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Page 44 of 871905 · PDF PAGE 86
…, the laughter not forbidden And love enfolding the green-woven sphere : Lastly, the burning year of flame and fume That burns men up in fire’s sepulchral womb. Fivefold: the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong laughing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion : then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening; the last lustre’s span Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefold : the humour cha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
… As the light, the music, and the thunder Of moving worlds retire ; As the hoarse sounds of the heaven wonder When Zeus flings forth his fire ; As the clang of swords in battle ; As the low of home-driven cattle ; As the wail of mothers children-losing ; As the clamorous cries of darkening death ; As the joy-gasp of love’s chosen choosing ; _As the babe’s first voluntary breath ; As the storm and tempest fallen at even ; As the crack and hissing of the levin ; As the soft sough of tree-boughs wind-shaken ; As the fearful cry of souls in hell, W…
1905 · PDF PAGE 63
…es its dew, the pansy brightens, All cups of molten light upon the twilight hours. The poppy flames anew, the buttercup Glows with fresh fire, the larkspur rouses up To be the lark indeed amid the azalea bowers. Magnolia and light blooms of roses mute Rouse them to gather in one golden lute In fairy light and song into the sky to shoot. 64
1910 · PDF PAGE 74
…zd sea, Sprang, mid deep thunderous throats of majesty, Titanic, in the waking of the world ; Sprang, one vast mass of spume and molten fire, Lava, tremendous waves of earth ; sprang higher Than the seas crest volcano-torn, to be Written in Cyclopean charactery, Hawaii. Here she stands Queen of all laughters lands That dance for dawn, lie tranced in leisured noon, Dreaming through day towards night, Craving the perfumed light Of the stars lustrous, and the gem-born moon. Dewy with clustered diamond, The long land swoons to sleeps : the sea s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 239
…ir and straight and like a naked sword ... Oh heart , how long shall we serve errantry ... O lustrous Lady of the luminous lake Only the fire of love can fuse and burn O what, alas , can yet delay . .. . .. 209 155 15 205 151 87 Paling fires of instant blue Pause, Joy ! I cannot follow ... Pipe me a silver song Put on your coat and come to my boat 180 Red Admiral , Red Admiral Roses and kisses alike we've known ... 32 94 167 148 89 22 She wakes at sunrise on her little bed She who gives birth in woe . .. Shining ones awake ; we seek your chosen…
1913 · PDF PAGE 171
…gher, Reached to the summit of the Olympian hill, Filling the gods with new and strange desire To stain earth’s mire with their immortal fire : Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! He sang of blood, and how men mar and spill; He sang of love, and how men love and kill; He sang the world as never yet twas sung; He sang the will to fashion joy from ill: Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! And even as he sang with easy tongue, With lips that quivered as his spirit stung, Crying aloud unto the Muse who sings, New glory flung unto him t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 171
…gher, Reached to the summit of the Olympian hill, Filling the gods with new and strange desire To stain earth’s mire with their immortal fire : Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! He sang of blood, and how men mar and spill; He sang of love, and how men love and kill; He sang the world as never yet twas sung; He sang the will to fashion joy from ill: Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! And even as he sang with easy tongue, With lips that quivered as his spirit stung, Crying aloud unto the Muse who sings, New glory flung unto him t…
1961 · PDF PAGE 132
… Krishna set the seal of their Witness. Cleanse herefore thine Heart, o my son, in the Waters of the Great Sea, and enkindle it with the Fire of the Holy Ghost. For his is His peculiar Work of Sanctification. n
1905 · PDF PAGE 202
…r is drunk on the life that stirs your hair: Every hair was alive with a spark of mid- night’s delicate flame, ; Or a glow of the nether fire, or au old illustrious shame. Many, so many, were ye to make one Womanhood— A thing of fire and flesh, of wine and glory and blood, In whose rose-orient texture a golden light is spun, A gossamer scheme of love, as water in the sun Flecked by wonderful bars, most delicately crossed, Worked into wedded beauties, flickering, never lost— That is the spirit of love, incarnate in your flesh ! Your bodies had w…
1905 · PDF PAGE 236
…s thy learning left thee over- wise ? Thy lips sing fondly—to another tune. Nay! *twas my breathing beauty made thee swoon, Dread forkéd fire across the cloven sky ; Stripped off thy body of mortality— - Nay, but on steeper slopes my love shall Strive ! Our bodies perish and our hearts revive Vainly, unless the shaking sense beware The crested snakes shot trembling through our hair, Their wisdom ! unite, One crownéd column of avenging light, Fixed and yet floating, infinite, immense, Caught in the meshes of the cruel sense, Two kissing breaths …
1905 · PDF PAGE 109
…There the clansmen steod and wondered, As the rock, supremely dire, Split and trembied, cracked and thundered, Lit with living flecks of fire. Spake the chief: ‘4 My trusty clansmen, This is not the day of doom ; This is honour to the mighty ; Clansmen, this is Alpin’s tomb.” NYMPSFIELD RECTORY, December 1893. A DESCENT OF TIE JuLy 14, 1896. MOENCIH.! AN island of the mist. White companies Of clouds thronged wondrously against the hills, And in the east. a darkening of the winds That held awhile their breath for very rage, Too wild for aught bu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 225
…have written all the destinies Thy spirit bade me write. The noise of rushing water! And the sound Of tenfold thunder! Mighty a flame of fire Roars downward: asa maiden from a swound My spirit answers to its own desire. My feet are firm again upon the ground— Vea! but my head is higher. My face is shining with the fire of heaven. I move among my fellows as a ghost. With thought for bread and memory for leaven My life is nourished, yet my life is lost. I live and move among the starry seven, Nor count the deadly cost. Only I see the century as a…
1899 · PDF PAGE 9
DEDICATION. ix Those dire words spoken, that thine hammer beat, Of fire and stee] and music, wrath god-worded, Consuming with immeasurable heat, The styes and kennels of priest and king, that girded The loins of many peoples, till the seat Of Hell was shaken to its deep, and herded Hosts of the tyrant trembled, faltered, fled, When none pursued but curses of men dead :— See, from the Calvary of the Son of Man, Where all the hopes of France were trodden under; See, from the crucifixion of Sedan, Thy thought the lightning,and thy word the thunder…
1901 · PDF PAGE 76
…t cuts the blue, I think. For even so Comes reason to me : “ Oh, return, return ! What folly is it for two souls to burn With hell’s own fire ! What is this quest of woe ? What is the end ? Consider and discern ! ” Banish the thought ! My working reason still Is the rebellious vassal to my will. Because I will it. That is God’s own mind. I cast all thought and prudence to the wind : On, to the quest ! The cursed parrot hill Mocks on, on, on ! The thought is left behind. Night came upon me thus—a wizard hand Grasping with silence the reluctant l…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
… man. How inscrutable are the Ways of the Almighty ! From those three drops came my three sons ! Leila, her uvula irritated by the acrid fire of my ex- travagance, coughed it up and out. The three drops fell respectively upon the pouting birds nests of three Nunnery hacks, who happened to be frigging themselves with no fear of the future ! Nemesis overtook them ! One and all conceived and bare sons and called their names Jesus, for they supposed that no man had been near them. Lost in the love trance, they had not suspected the insidious sperm…
1909 · PDF PAGE 31
…gers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle. (See Illustration). (The Grade of 4° = 7° is particularly attributed to the element Fire; it refers to the planet Venus; the paths of px and » are attributed to this degree. For other attri- butions see “777,” lines 7 and 31.) Tue Pentacrams or WaTER o/\- «Ne ~@~4 The signs of 3° = 8°: Raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards. (See Illustration). (The Grad…
1909 · PDF PAGE 31
…gers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle. (See Illustration). (The Grade of 4° = 7° is particularly attributed to the element Fire; it refers to the planet Venus; the paths of px and » are attributed to this degree. For other attri- butions see “777,” lines 7 and 31.) Tue Pentacrams or WaTER o/\- «Ne ~@~4 The signs of 3° = 8°: Raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards. (See Illustration). (The Grad…
1928 · PDF PAGE 19
…mber! This hovel, this dwelling-place of ennui eternal, is indeed my own. Here is the foolish, dusty, bat- tered furniture, and here the fire-place without flame or ember, befouled with spittle; the sad windows where the rain has traced furrows in the dust; the blotted or unfinished manuscript, the almanack where the pencil has marked the disastrous days. And this other-world perfume, in which, with a sensitiveness made perfect, I grew drunkalas! is replaced by the smell of stale tobacco mingled with I know not what sicken-
1944 · PDF PAGE 99
…retation it refers to the manifestation of cosmic energy in its grossest form. The picture shows the destruction of existing material by fire. It may be taken as the preface to Atu XX, the Last Judgment, i.e., the Coming of a New Aeon. This be‐ ing so, it seems to indicate the quintessential quality of the Lord of the Aeon1. At the bottom part of the card, therefore, is shown the destruction of the old‐ established Aeon by lightning, flames, engines of war. In the right‐hand corner are the jaws of Dis, belching flame at the root of the structur…
1961 · PDF PAGE 111
… Self. Now therefore understand thou the Formula of Horus, the Lion God, the Child crowned and conquering that cometh forth in Force and Fire! For thy Changes are not Phases of thee, but of the Phantoms which thou mistakest for thy Self. c