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Void of wisdom cries the wind - A.E. "Age and Youth"

And the sunlight knows no tears - A.E. "Age and Youth"

And the lips of wind give law - A.E. "Age and Youth"

Hide and seek we play in and out the courts of Time - George William Russell "Alter Ego"

Radiance showers from the jewel-heart of sleep - George William Russell "Alter Ego"

Through the veil of darkened hours - George William Russell "Alter Ego"

Who tower beside this goddess of twilight air - George William Russell "Aphrodite"

Left to-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - A.E. "Babylon"

To-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - George William Russell "Babylon"

Beneath the shadowy multitude of towers - A.E. "Babylon"

In the calm and proud procession of eternal things - A.E. "Babylon"

Dead and lost beyond a million days - George William Russell "Babylon"

The wave of phantom time withdraws - George William Russell "Babylon"

From all the flowing of that tide - George William Russell "Babylon"

Takes every burning kiss we give - George William Russell aka A.E. "Blindness"

Meet only when pain touches pain - George William Russell aka A.E. "Blindness"

Sapphire and gold and mystery - George William Russell aka A.E. "Brotherhood"

A shaft of fire that falls like dew - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Burning Glass"

Through the gateway of the eyes - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Along the margin of the unknown tide - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Growing one with its silent stream - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

When the breath of twilight blows to flame - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

I am one with twilight's dream - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

I am one with their hearts at rest - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Strayed away along the margin of the unknown tide - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Late lingerer in the twilight's glory - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

Let your heart alone go dreaming - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

Dream unto dream may pass - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

Starfire of silver flames, lighting the dark beneath - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

What enraptured hosts burn on the dusky heath - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

The three great waves leap up exulting - A.E. "The Child of Destiny"

The immemorial deeds of Danaan gods - A.E. "The Child of Destiny"

Through nights lit with diamond and sapphire - A.E. "Children of Lir"

And fly through the twilights of time - A.E. "Children of Lir"

Knowing beneath my feet a star - George William Russell aka A.E. "Creation"

Lonely wanderer by wood and shore - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"

I am the heartbreak over fallen things - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"

Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"

Break from the fairy fountain of the dawn - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dawn"

Downward from that high companionship of dreaming - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dawn"

My fire from theirs apart - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dawn"

Fiery dust of evening, shaken from the feet of light - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"

Monstrous barriers between the pure, the good, the true - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"

What silent anguish fills a night more beautiful - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"

In this cycle of great sorrow - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"

We too shall be linked by weeping - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"

A thread of divine memory runs - George William Russell aka A.E. "Day"

An iron will has fixed the bars - George William Russell aka A.E. "Day"

Search for the high austere and lonely way - George William Russell "Desire"

Rising from long forgetfulness I turn - George William Russell "Desire"

Through the shadowy terrors of their hell - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"

From these low degrees to starry dynasties - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"

The silence owns and rules from empty thrones - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"

We are kings for all our wanderings - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"

The enchanted hills of heaven burn for joy - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Divine Vision"

A new enchantment lights the ancient skies - George William Russell "Divine Visitation"

Let me dream only with my heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dream"

Mounting aloft through miles of quietness - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dusk"

Under the light of those fierce stars - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dusk"

Through the woodland's purple plumage to the diamond night - George William Russell "The Earth Breath"

Aureoles of joy encircle every blade of grass - George William Russell "The Earth Breath"

Who went forth radiant in the golden prime - George William Russell "The Earth Breath"

The emptying chambers of his heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "Endurance"

Golden sun powers with the might of demon darkness intertwine - A.E. "The Everlasting Battle"

Still flows from Balor's eye of doom - A.E. "The Everlasting Battle"

And seize the flaming sword of will - A.E. "The Everlasting Battle"

If from the light I part only with clay - A.E. "A Farewell"

With dim realms of more enraptured rest - A.E. "The Feast of Age"

And with us adore the midnight sun - A.E. "The Feast of Age"

The dim and silver end of the day - George William Russell aka A.E. "Forgiveness"

Everywhere the breath of Beauty blows - A.E. "The Great Breath"

All the trembling ages past - A.E. "The Great Breath"

And knows herself in death - A.E. "The Great Breath"

I am next of kin to Time, the historian of her dreams - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

Many a ruined heart my home - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

On the starless brow of death - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

Though the dream of love may tire - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

We would sweep His stars aside - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

Vain the wisdom, vain the truth - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

The hopes and prophecies were dead - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"

Crowned with thorns of night - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"

Mingled through the mire and the mist - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"

The rapture of their crowded notes - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"

A shadow round the head of light - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"

Despair not because of defeat - A.E. "Hope in Failure"

To gather the last of the secrets of power - A.E. "Hope in Failure"

And night, the dark blue hunter, followed fast - George William Russell "The Hunter"

Hid in the golden thicket of day - George William Russell "The Hunter"

Mystic dew dropping from twilight trees - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"

Flows through other hearts than mine - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"

Of my night I give to you the stars - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"

As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn - George William Russell "Immortality"

Lights of infinite pity star the grey dusk - George William Russell "Immortality"

By unnumbered ways of dream - George William Russell "Immortality"

Tracking the dream star that lights the purple gloom - A.E. "In Connemara"

And wrought each curve in saddest thought - A.E. "An Irish Face"

Who shed tears for the Wild Geese fled - A.E. "An Irish Face"

Rain of diamond lances shed below - A.E. "The Joy of Earth"

Where all the Children of Fire had birth - A.E. "The Joy of Earth"

Strange stars that lit the heights - George William Russell "Krishna"

The voices of sorrow appealing - A.E. "Love"

Call me back to their succor - A.E. "Love"

Storm with the tempest of power - A.E. "Love"

The thrones and dominions of old - A.E. "Love"

On my brow be the crown of the wise - A.E. "Love"

Go as the dove from the ark - A.E. "Love"

That bloom in the Eden of light - A.E. "Love"

The deep star-chant of the seraphs - A.E. "Love"

The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"

The flame of its tenderest breath - A.E. "Love"

The cry of the fallen recalling me - A.E. "Love"

A burning fire rose up within me - A.E. "Love from Afar"

Truth we learn in pain and sighs - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Man to the Angel"

Who have never known the gloom - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Man to the Angel"

There are fires for those who dare - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Man to the Angel"

Laught in the diamond air - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Master Singer"

Plumes and blooms of shadowy fire - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Master Singer"

The silver moonglow in the heart - George William Russell "The Master Singer"

The dancing flame that leads afar - George William Russell "The Master Singer"

A madness grew into thundered battle cries - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"

Death made wide a million gates - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"

Time put by a myriad fates - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"

The impartial laughter of the sea - A.E. "A Midnight Meditation"

Ponders with strange old eyes - A.E. "Mystery"

Unto the vastness where forever glows - George William Russell aka A.E. "Night"

Veined through with its fire - George William Russell aka A.E. "Night"

When the morning tolls the planets may divide - George William Russell aka A.E. "Night"

Enchanted waters pour through every wind that blows - George William Russell "The Nuts of Knowledge"

In that hushed dream upon the height - George William Russell aka A.E. "Parting"

Knows the wounds that quiver unconfessed - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"

Where the last anguish deepens - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"

Shining suns and silver moons burn on the bough - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Prayer"

Built his monument with the winds of time at strife - George William Russell "Reconciliation"

From the laugh of a child to the song of a star - A.E. "Reconciliation"

To the stars from which he came - George William Russell "Reconciliation"

He who might have wrought in flame - George William Russell "Reconciliation"

That play with mirrored majesties and powers - George William Russell aka A.E. "Reflections"

And deem our hours immortal - George William Russell aka A.E. "Reflections"

Many burning hours on the heart-sweet tide - George William Russell aka A.E. "Remembrance"

Forgetting all the immortal moods - George William Russell aka A.E. "Remembrance"

Passionate pleading and prayers to the dead - George William Russell aka A.E. "Remembrance"

Over miles and miles of pure deceit - A.E. "The Secret Love"

What gods have met in battle - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

This whirling shadow of invisible things - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Captained by its unseen kings - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

What thrones are shaken in the skies - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Swallowed some wild prophet's words - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

A glittering thicket of keen swords - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Reverberations of eternal strife - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Array in harmony amid the deep - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

The shining legionaries of the suns - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

At the advent of the Solar Kings - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

With joy their sceptres yield - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies - George William Russell aka A.E. "Song [Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds]"

My dreams go straying in a land more fair - George William Russell aka A.E. "Song [Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds]"

And shake in tremors through the shadowy night - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

The little lives that lie deep hid - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

Burned in the heat of the consuming day - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

The waters hold all heaven within their heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

Lifted to meet the angel lips of air - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

Tread with sleep filled-hearts on drowsy feet - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

No whisper from the dense infinitudes - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"

Clothing the vast with a familiar face - George William Russell "Symbolism"

The soul unto the vast has wings - George William Russell "Symbolism"

And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things - George William Russell "Symbolism"

Echoes of its mute caress were with me - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"

To break their towers of wantonness and mirth - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"

In which the wars of time shall cease - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"

If time shall never bring us back - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

And seek a shelter from the storm - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Dwindle down beneath the skies - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

The paradise of memories grows ever fainter - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

For nothing but so vast a dream - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Might forget how we imagined light - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

The Sacred Hazel's blooms are shed - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

The Nuts of Knowledge harvested - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Our battle with the gods to wage - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Reeling along the starry track - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

All rapt on its wild wandering - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

When the breath of twilight blows - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Vaporous sapphire, violet glow and silver gleam - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Through the gateway of the eyes - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

One with the twilight's dream - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Who moves in the twilight dim - A.E. "Unconscious"

Trails all along the fields of light - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Vesture of the Soul"

Bear for gems the starry dust of night - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Vesture of the Soul"

Weaving dreams in silence - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

By a hand of fire awakened - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

On the sapphire coast of night - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

Noiseless revels and the will of beauty go - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

To her star-strewn palace brought - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

The ancient mother in the fire mists - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

Built her dreams about her - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

In a radiant tumult thronging - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

Mount the spirit spires of beauty - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

Through the glimmering deeps to silence - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

With the sudden vision that made us one with night - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"

Till the wizard willows waved in the wind - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"

Silence over fields no man may reap - A.E. "The Voice of the Water"

Stars and mountains from the primal waters broke - A.E. "The Voice of the Water"

Escape through the Gate of Sorrow - A.E. "A Way of Escape"

Nor need to walk a road of clay - A.E. "The Weaver of Souls"

That breathed its message with no sound - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"

Burning multitudes pour through my heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"

Too swift and hurried in their flight - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"

Enraptured birds that flew from deeps of old - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"

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