Arthur Edward Waite

Arthur Edward Waite (1857–1942) was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occultism and Western esotericism, and co-created the Rider–Waite tarot deck.

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.