Poems
THEME/S
Breath of the boundless blue,
Throb of the perfect gold,
'Poise of the peak that is purple,
Green wideness rapture-rolled—
Streak of new moon that trickles
Some immortality,
Trance-touch of stars like a love
Whose depth no man can see—
All these are felt by us,
Our aching eyes are called
To many a far wood-gloom
Fairily waterfalled—
Our trembling hand bares heaven
With a tiny stroke of the brush,
Or through the quill's faint quiver
Eagles of ecstasy rush—
Wonders are all about,
Wonders well up within,
A gurgle sweeter than any name,
A deep unworded din.
Yet with so rich a scatter
Of moment-miracles,
A pang and a poverty
Darken our pulse.
O passing the paradises,
Till we have gone
Behind the myriad marvels
To the Marvellous One!
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Haphazard are the jewels
The brief hours bring,
Unless they hold together
On a timeless string.
A gap of gloom will ever
Haunt flashes of mere mind,
Ere in some Whole of infinite fire
Our little flames go blind.
How shall the unchanging bliss's
Ether be known,
If the gods who throng conceal
The God who is alone—
Single without a second,
The unbroken master-mood,
With no beyond to ache for,
The peace of plenitude—
No fear of foeman's ambush,
Each hidden face
A deep of self-disclosure,
A secret of self-gaze!
Him must we find in the blue,
The gold, the purple, the green,
The silver and even the shadow—
A light that is unseen!
One ray of Him can pierce
All mortal misery,
And every lock of the universe
Shall open to this Key.
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