The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers

by Powers, Jessica; Siegfried, Regina; Morneau, Robert F.

• ISBN13: 9780935216684
• ISBN10: 0935216685
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Baker & Taylor Pub Serv

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