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Tag Archives: Poetry
Candlemas Eve and Candlemas Poetry
Today is Candlemas Eve, and tomorrow is the Feast of the Purification. We call it Candlemas because, with the references to light in the liturgy, we bless candles. Here are some poems for Candlemass First and foremost, making a reference to … Read More
King Alfred, the great White Horses, and today’s creeping heathen weeds
In the Anglican tradition – I’m not sure if the Ordinariates pick this up – today King Alfred the Great is commemorated, on the anniversary of his death. He was a pivotal figure in the history of England, and a … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Poetry
Tagged Alfred the Great, G. K. Chesterton, Poetry, White Horses
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“In pensive mood I trod My garden plot one day;…”
Autumn Sighs By Cyril Robert In pensive mood I trod My garden plot one day; October’s smile was weary so! It’s green was gloomy gray. Where are the strains of summer gone? Its sun the livelong day? With sudden sadness … Read More
Posted in Our Solitary Boast, Poetry
Tagged 7 October, Cyril Robert, Mary, October, Poetry
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I say that we are wound With mercy round and round
This year Good Friday fell on 25 March, and thus the Feast of the Annunciation was transferred to today, Monday after Sunday “in albis“, after the close of the Easter Octave. On 25 March, I posted the John Donne poem “Upon the … Read More
Lady Day and Good Friday – Of the Angels’ ‘Ave’ and the ‘Consummatum est’.
Today, 25 March 2016, is simultaneously the Feast of the Annunciation and Good Friday. Liturgically we celebrate the Annunciation later. In ancient times there was a tradition that Christ died on the 8th day before the Kalends of April: 25 March. … Read More
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
Fr. Hopkins (a Jesuit!) wrote this as a May offering for Mary in 1883, but I think it fits well today, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is also a good poem for the day that is simultaneously Immaculate Conception … Read More
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Blessed Virgin Mary, Gerard Manley Hopkins, mater misericordiae, Poetry
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The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe Gerard Manley Hopkins Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake; that ’s fairly mixed With, riddles, and is … Read More
Third Sunday After Easter – by John Keble
Third Sunday After Easter John Keble (a leading figure in the Oxford Movement, but who did not swim the Tiber) [A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is … Read More
Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot
Have you ever read or studied T.S Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday? You should have, you know. Let us not let Ash Wednesday pass without at least touching on the poem. If you have never read or heard it, at least … Read More
PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter
A priest friend reminded me that today is the day before St. Agnes Day, “The Eve of St Agnes” and that, therefore, this would be a good day to post about the famous poem by John Keats. And so I … Read More
Posted in PODCAzT, Poetry
Tagged Bleak Midwinter, Christina Rossetti, Eve of St Agnes, John Keats, Poetry
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PODCAzT 112: Winter poems – corrected
Well… I went and did it again. I made a PODCAzT. And then I screwed up and posted the wrong audio file. I have now corrected that. Sorry. I’m not going to say what’s in it other than that there … Read More
Too many ornaments on your Rosary…Poem
There are may ways to recite the Most Holy Rosary. The basic paradigm changes from country to country. In Italy, for example, the recitation of the Rosary usually includes the Litany of the Blessed Virgin. In the USA, people often … Read More
Gathering Leaves
Biretta tip to the Laudator Robert Frost, Gathering Leaves: Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and … Read More
Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
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