Easter Week (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(In memory of Joseph Mary Plunkett) ("Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.") William Butler Yeats. ...
(In memory of Joseph Mary Plunkett) ("Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.") William Butler Yeats. ...
There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An' Donkin' o' the Jail; An' Blake, ...
Here come I to my own again, Fed, forgiven and known again, Claimed by bone of my bone again And ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
In some ways easier defining his purpose unlike his followers, disciples, the words of his call written in the text, ...
Like Christ, even if it is difficult standing in the sanctuary to speak of our call from God sharing our ...
A foretaste, fulfillment in the response of his community God claiming his divinity denied by his friends, his family The ...
Was Christ aware before his reading that the community his hometown would deny his call Did he know that they ...
If I were the wind blowing with gentle breezes for the receptive stormy blasts, to get his message out God's ...
After his time in the desert after his baptism the spirit upon him steeling his steps Denying the devil he ...
Before the people this community these neighbors within the congregation sharing the truth about his call Shock and condemnation denial ...
Leaving Nazareth no longer the child the man, the son of Joseph reclaiming his divinity The Christ-child announcing his calling ...
His life changed into the waters, rising, the dove upon him into the desert tempted from his path Back to ...
His friends, his family the community of his faith now his enemy Running God out of town rejecting his call, ...
Unable to see, to believe the Messiah before them claiming the words of Isaiah his ministry, his purpose in life ...
Not a king, Messiah the child of the carpenter in his hometown only Joseph's oldest son Yet here the Christ-child ...
They couldn't see him the fulfillment, of the words of Isaiah the truth ringing odd sounding funny in their ears ...
Not within his hometown as with other prophets the people blind unable to see Only on the outside first to ...
In our times, in our houses of faith what would they say of his calling if Jesus had come into ...
Change, the sand shifting their beliefs challenged in ways they could not stand The Christ entering sitting in the sanctuary ...
His own people of his community unable to believe in the Christ rejecting Jesus, the man they knew Unable to ...
The words of the prophet ancient words fulfilled Christ claiming Isaiah within how own community No longer the young boy ...
In his hometown, a pariah in claiming the mantle the words of Isaiah coming to life His words of authority ...
Standing and reading the ancient scripture claiming his calling within his community of faith Disbelief and anger who is this ...
A butler asks, will Madam be having her morning coffee alfresco? If you would be so good as to lift ...
It grew out of the Annexe and our Corps in a world at peace while our army trained, magnificent in ...
I awoke with two poets in my bed, books I chose from the library, possibly intent on a swift read ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Well, then! How'd you like to bear the name of Butler As an honor badge eight centuries at least, And ...
Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career Lord Lundy from his earliest years Was ...
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