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…black, but her complexion pale. LUCREZIA is a tall, robust, and voluptuous woman of twenty-five years old. Her hair is of fine gold, her eyes of pale blue, and her complexion fair and rosy. ZELINA is small and plump. Her hair is brown, and her age nine-and- twenty, though she looks older. MONICA is of medium height, very thin and serpent-like, her hair black and crisp ; her features like Madonna’s. Her eyes are extraordinarily black, keen, and piercing. Her age is twenty. Her hands and feet are very small and white, her complexion like fine por…
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
BAL MASQUE | YES, rose domino, eyes so grey, ‘ Did you believe that I could not guess Whose pretty face beneath it lay ? Yes! Who but yourself could adorn that dress, Though it be dainty—(are you a fay, Or a pink-and-white Dresden Shepherdess ? ) Dominoes must not say love nay. Surely my skill can deserve no less Than—so you smile—I am sure I may— Yes? 87
1910 · PDF PAGE 135
…bbs and flows Less than your thrustwring out the extreme vigour ! Annihilation take us, till we rise Once more to the damnation in your eyes !
1910 · PDF PAGE 181
…rk and deadly dream ; And the white life leaps from his control Wild, in a choking scream. She curves white lips to a cup of death ; Her eyes gleam, and her wise brows nod ; Her hand makes music with her breath Dancing upon the ivory rod The dying priestess offereth The sacrifice to God
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
32 THE CANNIBALS I might behold thine eyes as red as fire A tigress maddened with supreme desire ; White arms that clasp me ; fervent breast that glides An eager snake, about my breast and sides ; Teeth keen to bite, red tongue that never tires, And lips ensaguine with unfed desires, A very beast of prey ; hot hands caress, And violent breath that surfeits not excess. But raise no head ! I know thee, breast and thigh, Lips, hair, and eyes, and mouth : I will not die But thou come with me o’er the gate of death. So, bloody and body furious with …
1909 · PDF PAGE 41
Vi Nay, even thus you could not credit Fate, Even in my arms close cuddled as you lay With hard-shut eyes and lips inebriate With their own kisses all this happy day. Nay, but blaspheming you put hope aside, Bade me forget you, swore yourself a liar, Smiled through the words because you knew you lied Knew that — what waters can put out our fire? So we amused ourselves with cunning brisk Careful arrangements to forget each other, You cut that love-curl from your neck at risk ‘ Of comment — at the slightest — from your mother. You gave it me — Go…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
… want to tell you about is my Fairy Prince. But as I am telling you all this, I am seventeen years old, and very fair when you shut your eyes to look; but when you open them, I am really dark, with a fair skin. I have ever such heaps of hair, and big, big, round eyes, always wondering at everything. Never mind, it’s only a nuisance. I shall tell you what happened one day when I said
1911 · PDF PAGE 6
…: the Light hath plunged into the Abyss: the Heavens are mixed with Hell. My Father shall not hear their Noise: His ears are closed: His eyes are covered with the clouds of Night. The End! the End! the End! For the Eye of Shiva He hath opened: the Universe is naked before Him: for the Aeon of Saturn leaneth toward the Bosom of Death. The Angel of the East hath a book of red written in letters of Blue A.B.F.M.A. in Enochian. The Book grows before my eyes and filleth the Whole Heaven. Within: “It is Written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God.…
1912 · PDF PAGE 99
… Oh, I am like to boast of such a piece of luck ! Not for one instant dream that Im your dupe. Your hate Glows forth its icy gleam from eyes emasculate ! MONICA. Oh, I will teach you how those eyes can burn and glow, Swear the volcanic vow within the breast of snow ! MORTADELLO. I wonder if you can. MONICA. Yes ! yes ! you must consent. Come ! I adore a man so stout and excellent. I even adore the scorn and hate wherewith you load My love. MORTADELLO. False witch forsworn ! I loathe you like a toad : Yet, let me own it, stirs deep in some prim…
1910 · PDF PAGE 5
…my brothers, and drink of that lustral dew : I will return, my brothers, when I have seen God face to face and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free. Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis, oh ye brave hearts, and cool eyes, and trembling lips ! I will put a live coal upon your lips, and flowers upon your eyes, and a sword in your hearts, and ye also shall see God face to face. Thus shall we give back its youth to the world, for like tongues of triple flame we shall look upo…
1928 · PDF PAGE 37
… remain for an in- stant clinging to the teeth of the savage brute. I mean of the woman. Come, a good whack to quiet her! for she darts eyes terrible with greed on the food that he has snatched away. Great God! the stick is not a fools bauble; did you not hear the flesh smack, despite the hide? And now too, her eyes jump out of her head; she howls more naturally than before. In her rage she sparkles all over, as when one beats hot iron.
1902 · PDF PAGE 37
…s and reposes, Love ever quickeneth ! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden, The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover 35
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
…at sights seen? Foul orgies without number In dens and caves obscene, Accurst, detestable, Ah God ! the shapes that throng! Ah God! what eyes! The souls grown sharp and strong That my lips made their prize, The ruined souls, the wrecks Of bodies fair of flecks Long since, ere God did vex My soul with sacrifice. These press upon my lips What lips of flame To burn me, unless slips Some cooler kiss, from shame Washed clean by God’s desire, To save me from their fire— Those kiss me and respire The perfume of the Name.} Remorse and terror banished B…
1905 · PDF PAGE 66
… only far down where there are no more bright stars it is a deep, deep blue. It is bluer and deeper than the sea, PERCY. It is like your eyes. [Comes oud into corridor.) Esmé! I have looked into your eyes as your eyes look into ifleaven, and thereI have found my Ileaven. O serene depths! O faultless face of my desire! O white brow too clear! I sin against your holiness by my presence. Only the moon should see you, Esmé. EsSME [Aad 72 tears]. You don’t mean like that, Percy, quite. Why do you say that? Enter VAUGHAN 21 shadow. He draws back and …
1910 · PDF PAGE 326
THE EQUINOX And, acting upon an impulse, she dropped her eyes in her hand and threw them behind her without a sigh. I picked them up, my friends, while the two children stood, their arms linked together, a sad but resigned ex- pression gradually coming over their faces. Ay, I picked them up, but I won’t shew them to you, un- worthy foxes. And now, Lights please . . . let us take to the ritual. Brother H., fill the Holy Cups . . . Holy be the Lamps of Joy! Holy be the Lamps of Sorrow! Let us enter the Ark of Increased Knowledge!” VII A little la…
1910 · PDF PAGE 326
THE EQUINOX And, acting upon an impulse, she dropped her eyes in her hand and threw them behind her without a sigh. I picked them up, my friends, while the two children stood, their arms linked together, a sad but resigned ex- pression gradually coming over their faces. Ay, I picked them up, but I won’t shew them to you, un- worthy foxes. And now, Lights please . . . let us take to the ritual. Brother H., fill the Holy Cups . . . Holy be the Lamps of Joy! Holy be the Lamps of Sorrow! Let us enter the Ark of Increased Knowledge!” VII A little la…
1922 · PDF PAGE 2
…ny planet’s may be shown, Within the circle of the grove, ‘Where burn the sanctities of love: Nor may the foot of man be known, Nor evil eyes of mothers thrown On maidens that desire the kiss Only of maiden Artemis. But horned and huntress from the skies, She bends her lips upon the breeze, And pure and perfect in her eyes, Burn magical virginity’s Sweet intermittent sorceries. ‘When the slow wind from her sweet word In all their conchéd ears is heard. And like the slumber of the seas, There murmur through the holy trees The kisses of the godde…
1909 · PDF PAGE 66
…t — did you dare? To everything the answer still is ‘ No! ” You coward! Coward! Coward ! let me rise! — I cannot bear the hunger in your eyes. — 106— VII You are afraid of me — I see it now. You know that if you loose me, never again Will TI be such a fool. I wonder how T ever took this destiny of pain. Loose me! You dare not. Take your eyes away! You dare not. O you laugh! Youtrust your power There you are wrong — but had you turned to-day I would have murdered you within the hour. Yes! you do well — you know the dreadful weight Pale silence s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 6
…m and Ecstasy and Truth, Erect amid the wreck of Things Poised on inexorable wings ! . . . . So much the universe may see When its bats-eyes may endure the sun : This secret rests my prize to me, That I knew thee, surpassed of none, Fighting and faithful to the end, A Perfect knight, a perfect friend.
1910 · PDF PAGE 180
…his black peace. Accurst I know this night shall be. ISSA I thirst. AGRIPPA Give him to drink ! PUBLIUS How strange a fate ! Those noble eyes irradiate This leprous luster.