Blossomed Hours; Book of the Mind and the Heart (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...it be so? Cannot the Venus-worship coexist with clean wholesomeness and strong, sweet life? Must it ever turn to unhealthy sex-desire and morbid blood-lust? Though these stories are as perfect in sensuous simplicity as the prose poems of the English contemporary of Louys, Oscar Wilde, there is in them, with even stronger sex and beauty worship, the same impression of decadence, of refinement pushed to the point of morbidity. Is it that the beauty worshipped is all of the body, with no sacred expression of the soul? The charm is compelling; yet one draws back. This is the modern Venusberg, drawing no virile Tannhauser to a strong sensual riot; but subtly entrapping the over-refined artist, whose worn nerves ache with sensuous desire, to a debauch of the imagination, of which the only physical expression is in perverted action, and PIERRE LOWS which is without any vision of the true spirit of man and woman. Still, the words seem too strong, and the mysterious fascination remains; while the true Venus-worship stands as a sound reaction upon that other perversion--ascetic revolt against the flesh and its beauty and truth. How shall the true religion be attained, that avoids both perversions and walks the straight path between, loving and enjoying all the beauty of the body, but always as the enrobing garment of the spirit behind? The Hope Of Spring1 WHEN the earth draws nearer and nearer the sun, She laughs out her joy in grass and flowers; The ice-brooks melt and the waters run Through the forest--all fragrant bowers. When I draw nearer and nearer to you, O wondrous, joy-giving sun of my heart, My death-chilled soul is born anew, While, for flowers, the warm tears start. RED RIVER CANYON Canyon, Texas, July 10, 1921 THE Red River Canyon is without the stupendo...