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