Homeward Songs by the Way

George William Russell, writing as A.E., stands alongside Yeats as one of Ireland's most revered mystic-poets. This debut collection reveals the young Russell already in command of a vision that would define his life's work: the sacred hidden in the ordinary, the divine breathing through every leaf and field. Written in an age when Ireland still pulsed with old magic, these poems carry the luminous hush of dawn over the Irish countryside, where the mist lifts to reveal not just landscape, but the very fabric of existence being woven anew. Russell hears what most miss: the conversation between earth and sky, the ancient wisdom stirring in wild places. These are poems for readers who have ever stood in nature and felt, without words, that something vast and loving surrounds them. A window into the artistic movement that birthed the Celtic Revival, and a timeless invitation to see the extraordinary hiding in plain sight.