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1902 · PDF PAGE 86

Tannhäuser

The pure, unsullied soul. Even so, forsooth ! They tell no secrets in the scullery. And there is Heinrich, wastrel of the Court, Yet hides a heart beneath the foolish face. And lo ! The Landgrave ! Flushed, undignified ! The chase was long—if he could see himself! Wind, wind the mort ! What call will answer me When I step forward ? Am I dead, I wonder, Or merely on my hare-brain quest ? Three years Since I was seen in Germany ! \^He descends the hill and enters the company. Hail, friends ! Good cousin Landgrave, merry be the meet ! Landgrave. H…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 93

The Winged Beetle

…th a Jew’s hook, fat lips, and goggle eyes Wrinkled with grime and lust—so any man May maul you ; there’s a scarcity of vice ! A woman’s soul is in her ovaries ; Cut those, that flies. O salt and shallow pan Of verminous moisture !—bathe in thee, forsooth ? Age and consummate pox, avoid my youth ! ” I would have loved you—so I love to love— Wrapped you in beauty ! Lucid gauze of rime Had made your limbs go glimmering down through time, A gracious ghost ; the soiled and draggled dove Of Venus should be spurned, and you, my swan, Superbly floated…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 103

The World’s Tragedy

…alth, By their slenderness or sleekness. For harlot worn and blubbing baby Nineteen centuries shall see Life run horizontally. 2ND NYMPH Soul shall follow body’s station. They shall cling to degradation, Dance to the clank of the chains that eat Deep ulcers in their fettered feet. Lock love the dove in a close cage, And loose the tiger marriage : To the camel of joy be a needle’s eye, And a wolf’s-throat to monogamy. Youth’s lusty god shall turn them sick, While they dote on age’s gilded stick. Beauty shall shiver in the cold While they warm th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 27

Household Gods

… the home Is a fury of foam; ‘The storm is awake, and the billows comb. But though I be ‘Their frenzy of glee, I am also the passionless soul of the sea! Mine eyes glint fire, And my cruel lips curl; ‘Mine the desire Of the god and the girl; But fierier and fteeter, And subtler and sweeter Than the race of the rhythm, the march of the metre, Is the shrilling, sbrilling Of the knife in the killing That ends, when it must, (O the throb and the thrust!) In death, in the dust, The silence, the stillness, of satiate lust, The solemn pause ‘When the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… to thee Where many songs before have marked thee surely Their own, let vagrant Liberty Inform my songs; for I, of the pure brow And the soul that glows With the fervency of eld, invoke thee; for I have known thee : Wandering far into the cities I found thee, Unsuspected still, and round thee The idle worshippers that the wind hath blown thee. It is well; for I know thee and thy magic grace, And the history of thy race, And the times of eld When thou wast born, compelled By sundawn to ope thine eyes.— Ah! Wise! Thou hast not shadowed the thunde…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… to thee Where many songs before have marked thee surely Their own, let vagrant Liberty Inform my songs; for I, of the pure brow And the soul that glows With the fervency of eld, invoke thee; for I have known thee : Wandering far into the cities I found thee, Unsuspected still, and round thee The idle worshippers that the wind hath blown thee. It is well; for I know thee and thy magic grace, And the history of thy race, And the times of eld When thou wast born, compelled By sundawn to ope thine eyes.— Ah! Wise! Thou hast not shadowed the thunde…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 286

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…s Of its bleeding maidenhood. Therefore, we, the slaves of love, Stand with trembling lips and eyes; There is that shall reach above The soul’s sullied sanctuaries. Blasphemy beneath our touch Turns to prayer’s most awed intent; The profaner’s vilest smutch Is our central sacrament. Triumph, Templars, that are sworn To that vengeance sinister, Vigilant from murk to morn By our rifled sepulchre. Death to superstition, swear! Death to tyranny, respond! By the martyred Master, dare Death, and what may lie beyond! Heel on crucifix, deny! Mouth to d…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 11

Oracles

…tell you how, Or else I’d knock you down, old man, Like that extremist cow.* You’ve gained your every seat, my friend, By perjuring your soul ; You’ve climbed to Downing Street, my friend, A very greasy poll. * Mr Gladstone was attacked by a cow in Hawarden Park in 1891.—R. P. L. 6

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1910 · PDF PAGE 462

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…knees No longer gripped the charger rude. Listless, he aches ; his purpose swims Exhausted in the oily seas Of laxity and lassitude. The soul subsides; its serious motion Still throbs ; by habit, not by will. And all his lust to win the quest Is but a passive-mild devotion. (Ay! soon the blood shall run right chill —And is not death the Lord of Rest ?) There as he basks upon the cliff He yearns toward the Beast ; his eyes Are moist with love; his lips are fain

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1910 · PDF PAGE 462

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…knees No longer gripped the charger rude. Listless, he aches ; his purpose swims Exhausted in the oily seas Of laxity and lassitude. The soul subsides; its serious motion Still throbs ; by habit, not by will. And all his lust to win the quest Is but a passive-mild devotion. (Ay! soon the blood shall run right chill —And is not death the Lord of Rest ?) There as he basks upon the cliff He yearns toward the Beast ; his eyes Are moist with love; his lips are fain

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1911 · PDF PAGE 142

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ove and by the terrible ordeal that she had undergone, Her mind remembered nothing of it— such is the merciful order of things ; but her soul, beaten with rods, was sore. So Edgar Rolles went to England to his martyrdom, with a lock of her hair in his pocket-book; and he turned martyr— dom to battle, and battle to victory. Kingdoms have been won for an eyelash, before now. 134

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1911 · PDF PAGE 142

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ove and by the terrible ordeal that she had undergone, Her mind remembered nothing of it— such is the merciful order of things ; but her soul, beaten with rods, was sore. So Edgar Rolles went to England to his martyrdom, with a lock of her hair in his pocket-book; and he turned martyr— dom to battle, and battle to victory. Kingdoms have been won for an eyelash, before now. 134

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1898 · PDF PAGE 85

Songs of the Spirit

… face, Lips that should grant but one kiss ere the demons descended and tore him Limb from wet limb, and devoured, and bore this stained soul into space Far from the regions of hope and the lands that are holy with grace. Alway the battle proceeds and alway the tempest re-quickens, Pregnant with thunder, delivered when the swift knife is let flash ; Alway the wind has its will and the slaughter-steam rises and thickens, Alway the sea is a lion, enraged by the wind and its lash, Alway the heavens resound with the thunder’s unchangeable crash. He…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 46

The Argonauts

…d arméd men shall spring from earth In vain to ward the gloomy girth! But thou, Athena, didst devise Some end beyond our mortal ken, Thy soul impenetrably wise Shines not to us unthinking men, O guard the warrior band of Greece, And win for us the Golden Fleece!

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1906 · PDF PAGE 52

Gargoyles

…ime Are broken. Thirteen centuries ago They would have said, ‘‘ Alas! the youth! We know , This devil hath from him plucked the immortal soul,” 7 say: you have dulled my centres of control! v. If you were with me, I were blind to this: Ready to drain my arteries for your kiss, 42

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1910 · PDF PAGE 114

The Scented Garden

…’s voice is the shrill sound heard by adepts at the moment of union with the divine. The gar- den is of course the sphere of the trained soul. 9. This is a very literal translation ; it is either an accident, or shows a high degree of scientific knowledge. The dependence of sound on air was discovered in Europe by Hawksbee in 1705. (Hawksbee first performed the “ bell in vacuo ” experiment in 1705. Newton (Principia Vol. III, 1687), gave an inaccurate formula for Velocity of Sound in Air and other fluids. Laplace nearly 100 years later correcte…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

ARTHUR GRIMBLE . *ATLANTIS . IN dreams, my soul was backward drawn 1 A thousand thousand years to -night, Back to the world 's impulsive dawn When first Atlantis knew the light. Great Cities of the men of old , I saw them all in fire of gold . There , many a climbing minaret Lay mirrored in the dreaming sea With strangely precious carvings set In chrysoprase and ebony , And metals , wrought in fashions fair Of filagree as light as air . The streets were full of cheerful noise ; Princes and burghers passed me by , And grave philosophers , and bo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 242

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

BIBLIOGRAPHY . “ The Mother 's Tragedy ” . Privately printed “ The Soul of Osiris " . Kegan Paul , Trench , Trübner & Co., London “ Carmen Saeculare ” Kegan Paul, Trench , Trübner & Co., London “ Tannhäuser " Kegan Paul, Trench , Trübner & Co., London “ Berashith ” Privately printed “ Ahab " Privately printed " Alice , an Adultery " Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth , Inverness “ The God -Eater " Watts & Co., London “ The Star and the Garter " Watts & Co ., London “ The Argonauts " Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth , I…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 109

The Argonauts

… veil of sky, And speak immortal things ! Dream, lady, dream through summer noon, Lulled by the sleepy tune! The sense is riven, and the soul Goes glimmering to the abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice II

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1996 · PDF PAGE 52

The Law is for All

…lea of Plato on behalf of psederastic passion. Out of the Court there slunk Mark Antony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind Samson, disinherited Adam, feeling his way along the table where they had piled countless papyri writ with woes of kings and sages woman-wrecked, and many a map of towns and temples torn and trampled beneath the feet of Love, their ashes smouldering still, and smoky with song to witness how Astarte’s breath had kindled and consumed them. Extinguished empir…

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