Poems

Chapter 84: LOVE’S UNIVERSE

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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.

LOVE’S UNIVERSE

I find in thee fields, valleys, plains, and hills.

Deep tender depths, a forest and a sea.

All that the warm wide Earth with beauty fills

I find in thee.

Each a small part of God’s fair world are we,

Each one to a quick pulse of nature thrills

Or mirrors in his soul a mystery.

All sweetness that the summer wind distils,

And all of winter beauty that may be,

All that wakes ecstasy, or calms, or stills,

I find in thee!