Poems

Chapter 76: LUCE ADORABILE

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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.

LUCE ADORABILE

You came to me when I had turned and said:—

“This, in my darkened life can never be,

My ways are in the stumbler’s paths instead!”

You came to me

High and unprejudiced and spirit free.

Wearing God’s seal upon your pure forehead,

Dearest, you bent from your bright way to see

My flickering torch: your own, live-flashing, red

Rekindled the faint flame. Thus holily,

A radiance, a light when light had fled,

You came to me.