posted August 01, 2012 03:29 PM            

…he who kisses the Joy as it flies… 86:18 Wm. Blake

He who binds to himself a Joy
Doth the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the Joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.

THE MAGICIAN

492:12 Wm. Shakespeare – The Winter’s Tale

O! she’s warm.
If this be magic, let it be an art
Lawful as eating.

THE HIGH PRIESTESS

82:10 Book of Revelation, The Bible

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the
sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve
stars.

THE EMPRESS

86:20 Wm. Blake

Abstinence sows sand all over
The ruddy limbs and flaming hair,
But Desire gratified
Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

THE EMPEROR

209:10 David Everett

Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

THE HIEROPHANT

1:95:10 Dryden - All for Love, Prologue

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below.

THE LOVERS

98:11 Elizabeth B Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love’s sake only.

posted August 01, 2012 03:34 PM            

86:16 Wm. Blake – Jerusalem

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!

JUSTICE

468:top of page. Wm. Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice

Though justice be thy plea consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

THE HERMIT

277:14 Samuel Johnson

Hermit hoar, in solemn cell,
Wearing out life’s evening gray;
Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell,
What is bliss, and which the way?

THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE

432:11 Wm. Shakespeare – Hamlet

Guildenstern: On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.
Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?
Rosenkrantz: Neither, my lord.
Hamlet: Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours?
Guildenstern: Faith, her privates, we.
Hamlet: In the secret parts of Fortune? O! most true; she is a strumpet.

STRENGTH

49:21 The Bible – Judges 14:14

Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.

THE HANGED MAN

246:27 George Herbert 1593 – 1633

Hearken thee unto a Verser, who may chance rhyme thee to good, and
make a bait of pleasure:
A verse may find him who a sermon flies
And turn delight into a sacrifice.

DEATH

76:29 The Bible Corinthians 51

Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed,

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall be changed.

posted August 01, 2012 03:40 PM            

539:5 Tennyson

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions match’d with mine,
Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

THE DEVIL

216:12 John Ford c.1586 – 1639

Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play with the severity of fate.

THE TOWER

541:8 Tennyson

O fall’n at length that tower of strength
Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew

THE STAR

495:5 Wm. Shakespeare Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.

THE MOON

155:18 Coleridge 1772-1834 – The Ancient Mariner

The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip.

THE SUN

586:21 Yeats 1865-1939 – The Song of Wandering Aengus

And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon
The golden apples of the sun.

JUDGEMENT

86:8 Wm.Blake 1757- 1827

I give you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall.

posted August 01, 2012 03:44 PM            

85:8 Wm. Blake- Auguries of Innocence

To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.