At first glance, Wild Honey from Various Thyme (1908) may seem to engage in faiths antithetical or independent of Catholicism, moving from pagan allusion to the aesthetic turning away from the sensuality of nature to mystical embodiment in Christ. Via an analysis of “Good Friday,” this paper will illustrate how each belief system necessitates a combined key for the speaker’s final act of conversion. An examination of Field’s unique use of poetic decadence, which I will argue involves a construction of nature through a stripping away of sensual interaction with the natural world, becomes a poetic form of aesthetic decay. Given this aesthetic, and consequently ascetic, relationship with nature, the poetic speaker seeks additional means to access spirituality, turning instead to Catholic liturgy. It is this combination of ascetic decadence paired with Catholic liturgical engagement that ultimately invites and allows the act of conversion.