WHEN weight of all the garner-d years
Bows me, and praise must find relief
In harvest-song, and smiles and tears
Twist in the band that binds my sheaf;

Thou known Unknown, dark, radiant sea
In whom we live, in whom we move,
My spirit must lose itself in Thee,
Crying a name-Life, Light, or Love.

(C) Edward Dowden
03/12/2017


Best Poems of Edward Dowden

• Love-s Lord
• Awakening
• Communion
• In July
• In The Cathedral
• In September
• The Secret Of The Universe
• In The Garden Viii: Later Autumn
• First Love
• By The Window
• A New Hymn For Solitude
• The Initiation
• In The Garden Iii: An Interior
• In The Garden Iv: The Singer
• In The Cathedral Close
• In The Garden Ii: Visions
• In The Garden I: The Garden
• In The Garden Vi: A Peach
• In The Garden V: A Summer Moon