The Divine Vision and Other Poems

by George William Russell

Facsimile edition of the 1904 edition published in New York by The Macmillan Company. A collection of 55 poems by George Russell, a.k.a. A.E.

Genres: Poetry

123 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

About the author

George William Russell (1867-1935), the Irish poet was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter, political activist and theosophist who also wrote under the name Æ (also written as A.E. / AE / Ae / A.e.).

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THERE'S a way of escape through the Gate of
Sorrow,
A light at the end of the Path of Pain :
But our joy and our love can have no to-morrow,
And to drink is to sink to the earth again.

There is death in the breath when our lips draw
nigher,
And we lay waste the plain for a flower to
grow ;
And we build up the tower of an hour's desire
With dust from the pit of its overthrow.