‘æ,' George William Russell Fire Poems

  • 1.
    See, though the oil be low more purely still and higher
    The flame burns in the body's lamp! The watchers still
    Gaze with unseeing eyes while the Promethean Will,
    The Uncreated Light, the Everlasting Fire
    ...
  • 2.
    We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
    For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
    If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire,
    As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.
    ...
Total 2 Fire Poems by ‘æ,' George William Russell

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Breath 3 Dream 3 Flame 3 Death 3 Love 3 I Love You 3 Beauty 2 Away 2 Fire 2 Farewell 2

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