Shivering Babe, Victorious Lord: The Nativity in Poetry and ArtU-M-I Out-of-Print Books on Demand, 1981 - 189 pages |
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... human infant , prominent characters in the pastoral Songs of Innocence ( 1789 ) , Blake's first important work . These " songs " deal directly with human childhood in an idealized rural setting , and the Christian Nativity provides only ...
... human infant , prominent characters in the pastoral Songs of Innocence ( 1789 ) , Blake's first important work . These " songs " deal directly with human childhood in an idealized rural setting , and the Christian Nativity provides only ...
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... human society , living and dead : This year I slept and woke with pain , I almost wish'd no more to wake , And that my hold on life would break Before I heard those bells again ; But they my troubled spirit rule , For they controll'd me ...
... human society , living and dead : This year I slept and woke with pain , I almost wish'd no more to wake , And that my hold on life would break Before I heard those bells again ; But they my troubled spirit rule , For they controll'd me ...
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... human failings , unhappy with the choice thrust upon him to alter human history . The most moving devotional sections are those that revive ancient forms of Christmas poetry . The pastoral duet of angels and shepherds evokes the simple ...
... human failings , unhappy with the choice thrust upon him to alter human history . The most moving devotional sections are those that revive ancient forms of Christmas poetry . The pastoral duet of angels and shepherds evokes the simple ...
Contents
THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES | 3 |
Mary in the Rose Garden Hans Memling | 5 |
Hand by Hand We Shall Us Take | 10 |
Copyright | |
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Allen Tate ancient angels Anglican Babe beasts Bethlehem bitter withy blessed born bright Catholic century Charles cheer Christ child Christ's birth CHRIST'S NATIVITY Christian Christmas carols church Counter-Reformation court cradle Crashaw crown dear death devotional divine Donne doth Dunbar earth Elizabethan England English Erasmus eyes faith Hans Memling hath heart heaven heavenly HENRY VAUGHAN Henry VIII Henry VIII's Henry's holly holy human hymn Incarnation infant Jesus John Donne Jonson king Lamb Lord Madonna maiden manger Mary Mary's medieval MORNING OF CHRIST'S mother Nativity poems Nativity verse night nobis Puer natus Passion pipe Plate poet poet's poetic poetry Prince Protestant Puritan reign religious Renaissance Ring Robert Southwell Scala secular shepherds sing song SONNET SONNET 62 soul Southwell star sweet symbols T. S. Eliot thee thou tradition Tudor unto verbum caro factum Virgin W. H. Auden WILLIAM ALABASTER William Dunbar York/Florence