Julia Ward Howe | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 28 Apr 2014 09:17:04 +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 Julia Ward Howe | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 When, After a Long Drought, Words Come like a Sudden Flood: Lessons from Blake, Milton, Rilke, and Julia Ward Howe https://anitamathias.com/2014/04/27/words-comes-like-sudden-flood-lessons-blake-milton-rilke-julia-ward-howe/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/04/27/words-comes-like-sudden-flood-lessons-blake-milton-rilke-julia-ward-howe/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:20:36 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=60639 William Blake, Milton I love The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe. The rhythm, the evocative lyrics, the allusions, the beautiful language create a loveliness greater than the sum of its parts. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath […]

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