Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

Edward Dowden (1843–1913)

188. Love’s Lord

WHEN weight of all the garner’d years

Bows me, and praise must find relief

In harvest-song, and smiles and tears

Twist in the band that binds my sheaf;

Thou known Unknown, dark, radiant sea

In whom we live, in whom we move,

My spirit must lose itself in Thee,

Crying a name—Life, Light, or Love.