Teresa of Avila: My Beloved One is Mine

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My Beloved One is Mine

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by Teresa of Avila
(1515 - 1582) Timeline

English version by
Anonymous

Original Language
Spanish

I gave myself to Love Divine,
And lo! my lot so changed is
That my Beloved One is mine
And I at last am surely His.

When the sweet Huntsman from above
First wounded me and left me prone,
Into the very arms of Love
My stricken soul forthwith was thrown.
Since then my life's no more my own
And all my lot so changed
That my Beloved One is mine
And I at last am surely His.

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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Themes

Honey

Lover and Beloved

Pain and Wounding

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	Collected Works of St Teresa, by Teresa of Avila
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