This is an archive of poems that appear on the website, ranging from ancient to contemporary and sorted by poet surname. Some are accompanied by commentary or are woven into a longer reflectional post; others appear on their own.
Akhmatova, Anna: “Everything Is Plundered,” trans. Stanley Kunitz
Angelou, Maya: “Our Grandmothers”
Anonymous: “Easter Hymn,” trans. Walter Mitchell (adapt.); “Love Me Brought”; “My Fearful Dream”; “Song of the Agitators”
Baird, George M. P.: “A Ballad of Wise Men”; “Mused Mary in Old Age”
Barenblat, Rachel: “Miriam”
Barker, Elsa: “The Vigil of Joseph”
Bartel, Timothy E. G.: “Lazarus”
Bauckham, Richard: “Wait and See (Simeon and Anna)”
Baumgaertner, Jill Peláez: “Easter, Before It’s Noticed”
Beasley, Bruce: “Having Read the Holy Spirit’s Wikipedia” (excerpts)
Bence, Evelyn: “Deliverance”; “The Tower of Mothers”
Berrigan, Daniel: “Glory Glory / Psalm 19”
Birney, Earle: “El Greco: Espolio”
Brooks, Gwendolyn: “Martin Luther King Jr.”
Brother Antoninus. See Everson, William
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: “A Child’s Thought of God”
Cardenal, Ernesto: “Behind the Monastery,” trans. Robert Pring-Mill
Carroll, Abigail: “Dear Lover of Light”
Cartledgehayes, Mary: “The Pillar”
Cary, Phoebe: “Field Preaching”
Cavendish, Margaret: “The Soul’s Garment”
Chase, Benjamin: “The Phone Is Too Much with Us”
Chesterton, G. K.: “Gloria in Profundis”
Clifton, Lucille: “the calling of the disciples”; “slaveships”
Crashaw, Richard: “The Blind Suppliant”; “Matthew 27”; “Upon the Bleeding Crucifix”
Cummings, E. E.: “i thank You God for most this amazing”
Day-Lewis, Cecil: “Agnus Dei”
DeBolt, Mark: “Pentecostal Hour”; “Pentecostal Villanellette”
Dickinson, Emily: “As if I asked a common Alms –”; “At last – to be identified –”; “Because I could not stop for Death –”; “His Feet are shod with Gauze –”; “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –”; “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”; “If I can stop one Heart from breaking”; “I had no time to Hate –”; “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”; “In this short Life”; “It is an honorable Thought”; “A little East of Jordan”; “Not knowing when the Dawn will come”; “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –”; “Split the Lark – and you’ll find the Music –”; “We thirst at first – ’tis Nature’s Act –”; “Will there really be a ‘morning’?”
Doty, Gene: “Christographia 31”
Dreese, Donelle: “A Wild Turn” (excerpts)
Duguid, Sandra R.: “Christ-hymn”
Dunbar, Paul Laurence: “Merry Autumn”
Dunbar, William: “Done Is a Battle on the Dragon Black”
Eichner, Sister Maura: “Dialogue at Midnight: Elizabeth to John”; “We Walk in Miracles”
Ephrem the Syrian: “Hymn IV on the Nativity” (excerpt), trans. Kathleen E. McVey
Erny, Kristina: “Resurrection Psalm”
Esquivel, Julia: “Those Who Saw the Star”
Everson, William: “Out of the Ash”
Fagles, Robert: “Pietà” by Robert Fagles
Garrison, Theodosia: “The Annunciation”
Gilonis, Harry: “seasonal ghazal”
Grimestone, John of: “Undo thy door, my spouse dear”
Guiney, Louise Imogen: “Saint Francis Endeth His Sermon”
Guite, Malcolm: “O Emmanuel”; “Ordinary Saints”; “St. Thomas the Apostle”
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins: “I Thirst”
Harvey, Christopher: “Confusion”
Heath-Stubbs, John: “For the Nativity”
Henderson, Stewart: “Christmas Bonus: Magnificat”
Herbert, George: “The Agony”; “The Call”; “The Dawning”; “Matins”
Hicks, Rachel E.: “Just Before”
Hildegard of Bingen: “Antiphon for the Redeemer” and “Antiphon for the Holy Spirit (24),” trans. Barbara Newman; “Ave generosa,” rendered by Gabriele Uhlein
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: “Hurrahing in Harvest”; “The May Magnificat”; “Peace”
Hudgins, Andrew: “Ecce Homo”
Hughes, Langston: “Bouquet”; “Christ in Alabama”; “Tambourines”
Janzen, Jean: “What the Body Knows”
Jeffers, Robinson: “The Excesses of God”
Jess, Tyehimba: “Fisk Jubilee Proclamation”
Johnson, James Weldon: “The Creation”
Kahf, Mohja: “Kin”
Kamieńska, Anna: “Those Who Carry,” trans. Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon
Kariuki, Joseph: “Release”
Kennedy, X. J.: “Sonnet Beginning with a Line and a Half Abandoned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti”
Lababidi, Yahia: “Breath”
Ladinsky, Daniel: “Tripping Over Joy”
Langland, William: Piers Plowman (excerpts)
Lazarus, Emma: “The New Colossus”
LeCompte, Calvin B., Jr.: “The Visitation”
Le Fort, Gertrud von: “Passion,” trans. Margaret Chanler
Leonard, Alison: “Miriam”
Levertov, Denise: “The Avowal”
Liskey, Tom Darin: “Unexpected”
MacDonald, George: selections from The Diary of an Old Soul; “That Holy Thing”; excerpt from Within and Without
Maddox, Marjorie: “Her Stations of the Cross”
Manning, Maurice: Bucolics (excerpts)
Markham, Edwin: “Anchored to the Infinite”
Masefield, John: “The Everlasting Mercy” (excerpts)
Mason, R. A. K.: “On the Swag”
McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler: “What Happened When He Looked”
McKay, Claude: “A Prayer”
Mechthild de Magdeburg: “I cannot dance, O Lord,” trans. Jane Hirshfield
Meister Eckhart: “You Are Not an Answer,” rendered by Mark S. Burrows and Jon M. Sweeney
Miller, Vassar: “Cologne Cathedral”
Moore, Thomas: “The Comforter”
Mora, Pat: “Silence Like Cool Sand”
Moraes, Vinícius de: “Annunciation,” trans. Natalie d’Arbeloff
Mordecai, Pamela: “Mary pleads with Jah-Jah for guidance”
Nemerov, Howard: “The Book of Kells”
Newsom, Brent: “Make Way”
Niven, Frederick J.: “A Carol from Flanders”
O’Donnell, Angela Alaimo: “God’s Gardens”
O’Donnell, Charles L.: “The Son of Man”
O’Gorman, Thomas J.: “Clever Maids”
Okoro, Enuma: “Morning Reflections”
Oldham, Etta Baldwin: “Jis’ Blue”
Oliver, Mary: “Prayer” (+ excerpts from “The Chat” and “Sometimes”)
Oliver, Raymond: “The Pleasure Principle”
O’Malley, Frank: “At Christmas”
Ortega, Michelle: “After Luke 2:19”
Owen, Wilfred: “The Next War”
Pastor, Paul J.: “The Dream”
Patman, Keith: “Upper Room”
Peterson, Eugene: “Aaron’s Beard”; “Tempted”
Pfaff, Matthew: “noctilucent”
Pierce, Edith Lovejoy: “O Christ, Thou Art Within Me Like a Sea”; “Waiting”
Porter, Anne: “Leavetaking”
Raine, Kathleen: “Amo Ergo Sum”
Reeser, Jennifer: “O Great Spirit”
Reményik, Sándor: “Silent Wonders,” trans. Leslie A. Kery
Rhodes, Suzanne Underwood: “Advent”
Rilke, Rainer Maria: “And Then That Girl the Angels Came to Visit,” trans. Robert Bly; “Go to the Limits of Your Longing” (Book of Hours I, 59), trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Rodgers, W. R.: “Resurrection”
Romanos the Melodist: “On Pentecost” (excerpt), trans. Marjorie Carpenter
Rooney, Elizabeth B.: “Opening”
Rosenbaum, Philip: “The Burden”
Rossetti, Christina: “A Better Resurrection”; “An Easter Carol”; “Everything that is born must die”; “Lord, purge our eyes to see”; “Old and New Year Ditties”; “Sursum Corda”
Roszak, Theodore: “Unless the eye catch fire”
Roycroft, Andrew: “Fishers of People”
Runyan, Tania: “Anna the Prophetess”; “The Greatest of These”
Schesser, LeighAnna: “After the Fig Leaves, Eve Cuts Her Hair”; “The Purpose of the Incarnation”
Schneider, Pat: “The Patience of Ordinary Things”
Sedulius Scottus: “Easter Song,” trans. Helen Waddell
Seward, Anna: “December Morning”
Sexton, Anne: “The Fury of Sunrises”
Shapiro, Rami M.: “Psalm 97”
Shaw, Luci: “Breath”; “Highway Song for Valentine’s Day”
Siegel, Robert: “Aubade”
Silver, Anya Krugovoy: “Blessing for My Left Breast”
Singleton, Sharron: “And He Shall Give His Angels Charge Over You”
Southwell, Robert: “Christ’s Bloody Sweat”
Steele, Peter: “Waiting for the Revolution”
Szymborska, Wisława: “Psalm,” trans. Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak
Tabb, John Banister: “The Recompense”
Tagore, Rabindranath: Gitanjali no. 39, no. 45
Taylor, Edward: “What Love Is This”
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: “In Memoriam,” canto CVI; excerpt from “The Passing of Arthur”
Tersteegen, Gerhard: “‘The Sun to Rule by Day’”
Thompson, Francis: “To a Snowflake”
Traherne, Thomas: “Thanksgivings for the Body” (excerpt)
Triplett, Pimone: “The Annunciation”
Turner, Steve: “Spiritus”
Vaughan, Henry: “The Day of Judgment”; “The Feast”; “The Waterfall”
Wakefield, Kathleen A.: “The Rev. Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch”
Walker, Alice: “We Alone”
Walker, Jeanne Murray: “Van Gogh”
Wallace, Robert: “Giacometti’s Dog”
Warren, Eugene. See Doty, Gene
Whitman, Walt: “Miracles”
Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train: “Christmas”
Wickham, Anna: “After Annunciation”
Wilbur, Richard: “The Proof”
Williams, Rowan: “Advent Calendar”
Willis, Paul J.: “Rosing from the Dead”
Wilner, Eleanor: “Epitaph”
Witek, Terri: “Take a World”
Zimmerman, Irene: “Incarnation”
Zundel, Veronica: “A quiet roar”
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