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…e and Curtice maintained a silence and immobility which would have done credit to a first-rate Mahatma. They missed, for example, little things like an editorial par. in “ John Bull,” a full page in “The Sketch,” the “ Daily News,” a page and a quarter in “The Nation,” half a column in the “ Daily Mail.” .. . {I hear you ask, “ How can they make such oversights? Perhaps the Post Office is to blame.”] Well, if the Post Office is to blame, I can’t answer your other question, ‘‘ How can they do it?” and if it is by “ over- sight” or “clerical erro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 17
…e and Curtice maintained a silence and immobility which would have done credit to a first-rate Mahatma. They missed, for example, little things like an editorial par. in “ John Bull,” a full page in “The Sketch,” the “ Daily News,” a page and a quarter in “The Nation,” half a column in the “ Daily Mail.” .. . {I hear you ask, “ How can they make such oversights? Perhaps the Post Office is to blame.”] Well, if the Post Office is to blame, I can’t answer your other question, ‘‘ How can they do it?” and if it is by “ over- sight” or “clerical erro…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
…him for an hour, and lets him go, Does well to think before he tempt again The forest paths. HERACLES. The wise man wisely thinks That nothing is but wisdom—and myself Think strongly that no other thing exists But strength: so with his subtleties of mind He baffles me; and I lift up my club, And with one blow bespatter his wise brains. JASON. Ay, not for nothing did the darkness reign Those eight-and-forty hours, O Zeus-begot! THESEUS. Tell me, friend master, how the work goes on. When shall our gallant vessel breast the deep? When shall we see…
1905 · PDF PAGE 83
…nd palaces of day, Beyond the night, beyond the skies, Beyond eternity’s Tremendous gate ; beyond the immanent miracle. O secret self of things ! I have nor feet nor wings Except to follow far beyond Heaven and Earth and Hell, Until I mix my mood And being in thee, as in my hermit’s hood I grow the thing I contemplate—that selfless Solitude !
1910 · PDF PAGE 101
…ose and ball of fire2 ; For Mars is like a serpent with its sting. There is a pain, an ecstasy, a woe, A joy, athrob within the wondrous thing. The dull and boneless devotees of twat— Leave them to grovel ; we are well a-wing. Yet twitch that podex, like the wandering way Of Mars within the everlasting ring.3 So shall my member, like the nightingale,4 Salute thee with melodious twittering. I made thee famous throughout all Iran5 With these the naughty Ghazals that I sing.6 In every caravanserai the boys, As to their lords they fierce or languor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 131
… blood , I drew their thought : Dwelt in an ecstasy sublime , And what I would superbly wrought . And man that made me , weeting not The thing he fashioned did believe Himself the creature , his the lot And mine the power his lot to give . Give back the genial warmth once more Of living blood from living veins , The incomparable light restore The living thought of living brains ." 112
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
…ow how to use me ? It is certain the game is to win or to lose me ? It is you that stake allI shall win at the odds ! All I risk is one thingwill you bore or amuse me ? The god in the garden am I with my gross Worn mouth, whose indulgence hath made it morose. I paw your soft flesh, and you waken a mood To lip you, to strip you, to study you close. You are cunning, I knowyou stand out for your price ! But to cheat you is all I have left for a vice. Then learn ! if you try to backgammon the devil The devil is sure to have loaded the dice.
1899 · PDF PAGE 204
182 MYSTERIES: That fear is nothing; ’twere one strangling pain, Nor should I feel again. The Fear of Faithlessness! But well I know, Beyond the faith that mortals hold for truth, That we are wedded, in eternal youth, In the true marriage. While the rivers flow, And the sea mourns for Sappho, and the trees Croon over men their many melodies, And the sun burns above, and ice and snow With ermine robes and cloudy canopies Crown the rock pyramids, and God stands fast In heaven, our love shall last. It was the shadow of some cloudy Thing, That touc…
1899 · PDF PAGE 69
…foam. And she, indignant, would have hied her home And left him to despair, but pitying His soul struck through with darts : A bitter Thing (She cried) thou sayest, yet perchance my power Is not as great as thine, for while I cower Under the lash of Zeus, stand thou upright, And laugh him to his beard for all his spite. I, even now beneath his doom ? Even thou ! For learn this law, writ large upon the brow Of white Olympus, writ by him who made Thee, yea and Zeus, of whom is Zeus afraid
1913 · PDF PAGE 187
ROSA IGNOTA Shall grow: he shall know no more The wonder of spring: He shall sing— But a shadow shall lie before. He shall find no thing Whereby he may linger, and say, Behold! I have found the day. His day is over: utterly he shall die, My Rose, under the sky. He shall lie with the worm, And so no more with thee ; There shall be set this term To his mortality. Yet shall he worship thee With his tears For a few short years. And then he shall be Nothing at all to thee, Who sang thee when no other man would sing thee, Who brought unto thee all th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 187
ROSA IGNOTA Shall grow: he shall know no more The wonder of spring: He shall sing— But a shadow shall lie before. He shall find no thing Whereby he may linger, and say, Behold! I have found the day. His day is over: utterly he shall die, My Rose, under the sky. He shall lie with the worm, And so no more with thee ; There shall be set this term To his mortality. Yet shall he worship thee With his tears For a few short years. And then he shall be Nothing at all to thee, Who sang thee when no other man would sing thee, Who brought unto thee all th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…her ordeal would be surrounded by spies; additional men would be placed at all the big terminals of Paris; for Abdul Bey meant to do the thing thoroughly. He would not take a chance; for all his fanatical faith in Douglas, he thought it prudent to provide against the possibility of an error in the chief's occult calculations. Also, his action would prove his zeal. Besides, Cyril might deliberately lay a false trail — was almost sure to play some trick of the sort. Balloch and Akbar Pasha were stationed in a [125] restaurant facing the Gare de L…
1910 · PDF PAGE 122
…ur minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insuf- ferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour : imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void. Ah ! men my friends, What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts ? Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies. Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. The throne Of the unknown
1913 · PDF PAGE 178
THE EQUINOX See! With an idle rime I slip again to the splendour, With eyes all blinded by time, To this thing that the gods surrender— Ineffably sad and tender As a girl-babe born to die Ere she hath known the blue of the sky, And the light that her love shall lend her. So in an idle dream I have slipped from the yellow-gray; On the wings of song I have crossed the stream To the dawn of immortal youth— To the long-lost love-lit day When the gods in glamour and ruth Passed as a dream away, In a dream that was known for the truth. III AMOR INTEL…
1913 · PDF PAGE 178
THE EQUINOX See! With an idle rime I slip again to the splendour, With eyes all blinded by time, To this thing that the gods surrender— Ineffably sad and tender As a girl-babe born to die Ere she hath known the blue of the sky, And the light that her love shall lend her. So in an idle dream I have slipped from the yellow-gray; On the wings of song I have crossed the stream To the dawn of immortal youth— To the long-lost love-lit day When the gods in glamour and ruth Passed as a dream away, In a dream that was known for the truth. III AMOR INTEL…
1961 · PDF PAGE 90
…Career; I poured out my whole Fortune without one Thought; I gave my Life utterly to the Work, without keeping back the least imaginable Thing. So then I made swift Strides along the Path. But in the Dhyanas that were granted unto me in Kandy, in the Island of Lanka, I used up my whole Charge of Magical Energy; and for two Years I fell away from the Work. l
1910 · PDF PAGE 103
…and pits, Crowned him with roses, called him lord and king. Then the poor fool fell on me, stammering Pale phrases of his mortal love, a thing Almost too petty for my star of lust To attract within her orbit : still I swing
1901 · PDF PAGE 42
…es My mother-mistress carried to their close. It was your vile affection, Madeline, And your perverted hankering for me That caused this thing abominable. Come! I will not hurt you in the killing you! [|He catches MADELINE gently by the hair, bend- ing back her head. CORA sits thunder- struck, unable to move or speak. MADELINE. Help, Cora, help! he means to murder me! Jesus, my Saviour, save them from this deed ! Help! [ULRIC cuts her throat.
1910 · PDF PAGE 395
…shall achieve this marvel quest.” Then Arthur sterte up from his place, And sterte up boldly all the rest, And sware to seek this goodly thing. But now the dwarf doth beat his breast, And speak on this wise to the king, That he should worthy knight be found Who with his hands the dwarf should bring By might one span from off the ground. Whereat they jeer, the dwarf so small, The knights so strong: the walls resound 19
1910 · PDF PAGE 483
…d All that bards sing of or priests mumble; No man, no God, hath known what he did. Only this baulked him—that he lacked Exactly the one thing he needed. 107