Tag Archives: Henry Vaughan

Diverse Stones Dancing in a Spring

Henry Vaughan’s “Regeneration” uses spring imagery to capture spiritual regeneration.

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I See Them Walking in an Air of Glory

Henry Vaughan’s “They Are All Gone into the World of Light,” a great Ascension Day poem.

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Madoff & a Pyramid Scheme Poem

Here’s a poem about pyramid schemes to mark the death of ponzi scheme artist Bernie Madoff.

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A Star Leaving the Sphere

A Henry Vaughan poem celebrating the Ascension

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The Dreadful Sound of Trump (not that one)

Wednesday On Monday I hosted what proved to be a lovely luncheon (an onion tart, ratatouille, and a trifle) for Vanderbilt University Librarian Valerie Hotchkiss, who was in Sewanee to discuss a presentation I will be giving at the university on the card game Speculation. Jane Austen fans will recognize it as the game played […]

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The Lord of Life Be Born in Earth

Christmas Let Henry Vaughan’s Christmas poem usher you into this holy day. Vaughan is one of Britain’s great nature poets—he had a profound influence on Wordsworth—and this poem features his characteristic nature imagery. When Vaughan is obsessed with sin, he compares God’s grace to the sun (which “doth shakes light from his locks”) and his […]

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Love Was with Me in the Night

May Sarton’s imagines love without weight in her poem “Christmas Light.”

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Dissolving into the Glories of the Sun

Andrew Marvell’s “On a Drop of Dew” compares the soul’s visit to the earth realm to a dew drop. In the process, he references the manna in the wilderness, today’s Old Testament reading.

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Dear Feast of Palms, of Flowers and Dew

Henry Vaughan’s “Palm Sunday” looks to palms, flowers, and palm-strewing children for Easter hope.

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