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Now the Laborer's Task is O'er
Christian poets have never been cowed by the prospect of death. Here we weep, but not there, where every tear shall be wiped away.
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For Memorial Day: "In Flanders Fields"
Listen now | In Belgium, at the Flanders Fields Memorial, you can read about the poet, in French and English, and you can read the poem, too.
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"On the Street where You Live"
In significant ways, Lerner and Loewe were an unlikely team, and yet unlikely teams such as Rogers and Hart were making successful musicals in the…
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Debra Esolen
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Revisiting: The Old Cumberland Beggar
Listen now (25 min) | Poetry Aloud: Wordsworth & Moral Observation
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The Valley of Decision (1945)
The place is Pittsburgh. The time is the 1870's, when the city was flooded with immigrants from northern and central Europe.
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Eve's Sweet Speech to Adam
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Kubla Khan
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Shadow
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"Jerusalem, My Happy Home"
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Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
Many a poet can write about what he naturally loves. It takes a Wordsworth to write what we have here.
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Anthony Esolen
Jesus Shall Reign
Our Hymn of the Week isn’t a prayer. It’s a declaration of fact, now and in the time to come.
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Anthony Esolen
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Street
In American cities, a long time ago, street life simply was city life.
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Anthony Esolen
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Revisiting "Love and Marriage"
Can a song be light-hearted and serious at the same time? Of course!
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I Remember Mama
Some films are absolutely flawless — no false step in the direction, no trace of over-acting, no note in the script that does not ring true.
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Anthony Esolen
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Mother
If the father stands guard over hearth and home, it’s so that the mother and her children can be at the heart of it all, in security and peace.
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Anthony Esolen
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It Fell Upon a Summer Day
Of all the sweet moments in the life of Jesus, the sweetest for me is when the mothers bring their children to him, that he might bless them.
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Anthony Esolen
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"King of the Road"
“King of the Road,” composed by one of the most versatile and clever songwriters of the second half of the 20th century.
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Debra Esolen
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King Arthur, in "The Holy Grail"
Listen now | We are in the time of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, but the days are darkening, and Camelot is rushing to its doom.
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