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    The Poetry of Angels
    The Poetry of Angels
    The Poetry of Angels
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    The Poetry of Angels

    By Hafiz, Alexander Pope and Radclyffe Hall

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    Angels are undeniably associated with religion and more usually Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Often they are seen as supernatural beings, benevolent celestial intermediaries interposed between God, Heaven and humanity.

    They are protectors, our heavenly guides, and the servants of God. They are also His Messengers. The faithful seek their blessing, their help. A visitation is a miraculous event, filled with reverence, awe and shared with the wider community as a sign that faith has reward.

    Other religions also make note of angelic contributions including Sikhism and Zoroastrianism. There is also the unnerving distinction that there are ‘fallen Angels’ that seep dark, malevolent forces into the world. They tempt, they betray, they lead us where it is not safe to go.

    But faith once more resolves the dilemma; good will overcome evil. And whether a believer or not, there is a comfort that the angels of our hearts are the ones of love, of care and compassion.

    Obviously there are complications, a fact that our classic poets through the centuries, including Alexander Pope, Edmund Spenser, Radclyffe Hall and Hafiz, use as they write verse to explain, to reveal and to help us understand exactly why Angels are so prevalent amongst our thoughts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateDec 12, 2023
    ISBN9781835470589
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      The Poetry of Angels - Hafiz

      The Poetry of Angels

      An Introduction

      Angels are undeniably associated with religion and more usually Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Often they are seen as supernatural beings, benevolent celestial intermediaries interposed between God, Heaven and humanity.

      They are protectors, our heavenly guides, and the servants of God. They are also His Messengers. The faithful seek their blessing, their help. A visitation is a miraculous event, filled with reverence, awe and shared with the wider community as a sign that faith has reward.

      Other religions also make note of angelic contributions including Sikhism and Zoroastrianism. There is also the unnerving distinction that there are ‘fallen Angels’ that seep dark, malevolent forces into the world. They tempt, they betray, they lead us where it is not safe to go.

      But faith once more resolves the dilemma; good will overcome evil. And whether a believer or not, there is a comfort that the angels of our hearts are the ones of love, of care and compassion.

      Obviously there are complications, a fact that our classic poets through the centuries, including Alexander Pope, Edmund Spenser, Radclyffe Hall and Hafiz, use as they write verse to explain, to reveal and to help us understand exactly why Angels are so prevalent amongst our thoughts.

      Index of Contents

      I Felt an Angel by Anonymous

      The Angel by William Blake

      The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke

      The Angels by Rainer Maria Rilke

      The Woman and the Angel by Robert William Service

      The Man to the Angel by George William Russell

      Ex Ore Infantium by Francis Thompson

      The Child Angel by Rabindranath Tagore

      A Poem for Children with Thoughts On Death by Jupiter Hammon

      The Guardian Angel by Robert Browning

      The Angel's Message by Clara Ann Thompson

      Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery

      Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths

      The Ministry of Angels by Edmund Spenser

      The Angels of Man by Bliss Carman

      The Two Angels by Radclyffe Hall

      My Sweet Crushed Angel by Hafiz

      Two or Three Angels by Stephen Crane

      The Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Proctor

      Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe

      The Song of the Seven Archangels by Ernest Rhys

      The Angel by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

      To.... by James Monroe Whitfield

      Angels Everywhere by Rosa Mulholland

      An Angel in the House by James Henry Leigh Hunt

      The Angel That Presided by William Blake

      A Cradle Song by W B Yeats

      Playmates by Emily Dickinson

      Once in a Saintly Passion by James Thomson

      To Rosemary, on the Methods by Which She Might Become an Angel by Stephen Vincent Benet

      It Was Wrong To Do This, Said the Angel by Stephen Crane

      Angels, in the Early Morning by Emily Dickinson

      The Angel and the Clown by Vachel Lindsay

      Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons

      To Be An Angel by Francois Couperin

      The Stillness Of Angels by Daniel Sheehan

      One Evening by Guillaume Apollinaire

      A Poor Torn Heart, A Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson

      Drifts That Bar My Door by Adah Isaacs Menken

      Sonnet CLIV – The Little Love-God by William Shakespeare

      By the Sides of Angels by Daniel Sheehan

      Rosa Mundi by Arthur Symons

      The Willowwood Sonnets. Sonnet I by Dante Gabriel Rosetti

      A Lost Angel by Ellis Parker Butler

      Sonnet CXLIV – Two Loves I Have by William Shakespeare

      Angel or Demon by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

      Paradise Lost (Extract) by John Milton

      The Swamp Angel by Herman Melville

      Verse XX - An Extract from The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson BV

      The Avenging Angel by William Winifred Campbell

      Celia, Sleeping or Singing by Thomas Stanley

      Angel Spirits of Sleep by Robert Seymour Bridges

      The Dark Angel by Lionel Johnson

      Why Has An Angel Died by Daniel Sheehan

      Angels Of Sunderland, In Memoriaum, June 16th 1893 by John Hartley

      The Dying Christian To His Soul by Alexander Pope

      THE POETRY OF ANGELS

      I Felt an Angel by Anonymous

      I felt an angel near today, though

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