This is a poem close to my heart. I memorized it in college, as it was required for recitation and a grade, but even as a callow sophomore, I loved it. Bless you for
I enjoy the poetry and explanations that you provide in your choices each week. Is there a poetry book that you would recommend? I own and love The Hundredfold and am looking forward to your next poetry book being released in its time.
Thank you for your introduction to this beautiful poem. I would like to think I would have been able to glean the wisdom in the poem without it, but I like the narrator need someone, "to teach him the secrets of genuine joy and love, human and divine. They’re secrets, not because God hides them, but because we human beings, such as we are, have weak eyes, even if we do look in the right places, and often we don’t'
This is a poem close to my heart. I memorized it in college, as it was required for recitation and a grade, but even as a callow sophomore, I loved it. Bless you for
the gift of recollection you gave me.
I enjoy the poetry and explanations that you provide in your choices each week. Is there a poetry book that you would recommend? I own and love The Hundredfold and am looking forward to your next poetry book being released in its time.
So deeply beautiful. These would be our thoughts, in that setting, but it takes a poet to express them. Thank you, Anthony Esolen.
Exactly, Frances. That is why we need to read poetry by real poets.
Thank you for your introduction to this beautiful poem. I would like to think I would have been able to glean the wisdom in the poem without it, but I like the narrator need someone, "to teach him the secrets of genuine joy and love, human and divine. They’re secrets, not because God hides them, but because we human beings, such as we are, have weak eyes, even if we do look in the right places, and often we don’t'
Beautiful. Thank you.