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…NUS Thy name! cried I. The answer that he gave Was but one tempest-whisper—“ If!” Ah, then! his tongue to his black palate clave; For on Soul’s curtain Is written this one certainty that naught is certain ! XIX So then I caught that goat up in a kiss, And cried Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Then all this body’s wealth of ambergris, (Narcissus-scented flesh of man !) I burnt before him in the sacrifice; For he was sure— Being the Doubt of Things, the one thing to endure! XX Wherefore, when madness took him at the end, He, doubt-goat, slew the goat of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 106
96 THE EQUINOX Of him, and yet—what visions there uproll To cloud that mirror-soul of mine? Above my head there screams a flying scroll Whose word burnt through My being as when stars drop in black disastrous dew. x For in that scroll was written how the globe Of space became ; of how the light Broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe Of glory; of how One most white Withdrew that Whole, and hid it in the lobe Of his right Ear, So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear. XI Yea! and the end revealed a word, a spell, An incantation, a device…
1909 · PDF PAGE 109
…NUS Thy name! cried I. The answer that he gave Was but one tempest-whisper—“ If!” Ah, then! his tongue to his black palate clave; For on Soul’s curtain Is written this one certainty that naught is certain ! XIX So then I caught that goat up in a kiss, And cried Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Then all this body’s wealth of ambergris, (Narcissus-scented flesh of man !) I burnt before him in the sacrifice; For he was sure— Being the Doubt of Things, the one thing to endure! XX Wherefore, when madness took him at the end, He, doubt-goat, slew the goat of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
…lly in a physical sense, but to prepare the way by making the heredity, and environment as attractive as possible to one special type of soul, and then — to go soul-fishing in the Fourth Dimension! "Thus he will have a perfectly normal child, which yet is also a Homunculus in the mediaeval sense of the word! "And he has asked me to lend you the villa of the Order at Naples for the purpose." Lisa had lent forward; her face, between her hands was burning. Slowly she spoke: "You know that you are asking me to sacrifice my humanity?" She was not si…
1898 · PDF PAGE 5
…nother fire ; If Gods damnation can devise A lust to match these agonies. The desert wind my body burns, The voice of flesh consumes my soul ;
1909 · PDF PAGE 222
…, and wisdom, and kindness? Nay ! let him fashion an arrow Whose heart is sober and stout! Let him pierce his God to the marrow! Let the soul of his God flow out! Whether a snake or a sun In his horoscope Heaven hath cast, It is nothing; every one Shall win to the moon at last.
1909 · PDF PAGE 222
…, and wisdom, and kindness? Nay ! let him fashion an arrow Whose heart is sober and stout! Let him pierce his God to the marrow! Let the soul of his God flow out! Whether a snake or a sun In his horoscope Heaven hath cast, It is nothing; every one Shall win to the moon at last.
1910 · PDF PAGE 116
… attain to the life of the Gods : could a comet Attain to the calm of the moon : I would mingle them all in a kiss, and draw from it The soul of a sensitive tune. All lovers should hear it and know it : not needing the words of a poet In ebony hewn. O beam of discovery under the eyelids awakening The sense of delight ! O assent Slow dawning through cream into roses ! O white bosom shaking The myrtles of magical scent In the groves of the heart ! O the pleasure that runs over all overmeasure, The wine of Event ! Overmastered the hurl of the worl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…ens of gold Such as a god may be glad to behold. Seated on high in the æons of doom, Sucked as a seed to the infinite womb, Sealed is my soul in the sheath of its tomb. Boy, as you love me, I charge you to mould Pipe after pipe, till the heavens are rolled Back and are lost as a tale that is told ! III Silence and darkness are weaving a web Broidered with Nothing at uttermost ebb : Cover, oh cover the shaming of Seb ! Fling the wide veil, O Nuit, on the shame ! Shame from the Knowledge and unto the Name Hide it, O hide it, in flowers of flam…
1961 · PDF PAGE 27
…ven it may be a permanent Division of the Personality, or Insanity, and therefore a defeat most fatal and pernicious, a Surrender of the Soul to Choronzon. c
1905 · PDF PAGE 233
… we are carefully to proceed in Magic, lest that Syrens and other monsters deceive us, which likewise do desire the society of the human soul.” Arbatel of Magic. Aphorism 35. A lonely and desolate plain. TANNHAUSER riding towards a great mountain. TANNHAUSER. S1x days. Creation took no longer! Yet I wander eastward, and no light is found. The stars their motion shirk, or else forget. The sun—the moon? Imprisoned under- ground Where gnomes disport, and devils do abound, Six days. I journey to the black unknown, Always in hope the Infinite may ri…
1901 · PDF PAGE 27
…speak. Dear friend, Let us sit close and whisper. GORA. Listen, then! You are grown man: young men seek happiness. Is there one joy your soul hath never felt ? One pure sweet passion ? ULRIC. Sweet! you speak of love! You must have guessed I meant to question you, And smoothed the passage to my modesty. CORA, with bitter sorrow at her heart. You make me very glad. Yes, yes, indeed, , Love is my meaning. Does it shame me much To talk so openly of love to you ? But I am old enough to be—to be ULRIC. My wife! O Cora, I have loved you so! My heart …
1902 · PDF PAGE 58
…Its own warm purple. Look, the tender stream ! Venus. Let its old sleepy fragrance lull thee now. Yet madden thee in brain and sense and soul, Mixing success with infinite despair. So ; take our secret back to sleep with us :— And in that sleep I know that thou wilt choose The fact, and leave the dream, and so disdain These far-off splendours, catch the nearer joy. Take squalid kisses, banish crested love Intangible. Delights it thee, my friend. To reach the summits unattained before. And stumble on their snows ? Thine old desire Was just to to…
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…ing, Sentiment ; one will rot, the other rust us. Let us just listen to the spirit ailing : — ’Tis like a God in bliss, or like a damned soul wailing ! (A word to bid you notice with what mastery Of technique that last stanza there was written. I risk a poet’s license on one cast, Ery ! (Pet name for thee, Eros !) The lines are smitten Into due harmony double-rhymed, well knitten. Wherefore, to show I can repeat the effort, This verse inserted like a playful kitten To usher in the youth’s c. d. e. f., ert Or inert as may be ; it can’t the lucky…
1928 · PDF PAGE 36
…f half-pence in the middle of a festival. Let us consider carefully, I beg you, this solid cage of iron. Within it, howling like a lost soul, shaking the bars like an orang-outang made furious by captivity, imitatingand how perfectly!now the tigers circular leaps, now
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
… magician had calculated the probable moment of incarnation as about six months before the day of birth. Once it became certain that the soul had taken possession of the embryo, the hermit would become the elder brother. It was clearly the middle period that was critical; not only because of the magical difficulties, but because Lisa herself would be under intense strain, and isolated from her lover's active sympathy. But Cyril thought it best to dare these dangers rather than to allow his own soul to influence her atmosphere, as his solar pers…
1901 · PDF PAGE 13
…e. “ Europe before us lies, as men lie dead ; “ Britannia—ho ! Britannia rules the sea ! ” This night thy kingdom shall be finishèd, Thy soul required of thee. Hail ! France ! Because thy freedom hath rebelled Against the alien, and the golden yoke ; Because thy justice lives and reigns, unquelled, Unbribed ; because thy head above the smoke Soars, eagle ! Tribulation hath not felled Thy freedom’s ancient oak ! 11
1905 · PDF PAGE 53
…begem My breast, where I rage in the wild White storms, where I lap the low hem Of earth’s mantle, or war on her crags, I am one, and my soul is in them. I am mother of earth and her daughter ; I am father of heaven and his son ; 54
1905 · PDF PAGE 125
…rimeval state. Not without law, sayest thou? Almighty Zeus, Am I not also mothered of a Muse? Let there be law! untimely to release This soul untinctured of the Stygian dews, Unsprinkled of Lethean lotus-drops! Life grows so steadily, so sudden stops— (Surely no part in Nature’s moving peace !) Thus, when the young, like tempest-stricken crops 126
1909 · PDF PAGE 202
…ens of gold Such as a god may be glad to behold. Seated on high in the zons of doom, Sucked as a seed to the infinite womb, Sealed is my soul in the sheath of its tomb. Boy, as you love me, I charge you to mould Pipe after pipe, till the heavens are rolled Back and are lost as a tale that is told! III Silence and darkness are weaving a web Broidered with Nothing at uttermost ebb :— Cover, oh cover the shaming of Seb! Fling the wide veil, O Nuit, on the shame |— Shame from the Knowledge and unto the Name— Hide it, O hide it, in flowers of flame!…