THE NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE, LYRICAL POEMS OLD AND NEW BY A.E.
Reading edition
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Prologue 1
The Nuts of Knowledge 3
Immortality 4
The Hermit 4
The Great Breath 5
The Divine Vision 6
The Burning Glass 7
A Vision of Beauty 7
Rest 10
The Earth Breath 11
Divine Visitation 12
The Master Singer 12
Aphrodite 13
Illusion 15
Babylon 15
Alter Ego 17
Krishna 18
Symbolism 19
Sung on a By-Way 20
The Hunter 20
The Vision of Love 21
A Call of the Sidhe 22
Janus 23
The Grey Eros 24
The Memory of Earth 25
By the Margin of the Great Deep 26
Three Counsellors 27
Desire 28
The Place of Rest 29
Sacrifice 30
Reconciliation 30
Epilogue 32
The Manager of the Dun Emer Press has to thank Mr. John Lane for permission to reprint ten poems from Homeward Songs By The Way, and ten from The Earth Breath.
FOR BRIAN WHEN HE IS GROWN UP THIS HANDFUL OF THE NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE I HAVE GATHERED ON THE SECRET STREAMS.
I thought, beloved, to have brought to you A gift of quietness and ease and peace, Cooling your brow as with the mystic dew Dropping from twilight trees. Homeward I go not yet; the darkness grows; Not mine the voice to still with peace divine: From the first fount the stream of quiet flows Through other hearts than mine. Yet of my night I give to you the stars, And of my sorrow here the sweetest gains, And out of hell, beyond its iron bars, My scorn of all its pains.