Lanced Hearts of Lovers & Martyrs

I'm Eric, a young poet who seems to have been swept away in the Romantic Spirit of Beethoven's Symphonies, struck by the philosophies of Plato & the Poets' lyrics, burned for love like the martyrs of Rome, and can see an honest beauty in love & faith.

This blog is dedicated to my passions in Poetry, Literature, History, Philosophy, and Music, along with exploring the beauty and truth in the Christian faith-- how it rebels and transcends the ways of the world and burns it ablaze; preaches it's the Heart that counts, sings how Love endures, and that Truth is a beautiful Bride & hypocrisy a sin. It reveals that love is self-less, death is no end, and that there's no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends.

• Faith & Philosophy
• History (esp. 19th cen.-WWI)
• Poetry & Literature
• Catholicism

• Christ
• St. Justin Martyr
• Socrates
• Victor Hugo
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Richard Wagner

free counters

"Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless."
-St. Justin Martyr

tumblinks

search

powered by tumblr
seattle theme by parker ehret

  1. "When you are gone, and reason gone with you,
    Then fantasy is queen and soul, and all ;
    She can present joys meaner than you do,
    Convenient, and more proportional.
    So, if I dream I have you, I have you,
    For all our joys are but fantastical ;
    And so I ‘scape the pain, for pain is true ;
    And sleep, which locks up sense, doth lock out all.
    After a such fruition I shall wake,
    And, but the waking, nothing shall repent ;
    And shall to love more thankful sonnets make,
    Than if more honour, tears, and pains were spent."
    — Elegy X, The Dream, in Poems of John Donne (1896), John Donne (24 January/19 June 1572 – 31 March 1631)