Upside Down (A Poem for Holy Thursday)
And everything is upside down,like faces mirrored in a bowl:an earthen vessel, roughly formed,that’s full of water while the onewho once was robed, incomp’rable,in light removes his outer robeto tie
And everything is upside down,like faces mirrored in a bowl:an earthen vessel, roughly formed,that’s full of water while the onewho once was robed, incomp’rable,in light removes his outer robeto tie
So what is one man’s life, Oh Lord,But thirty simple silver coins:An honest shepherd’s promised wage,To one who cannot see the worth,Incomp’rable, of one who’s sharedHis cup and dish? Is
Forgiveness, Lord’s a morsel dippedin wine and handed, sopping, tohe who betrays you, who can’t seethe gift of you that’s placed in handsthat many times have compassed yoursand shared your
We know the scene: the room, variously furnished, almost always a lectern, a book; alwaysthe tall lily.Arrived on solemn grandeur of great wings,the angelic ambassador, standing or hovering,whom she acknowledges,
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
Theotokos by Malcolm Guite You bore for me the One who came to blessAnd bear for all and make the broken whole.You heard His call and in your open ‘yes’You
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
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
Sonnets from the Portugeuse 43 By Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach,
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
Advertisement