Love Set You Going
SPCK Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-281-07892-9 (ISBN)
'Love set you going'.
The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development and our happiness. Love enables us to make meaning of our lives in the world, and it gives us hope for what lies beyond. It is completely humdrum and ordinary - yet mysterious beyond words. Beginning in the body, it points us to eternity.
Life offers, and asks of us, many different kinds of love, and poets have reflected on this truth with insight and acute observation. As Janet Morley explores love 'up and down the generations', 'grown up love' and love between 'God and the human heart', she reveals what our hearts eventually discern - love has its seasons and ambiguities, its certainties and passions. Love is never simple at all.
W. H. Auden * Rupert Brooke * Charles Causley * John Clare * Gillian Clarke * Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Christine De Luca * Imtiaz Dharker * Emily Dickinson * John Donne * Carol Ann Duffy * Ruth Fainlight * U. A. Fanthorpe * Seamus Heaney * George Herbert * Gerard Manley Hopkins * Ted Hughes * John of the Cross * Jane Kenyon * D. H. Lawrence * Edwin Morgan * Sinead Morrissey * Sylvia Plath * Christina Rossetti * Siegfried Sassoon * E. J. Scovell * William Shakespeare * R. S. Thomas * Rosemary Tonks * Andrew Waterhouse * Charles Wesley * Rowan Williams * Thomas Wyatt
Janet Morley is the author of several books of prayers and poems, including All Desires Known, Bread of Tomorrow, The Heart's Time, Haphazard by Starlight and Our Last Awakening.
Love set you going
UP AND DOWN THE GENERATIONS
Morning Song
Frost at Midnight
Child Waking
Baby-Sitting
Our Lady of Vladimir
Piano
Follower
Sylvia Plath
'Love set you going like a fat gold watch'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee'
E. J. Scovell
'I wait in doubt if he sleeps or wakes'
Gillian Clarke
'listening/ For the wrong baby'
Rowan Williams
'you, like us, restless with bruised eyes'
D. H. Lawrence
'I weep like a child for the past'
Seamus Heaney
'But today/ It is my father who keeps stumbling'
Climbing my Grandfather Andrew Waterhouse
'knowing/ the slow pulse of his good heart'
Staying at Grandma's
Handbag
The Rope
What’s in a name?
Jane Kenyon
'If she loved me why did she say that?'
Ruth Fainlight
'womanliness,/ and love, and anguish, and war'
Sinead Morrissey
'but without me watching'
Christine De Luca
'I'll still sense mountain, water, love'
GROWN-UP LOVE
Strawberries
Song: I Hid my Love
River
Story of a Hotel Room
Edwin Morgan
'not hurrying the feast'
John Clare
'even silence found a tongue'
Carol Ann Duffy
'Then I can look love full in the face'
Rosemary Tonks
'The concurring deep love of the heart'
The Sun Rising
Bride and Groom Lie
Hidden for Three Days
Slumber-Song
The trick
Angel Hill
Sonnet 116
The More Loving One
Behold love
Atlas
Scaffolding
John Donne
'This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere'
Ted Hughes
'They bring each other to perfection'
Siegfried Sassoon
'your breath;/ And roses in the darkness'
Imtiaz Dharker
'For this, for this, I fall asleep in haste'
Charles Causley
'No, never, said I'
William Shakespeare
'Love's not Time’s fool'
W. H. Auden
'If equal affection cannot be'
Thomas Wyatt
'Weaponed thou art and she unarmed sitteth'
U. A. Fanthorpe
'There is a kind of love called maintenance'
Seamus Heaney
'Confident that we have built our wall'
GOD AND THE HUMAN HEART
Song of Songs 5.2–8
Upon a Gloomy Night
Affliction (1)
Holy Sonnet XIV
Authorized Version of the
Bible (kjv)
'I rose up to open to my
beloved' John of the Cross, trans.
Roy Campbell
'night that joined the lover/
To the beloved bride'
George Herbert
'When first thou didst entice to thee my heart'
John Donne
'Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me'
Open, Lord, my inward ear Charles Wesley
'And all thou art is mine'
What good shall my life do me?
My period had come for Prayer
The Windhover
Christina Rossetti
'Love hangs this earth in space'
Emily Dickinson
'The Silence condes- cended'
Gerard Manley Hopkins
'My heart in hiding/ Stirred for a bird'
Agnostic
Tidal
Mary an Elizabeth
Emmaus
Postscript
The Great Lover
1 Corinthians 13
E. J. Scovell
'a marriage bond/ As strong and deep'
R. S. Thomas
'let prayer / have its springs, too, brimming'
Christine De Luca
'speerit / ta turn der peerie worlds headicraa'
Rowan Williams
'So it is necessary to carry him with us'
Rupert Brooke
'I have been so great a lover'
Editor's translation
'but if I have no love, I am nothing'
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.11.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 332 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| ISBN-10 | 0-281-07892-0 / 0281078920 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-281-07892-9 / 9780281078929 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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