Mundi et Cordis De Rebus Sempiternis et Temporariis: Carmina. Poems and Sonnets. By Thomas Wade |
 |
 |
|
| I. |
| II. |
| III. |
| IV. |
| V. |
| VI. |
| VII. |
| VIII. |
| IX. |
| X. |
| XI. |
| XII. |
| XIII. |
| XIV. |
| XV. |
| XVI. |
| XVII. |
| XVIII. |
| XIX. |
| XX. |
| XXI. |
| XXII. |
| XXIII. |
| XXIV. |
| XXV. |
| XXVI. |
| XXVII. |
| XXVIII. |
| XXIX. |
| XXX. |
| XXXI. |
| XXXII. |
| XXXIII. | XXXIII.
THE UNDECEIVING. |
| XXXIV. |
| XXXV. |
| XXXVI. |
| XXXVII. |
| XXXVIII. |
| XXXIX. |
| XL. |
| XLI. |
|
|
 | Mundi et Cordis |  |
127
XXXIII. THE UNDECEIVING.
On the great day when I did cease to love,A glory from the midst of things departed:
But straightway I became more solemn-hearted;
Lifting the business of my mind above
The vulgar work of sense, and even drew
A fulness from the world's new vacancy.
In the changed spirit of life which in me grew
There was a temperate and chasten'd sadness,
That gather'd in the wake of that old madness
As cloudy evening o'er the hot day-sky,
And strengthen'd with its shade my dazzled view
Of Present and Hereafter. Be my eye
Closed to all outward beauty from this hour;
Whilst in my soul I arm a change-defying power!
| Mundi et Cordis | |