Poems 2022 we may breathe a pure

we may breathe a pure and invigorating if rather rarefied air

and his contentions with Luther

” they said to me in my childhood

“A sense of solitude

” In this collection of his own poems

Poems 2022 we may breathe a pureBy St. John of the Cross Translated by Roy Campbell Preface by Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S. J. Afterword by Conrad Pepler, O. P. The poetry of St. John of the Cross has received almost innumerable accolades. In his Preface to this volume, M. C. DArcy quotes Marcelino Menndez y Pelayo, the remarkable Spanish historian and critic, in praise of the poems of the Mystical Doctor: So sublime is this poetry that it scarcely seems to belong to this world at all;