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The ordering of love: the new and collected poems of Madeleine L'Engle
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Shaw Books
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2005.
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First edition.
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English
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9780877880868
Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Foreword / by Walter Wangerin, Jr. --
Introduction : "Madeleine as poet" / by Luci Shaw --
From Lines scribbled on an envelope (1969) --
To a long-loved love --
The Mermaid --
Lines scribbled on an envelope while riding the 104 Broadway bus --
Shout joy! --
"Body, the black horse and the white" --
Medusa --
Lines after Sir Thomas Browne --
The Unicorn --
Abraham's child --
The Promise --
Primate --
Testament --
People in glass houses --
The Phoenix --
Moses --
From St. Luke's Hospital (1) --
Passion play --
For Dana : 4th November --
The Roc --
Instruments (1) --
Instruments (2) --
The Baby in the bath --
The Sea monster --
We make bold to say ... --
The Birth of love --
Fire by fire --
Summer City --
Word --
From St. Luke's Hospital (2) --
The Monkey --
Act III, scene ii --
Tree at Christmas --
"The winter is cold, is cold" --
Epithalamion --
Burn, charity --
The Dragon --
From St. Luke's Hospital (3) --
Within this strange and quickened dust --
Song of Simeon --
The Parrot --
From St. Luke's Hospital (4) --
Lines after M.B.'s funeral --
The Sea bishop --
Confession shortly before the forty-eighth birthday --
From The irrational season (1977) --
"Let us view with joy and mirth" --
"As I grow older" --
... and the old man became as a little child ... --
On Valentine's Day, for a saint most misunderstood --
"Boarding school : someone cried jubilantly" --
"Who shoved me out into the night?" --
O Hilaritas --
"How very odd it seems, dear Lord" --
Great and holy Saturday --
"Seeking perspective in a hate-torn world" --
All that matters --
"Go away. You can't come in. I'm shutting the door." --
"Now we may love the child" --
"When I pushed through the crowd" --
"The children at the party" --
"It is an old church" --
"Rejoice!" --
"Silence was the one thing we were not prepared for" --
Love letter addressed to --
"Sitting around your table" --
"This is a strange place" --
Mrs. Noah speaking --
"Suddenly they saw him the way he was" --
The Air bites shrewdly --
"Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come" --
From The weather of the heart (1978) --
To a long loved love : 4 --
To a long loved love : 5 --
To a long loved love : 6 --
To a long loved love : 7 --
Epiphany --
Lovers apart --
Lines after Herbert : rondel --
Epidaurus : the theatre : an actor muses --
The Animals do judge --
The Guests of Abraham --
Jacob : ballade --
David --
Song from the fiery furnace --
Annunciation --
After Annunciation --
Like every newborn --
The Risk of birth, Christmas, 1973 --
... Set to the music of The Spheres --
For M.S.J., 20th June, 1968 --
Charlotte Rebecca Jones, 22nd August, 1969 --
Charlotte --
Crosswicks --
God's beast --
The Tenth hour --
Pentecost --
Corinth --
Ready for silence --
Advent, 1971 --
Come, Lord Jesus! --
Come, let us gather --
At communion --
Martha --
Temper my intemperance --
Sonnet after Thomas --
Love letter --
For Ascension Day, 1967 --
After the Saturday liturgy at Montfort --
Star light --
Ascension, 1969 --
Sonnet, Trinity 18.
From A cry like a bell (1987) --
Eve --
"And God heard ..." --
Sarah : before Mount Moriah --
Abraham : with laughter --
The Ram : caught in the bush --
Isaac --
Esau --
Rachel : at Joseph's birth --
Rachel : birthing Benjamin --
Benjamin's birth --
Leah --
Leah : the unloved --
Jacob : after Rachel's death --
Pharaoh's cross --
Moses --
Gershom : son of Moses --
Jepthah's daughter --
Jepthah's daughter, 2 --
Naaman : the leper --
David : from Psalm 32 --
David : after Psalm 49 --
Psalm 55:12-14 : a contemplation of David --
Herman the Ezragite : Psalm 88:18 --
Annunciation --
Bearer of love --
The Bethlehem explosion --
Young Mary --
Three songs of Mary --
O Simplicitas --
O Oriens --
O Sapientia --
O wise and foolish virgins --
First coming --
The Wise men --
One king's epiphany " ... and kill the Passover" --
Mary : after the baptism --
The Preparation of Mary, mother of Joses --
Andrew --
The Samaritan woman at the well --
Song of blind Bartimaeus after his healing --
The Woman --
"When Mary asked ..." --
The High priest's servant --
Andrew : having run away from Jesus in the garden --
Magdalen --
Mary of Magdala --
Simon of Cyrene --
Barabbas --
Mary speaks --
Salome : at the foot of the cross --
Three days --
Pieta --
Mary : afterwards --
Thomas : after seeing the wounds --
Peter --
A Man from Phrygia, on Pentecost --
Barnabas, travelling to Antioch --
Phoebe, perhaps the very first deacon --
Priscilla's response to the Letter to the Hebrews --
Mary speaks : from Ephesus --
Ephesus --
Mary Magdalene, remembering --
"And Nicolas ..." --
Uncollected poems (circa 1966) --
For Lent, 1966 --
The Stripper --
The Baptism of Easter, 1966 --
Small galaxy --
For Pentecost, 1966, I --
Lines after Hymn 456 --
"My sins, I fear, dear Lord, lack glamour" --
Intention for mass : Watts, Viet Nam, Johannesburg ... --
"I am become like a pelican ..." --
Uncollected poems (circa 1998) --
Sonnet 1 --
Sonnet 2 --
Sonnet 3 --
Sonnet 4 --
Sonnet 5 --
Sonnet 6 --
Sonnet 7 --
Sonnet 8 --
Sonnet 9 Sonnet 10 --
Sonnet 11 --
Sonnet 12 --
Sonnet 13 --
Sonnet 14 --
Iona, 1 --
The Donkey --
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