She sings, but we are silent: when… Of mine come to me? I as the swal… Me vocal, and this desolate silenc… The Muse has left me for I cannot… Nor does Apollo now his splendour…

I thought I’d never hear your ton… Again in this dead world of shame As once when heart and world were… And then—you spoke my name. The barriers of space were spread

I love you with my every breath, I make you songs like thunder bird… Give you my life’€”you give me dea… And stab me with your dreadful wor… You laid my head against your hear…

The wind rose, the sea rose A wave rose on the sea, It sang the mournful singing Of a sad centenary; It sang the song of an old man

The drunken stars stagger across t… The moon wavers and sways like a w… Beneath my feet the earth like dri… Lapses and slides, wallows and sho… Immovable things start suddenly fl…

The bread is mine Unmixed with leaven And the purple wine Of the Vines of Heaven; I have asked to see

My lady has the grace of Death Whose charity is quick to save, Her heart is broad as heaven’s bre… Deep as the grave. She found me fainting by the way

The powerful words that from my he… Alive and throbbing leap and sing Shall bind the dragon’s jaws apart Or bring you back a vanished sprin… They shall unseal and seal again

Before the glory of your love The beauty of the world is bowed In adoration, and to prove Your praises every Truth is proud… Each silent witness testifies

Her hair’s the canopy of heaven, Her eyes the pools of healing are, Her words wild prophecies whose se… Thunders resound from star to star… Her hands and feet are jewels fine

Now a gentle dusk shall fall Slowly on the world, and all The singing voices softly cease And a silence and great peace Cover all the blushing earth

Gaunt windy moons bedraggled in th… Have drifted by and withered in th… The once-proud Thunder-Terror, fa… Noses for truffles with unwhetted… A sickening scent of civet and of…

The stars sang in God’s garden; The stars are the birds of God; The night-time is God’s harvest, Its fruits are the words of God. God ploughed His fields at mornin…

I felt within my heart awake and g… A spirit of Love’s excellence tha… Then I beheld Love as from afar h… So joyful that his face I scarce… He said: Now think all honour me…

No hungry star ascendant at my bir… Foretold the famine that consumes… No flaming sword prohibited the wa… Of vision where I parch through b… Alas! no flower of heaven or of ea…