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lolo Aneurin Williams. *HESITANCY . OH heart , how long shall we serve errantry Among the mazes of uncertain youth ? How long be hampered round with this uncouth Grotesque array of half - fidelity , Half -love, half -wisdom ; all this misery Of wondering ? But when shall we with smooth And easy mind say “ Look ! for here is truth , Here love , and here the godhead certainty ." Shall that god come ? or must we bear about With us the torment of a sleepless wit ? Still shirk acceptance ? Still desire to prove ? And even in life 's best moment , pa…
1912 · PDF PAGE 42
…O gates of Camelot! See, he swoops Down on the prey! The life-blood pours: The poison works : the breath implores Its livelong debt from heart and brain. Alas! poor stag, thy day is done! The gallant lungs gasp loud in vain: Thy life is spilt upon the plain. Sir Palamede is stricken numb As one who, gazing on the sun, Sees blackness gather. Blank and dumb, The good knight sees a thin breath come Out of his proper mouth, and dart Over the plain : he seeth it Sure by some black magician art Shape ever closer like an hart:
1913 · PDF PAGE 181
…very sandals of her feet are tipped With little wings ! Oh , I could fly with her Into the farthest of her dimmest dreams , And grip her heart , and press it to mine own ! 162
1914 · PDF PAGE 16
… for sin means will. Chicago May can only gorge and swill. ‘Oh! T have flamed at you, thrust deep my ki Into the fat about your hampered heart! I would have taken you to be my wife; T would have doctored you with love and art. With the first quarter-glass of dry champagne ‘The rift that was clouds hopelessly again. Ah, but I saw the sunlight! ‘Thrice at least In these three months that I have lived with you There was a hint that undérneath the beast Was something human—superhuman too! Since all that separates mankind from swine Is that one secr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…head in murk, O man, how piteous thy plight, The doubts that daunt, the ills that irk, Thon hast nor wit nor will to fight — How hope in heart, or worth in work ? No star in siglit ! Thy G ods proved puppets of the priest. “Truth ? All’s relation !” science sighed. In bondaae with thy brother beast, Love tortured thee, as Love’s hope died And Love’s faith rotted. Life no least Dim star descried. Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled To find itself a chance-cast clod Whose Pain was purposeless; appalled That aimless accident thus trod Its ago…
1898 · PDF PAGE 57
…e loved me then ; she loves me now, afar. Ah, she knew not ! and I, so steeped and stained With fierce sins, knew myself unworthy of The heart I gained, And, a lost mariner whose polar star He is ashamed to look to, cast away her love. I would not have her love a thing so vile, I would not link her life with such as mine ! O cursed sin, to leave my soul too high To cheat the shrine ! I drave Love forth, Love lingered yet awhile So that I might not quite win Hell before I die.
1902 · PDF PAGE 44
… know the fire that runs Racing and maddening from the crown of flame, The monolithic core of mystical Red fury that is called a woman's heart) Sinking, I say, from the supreme embrace. The Good-night kisses ; sinking into sleep — What dreams betoken the dread solitude ? Venus. What dreams ? Ah, dreamest not of me, my knight ? Of vast caresses that include all worlds ? Of transmutation into molten steel Fusing with my intolerable gold In the red crucible of alchemy. That is— of clay ? Tannhauser. I dream of no such thing. But of Thy likeness ha…
1902 · PDF PAGE 76
…skin, the marble of these brows, The roses, and the poppies, and the scent Subtle and sinful — thine, all thine, are these, What with my heart that only beats for thee, The many-throned and many-minded soul Centred to do thee worship. Hither, hither! TannhAuser. This shakes my spirit as a winnower Whose fan is the eternal breath of God ; Yet on my forehead I perceive a star That shames thy beauties and thy manifold Mind with its tiny triple flame. I go! Venus. Try not the impossible. Thou knowest my power. I shall renew the charm. TannhAuser. I…
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…y on our temple walls! JASON. Tell me what is this fleece. PELIAS. Let women sing. WOMEN. In Ares’ grove, the sworded trees, The world’s heart wondering, Hangs evermore the Golden Fleece, The glory of the spring, The light of far Aea’s coast, Such glamour as befits a ghost.
1910 · PDF PAGE 55
The Pleasure God hath in Man. 47 IV AFLUTIN1 Habib I sing, whose heart-enslaving kun2 Is like a rose on Ruknabad3 in June. Like to the soft throat of a nightingale It throbs and glows—O life-dissolving swoon ! But once my spear hath threaded the djirid,4 It clutches as the dragon grips the moon. Till all is dark but the Unlighted Light,5 And all is still but the Unexampled Tune.5 So, when thou smilest on him, dearest lad, Is El Qahar wiser than Aflatun. 1. Aflatun — Plato. 2. Kun [Persian text] anus. 3. Ruknabad — a streamlet of Persia, near Sh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 30
MARTIN D. ARMSTRONG . COWARDICE . THE king cried “ Bring me colour , the heart's wine : Open my treasuries ,” he cried , “ and heap Autumnal rubies , emeralds that shine Like sunlit seas, and sapphires dark and deep As nights of summer , and the shattered glow Of irised opals . Bring me sanguine grapes And tawny -hearted peaches , figs that show The purpled pulp , and nectarous plums whose shapes Hang down like drops of amber . Fill the urns And crystal flagons with clear essences And glutinous syrops ; scatter soft-plumed ferns And flowers wit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 190
…STERN WINTER . RITTER and shrill, O wind , bitter and shrill, D Spare us no slashings of thy frozen blade ; Most potent slayer, stunning heart and will, Thought -numbing , grinding, searing , unafraid ; Scourge of the iron sea and snow - dumb ways , Whirl the white stinging dust through lifeless skies ; We wear the shackles of relentless days , Give us thy keenliest - whetted cruelties : Then , when we flee , by shadowy ways and far , These mindless shapes bereft of mystery , And fare through lands where scents and colours are , Yea , we - whos…
1905 · PDF PAGE 52
…rough the vast : We shall disdain, clasp faster yet, and mock his newer pangs, and call With stars and voices musical, jeers his touched heart shall not forget. I would have pitied him. This flower spits blood upon him ; so must I Cast ashes through the misty sky to mock his faded crown of power, And with our laughter’s nails refix his torn flesh faster to the wood, And with more cruel zest make good the shackles of the Crucifix. So be it ! In thy arms I rest, lulled into silence by the strain Of sweet love-whispers, while I drain damnation fro…
1898 · PDF PAGE 52
…med with saltness never born of brine ; Vainly I fight the air, he sneers, and lies, And laughs at all this agony of mine, And chills my heart, and desecrates the shrine Where Love his holy incense used to burn, And mocks those thoughts, those songs, those looks divine 42
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
… Sir Percy here ! What is the matter, dear my love ? SIR PERCY. Never mind love — you are ? MOLLY. O sir, your Molly, that you broke the heart of. See what has come to me ! SIR PERCY. Ah, if you knew. You are the lucky one ! I am in grips with a more dread disease Than all your wildest nightmares figure you ! A carriage rolls by, as from the theatre. It stops owing to a block in the traffic. MOLLY. O sir ! I am so sorry for you. SIR PERCY. And a lot of good that does ! Enter, on the pavement, the Marquis of Glenstrae, in his fur coat. The occup…
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
1 ROSA COELI I ROSE of the World ! Ruby with blood from the bright veins of God Caught in the chalice of your heart, and pearled With dew at many a melting period When the amethyst lustre of your eyes dissolves The veil that hides your naked splendour From these infirm resolves And halting loves of your poor poets soul With radiance mild and tender, So that I see awhile the golden goal ! Yea ! all your light involves Me, me tenebrous, me too cold and base Ever to kindle to the maiden face (Three years my wife, three years of me unwon !) That w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 585
585 I have written a very full comment on The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent, which as I proceeded manifested innumerable mysteries of transcendent importance which I had till then never suspected to inform the text. I also began an examination of The Golden Verses of Pythagoras. I was struck by the fact that it was incumbent on disciples to commit them to memory and repeat them daily. From this I deduced that the somewhat shallow meaning of their injunctions concealed the heart of the initiated doctrine. This speculation was confirmed b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 98
…Therefore, if thou hast not lost the power of silence, let it be hrst and last employed against him. 30. Concerning the Enflaming of the Heart. — Now learn that thy methods are dry, one and ail. Intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not Love. Yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true Love leap unasked into thy méditation. Yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. It may be that thou hast no tinder near. In the end shall corne suddenly a great flame and…
1904 · PDF PAGE 118
…have my reasons [doubtfully] ay, my reasons plain! Going, not forced. CHORUS. Yet going—that is good! JASON, To Corinth! Bride of my own heart, Medea, Well hast thou put thy power off for the time Preferring love to pomp, and peace to revel. MEDEA. And the soft cushions of the moss-grown trees To royal pillows, and the moon’s young light To gaudy lamps of antique workmanship— JASON. And music of the birds to harps of gold Struck by unwilling fingers for gold coin. MEDEA. Come! lest the curse I call upon this house Eat us up also! May the red pl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
…d this ! A cruel fool am I ; I took an honied kiss ; I revelled in pure bliss ; Yet never thought to try A keepsake to obtain To wear my heart upon. Now God is great and gracious ; Here’s medicine for my pain. She has left it ; she has gone ! How sweet the air and spacious !