle bark Lingers, we raise no silk to meet the gale.

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1901 · PDF PAGE 56

The Mother’s Tragedy

42 , THE FATAL FORCE And all its salt springs vanish, and night flee The pinions of the day wide-spread, and pure Fresh fountains of sweet water that endure Assume the crown of the wide world, and lend A star of many summits to his head That rules his fate and compasses his end, And seeks the holy mountain of the dead To draw dead fire, and breathe, and give it life! But thou, be strong for strife, And, as a god, cry out, and let there be The mark of many footsteps on the sea Of angels hastening to fulfil Thy supreme, single will! Alone, intens…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 15

Ambergris

…ιας αστερας εσπερους οιον, οιον αλγος επαθον, φιλαι EURIPIDES. Amsterdam, December 23rd, 1897. Let me pass out beyond the city gate. All day I loitered in the little streets Of black worn houses tottering, like the fate That hangs above my head even now, and meets Prayer and defiance as not hearing it. They lean, these old black streets ! a little sky Peeps through the gap, the rough stone path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, fade away To other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 64

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ncy to sleep. 24 n וו n (The Ο (operation) is a great test of faith and will; not at all of wit. Just what I have always lacked Ι) Yesterday’s attribution of the hexagram given in vision clearly right. The descending triangle is the divine drawing down to man, the wedge of blue splitting matter; the upright triangle is the human flame aspiring. (Compare the doctrine of the two arrows in Liber 418.) 2. Worked hard at day at Comment on?!!!לשLegis.- lamentably little result. A good, considering excessive fatigue. 2623*. (the extra day gained on cro…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 64

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ncy to sleep. 24 n וו n (The Ο (operation) is a great test of faith and will; not at all of wit. Just what I have always lacked Ι) Yesterday’s attribution of the hexagram given in vision clearly right. The descending triangle is the divine drawing down to man, the wedge of blue splitting matter; the upright triangle is the human flame aspiring. (Compare the doctrine of the two arrows in Liber 418.) 2. Worked hard at day at Comment on?!!!לשLegis.- lamentably little result. A good, considering excessive fatigue. 2623*. (the extra day gained on cro…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…. 24. 25. or at least put it off. A man cannot serve two masters. I began A ; then deliberately stopped, as it was a farce. I appoint Sunday from waking to sleeping as a day of fast and penance. Unable, or unwilling, to sleep, recommenced A . '. Elaborate and really not bad. . Α most oppressive day—96°-—heat-exhaustion, nearly prostration. A gabbled. My throat naked, and I was just out of a sodden sleep. A a shade better; am still pretty ill. A very tired, very determined, not altogether bad subjectively, but no voice or vision. A at first distu…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 287

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…dness of his instinct. Probably at least a hundred thousand mothers— of the world‘s six hundred million—give a penny to some child every day. A hundred thousand pence a day is over a hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year; if he could only get ten per cent. of that, he wouldn't be doing so badly. 245

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…. 24. 25. or at least put it off. A man cannot serve two masters. I began A ; then deliberately stopped, as it was a farce. I appoint Sunday from waking to sleeping as a day of fast and penance. Unable, or unwilling, to sleep, recommenced A . '. Elaborate and really not bad. . Α most oppressive day—96°-—heat-exhaustion, nearly prostration. A gabbled. My throat naked, and I was just out of a sodden sleep. A a shade better; am still pretty ill. A very tired, very determined, not altogether bad subjectively, but no voice or vision. A at first distu…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 287

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…dness of his instinct. Probably at least a hundred thousand mothers— of the world‘s six hundred million—give a penny to some child every day. A hundred thousand pence a day is over a hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year; if he could only get ten per cent. of that, he wouldn't be doing so badly. 245

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1913 · PDF PAGE 374

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…UINOX 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? Why do …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 374

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…UINOX 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? Why do …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 137

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

Micturating Mary The well-bred wife of a high-church parson Had a daughter fair and merry Who kept twelve hours a day her arse on The fine old family jerry. She poured such a stream of waters vital From a cunt so slimy and hairy That the Bishop of London gave her the title Of Micturating Mary. One day they were praying in church for rain When the heavens above with a roar rent : Came sizzle and splash on the window pane, And the road swirled down with the torrent. Cried the vicar : “ How quickly it’s come to pass ! Let’s thank the Lord for his …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 341

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ב Created?ארב Exotic, foreign?רנ Commencement of the name?ארבא Abra-Melin Foreign resident; race S. ; an 11 age (Ch.) The righteous?קידצ Day Demon of :"** Dec.ראבא ?'זי Splendrous?ךרא zo: 202 203 204 205 Mighty; hero?רבג Mountain?רה Assembly; area?אררא Hail?ךרב Spake; word; cloud?רבד They of the World `ימ ?םלוע ut, a scorpion?בארגא Lord of the Universeחרא ?םלוע Light, Cf. 9 and u. Aur is?רוא the balanced Light of open day Limitlessןיא ?ףוס Ate?הרב Walled, fenced?ררג That which curs. [Vide no. 607]?רבה The Elders. [Dent xxi, rg]?םינקז Melt, fuse…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ב Created?ארב Exotic, foreign?רנ Commencement of the name?ארבא Abra-Melin Foreign resident; race S. ; an 11 age (Ch.) The righteous?קידצ Day Demon of :"** Dec.ראבא ?'זי Splendrous?ךרא zo: 202 203 204 205 Mighty; hero?רבג Mountain?רה Assembly; area?אררא Hail?ךרב Spake; word; cloud?רבד They of the World `ימ ?םלוע ut, a scorpion?בארגא Lord of the Universeחרא ?םלוע Light, Cf. 9 and u. Aur is?רוא the balanced Light of open day Limitlessןיא ?ףוס Ate?הרב Walled, fenced?ררג That which curs. [Vide no. 607]?רבה The Elders. [Dent xxi, rg]?םינקז Melt, fuse…

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