i am a little church(no great cathedral)

far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities -i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,

i am not sorry when sun and rain make april

my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;

my prayers are prayers of earth's own clumsily striving

(finding and losing and laughing and crying)children

whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness

around me surges a miracle of unceasing

birth and glory and death and resurrection:

over my sleeping self float flaming symbols

of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains

i am a little church(far from the frantic

world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature

-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;

i am not sorry when silence becomes singing winter by spring, i lift my diminutive spire to merciful Him Whose only now is forever:

standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence

(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)

e.e.

bulkbinbox:
“yo, autorretrato de alfredo boulton, 1938
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hauntedbystorytelling:
“ Marc Ferrez :: Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, ca. 1895 / src: brasiliana.fotografica.bn
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g-raynard:
“ “Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples...

gacougnol:

image

Chris Killip

Beech tree in mist, the Dhoon

1970 - 1973

(via anthonylozada)

henk-heijmans:
“Sheep shelter from the rain, 1973 - by David Hurn (1934), Welsh
”

flynnfan-downunder:

image

Errol Flynn 1940s portrait.

(via lacalaveracatrina)

fragrantblossoms:
“Hugo Simberg. Elli, Karl and Ellen von Schoultz in their home in Vyborg, 1897.
”
inneroptics:
“ Imogen Cunningham - Hand Weaving with Hand, Henning Watterson, Weaver 1946
”
gacougnol:
“Jan Lauschmann
Old Tree in Winter II
1964
”
soracities:
“Walt Whitman, “O Living, Always Dying”, Leaves of Grass
“[Text ID: “O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,
To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.” ”
peaceinthestorm:
“ John Henry Lorimer (1856-1936, Scottish) ~ Hush, n/d
[Source: edinburghmuseums.org.uk]
”
robertocustodioart:
“ Inès de la Fressange by Guy Bourdin 1987
”
joeinct:
“Farmer with lamb, Italy, Photo by Bill Perlmutter, 1955
”
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