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1898 · PDF PAGE 20

Jezebel

…ys loved me best, And even when lured by lips of wanton girls Would turn away and sigh and touch my curls And slip half-conscious to the old embrace :— And now you will not let me see your face Or hear your voice or touch you. Ah ! the hour ! He moves. Come back, come back, my life’s one flower ! Come back. One kiss before your leave me. So ! Stop—turn—one little kiss before you go ; It is my right—you must. Oh no ! Oh no !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 80

The World’s Tragedy

… I’ll hop Up again to the tree-top. Yaugh Waugh ! That’s me ! Always at the top of the tree ! (They depart separately, yet together. The old Philosopher wakes).

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1996 · PDF PAGE 77

The Law is for All

… goest, transcendental in Joy and in Splendour; and thy Light is as a Beacon to them that Wander afar, strayed in the Night. Amount The “old comment” covers the rest of this verse sufficiently for the present purpose.2 I see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to “the wise”; others will hardly understand my explanations. Tzaddi [H] is the letter of “The Emperor,” the Trump IV, and he [H] is “The Star,” the Trump XVII. Aquarius and Aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of Pisces, just as, in the Trumps VIII and XI, Le…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 78

Sir Palamedes

… rippled through Its changes, and still changed, and changed, The liker to itself it grew. Bear me,” he cried, “ to purge my bile To the old land of Hormakhu, That I may sit and curse awhile At all these follies fond that pen My quest about—on, on to Nile! Tread tenderly, my merry men! For nothing is so void and vile As Palamede the Saracen.”

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1910 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…Topp smiles kindly on him. They go out. [The child turns; and, finding himself alone, begins to cry. CHARLIE. My nice man has gone away. Old Todd has taken him away. I think I hate that old Todd! [Enter Topp. 234

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1910 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…Topp smiles kindly on him. They go out. [The child turns; and, finding himself alone, begins to cry. CHARLIE. My nice man has gone away. Old Todd has taken him away. I think I hate that old Todd! [Enter Topp. 234

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1898 · PDF PAGE 16

Aceldama

…is devouring chain Of selfishness ? How purge the spirit quite Of gross desires That eat into the heart with their corrupting fires ? X. Old Buddh gave command ; Jehovah spake ; Strange distant gods that are not dead to-day Added their voices ; Heaven’s desart way Man wins not but by sorrow—let him break The golden image with the feet of clay ! Let him despise That earthen vessel which the potter marred—and rise ! 1 6

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1903 · PDF PAGE 28

The God-Eater

…th a gesture that he knows his words avail nothing.| RupHa. Ho! Ho! Criospa. I wittingly and well resumed the rite Learnt at thy breast, old wolf ! RupuHa. Ho! Ho! The might is mine O’ the rune divine. Silence, winds ! Peace, ye waves ! The spell binds Their wrath In the graves Below ocean. Clear the path ! Cease your motion ! Swift, be slow ! Ho! Ho! [The storm ceases.| Criospa. Thy words avail then? RuPHa. Ha! Ha! They avail. I avail. Did Rupha fail, All would be done. Death to the sun !

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1906 · PDF PAGE 120

Collected Works (Vol. II)

114 THE ARGONAUTS MEDEA. At the full end I see Allusion to my magic—to that spell Whereby an old man may renew his youth. ALCESTIS. Our father! MEDEA. You have guessed aright, my child. Your father must abandon his old age And—by my magic—find sweet youth again ! DANAIDES. But this is very difficult to do. MEDEA. For me such miracles are merely play, Serving to while away the idle hours While Jason hunts—— ALCESTIS. Hlow grand it were to see Our aged father rival the strong youths In feats of great agility ! MEDEA. Agreed ! But surely you shoul…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 269

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…SH EATER which I had beheld wooed me continually like an irre- sistible sorceress. I could not shut my eyes for midday musing without beholding in that world, half dark, half light, beneath the eyelids, a steady procession of delicious images which the severest will could not banish nor dim. Now through an immense and serene sky floated luxurious argosies of clouds continually changing form and tint through an infinite cycle of mutations. Now, suddenly emerging from some deep embowerment of woods, I stood upon the banks of a broad river that cu…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 269

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…SH EATER which I had beheld wooed me continually like an irre- sistible sorceress. I could not shut my eyes for midday musing without beholding in that world, half dark, half light, beneath the eyelids, a steady procession of delicious images which the severest will could not banish nor dim. Now through an immense and serene sky floated luxurious argosies of clouds continually changing form and tint through an infinite cycle of mutations. Now, suddenly emerging from some deep embowerment of woods, I stood upon the banks of a broad river that cu…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 17

The Banned Lecture

…s, “ a set of instruments very ill-adapted to the purpose.” But, anyway, he called it a poem, and the title was something to do with the old woman of Berkeley and who rode behind her. The person who rode behind her was Mr. Montague Summers’ friend, the Devil. What she actually did to merit this favour is to me rather obscure, because I have forgotten the whole beastly thing. But I do remem- ber two lines, because I am in the same line of business myself. I have candles made of infants’ fat, I have feasted on rifled graves. Southey was an ambiti…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 267

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e behind him skulked that crew That lurked, and itched to kill him, him unarmed, Not daring! But he reached his hand to me! ‘‘Good luck, old friend!” and, smiling, he was gone. Gone to the Pope—great soul to mounte- bank ! It was her wish, they whisper. Well-a-day ! He’s gone, and not a friend have [ again. This bank is soft with delicate white moss, No pillow better in broad Germany. Were Madeline but here! What rustle stirs These leaves? A strong man sobbing! The earth quakes Responsive. Hillo-ho! there? [TANNHAUSER enters. He appears old and…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 283

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…king so many hours to pass a given point, decided, in flattering imitation of its greatest son, to take several weeks to come to it. The “old family of Lovell," which boasts itself to be his ancestor through his mother, saw the culmination of its own fortunes in this great fortune of its fortune—telling scion, and gave itself the Glad Eye; the “earliest settlers in Connecticut," who were responsible for his father, wriggled with pleasure in their graves, like tickled children: the “orders and fraternities which are concealed within Masonry or ha…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 283

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…king so many hours to pass a given point, decided, in flattering imitation of its greatest son, to take several weeks to come to it. The “old family of Lovell," which boasts itself to be his ancestor through his mother, saw the culmination of its own fortunes in this great fortune of its fortune—telling scion, and gave itself the Glad Eye; the “earliest settlers in Connecticut," who were responsible for his father, wriggled with pleasure in their graves, like tickled children: the “orders and fraternities which are concealed within Masonry or ha…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 89

Why Jesus Wept

…R HERPES Z. So ? Why the deception ? SIR GRABSON J. A Jesuit, no doubt ! But about Lady Percivale now ? SIR HERPES Z. Better and better. Old Farmer Tyson, luckily enough, as it turned out, insisted on examination; and no less than twenty-three skilled surgeons — all men of note ! — declared her to be virgo intacta. SIR GRABSON J. Eh ? What ? SIR HERPES Z. You see, Englishmen — ah ! SIR GRABSON J. Er—ah ? SIR HERPES Z. Ah !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 158

The Winged Beetle

148 THE JEW OF FEZ His bullied servants overheard This wicked renegado-word. Four soldiers dragged the Jew away To prison on that very day. The Cadi and the Caid wept ; They thought a promise should be kept. “ Be calm ” (said they) “ and do not strive ! We think of burning you alive.” “ Shame ! ” said the wretch. “ ’Tis cruel to Burn me because I am a Jew ! ” The wise old Cadi wagged his head. “ I do not see a Jew,” he said. “ This clear distinction must be made. We only burn a renegade.” The fire they burnt Abdullah at Went merrily ; for he wa…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 22

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… even the cursed pariah, Hast taught by love the taste of heavenly fire! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Thou who on Death, thine old and strong leman, Begottest Hlape—a charming madwoman ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Who knowest in which caves of envious lands God has hid precious stones with jealous hands! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Thou whose clear eye discerns the arsenals deep, Where the small folk of buried metals sleep! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Whose broad hand hides the giddy precipice From sl…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 574

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX been seen old and broken, he reappeared with a bright com- plexion, without wrinkles, his beard and hair black, his body agile and vigorous. His enemies pretended that he rouged, and dyed his hair; for scoffers and false savants must find some sort of explanation for the phenomena which they do not understand. The great magical means of preserving the youth of the body is to prevent the soul from growing old by preserving preciously that original freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 574

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX been seen old and broken, he reappeared with a bright com- plexion, without wrinkles, his beard and hair black, his body agile and vigorous. His enemies pretended that he rouged, and dyed his hair; for scoffers and false savants must find some sort of explanation for the phenomena which they do not understand. The great magical means of preserving the youth of the body is to prevent the soul from growing old by preserving preciously that original freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which…

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