Read full poem →Had drawn up the spectre of a planet
From the limbo of lunary souls--
This sinfully scintillant planet
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(Roman Catholic theology, since circa 400 A.D.) The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum) and those of unbaptized but inno
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Poetry examples for “limbo”
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Read full poem →here spirits, groping for the path which leads to Eternity, are halted and
delayed. It is the limbo of "planetary souls," wherein are all moonlight
uncertainties, all lost loves and illusions. Here some are fixed in trance,
Read full poem →Had drawn up the spectre of a planet
From the limbo of lunary souls—
This sinfully scintillant planet