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 ... "

"Nature in me one day like Him shall sit Victorious, calm, immortal, infinite."

"O sculptor of the living shapes of earth, O dramatist of death and life and birth, World-artist revelling in forms and hues, Hast Thou shaped the marvel of the whirling spheres..."

"A scientist played with atoms and blew out The universe before God had time to shout."

"... On Life’s long bridge through Time’s enormous sea, I have accepted death and borne defeat If by my fall some gain were clutched for Thee."

"Each movement of our life our ego fills"

I saw my soul a traveller through Time; From life to life the cosmic ways it trod, Obscure in the depths and on the heights sublime, Evolving from the worm into the god.

I am swallowed in a foam-white sea of bliss, I am a curving wave of God’s delight, A shapeless flow of happy passionate light, A whirlpool of the streams of Paradise.

"The peace of God, a mighty transience, Is now my spirit’s boundless atmosphere. All parts are gathered into a timeless whole; All moments blaze in an eternal year."

"This body which was once my universe, Is now a pittance carried by the soul"