It’s no great surprise that Frank Stephens, a lover of Shakespeare, the founder of Arden, and an artist, would have a way with words.
Enjoy this poem “To Eleanor” from Some Songs:
O! Heart–hold closer by me, for this life
Hath really neither breadth nor height nor depth
Other than love; and all material forms
That hedge us round and seem to bound our world
Are rough daubed scenes upon whose little stage
We play this tragic comedy of life–
That mirrors forth some larger world beyond–
Only the purpose, born of love, is real.
