Tag: Poetry

The Key to My Heart

For Janet How can it be that I feel youngernow, with you, than I did in grey youth? Grimlypacing the cage of my lonely hungerfor love, I tested the bars

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The Burning Babe

by Robert Southwell, SJ As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye

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Christmas Eve

by Christina Rossetti Christmas has a darknessBrighter than the blazing noon,Christmas has a chillnessWarmer than the heat of June,Christmas has a beautyLovelier than the world can show:For Christmas bringeth Jesus,Brought

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In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,    That mark our place; and in the sky    The larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are

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A Sonnet for All Saints Day

Though Satan breaks our dark glass into shardsEach shard still shines with Christ’s reflected light,It glances from the eyes, kindles the wordsOf all his unknown saints. The dark is brightWith

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Assumption Poem

by St. Anthony of Padua O how wondrous is the dignity of the glorious Virgin!She merited to become the mother of Himwho is the strength and beauty of the angelsand

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