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Page 25 of 921913 · PDF PAGE 564
… remain beautiful. Beauty is the loan which Nature makes to virtue. If virtue is not ready when it falls due, the lender will pitilessly take back Her capital. Perversity, by modifying the organism whose equilibrium it destroys, creates at the same time a fatality of needs which urges it to its own destruction, to its death. The less the perverse man enjoys, the more thirsty of enjoyment he is. Wine is like water for the drunkard, gold melts in the hands of the gambler; Messalina tires herself out without being satiated. The pleasure which esca…
1906 · PDF PAGE 8
…Destiny, All the earth for their spittoon. 1 Mr. Gladstone was attacked by a cow in Hawarden Park in 1891. Toads are gnawing at my feet. Take them off me quick, I pray! Worms my juicy liver eat. Take the awful beasts away ! Vipers make my bowels their meat. Fetch a cunning knife and slay ! Kill the tadpoles in my lung, And the woodlice in my spine, And the beast that gnaws my tongue, And the weasel at my chine, And the horde of adders young That around mine entrails twine! Come, dissect me! Rip the skin! Tear the bleeding flesh apart ! See ye a…
1901 · PDF PAGE 82
…eet us. How the dancers toss The frantic limb, the unreluctant udder! See, how their frenzy peoples all the ground! Strange demon-shapes take up the unholy measure, Strange beast and worm and crab: the uncouth sound Of the unheard-of kisses: the profound Gasps of the maniac, the devouring pleasure! A curse of God is on them !—ha! the curse, The curse that locks them in obscene embraces! See how love mocks the melancholy hearse Dressed as an altar: is she nun or nurse, The priestess chosen of the half-formed faces ? Abbess, sweet child of the un…
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…beyond appeal ; dull grey like lead (And heavier) is my soul’s carrion. If she came pleasing now, pure passionate, and sane, I would not take her back again.
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…t me ! CARR. Because I love you. So I laugh at humanity : if I took men seriously I should have to cut my throat. EUPHEMIA. So you dont take me seriously either ? CARR. If I did, I should have to cut EUPHEMIA. What ? CARR. My lucky ! EUPHEMIA. What a dreadful expression ! Where do you learn such things ? CARR. I notice you dont have to ask what it means. EUPHEMIA. Stop teasing, darling ! CARR. Im not teething ! Thats what I complain of ; you always treat me as a baby ! EUPHEMIA. Come to his mummy, then ! CARR. Youre not my mummy ! Thats…
1912 · PDF PAGE 205
… cray- fish issues. Her face is dreamy. She holds a lotus in the hand upon the Ibis. She is imaginative, poetic, kind, yet not willing to take much trouble for another. Coquettish, good-natured under— neath a dreamy appearance. Imagination stronger than L 2 163
1912 · PDF PAGE 205
… cray- fish issues. Her face is dreamy. She holds a lotus in the hand upon the Ibis. She is imaginative, poetic, kind, yet not willing to take much trouble for another. Coquettish, good-natured under— neath a dreamy appearance. Imagination stronger than L 2 163
1913 · PDF PAGE 101
…ght of his delight. Joun [Within]. Every brother to his ward ! Every hand to hilt of sword ! Every buckler to its arm, Lest the Holy One take harm ! (Without, a clash of steel. Chorus. The warrior lords are wake and ware, Three hundred blades of steel are bare. Their threescore corporals stand steady. Five captains, all alert and ready, Watch, lion-heart, against surprise, As each man had an hundred eyes. [4 gain, the clash of steel. Then music played (joa and ORCHESTRA), growing ever softer. As it fades away, enter from the trees three men: a …
1913 · PDF PAGE 101
…ght of his delight. Joun [Within]. Every brother to his ward ! Every hand to hilt of sword ! Every buckler to its arm, Lest the Holy One take harm ! (Without, a clash of steel. Chorus. The warrior lords are wake and ware, Three hundred blades of steel are bare. Their threescore corporals stand steady. Five captains, all alert and ready, Watch, lion-heart, against surprise, As each man had an hundred eyes. [4 gain, the clash of steel. Then music played (joa and ORCHESTRA), growing ever softer. As it fades away, enter from the trees three men: a …
1905 · PDF PAGE 62
…g; ‘The birds that fresh music are bringing No chords for my memory bring; Those lips like a soul that are clinging most silently cling. Take thought for these verses, though time be So sure and so swift for thy feet, Though far from this England thy clime be? In years that sway slow as the wheat, Take thought, for an hour let my rhyme be not wholly unsweet. ! Julian Baker expected at this time to be abroad for some years.
1907 · PDF PAGE 21
…ployed as the medium for this. Without your compliment, M. D , | might have left you to crawl on, lord of your own muck-heap; with it, I take this opportunity of stamping on you. Notr.—I had intended to include reproductions of photographs of those few statues which I have written upon; but I prefer to pay my readers the compliment of supposing that they possess the originals in either bronze or marble.
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…beyond appeal ; dull grey like lead (And heavier) is my souls carrion. If she came pleasing now, pure passionate, and sane, I would not take her back again.
1911 · PDF PAGE 162
THE EQUINOX Aha! Aha! Yea! Let me take the form of Hadit before thee, and sing: Aka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu ner af an nuteru. Nuit! Nuit! How art thou manifested in this place! This is a Mystery ineffable. And it is mine, and I can never reveal it either to God or to man. It is for thee and me! Aha! Aha! A ka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu ner af an nuteru. . .. My spirit is no more; my soul is no more. My life leaps out into annihilation! Aka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu ner af an nuteru. It is the cry of my body! Save me! I hav…
1912 · PDF PAGE 93
…g ! Well batter in his bones ! [They hurl sticks and other missiles at the window. Some begin to break down the wall of the bridge, and take the stones. THE GOVERNOR and his men are driven in. MORTADELLO and a com- pany of bowmen arrive. MORTADELLO. Ah, dogs, do you rebel ? You have to deal with us ! Bolt to the crossbow men ! Fuse to the arquebus ! Mow them like grass before the sickle ! They give back. Whip them to kennel ! [The crowd waver. ABBESS. [Rushing forward.] Men ! are you men ? To the attack ! The tyrants in our hands ! God is for…
1954 · PDF PAGE 298
…mpany of Captain Coincidence; let us have them up for examination and learn what we can about their weapons and other warlike matters! I take our first prisoner from Magick. The most famous novel of Fielding is called Tom Jones. It happened that FRATER PERDURABO was staying 265
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…ks wandering through the southern provinces. I cannot forbear mentioning one charming incident. At some station or other, I was about to take the train. A white man with a long white beard came down the whole length of the train in the blazing sun to my carriage. He had seen that I was strange to the country and asked if he could be of any service. (Unless one knows the ropes, one has to put up with a lot of petty discomforts.) The man was Colonel Olcott. It was the first act of kindly thoughtfulness that I had ever known a theosophist perform …
1905 · PDF PAGE 101
…er shore Beyond the Pleiads : until the Universe Moved at my mantra : Heaven and Hell obeyed ; Creation at my orders stayed or swayed. “ Take back,” I cried, “ the mockery of a curse ! ”
1912 · PDF PAGE 39
OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 21 MONICA. Who knows ? Dive ! Bear it heedfully. ORLANDO. And whither ? MONICA. To my house. Here ! take my ring. I go to concentrate my power. My sworn allies must know. I join you in an hour. I will make time to-night, though death lurked in the curtain. An hour for our delight, make one dream sure and certain ! Though all else fail, one hour shall spell supreme success, The bee drink of the flower, strength link with loveliness. ORLANDO. Torrents of ravening blood poured from the desolate steeps, Tumultuous fever of f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…ms arise and disappear, Obedient to the master’s wand. The incense curls like a pale frond Of some grey garden glory about This room ; I take my sceptre out, My royal crown; invoke, evoke These phantoms in the glimmering smoke ; And you shall see—and take no hurt— The very limb yon garter girt. XVII. IT AMaman. Consider first What we may learn, if but we will, From that small lecture I rehearsed With very Huxley’s strength and skill And clarity. What do I mean, Admitting manhood? This: to-day I fed on oysters, ris-de-veau, Beefsteak and grapes.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
… to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime? Where then thy victory over Time? VI. Wilt thou seek deeper than the fact? Take refuge in a city of mind? Build thee an house, and call it heaven? Rush on! there foams the cataract, Blind steersman leader of the blind, Sole devil herald of the seven Thy garnished halls should house, O Christ, Thou being dead, thou sacrificed VII. Not for atonement, not for bliss ; Truly for nothing : so it was. Nay, friends, think well! the dream ! Seek not some mystery in the kiss, Some virtue in th…