Images of Grace

"Images of Grace: Four Centuries of Religious Verse" (Selected and Narrated With Afterward by Regis Martin)

"Regis Martin is Professor of Theology and Faculty Associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned a licentiate and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Martin is the author of a number of books, including Still Point: Loss, Longing, and Our Search for God (2012) and, most recently, The Beggar's Banquet (Emmaus Road). He resides in Steubenville, Ohio, with his wife and ten children" (Crisis Magazine, "Regis Martin").

Thirty-three Christian poems

"Dedicated to the memory of Fritz Wilhelmson (1923-1996), the finest teacher I ever knew, who first awakened me to the poetry of the transcendent."

John Donne

"Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you"

"A Hymn to God the Father"

George Herbert

"The Pulley"

"Love"

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)

"A Song of Divine Love"

"Epitaph on Husband and Wife. who died and were buried together" Text uncertain for me. The recited poem does not match the only version I could find on the internet. MXM.

'Tis these, whom death again did wed;

This grave's the second marriage-bed.

For though the hand of Fate could force

'Twixt soul and body a divorce,

It could not sunder man and wife

Because they both lived but one life.

Peace, good reader, do not weep ;

Peace, the lovers are asleep!

They, sweet turtles, folded lie

In the last knot that love could tie.

Let them sleep, let them sleep on

'Til the stormy night be gone