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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence hast thou gone
Last Line: Alma victrix!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World
First Line: Whence hast thou gone
Last Line: Alma victrix!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World
Whence hast thou gone,
O vision beloved?
There is silence now
In thy groves, and never
A voice proclaimeth
Thy glory come,
Thy joy rearisen!
O passion of beauty,
Forsake not thus
Those who have worshipped thee,
Body and soul!
Come to us, come to us,
Inviolate, Beautiful,
Thou whose breath
Is as Spring o'er the world,
Whose smile is the flowering
Of the wide green Earth!
Deep in the heart of thee,
Like a moonbeam moving
Through the heart of a hill-lake
Moveth Compassion:
O Beloved,
Be with us ever,
Thou, the Beautiful,
Passion of Beauty,
Alma Victrix!
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