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We and it and all together flashing through the starry spaces
In a tempest dream of beauty lighting up the place of places.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
For beauty called to beauty and there thronged at the enchanter's will
The vanished hours of love that burn within the Ever-living still.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
The great deep thrills for through it everywhere
The breath of beauty blows.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways,
By unnumbered ways of dream to death.
The Hermit
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Though the dream of love may tire,
In the ages long agone
There were ruby hearts of fire —
Ah, the daughters of the dawn!
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
The tower of heaven turns darker blue; a starry sparkle now begins;
The mystery and magnificence, the myriad beauty and the sins
Come back to me.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee,
Trembling I waken to a mystery,
How through one door we go to life or death
By spirit kindled or the sensual breath.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Late, late, I come to you, now death discloses
Love that in life was not to be our part:
On your low lying mound between the roses,
Sadly I cast my heart.
The hope lives on age after age,
Earth with its beauty might be won
For labor as a heritage,
For this has Ireland lost a son.
To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)
You would have understood me, had you waited;
I could have loved you, dear! as well as he:
Had we not been impatient, dear! and fated
Always to disagree.
We deem our love so infinite
Because the Lord is everywhere,
And love awakening is made bright
And bathed in that diviner air.
By Still Waters (1906)