- Sunlit Hours
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Emile Verhaeren
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The Sunlit Hours [Les Heures Claires] is a volume of very personal poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren. The poetry in this volume is dedicated to his wife, celebrating their relationship with beautiful poetry of love.
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- Chapters
- O, the Splendour of this Joy of Ours
- What Tho' We See It Break Before Us Into Flowers
- This Carven Column Whereon Monsters Cling
- The Night, Unfolding, Banishes the Day
- Remembering Thy Gracious Gift to Me
- At Times Thou Art the Spacious Light and Air
- Oh, Let It Knock Upon Our Door
- I Have Given All My Heart to Thee
- The Youthful Spring with Wondrous Might
- Come Out Into the Garden Fair
- How Swiftly is She Caught in Ecstasy
- At That Time When in Loneliness I stood
- Of What Avail the Hectic Reasoning
- Quietly, Like Stately Queens of Old
- To All Thy Smiles and Tears
- I Bathe in Thy Two Eyes My Soul Entire
- That Love Within Our Eyes May Be
- Mid-Summer Blooms Within Our Quiet Garden-Ways
- May Thy Dear Eyes, Thy Clear Eyes, Be
- Tell Me, Oh My Tranquil Friend
- In Those Hours When We Seem Shut Out
- Oh, This Happiness
- Oh, Let Us Live Out Love with All Our Powers
- No Sooner Lip to Lip, Than We Are Fraught
- That Nothing May Elude Our Close Embrace
- Although, the Autumn Eves
- The Gift of Body, When the Soul is Given
- Was There Ever in Us One Caress
- This Fair Garden Flowering to Flame
- If It Ever Be
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