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Quotes from The Nuts of Knowledge — George William Russell

1867–1935 Ireland

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Make of thy gentleness thy might:
'Make of thy silence words to shake
The long-enthroned kings of earth:
Make of thy will the force to break
Their towers of wantonness and mirth.'

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

All the morn a spirit gay
Breathes within my heart a rhyme,
Tis but hide and seek we play
In and out the courts of Time.

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

The life which passes mourns its wasted hour.
And, ah, to think how thin the veil that lies
Between the pain of hell and paradise!
The Grey Eros

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

Thy tender kiss hath memory we are kings
For all our wanderings.
Thy shining eyes already see the after
In hidden light and laughter.
The Burning Glass

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

Of the Earth, of the Mother, my heart with her heart in accord:
As I lie mid the cool green tresses that mantle her breast
I begin with the grass once again to be bound to the Lord.

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

He has built his monument
With the winds of time at strife,
Who could have before he went
Written in the book of life.
To the stars from which he came
Empty handed he goes home;
He who might have wrought in flame
Only traced upon the foam.'

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

Whatever time thy golden eyelids ope
They travel to a hope;
Not only backward from these low degrees
To starry dynasties,
But, looking far where now the silence owns
And rules from empty thrones,
Thou seest the enchanted halls of heaven burn
For joy at our return.

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George William Russell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.