Each week we carefully curate a collection of poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).
*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 37:1-9
CLASSIC POEM:
The Violet
John Clare
I will not throw away the flower,
The little violet blue;
I pluck’d it in a lonely hour,
When she I loved was true.
Beside a hedge upon a hill,
All by itself it grew,
A type of her who loves me still,
In scent and colour true.
I’ll keep the blossom many hours,
Until it withered be;
A type of sweet and withered flowers,
But most of love, and thee.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
Noli aemulari
Malcolm Guite
SNIPPET:
I’ll fret no more for passing wickedness,
No more than for the new mown grass that fades
To leave room for the growth and tenderness
Of fresh green leaves; the cool inviting glades
Of my new life in you, my heart’s desire.
The True Sun rises now, and soon the shades,
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