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1911 · PDF PAGE 55

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON Doth not the World's great Alchemist Rule earth's alembic with the sun ? Is not the mind a foolish mist, And is not water one? The slim white body that you gave, Wild Jaja’, with exotic nautches Wanton and wonderful, a wave Of debonair debauches, Is worth the virgin limbs and lips Of her the virtuous, the viceless, With life who never came to grips, Who gave me nothing priceless. Give me the purity distilled From dervish sweat and satyr bruises. The Holy Graal with wine is filled From no unbroken cruses. Doth not the …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 383

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

Vehementia ; obiectio rigore-sa Foedus pacis Pascens inter Liliaהעור ?ם`נשושב 2(1—44) The joy of theשישמ לכ ?ץראה whole Earth. [Vide no. 296] The Most Holyאקיחע ?אשידק Ancient One Foedus linguae !םי [Vide no. 1 roo]? A Qabalistic Method of Exegesis; “spelling Qabalistically back- ward” The bank of a stream SEPHER SEPHIROTH 67 985 1003 986 !004 ?אחפקתה1°05 !006 987 The law?תורח ?ל ;88[ססך ?י ?םיW 11?רבTAROT. [But vide 67x1?חוראת 989 1008 990 π mag ,- 991 [Olo 992 101 I 1012 ?וזms xal4 ζἓἶ ποιό 995 [Vide no. 1047] mm 996 m7 Vasa vin-ea, lagenae, …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 383

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

Vehementia ; obiectio rigore-sa Foedus pacis Pascens inter Liliaהעור ?ם`נשושב 2(1—44) The joy of theשישמ לכ ?ץראה whole Earth. [Vide no. 296] The Most Holyאקיחע ?אשידק Ancient One Foedus linguae !םי [Vide no. 1 roo]? A Qabalistic Method of Exegesis; “spelling Qabalistically back- ward” The bank of a stream SEPHER SEPHIROTH 67 985 1003 986 !004 ?אחפקתה1°05 !006 987 The law?תורח ?ל ;88[ססך ?י ?םיW 11?רבTAROT. [But vide 67x1?חוראת 989 1008 990 π mag ,- 991 [Olo 992 101 I 1012 ?וזms xal4 ζἓἶ ποιό 995 [Vide no. 1047] mm 996 m7 Vasa vin-ea, lagenae, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 123

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

G . H . LUCE. THE SUMMER CLOUD . CLIMB , cloud , and pencil all the blue With your miraculous stockade ; The earth will have her joy of you And limn your beauty till it fade . Puzzle the cattle at the grass And paint your pleasure on their flanks ; Shoot , as the ripe cornfield you pass , A shudder down those golden ranks . On wall and window slant your hand And sidle up the garden stair ; Cherish each flower in all the land With soft encroachments of cool air . Lay your long fingers on the sea And shake your shadow at the sun , Darkly remindin…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 149

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… . W E cannot , like the wise men three , W Journey away to seek and see , But we can keep with feast and mirth The winter blossoming of earth ; Nor shut our doors , for we may then Shut out the travelling Wise Men , Who always tread the mazy way Age after age , upon this day , Singing the carol of the star . Their looks are bright . “ Follow !" they say “ Hand in hand from near and far ," And as we , brothers that we are , Shake our heads and turn away , Wonderful ! oracular ! We see in mother - eyes the Ray . 130

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1904 · PDF PAGE 127

The Sword of Song

120 EPILOGUE When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun m illion-crested, and the forest blossoms dance With the light that stirs and lustres of the dawn, and with the bloom Of the wind’s cheek as it clus ters from the hidden valley’s gloom; Then I walk in woodland spaces, musing on the solemn ways Of the im memorial places s hut behind the starry rays; Of the East and all its splendour, of the West and all its peace; And the stubborn lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hus and cease. In the wheel of hea…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 25

Carmen Saeculare

Earth moans for their harrow and wheel. To Thee we appeal. They boast, though their triumph Hell’s gift is, On Africa’s desperate sons : “ Our thousands have conquered their fifties ; Our twenties have murdered their ones.” That glory—that shame—let them trumpet To Europe’s unquickening ear. List Thou to the boast of the strumpet ! Lend Thou, Thou indignant, an ear ! Then—shall they not fear ? O Lord, to Thy strength in the thunder, Thy chariot-wheels in the war, We, Ireland, look upward and wonder, The Sword of Thee smiting before. In the hour…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 80

The Argonauts

…g the wanderer with her tresses Into untold caresses. For none of all the sons of men That hath known Artemis, again Turns to the warmer earth, nor vows His secrets to another spouse. The moon resolves her beauty in The sea’s deep kisses salt and keen;

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1905 · PDF PAGE 149

Oracles

… with wisdom’s shaft assail ! Watch him when conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas ! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie. Condemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, kith and kin, of these can none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 42

Gargoyles

…rime we snatch, between spell and spell. Man is aglare, and is off unheard. Woman hath speech, of a single word. Hell may be heaven, for earth is hell! So do I laugh, and the hideous coarse Peals like applause re-echo and cease. Here in the close and noisome cave, Drunk on the breath of the thieves and whores Close as they cram in the maw of the pit, Sick with the stench of the kisses that rave Round me, surfeiting sense, in scores; Mad with their meaning, I smoke and sit Riming at random through my teeth, Gray with the mire of the slough benea…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…! witch-amber and obsidian Thine eyes are, to ensorcell me, and leonine thy male caress. Will not God grant us Paradise to end the music Earth began? We play with loaded dice! He cannot choose but raise right hand to bless. EI Arabi! El Arabi! Great is the love of God and man While I am trembling in thine arms, wild wanderer of the wilderness! El Arabi! Hiitpa NorFo_k. 38

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1910 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…! witch-amber and obsidian Thine eyes are, to ensorcell me, and leonine thy male caress. Will not God grant us Paradise to end the music Earth began? We play with loaded dice! He cannot choose but raise right hand to bless. EI Arabi! El Arabi! Great is the love of God and man While I am trembling in thine arms, wild wanderer of the wilderness! El Arabi! Hiitpa NorFo_k. 38

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1910 · PDF PAGE 101

The Winged Beetle

…passion gnaws Away my soul, and will not ease its jaws Till I am dead. Then let me die ! Who knows But that this corpse committed to the earth May be the occasion of some happier birth ? Spring’s earliest snowdrop ? Summer’s latest rose ? II Thou knowest what asp hath fixed its lethal tooth In the white breast that trembled like a flower At thy name whispered. Thou hast marked how hour By hour its poison hath dissolved my youth,

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1899 · PDF PAGE 158

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… Winged with thought’s sharpest fires, Arrowed with soul’s desires And sped from thunder’s thong; Heaven's gates rock, rage, and quiver, Earth’s walls gape wide and shiver, While Freedom doth deliver Men’s spirits with thy song. Ah, chainless, distant, fleeting, To lands that know no sea, Where ocean’s stormy greeting Fills no man’s heart with glee ; Where lovers die or sever, And death destroys for ever And God bears slavery. Fly thither, so thou leave us That no man’s hand may reave us Of this—that we are free. Free all men that may heed thee…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 11

The Goetia

PRELIMINARY INVOCATION. Chee F invoke, the Wornless one. Chee, that didst create the Earth and the heavens: Chee, that didst create the Might and the Dap. Chee, that didst create the Darkness and the Light. Chou art Dsorronophris: Tabom no man hath seen at anp time. Chou art Jabas: Chou art Japos: Chou hast distinguished between the just and the Gnjust. Chou didst make the female and gale. Chou didst produce the Seed and the fruit. Chou Didst form gen to love one another, and to hate one another. Jam gposheh Chp JProphet, unto TAibom Chou didst…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 30

Rodin in Rime

…ed fair, And all that labour in the sea Sepulchred from the ambient air, A fatal weird of dole to dree. No time to be, no light to live, Earth’s need to these hath hope to give. Above be various shapes of labour, The bodily strength, the manual skill; They shape the anvil and the sabre, The ploughshare and the bolt; they fill The myriad will of brains that boil: Their fame be thine, O Tower of Toil! 16

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1912 · PDF PAGE 13

Sir Palamedes

…s mother it his, that pure and pale Cried in the pangs that gave him birth; The holy image he would veil From aught the tiniest taint of earth.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 181

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…t rejoices, The manifold measure Of feet tuned to voices Of terrible pleasure. We pass in our courses Above the grey treasure Of seas in Earth’s forces, Her girdle, her splendour. We bridle the horses Of sea as we lend her Tunes subtle and tender To sink in her sources. The air’s love? We rend her! We pass to the West, We sink on the breast Of the Ocean to rest. As I pass, as I madden In fury of flight, The sea’s billows gladden Invoking the light. The depths of her sadden Not seeing the sight Of the glorious one, Whose steed is the Sun, Whose …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 134

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…esire, Melpomene’s terrible lyre, That lifts up her life in the wild, The star-piercing pean, and floats in mid- ether, and sinks to the earth. These three of the Muses were mine; They nurtured and knew me and kissed. Erato was hidden in wine; Polymnia dawned in the mist: Melpomene shone in the pyre Ofterrors that burned in her lyre; But all of their passion divine I lost in the life and the stress of the world ere ever the soul of me wist. But, Orpheus, thy splendider light Was the veil of thyself the moresplendid. Thou leapedst as a fountain …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 240

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… of dying Gaunt Shall rule by right. The sons of England shall bid Hell avaunt And priest and harlot smite. _ Then all the forces of the earth shall be Untameable, a shield of Liberty. Freedom shall burgeon like a rose, While in the sky A new white sun with ardour glows On Liberty. Men shall sing merrily at work as those Who fear no more to die— Ay! and who fear no more at last to live Since man can love and worship and forgive. Then on these heights of Caucasus A fire shall dwell, Pure as the dawn, and odorous Of bud and bell; A flower of fire…

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