Ascension by John Donne - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Have purely wash'd, or burnt your drossy clay. Behold, the Highest, parting hence away, Lightens the dark clouds, which He treads upon; Nor doth he by ascending show alone, But first He, and He first enters the way. O strong Ram, which hast batter'd heaven for me! Mild lamb, which with Thy Blood hast mark'd the path!
10 John Donne Poems Everyone Should Read - Interesting …
Feb 23, 2016 · Here we’ve condensed the complete poetical works of John Donne into ten of his best-known and most celebrated poems. What is your favourite John Donne poem? And can you choose one classic Donne poem?
John Donne – Five Poems for Easter Weekend - The Englewood …
Mar 30, 2018 · Tomorrow (March 31) marks the anniversary of the death of poet John Donne (d. 1631). As this weekend is also Easter Weekend, we remember Donne’s death with five poems he wrote about the death and resurrection of Jesus…
Poem: The Cross by John Donne - PoetryNook.Com
Be covetous of crosses, let none fall. Cross no man else, but cross thyself in all. Then doth the Cross of Christ work fruitfully Within our hearts, when we love harmlessly That Cross's pictures much, and with more care That Cross's children, which our crosses are.
A Discussion on John Donne’s La Corona, part seven, Ascension
His challenges to death and the grave on the basis of Christ’s resurrection and ascension are powerfully depicted in poems like “Death be not Proud.” In fact, the last sermon that the dying Donne preached was entitled “Death’s Duel,” based upon Psalm 68:20.
Journey with Jesus - Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
John Donne (1572-1631) Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward. Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, Th' intelligence that moves, devotion is; And as the other spheres, by being grown. Subject to foreign motion, lose their own, And being by others hurried every day, Scarce in a year their natural form obey;
10 of the Best Poems about God and Jesus - Interesting Literature
The Cross recounts its own suffering alongside that of Jesus Christ, and how Jesus’ body was taken down after his death and the Cross was then salvaged by Jesus’ followers and covered with the gems it now bears. John Donne, ‘A Hymn to God the Father’.
“In heaven it is always autumn” | The New Criterion
Elizabeth Spires. —John Donne. In heaven it is always autumn. The leaves are always near. to falling there but never fall, and pairs of souls out walking. heaven’s paths no longer feel the weight of years upon them.
John Donne – The Annunciation And Passion - Genius
The Annunciation And Passion Lyrics. TAMELY, frail body, abstain to-day ; to-day. My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away. She sees Him man, so like God made in this, That of them both a circle...
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward by John Donne - Poem …
Riding Westward’ by John Donne describes a speaker’s spiritual transformation and fear of confronting God on Good Friday. The poem begins with the speaker describing how the human soul exists within one sphere and the physical world another.