Faith (George William Russell Poems)
HERE where the loves of others close The vision of my heart begins. The wisdom that within us grows Is ...
HERE where the loves of others close The vision of my heart begins. The wisdom that within us grows Is ...
YOUR paths were all unknown to us: We were so far away from you: We mixed in thought your spirit ...
WE air tired who follow after Phantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter Stain our hearts ...
I HEARD them in their sadness say, "The earth rebukes the thought of God; We are but embers wrapped in ...
HER mist of primroses within her breast Twilight hath folded up, and o'er the west, Seeking remoter valleys long hath ...
A LAUGHTER in the diamond air, a music in the trembling grass; And one by one the words of light ...
BEARDED with dewy grass the mountains thrust Their blackness high into the still grey light, Deepening to blue: far up ...
I WOULD not have the love of lips and eyes, The ancient ways of love: But in my heart I ...
HEART-HIDDEN from the outer things I rose; The spirit woke anew in nightly birth Unto the vastness where forever glows ...
WHERE are now the dreams divine, Fires that lit the dawning soul, As the ruddy colours shine Through an opal ...
ONE thing in all things have I seen: One thought has haunted earth and air: Clangour and silence both have ...
THEY call us aliens, we are told, Because our wayward visions stray From that dim banner they unfold, The dreams ...
HOW I could see through and through you! So unconscious, tender, kind, More than ever was known to you Of ...
I KNOW myself no more, my child, Since thou art come to me, Pity so tender and so wild Hath ...
I THOUGHT, beloved, to have brought to you A gift of quietness and ease and peace, Cooling your brow as ...
THE BLUE dusk ran between the streets: my love was winged within my mind, It left to-day and yesterday and ...
OUR true hearts are forever lonely: A wistfulness is in our thought: Our lights are like the dawns which only ...
LOVE and pity are pleading with me this hour. What is this voice that stays me forbidding to yield, Offering ...
I GO down from the hills half in gladness, and half with a pain I depart, Where the Mother with ...
I WOULD I could weave in The colour, the wonder, The song I conceive in My heart while I ponder, ...
OUT of the dusky chamber of the brain Flows the imperial will through dream on dream: The fires of life ...
A FRIENDLY mountain I know; As I lie on the green slope there It sets my heart in a glow ...
YOU remember, dear, together Two children, you and I, Sat once in the autumn weather, Watching the autumn sky. There ...
HOW came this pigmy rabble spun, After the gods and kings of old, Upon a tapestry begun With threads of ...
WHERE we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted, We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil ...
I FAIN would leave the tender songs I sang to you of old, Thinking the oft-sung beauty wrongs The magic ...
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