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Embers, Complete
The work captures themes of love, memory, and nature through evocative verse, illustrating the beauty and complexities of human experience.
"Embers, Complete" by Gilbert Parker is a poetic collection. The work captures themes of love, memory, and nature through evocative verse, illustrating the beauty and complexities of human experience.
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But you have some singing graces, you who sing because you love it, That are higher than the throstle, or the linnet, or the lark; And, however far my soul may reach, your song is far above it; And I falter while I follow as a child does in the dark.
In elder days, when all the world was silent save the beating Of the tempest-gathered ocean ‘gainst the grey volcanic walls, When the light had met the darkness and the mountains sent their greeting To each other in sharp flashes as the vivid lightning falls,
Then the high gods said, “In token that we love the earth we fashioned, We will set the white stars singing, and teach man the art of song”: And there rose up from the valleys sounds of love and life impassioned, Till men cried, with arms uplifted, “Now from henceforth we are strong!”
Adown the ages there have come the sounds of that first singing, Lifting up the weary-hearted in the fever of the time; And I, who wait and wander far, felt all my soul upspringing, To but touch those ancient forces and the energies sublime,
When I heard you who had heard it—that first song—perhaps in dreaming, Till it filled you with fine fervour and the hopes of its refrain; And I knew that God was gracious and had led me in the gleaming Of a song-shine that is holy and that quiets all my pain.
Contents
- 01Introduction
- 02Proem
- 03Rosleen
- 04Will You Come Back Home?
- 05Mary Callaghan and Me
- 06Kildare
- 07You’ll Travel Far and Wide
- 08Farcalladen Rise
- 09Give Me the Light Heart
- 10Where Shall We Betake Us?
- 11No Man’s Land
- 12At Sea
- 13Athenian
- 14Eyes Like the Sea
- 15Open Thy Gate
- 16Summer Is Come
- 17Was It Some Golden Star?
- 18I Heard the Desert Calling
- 19The Forgotten Word
- 20What Will It Matter?
- 21The Courier Star
- 22The World in Making
- 23Hew
- 24O Son of Man
- 25At the End of the World
- 26Wayfarers
- 27The Red Patrol
- 28The Yellow Swan
- 29The Heart of the Pioneer
- 30The North Trail
- 31Alone
- 32The Scarlet Hills
- 33The Woodsman Lover
- 34Qui Vive
- 35The Little House
- 36Spinning
- 37Suzon
- 38My Little Tender Heart
- 39The Men of the North
- 40The Crowning
- 41Close Up
- 42W. E. H.
- 43When Blows the Wind
- 44Dolly
- 45Life’s Sweet Wages
- 46To the Valley
- 47Love in Her Cold Grave Lies
- 48Granada, Granada
- 49The New Aphrodite
- 50An Ancient Pledge
- 51The Tribute of King Hath
- 52There Is an Orchard
- 53Heart of the World
- 54Epitaphs
- 55The Maid
- 56The Sea-Reapers
- 57The Watcher
- 58The Waking
- 59When One Forgets
- 60Aloes and Myrrh
About this edition
- Author
- Gilbert Parker
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 138 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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