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…! The young gentleman must certainly have been a curate. At such moments the heart should race, the veins swell, the breath quicken, the eyes strain, the foot—not a word of the struggle not to show impatience, the tenseness of the whole being ofa man! No! this is indeed a glimmering ghost, a bloodless, vacant phantom. Note, too, the degradation of the symbols. To compare a girl to a “ghost”; to disenchant the glow and glamour of her to a “ glimmer.’ To compare a volcano in eruption to the puffing of a steam- engine; the sun in heaven at high no…
1910 · PDF PAGE 51
…A small light crested yellow bird, iridescent under the throat. AROGOR — A black vulture with human ears, a very long beak, and very red eyes. HOLASTRI — An enormous pink bug. HACUMUBI — A monkey, black, with long hair and a white face. SAMALO — An altogether black undersized ram with very long curling horns lying back along its back. PLISON — Has two very thin legs, a black big belly, and arms stretched up and behind its very large and long seal’s head. The mouth is hu- man and enormous. RADERAF — Has a rhinoceros’ head but the roof of the hea…
1911 · PDF PAGE 13
…ing garments like a wheel of fire on every side of him, and in his hand is a long flail of scarlet lightning; his face is black, and his eyes white without any pupil or iris. The face is very terrible indeed to look upon. Now in front of him is a wheel, with many spokes, and many tyres; it is like a fence in front of him. And he cries: O man, who art thou that wouldst penetrate the Mystery? for it is hidden unto the End of Time. And I answer him: Time is not, save in the darkness of Her womb by whom evil came. And now the wheel breaks away, and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…t off and slay the dragon of their despair . The horror of this mental struggle is well depicted in “ Jephthah ” when Jared says : Those eyes upon me, torturing my soul And threatening revenge ? Those fingers gross , Purple , and horrible , to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat . O Hell ! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To putrefy this fair green earth with blood , But make not me the devilish minister Of such a deed as this !! Such was the almost frenzied exclamation of Jared , when he tried to shake off the awful power that was…
1922 · PDF PAGE 194
…he name that leers Its lecherous longing and knavery, Whispers in crazing ears The secret spell of her slavery.” The room swam before my eyes. We were wreathed in spirals of dark blue smoke bursting with crimson flashes. , He gripped me with epileptic fury, and swung me round in a sort of savage dance. I had an intuition that he was seeing the same vision as I was. Our souls
1907 · PDF PAGE 185
…t, the great nuptials with the Lords of Lust : An agony is this That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands , thy feet Ooze blood , thine eyes weep blood ; thine anguish is More keen than death . At last — there is no deeper vault of hell beneath ! Then comes the great reward . We have travelled knee deep through the mire of life , yet if our souls be spotless our abasement , “ ... bringeth back the sheaves ” XV . Of golden corn of exaltation , With strange intoxications mad and manifold . It is this curious phase , yearning towards Perfection ,…
1903 · PDF PAGE 78
…he skies are abolished and cease| And for me, may I never forget how things came well as they are| It was long I had wandered yet ere my eyes found out the star. Be silent, love, and abide; the wanton strings must go To the vain tumultuous tide of the spirit’s overflow. I sing and sing to the world; then silence soon Be about us clasped and furled in the light of the moon. Forget not, never forget the terrible song I have sung; How the eager fingers fret the lute, and loose the tongue Tinkles delicate things, faint thoughts of a futile past— We…
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…“We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your mistress is dead. Your duty is to her child, and I am her child’s-——’ “He looked up from my eyes. ‘An omen!’ he cried, pointing to the great statue of St. Michael trampling Satan, 121
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…ay, but the Eternal Virgin, and a Gold that is not gold.’ “Ts nothing to be done ?’ “* Nothing!’ he replied, with a strange light in his eyes. ‘Yet, in order to be able to do nothing, thou must first accomplish everything. “One day,’ he smiled, seeing my bewilderment, ‘ thou wilt be angry with the fool who proffers such a platitude.’ “JT asked him to accept me as a pupil. “*T require pay,’ he answered, ‘and an oath.’ 127
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…“We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your mistress is dead. Your duty is to her child, and I am her child’s-——’ “He looked up from my eyes. ‘An omen!’ he cried, pointing to the great statue of St. Michael trampling Satan, 121
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…ay, but the Eternal Virgin, and a Gold that is not gold.’ “Ts nothing to be done ?’ “* Nothing!’ he replied, with a strange light in his eyes. ‘Yet, in order to be able to do nothing, thou must first accomplish everything. “One day,’ he smiled, seeing my bewilderment, ‘ thou wilt be angry with the fool who proffers such a platitude.’ “JT asked him to accept me as a pupil. “*T require pay,’ he answered, ‘and an oath.’ 127
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…ith this Takhallus. See note 2. 8. This and the following stanzas seem inconse- quent. But they contain profound allusions. The thousand eyes of the peacock’s tail are equivalent to the thousand petals of the Sahasrara lotus in India ; the divine lotus that only exists as a throne
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…undred more ; Other thousands still be told , Other hundreds o'er and o'er . And Propertius to the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadfast pride , And on my neck his foot triumphant press'd . So it is to - day . Conventionalism is passing along its way chaotic and disordered . Mutinus is worshipped at every street corner , and the goat of Mendes slavers over the revellers as they wend their way home with their Gitons and M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…ure more divine arise ; The Christ usurps the horizon for me, And He requickens the forgotten skies ; His golden locks are burning on my eyes , And he with rosy finger points the way , The blood -wrought mystic path of Paradise , That leads at last through yonder icy spray Of Death to the blue vault of the undying day . In the last verse of “ A Spring Snow Storm in Wastdale ," there grows a wavering doubt , which leaps out furiously in the “Preliminary Invocation " in “ Jephthah ,” addressed to A. C. S. , breaking the shackles of the “ improvin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…scarded all proportion just , And thundered in our ears “ I know ,” And bellowed in our brains “ ye must . " 1 In “ Why Jesus Wept ” our eyes are startled with the following horrid blasphemy , “ The badger Jesus skulketh in his holt ," ? which , after all , is not a quarter so blasphemous as to suppose that Jesus , the Son of God , the Very God , resides in a loaf and a bottle , as the Plymouth brethren did in the same satire - vide scene xiii . Finally , instead of allowing this most un fortunate of unfortunate individuals to peacefully ascend…
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
… forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.” “There is a light before thine eyes, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…cal Red fury that is called a woman's heart .' Enter the sphere of Free Love , and sit by the side of Alice , look into the depth of her eyes , the depths of her heart . As a seeker sees the gold In the shadow of the stream ; see there her love , As a diver sees the pearl In the shadow of the sea ; and murmur not above our breath Ah ! you can love , true girl , And is your love for me ?? “ Alice , an Adultery .” As golden a book of poetry as Mademoiselle de Maupin is of prose . The first poem in the book is called “ Messaline ." 3 It is in a wa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…s it. If a chemist wants to prepare copper sulphate from its oxide, he does not hesitateon the ground that sulphuric acid, thrown in the eyes, hurts people. So I use the moral drug which will produce the desired result, whether that drug be what people commonly call poison or no. In short, I act like a sensible man; and I think I deserve every credit for introducingthis com- pletely new idea into religion. That function of my brain which says “You ought to be willing Adonai ” sometimes acts. But I am willing Him! It is so active because all thi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 44
…ards her and opened his arms. She fell heavily within their embrace. She hugged herself close against his breast and nestled on him, her eyes half- closed, her tongue and teeth searching blindly and savagely for his lips. Contrary to his expectations, and more according to some of his past sensations and fears, Lionel Tabard felt more un- easiness than joy, more pain than pleasure. He congratulated himself upon the fact that the cool night had caused him to dress warmly, and that he had not trusted his body to the protection of the garment to w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
THE DOCTRINES OF BUDDHISM Having sat for seven long years under the Bédhi tree Gotama opened his eyes and perceiving the world of Sam- sara* exclaimed: “Quod erat demonstrandum!” True, he had attained to the spotless eye of Truth and had become Buddha the Enlightened One; he had entered the Nothing- ness of Nibbdna,j and had become one with the Uncreated and the Indestructible. And now he stood once again on the shore line of existence and watched the waves of life roll landwards, curve, break and hiss up the beach only to surge back into the o…