Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels

p. vPREFACE
LOVE’S LANGUAGE

When silence flees before the voice of Love,
Of what expression does that god approve?
Is dulcet song or flowing verse his choice,
Or stately prose, made regal by his voice?
Speaks Love in couplets, or in epics grand?
And is Love humble, or does he command?

There is no language that Love does not speak:
To-day commanding and to-morrow meek,
One hour laconic and the next verbose,
With hope triumphant and with doubt morose,
His varying moods all forms of speech employ.
To give expression to his painful joy,

p. viTo voice the phases of his joyful pain,
He rings the changes on the poet’s strain.
Yet not in epic, epigram or verse
Can Love the passion of his heart rehearse.
All speech, all language, is inadequate,
There are no words with Love commensurate.

p. viiCONTENTS

	PAGE
Preface	v
The Land Between	1
Love’s Mirage	3
The Need of the World	4
The Gulf Stream	7
Remembered	8
Helen of Troy	9
Lais when Young	11
Lais when Old	12
Existence	13
Holiday Songs	15
Astrolabius	18
Completion	21
Sleep’s Treachery	24
Art versus Cupid	25
p. viiiThe Revolt of Vashti	33
The Choosing of Esther	37
Honeymoon Scene	42
The Cost	49
The Voice	52
God’s Answer	55
The Edict of the Sex	56
The World-child	59
The Heights	61
On seeing ‘The House of Julia’ at Herculaneum	63
A Prayer	64
What is Right Living?	66
Justice	67
Time’s Gaze	68
The Worker and the Work	70
Art thou Alive?	72
To-day	74
The Ladder	76
Who is a Christian?	78
The Goal	80
The Spur	82
p. ixAwakened!	84
Shadows	86
The New Commandment	88
Summer Dreams	90
The Breaking of Chains	92
December	94
‘The Way’	96
The Leader to be	98
The Greater Love	100
Thank God for Life	102
Time Enough	104
New Year’s Day	106
Life is a Privilege	108
In an Old Art Gallery	110
True Brotherhood	111
The Decadent	112
Lord, speak again	113
My Heaven	116
Life	118
God’s Kin	120
Conquest	121
The Statue	122
Sirius	124
At Fontainebleau	128
The Masquerade	129
Sympathy	131
Intermediary	133
Life’s Car	135
Opportunity	135
The Age of Motored Things	136
New Year	136
Disarmament	140
The Call	141
A Little Song	142
NEW THOUGHT PASTELS
A Dialogue	145
The Weed	147
Strength	148
Affirm	149
The Chosen	150
The Nameless	152
The Word	153
Assistance	155
‘Credulity’	156
Consciousness	157
The Structure	158
Our Souls	159
The Law	160
Knowledge	161
Give	163
Perfection	164
Fear	165
The Way	166
Understood	167
His Mansion	168
Effect	169
Three Things	170
Obstacles	171
Prayer	172
Climbing	173
‘There is no Death, There are no Dead’	174
Realisation	176

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Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels

p. vPREFACE LOVE’S LANGUAGE

p. viiCONTENTS

p. vPREFACE
LOVE’S LANGUAGE