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…d silk ! Your lips are like the poppies in the garden ! Your face is like a wreath of flowers to crown me! Your eyes are wells wherein I long to drown me ! Your hair is like a waterfall above me, A waterfall of sunset! In your bosom I hear the racing of a heart to love me. Your blood is beating like a wind-blown blossom With rapture that you mingle it in mine! Your breath is fresh as foam and keen as wine ! Intoxicating glories are your glances ! Your bodily beauty grips my soul and dances 1 Meaning that by study of Shakespeare he would resume …
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…me! Iam not a man. Nothing can I to sharpen or to span My throat with iron fingers, or my sword In my heart’s acid where the blood began Long since to leap, and now dropsdeadly slow, Clotted with salt and sulphur and strong woe. I shall not die: the first sight of the sward Stained with the spectral corpse had stung me so, Not stabbed me, since I saw her and survive. I shall not die—Ah! shall I be alive? This hath no part ineither: bale and bliss Forget me, careless ifI rot or thrive. Heaven forgot me—or she were not dead! And Hades— or I shoul…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
…iss «As lovers’ eyes can interchange, our lips Met in the mute agreement to obey. So, girding on our raiment, as to pass Some whither of long doubtful journeying, We went forth blindly to the horrible Damp darkness of the pines above. there Strange beasts crossed path of ours, such beasts as earth Bears not, distorted, tortured, loathable, Mouthing with hateful lips some recent blood, Or snarling at our feet. But these attacked No courage of our hearts, we faltered not, And they fell back, snake’s mouth and leopard’s throat, Afraid. But others …
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
… of resurrection, when the toy has become a god, declared to you its inmost secrets, and become a living part of your life. There are no longer these crude, savage reactions of pleasure and pain. The new knowledge is assimilated. 13. So it is with Asana. The chosen posture attracts you; you purr with self-satisfaction. How clever you have been! How nicely the posture suits all conditions! You absolutely melt with maudlin good feeling. I have known pupils who have actually been betrayed into sparing a kindly thought for the Teacher! It is quite …
1905 · PDF PAGE 29
…hard portion, for in sooth I love.’ ‘Ah happy hour, sweet moment! Fairest vrove Of all fair Ida, thou hast sealed my bliss Then with one long intense unpitying kiss Pressed on her bosom, he arose and swore By heaven and earth and all the seas that roar And stars that sing, by rivers and fresh flood, By his own essence, by his body and blood, To lay his godhead down, till night drew nigh, To be a mortal Ul the vesper cry Of dying breezes. So the morning past And found them linked inexorably fast Each in the other’s arms, Their lips are wed To dr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
… again !) was over all The pangs of death foreseen ; his eye Sought the high rafter vacantly. A week, and he would see no more! His lady long had gone—O Lor’! I hear ‘‘ St. Agnes’ Eve” * suggest To this 8’s better a far best ; Spenserian solemnitie Fits this part of my minstrelsie. Now is the breath of winter in the hall. The logs die out—the knight would be alone ! The brave Sir Percival de Percivale Sits like an image hewen out of stone. Ay! he must die. The doctors all are gone, 1 Many of Scott’s narrative poems are in the same metre as this…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…sea, And tune the sun’s ray to my smitten soul! How shoald I sing who cannot even see? Grope through a mist of changeless misery. An age-long pain—no time in wretched. ness !— As of an hammer annihilating me
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
… 94. I cannot write.29—This is not quite true. For instance: This, the opening stanza of my masterly poem on Ladak, reads :—“The way was long, and the w ind was cold : the Lama was infirm and advanced in years ; his prayer-wheel, to revolve which was his only pleasure, was carried by a disciple, an orphan.” There is a reminiscence of some previous incarnation about this : European critics may possibly even identify the passage. But at least the Tibetans should be pleased.* * They were ; thence the pacific character of the British expedition of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
… large hymns, and soaring songs and psalters ! My face, my breast, no soul of man uncovers, Nor is my bed made lovely with my lovers ! I long for purple and the holier kiss Of mortal lyrist ; in these arms to gladden ; To take him to the spring and source of bliss, And in his vast embrace to rouse me, madden Once with the light of passion, not to miss Uttermost rapture till the sweet loves sadden To sweeter ecstasy— Ah! man’s high spirit may not reach to Me! peace thrilled with young 1 J.e,, terrestrial: from Gaia, a form of yj, the earth. Iam …
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…by which grow roses, the haunts of coloured butterflies. With her left hand she pours golden waters over her head, which are lost in her long hair. Her attitude suggests the Swastika. Above flames a great star of seven rays. Ling 29.—Below, a path leads between two towers, arded by jackals, from the sea, wherein a Scara- Becus marcheth landwards. Lint 30.—Below is a wall, in front of which, in a fairy ring, two children wantonly and shamelessly embrace. Ling 31.—An angel blowing a trumpet, adorned with a golden banner bearing a white cross. Bel…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…is a savage and beautiful thing, and that his attempt to make every one behave with the decorum of a pu- trefying corpse is bound in the long run to fail. We find, for example, the Bishop of Worcester offering a tasteless substitute for Worcester Sauce. He complains pitifully of how he saw three women in the street trying to seduce a soldier. Apparently in consequence of the appearance of the Bishop, the soldier “saw his chance and ran away,” but from what we know of Bishops it seems probable that he was trying to escape from the Episcopal rath…
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
42 ORACLES Rosy with wifehood. Now the shallop glides On gloomier shadier tides, While the long hair of willows bent and kissed The stream, and drew its mist Up through their silent atmosphere. Some sorrow drawing near That slow, dark river would for sympathy Have found its home and never wandered out Into the sunlight any more. A sigh Stirred the pale waters where the moonlight stood Upon the sleepy flood | In certain bough-wrought shapes of mystic meaning, As if the moon were weaning The king her babe from milk of life and love To milk new-dr…
1919 · PDF PAGE 299
… his sister left him with one other sister, and for her he professed the most unbounded devotion. As she lay dead in her house, he wrote long letters to her son about One pound, three and tuppence that she owed to the grocer, sixteen and nine pence that she owed to the butcher, and so on. I suppose he had her buried by the parish, though I have no information on this point; but he was the residuary legatee of her estate, and any 285
1905 · PDF PAGE 78
…ide against our foes, To be our leader, till one sanguine rose Spread from thy standard awful leaves of blood, And thy swords pour their long insatiate flood Through ranks of many dead! then, then to close The wounds of all the land, and bid it bud And blossom ; as when two-and-thirty men, The sons of Jair, on milk-white asses rode, And judged us righteously, and each abode Safe in the shadow of his vine; as when The peace of Joshua lay upon the land, And God turned not away His piteous eyes, Nor smote us with the fury of His hand, Nor clouded …
1939 · PDF PAGE 62
…t is the Nous, the divine intelligence of man, whereas the heart is only the centre of the intellectual and moral faculties. 17. But, so long as you are occupying yourself with the physical, your results will only be on that plane; and the principal effect of these concentrations on small parts of the body is the understanding, or rather the appreciation, of sensuous pleasure. This, however, is infinitely refined, exquisitely intense. It is often possible to acquire a technique by which the skilled artist can produce this pleasure in another pe…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
… sweet kiss That surely could not end, though earth should end. Therefore my shut eyes blend With sleep’s own secret eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
…, to rest The fevered head and cool the aching eyes; Sleep for a space, to fall upon the breast Of the dear God, that He may sympathise, Long has the day drawn out; a bitter frost Sparkles along the streets; the shipping heaves With the slow murmur of the sea, half lost In the last rustle of forgotten leaves. Over the bridges pass the throngs; the sound, Deep and insistent, penetrates the mist— [I hear it not, I contemplate the wound Stabbed in the flanks of my dear silver Christ. He hangs in anguish there; the crown of thorns Pierces that pale…
1906 · PDF PAGE 197
…qe aeNe ged T+ x5 + pK =a He 4 BLeaeWia- in gy 5: 3° gw || This, the opening stanza of my masterly poem on Ladak, reads :—‘‘ The way was long, and the wind was cold: the Lama was in- firm and advanced in years; his prayer-wheel, to revolve which was his only pleasure, was carried by a disciple, an orphan.” There is a reminiscence of some previous incarnation about this: European critics may possibly even identify the passage. But at least the Tibetans should be pleased.* * They were; thence the pacific character of the British expedition of 190…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
…be. Ha! [Goes to altar, opens it, takes out a flask filled with a clear pale blue liquor with rosy stars of light in 7t, pours it into a long vial, and holds 7t to the light. The room ts lighted by electricity, the globes being the eyes of strange sculplurea stone beasts on the walls. So far the story is true. [Drinks a little. Why, that is better already. I am again the priest of Maurya—who is the brother of Maurya? A trivial ape o’ the time !— cold, logical to a fault !--Ay! and a crime, a crime at which the stars shake in the heaven, men mig…
1939 · PDF PAGE 34
… why and the what and all the other questions. It all comes to the same thing in the end. There is only one way to still the body in the long run, and that is to keep it still. It's doggèd as does it. 18. The irritations develop into extreme agony. Any attempt to alleviate this simply destroys the value of the practice. I must particularly warn the aspirant against rationalising (I have known people who were so hopelessly bat-witted that they rationalised). They thought: 'Ah, well, this position is not suitable for me, as I thought it was. I ha…