Tag: English
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‘The Coronet’ by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
When for the thorns with which I long, too long, With many a piercing wound, My Saviour’s head have crowned, I seek with garlands to redress that wrong
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‘To Keep a True Lent’ by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Is this a fast, to keepThe larder lean?And cleanFrom fat of veals and sheep?Is it to quit the dishOf flesh, yet stillTo fillThe platter high with fish? Is it to fast an hour,Or ragg’d to go,Or showA downcast look and sour ?No; ‘tis a fast to doleThy sheaf of wheat,And meat,Unto the hungry soul. It…
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‘Leave me, O Love’ by Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
… a new ‘Eternal Love’ (14) will live in him like a kind of infilling grace, replacing the fragile earthly love …
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‘The Windhover’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend …
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‘The Seas are Quiet’ by Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made:
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‘If I could shut the gate against my thoughts’ Anonymous (17th century)
If I could shut the gate against my thoughts …
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‘In Memoriam: 106′ by Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die
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‘Lord, when the wise men came from afar’ by Sidney Godolphin (1610-1643)
Lord, when the wise men came from far Then did the shepherds too rejoice, Instructed by thy angel’s voice, Blest were the wise men in their skill, And shepherds in their harmless will.
Christian Poetry Considered 