Sonnets

"Life springs in her and Mind is born; her face She lifts to Him who is Herself, until The Spirit leaps into the Spirit’s embrace."

"A deep enigma is the soul of man. [...] A demigod and a demon and a brute, The slave and the creator of his fate."

"All turns from a wideness and unbroken peace To a tumult of joy in a sea of wide release."

"I have become what before Time I was [...] A momentless immensity pure and bare, I stretch to an eternal everywhere."

There are two beings in my single self. A Godhead watches Nature from behind At play in front with a brilliant surface elf, A time-born creature with a human mind.

"In us is the thousandfold Spirit who is one, An eternal thinker calm and great and wise, A seer whose eye is an all-regarding sun, A poet of the cosmic mysteries."

"O Thou of whom I am the instrument, O secret Spirit and Nature housed in me..."

"Thy smile within my heart makes all my strength..."

"I have discovered my deep deathless being ... "