In Herbert’s sonnet “Joseph’s Coat,” the Joseph story prefigures Jesus while comforting a poet worn out with illness.
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George Herbert: Joseph Story Prefigures Jesus
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A Stone Has Rolled from My Mind
An Easter poem by R.S. Thomas expresses doubts but finds them answered in an unexpected way.
Church Music, Sweetest of Sweets
In a Malcolm Guite lecture, the Anglican poet and priest draws on Donne and Herbert to imagine us tuning our instruments for entry into the heavenly choir.
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Gentle Exemplar, Help Us in Our Trials
It’s no surprise to learn to Malcolm Guite’s love George Herbert. Both poets grapple with doubts and fears and use poetry to reconnect with God.
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Mary and Martha: The Better Part?
In Kipling’s “The Sons of Martha,” the speaker channels Martha’s resentment against her sister Mary, who chooses to sit at Jesus’s feet.
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Good Friday and Imprisoned Immigrants
George Herbert finds Jesus amongst the marginalized in “Redemption,” a good message for America on this Good Friday.
My Heart Was in My Knees, but No Hearing
Herbert laments that sometimes, when he prays, his words don’t get through to God. And yet he finds peace in the end.