Moods

Mercedes de Acosta's Moods is a slender, lyrical collection of prose poems that turns inward to trace the shifting weather of the soul. Across intimate fragments, memory haunts the present, faith is tested in darkness, and love appears less as romance than as sudden compassion for strangers, wounded pride, or a lonely face glimpsed in a crowd. The speaker moves from gossip and social judgment to sympathy, from weariness and disgust to bursts of joy, despair, and rebellious longing. Society, art, and even the idea of death offer no easy refuge; true relief remains elusive. Yet the book is equally drawn to spiritual and philosophical searching. In meditations on opportunity, time, revelation, and finding God, de Acosta weighs fate against divine purpose, intuition against reason, and the dangers of a mechanical, materialist worldview. Nature offers its own revelations: a seaside sunset, twilight, snow, and silence become moments of renewal, mystery, and fragile peace. Restless, theatrical, and deeply human, Moods captures the raw intensity of modern feeling while insisting that life is finally understood through emotion, not intellect alone. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.