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Edmond Holmes

1850–1936


Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1850–1936) was an Anglo-Irish educationalist, writer and poet, an inspector of schools whose writings turned towards Eastern thought and mysticism.

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 Creed of My Heart
  2. Nirvana
  3. La Vie Profonde
  4. The God Within

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