The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers,9780935216684

The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers

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ISBN13: 9780935216684
ISBN10: 0935216685
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Baker & Taylor Pub Serv
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Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
I. Vision
The Mercy of God
The Mercy of God
1(1)
The Vision
2(2)
The Legend of the Sparrow
4(2)
This Trackless Solitude
6(1)
And Wilderness Rejoices
7(1)
The Mountains of the Lord
8(1)
Morning of Fog
9(1)
The Uninvited
10(1)
The Mystical Sparrow of St. John of the Cross
11(2)
II. Of God and Angels, and other Glorious Things
God and Divine Mercy
God Is Today
13(1)
Repairer of Fences
14(1)
The Mystic Face
15(1)
God Is a Strange Lover
16(1)
But Not With Wine
17(1)
Not Garden Any More
18(1)
The Will of God
19(1)
The Kingdom of God
20(1)
The Garments of God
21(1)
The Ledge of Light
22(1)
The Master Beggar
23(1)
The Cloister
24(1)
Spirit and Fire
The First Pentecost
25(1)
The Wind of Pentecost
26(1)
This Is a Beautiful Time
27(1)
Let There Be Light
28(1)
O Spirita Sancta
29(1)
Shining Quarry
30(1)
Celestial Bird
31(1)
Lo Spirito Santo
32(1)
Ruah-Elohim
33(1)
Decoys
34(1)
The Spirit's Name
35(1)
Night of Storm
36(1)
Come, South Wind
37(1)
To Live with the Spirit
38(1)
Love
The Little Nation
39(1)
In This Green Wood
40(1)
The Flower of Love
41(1)
Cabaret
42(1)
Letter of Departure
43(2)
My Heart Ram Forth
45(1)
I Hold My Heart as a Gourd
46(1)
The Rock Too High for Me
47(1)
This Paltry Love
48(1)
Come Is the Love Song
49(1)
I Would Define My Love
50(1)
Encounter of Love
51(1)
The Gift of Love
52(1)
Heaven
The Homecoming
53(1)
Manuscript of Heaven
54(1)
Heaven
55(1)
Mary and the Saints
The Cloud of Carmel
56(1)
Total Virgin
57(1)
Young Maidens Running
58(1)
The Blood's Mystic
59(1)
The Book of Ruth
60(1)
Night Prayer: To the Prophet Elijah
61(1)
The Granite Woman
62(1)
The Pool of God
63(1)
And in Her Morning
64(1)
About Bruno
65(1)
Abraham
66(1)
The Visitation Journey
67(1)
Angels
In a Cloud of Angels
68(1)
Like the Bright Seraphim
69(1)
Ministering Spirits
70(1)
Michael
71(1)
Beauty: Music and Light and Color
Beauty, Too, Seeks Surrender
72(1)
The Evening Chimes
73(1)
At Sunset
74(1)
Place of Ruin
75(1)
Siesta in Color
76(1)
Gaelic Music
77(1)
Liturgical Seasons
O Full of Lilies
78(1)
In Too Much Light
79(1)
The Hidden Christ
80(1)
Advent
81(1)
Michigan Boulevard, Chicago
82(1)
Green Is the Season
83(1)
The Song of Distance
84(1)
III. The Human Journey: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Creaturehood: Our Poverty and Aloneness
Counsel for Silence
85(1)
There Is a Homelessness
86(1)
The Moment after Suffering
87(1)
Creature of God
88(1)
The Soul that Cries to God
89(1)
The Masses
90(1)
If You Have Nothing
91(1)
Humility
92(1)
Israel Again
93(1)
Richer Berry
94(1)
This May Explain
95(1)
On Reading Saint Peter of Alcantara
96(1)
Without Beauty
97(1)
No One Can Stay
98(1)
For a Child of God
99(1)
The Great Mystery
100(1)
Los Angeles Earthquake
101(1)
Escape
102(1)
Petenwell Rock
103(1)
Old Bridge
104(1)
The Monk at Quadragesima
105(1)
Suffering
106(1)
One Answer
107(1)
Obscurity
108(1)
Renunciation
109(1)
The Book and the Cup
110(1)
For a Proud Friend, Humbled
111(1)
The Leftovers
112(1)
Human Winter
113(1)
I Measure Loneliness
114(1)
Awake at Night
115(1)
Draw Me: We Will Run
116(1)
Old Woman
117(1)
The Tear in the Shade
118(1)
I Do Not Touch You
119(1)
Journey of the Soul
The soul Is a Terrible Thing
120(2)
The House at Rest
122(1)
The Place of Splendor
123(1)
Wanderer
124(1)
The House of the Silver Spirit
125(2)
The Variable Heart
127(1)
Enclosure
128(1)
Return of the Victor
129(1)
On Reading a Perfect Poem
130(1)
The Far Island
131(1)
The Book of Saint John of the Cross
132(1)
The Second Giving
133(1)
The Terminal
134(1)
Track of the Mystic
135(1)
One Time as a Child
136(1)
Yes
137(1)
Millet's ``Feeding Her Birds''
138(1)
There Shall Come Forth a Shoot
139(1)
At Evening with a Child
140(1)
Water and Light
141(1)
Star, First Magnitude
142(1)
Prayer: A Progression
143(1)
Prayer
144(2)
To a Young Wood-Carver
146(1)
Dreams of You
147(1)
Only One Voice
148(1)
Covenant
149(1)
Decisions
The Sign of the Cross
150(1)
The Heart Can Set Its Boundaries
151(1)
Christ Is My Utmost Need
152(1)
Take Your Only Son
153(1)
Pure Desert
154(1)
Having Renounced You
155(1)
Belmont Harbor
156(1)
Return
157(1)
Sign at Sexagesina
158(1)
The Monastic Song
159(2)
IV. Of Birds and Rainbows, and All Assorted Things
Nature and Grace
The Valley of the Cat-Tails
161(1)
Look at the Chickadee
162(1)
Everything Rushes, Rushes
163(1)
Wisconsin Winter
164(1)
For a Lover of Nature
165(1)
Souvenir, Wisconsin River
166(1)
Red Moon
167(1)
Wigwams
168(1)
The Valley of My Childhood
169(2)
The Old Bee House
171(1)
Ice Storm
172(1)
Leafage of Snow
173(1)
A Meadow Moreover
174(1)
Loveliest Blossom
175(1)
The Cedar Tree
176(1)
Deer in the Open
177(1)
In the Dells
178(1)
The Late of Leaf
179(1)
Birds and Lessons for Life
Bird at Daybreak
180(1)
Bird at Evening
181(1)
Out of the Storm
182(1)
Nighthawks Flying
183(1)
Like Kildeers Crying
184(1)
Poet of a Gentler Time
185(1)
For a Silent Poet
186(1)
Robin at Dusk
187(1)
Birds
188(1)
Fair Lines Forgotten
189(1)
The Hermit Thrush
190(1)
Doxology
191(1)
Chronology 192(3)
Bibliography 195

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