Compassion
A POEM
Ice in the spirit
Is but frozen tears
And bitterness
Is expectation killed.
You May Also Enjoy
A Poet under the Mercy
Many of Vanauken’s poems are reminiscent of Browning, Donne, the early Charles Williams, and others, in style, tone, and theme.
Paradoxical in the Extreme
Evidently a man of coarse, even slovenly, personal habits, Auden was as meticulous as T.S. Eliot in the precision of his verse.
Old Cathedral
This granite faith was pressed against the sky
And, wonder, stood alone;
The truth of…