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Page 43 of 1231905 · PDF PAGE 128
…By faint winds swayed ; Tender and pure, without a will— An English maid. No tree of poison, at whose feet All men lie dead ; No well of death, whose waters sweet Are tinged with red. No hideous impassioned queen For whom love dies; No warm imperious Messaline That slew with sighs. Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to-day Their motherhood. She will remain, unshaken yet By storm and sun ; She will remain, when years forget That fierier one. A race of clean strong men shall spring From her pure life. Men sha…
1899 · PDF PAGE 64
42 JEPHTHAH. PROPHET. Thy spear shall turn against thyself, alas! But welcome, death, thou looked-for spouse of mine ! Thy kiss is pleasant as the shaded well That looks through palm leaves to the quiet sky. [ Dies. JEPHTHAH. Thou didst no evil in the slaying him, For God is a consuming fire; high zeal Against idolatry lacks not reward. And now the sun is up: for Israel, march! JARED. Good luck be with your spears ; and homecoming Gladden victorious eyes ere set of sun. [Exeunt Jephthah and Soldiers. Enter Eleazar, Ahinoam, Chorus of Elders. CH…
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
…mbed the bed’s disastrous side, He found a serpent, not a bride; And scarcely daring to draw breath, He passed the dumb night-hours with death, Till in the morning cold and gray The hooded fear glided away. Which morning saw ten thousand pay The price of jesting with a king!”— JASON. Indeed these toils and dangerous pursuits, Labours and journeys, go to make one mad. Well were it to beguile our weariness With song. MEDEA. And here is the sole king of song. ORPHEUS. My song breaks baffled on the rocks of time If thy bewitching beauty be the them…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…nd not of earth. So, fitter than the bed of this my queen To rest heroic limbs! MEDEA. The wretched one! Thou knowest that their kiss is death!
1905 · PDF PAGE 146
…ourse done or that to run : surely in Priesthood such an one hath earned a share. II EARNESTNESS Amata’s path is Earnestness, Dispersion Death’s disciples tread : The earnest never die, the vain are even as already dead. Who understand, have travelled far on concentration’s path, delight In concentration, have their joy, knowing the Noble Ones aright. In meditation firmly fixed, by constant strenuous effort high, They to Nirvana come at last, the incomparable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 166
…blazed thy fire, nights sun : Thy task is ended, brother, thy work done. Drone on thy shore, no pæan stir thy surge ! A period to life, death, heaven, and hell ! There is no God : hail, brother ! and farewell !
1901 · PDF PAGE 77
…mext heard coming masterfully down the corridor. The soldier gives a shriek. THE LEPER. The Syrian must not see a cur like this Cower at death. For Egypt’s honour, then !
1902 · PDF PAGE 53
…ht — Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life, the Love ! Thou, Whom I sought through ages of deep sleep Forgotten when I died. There is no death : Change alternating ; and forgetfulness Of one state in the other—easy truth I could not understand ! Oh hear me, hear ! Spare me the last illusion !—She is gone ! 51
1909 · PDF PAGE 153
A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY Agriculture, sorrow, death. Good fortune, feasting, church preferment. War, victory, fighting. Power, magistracy. Love, music, pleasure. Science, learning, knavery. Travelling, fishing, &c. vxwvOars In diagram, p. 144, the Sigil of Hismael should be used. In marking points fix attention on Sigil and on the question proposed ; the hand should not be moved from the paper till complete. It is convenient to rule lines, to guide the eye. The daughters are derived by reading the mothers horizontally. The four nephews, Figures I…
1909 · PDF PAGE 153
A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY Agriculture, sorrow, death. Good fortune, feasting, church preferment. War, victory, fighting. Power, magistracy. Love, music, pleasure. Science, learning, knavery. Travelling, fishing, &c. vxwvOars In diagram, p. 144, the Sigil of Hismael should be used. In marking points fix attention on Sigil and on the question proposed ; the hand should not be moved from the paper till complete. It is convenient to rule lines, to guide the eye. The daughters are derived by reading the mothers horizontally. The four nephews, Figures I…
1912 · PDF PAGE 53
…phs, In knowledge easy to amass, This hermit (while he drew his breath) Once dead is like a mangy ass. Bruised, broken, but not bound to death, He calls some passing fishermen To bear him. Presently he saith : 47
1912 · PDF PAGE 117
…alamede the Saracen, As knowing nothing might bestead, When lo! there rose a monster moan, A hugeous cry, a questing dread, As if (God’s death ! ) there coursed alone The Beast, within whose belly sounds That marvellous music monotone As if a thirty couple hounds Quested within him. Now, by Christ And by His pitiful five wounds |— Even as a lover to his tryst, That Beast came questing in the hall, One flame of gold and amethyst, Bodily seen then of them all. Then came he to Sir Palamede, Nestling to him, as sweet and small As a young babe cling…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…dren, if ye can! Ah me! [Szgs. Unity uttermost showea, I adore the might of thy breath, Supreme and terrible God Who makest the Gods and death To tremble before thee :— I, I adore thee ! O Hawk of gold with power enwalled, Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine, and the disc of flaming light Is on thee, seated in the prow Of the Sun’s bark, enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round With leopard’s pell, and golden so…
1898 · PDF PAGE 28
24 JEPHTHAH. To these damned massacring invaders. Say, My fellows, 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 f…
1901 · PDF PAGE 63
…el, break not fetters nor compel. So be distant, O profane! Children of the hurricane ! Lest the sword of fire destroy, lest the ways of death be plain! So depart, and so be wise, Lest your perishable eyes Look upon the formless fire, see the maiden sacrifice ! So depart, and secret flame Burn upon the stone of shame, That the holy ones may hear music of the sleepless Name! Now the sacred and obscene Kiss, the pure and the unclean Mingle in the incense steaming up before the goddess queen. Holy, holy, holy spouse Of the sun-engirdled house, Wit…
1902 · PDF PAGE 43
… I see the Christian mystery ! That was the purpose of High God Himself, Clothed in the Christ ! Ah ! Triumphed He at last ? Nay, not in death ! The slave— He rose again ! Alas! Alas! Venus. Alas indeed, my knight ! We love not ! Being both enamoured of Just the one thing that is impossible. But in this carnal strife the Intimate Achieves for one snatched swiftness. Kiss me, love! F 41
1902 · PDF PAGE 128
…dred swords or so Set on the mighty Tannhauser, and slew him. We, scarce an hundred ! Yes, believe it, sirs We are not so feeble ! — But death anyhow Cuts and not loosens the entangled life. Be mine the harder and the better way, The single chance : not hope ; appeal no more ; Hardly the arrowy wisdom of despair ; Hardly the cowardice or courage yet To drift, nor cursing nor invoking God. 126
1904 · PDF PAGE 25
…my sacred seat Until I come again. PELIAS, The Gods thy speed. MEN. The hardy hero goes to find The living Fleece of Gold; Or else, some death may chance to bind Those limbs of manly mould. In sooth, I doubt if I shall earn The singer’s fee for his return. PELIAS. Think now—I feared that.fool. It must be true That guilt is timorous. Ay! when danger’s none! Let but swords flash—and guilt grows God for might! Indeed I rule—until he come again. Ay, when the stars fall, Jason shall be king! EXPLICIT ACTUS PRIMUS. c 17
1910 · PDF PAGE 458
… The unknown may lurk within the vile. So he who sought the Beauteous Breath, Desired the Goodly Gift of Grace, Went equal into life and death, But oh! the foulness of his face! Not here was anything of worth ; He turned his back upon the place, Sought the blue sky and the green earth, Ay! and the lustral sea to cleanse That filth that stank about his girth,
1910 · PDF PAGE 458
… The unknown may lurk within the vile. So he who sought the Beauteous Breath, Desired the Goodly Gift of Grace, Went equal into life and death, But oh! the foulness of his face! Not here was anything of worth ; He turned his back upon the place, Sought the blue sky and the green earth, Ay! and the lustral sea to cleanse That filth that stank about his girth,