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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.

COSTANZA SINGS....

My Love is a rider! (and life’s at its pace!)
He rides to the battle—he rides to the chase.
His armour is burnished, his nodding plume’s curled.
(And would I could follow him over the world!)
Nor distance, nor danger can keep us apart.
He comes with the shadows and lies on my heart.
He’s gone when the midnight its pinions has furled.
(And would I could follow him over the world!)
I’d gladly arise—don bonnet and sword,
And follow the steps of my Love and my Lord.
I’d stand by his side when the lances are hurled.
(And would I could follow him over the world!)