Remembering Thy Gracious Gift to Me

Poetry

The Sunlit Hours

by Emile VERHAEREN (1855 - 1916)

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. - Summary by Carolin

Listen next episodes of The Sunlit Hours:
Although, the Autumn Eves , At That Time When in Loneliness I stood , At Times Thou Art the Spacious Light and Air , Come Out Into the Garden Fair , How Swiftly is She Caught in Ecstasy , I Bathe in Thy Two Eyes My Soul Entire , I Have Given All My Heart to Thee , If It Ever Be , In Those Hours When We Seem Shut Out , May Thy Dear Eyes, Thy Clear Eyes, Be , Mid-Summer Blooms Within Our Quiet Garden-Ways , No Sooner Lip to Lip, Than We Are Fraught , Of What Avail the Hectic Reasoning , Oh, Let It Knock Upon Our Door , Oh, Let Us Live Out Love with All Our Powers , Oh, This Happiness , Quietly, Like Stately Queens of Old , Tell Me, Oh My Tranquil Friend , That Love Within Our Eyes May Be , That Nothing May Elude Our Close Embrace , The Gift of Body, When the Soul is Given , The Youthful Spring with Wondrous Might , This Fair Garden Flowering to Flame , To All Thy Smiles and Tears , Was There Ever in Us One Caress