Dante, Erotic Love and the Path to God
Mark Vernon | On the 700-year anniversary of The Divine Comedy, Mark Vernon explores a pivotal moment of transformation in the Purgatorio in which Dante gets a glimpse of the vastness of Divine Love
Poems for These Times: 10
Elizabeth Jennings | Song of Time
“Deliver time and let it go
Under wild clouds and passive moon.
Once it was fast, now it is slow…”
Poems for These Times: 9
Rainer Maria Rilke | The Tenth Duino Elegy
“Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight,
let me sing out jubilation and praise to assenting angels…”
Poems for These Times: 8
Benjamin Zephaniah | The Old Truth
“Rumour has it
Once upon a time
Dere was Peace, Luv and Unity…”
Poems for These Times: 7
Rupert Brooke | The Dead
“These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth…”
Poems for These Times: 6
Amir Khusrau | Ghazal 1836
“Green is newly sprouted
and rain comes scattering pearls
and the heart comes
to incline to fields
and flowing waters…”