Potential Titles: C.S. Lewis

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To hold the clue that I caught first - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

And the keys were turned on fate - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Sent the very swallows into hiding - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

And ghosts dissolved in shame - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Clouds sailing in polished air - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

With clouds in heeling squadron - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Could have crumbled proud belief - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

With stabbing wounds of bitter sound - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Secreter than valleys in the tops of clouds - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

On each side the level glory burned - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

And loathe the punctual rise of each new day - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Undeceived and watching there - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Until the qualm was drowned - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

From a dark dungeon see the clear stars shining - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Through darkness smooth as amber - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

And poured its wealth outwards - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

With the stride of seven league boots - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Straight against the sunset and the edges of the earth - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage: Prologue"

The outer islands, where the unknown stars arise - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage: Prologue"

Broken people praying round his iron throne - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage: Prologue"

Over seas uncharted to a port that none has seen - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage: Prologue"

I am the fact and the crushing reason - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: I. Satan Speaks"

To thwart your fantasy's new-born treason - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: I. Satan Speaks"

Drinks in the frosty silences divine - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: II. French Nocturne (Monchy-Le-Preux)"

What call have I to dream of anything? - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: II. French Nocturne (Monchy-Le-Preux)"

Through the valleys goes the satyr carolling - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: III. The Satyr"

And Helen's eyes and Iseult's lips are dust - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"

No Dryads have I found in all our trees - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"

Arthur sleeps far hence in Avalon - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"

From each fiery bed higher the stricken spirit lifts - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"

Creeping up from the waste ocean's weedy strand - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: V. Irish Nocturne"

If filled of evil drink in a wizard's hand - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: V. Irish Nocturne"

Grendel or the shadowy mass of Balor - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: V. Irish Nocturne"

Or the man with the face of clay - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: V. Irish Nocturne"

Who used to pass over the rock-arch nightly - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: V. Irish Nocturne"

Never a wind to blow the mists apart - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: V. Irish Nocturne"

Only a homeless wraith that way had passed - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VI. Spooks"

And stood unseen amid the winter night - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VI. Spooks"

To lighten hearts beneath this present curse - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VII. Apology"

The golden age when still the cycle ran on upward curve - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VIII. Ode for New Year's Day"

Looses the wheel of the ages and sends it spinning back - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VIII. Ode for New Year's Day"

Who tosses the dust of chaos and gives the suns their parts - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VIII. Ode for New Year's Day"

Here he builds a nebula, and there he slays a sun - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VIII. Ode for New Year's Day"

Pillared courts beyond the Milky Way - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IX. Night"

The ivory gates open on noiseless hinge - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IX. Night"

Across the fires that glow in the wide floor of heaven - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IX. Night"

Scattering the powdery star-dust as they go - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IX. Night"

Strands of gentle dreams and light for chains - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IX. Night"

Raise a secret altar of the rich sea sod - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: X. Sleep"

Through all forgotten days and hours - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: X. Sleep"

Through endless depths of nothing fall - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XI. In Prison"

A lonely pin-prick spark of light - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XI. In Prison"

Some crown of sorrow sit upon a little world - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XI. In Prison"

Four thousand years of toil and hope and thought - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XII. De Profundis"

Knowledge we sought and gathered wisdom rare - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XII. De Profundis"

Our hope was crushed and silenced - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XII. De Profundis"

Wanders in the depths of endless light - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XII. De Profundis"

And all these signs arrayed above you - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIII. Satan Speaks"

Come from the outer spaces glory-shod - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIII. Satan Speaks"

Steal forth my own thought's children - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIII. Satan Speaks"

Deep mysteries unto her have told - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIV. The Witch"

The nightmare march of unrelenting fate - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"

And still returned again with hope undone - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"

Build a bridge of light or sound or form - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"

Amid the blinding pillar of its gold - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"

With such a wasted wealth of tears - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XVI. The Philosopher"

Cross over for us the bridge of fears - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XVI. The Philosopher"

The opening flower and the westward shadow - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XVI. The Philosopher"

School him over-deep in treason - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XVI. The Philosopher"

Finding waters in the barren land - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIX. Milton Read Again (In Surrey)"

On a bare and iron shore - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXII. L'Apprenti Sorcier"

Where out of all the woods of time - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXII. L'Apprenti Sorcier"

Pain beyond thought and fiery bliss - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXII. L'Apprenti Sorcier"

In bloody fields, sad seas, and countries desolate - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXIII: Alexandrines"

No verse yet written in your praise - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXIV. In Praise of Solid People"

Another phantom tide of shifting dreams - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXIV. In Praise of Solid People"

Full freighted on a faerie sea - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part II: Hesitation: XXIV. In Praise of Solid People"

Dwellers at the back of the North Wind - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"

The ways are long and the years are slow - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"

Have forsaken all things sweet and fair - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"

Have found nothing worth a moment's care - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"

Green and gold for infinite delight - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"

The Scythian waste that bears no soft nor green - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"

We have heard Syrens singing all night long - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"

Tossed on the seas and withered in the wind - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXV. Song of the Pilgrims"

Up among the dreams divine - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVI. Song"

And see the bright footprints of God - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVI. Song"

How do thistles for breakfast taste? - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVII. The Ass"

And all the green meat of the waste you love - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVII. The Ass"

To pinch the wakening of the year - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVIII. Ballade Mystique"

That I have seen the Dagda's throne - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVIII. Ballade Mystique"

To ward with magic shield and spear - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVIII. Ballade Mystique"

The wandering stars begin to swoon - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXIX. Night"

Peace and discipline and dreaming and desire - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXX. Oxford"

A place of visions and of loosening chains - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXX. Oxford"

Solemn spell to raise the unknown - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXII. Our Daily Bread"

Catch a sight of lands beyond the wall - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXII. Our Daily Bread"

Seeking the last steep edges of the earth - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXII. Our Daily Bread"

To the great world's uttermost end - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXIV. The Roads"

And the call of the roads is upon me - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXIV. The Roads"

For the lands to the west of the evening - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXIV. The Roads"

Nor night to quench their mirth - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXIV. The Roads"

Beyond the waters of the outer sea - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXV. Hesperus"

Through the starry hollow of the summer night - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXV. Hesperus"

A place uplifted towards the midnight sky - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVI. The Star Bath"

A treeless waste of rocks and freezing cold - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVI. The Star Bath"

At fixed seasons all the stars come down - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVI. The Star Bath"

Fire wherewith they crown the wintry heavens in frost - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVI. The Star Bath"

The icy shock of stars engulfed with hissing of faint flame - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVI. The Star Bath"

I cannot heal my torn desires - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVII. Tu Ne Quaesieris"

To make the riddling earth grow clear - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVII. Tu Ne Quaesieris"

In fields beneath a different sun - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVII. Tu Ne Quaesieris"

By shores where other oceans run - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVII. Tu Ne Quaesieris"

Lies hidden from the cheerful sky - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVII. Tu Ne Quaesieris"

Because the driving Northern wind will not rest - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXIX: World's Desire"


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