Religion
From 'The City of Dream' (1)
From The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917)
The Woof that I weave not
Thou wearest and weavest,
The Thought I conceive not
Thou darkly conceivest;
The wind and the rain,
The night and the morrow,
The rapture of pain
Fading slowly to sorrow,
The dream and the deed,
The calm and the storm,
The flower and the seed,
Are thy Thought and thy Form.
I die, yet depart not,
I am bound, yet soar free,
Thou art and thou art not,
And ever shalt be!
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MLA
Buchanan, Robert. “From 'The City of Dream' (1).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/buchanan_r/295/.
Chicago
Buchanan, Robert. “From 'The City of Dream' (1).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/buchanan_r/295/.
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