Tag Archives: "They Are All Gone into the World of Light"

Here I Bloom for a Short Hour Unseen

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2021

In “Sic Vita” Thoreau uses the image of plucked flowers to wrestle with the meaning of life and death.

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I See Them Walking in an Air of Glory

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2021

Henry Vaughan’s “They Are All Gone into the World of Light,” a great Ascension Day poem.

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Lost Human Voices Speak through Us

By Robin Bates | Published: October 31, 2020

May Sarton’s “All Souls” finds that a new richness comes with mourning. We acknowledge how entwined we were with those who have passed on.

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Searching for a Light in Death’s Cave

By Robin Bates | Published: January 16, 2011

Spiritual Sunday Today’s post I dedicate to those who lost loved ones in the Arizona shootings—and to everyone else who has lost someone close in the past year or so. I offer up a poem by the 17th century poetry Henry Vaughan that gets at some of the mood swings that the mourners can expect […]

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