Poems

Chapter 45: MARE PLACIDO

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A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

MARE PLACIDO

Across the tossing tumult of my sea

The peaceful current of your Spirit flows.

The ships attain their harbours, enter free

Beyond the pale horizon’s line of rose.

Tempests are banished from these miles serene:

Held cloud-free, wind-free, by your love’s control,

My sea shall yield its deep-bed treasure soon!

Mirror the evening star,—the cloud,—the moon:

Tranquil, as tho’ no storm had ever been—

My sea shall be the mirror of your soul.