THE GREEN

SHEAF
The Complete Series (vol I - XIII)
edited by
PAMELA COLMAN SMITH
with a new introduction by
ALADDIN COLLAR
 Dedicated to my mom,
who knows where the faerie folk roam.
-Aladdin Collar

ISBN: 9798646991677

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction, by Aladdin Collar..............................................................................................................................................5

VOLUME I
The Book-Worm, by Pamela Colman Smith......................................................................................................................... 9
The Hill of Heart’s Desire, by Raferty & Lady Gregory, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith...........................................10
The Parting of the Ways, by Cecil French............................................................................................................................11
A Song of the Pyrenees, by Alix Egerton, illlustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.................................................................12
How Master Constans Went to the North (Part One), by Christopher St. John..................................................................13

VOLUME II
How Master Constans Went to the North (Part Two), by Christopher St. John...................................................................14
Fragment by William Blake, illustrated by W.T. Horton.......................................................................................................16
A Million Years Hence, by A.E.............................................................................................................................................17
A Prayer to the Lords of Dream, by Cecil French.................................................................................................................18
Once in a Dream, by Pamela Colman Smith........................................................................................................................19
Dream of the World’s End, by W.B. Yeats.............................................................................................................................20
A Dream on Inishmaan, by J.M. Synge.................................................................................................................................22
Jan A Dreams, by John Masefield ........................................................................................................................................23
La Tranquilita, by W.T. Horton............................................................................................................................................25
Too Early to Bed, by Dorothy P. Ward..................................................................................................................................26

VOLUME III
The Harvest Home, by Martin Shaw and Edward Gordon Craig........................................................................................27
Eventide, by Ernest Redford.................................................................................................................................................30
Spanish Ladies, by Wally Blair, arranged by Martin Shaw, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.......................................31
Reconcilement, by A.E..........................................................................................................................................................33
Donald Dubh, by Lina Marston...........................................................................................................................................33
Audax in Recto, by W.T. Horton...........................................................................................................................................34
A Ballad of a Night Refuge, by Christopher St. John...........................................................................................................35
A Pagan Rhyme, by Herbert Shaw, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith............................................................................37
Cornelion and Amethyst, by E. Harcourt Williams, illustrated by Cecil French...................................................................38
Mrs. Stirling, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti................................................................................................................................40
 VOLUME IV
A Fragment by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith....................................................................41
The Water-Sprite, by Alix Egerton........................................................................................................................................42
A Dream of Angus Oge, by A.E...........................................................................................................................................43
Friends, by Cecil French, illustrated by Lewis Grant.............................................................................................................46
A Sonnet, by Lucilla, illustrated by W.T. Horton ................................................................................................................47
Alone, written and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith......................................................................................................48
Song from “Princesse Lointaine,” by Edmund Rosstand......................................................................................................49
Evening, by Dorothy Ward....................................................................................................................................................50
Prince Siddartha, by Laurence Irving, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith & Cecil French..............................................51

VOLUME V
The Dreamer and the World, by Cecil French......................................................................................................................54
Cael and Credhe, by Lady Gregory, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith...........................................................................55
The Fairy Dance, by Alix Egerton.........................................................................................................................................58
A May Madrigal, by John Todhunter....................................................................................................................................59
The Lament of a Lyceum Rat, by Mary Brown, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.......................................................60
The Turning of the Tide, by Cecil French............................................................................................................................63
Time, by Pamela Colman Smith...........................................................................................................................................63
“Juveniles,” by Bernhard Smith, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.................................................................................64
Will o’ the Wisp, by Lefragslie Moore, illustrated by Cecil French........................................................................................65

VOLUME VI
The Rim of the Sea, by Pamela Colman Smith.....................................................................................................................67
The Mermaid of Zennor, by L.C. Duncomb Jewell..............................................................................................................68
A Deep Sea Yarn, by John Masefield.....................................................................................................................................69
The Tidal River, by Dorothy Ward.......................................................................................................................................75
Fragment by Keats, illustrated by W.T. Horton......................................................................................................................76
Cobus on Death, by H. Heijermans & Christopher St. John................................................................................................77
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune, by Thomas Campion...........................................................................................................78
The Waters of the Moon, Cecil French.................................................................................................................................79

VOLUME VII
Autumn, by Eleanor Vicocq Ward, illustrated by Dorothy P. Ward......................................................................................80
The Calling Voice, by Alix Egerton........................................................................................................................................81
Echo, by Pamela Colman Smith...........................................................................................................................................81
Blind Man’s Vigil, by John Masefield......................................................................................................................................82
Eocene, by George Ives..........................................................................................................................................................84
Deirdre, by A.E......................................................................................................................................................................85
The Old Book, by Frederick J. Waugh....................................................................................................................................97

VOLUME VIII
The Wood Nymph, by Cecil French.......................................................................................................................................98
The Wood of Laragh, by Cecil French..................................................................................................................................99
The Clay Chickens, by E. Harcourt Williams, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.........................................................100
The Gray Coat (A Dream), by Christopher St. John..........................................................................................................104
A Dream, by Victor Bridges................................................................................................................................................106
Kyn Vyttyn (Before Morning), by L.C. Duncombe-Jewell .................................................................................................106
Dawn, by Pamela Colman Smith.........................................................................................................................................107
The Land of Make-Believe, by Francis Annesley.................................................................................................................107
The Knight-Errant, by Alix Egerton...................................................................................................................................108
The Silent Knight, by Pamela Colman Smith.....................................................................................................................109
Fragment by William Blake, illustrated by W.T. Horton......................................................................................................110
Belinda, by Reginald Rigby.................................................................................................................................................111

VOLUME IX
From East to West, by Frederick J. Waugh, illustrated by Cecil French .............................................................................112
Love’s Awakening, by Victor Bridges, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith......................................................................113
My Lady of Pain, by Alix Egerton, illustrated by W.T. Horton..........................................................................................114
A Dream, by John Todhunter..............................................................................................................................................116

VOLUME X
Fragment, by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.....................................................................119
The Boat of Dream, by Albert Bigelow Paine......................................................................................................................120
Wren’s Day (folk song), illustrated by Jack B. Yeats..............................................................................................................121
The Dawn Song, by Gerald of Bornelh & F. York Powell...................................................................................................122
The Garden, by G.J.............................................................................................................................................................123
Rondelet, by Ernest Radford...............................................................................................................................................125
The Fountain of Faithful Lovers, by Cecil French................................................................................................................126

VOLUME XI
The Changed World, by Dorothy P. Ward..........................................................................................................................127
The Violet, by Yone Noguchi..............................................................................................................................................128
Cup and Ball, by Mary Grace Walker.................................................................................................................................129
A Lyke-Wake Dirge (folk song), illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.................................................................................130
Memory, by Alix Egerton....................................................................................................................................................132

VOLUME XII
Pinie Und Blitz (The Pine Tree Speaks), by Friedrich Nietzsche, illustrated by Eric Maclagan.........................................133
A Song of the Night, by Alix Egerton..................................................................................................................................134
Evening, by Yone Noguchi..................................................................................................................................................135
Mugen (Without Words), by Yone Noguchi.........................................................................................................................135
The Town, by Pamela Colman Smith.................................................................................................................................136
Aithine, by Cecil French......................................................................................................................................................137
Dermid, by Cecil French.....................................................................................................................................................137
The Nameless Ones, by John Toddhunter...........................................................................................................................138

VOLUME XIII
Around the Earth is Spread the Sea, by Dorothy P. Ward..................................................................................................139
Fragment, by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.....................................................................140
The Galley Slave, by Alix Egerton.......................................................................................................................................142
A Horror of the House of Dreams, by F. York-Powell.........................................................................................................143
F. York Powell, by Jack. B Yeats...........................................................................................................................................146
Frederick York-Powell, a Reminiscence, by John Todhunter...............................................................................................147
Arcadian Songs, by Eleanor Vicocq Ward..........................................................................................................................149
The Wind, by Evelyn Garnaut Smalley...............................................................................................................................150
Elephant & Ball, by Reginald Rigby.....................................................................................................................................151

Afterward, by Aladdin Collar..............................................................................................................................................152

 INTRODUCTION
by Aladdin Collar

Pamela Colman Smith (known to her friends as “Pixie”) secured her place in the history of
Western esoterica in 1909, after she was commissioned to illustrate a new tarot deck by the author
and mystic A.E. Waite. The illustrations were instantly iconic upon release, and their popularity was
greatly bolstered by Waite’s failure to copyright the work in the United States. The cards, henceforth
in the public domain, were widely circulated in new decks, in books, on merchandise, album covers,
and so on and so forth - unlikely fuel for the American consumerist behemoth. Over a century and
change, the Waite-Rider Tarot’s visual style has been firmly cemented in popular culture as a stock
aesthetic of the esoteric and occult.
In The Green Sheaf (1903 - 1904), we can see some of the artistic foundations of those cards
being developed. Ancient archetypes processed by modern symbolists; forms and figures plucked
from folklore and myth, rendered in bold lines and flat colors. As editor, Pixie commissioned work
from her various social circles in London; she drew on previous connections from A Broad Sheet
(another arts magazine, co-edited with Jack Butler Yeats), as well as the Lyceum Theatre Group, the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, literary celebrities from the Irish & Celtic Revivals, and gay
rights activists from the secret Order of the Chaeronea.
As she developed her magazine, Pixie regularly gathered her friends for weekly salons at her
studio in Chelsea; Arthur Ransom, a contemporary English writer, described one of these nights in a
chapter of his book of essays, Bohemia in London (1907).
“She welcomed us with the oddest shriek,” Ransome recalls of meeting Pixie for the first
time, in 1901. “It was the oddest, most uncanny little shriek, half laugh, half exclamation. It made
me very shy. It was obviously an affection, and yet seemed just the right manner of welcome from
the strange little creature, ‘god daughter of a witch and sister to a fairy’ who uttered it.”
In a ‘mad room out of a fairy tale,’ with its walls covered in drawings and paintings from
around the world, and curated with such fanciful artifacts and baubles as to ‘have the effect of a well
designed curiosity shop,’ Ransome was treated to an evening of poetry, storytelling, and song. Pixie
and her friends performed for one another amid the smoke of cigarettes and thick incense; the cock-
tail of the evening was the ‘opal hush,’ an amethystine blend of lemonade and red claret. A visitors’
book was kept, signed by the attendees with caricatures and rhymes, the pages ‘used as a tournament
field’ of jest between friends.
After this introduction to the studio, Ransome made a point to return each week to Pixie’s
parties. “Always we were merry. The evening was never wasted. There I heard poetry read as if the
ghost of some old minstrel had descended on the reader, and shown how the words should be chant-
ed aloud.”
The spirit of Pixie’s salon was distilled, like an alchemist’s solution, into The Green Sheaf. It
ran for 13 hand-colored issues. Included in its pages were not just contemporary voices, but frag-
ments from the Gothic-Romance-era masters such as William Blake, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and
John Keats. The magazine made themes of dreaming, spirituality, and a longing for a world to which
we can never return.
In contrast to the popularity of her Tarot designs, Pixie’s Sheaf fell immediately into obscuri-
ty; prior to this volume, it has never been collected or republished. With that grievous error correct-
ed, it is my pleasure to present to you, thunderously and without mercy, the complete Green Sheaf.
May it be enshrined in crystal, evermore.

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 AFTERWARD

In 1907, The Occult Review published an article by Lady Archibald Campbell titled “Faerie
Ireland,” which drew upon contemporary eye-witness accounts in order to argue for the existence of
a continued faerie presence in the liminal spaces of rural Ireland.
The article cites an uncanny experience shared by Green Sheaf alumni Pamela Colman Smith
and Lady Alix Egerton, who were traveling the Irish countryside together.
“A few years now have passed since Lady Alix Egerton and Miss Coleman Smith visited
this gentle glen. A fair wind blew that afternoon, and before they reached the little ford, a certain
group of stones mid-stream, they heard a sound - a coming wave of music. Was it the wind? They
maintain it was not wind nor sound of wind, but a journeying music which met them, now fast, now
slow, a burden that had no beginning nor yet an end. They reached the ford, and on the rock mid-
stream sat down. Presently the rock began to stir, it breathed as if in sleep; it seemed too palpitate
as if alive. They both felt this; they touched it. It was cold; though cold to touch, directly they raised
their hands, a hot air struck their palms. Then slowly, silently the near rock moved aside, and left a
reft where hitherto there had been none, then slowly, silently, moved back again to its place. Keeping
the centre of the wind, though lost in part, they heard the clear definite beat of a march played upon
stringed instruments - hards, violins, reed-pipes, strike of cymbals, beat of drums, with much singing,
calling of voices, and the clash of arms. The music was loud, so loud as to be almost demeaning,
louder than the fretful gusts, and independent of the wind’s direction, as from a vast advancing
throne, who, all unseen, had now surrounded them. Upon the right hand on the diamond river,
on the hillside, riders galloped on white horses, and their cloaks, blue, green, and grey, streamed in
the wind, as in bounding stride their horses rose from earth, commanding earth and air. Across the
broken ground upon the left marched ranks on foot. Close by, and looking down on them, Lady
Alix saw a tall man wrapped in a blue cloak; he leaned on a cross-hilted sword. Nearer, still huddled
together, were three old men like sages; a young man talked with them; his hair was red, his dress
was blue; and as they faded out a queenly woman crossed the little river, arrayed in blue, wearing a
crown of prehistoric shape.”
Pixie could hear the music; she did her best to bring it to those of us that could not.

Aladdin Collar,
Founder, the American Eldritch Society
for the Preservation of Hearsay and Rumor
July 17th, 2020