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:
Isaiah 6:1-8
CLASSIC POEM:
The Seraph and the Poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The seraph sings before the manifest
God-one, and in the burning of the Seven,
And with the full life of consummate Heaven
Heaving beneath him like a mother’s breast
Warm with her first-born’s slumber in that nest.
The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven
Before the naughty world soon self-forgiven
For wronging him; and in the darkness prest
From his own soul by worldly weights. Even so,
Sing, seraph with the glory! Heaven is high —
Sing, poet with the sorrow! Earth is low.
The universe’s inward voices cry
Amen
to either song of joy and wo —
Sing seraph, — poet, — sing on equally.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
I Saw the Seraphim
Roger Wagner
SNIPPET:
I saw the Seraphim one summer’s night
Reaping it seemed a field of endless wheat.
I heard their voices through the fading light
Wild, strange and yet intolerably sweet.
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