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…ume Might shelter love in some wave-carven tomb. But Maytime shone in us ; with words of art I drew her down reluctant to my heart, When night was silence and my bed the gloom. So without sin we took strange sacrament, Whose wine was kisses, and whose bread the flower Of fast and fervent cleaving breast to breast. As lily bends to lily we were bent, Not as mere man to woman : all the dower Of martyred Virgins crowned our dangerous quest. 44
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
… moon “ Be a dear and come soon.’ We remarked of the crags—“ they are craggy.” (4) Intelligent talk will most surely beguile The longest night out on the rocks ; So we made of the guides the remarks that revile; Of their Herrs we said “sheep go in flocks.” 1 His soup. _ ® His tobacco. 56
1904 · PDF PAGE 85
… of my face! Come over the water! I will be A bride and a queen and a lover to thee! Come over the water, love, and lie! All day and all night to kiss! Come over, my lover, an hour to die In the language-baffling bliss! Come over the water! Must I sigh? Thy lover and bride and queen am I!
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
…cense hides thy splendour of light; Hides from the prayer’s distress Thy loftier loveliness Till thy veil’s glory shrouds the earth from night ; And silence speaks indeed, Seeing the subtler speed Of its own thought than speech of the Pandean reed! There no voice may be heard ! No place for any word ! 140
1912 · PDF PAGE 97
…as I, the cause? Nay, the brain reels beneath its swell Of pompous thoughts. Enough to tell That He is known Unknowable!” Thus did that knightly Saracen In Cantabrig’s miasmal fen Lecture to many learned men. So clamorous was their applause— “His mind” (said they) “is free of flaws: The Veil of God is thin as gauze! ”— That almost they had dulled or drowned The laughter (in its belly bound) Of that dread Beast he had not found. Nathless—although he would away— They forced the lack-luck knight to stay And lecture many a weary day. Verily, almost…
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 69. There is success. 7o. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength ; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 69. There is success. 7o. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength ; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 146
…the sign of Apophis and Typhon . I am the snake that devoureth the spirit of man with the lust of light. i am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and thick darkness. Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy , and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. The egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the Scorpion. The pillars about the Neophyte are crowned with flame, and the …
1898 · PDF PAGE 28
… will ye follow Jephthah? Hail! SOLDIERS. We follow Jephthah to the death. All hail! JEPHTHAH. Go then, refresh yourselves, and sleep to-night. I will send messages to their dread lord Demanding his fell purpose, threatening ‘ My present aid to you with men of valour Chosen of all your tribes, and charging him As he loves life, and victory, to content His army with their present brief success, Lest he pass by the barrier of our suffering, And find our wrath no broken sword, and find Despair more terrible than hope. Go now. A SOLDIER. We go, my …
1899 · PDF PAGE 156
…ng winds whisper stories Of winter past, whose shore is Beyond a shoreless sea. Spring, with the sea for raiment — Adorned with winds of night ; Summer, with fruit for payment Of a sun’s kiss too bright ; Autumn, with golden tresses ; Winter, with wildernesses Of steel-black frost, and might
1902 · PDF PAGE 107
…is tune I knew not ! See, the strings are moved Subtly as if by witchcraft — or by God ! [Sings. In the Beginning God began, And saw the Night of Time begin ! Chaos, a speck ; and space, a span ; Ruinous cycles fallen in, o 105
1905 · PDF PAGE 67
…ngel covering me with holiness, and I know —then! But now—I only write mechani- cally. I force myself. To-day I tore up all I wrote last night. USME. Let us ask God to send you the angel, shall we ? [ They kneel, with arms intertwined; al the ofen window, and bow their heads silently, VAUGUAN also prays, with arms outspread tm Oolessing. Curtain, SCENE III. Six months later. The dining-rooin. PERCY, VAUGHAN, ESME af dtnner. /-ntler BUTLER. BUTLER. IF you please, sir, a gentleman has called; he says he must see you at once. VAUGHAN. Have you tol…
1898 · PDF PAGE 58
Should be a resting-place until the night Broke, and I met my God, and stood within His sight. Only my brain grows feebler with the toil, And clearer runs the river I forsook ; Now in clear pools its myriad fountains boil, Now there runs singing to its breast a brook ; Now it flows gently to a little nook Where I once rested—Ah ! I clench my hand And turn away with yet undaunted look, Setting my face toward the distant land That must lie somewhere far beyond this world of sand. About me are the bones of many men Who turned to God their rapt ado…
1898 · PDF PAGE 81
…out, in a fearless insatiate measure, Out of the chalice of lust, scarlet o’errunning its gold. This is the song of the Spring, that the nightingales carol by starlight, This the delight of our eyes, as they shine with strange fire in the night,
1902 · PDF PAGE 81
…ic in the solitude Up from the valley. Pilgrims, by my fay ! \Enter Pilgrims. Pilgrims. Hail to Thee, Lady bright, Queen of the stars of night ! Ave Maria ! 79
1902 · PDF PAGE 124
Then came our Lady of the Sevenfold Light, Shewed me a distant plan, distinct and clear, As twilight to the dayspring and the night, Dividing and uniting even here : The middle path — life interfused with death — Pure love ; the secret of Elizabeth ! This is my secret —in the man's delight To lose that stubborn ecstasy for God ! To this clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell— in the profoundest sky! This knowledge —the true immortality, I came unto through pain and tears. Tigerish hopes, and serpent loves, and dragon fears, Most…
1910 · PDF PAGE 80
…wned, we are ? Crowned with long thorns sharp-gleaming, So that bright blood jets out afar From starry brains a-streaming ? Yea ! in our night there shines a star Beyond our dearest dreaming. Yea ; there is born a fearful light Proceeding from the Infinite. However that may be, tis clear What duty bids endeavour : To find you out in London, dear, A now is worth a never ! To make to-day a heaven of cheer, And make to-day for ever ! Yea ; though we know how springs run dry, Well trust our future, you and I. Ah, madman ! was there …
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
… MALKUTH DARK, dark, all dark ! I cower, I cringe. Only above me is a citron tinge As if some echo of red, gold, and blue Chimed on the night and let its shadow through. Yet I who am thus prisoned and exiled Am the right heir of glory, the crowned child. I match my might against my Fates, I gird myself to reach the ultimate shores, I arm myself the war to win : Lift up your heads, O mighty gates ! Be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ! The King of Glory shall come in. TAU I pass from the citrine : deep indigo In this tall column. Snakes and v…
1912 · PDF PAGE 14
…Attend the dawn Of an unknown comet, that shall come From the unfathomable weils of space Into its halidom, Crassus. I know it not. Last night I walked alone Here, and saw nothing. Autcta. I was not with yout There is no God upon the eternal throne Of stars begemming the bewildering blue Unless one has the eyes to see him. Think How we two stand upon the brink Of nothingt Here's a globe, whereto we trust, No larger than the smallest speck of dust y 2
1899 · PDF PAGE 60
38 JEPHTHAH. And feel Thy presence very near to-night! I sink as with delight Through places numberless with fervid fires Of holiest desires Into I know not what a cradle, made Of subtle-shapéd shade, And arms most perdurable. I am lost In thought beyond all cost— Nay, but my spirit breaks the slender chain That held it down. The pain Of death is past and I am free. Nay, I, This body, dead, must lie Till Thou come home again, O soaring Soul. The gates supernal roll ! Flash through them, O white-winged, white-blossom ghost ! Ah, God! for I am lo…