Where Dwells the Soul of My Love
Help! I recently read a book on spirituality that excerpted James Thomson's beautiful poem 'Art', which included some of the following lines:
WHAT precious thing are you making fast
In all these silken lines?
And where and to whom will it go at last?
Such subtle knots and twines!
I am tying up all my love in this,
With all its hopes and fears,
With all its anguish and all its bliss,
And its hours as heavy as years.
I am going to send it afar, afar,
To I know not where above;
To that sphere beyond the highest star
Where dwells the soul of my Love.
I cannot recall the book from in which I read the extract - is this familiar to any of you? It did NOT come from a poem anthology, but rather a new-age book on souls/spirituality...
PLEASE let me know if this rings a bell with you. I would be grateful if you could email the title of the book.
If not, check out the entire poem at:
whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/ T/ThomsonJames/verse/dreadnight/art.html
DK
WHAT precious thing are you making fast
In all these silken lines?
And where and to whom will it go at last?
Such subtle knots and twines!
I am tying up all my love in this,
With all its hopes and fears,
With all its anguish and all its bliss,
And its hours as heavy as years.
I am going to send it afar, afar,
To I know not where above;
To that sphere beyond the highest star
Where dwells the soul of my Love.
I cannot recall the book from in which I read the extract - is this familiar to any of you? It did NOT come from a poem anthology, but rather a new-age book on souls/spirituality...
PLEASE let me know if this rings a bell with you. I would be grateful if you could email the title of the book.
If not, check out the entire poem at:
whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/ T/ThomsonJames/verse/dreadnight/art.html
DK

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