Privately published by the Basilian Press – 2008

In 1963, at the age of 33, Father Lee was awarded a Canada Council grant to study at the American School of Classical Studies in ATHENS, Greece.

He used the opportunity to “travel light” across Europe.

With no camera, he wrote 30 small poems about what he saw.

Some of the poems are about places, but most of the poems are about art works which made an indelible impression on him.

“AFTER THE FALL”
– a watercolour by William Blake (1803)
The Angel of Divine Presence clothing Adam and Eve with skins
in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

“ON THE ROCKS “-
first impressions of Edinburgh

“TWO GIRLS AT THE PIANO”
– a painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir (1892) in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris

“OLYMPIA”
– a painting by Édouard Manet (1863)
in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris

“THE ARCHANGEL LOVED HEIGHTS “
– impressions of Mont Saint-Michel

“ALTARPIECE”
– The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
– by Hubert and Jan van Eyck (1430)
in St Bravo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium

“LANDSCAPE”
– the Netherlands

“CONVERSION “
– at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

“ROLE MODELS”
– Lisbon

“SEVEN CITIES IN SPAIN”
– España

“the COTE D’AZUR”
– the Mediterranean

“LORD MATTERHORN “
– Gornergrat, Zermatt, Switzerland

“CHILLON” – the Château at the east end of Lake Geneva, Switzerland

“SANTA MARIA NOVELLA“
The Ognissanti Crucifix
by Giotto di Bondone, Florence, Italy (1288)

“STAIRCASE at the CONVENTO di SAN MARCO”
– The Annunciation (1440)
fresco by Fra Angelico, Florence, Italy

“THE CHILDREN “
– Naples, Italy

“DOODLING WITH METERS”
at the AMERICAN SCHOOL of CLASSICAL STUDIES
– Athens, Greece

“STELE”
– Athens, Greece

“APOLLO”
– Athens, Greece

“ORACLES “
– Delphi, Greece

“FRAGMENTS FROM THE GREEK ISLANDS”
– the Aegean

“RAILING TO BYZANTIUM”
– Turkey

“AFTER BYZANTIUM”
– the Balkans

“NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS”
– Venice, Italy

“EASTER VIGIL at the STEPHANSDOM” 
– Vienna, Austria

“ON THE TRANS-EUROPE EXPRESS“
– Ravenna, Italy

“AT THE SHRINE “
– Bayreuth

“ELEGIAC COUPLETS”
– London, England

“JOURNEY’s END”
– Killarney, Ireland