Poetry Books

Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

by Thomas Aquinas

Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All...

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Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics

Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics

So piteously the lonely soul of man Shudders before this universal plan, So grievous is the burden and the pain, So heavy weighs the long, material chain From...

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A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost provides an interpretation of Milton's purpose in writing the epic.

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by Amy Carmichael

What do you know of Calvary Love? This amazing booklet will help you meditate on God's love and become a channel through which God can disburse His love in the...

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The Complete English Poems

The Complete English Poems

Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all. Jonson went...

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John Donne's Poetry

John Donne's Poetry

The texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible, collated against...

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Selected Poems

Considered by many critics the foremost English "metaphysical" poet, John Donne (1572–1631) earned renown for both sacred and secular verse, his love poems in...

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Poems

"This is the best—the glorious best—of Lewis. For here, with the gemlike beauty and hardness that poetry alone can achieve, are his ideas about the nature of...

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The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. Love has not always taken such...

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Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis

Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis

Herbert - Whitefield - LewisHerbert - Whitefield - LewisIn the sixth volume of the Swans Are Not Silent series, John Piper celebrates the importance of poetic...

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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction:...

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Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy

Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy

by Paul David Tripp

What do you do when you've really blown it? Is sin really as dangerous and is grace really as powerful as the Bible says they are? Is there such a thing as a...

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The Complete English Poems

The Complete English Poems

by George Herbert

George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English...

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The Diary of an Old Soul

The Diary of an Old Soul

by George MacDonald

This is a new edition of a popular classic, which offers a prayer for each day of the year, reflecting on some aspect of God's relationship with us. George...

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Dialogues with Silence: Prayers and Drawings

Dialogues with Silence: Prayers and Drawings

by Thomas Merton

The Private MertonThe Private MertonThis intensely personal book from the ultimate spiritual writer of our time shows his contemplative and devotional side...

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Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say

Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say

by Frederick Buechner

Four Unexpected Prophets Who Shine Light into the Darkness

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The Works of Anne Bradstreet

The Works of Anne Bradstreet

by Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a...

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When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

by Thomas Merton

Over 300 nature writings by Thomas Merton are collected for the first time in When The Trees Say Nothing edited by Kathleen Deignan, art by John Giuliani,...

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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton

John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well...

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The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God

The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God

We have heard the story of Job. His riches destroyed, his family taken, and his own body afflicted. We can only imagine the depth of his loss and pain. Yet as...

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