“Our love was so vast that it filled the heavens up:But the soft white form I held was an empty cup,When the willows called me back to earth with their sigh,And we moved as shades through the deep that was you and I.”George William Russell The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
“You would have understood me, had you waited;I could have loved you, dear! as well as he:Had we not been impatient, dear! and fatedAlways to disagree.”George William Russell You Would Have Understood Me
“Ah, when I think this earth on which we treadHath borne these blossoms of the lovely dead,And made the living heart I love to beat,I look with sudden awe beneath my feetAs you with erring reverence overhead.”George William Russell By Still Waters (1906)
“How shallow is this mere that gleams!Its depth of blue is from the skies;And from a distant sun the dreamsAnd lovely light within your eyes.”George William Russell By Still Waters (1906)