title: Shadows of a Life: Selected Poems by
author: David Rhoades Johnson
description: David Rhoades Johnson is a published poet and satirist. He currently resides in Columbia, South Carolina, with his wife, Linda Veldheer, and his son, Zachary. Copies of his award-winning poems are on display in a Caribbean sportfishing boat and commercial and private art collections up and down the East Coast.
zlib_text: Rhoades’ mystic verse v. 09.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 19 August 2018 
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  James Rhoades’ mystic verse 
  
  MYSTIC VERSE AND INSIGHTS 
  BY JAMES RHOADES 
  Rhoades’ mystic verse v. 09.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 19 August 2018 
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  We herewith present a selection of poems by James Rhoades, author of Poems (1870), Timoleon 
  (1875), Georgics of Virgil in English Verse (1883), Dux Redux (1887), Æneid of Virgil in English 
  Verse (1893), Teresa and other Poems (1893), The Little Flowers of St. Francis in English Verse 
  (1904), Out of the Silence (1907), The Training of the Imagination (1908), O Soul of Mine (1912), 
  The City of Five Gates (1913), Words by the Wayside (1915). 
  James Rhoades’ Collected Poems were first published by T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., London: Adelphi 
  Terrace, 1925. 
   
  To My Friend in America 
  In science, letters, art, and song — 
  Whate’er the coming ages can 
  By thought untrammelled, pure, and strong, 
  To lift the soul of man. 
   
  The future