Poetry

Lectionary Poetry – 7th Sunday After Epiphany ( Year C )

Lectionary Poetry

Each week we carefully curate a collection of  poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).
 
 

*** Narrative Lectionary ***

Lectionary Reading:
(Psalm 103:3-6

 

CLASSIC POEM:

Beauty crowds me till I die
Emily Dickinson

Beauty crowds me till I die
Beauty mercy have on me
But if I expire today
Let it be in sight of thee –

*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
 
 

CONTEMPORARY POEM:

To Live in the Mercy of God
Denise Levertov

SNIPPET:

To lie back under the tallest
oldest trees. How far the stems
rise, rise

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