Michael Maye’s Reviews > Southern Poems. Selected, arranged and Edited with Biographical Notes. (The Riverside Literature Series). > Status Update

This lying in God’s mighty hand while his great purposes unfold, we’ll feel, as was from chaos planned, his breath inform our formless mould; new shape for thee, new life for me, for both, a vast eternity.

Thus lying in God’s mighty hand while his great purposes unfold, we’ll feel, as was from chaos planned, his breath inform our formless mould; new shape for thee, new life for me, for both, a vast eternity

To have the will to soar, but not the wings

My wife, our little boy Aignon, have traveled even to Narbonne; my grandchild has seen Perpignon, and I have not seen Carcassone and I have not seen Carcassone!

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me