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Page 120 of 1281907 · PDF PAGE 13
… ! (Oh! that a woman ever went Through course of science, full and whole, Without the loss of beauty’s scent, And grace, and subtlety of soul. Ah God! this Law maketh hearts ache, ‘Who eateth shall not have his cake.’’) If XIV. AccEpr measIam! I give All you can take. If you dislike Some fragments of the life I live, They are not yours: I scorn to strike One sword-swift pang against your peace. See! T’mamountaineer. Release That spirit from your bonds: or come With me upon the mountains, cease This dull round, this addition sum Of follies we ca…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…ing lewd gamine, Idle and vicious, void of thought, Easy, impertinent, unclean— Utterly charming! Yes, my queen! She had a generous baby soul, Prattled of love. Should I control, Repress perhaps the best instinct The child had ever had? I winked At foolish neighbours, did not shrink. Such café Turc I made her drink As she had never had before 3 Set her where you are sitting ; chatted ; Found where the fires of laughter lurk; Played with her hair, tangled and matted ; Fell over strict nice conduct’s brink, Gave all she would, and something more.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
…iling, 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 ! 2 1 This monastery is chosen because of its unpleasant proximity to Crowley's home. 2 (A word to bid you notice with what mastery Of technique that last stanza there was written, I risk a pcet's license on one cast, Ery! (Pet name for thee, Eros!) The lines are smitten Into due harmony double-rhymed, well- knitten, SCENE II.! SIR PERCY PERCIVALE (02 a@ mountain summit). No higher? No higher? All…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…nk,” Hymn to Dionysus—'‘' Hazl, child of Semelé.” ‘* He is here! Hes here!" Dionysus—'‘ J bring ye wine from above.” Mzenads—'‘' O sweet soul of the waters! Chase me not." Orpheus his spell—'' Unity uttermost showed." His allocution—‘‘ Worship with due rite, orderly attire,” His hymn to Pan—'' Jn the spring, in the loud lost places,” His alarm—'' What have I said? What have I done ?” Lament for Orpheus—Quartet: a Spirit, the River Hebrus, Calliope, the Lesbian Shore—‘' What is ? what chorus swells." Sappho's song—'‘' Woe is me/ the brow of a br…
1905 · PDF PAGE 213
…f blue soft azure lie beyond, Far o’er the gleaming green: the smoke is risen Out of the cloudy north ; the incense-wand That binds dead souls in prison, That prison of the day, when sleepless dead Rest for awhile from agony and dread. Strange ! how a certain fear possesses me Alone amid their crag-bound solitude. Even beyond the keen delight—to Be— Steals that diviner mood Of wonder at the miracle—the plan Of Nature crowned by the astounding Man! The secret of the Lord is set with him That wonders at His majesty :? his praise Wells from no tre…
1905 · PDF PAGE 45
… the bosom of the violet Lest he see not, or see her, and forget. But he did see her, and drew close, and said: “© perfect passion of my soul, O dead Living desire, O sweet unspoken sin, Leave thou the lilies ; they are not thy kin. 1 Votaries of Bacchus, so called from the Bassara, or long mantle, which they wore.
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…m moved: Both love, and both are worthy to be loved. Ah Fate ! if thou hadst cast the dies Whence no appeal, in any other wise! I am the soul of the grim face of things : Mine are the Sphinx’s wings; Mine own life lives with this event ! Yet even I, its very self, lament The execrable tyranny, The rayless misery Of this wild whirlpool sea of circumstance. Mine old eyes look askance : It is my punishment to dwell In mine own self-created hell. [Cora rushes tn. MADELINE. What curse of God hath smitten you? ‘I see Exceeding horror in abiding shape…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…thoughts. These, then, must be The mutiny of some worm’s misery, Some chained despair knotted into my flesh, Some chance companion, some soul damned afresh Since my redemption, that is vocal at all, For Lam wrapt away from light and call In the sweet heart of the red rose. My spirit only knows This woman and know more? I, I am concentrate In the unshakable state Of constant rapture. Who should pour lis ravings in the air for winds to whirl, Far from the central pearl Of all the diadem of the universe? Let God take pen, rehearse Dull nursery tal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…k Sold by a Christian to a Turk, She had fed on air that day: the flowers About her curled, ambrosial bowers Of some divine perfume: the soul Of ether made her wise ; control Of strong distilled delight. She showered Wit and soft laughter and desire About her breasts in bliss embowered, And subtle and devouring fire Leapt in live sparks about her limbs. Her spirit shields me, and bedims My sight: she needs me: I need her. Destiny ; manhood; fear; delight; Desire; accomplishment ; ere night Dipped her pale plumes to greet the sun She was not ; a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
418 Are one as they were one ere time began, Are one on earth as they are one in heaven; Where the soul is given a new name, Confirming with an oath the same, And with celestial wine and bread Is most delicately fed, Yet suffereth in itself the curse Of the infinite universe, Having made its own confession Of the mystery of transgression; Where it is wedded solemnly With the ring of space and eternity; And where the oil, the Holiest Breath, With its first whisper dedicateth Its new life to a further death. This experience lasted throughout the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…, Deep in the hearts that revel in it, Drowned in the breath of the hell that pours In the heart of Paris its infamous wave. Damning the soul of God, I rise, Stumble among the dissolute bands, Grope to the steep inadequate stairs Scrawled with villainous names. My eyes Loathe the flare of the flickering brands. Out I climb through the greasy airs Into the cold and desolate road. Horror is sure of a safe abode Here in this heart, too pale for prayers, While over the Halls avenging stands Night, like a devil, with lidless eyes.
1905 · PDF PAGE 113
…ned, and the rosy day Leapt from beneath the splendours of the snow :— Christ, ultimate master of man’s hateful foe, And lord of his own soul and fate, strikes still From man’s own heaven, against the lord of ill; | Stage thunders mock the once terrific nod That spoke the fury of the Christian God, Whose slaves deny, too cowardly to abjure, Their desecrated Moloch. The impure Godhead is powerless, even on the slave, Who once could scar the forehead of the brave, Break love’s heart pitiful, and reach the strong Through stricken children, and a m…
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…One who saith : ‘There is no peace for him who lingereth.” Love is a cinder now that was a coal : Either were vain. The great magician’s soul Is far too weak to risk Elizabeth. All this is past and under me. Above, Around, the magian tree of knowledge waves Its rosy flowers and golden fruit. I know Indeed that he is caught therein who craves ; But I, desiring not, accept the glow And blossom of that Knowledge that is Love. RONDELS (AT MONTE CARLO). Written in the Casino, Monte Cario. I. THERE is no hell but earth: O coil of fate Binding us sure…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…e same to those Shapeless and senseless embryos Who seek to live? Yes, God is wise Enough to set a snare for lies As well as truths. The soul content On earth in his own element Will be content from flesh released. But he who strives to be a beast Or strives to be a god; would gain Long bliss for a few hours of pain, Or struggles for no matter what, Continues. I would rather not. Vv. That puzzle’s grief I did not share Because on earth J did not care. I met a grave philosopher— *Had sought most nobly not to err Probing God’s Nature. See his lob…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…r! Let all the life and dream and death be done, And all the love and hate be woven in one, All things be broken of the winter winds, No soul stand up and look upon the sun ! Save only mine !—that my voice may con- found The universe, and spell the mighty sound To shake all heaven and earth, to mingle hell In chaos, in some limitless profound ; That it may tear Olympus from its place, Mix it with Hades, change the Ocean space, Level the tides of time that sink and swell, And curse my very father to his face! O father, father Apollo, did I wrong…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…n suffering : All these, deep bottle! are of little worth Beside the piercing balm thy fertile girth Holds in the reverent poet’s lifted soul ; To him thou givest youth, and hope, and life, And pride, this treasure of all beggar’s strife That gives us triumph, Godhead, for its dole. CHALDEAN FOOLS. CHALDEAN fools, who prayed to stars and fires, Believed there was a God who punished liars. These gods of theirs they often would invoke, Apparently with excellent effect: They trusted to escape the penal smoke By making Truth the trade-mark of their…
1906 · PDF PAGE 255
…ss it in these few words, confident that the established identity can never be shaken. VI. THE TEN FETTERS OR SANYOGANAS. Lelief in a ‘‘ soul.” Doubt. I. Sakkaya-dié¢/i. 2. Vikiki&hha. 3. Silabbata-para- Reliance on the effi- masa. cacy of rites and ceremonies. 4. Kama. Bodily Desires. (1) For this is a petetzo princtpit. (2) This, to a scientist, is apparently anathema. But it only means, I think, that if we are not settled in our minds we cannot work. And this is unquestionable. Suppose a chemist to set to work to determine the boiling-point …
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…I worshipped even; for I envied Him. So, moving upward to the azure throne, I spread my arms unto that ambient mist ; Lifted my life and soul up to be kissed ! A million million voices roared aloud ! A million million sabres flashed between ! Flamed the vast falchion! Fiery Cherubin Flung me astounded to the mist and cloud. A stone, flung downward through eternal space, I dropped. What bitter curses and despair Rang through wide aether! How the trumpet blare Cursed back at me ! Face ! Equal and Spouse? Bring forth the Virgin Dower, Eternal Wisd…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…, an unsubstantial phantom, Ghost of morning seen before the sunrise, Ghost of daylight seen beyond the sunset. All hath past beyond the soul’s delusion. All hath changéd to the ever changeless. Name and form in nameless and in formless Vanish, vanish and are lost for ever. DHAMMAPADA.! I. ANTITHESES. (THE TWINS.) ALL that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built of mind. Who acts or speaks with evil thought, him doth pain follow sure and blind :? So the ox plants his foot and so the car-wheel follows hard behind. All that we are fro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
…h feet, but each line rimed within itself: Of for the blind kiss of the wind, the desert air Thrilling the blue and shrilling through my soul's despair. ("Thrilling" and "shrilling" are here thrown in without extra charge. This device frequently recurs.) There may be one or two other complications which I have over-looked. I have made use of the usual liberties in the matter of using anapests and trochees for iambics. With regard to double rimes, I have sometimes treated them as single rimes, when they occur in the middle of a line; sometimes I…