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…he still slow water slackens into sleep. The rose-glow dies, leaves cold Citlaltepetl’s? steep. The chattering voices of the day depart. Earth folds her limbs and leans her loving breast Even to all her children: the great heart Beats solemnly the requiem of rest. The sea keeps tune; the silent stars upstart Seeming to sentinel that sombre crest Where of old time burst out the vulture fire Cyclopean, that is dead, now, as a man’s desire. 1 Called by the Spaniards Orizaba. The drowsy cries of night birds, then the song Lovely and lovelorn in the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 265
… rock-wrought peeking-point Out speers the hermit: ‘‘See, the sun is dead !” It shines elsewhere. perch, The corner of the corner of the earth, You from your tiny
1905 · PDF PAGE 275
… the Moon were sympathetic, and came, that Part of them, from a common Principle: and that a Camel being yellow brown, it partook of the Earth Nature, to which that Colour is given. Thence they said that by taking all the Natures involved, and by blending them in the just Proportions, one might have a Camel. But this is no more than is said by the Upholders of the Atomic Theory. They have their Storehouses of Carbon, Oxygen, and such (not in one Place, but no more is Geburah in one Place), and what is Organic Chemistry but the Production of use…
1906 · PDF PAGE 36
… we are made afresh, we are Love and Nature now. I am swifter than the wind: I am wider than the sea: I am one with all mankind: and the earth is made as we. The stars are spangles bright on the canopy of our bed, And the sun is a veil of light for my lover’s golden head. © Goddess, maiden, and wife! Is the marriage bed in vain? Shall my heart and soul and life shrink back to themselves again? Be thou my one desire, my soul in day as in night ! My mind the home of the Higher! heart the centre of Light! My A LITANY.! 1. BLACK thine abyss of noon…
1905 · PDF PAGE 197
… Thyestes, at which the two sons of ‘Thyestes }- were served up. I turned—the path? My horror was com- plete— A flaming sword aciuss the earthquake gap. I cried aloud to God in my despair. ‘The quest of quests! I seek it, for I dare ! Moonward ! on, moonward moon shone, A glory for God’s eyes to dwell upon, A path of silver furrowed in the air, A gateway where an angel might have gone. 1? And the full And forward gleamed a narrow way of earth Crusted with salt: I watch the fairy birth Of countless flashes on the crystal flakes, Forgetting it is…
1906 · PDF PAGE 96
…oe Victory ill-nurtured breeds the babe defeat. [Aloud.] Listen, my brother’:s son!- Nay, stoop not so, — Bending ashaméd brows upon the earth ! I am well weary of the world of men. I grow both old and hateful to myself, Most on the throne: power which to youth is sweet To age looks fearful. Also I have wept— Alas ! how often !—and repented me. Of those unkingly deeds whereby I gained This throne whose joy is turned to bitterness. I will make peace with thee, and justice still Shall have a home and shrine in Thessaly. Be patient notwithstanding…
1907 · PDF PAGE 196
…ut one, And present—nothing; shall not Hades dare His own omnipotence against the Sun, And let no tittle of his glory share With all the earth’s recuperating wheel, And evéry dawn’s sure falchion-flash of steel? Ant. 3 [Echo of the Damned]. Indeed, a deed impossible was done Were the new Theseus heavier than the air. Nay! but a new thread phantom-frail was spun And men’s blind eyes discovered not the snare, Else were that elder cord and this yet one, Cut but in fancy. Yet, shall mortal dare To fling a wanton word against the Sun, And stand fort…
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
… In one long curve, where folk were making feast. at So with no ‘heart to feast, I joined the mirth, Mingled the dances that delight the earth, And laughing looked in every face of guile. Quick was my glance and subtle was my smile; Ten thousand little loves were brought to birth, Ten thousand loves that laughed a little while. No; for one woman did not laugh, too wise ! But came so close, and looked within my eyes So deeply that I saw not anything. Only her eyes grew, as a purple ring Shielding the sun. They grew; they uttered lies— They fasci…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…ope of things ; Passion and pleasure and pain have stung me, and lost their stings. Only abides there a hollow, void as the heart of the earth. Echo may find it and follow, dead from the day of her birth. Life, of itself not insatiate; death, not pre- suming to be ; Share me intense and emaciate, waste me, are nothing tome. Still in the desolate place, still in the bosom that was Even as a veil for thy face, thy face in a breathed-on glass, Hangs there a vulture, and tears with a beak of iron and fire. I know not his name, for he wears no feath…
1905 · PDF PAGE 208
…y powers Behind him sank affrayed ; his visage lowers Less menacing: his head is turned aslant In vain : I bid him kneel and swear : the earth Rocked with the terror of that deadlier birth. He swore: he vanished: the wide sky resounds With echoing -thunders: through the blinding night The stars resume their courses: at the bounds Of the four watch-towers cry the waking hounds : ‘‘The night is well’: ambient light Through all the borders of the universe At that last lifting of my strenuous curse. slow steals the 1 '* Ave Frater!” Aureae Crucis.”…
1904 · PDF PAGE 93
…rew from her forehead; and she spat black foam and froth. Foul was the hag and evil, y et our F ather bowed down flat on his face to the earth. “ Holy Virgin of God,” said he, “what dost thou here ? What wilt thou with thy servant ?” At that she stank so that the air gasped about her, like a fish brought out of the sea. So she told him she was gathering simples for her daughter t hat had died t o bury her withal. N ow no simples grew in the desert. Therefore our F ather drew with his sword lines of power in the sand, so that a black and terribl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 18
…e pitying godhead weep For cold grey anguish of her eyes, that look to God, and look in vain, For death, the anodyne of pain, for sleep, earth’s trivial paradise? Sleep I forget. Her silky breath no longer ‘fans my ears; I dream I float on some forgotten stream that hath a savour still of death, A sweet warm smell of hidden flowers whose heavy petals kiss the sun, Fierce tropic poisons every one that fume and sweat through forest hours. They grow in darkness; heat beguiles their sluggish kisses ; in the wood They breathe no murmur that is good,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 222
…n shall stand upon another, No son of her throughout the land shall know his brother, I will destroy her who is rotten: from the face Of earth shall fail the misbegotten, root and race } And the fair country unto them again I give, Whom in long exile men contemn: for they shall live.” Yea, they shall live! Amen! And I Give praise, and close mine eyes, cover my face, and laugh—and die. Her breath I take The Celtic race! “CARMEN SAECULARE.,” ‘*T prophesy, with feet upon a grave, Of death cast out, and life devouring death. Of freedom, though all …
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
… Ah ! when the moon arises, she Shall look on nothing but the sea. VII. | O LOVE! and were I with thee ever! Come with me over the round earth, O’er lake and fountain, sea and river ! Girdle the world with angel girth Of angel voyage! Shall we roam In teeming jungles poisonous? Or make ourselves an eyrie-home Where the black ice roars ravenous In glittering avalanche? Or else Hide in some corrie on the fells Of heather and bracken, or delight In grottos built of stalactite? 1 ‘Gallia est divisa in tres partes.” —Cesar de Bello Gallico, i. 1.
1919 · PDF PAGE 313
… positive Wassermann—to the eyes from their birth. Said Bill to his brother, ‘Well, thanks to our mother, we’re the rottenest beggars on earth.’” True Guost Stories. By Herewarp Carrincron. J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Co. Mr. Herewarp CarRINGTON was a very clever young man, and that was his trouble. He is still a very clever young man, and as he is older than he was, his trouble is increased. I always thought him crazy with his ideas on fasting and his weighing souls, but he always gave the impression of the greatest sincerity. He did extraordinar…
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…The city gleams afar; I see Samaria’s white walls on high ; The mountains echo back to me The vengeful murmur of the sky; All heaven and earth on me attend To prophesy the tyrant’s end. The-gates are closed because of night Whose heavy breath iafects the air5 The dog-star gleams, a devilish light : I thought I saw behind me glare The eyes of fiends. IT thought I heard An evil laugh, a mocking word. The gates swing open at the Name, Without a warder roused from sleep; I pass, with face of burning flame, That is not quenched, although I weep. (Fo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 8
…ing in the summer sky Like a model of the moon :— How supreme to be so high In a treacherous balloon, Like the Kings of Destiny, All the earth for their spittoon. 1 Mr. Gladstone was attacked by a cow in Hawarden Park in 1891. Toads are gnawing at my feet. Take them off me quick, I pray! Worms my juicy liver eat. Take the awful beasts away ! Vipers make my bowels their meat. Fetch a cunning knife and slay ! Kill the tadpoles in my lung, And the woodlice in my spine, And the beast that gnaws my tongue, And the weasel at my chine, And the horde o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 144
…rone. RUPHA motions CRIOSDA fo he silent. Ist PRIEST. Glory unto thee, Maurya, secret Lady of the Stars ! | CHORISTERS. Who wast born on earth! 2nd PRigestT. Glory unto thee, Maurya, Lady of Life ! CHORISTERS. Who didst die for us! ALL. Glory for ever unto Maurya ! THE WORSHIPPING FOLK. Maurya, hear us ! [All bend deeper and deeper in adora- tion. Silence awhile. They rese, and the priests see RUPHA and CRIOSDA. Ist PRIEST. [Whzspers.] Itis the Mother of our Lady. 2nd PRIEST. [Whispers.| Whois with her ? Ist PRIEST. [WAispers.] The first discip…
1905 · PDF PAGE 16
…And he remembered. Like a wild bird's cry The song within him flamed, a melody Dreadful and beautiful. The sad sca heard And echoed over earth its bitter word. SONG. Ere the grape ofjoy is golden With the summer and the sun, Ere the maidens unbeholden Gather one by one, To the vineyard comes the shower, No sweet rain to fresh the flower, But the thunder rain that cleaves, RKends and ruins tender leaves. Ere the wine of perfect pleasure From a perfect chalice poured, Swells the veins with such a measure As the garden’s lord Makes his votaries da…
1905 · PDF PAGE 90
…nspired with so profound a hate— He shall not triumph: in the very hour When his o’ermastering forehead tops the sky I strike him to the earth. I need not move. Silence—no more—and all accomplishes. Leviathan, how subtle is thy path ! CHORUS. Not now may the hour of gladness fade, The wheel of our fate spins bright and beaming. God has fashioned a sun from shade. Mercy and joy in one tide are streaming. Fortune is powerless, to all good seeming. Fate is stricken, and flees afraid. JARED. Bring me the sackcloth and the ashes now ! ELEAZAR, Behol…