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Darryl Friesen
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Rereading Lewis’s first published work, “Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics,” from 1919, as I read through his poetry chronologically in this collection. Many of these poems are from the WWI trenches… Dark, morbid, and hopeless—but beautiful in their own way. The “dark night of the soul” he lived through prior to his conversion always inspires and moves me.
— Dec 10, 2025 01:10PM
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Darryl Friesen
is on page 127 of 485
Finished Part II of this collection, up to the end of 1919, which is mostly made up of poems from WWI, including the published collection, “Spirits in Bondage”. Unrelentingly dark and despairing, with only moments and glimmers of brilliance and hope scattered throughout. But beautiful, beautiful writing.
— Dec 23, 2025 08:07AM
Darryl Friesen
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“The Ass” (pub. 1919) is wonderful!
“Atoms dead could never thus
Stir the human heart of us
Unless the beauty that we see
The veil of endless beauty be,
Filled full of spirits that have trod
Far hence along the heavenly sod
And seen the bright footprints of God.”
~from “Song” (May 1918)
— Dec 19, 2025 06:59AM
“Atoms dead could never thus
Stir the human heart of us
Unless the beauty that we see
The veil of endless beauty be,
Filled full of spirits that have trod
Far hence along the heavenly sod
And seen the bright footprints of God.”
~from “Song” (May 1918)
