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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Here the Whole World

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes, yet with hopes that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day.

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Death in Battle

Open the gates for me, Open the gates of the peaceful cas… In the sweet dim Isle of Apples o… Open the gates for me! Sorely pressed have I been
Hymn (For Boys' Voices)

All the things magicians do Could be done by me and you Freely, if we only knew. Human children every day Could play at games the faeries pl…
On Prayer

Master, they say that when I seem To be in speech with you, Since you make no replies, it’s al… —One talker aping two. They are half right, but not as th…
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The Witch

Trapped amid the woods with guile They’ve led her bound in fetters v… To death, a deadlier sorceress Than any born for earth’s distress Since first the winner of the flee…
In Prison

I cried out for the pain of man, I cried out for my bitter wrath Against the hopeless life that ran For ever in a circling path From death to death since all bega…
Song of the Pilgrims

O Dwellers at the back of the Nor… What have we done to you? How hav… Wandering the Earth from Orkney u… With many deaths our fellowship is… Our flesh is withered in the parch…
In Praise of Solid People

Thank God that there are solid fo… Who water flowers and roll the law… And sit an sew and talk and smoke, And snore all through the summer d… Who pass untroubled nights and day…
French Nocturne (Monchy-Le-Preux)

Long leagues on either hand the tr… And all is still; now even this gr… Drinks in the frosty silences divi… The pale, green moon is riding ove… The jaws of a sacked village, star…
An Expostulation

Against too many writers of scienc… Why did you lure us on like this, Light-year on light-year, through… Building (as though we cared for s… Empires that cover galaxies
To Sleep

I will find out a place for thee,… A hidden wood among the hill-tops… Full of soft streams and little wi… The murmuring boughs between. A hollow cup above the ocean place…
On a Vulgar Error

No. It’s an impudent falsehood. M… Invariably think the newer way Pr… mad, inelegant, or what not. Was the first pointed arch esteeme… Upon the church? Did anybody say…
Hesperus

Through the starry hollow Of the summer night I would follow, follow Hesperus the bright, To seek beyond the western wave
Prelude to Space

So Man, grown vigorous now, Holds himself ripe to breed, Daily devises how To ejaculate his seed And boldly fertilize
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L’Apprenti Sorcier

Suddenly there came to me The music of a mighty sea That on a bare and iron shore Thundered with a deeper roar Than all the tides that leap and r…
On Being Human

Angelic minds, they say, by simple… Behold the Forms of nature. They… Unerringly the Archtypes, all the… Which mortals lack or indirectly l… Transparent in primordial truth, u…



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