The Sunlit Hours [Les Heures Claires] is a volume of very personal poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren. The poetry in this volume is dedicated to his wife, celebrating their relationship with beautiful poetry of love. - Summary by Carolin
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
O, the Splendour of this Joy of Ours
01:08 - Chapter 2
What Tho' We See It Break Before Us Into Flowers
01:16 - Chapter 3
This Carven Column Whereon Monsters Cling
01:33 - Chapter 4
The Night, Unfolding, Banishes the Day
01:12 - Chapter 5
Remembering Thy Gracious Gift to Me
01:12 - Chapter 6
At Times Thou Art the Spacious Light and Air
01:26 - Chapter 7
Oh, Let It Knock Upon Our Door
01:19 - Chapter 8
I Have Given All My Heart to Thee
01:28 - Chapter 9
The Youthful Spring with Wondrous Might
01:23 - Chapter 10
Come Out Into the Garden Fair
01:49 - Chapter 11
How Swiftly is She Caught in Ecstasy
01:12 - Chapter 12
At That Time When in Loneliness I stood
01:31 - Chapter 13
Of What Avail the Hectic Reasoning
01:11 - Chapter 14
Quietly, Like Stately Queens of Old
01:31 - Chapter 15
To All Thy Smiles and Tears
01:21 - Chapter 16
I Bathe in Thy Two Eyes My Soul Entire
01:26 - Chapter 17
That Love Within Our Eyes May Be
01:06 - Chapter 18
Mid-Summer Blooms Within Our Quiet Garden-Ways
01:35 - Chapter 19
May Thy Dear Eyes, Thy Clear Eyes, Be
00:53 - Chapter 20
Tell Me, Oh My Tranquil Friend
01:02 - Chapter 21
In Those Hours When We Seem Shut Out
01:05 - Chapter 22
Oh, This Happiness
00:57 - Chapter 23
Oh, Let Us Live Out Love with All Our Powers
01:11 - Chapter 24
No Sooner Lip to Lip, Than We Are Fraught
01:30 - Chapter 25
That Nothing May Elude Our Close Embrace
01:12 - Chapter 26
Although, the Autumn Eves
01:40 - Chapter 27
The Gift of Body, When the Soul is Given
01:10 - Chapter 28
Was There Ever in Us One Caress
01:23 - Chapter 29
This Fair Garden Flowering to Flame
01:42 - Chapter 30
If It Ever Be
01:18