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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Spiritual Canticle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I<br>THE BRIDE </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Where have You hidden Yourself, <br>And abandoned me in my groaning, O my Beloved? <br>You have fled like the hart, <br>Having wounded me. <br>I ran after You, crying; but You were gone.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">II <br>O shepherds, you who go <br>Through the sheepcots up the hill, <br>If you shall see Him <br>Whom I love the most, <br>Tell Him I languish, suffer, and die.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">III <br>In search of my Love <br>I will go over mountains and strands;<br>I will gather no flowers, <br>I will fear no wild beasts;<br>And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">IV <br>O groves and thickets <br>Planted by the hand of the Beloved; <br>O verdant meads <br>Enameled with flowers, <br>Tell me, has He passed by you?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">V<br>ANSWER OF THE CREATURES </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A thousand graces diffusing<br>He passed through the groves in haste,<br>And merely regarding them<br>As He passed<br>Clothed them with His beauty.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VI<br>THE BRIDE </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Oh! who can heal me? <br>Give me at once Yourself, <br>Send me no more <br>A messenger <br>Who cannot tell me what I wish.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VII <br>All they who serve are telling me <br>Of Your unnumbered graces; <br>And all wound me more and more, <br>And something leaves me dying, <br>I know not what, of which they are darkly speaking.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VIII <br>But how you persevere, O life, <br>Not living where you live; <br>The arrows bring death <br>Which you receive <br>From your conceptions of the Beloved.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">IX <br>Why, after wounding <br>This heart, have You not healed it? <br>And why, after stealing it, <br>Have You thus abandoned it, <br>And not carried away the stolen prey?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">X <br>Quench my troubles, <br>For no one else can soothe them; <br>And let my eyes behold You, <br>For You are their light, <br>And I will keep them for You alone.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XI <br>Reveal Your presence, <br>And let the vision and Your beauty kill me, <br>Behold the malady <br>Of love is incurable <br>Except in Your presence and before Your face.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XII <br>O crystal well!<br>Oh that on Your silvered surface<br>You would mirror forth at once<br>Those eyes desired<br>Which are outlined in my heart!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XIII <br>Turn them away, O my Beloved! <br>I am on the wing:</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">THE BRIDEGROOM </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Return, My Dove!<br>The wounded hart<br>Looms on the hill<br>In the air of your flight and is refreshed.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XIV <br>My Beloved is the mountains, <br>The solitary wooded valleys, <br>The strange islands, <br>The roaring torrents, <br>The whisper of the amorous gales;</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XV <br>The tranquil night<br>At the approaches of the dawn,<br>The silent music,<br>The murmuring solitude,<br>The supper which revives, and enkindles love.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XVI <br>Catch us the foxes,<br>For our vineyard has flourished;<br>While of roses<br>We make a nosegay,<br>And let no one appear on the hill.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XVII <br>O killing north wind, cease! <br>Come, south wind, that awakens love! <br>Blow through my garden, <br>And let its odors flow, <br>And the Beloved shall feed among the flowers.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XVIII <br>O nymphs of Judea! <br>While amid the flowers and the rose-trees <br>The amber sends forth its perfume, <br>Tarry in the suburbs, <br>And touch not our thresholds.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XIX <br>Hide yourself, O my Beloved! <br>Turn Your face to the mountains, <br>Do not speak, <br>But regard the companions <br>Of her who is traveling amidst strange islands.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XX<br>THE BRIDEGROOM </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Light-winged birds, <br>Lions, fawns, bounding does, <br>Mountains, valleys, strands, <br>Waters, winds, heat, <br>And the terrors that keep watch by night;</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXI <br>By the soft lyres <br>And the siren strains, I adjure you, <br>Let your fury cease, <br>And touch not the wall, <br>That the bride may sleep in greater security.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXII <br>The bride has entered <br>The pleasant and desirable garden, <br>And there reposes to her heart's content; <br>Her neck reclining <br>On the sweet arms of the Beloved.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXIII <br>Beneath the apple-tree <br>There were you betrothed; <br>There I gave you My hand, <br>And you were redeemed <br>Where your mother was corrupted.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXIV<br>THE BRIDE </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Our bed is of flowers <br>By dens of lions encompassed, <br>Hung with purple, <br>Made in peace, <br>And crowned with a thousand shields of gold.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXV <br>In Your footsteps <br>The young ones run Your way; <br>At the touch of the fire <br>And by the spiced wine, <br>The divine balsam flows.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXVI <br>In the inner cellar <br>Of my Beloved have I drunk; and when I went forth <br>Over all the plain <br>I knew nothing, <br>And lost the flock I followed before.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXVII <br>There He gave me His breasts, <br>There He taught me the science full of sweetness. <br>And there I gave to Him <br>Myself without reserve; <br>There I promised to be His bride.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXVIII <br>My soul is occupied, <br>And all my substance in His service; <br>Now I guard no flock, <br>Nor have I any other employment: <br>My sole occupation is love.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXIX <br>If, then, on the common land <br>I am no longer seen or found, <br>You will say that I am lost; <br>That, being enamored, <br>I lost myself; and yet was found.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXX <br>Of emeralds, and of flowers <br>In the early morning gathered, <br>We will make the garlands, <br>Flowering in Your love, <br>And bound together with one hair of my head.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXI <br>By that one hair <br>You have observed fluttering on my neck, <br>And on my neck regarded, <br>You were captivated; <br>And wounded by one of my eyes.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXII <br>When You regarded me, <br>Your eyes imprinted in me Your grace: <br>For this You loved me again, <br>And thereby my eyes merited<br>To adore what in You they saw</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXIII <br>Despise me not, <br>For if I was swarthy once <br>You can regard me now; <br>Since You have regarded me, <br>Grace and beauty have You given me.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXIV<br>THE BRIDEGROOM </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The little white dove <br>Has returned to the ark with the bough; <br>And now the turtle-dove <br>Its desired mate <br>On the green banks has found.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXV <br>In solitude she lived, <br>And in solitude built her nest; <br>And in solitude, alone <br>Has the Beloved guided her, <br>In solitude also wounded with love.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXVI<br>THE BRIDE </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Let us rejoice, O my Beloved!<br>Let us go forth to see ourselves in Your beauty, <br>To the mountain and the hill, <br>Where the pure water flows: <br>Let us enter into the heart of the thicket.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXVII <br>We shall go at once <br>To the deep caverns of the rock <br>Which are all secret, <br>There we shall enter in <br>And taste of the new wine of the pomegranate.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXVIII <br>There you will show me <br>That which my soul desired; <br>And there You will give at once, <br>O You, my life! <br>That which You gave me the other day.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XXXIX <br>The breathing of the air, <br>The song of the sweet nightingale, <br>The grove and its beauty <br>In the serene night, <br>With the flame that consumes, and gives no pains.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=520645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XL <br>None saw it;<br>Neither did Aminadab appear<br>The siege was intermitted,<br>And the cavalry dismounted<br>At the sight of the waters.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=St+John+of+the+Cross">St John of the Cross</a></strong></div>