Acknowledgements xi Introduction xv Ash Wednesday to Lent, week 1: Preparation Ash Wednesday Surview Thomas Hardy 3 Thursday King Lear William Shakespeare 6 Friday The poor parson Geoffrey Chaucer 9 Saturday Lachrimae amantis Geoffrey Hill 13 Week 1: Testing Monday Batter my heart John Donne 19 Tuesday God moves in a mysterious way William Cowper 22 Wednesday Twice Christina Rossetti 26 Thursday The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 30 Friday In Memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson 34 Saturday In memory of W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden 37 Week 2: Grace Monday I count the moments of my mercies up Elizabeth Jennings 41 Tuesday The quality of sprawl Les Murray 44 Wednesday If thou must love me . Elizabeth Barrett Browning 48 Thursday The moor R. S. Thomas 51 Friday The kingdom of God Francis Thompson 54 Saturday Prayer Carol Ann Duffy 57 Week 3: Glory in the ordinary Monday Miracles Walt Whitman 61 Tuesday And that is your glory Yehuda Amichai 63 Wednesday The glory Edward Thomas 66 Thursday Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth 69 Friday Jubilate Agno Christopher Smart 73 Saturday Ode on a Grecian urn John Keats 76 Week 4: Parental love Monday Oh antic God Lucille Clifton 83 Tuesday The almond tree Jon Stallworthy 85 Wednesday Walking away C.
Day-Lewis 91 Thursday Mother to son Langston Hughes 94 Friday Digging Seamus Heaney 97 Saturday Taking a chance Richard Harries 100 Week 5: Being fully human Monday As kingfishers catch fire Gerard Manley Hopkins 105 Tuesday On imagination Phyllis Wheatley 108 Wednesday An Essay on Man Alexander Pope 111 Thursday Eve remembering Toni Morrison 116 Friday One foot in Eden still Edwin Muir 118 Saturday Who am I? Dietrich Bonhoeffer 121 Holy Week: Death Monday When my time come Khadijah Ibrahiim 127 Tuesday The trees are down Charlotte Mew 131 Wednesday The father, the son Roger McGough 135 Maundy Thursday The Dream of the Rood Early English, anonymous 138 Good Friday To the good thief Saunders Lewis 142 Holy Saturday No coward soul is mine Emily Brontë 145 Easter and into the new life in Christ Easter Day Piers Plowman William Langland 151 Monday of Easter Week Easter Edmund Spenser 155 Tuesday of Easter Week I saw him standing Ann Griffiths 158 Wednesday of Easter Week Easter George Herbert 161 Thursday of Easter Week O Sapientia Malcolm Guite 165 Friday of Easter Week Shadows D. H. Lawrence 168 Saturday of Easter Week Sailing to Byzantium William Butler Yeats 171 Second Sunday of Easter This world is not conclusion Emily Dickinson 175 Monday Signs Piers Plowright 178 Tuesday Little Gidding T. S. Eliot 181 Notes 185.