Invisible light : poems about God / edited by Diana Culbertson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culbertson, Diana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Poetry.

God.

Religious poetry, English.

Religious poetry, American.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxi, 174 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Summary:

For the first time God is the subject of a poetry anthology in English. Among the classic poets represented in this collection are Donne, Herbert, Milton, Blake, Emerson, E. B. Browning, Tennyson, Dickinson, and Hopkins; among the twentieth-century poets, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Countee Cullen, Jessica Powers, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Denise Levertov, Anne Sexton, Alicia Ostriker, and Kathleen Norris.

Contents:

Part 1 From God: The Word

from Isaiah 3

from Psalm 50 4

from the Book of Job 6

from Noah's Flood 8

from Divine Weekes and Works of Guillaume du Saluste, Sieur du Bartas (from "Eden," The First Part of the First Day of the II. Week) / Josuah Sylvester 10

The Pulley / George Herbert 12

from Paradise Lost (from Book 3) For man will hearken to his glozing lies / John Milton 13

The Future Peace and Glory of the Church / William Cowper 15

My Meat and Drink / Jones Very 17

The Created / Jones Very 18

Boston Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson 19

The Island / R. S. Thomas 22

The Story of Abraham / Alicia Ostriker 23

The Canticle of the Void / Paul Murray 25

Cover Photograph / Marilyn Nelson 28

Part 2 To God: The Prayer

Psalm 8 33

The Knight's Prayer / Anonymous 35

A Prayer / Sir Thomas More 36

The Father / Josuah Sylvester 37

De Profundis / Thomas Campion 39

Author of Light / Thomas Campion 40

from Holy Sonnets

(1) Thou has made me, and shall thy work decay? / John Donne 41

(14) Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne 42

A Hymn to God the Father / John Donne 43

To Heaven / Ben Jonson 44

A Hymn to God the Father / Ben Jonson 46

Man's Natural Infirmity / John Day 48

A Song / Richard Crashaw 49

The Book / Henry Vaughan 50

Amendment / Thomas Traherne 52

Huswifery / Edward Taylor 54

The Ebb and Flow / Edward Taylor 55

The Universal Prayer / Alexander Pope 56

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past / Isaac Watts 59

from A Hymn on the Seasons / James Thomson 61

from Thoughts on the Works of Providence / Phillis Wheatley 63

Abide with Me / Henry F. Lyte 64

Grace / Ralph Waldo Emerson 65

Nearer My God to Thee / Sarah Flower Adams 66

The Pillar of the Cloud / John Henry Newman 68

The Human Cry / Alfred, Lord Tennyson 69

Night / Jones Very 70

The Rock / Jones Very 71

God Not Afar Off / Jones Very 72

"Heavenly Father," take to thee (102) / Emily Dickinson 73

The look of Thee, what is it like? (91) / Emily Dickinson 74

Before the Beginning / Christina Georgina Rossetti 75

None Other Lamb / Christina Georgina Rossetti 76

The Bedridden Peasant / Thomas Hardy 77

[characters not reproducible] [Agnosto Theo] / Thomas Hardy 79

Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord / Gerard Manley Hopkins 80

Recessional / Rudyard Kipling 81

Stand by Me / Charles A. Tindley 83

The Hands of God / D. H. Lawrence 85

from Eleven Addresses to the Lord

(1) / John Berryman 87

And What Do I Owe You, God / Jack Kerouac 89

Paganly / Trinidad Tarrosa Subido 90

Matins / Louise Gluck 91

Part 3 About God: The Poem

Psalm 23 95

from Hymn of Heavenly Beauty / Edmund Spenser 96

To Find God / Robert Herrick 98

God's Anger without Affection / Robert Herrick 99

Love (3) / George Herbert 100

The Collar / George Herbert 101

The Revival / Henry Vaughan 103

from Samson Agonistes Just are the ways of God / John Milton 104

from Paradise Regained (from Book 2) But now I feel I hunger / John Milton 105

from An Essay on Man / Alexander Pope 106

from The Task (from Book 6, "The Winter Walk at Noon") / William Cowper 108

The Divine Image / William Blake 110

On Another's Sorrow / William Blake 111

from Religious Musings / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 113

God Scatters Beauty / Walter Savage Landor 115

A Child's Thought of God / Elizabeth Barrett Browning 116

The Higher Pantheism / Alfred, Lord Tennyson 117

No coward soul is mine / Emily Bronte 119

All circumstances are the frame (145) / Emily Dickinson 121

God-Forgotten / Thomas Hardy 122

Pied Beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins 124

The Hound of Heaven / Francis Thompson 125

from The Black Riders

(39) / Stephen Crane 131

He's Jus' de Same Today / Anonymous 132

Night / Paul Laurence Dunbar 134

The Mystery / Ralph Hodgson 135

Yet Do I Marvel / Countee Cullen 136

The Garments of God / Jessica Powers 137

Via Negativa / R. S. Thomas 138

Watchmaker God / Robert Lowell 139

Knowledge of God / John Frederick Nims 140

The Preacher: Ruminates behind the Sermon / Gwendolyn Brooks 141

The Proof / Richard Wilbur 142

Ordinary God / Donald Davie 143

The Task / Denise Levertov 144

Small Wire / Anne Sexton 145

The Imperfect Paradise / Linda Pastan 146

But God Is Silent/Psalm 114 / Daniel Berrigan 147

from Unholy Sonnets

(17) / Mark Jarman 148

Naming the Living God / Kathleen Norris 149.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0231120621

OCLC:

43859423