| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 373. Microprosopos |
| By Elsa Barker |
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| BEHIND the orient darkness of thine eyes, | |
| The eyes of God interrogate my soul | |
| With whelming love. The luminous waves that roll | |
| Over thy body are His dream. It lies | |
| On thee as the moon-glamour on the skies; | 5 |
| And all around—the yearning aureole | |
| Of His effulgent being—broods the whole | |
| Rapt universe, that our love magnifies. | |
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| O thou, through whom for me Infinity | |
| Is manifest! Bitter and salt, thy tears | 10 |
| Are the heart-water of the passionate spheres, | |
| With all their pain. I drink them thirstily! | |
| While in thy smile is realized for me | |
| The flaming joys of archangelic years. | |
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