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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan “sonnets”: №291
AS FLOWERS DO before your soul array in vain you seek for that great golden hive that perfect love for which your soul does strive you’ve cast before…
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Max Leyf
liturgy of the seasons (14)
a weekly translation of Rudolf Steiner’s Seelenkalender verse
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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan sonnets: №290
FROM WINDSWEPT HEATHS to hills consumed in flame from lofty peaks to beaches decked with foam to coastlines lying far off from my home from alpha to…
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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan “sonnets”: №289
EACH MOMENT that the soul cannot bestride bereaves us of the one that went before and leaves the soul forever wanting more in sequence moments slip away…
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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan sonnets: №288
FOR NOW the fruit of time remains unpeeled but moments that were granted us on loan whose memory we touch but never own are letters that shall one day…
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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan “sonnets”: №287
WE RAISED THIS DWELLING up with our own hands we hewed and planed the rafters and the beams each brick we placed and mortared all the seams foundation…
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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan sonnets: №286
THE WORLD has been granted you in turn but what is given, how will you repay? see hills spring up before you and array themselves in blooms that ever do…
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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan “sonnets”: №285
IN DREAMLIKE revelations I divined in intimations neither young nor old a treasure precious more by far than gold so I a myriad other quests declined…
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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan “sonnets”: №284
FOR PARADISE, I sought in sea and sky in elements of water and in air in earth as well, on plains and valleys fair on lofty mountain peaks where ravens…
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a certain indefinite number of Petrarchan “sonnets”: №283
AT FIRST CONCEIVED outside of time and space then through the doorway of this world brought the work before us manifest we wrought and we behold it now…
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June 2025

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