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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Page vii
... infancy of Jesus . But I found I was also chronicling a fascinating alliance between ordinary people and Christ . As that intimacy altered over the centuries , so did the poems . The relationship was at times so intense that the infant ...
... infancy of Jesus . But I found I was also chronicling a fascinating alliance between ordinary people and Christ . As that intimacy altered over the centuries , so did the poems . The relationship was at times so intense that the infant ...
Page 65
... infant Jesus was sometimes depicted as a risen , luminuous being , suspended in an almond - shaped aureole . Like the flaming , float- ing infants of Renaissance painting , Southwell's babe hovers weightlessly in midair , consumed in a ...
... infant Jesus was sometimes depicted as a risen , luminuous being , suspended in an almond - shaped aureole . Like the flaming , float- ing infants of Renaissance painting , Southwell's babe hovers weightlessly in midair , consumed in a ...
Page 137
... infant small Thou his image ever see , Heavenly face that smiles on thee . Smiles on thee , on me , on all ; Who became an infant small . Infant smiles are his own smiles ; Heaven & earth to peace beguiles . WILLIAM BLAKE Plate 18 ...
... infant small Thou his image ever see , Heavenly face that smiles on thee . Smiles on thee , on me , on all ; Who became an infant small . Infant smiles are his own smiles ; Heaven & earth to peace beguiles . WILLIAM BLAKE Plate 18 ...
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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