Tag Archives: Henry Vaughan

Madoff & a Pyramid Scheme Poem

By Robin Bates | Published: April 15, 2021

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

By Robin Bates | Published: May 23, 2020

A Henry Vaughan poem celebrating the Ascension

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The Dreadful Sound of Trump (not that one)

By Robin Bates | Published: August 20, 2019

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

By Robin Bates | Published: December 25, 2018

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

By Robin Bates | Published: December 25, 2017

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

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Dissolving into the Glories of the Sun

By Robin Bates | Published: September 24, 2017

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

By Robin Bates | Published: March 19, 2016

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

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Angel Infancy

By Robin Bates | Published: August 17, 2014

Henry Vaughan’s “The Retreat” believes that children have a special connection with eternity.

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They Are All Gone into the World of Light

By Robin Bates | Published: May 13, 2012

In “Ascension Hymn,” Henry Vaughan laments that he can catch only glimpses of God’s glory.

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