The Sunlit Hours

By Emile Verhaeren

"The Sunlit Hours" by Emile Verhaeren (translated by Charles Royier Murphy). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: May 19, 2021
• ISBN: 4057664576132

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Emile Verhaeren

The Sunlit Hours

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4057664576132

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THE SUNLIT HOURS

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I

O the splendour of this joy of ours,

Woven of gold of the sun-lit hours!

Here stands the house in soft repose,

The garden and the orchard-close.

Here is the bench beneath the apple trees

Where lazily the blanched spring

Its petals now doth fling.

And here the luminous birds one sees

Soaring, like presages of light,

In the clear heaven of their flight.

And here, as of caresses rained in showers

From the lips of the higher blue,

Two lovely tarns of softest hue,

Bordered naively with involuntary flowers.

O the splendour of our joy, for we

Live doubly, in ourselves, and day's high ecstasy.

II

What tho' we see it break before us into flowers,

This garden where we pass the clear and silent hours?

In our two hearts are spirit-flow'rs unfurled,

Where blooms the