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A cry like a bell / Madeleine L'Engle.

Summary:

Established in 1968, the Wheaton Literary Series provides insightful books for the thoughtful reader, inspiring imagination, and reflection. These beautifully produced volumes feature prose and poetry of high literary, academic, and artistic merit, written by and about Christian artists of significant stature.

Record details

ISBN: 0877881480
ISBN: 9780877881483
Physical Description: xii, 110 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Wheaton, Ill. : H. Shaw Publishers, c1987.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Poems.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	A fore word -- Eve -- And God heard -- Sarah: before Mount Moriah -- Abraham: with laughter -- The ram: caught in the bush -- Isaac -- Esau -- Rachel: at Joseph's birth -- Rachel: birthing Benjamin -- Benjamin's birth -- Leah -- Leah: the unloved -- Jacob: ballade -- Jacob: after Rachel's death -- Pharaoh's cross -- Moses -- Moses: dialogue with God -- Gershom: son of Moses -- Balaam's ass -- Jepthah's daughter -- Jepthah's daughter, 2 -- Naaman: the leper -- David: from Psalm 32 -- David -- David: after Psalm 49 -- Psalm 55:12-14 -- Herman the Ezragite: psalm 88:18 -- Annunciation -- Bearer of love. The Bethlehem explosion -- Young Mary -- Three songs of Mary -- O simplicitas -- O oriens -- O sapientia -- O wise and foolish virgins -- First coming -- After annunciation -- Like every newborn -- The wise men -- One kin's epiphany -- ...and kill the Passover -- Mary: after the baptism -- The preparation of Mary, mother of Joses -- Andrew -- The samaritan woman at the well -- Song of blind Bartimaeus after his healing -- The woman -- When Mary asked -- The high priest's servant -- Andrew: having run away from Jesus in the garden -- Magdalen -- Mary of Magdala -- Temper my intemperance -- Simon of Cyrene -- Barabbas -- Mary speaks -- Salome: at the foot of the cross -- Three days -- Pieta -- Mary: afterwards -- Thomas: after seeing the wounds -- Peter -- A man from Phrygia, on Pentecost -- Barnabas, travelling to Antioch -- Phoebe, perhaps the very first deacon -- Priscilla's response to the letter to the Hebrews -- Mary speaks: from Ephesus -- Ephesus -- Mary Magdalene, remembering -- And Nicolas.