There’s nothing like Christmas poems to remind children to be nice, lest they end up on the naughty list! Canadian poet Jean Blewett (1862–1934) plays with the idea of religious conversion ...

The painting is framed, with a glass panel on the back, revealing a fabric-like piece of paper containing a religious poem. Appraiser Karen Keane noted that the watercolor was most likely painted ...

On The Spring that Feeds the Torrent by St. John of the Cross, translated by Rhina Espaillat. Mystical religious poetry is notoriously difficult to translate. It plumbs the depths of a particular ...

In the Renaissance, of course, devotional poetry went viral, with landmark religious poems by Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Greville, Sidney, Southwell, Spenser, Mary Herbert—the list goes on. The ...

Eliot’s work, both poetry and prose, although the poetry alone can be considered here, has a peculiar significance for the Christian, whether he be theologian, preacher, or layman, for Eliot has ...

This is certainly one of the great and enduring religious poems of our century, and it embodies the central message of hope that runs throughout Masefield’s poetry. He has closed his eyes to ...

Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people’s words attributed to her than words of her own.

So much more than just a muse for the Pre-Raphaelites, 19th-century English poet Christina Rossetti is remembered for her love poems, religious poems and poems for the grieving. Rossetti’s ...