It seems we should die of sorrow for all the beauty that’s forever gone; for the beauty that we defiled, or were too blind to ...

But now it has been manifested to his holy ones, to whom God chose to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery ...

The poems born of that crisis marked the conversion he would attribute to the spiritual and literary example of George Herbert. “Christ’s Nativity” is one of those poems. Appearing in the 1650 edition ...

Great Christian Poems Teach Priceless Lessons About Life I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires Raffaelo Sorbi, “Dante Meets Beatrice,” 1903 (photo: Public Domain) ...

Later Christian poetry often depicts Christ as a victim for the sins of humanity. But the Rood poet depicts Christ as a warrior, like some Anglo-Saxon prince engaging the enemy in single combat.

A subtitle for this collection of expertly crafted verse might be “A Memoir in Poetry.” Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has arranged the poems so that they loosely follow the chronology of her life. First ...

Christian Wiman’s new anthology brings together an admirable range of meditations on an emotion whose place in the world today can seem uncertain.

Every Riven Thing: Poems Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 112 pages, $24 “Come, ye philosophers who cry ‘All’s well,’ / And contemplate this ruin of a world,&#8221… ...

A meteor from the universe of Wystan Hugh Auden flashed into the atmosphere of American culture in 1994 when “Funeral Blues,” a poem written in 1936, was recited in a eulogy scene in the movie Three ...

Every Riven Thing: Poems Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 112 pages, $24 “Come, ye philosophers who cry ‘All’s well,’ / And contemplate this ruin of a world,” wrote the French ...