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The collected poems of Arthur Edward Waite

in two volumes ... With a Portrait

Waite, Arthur Edward (1857-1942)

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Strange Houses of Sleep

THE WORK OF OUR HANDS

THE SECOND SENSE

CUPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT

THE SCARLET SWAN

THEY THAT WORK IN SILENCE

THE HEIGHTS REMAIN

OF TRUE AND FALSE MARRIAGES

AT THE END OF THINGS

A BRIDGE FROM EARTH

A DREAM OF JUNE

OF SLEEPING AND WAKING

OF CONSUMMATION

THE KING'S SECRET

THE INWARD MAJESTY

THE BRIDAL JOURNEY

DREAMS OF DEATH

WORLDS OF DREAM

THE SWOONING CASTLE

HOW IT FALLS BY THE SEA

BURDENS OF BABYLON

A LADDER OF LIFE

LOOKING WESTWARD

THE END WHICH CROWNS

OF THE DEEP SEAS

THE WIDER PROSPECTS

WATERS OF CREATION

THE PALACE OF LIFE

THE SECRET GARDEN

BACK TO THE LAND

A RITE OF EXALTATION

HOW IT IS ATTAINED IN THE SUNSET

PLUMES OF SABLE

THE INTERLOCUTORY DISCOURSE

GROUNDS OF UNION

OF FAITH AND VISION

A BOOK OF MYSTERY AND VISION

THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GATE

A GARDEN OF SPIRITUAL FLOWERS

THE POOR BROTHER'S MASS-BOOK

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PLUMES OF SABLE

Waste, waste, waste,—but the voice in the waste of the sea!
The dread, sheer height of an empty night! And the heart—Ah, the heart in me!
I know where the deep is wider, I know of a gloom more dread—
O the waste and the night of the heart, when the star from the heart has fled!