Angels clear eyes Love, Love
Foresee, Love through Eternity²
Only if there are Angels in your
Head can you ever possibly, See one³
Seraphic Proclamations of the Pure –
Delivered with a Deluging Onwardness⁴
We Whisper to any Handy Angel in the sky⁵
Thou Tread’st with Seraphims the Vast Abyss⁶
Angels with their Silver Wings o’ershade the
Ground now Sacred by thy Reliques made⁷
Since Angels may effects of Bodies shew,
God Angels’ gifts on Bodies may bestow⁸
How long at that Celestial Wick
The Angels – Labor Diligent⁹
From what they are: Spirit –
From what they Do: Angel¹⁰
¹ Anonymous c. 14th, Of a Rose, a Lovely Rose
² Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Loved Once
³ Mary Oliver, The World I Live In
⁴ Wallace Stevens, The Comedian as the Letter C
⁵ Gwendolyn Brooks, Riot
⁶ John Dryden, Ode
⁷ Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
⁸ Robert Southwell, Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
⁹ Emily Dickinson, Good Night!
¹⁰ St. Augustine, Exposition One of Psalms 103:4