This is a sample table to guide selection of poems to read.
Title / Link | Poet | Year | Collection |
Whitsunday | George Herbert | 1633 | The Temple |
Suddenly | R.S. Thomas | ||
Evening | R.S. Thomas | ||
Our Mother-tongue Is Love; A Sonnet for Pentecost | Malcolm Guite | 2012 | Sounding the Seasons |
Speaking in Tongues | Mary Rose O’Reilly | ||
Caedmon | Denise Levertov | ||
Four
Quartets 4: Little Gidding | T.S. Eliot | ||
Lightning | Mary Oliver | ||
From a Window | Christian Wiman | ||
Pentecostal | Les Murray | ||
Batter
my heart, three-person’d God | John Donne | Holy Sonnets, a collection of 19 sonnets | |