The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'EngleFrom the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time comes the definitive edition of her inspirational and timeless poetry, featuring more than 200 original poems, a new Foreword by Sarah Arthur, and a new reader’s guide by Lindsay Lackey. Madeleine L’Engle’s writing has always translated the invisible, quiet corners of our hearts into a vivid, stunning experience. Her fiction invites readers into new universes while her spiritual memoirs unveil the tenderness and resilience of the human spirit. In her poetry, L’Engle’s craft proves just as striking, as she traverses the full breadth of the soul with her words, intimately exploring the contours of hope, doubt, and love. “It is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words,” she says of her poetry. “And then it is written to be shared.” Open-hearted and vulnerable, The Ordering of Love is a meditation on beauty, loss, faith, and devotion. “A prayerful and powerful portrait of a writer who served her work, and served it well. May we strive to do the same.” —Sarah Arthur, from the Foreword |
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... bread (serve the lamb. We must be fed). Moving surely through the gloom on the path from womb to tomb this babe can't help so throw him out otherwise he'll waken doubt. Throw out the bath water never mind the baby throw the water watch ...
... bread (serve the lamb. We must be fed). Moving surely through the gloom on the path from womb to tomb this babe can't help so throw him out otherwise he'll waken doubt. Throw out the bath water never mind the baby throw the water watch ...
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Contents
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Word | 52 |
From St Lukes Hospital 3 | 65 |
Peter | 277 |
From Ephesus | 292 |
The Baptism of Easter 1966 | 306 |
Sonnet 1 | 319 |
Sonnet 2 | 320 |
Sonnet 3 | 321 |
Sonnel 4 | 322 |
Sonnet 5 | 323 |
grow older | 79 |
On Valentines Day for a Saint Most Misunderstood | 87 |
All That Matters | 102 |
Rejoice | 117 |
Come Lord Jesus quickly come | 130 |
Lovers Apart | 140 |
After Annunciation | 153 |
Corinth | 167 |
Sonnet After Thomas | 177 |
From A Cry Like a Bell 1987 | 191 |
Rachel At Josephs Birth | 205 |
Son of Moses | 218 |
From Psalm 32 | 225 |
O Sapientia | 239 |
The Samaritan Woman at the Well | 252 |
Simon of Cyrene | 264 |
Sonnet 6 | 324 |
Sonnet 7 | 325 |
Sonnet 8 | 326 |
Sonnet 9 | 327 |
Sonnet 10 | 328 |
Sonnet 11 | 329 |
Sonnet 12 | 330 |
Sonnet 13 | 331 |
Sonnet 14 | 332 |
Iona 1 | 333 |
The Donkey | 334 |
The page is torn from a journalthough not mine | 336 |
Editors Note | 339 |
Index of Titles | 340 |
Index of First Lines | 347 |
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