Category: Religious

Seamus Heaney, 3 Poems from “Squarings”

12 Mar 2025
Louise Glück, “Matins” and “Vespers”

10 Mar 2025
An anonymous poem of incredible cynicism, from c. 1325

30 Jan 2025
“A Friar Complains” (anonymous poem from c. 1500)

23 Jan 2025
John Donne, “Death be not proud”

8 Jan 2025
Henry King, “The Exequy”

6 Jan 2025
George Herbert, “The Flower”

30 Dec 2024
John Milton: Eve and the Serpent from “Paradise Lost”

26 Dec 2024
Henry Vaughan, “The Book”

25 Dec 2024
Anne Finch, “Adam Pos’d”

20 Dec 2024
Joseph Warton, from “The Enthusiast: or The Lover of Nature”

11 Dec 2024
William Blake, 3 excerpts from “Jerusalem” on Creativity & Vision

20 Nov 2024
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “’Tis better to have loved and lost”: 3 poems from “In Memoriam”

6 Nov 2024
Emily Dickinson, “The Props assist the House”

30 Oct 2024
Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour”

26 Sep 2024
H. D., “The God”

22 Sep 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “New Mexican Mountain”

20 Sep 2024
R. S. Thomas, “The Moor”

4 Sep 2024
Allen Ginsberg, “Footnote to Howl”

25 Aug 2024
James Merrill, from “The Book of Ephraim”

23 Aug 2024
Robert Pinsky, “The Figured Wheel”

16 Aug 2024
George Herbert, “The Pearl”

20 Jun 2024
John Milton, from “Paradise Lost”

13 Jun 2024
Richard Crashaw, from “The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa”

11 Jun 2024
John Bunyan, “Valiant-for-Truth’s Song”

9 Jun 2024
Thomas Traherne, “The Preparative”

4 Jun 2024
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

26 May 2024
Christopher Smart, from “Jubilate Agno”

24 May 2024
William Cowper, “The Contrite Heart”

22 May 2024
Emily Dickinson, “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church”

28 Apr 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”

21 Apr 2024
e.e. cummings, “O sweet spontaneous”

4 Mar 2024

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