Category Archives: Poetry

O, heightsome hills that fill my sight,The elder of all mortal might —Ere druid walked in gloomy nightOr ever wingèd bird took flight;Before was hewn the henge that standsTo frame the sun in Angle-land,Still steadfast stood and upward shot,Like Icarus on wings too hot,Toward the æther, day and night,While judging neither wrong nor right,The mountainsContinue reading “Brief History of England in Verse”

Six days to men are given, but one for God reserved, Whose throne is in the heavens high, but chose to walk the earth. One-seventh of the days we live, one-tenth of all we make — O, he is a gen’rous king who doth so little take! The kings of men are greedy, the wickedContinue reading “Six Days”

O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer ! ✟ Thus descending, thus amending loss of man’s first innocence, Born-of-Heaven born of woman-led-astray-by-Satan’s-jest, Abdicating throne of glory now to don man’s dying flesh, Lamb of God who chose to die to bring us to eternal rest. Thus ascending,Continue reading “Felix Culpa”

“The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.” – John 3:8 ❃❃❃ The wind wears the curtains like some ghostly dressAs in through the window itContinue reading “Pentecost”