Poems about annunciation (18 Poems)
Sonnet Cycle For Lady Magdalen (John Donne Poems)
Her of your name, whose fair inheritanceBethina was, and jointure Magdalo:An active faith so highly did advance,That she once knew, more than the Church did know,The Resurrection; so much good there isDeliver’d of her, that some Fathers beLoth to believe … Continue reading
June Thunder (Louis MacNeice Poems)
The Junes were free and full, driving through tinyRoads, the mudguards brushing the cowparsley,Through fields of mustard and under boldly embattledMays and chestnuts Or between beeches verdurous and voluptuousOr where broom and gorse beflagged the chalkland—All the flare and gusto … Continue reading
Courtesy (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Of Courtesy, it is much lessThan Courage of Heart or Holiness,Yet in my Walks it seems to meThat the Grace of God is in Courtesy. On Monks I did in Storrington fall,They took me straight into their Hall;I saw Three … Continue reading
“O this air, intoxicated with sedition” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
O this air, intoxicated with sedition,On the black square of the Kremlin.The agitators rock the teetering world .It smells of restless poplars. The waxen facades of the cathedrals,The thick forest of bells,As if a tongueless banditHad vanished in the stony … Continue reading
A Calendar of Sonnets: March (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
Month which the warring ancients strangely styledThe month of war,—as if in their fierce waysWere any month of peace!—in thy rough daysI find no war in Nature, though the wildWinds clash and clang, and broken boughs are piledAs feet of … Continue reading
A Manchester Poem (George MacDonald Poems)
‘Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad.The cloud has fallen, and filled with fold on foldThe chimneyed city; and the smoke is caught,And spreads diluted in the cloud, and sinks,A black precipitate, on miry streets.And faces gray glide through … Continue reading
Autumn Shade (Edgar Bowers Poems)
1 The autumn shade is thin. Grey leaves lie faint Where they will lie, and, where the thick green was, Light stands up, like a presence, to the sky. The trees seem merely shadows of its age. From off the … Continue reading
Psalm LXVIII (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
I Rise up, Lord,And let Thine enemies be scattered,And let them that hate Thee flee before Thee!As the dispersion of smoke-drift,Thou wilt disperse them abroad;As the wax in its weakness melts offFrom before the face of the fire,So our foes-the … Continue reading
Almond Blossom (D H Lawrence Poems)
EVEN iron can put forth,Even iron. This is the iron age,But let us take heartSeeing iron break and bud,Seeing rusty iron puff with clouds of blossom. The almond-tree,December’s bare iron hooks sticking out of earth. The almond-tree,That knows the deadliest … Continue reading
The Annunciation (Digby Mackworth Dolben Poems)
On the silent ages breaking Comes the sweet Annunciation:The eternal Ave waking, Changes Eva’s condemnation. How at Nazareth the Archangel Hailed the dear predestined maidenRead from out the Great Evangel We, the sin and sorrow-laden. For to-day the Church rejoices … Continue reading