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Page 99 of 1121910 · PDF PAGE 357
…o get work, and eventually marrying them to honest fellows of their own class. This seemed too sensible to be true. Mr. Hewston’s honest heart had led him to misunderstand. Mr. Coote indignantly corrected this view of the Society’s work. They never did that sort of thing, he said, except in a few very special cases. Now I want to know about these very special cases. Are they by any chance those in which the fathers are reputable and pious persons, highly esteemed for their Evangelicalism and philanthropy? . . . There have been some ill-disposed…
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
…o get work, and eventually marrying them to honest fellows of their own class. This seemed too sensible to be true. Mr. Hewston’s honest heart had led him to misunderstand. Mr. Coote indignantly corrected this view of the Society’s work. They never did that sort of thing, he said, except in a few very special cases. Now I want to know about these very special cases. Are they by any chance those in which the fathers are reputable and pious persons, highly esteemed for their Evangelicalism and philanthropy? . . . There have been some ill-disposed…
1905 · PDF PAGE 191
…. O emerald star, deep beauty’s avatar, Are thy skies dim? What throne is thine above? Where is the crownof thee —thy sevenfold star, My heart of love? | Then from the clinging mist there came a singing; A dirge re-echoes to the poet prayer : ‘‘T am their child to whom thy soul is clinging, Iam Despair !” THE SANCTUARY. I see, beyond all seas and stars, The gates of hell, the paths of death Open: unclasp the surly bars Before the voice of him that saith: “*T will!” Droop lower to my knees ! Sink gently to the leopard’s skin !1 I must not stoop …
1906 · PDF PAGE 109
…r; the days discover high joys that hover of lover and lover, and fates above her are fallen and done. JASON. Queen of this people! O my heart’s desire Spotless, the Lady of my love, and friends By whose heroic ardours I am found Victor at last, well girded with the spoil Of life in gleaming beauty, and this prize Thrice precious, my Medea—all is won! Needs only now the favouring kiss of Eurus, Bright-born of Eos, to fulfil for us The last of all the labours, to inspire The quick-raised sail, and fill that flushing gold With thrice desiréd brea…
1905 · PDF PAGE 21
…ng to this hero; sing, lure slumber to your queen.” And she: ‘Not many SONG OF APHRODITE’S LIANDMAIDENS. My dreams are sweet, because my heart is free, Because our locks sti]l mingle and lips meet, Because thine arms still hold me tenderly, My dreams are sweet. Visions ot waters rippling by my feet, Trees that re-weave their branches lovingly, 3irds that pass passionate on pinions fect : Such quiet joys my eyes in slumber see— Let death’s keen sickle wander through the wheat ! I love not life o’ermuch; since loving thee My dreams arc sweet. Sin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 74
…ounsel and defence Against the tribe of Ammon, and stand aghast 5 Our feeble arms sway doubtfully long swords, And spears are flung half-heartedly ; and he With warlike garrison and stronger arms Who might have helped us, laughs, and violence Threatens the white flower of our homes: our wives, Daughters, and sons are as a prey to them, And where the children of the Ammonites Throng not swift hoofs for murder, Jephthah’s men Blaspheme our sanctuaries inviolate, And rob us of our dearest. Woe on woe Hangs imminent to crush the slender sides And b…
1906 · PDF PAGE 89
…ned and completed, consecrate and shrined : A perfect temple of fine amber wrought, Whose shrine’s the body and whose lamp the mind. The heart is priest and sacrifice in one ; And, where it sinned or sorrowed, shall atone. 1 Proserpine, ravished by Hades, was sought by her mother Demeter. But as she had eaten (a pomegranate) in Hell, Hades retained a claim upon her for half the year. See Forty- eighth Day. THE FORTY-SIXTH DAY. “ Because I love you, I will let you‘know : cee ee my wife . . . like a fountain with a hundred spouts Did run pure blo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 77
…d But Maytime shone in us; with words Is stilled the swift caress, of art Because my lover has me curled I drew her down reluctant to my heart, In her own loveliness. When night was silence and my bed| No kiss be such a night as this !— the gloom. Unless my Alice be the kiss. So without sin we took strange sacrament, No blade of grass awaiting takes Whose wine was kisses, and whose bread The dew, fresh-fallen above, the flower Because my lover swoons, and slakes Of fast and fervent cleaving breast to Her body’s thirst of love. breast. This nigh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 80
…a chief. But whom we scorned we have set A leader and judge over all; His wrong he may not forget, But he pitieth men that call From the heart that is broken with fear and the noise of funeral, JEPHTHAH. Are all these ready for their hearth and altars To perish suddenly upon the field, Pavilioned with the little tents at noon, And ere the nightfall ten.ed with the dead, And every hollow made a sepulchre, And every hill a vantage ground whereon Hard-breathing fighting men get scanty sleep, Till the dawn lift his eyebrows, and the day Renew the b…
1905 · PDF PAGE 187
…the vehicle of yrace. WEDLOCK. A SONNET. I saw the Russian peasants 1! build a ring Of glowing embers of the bubbling pine. In the green heart o’ the salamander line They scatter roses. Now the youngsters spring Within, who with hard-shut eyes hope to bring Irom out the fiery circle one divine Blossom of rose, as from a poisonous mine Gold comes to gird the palace of a king. Envious I sprang—and found the last rose gone. ) So in the fiery ring of wedlock, blind, Mad, one may leap, no rose perhaps to find (Or, if no rose, good fortune finds no t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…, in the Orient Express. They were extricated from Paris by a friend whom I had thoughtfully sent to meet them; and the following day my heart was gladdened by the realization of my dreams — the actual physical presence of
1906 · PDF PAGE 79
…cal pattern aS a vole de chambre. And she, whose robe was far too slight to hide The babe-smooth breasts, was far too frail to cover Her heart’s true fire and music from her lover. THE TWENTIETH DAY. ‘* Val. How long hath she been deformed? Speed. Ever since you loved her.” Two Gentlemen of Verona, AGAIN the unveiled goddess of delight Watched us at midnight: there my lover lay ° Child-breasted, maiden as the rose of day Dawning on snowy mountains: through deep night Her body gleamed self-luminously white With the sweet soul that sundered the q…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…e necromancers; and as Vesquit made the final gesture, Arthwait turned his page, and Abdul struck home with a great knife to the brute's heart. Now, as the blood stained their grave-clothes, the hearts of the three sorcerers beat heavily. A foul sweat broke out upon them. The sudden change — psychological or magical? — from the turgid drone of Arthwait to the grimness of that silence in which the howls of the agonizing cats rose hideous, struck them with a deadly fear. Or was it that they realized for the
1935 · PDF PAGE 11
…and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty—symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; as secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother’s God, or th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 160
…nlike him, but with less vehemence; and instead of music were soft rays of light, rosy and harmonious; and his arms were folded upon his heart and his head bowed. It was clear that he understood his act as a sacrament. Then came a strange paradox of a man[7] — utter violence and extreme gentleness. A man at war within himself! And in his ecstasy of rage he peopled space with thousands of bright and vigorous phantasms. They were
1905 · PDF PAGE 250
…rom the sky, Subtle and tender— Then I can die! TANNHAUSER. The simple love of life and gladness there! Merely to be, and worship at the heart. How complex, the machinery of me! Better? I doubt it. SHEPHERD-BOY (s2725). O Gretchen, when the morn Is gray, Forsake thy flocks and steal away To that low bank where, shepherds say, The flowers eternal are. Thine eyes should gleam to see me there, As fixed upon a star, And yet thy lips should take a tune, And match me unaware— So steals the sun beside the moon And hides her lustre rare. The bloom upon…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…ate lips that would be kissed? Like far blue snows by sunrise caught Love lights the enlightened eyes of blue. Dare to believe the child-heart’s thought, And wake in wonder! For I knew From the first hour that This was true. XXIII. PROTOPLASM. ALTHOUGH I cannot leave these bitter leas, And whisper wiser than the southern breeze, And mix my master music with the sea’s ; Although I shiver and you smile; heap coal And you stand laughing where the long waves roll ; There is a sympathy of soul to soul. Not Scylla, not the iron Symplegades Shall bar …
1905 · PDF PAGE 181
…e ! O Murderess of the hateful eyes ! I have snapped O and you fix them on me! your lips curse now—’tis fitter ! Snarl on ! eat out your heart with the poison that is its blood. Speak! and her lips move blasphemies cruel and bitter. Slow the words creep forth as a sleepy and deadly flood. They glitter, those Satanic eyes ! now. with ‘‘ Beast! I gave you my soul and my body to.all your lust ! feast ! I am damned in Ilell for the kisses we sucked from death ! Now remorse is yours, and love is fallen in dust-— I shal] seek Him again for its sacram…
1906 · PDF PAGE 132
…of soul and mind ! The lazy accents stir at last The scented air: ‘‘ Oh, wherefore, lord, Is thy soul sad? This weary fast Strikes to my heart a lonely sword In brief words stammered forth I spoke My secret ; and the long spell broke. 1”? And now the gilded sin of her Leapt and was lambent in a smile: ‘*Give me but leave to minister This kingdom for a little while! The vineyard shall he thine. O king, This trouble is a little thing !” ' «* Dust-devils"’ show opalescence in certain aspects of light.
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…ambassadors; but Douglas was not strong on history, and knew nothing of how those experiments resulted. Nor, apparently, had he taken to heart the words of the gospel: "If Satan be divided against Satan, how shall his kingdom stand?" Still less did he realize that this ingenious plan had been suggested to him by Simon Iff! Yet it was so: this was the head of the counter-attack which the old mystic had agreed to deliver on behalf of Cyril Grey. It was only a quarter of an hour's work; the Way of the Tao is the easiest as it is the surest. This i…