Search Result for 'Margaret Coats'

  The Decorator I live to decorate for Christmastide. My summer birthday barely means a thing As I count Christmases ...

  Listening to Incense A spiral from ignited aloe rises, Translucent, swayed with compound camphor salve Through azure air that ...

  Lead, Kindly Light ---in the voice of John Henry Newman (1801–1890) Firmly I stand by virtue of belief, Belief ...

Lotus First flower, from primeval flooding sprung, In virtuous, voluptuous perfection, The lotus favors eye and mind and tongue With ...

. Profoundly Original Everyone is born as an original, but may die as a photocopy. –Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), first millennial ...

. Together The windows of our dawning day_Let light in through the dew,But outdoors ambling in cool air,_I knew that ...

. Double Rondel for Pentecost Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! O fire that warms my soul, You burn within to turn ...

. Wedding Night by Christine de Pisan (1364--c. 1430)translated by Margaret Coats A sweet supremacy marks marriage;I prove it from ...

. Supernova With no notice, the rockets destroyed festive peace,And a volley of bullets brought death and dismay.Ben ran straight ...

. Healing by Heart Dear André, let me see your face And cry out with you to lament The rot ...

. The Comedy of Rosalind ---As You Like It I show more mirth than I am mistress of. This forest ...

. Holy Saturday "Call the Sabbath a delight." —Isaiah 58:13 His weary, soulless body needed rest, Not only pierced and ...

. Divine Complaint Chant royal by Eustache Deschamps (1346-1406), translated and adapted by Margaret Coats In all the world there ...

. How Many Homes? ---January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires Twelve thousand lost, from stricken memories more Schools, churches, meeting places, ...

. Nishijin Weaving In the tranquil heartThere is no scattering ofBlossoms once gathered. ―Satomura Jōha, master of linked verse The ...

. Enamoured String me a strand of pure white pearls supernal, Warming my throat as quivering fingers do, Roughened but ...

. On the Porch The roof and eaves, low walls or none, slim railings, Contrive a sense of shelter customary. ...

. Whoever Am I? Preface to His Poetry .by Prudentius (c. 4th century AD)translated by Margaret Coats If I see ...

. Caleb in Canaan  Green fields, walled towns, strong foes, but we are fit To overcome. Forward, I say. It’s ...

. Stars Voluble Profound and lightless silent night _Lay still with curtains closed. Into unspeaking dark the Word Descended from ...

. Motherly Motives ---of the 5% of American women with 5 or more children The greater good is motherhood. Let ...

. Notre Dame Re-Opens To touch this holiness we have no right, Nor did we earn the privilege to restore ...

. Beryl Spring ---Yellowstone National Park Towering torrents of steam and mist Rise next to the side of the road, ...

. Elisha's Bones II Kings 4:32–37, 13:20–21 Elisha died, the prophet doubly strong In spirit, and his sepulcher was grand, ...

Old Chestnut I’m the spirited girl with the chestnut hair, Common countenance pale, smile occasionally stressed, High forehead and wide, ...

. The Ram's Horn "A great horn shall be blown, and they that were lost shall come from the land ...

. Plowing Plain plowing cultivates delight Of partnership with animals: Two horses and a man unite To draw behind them ...

. Valediction for a Critic "She can second-guess the sixth sense of a poem." —Seamus Heaney "I thought—and still think—that ...

. For All Who Labor by Christine de Pisan (1364-c. 1430) Lady, fair branch where God’s grace blooms,Our labors, Saint ...

. August Foraging “It’s hot, it’s dry. No fun outdoors; No fungi, flowers, foliage, fruit For us to eat where ...

. Sicilian Samurai circa 1700 He made a startling, militant request To journey to Japan—strange land long closed To foreign ...

. Festal Flourish ---on a country festival, by Roman poet Tibullus (55-19 BC), translated by Margaret Coats All here may ...

. Fire Lurks I recognize, while watching ghastly nightEncircle statesmanship revoltingly,Bright bursts of a spangled pyrotechnic star.America! No star, a ...

. Storming the Bastille from eyewitness accounts July the twelfth, the City of Light was filled With brigands bought by ...

. Three Views of Venus "When you’ve got a goddess, make good use of her. —local guide, Green Velvet Bedchamber ...

. Meeting Xu Zhimo by Margaret Coats Three Chinese girls behind me in the line Escape King’s College Chapel evensong; ...

. In Spring 2024, UK poets Jeff Eardley and Peter Hartley crossed paths with American poets James A. Tweedie and ...

. Out Walking I hear the heath alive to free A heart from hearthside reverie, _And with my rambling feet ...

. Herman the Cripple A body helpless in deformity Was mine, though loving parents carried me Full seven years in ...

. May Songs . I. Where does loyalty take its rest? Where is charity’s portraiture, Except in you, sweet virgin ...