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(1867 - 1935) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

Even as a bird sprays many-coloured fires,
The plumes of paradise, the dying light
Rays through the fevered air in misty spires
     That vanish in the heights.

These myriad eyes that look on me are mine;
Wandering beneath them I have found again
The ancient ample moment, the divine,
     The God-root within men.

For this, for this the lights innumerable
As symbols shine that we the true light win:
For every star and every deep they fill     
     Are stars and deeps within.

 

 

-- from Wild Poets of Ecstasy: An Anthology of Ecstatic Verse, Edited by D. J. Moores

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Themes

  Birds
  Light
 
 
 


Recommended Books


AE in the Irish Theosophist, by George William Russell
By Still Waters: Lyrical Poems Old and New, by George William Russell
The Candle of Vision: Inner Worlds of the Imagination, by George William Russell
Collected Poems of George William Russell, by George William Russell
Descent of the Gods: The Mystical Writings of G. W. Russell - A.E., by George William Russell / Edited by Raghavan Iyer

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