Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic ExperienceKaren Armstrong |
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... feel intense guilt and shame because of our sins and our failures in the religious life . Czeslaw Milosz writes about guilt in his poem dedicated to Raja Rao , the friend who had tried unsuccessfully to convert him to Hinduism . For ...
... feel intense guilt and shame because of our sins and our failures in the religious life . Czeslaw Milosz writes about guilt in his poem dedicated to Raja Rao , the friend who had tried unsuccessfully to convert him to Hinduism . For ...
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... feels that he has a prophetic role in society , just as the holy men of all ages and of all religions have felt . Indeed ... feel content to withdraw , in some sense , from the world and seek a solitude . Only in solitude and silence can ...
... feels that he has a prophetic role in society , just as the holy men of all ages and of all religions have felt . Indeed ... feel content to withdraw , in some sense , from the world and seek a solitude . Only in solitude and silence can ...
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... feel it . Wordsworth replied to Coleridge's Dejection Ode with the famous Immortality Ode . He starts his poem by ... feels that his mystical visions are what he has ' heard in Paradise ' . At Tintern Abbey Wordsworth speaks more ...
... feel it . Wordsworth replied to Coleridge's Dejection Ode with the famous Immortality Ode . He starts his poem by ... feels that his mystical visions are what he has ' heard in Paradise ' . At Tintern Abbey Wordsworth speaks more ...
Contents
Genesis | 20 |
From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 38 |
Heal me my | 40 |
Copyright | |
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beauty beloved birds breath Camelot canst CHARLES CAUSLEY Christ Christian comfort CZESLAW MILOSZ D. H. LAWRENCE dark David Goldstein death divine doth dream earth ecstasy eternal eyes face fear feel fire flame GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS glory green hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven holy Hopkins Lady of Shalott light live look Lord meditation mind moon MOSES IBN EZRA mysterious mystic nature never night o'er pain Paradise peace Penguin Peter Levi poem poet poetic poetry prayer pure R. A. Nicholson R. S. THOMAS reality religion religious experience rose round sense shadow shine sight silence sing sleep solitude SOLOMON IBN GABIROL song soul speak spirit stars Sufi sweet tell thee things thou art thought thro tongue Transcending translated by David tree vision vocation voice WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings Wordsworth