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Ellen Mary Clerke

1840–1906


Ellen Mary Clerke (1840–1906) was an Irish poet, linguist and journalist, born in County Cork and educated in Italy. She wrote in English and Italian.

The poems printed here are those given in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917), edited by D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee; the text is taken from that anthology.

  1. The Building and Pinnacle of the Temple

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