Once when my heart was passion-free To learn of things divine, The soul of nature suddenly Outpoured itself in mine. I held the secrets of the deep And of the heavens above; I knew the harmonies of sleep, The mysteries of love. And for a moment's interval The earth, the sky, the sea -- My soul encompassed, each and all, As now they compass me. To one in all, to all in one -- Since love the work began -- Life's ever-widening circles run, Revealing God and man. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SEARCH (1) by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL DICK, A MAGGOT by JONATHAN SWIFT THRENODY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE IRISH MOTHER'S LAMENT by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THE JOY OF INCOMPLETENESS by ALBERT CROWELL |