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Page 18 of 1301905 · PDF PAGE 190
… We hope to furnish every free library, every workman’s club, every hotel, every reading- room, in every English-speaking country in the world, with a copy of this marvelous volume. The Star and the Garter. Is. A popular edition of the greatest love-poem of modern times. The private edition of this wonderful poem sold out before publication, and there is not a single copy to be had at any price whatever. The Argonauts. 5s. This drama of Ancient Greece contains no controversial matter, unless the amusing attack on Rudyard Kipling in Act 2 be cou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…initions must be trustworthy; adding something uncomplimentary about Germans and Metaphysics. Both are right, and both are wrong. In the world of common sense, reason works ; in the world of philosophy, it doesn’t. The metaphysical deadlock is a real and not a verbal one. The inner nature of things is not rational, at least so long as we are asked to define “rational” as “rationalistic.” Why should it be? Why should the rules of golf govern the mechanics of the flight of a golf-ball ? It is this fact that has made it possible for the faith- mon…
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…initions must be trustworthy; adding something uncomplimentary about Germans and Metaphysics. Both are right, and both are wrong. In the world of common sense, reason works ; in the world of philosophy, it doesn’t. The metaphysical deadlock is a real and not a verbal one. The inner nature of things is not rational, at least so long as we are asked to define “rational” as “rationalistic.” Why should it be? Why should the rules of golf govern the mechanics of the flight of a golf-ball ? It is this fact that has made it possible for the faith- mon…
1910 · PDF PAGE 75
22 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. I have magnificent And sublime and noble scheme. Listen ! I will find a woman — THE VULTURE Oh ! you dirty-minded rascal ! THE DOVE Wait a moment — I will do it. Find a virgin — if I can, And on her beget this lambkin In the image of a man. THE VULTURE That seems complicated, pigeon. We’ve the lamb begotten here. THE DOVE Yes, I know ; it seems absurd ; But in practice I am certain It will work out splendidly. THE VULTURE Well, proceed !
1941 · PDF PAGE 7
Though ruin wash the world in blood, Though death devour, though time decay, Let but our hearts hold brotherhood, And this they shall not take away. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. Stand! and join hands! and let us sing! Shake out Old Glory to the Skies! With heart and hand defiant fling Our purpose against Destinys. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. Amen.
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
THE WAKE WORLD 11 funny, because the girl next me thought it was Jesus Christ, till another Fairy Prince (my Prince’s brother) whispered as he kissed her: “ Hush, tell nobody ever, that is Satan, and he is the Saviour of the World.” I We were a very great company, and I can’t tell you of all the strange things we did and said, or of the song we sang as we danced face out wards in a great circle ever closing in on the Devil on the throne. But whenever I saw a toad or a hat, or some horrid insect, my Fairy Prince always whispered: “It is the Savi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…l of the obscene Incarnate in the spirit : and above Hangs Sin , vast vampire , the corrupt , that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world , and flaps , for lust of Death - and Love ! 1 " Kill me,” cries Tannhäuser . “ In the kiss , ” answers Venus : thus ends Act II . Act III opens a different scene . The outer materi ality of body is all but sated , the starved soul within cries for sustenance ; he murmurs “ Elizabeth ,” and then wakes strong through her perfection . Venus still entices , but her power has vanished , and at the name of “ …
1910 · PDF PAGE 135
82 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. GOVINDA The sweat is on thy forehead like bright stars Amid the milk of the great galaxy. CHAU Thy body gapes like a valley of deodars Between two snowy hills in Tartary. ALEXANDER Ho ! Ho ! a million rats Herald the brat’s First yelp. A vast company of rats issue from her, and rush squeaking into the darkness. MIRIAM God be mine help ! Adrammelek exacts a death For every dance with Astoreth. GOVINDA Cling to the ass-god, quean ! Now while his loud obscene
1910 · PDF PAGE 167
II4 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. ISSA Lie down, then ! On thine oath, no knavery ! JOHN Sleep well, dear master ! Kiss me ! ISSA Pah, young thickhead ! The door opens. No peace, saith someone somewhere, for the wicked ! Enter Magda. What is it now ? MAGDA If Rabbi Pip is gone, It’s Back to Bed ! Issa wearily rises. ISSA Then — Back to Bed with John ! JOHN What, wilt Thou go ? ISSA Yea, by the holy hem Of Aaron’s robe — off to Jerusalem ! He goes out, followed by the protesting pair.
1906 · PDF PAGE 186
…, thou puny verse ! 660 Weak tide of rhyme! Another argument Will block the railway train of blague you meant To run me over with. ‘This world Or that? We'll keep the question furled. ~rveferability of But, surely, (let me corner you !) ‘on- You wish the painter-mood were true! G66 To leave the hateful world, and see Perish the whole Academy ; So you remain for ever sated, On your own picture concentrated ! 670
1907 · PDF PAGE 167
…eptionally incongruous , but must so strike all who ever think at all . How God being Almighty as well as Beneficent can tolerate such a world of suffering as ours for one minute passes all understanding . The God idea in its infancy , as we have already seen , was the child of ignorance and revenge , and Jahveh , in his turn , is but an emanation of this world idea , no better than the rest : Baal and Jehovah , Ashtoreth And Chemosh and these Elohim , Life's panders in the brothel , Death ! Cloudy imaginings , a dream Built up of fear and word…
1910 · PDF PAGE 6
…n .............................................. 35 The Reaper..................................................... 38 The Palace of the World.................................. 40 The Rosicrucian ............................................. 43 The Athanor................................................... 46 FROM TANNHÄUSER Shepherds Boy Song...................................... 53 Tannhäusers Song......................................... 54
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
4 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. Are there not playmates Enough and to spare, Gallant and gay mates, Each one of us fair ? Bountiful measures of Beautiful wine : Infinite treasures of Bacchus divine ! Hail to the Lord of us ! Blithe is his reign. Be thou adored of us, Soul without stain ! Fair are the faces, and Limbs of us light, Tracing the paces, and Drunk with delight. Io ! let us tremble in Trance of the tune Here that assemble in Joyaunce of June ! ATTHIS Doris, our darling ! How subtle and sweet
1907 · PDF PAGE 325
…olve in showers of nectar, and the Master's work is done . Nectar perfume gently stealing , masterful and sweet and strong , Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong ! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed ! Open wide the mystic portals , and be altogether lost !! The ecstasy of the saints and mystics , is , this enter ing into the kingdom of God which is within them . ” Hugo de Saint -Victor says : “ The soul , dead to the world and to itself , sleeps in bliss , and yields itself utterly to th…
1901 · PDF PAGE 29
…lous sea ! And the feast of your freedom is ended, O sons of the free ! Your shouts have gone up to remember The day of your oath to the world. Is its flame dwindled down to an ember ? The flag of your liberty furled ? Your limbs are too strong to dismember— In sloth are they curled ? T 27
1910 · PDF PAGE 7
…IL GALLANT, I WHO HAVE DONE SO LITTLE TO COMPLETE HIS LABOURS DEDICATE MY SHARE THEREIN ON THIS OCCASION OF OFFERING THEIR RESULT TO THE WORLD.
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
I30 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. AGRIPPA So I have heard. Last year I flirted With Isis — but was unconverted. If this man’s prophet loose my nails I’ll gibe no more at prophet’s whales. PUBLIUS I loathe and despise all kinds of fiction Whether or no it ease life’s friction. AGRIPPA Anoint the next fair lambkin’s fleece With rock-sand in the stead of grease. PUBLIUS He speaks again. ISSA Forgive me, brothers ! I knew not what I did. PUBLIUS His mother’s Here; wants the body.
1905 · PDF PAGE 111
…beat the white cliffs of reality In vain, because their windy strength is past, And only memories weep. Why is the Finite real? And that world So larger, so more beautiful and fleet, So free, so exquisite, The world of dreams and impearled With solitary shaft of Truth? O children of the Night, shadows, not Too sweet, Are your wide realms for our philoso- phers, Who must in hard gray balance-shackles bind The essence of all thought : No sorrier sexton in a grave inters The nobler children of a poet’s mind Of wine and gold well wrought. By the po…
1913 · PDF PAGE 194
THE EQUINOX And the flesh, alas! is the core of thee. Be it so. I have wandered through the worlds in seeking thee, And I have found thee, and thou art as pure As dung, as sweet as sweat, as light as lust. All these, all these I have found, oh, bitterness! O forsaken one, whom I have found, thou art ravished By the phallus of Time, of Time that pierceth thee So keenly that thou art torn, thy virgin body A prey to the lust of Time! Oh, bitterness ! Oh, threefold sadness! I have found thee now Too late, too late, too late. I am weary of flesh; It…
1913 · PDF PAGE 336
THE EQUINOX Every action produces a reaction. This is the universal law of the world. Christianity must needs produce anti-Christianity. Antichrist is the shadow, the foil, the proof of Christ. Antichrist already produced itself in the Church in the time of the Apostles: St. Paul said :—‘ For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked One be revealed. . . .”? The Protestants said: “Antichrist is the Pope.” The Pope replied : “‘ Every heretic is an Ant…