Christopher John Brennan

Here you will find the Poem I saw my life as whitest flame of poet Christopher John Brennan

I saw my life as whitest flame

I saw my life as whitest flame 
light-leaping in a crystal sky, 
and virgin colour where it came 
pass'd to its heart, in love to die. 
It wrapped the world in tender harm 
rose-flower'd with one ecstatic pang: 
God walk'd amid the hush'd alarm, 
and all the trembling region rang 
music, whose silver veils dispart 
around the carven silences 
Memnonian in the hidden heart ? 
now blithe, effulgurant majesties.