godBy K. IverAt my beloved’s burial,I can’t see his body.Only carnations. I hearyour name and my beloved’sin the ...LoveHeartache & LossSocial CommentariesGender & SexualityReligionChristianityLivingSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsLGBTQ+Stanza FormsCoupletAngerGrief + 7 more
Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh SealBy Robert DuncanThis is the way it is. We seethree ages in one: the child Jesusinnocent of Jerusalem and Rome- magically...ReligionChristianityLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingArts & SciencesPhotography & FilmEasterMetersFree VerseTechniquesImageryMetaphorGrief + 7 more
An Address to Miss Phillis WheatlyBy Jupiter Hammon I O come you pious youth! adore The wisdom of thy God, In bringing thee from distant shore, To learn His holy...Social CommentariesRace & EthnicityReligionChristianityGod & the DivineArts & SciencesPoetry & Poets
Ego Dormio: [All perishes and passes]By Richard Rolle[Alle perisches and passes pat we with eghe see] It wanes into wrechednes, þe welth of þis worlde. Robes...LoveClassic LoveReligionChristianityGod & the DivineTechniquesAlliteration
Dream of the RoodBy UnknownListen! I will speak of the sweetest dream, what came to me in the middle of the night, when speech-...ReligionChristianityTechniquesAlliteration
Dream of the RoodBy UnknownHwæt! Ic swefna cyst secgan wylle, hwæt me gemætte to midre nihte, syðþan reordberend reste wunedon!...ReligionChristianityTechniquesAlliteration
Piers Plowman: Passus 6By William Langland‘þis were a wikkede wey but whoso hadde a gyde þat [myȝte] folwen us ech foot’: þus þis folk hem mened...ReligionChristianityLivingLife ChoicesActivitiesEating & DrinkingJobs & Working
Piers Plowman: Passus 18By William LanglandWolleward and weetshoed wente I forþ after As a recchelees renk þat [reccheþ of no wo], And yede for...ReligionChristianityTechniquesAlliteration
Piers Plowman: PrologueBy William LanglandIn a somer seson, whan softe was þe sonne, I shoop me into [a] shrou[d] as I a sheep weere, In habite...ReligionChristianityTechniquesAlliteration
Caedmon's HymnBy CaedmonNow let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian, the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts, the work of ...ReligionChristianityGod & the DivineTechniquesAlliteration
BelowBy Harriet Beecher StoweLoudly sweep the winds of autumn O'er that lone, beloved grave, Where we laid those sunny ringlets, ...ReligionChristianity
Hours of the NightBy Harriet Beecher StoweI. MIDNIGHT. "He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been long dead." All dark!—no light, no ...ReligionChristianity
KnockingBy Harriet Beecher StoweKnocking, knocking, ever knocking? Who is there? 'Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly, Never such was ...ReligionChristianity
The Dark Night of the SoulBy St. John of the CrossI. In a dark night, With anxious love inflamed, O, happy lot! Forth unobserved I went, My house being...ReligionChristianityFaith & DoubtGod & the DivineThe Spiritual
Antiphon for the AngelsBy Hildegard of BingenSpirited light! on the edge of the Presence your yearning burns in the secret darkness, O angels, insatiably...ReligionChristianityGod & the DivineThe Spiritual
Antiphon for the Holy SpiritBy Hildegard of BingenThe Spirit of God is a life that bestows life, root of world-tree and wind in its boughs. Scrubbing ...ReligionChristianityGod & the DivineThe Spiritual
p1in another string of the multiverse, perhapsBy Michaella Batteni. i am sitting in sunday school in a handsewn pink dress and white lace tights i am putting my hand...LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveFirst LoveReligionChristianityFaith & DoubtLivingComing of AgeYouthThe MindMemory & NostalgiaRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsFriends & EnemiesLGBTQ+ActivitiesSchool & LearningSports & Outdoor ActivitiesAnxiety & InsecurityDisappointmentGriefMelancholy & Despair + 15 more
p1templeBy Ashlee Hazethe pastor says we are having church and I begin to wonder what it means to possess a thing you cannot touch I...ReligionChristianityGod & the DivineLivingThe MindBlameGratitude
Like Jesus to the CrowsBy Vievee Francisthat gathered there along his arms, upon the invitation of a slender limb. And not oblivious to human...ReligionChristianityGratitude
Madonna Del PartoBy Forrest GanderAnd then smelling it, feeling before the sound even reaches him, he kneels at cliff's edge and for the...NatureReligionChristianityThe SpiritualLivingBirth & BirthdaysGratitude