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George William Russell (A.E.)

1867–1935

George William Russell, who wrote under the initials A.E., was born in Lurgan and became a poet, painter, mystic and editor. He worked for the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society and edited The Irish Homestead.

He is not to be confused with the American poet of the same surname already in this archive. He died in 1935.

Poems (110)

  1. Our Thrones Decay
  2. Immortality
  3. The Great Breath
  4. Sung on a By-Way
  5. Dream Love
  6. Illusion
  7. Janus
  8. Connla's Well
  9. Dedication: Comrades in the Craft
  10. The Divine Vision
  11. The Gates of Dreamland
  12. Freedom
  13. The Master Singer
  14. Remembrance
  15. Dana
  16. The Grey Eros
  17. Rest
  18. The Burning Glass
  19. The Twilight of Earth
  20. Night
  21. The Morning Star
  22. A Farewell
  23. The Message
  24. At One
  25. The Well of All Healing
  26. A New Being
  27. A Call of the Sidhe
  28. Love from Afar
  29. Babylon
  30. The Silence of Love
  31. Aphrodite
  32. Refuge
  33. The Faces of Memory
  34. The Secret Love
  35. The Weaver of Souls
  36. Transformation
  37. Children of Lir
  38. Light and Dark
  39. Twilight by the Cabin
  40. Beauty
  41. The Vision of Love
  42. A Memory
  43. A Summer Night
  44. Whom We Worship
  45. Mistrust
  46. The Dream
  47. The Feast of Age
  48. A Way of Escape
  49. Recall
  50. The Voice of the Waters
  51. In Connemara
  52. An Irish Face
  53. Hope in Failure
  54. The Crown
  55. The Everlasting Battle
  56. Ordeal
  57. The Child of Destiny
  58. A Farewell (Only in my deep heart I love you, sweetest he)
  59. The Parting of Ways
  60. A Midnight Meditation
  61. Age and Youth
  62. The Joy of Earth
  63. Reconciliation
  64. The Sweetest Song Was Ever Sung
  65. Prelude
  66. Creation
  67. Dusk
  68. Night (Heart-hidden from the outer things I rose)
  69. Dawn
  70. Day
  71. The Hour of the King
  72. The Winds of Angus
  73. Reflections
  74. The Dawn of Darkness
  75. Natural Magic
  76. In the Womb
  77. Forgiveness
  78. A Woman's Voice
  79. Parting
  80. A Prayer
  81. The Heroes
  82. Blindness
  83. Brotherhood
  84. The Man to the Angel
  85. Endurance
  86. The Vesture of the Soul
  87. Song
  88. The Virgin Mother
  89. Prologue
  90. The Hermit
  91. A Vision of Beauty
  92. The Earth Breath
  93. Divine Visitation
  94. Alter Ego
  95. Krishna
  96. Symbolism
  97. The Memory of Earth
  98. By the Margin of the Great Deep
  99. Three Counsellors
  100. Desire
  101. The Place of Rest
  102. Sacrifice
  103. Mystery
  104. The Breath of Light
  105. Star Teachers
  106. The City
  107. Krishna
  108. Unity
  109. The Unknown God
  110. Self-Discipline

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