Charles Hamilton Sorley

Here you will find the Poem Saints Have Adored the Lofty Soul of You of poet Charles Hamilton Sorley

Saints Have Adored the Lofty Soul of You

Saints have adored the lofty soul of you. 
Poets have whitened at your high renown. 
We stand among the many millions who 
Do hourly wait to pass your pathway down. 
You, so familiar, once were strange: we tried 
To live as of your presence unaware. 
But now in every road on every side 
We see your straight and steadfast signpost there. 

I think it like that signpost in my land 
Hoary and tall, which pointed me to go 
Upward, into the hills, on the right hand, 
Where the mists swim and the winds shriek and blow, 
A homeless land and friendless, but a land 
I did not know and that I wished to know.