The Oracle in the Heart
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0851053475 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 87 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I am the stream," "I am the river" The opening line of this collection, "I who am what the dead have made", leads us straight into the mood of the poet during the years when these poems were written (1975-78) as she was approached her seventieth birthday. She sees herself as a word ("I myself the spoken word", "Voices of wind and water / Have uttered us from the beginning"), an utterance of the past, of her ancestors, of the land they lived in (Scotland and Cumbria). Something which it seems she turned her back on to a large extent, but now re-turns to."What did I hope to find when I turned away from her ?' [her mother] she asks in one poem
Abandoned Church On The Isle Of Canna After Fifty-five Years Ah, God Who Made Me Ah, God, I May Not Hate April 1976 As A Hurt Child Refuses Comfort As My Old Feet Grow Slow I Travel Behind The Lids Of Sleep Book Of Hours Campanula A Candle-lit Room Canna's Basalt Crags Christmas Children Columbines Dream Dream Transits Eden Enough Is Enough Eve And The Angel The Fateless Ones Flower-sermon For Jean And Arthur Humphreys On Their Retirement For Murial Bradbrook For The Desk Of Brother David Steindl-rast, O.s.b., Fore-mothers High Summer Homage To Rutland Boughton I Who Am What The Dead Have Made In My Seventieth Year In Regions Of The Memory Into What Pattern, Into What Music Have The Spheres A Love Remembered 1 A Love Remembered 2 A Love Remembered 3 A Love Remembered 4 Medea Monessie Gorge 1 Monessie Gorge 2 Monessie Gorge 3 Monessie Gorge 4 My Mother's Birthday 7 November 1880 1 My Mother's Birthday 7 November 1880 2 The Oracle In The Heart Returning From Church Short Poems Short Search For Truth Spheres Statistical Grief Summer Garden Swedenborg's Angels Sweet-brian Fragrance On The Air Too Many Memories Confuse The Old Unsolid Matter A Valentine Verdict Whales Who Can Disentangle Winds Winifred's Garden -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
A book of great beauty and charmRaine has a profound, sometimes agonized understanding of what it means to be alive, to be old, to be aware always of that deeper, truer life that lies somewhere out there behind and beyond our daily existence"" - Basil Burwell, The Republican Journal. The works of a visionary in the lineage of Blake and Coleridge, Shelley and Yeats, who invokes the ancient wisdom of this rich heritage.. In these verses written between 1974 and 1978, Raine applies her assured lyric technique to the many themes her life experiences inspired