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Alexander Pope, 1712 | When Jesus approached the blind beggar in Jerusalem who was begging for alms, he asked him what he wanted from him, and the beggar replied, “Lord, that I may see."
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Word of the Week | Sight is the least material of the senses. The scientists say that photons have no mass: and if that doesn’t approach the purely immaterial, I don’t know what does.
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Imagine that you used to be able to see, but have been blind for many years. You may well have dreams of seeing things. Imagine that you miss your deceased wife and you dream about her. In this powerful sonnet, John Milton recollects and meditates on the experience.
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From The Twelve-Gated CityListen now | The Second Gate (the Prodigal Son goes to the far country) | This week’s Poetry Aloud is a reading of an excerpt from my book-length poem, The Twelve-Gated City (in progress; © Anthony M. Esolen).

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“You’ll Never Walk Alone" is a song of hope, written when the world was literally at war, when so many were suffering so greatly, and when optimism was…
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Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Dr. Praetorius spent several years in a rural town not as an ordinary butcher pretending to be a healer, but as a…
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Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1696 | Our Hymn of the Week is one of the most moving of all the psalms, the forty-second, “As the hart panteth after the…
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During Dvorak's illness, famed violinist Fritz Kreisler came to visit his friend, and asked him, “Anton, do you have any works that you have not yet…
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Elwood P. Dodd is a man who likes everybody he meets, and who, as he says to the director of the Funny Farm where the family’s trying to get him, er…
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Charlotte Elliott (1836) | here is our Hymn of the Week, sung by the Kings’ College Choir to a melody specially composed for the poem, the sweet…
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More from "Moses on Mount Pisgah"Listen now | In this poem, the speaker, Moses is a very old man, watching the children of Israel far below as they prepare, under Joshua’s leadership…
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From John Milton, Paradise Lost | How to describe the feeling of someone wholly innocent and blessed? You can’t describe it. Maybe you can catch a…
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