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Page 70 of 771906 · PDF PAGE 133
…ed loveliness, And, as he turns ! who wonders now ihe grim laugh wrinkles on my brow? I see him, a fantastic ghost, The vineyard smiling white and plain, And hiding ever innermost The little shadow on his brain ; I laugh again with mirthless glee, As knowing also I am he. A fool in gorgeous attire ! An ox decked bravely for his doom ! So step I to the great desire. Sweet winds upon the gathering gloom Bend like a mother, as I go, Foreknowing, to my overthrow. NEW YEAR, 1903. O FRIENDS and brothers! Hath the year deceased, And ye await the biddi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
…enviable lot. [ leave the cry of chaos, and recall My private pang and woe particular, One drop of water by mischance let fall From some white slave’s divinely carven jar. O Lords of Justice, universal woe Hath yet its shadows in a singer’s soul, He feels the arrow from a party bow Who yet hath strength to struggle with the whole. I love my wife. The many-coloured throne Of Grecian meadows hath nor charm nor lure Now she is gone. Lamenting and alone My dulled heart aches, most that it must endure. Give this decree, O masters! Few the days And l…
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…y of the fight With my own love, so willing to be quite Sure of my strength by death ; and eagerly Almost I crossed the barrier keen and white. When lo! a miracle! Her carven hand Is lifted, and the little space is spanned, And I am plucked from out her maw, and set Down on the pedestal, whose polished jet Shone like a mirror out of hell-—I stand Free, where the blood of other men is wet. So slowly, while the mob stood back, I went Out of the city, with no life content, And certain I should meet no death least. Soon, riding ever to the stubborn…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
142 ORPHEUS We come, we mountains, crowned and in- cense-bringing, Robed as white priests, the solemn anthem singing $ Or as an organ thundering fiery tunes. We come, we greener hills, and rend the sky, With happier chorus and the songs that die Or mix their subtle joy and being with the moon’s. We come, we pine-clad steeps, we feathery slopes, With footfalls softer than tne antelope’s. We listen and obey: the sacred slumberer swoons More tranced than deacn in this far follow- ing, Careless of winter, not invoking spring ; And all the witless w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 266
…s as follows: The Hierophant on the throne of the East; the Hiereus at the East of the Black Pillar ; and the Hegemon at the East of the White Pillar. The three again formulating the Triad and strengthening it. Thus the Higher Soul will be formulated between the Pillars in the place of Equili- brium ; the Candidate at the place of the Evil Triad. The Hiereus now advanceth between the Pillars unto the invisible station of Harpocrates. The signs having been explained, the Hiereus draweth the Candidate forward between the pillars, and for the seco…
1909 · PDF PAGE 266
…s as follows: The Hierophant on the throne of the East; the Hiereus at the East of the Black Pillar ; and the Hegemon at the East of the White Pillar. The three again formulating the Triad and strengthening it. Thus the Higher Soul will be formulated between the Pillars in the place of Equili- brium ; the Candidate at the place of the Evil Triad. The Hiereus now advanceth between the Pillars unto the invisible station of Harpocrates. The signs having been explained, the Hiereus draweth the Candidate forward between the pillars, and for the seco…
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
… tasted once of this In its own lesser way. en years ago I loved a maiden called Elizabeth. A child she was, so delicate and frail, Far, white, and lonely as the coldest star Set beyond gaze of any eye but God’s ; 1 The semi-divine woman, between Aphro- dite the divine, and Eve the human. 2 Persephone was compelled to spend six months of the year in Hades. And, to forget her, found due somnolence In such a warm brown bosom as thine own Is fire and amber. Then I came away :— I heard of knights no better horsed than I, No better sworded, with no …
1906 · PDF PAGE 18
…; no leprous cobra shall disclose The many-seated, multiform, divine, essential joys that these Dank odours bring, that starry seas wash white in vain ; intense and warm The scents fulfil; they permeate all lips, all arteries, and fire New murmured music on the lyre that throbs the horrors they create. Omniscient blossom! Is thy red slack bosom fresher for my kiss? Are thy loves sharper? Hast thou bliss in all the sorrow of the dead? Why art thou paler when the moon- grows loftierin the troublous sky? Why dost thou beat and heave when I press l…
1906 · PDF PAGE 56
… was clothed in silver mail Of purity, and iron-helmeted With ignorance of fear : so through the hail Of flowers, of cries, of looks, of white and re«', Fear, hatred, envy, love—nay, self-conceit Of girls that preened itself and masqued in- stead Of love—he rode with head deep bowed— too sweet, Too solemn at that moment to respond, Or even to lift his evening eyes to greet The one he knew was nearest—too, too fond! He dared not—not for his sake but for hers. So he bent down, and passed away beyond In space, in time. [The myriad ministers Of God…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…n the sky. Thrilled through to the marrow with heat We abode (as we glode) on the river. Every arrow he launched from his seat, From the white inexhaustible quiver, Smote us right through, Smote us and slew, As we rode on the rapturous river. Sweet sleep is perfection of love. To die into dreams of my lover, To wake with his mouth like a dove Kissing me over and over! Better sleep so Than be conscious, and know Ilow death hath a charm to discover. Ah! float in the cool of the gloaming ! Float wide in the lap of the stream With his mouth ever ro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
… Is this love’s epitaph, God’s worm erect on Herod’s throne? ‘* Ah, if I only had not known!” All wrong, belovéd! Truth be ours, The one white flower (of all the flowers) You ever cared for! Ignorance May set its puppets up to dance; We know who pulls the strings. No sage ; A man unwashed, the bearded brute ! His wife, the mother-prostitute ! Behind the marionetted stage See the true Punch-and-Judy show, Turn copper so to silver! Know, And who can help forgiving? So Said some French thinker! Here’s a drench Of verse unquestionably French To fol…
1906 · PDF PAGE 8
…s day a lovelier night Is in my home, that sunset’s arms enfold, Lit with the mellowness of autumn gold. Pillowed on linen of the purest white, Half-hidden by her locks’ luxurious night, Maddened by those soft eyes of melting glow, Enamoured of that breast .of breathing snow, Caught in the meshes of her fine-spun hair, Rocked by the beating of her bosom fair,
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…emly chanting ; As the women’s whispers haunting Silent woods, or chaster spaces, Where the river’s water wends ; As the sound, when the white faces Burn from space, and all earth end. Inthe presence of the Gods; These and all their periods ; These, and all that of them is, I bestow on thee, and this Also, mine eternal kiss ! In one melody of bliss These and thou and I will mingle, Till all Nature’s pulses tingle, Hear and follow and obey thee, Thee, the lyrist; thee, the lyre ! These shall hear and not gainsay thee, Follow in the extreme desir…
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
… the blue eyes clearer than the sea Before they darkened, and the veil of death Shrouded their splendour: still there lingereth Some sad white lustre’on the icy brows, Some breast-curve surely indicating breath, Some misty glamour of deep love within The eye’s cold gléam ! some dimple on the chin Hinting of laughter: even now she seems A folded rosebud, where the ivory skin Closes the ripe warm centre flower, the mind, The spirit that-was beautifully kind, The sense of beauty shadowed in deep dreams, Sent through the horn gates by some sleepy w…
1905 · PDF PAGE 16
…end god, who oft caressed Her pale chaste wifehood, and who pressed Upon my forehead kisses blest ; Bid blossom out this rose, This fair white bud whose heart is pure, Whose bosom fears not, neither knows The long vague mysteries that endure Of life uncertain, of love sure. Teach her the mystic overture To Love’s transcendant throes. Tle ceased : but out of [leaven no sound ol might, No tongue of flame gave answer. Still as night, Silence and sunlight, stream and mead, pos- sessed The whole wide world. The maid’s re- luctant breast Heaved with …
1906 · PDF PAGE 224
…oyal crown having twelve jewels: and she had but one eye, and from that the eyelid had been torn. A prodigious beard had she, and all of white: and they wist he would have smitten her with his sword. But he would not, and she propounded unto him the tenth riddle: Countenance beheld not countenance. So thereto he answered: Our Father, blessed be thou !— Countenance ? Then they brought him the Sword and bade him smite withal: but he said : If countenance behold not countenance, then let the ten be five. And they wist that he but mocked them; for …
1905 · PDF PAGE 109
…y ; 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 but vaporous quivering Of melting fleeces, while the sudden sun Fled to his home. Afar the Matterhorn Reared a gaunt pinnacle athwart the bank, Where towered behind it one vast pillar of cloud To thrice its height. dome On which we stood, all…
1919 · PDF PAGE 175
…ed by a silver star on brow, till I arrived at a circular room at the end, lit by one candle placed on a round table at which sat an old white-bearded man writing in a book. I approached him, and said: “Why writest thou, Father?” and he replied “That those who read may live.” (I seem to have asked him an- other question, but cannot remember what.) Then I said: “What writest thou, Father?” And he replied: “Death, always Death.” And I said: “Show me thy writing, Father” and looking he wrote the word HARTHA. And I said “This is a mystery to me” so…
1905 · PDF PAGE 218
… my hands are flung In prayer to Heaven nay, to mine own crown, To raise myself, and not to drag it down !} O holiest Lord of the divine white flame Of brilliance sworded in the temple sky ! O thou who knowest my most secret name, Who whisperest when only thou and I Make up our universe: bestow thy kiss: Arise! Come, let us pierce the old abyss ! Rise! Move! Appear! Tet us go forth together, Into the solemn passionless profound, Into the darkness, and the thrilling weather, Into the silence louder than all sound, Into the vast implacable inane …
1909 · PDF PAGE 261
… Candidate; whose body is now surrounded by a triple cord to show the restriction of the powers of Nature ; and it is triple to show the white Triangle of the Three Supernals, His eyes are also bandaged, symbolising that the Light of the natural world is but as darkness compared with the radiance of the Light Divine. The Ritual then continues : Hegemon : “ Child of Earth ! arise, and enter into the Path of Darkness!” The Hierophant then gives his permission, ordering the Stolistes and Dadouchos to assist the Kerux in the reception ; but the Ker…