https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 25 Dec 2013 09:37:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/08/it-was-like-god-mary-of-nazareth-by-clive-sansom/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:27:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/08/it-was-like-god-mary-of-nazareth-by-clive-sansom/ Mary of Nazareth by Clive Sansom It was like music: Hovering and floating there With the sound of lutes and timbrels In the night air. It was like waves, Beating upon the shore: Insistent with a rhythm, a pulsing Unfelt before. It was like wind: Blowing from off the seas Of other, far other Lands […]

The post It was like God (Mary of Nazareth, by Clive Sansom) first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/04/12/the-mother-of-god-william-butler-yeats/ Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:32:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/04/12/the-mother-of-god-william-butler-yeats/ The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the room; The terror of all terrors that I bore The Heavens in my womb. Had I not found content among the shows Every common woman knows, Chimney corner, garden walk, Or rocky cistern where we tread the […]

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