The Poetical Works of George Macdonald in Two Volumes — Volume 2
1893
MacDonald's poetry exists in that liminal space between the seen and unseen, the childhood self and the aging soul. This volume gathers parables, ballads, and verses for children that move through landscapes both physical and spiritual, where a 'Man of Songs' stands at the threshold between dreaming and waking, and the hills themselves become memory made tangible. The poems trace journeys not merely along roads but inward, through melancholy and hope, nature and the divine. MacDonald writes with the strange clarity of a Victorian mystic: accessible yet profound, tender yet never sentimental. These are poems for readers who feel most alive in autumn light, who remember that certain childhood afternoons seemed to last forever, who understand that longing itself is a form of prayer.
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