Poems

Chapter 87: AMOR IN EXCELSIS

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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.

AMOR IN EXCELSIS

I love you so that I would rather have

Your happiness than any joy below.

I would give up my soul your soul to save,

I love you so!

If round your island like sea should flow

The dearest gifts men ever sought or gave—

My heart’s desire should on the first crest glow!

My love counts pain and death small things to brave;

My love shall find the joy the immortals know;

And triumph o’er the future—and the grave,—

I love you so!