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DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL by JOHN OF THE CROSS

First Line: UPON A HANDSOME NIGHT %KINDLING WITH LOVE IN FLAME OF YEARNING KEEN
Last Line: CEAS'D, AS I SLUMBERE'D THERE %AMID THE LILIES DROWNING ALL MY CARE
Subject(s): HEAVEN; LOVE - LOSS OF; SOUL;

Poem Sources:

TEN CENTURIES OF SPANISH POETRY; AN ANTHOLOGY IN ENGLISH VERSE WITH ORIGINAL TEXTS; FROM THE XITH CENTURY TO THE GENERATION OF 1898.
  TURNBULL, ELEANOR L. (ED.)
  (1955)
 



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