Therefore come they, the crowding maidens Gertrude, Agnes, Prisca, Cecily Lucy, Thekla, Juliana, Barbara Agatha, Petronel, and other maids Whose names I have read not and now record not But their souls and their faith were maimed not Worthy now of God's company Wndr'ing through the fresh fields go they Gath'ring flow'rs to make them a...Learn More

I will take nothing from my Lord,” said she “unless He gives me His Son from Heaven In the form of a Baby that I may nurse Him” So that Christ came down to her In the form of a Baby and then she said: “Infant Jesus, at my breast Nothing in this world is true Save, O tiny nursling, You Infant Jesus at my breast By my heart every night You I nurse...Learn More

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade...Learn More

Pangur, white Pangur How happy we are Alone together, Scholar and cat Each has his own work to do daily; For you it is hunting, for me, study Your shining eye watches the wall; My feeble eye is fixed on a book You rejoice when your claws entrap a mouse; I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem Pleased with his own art Neither hinders the...Learn More

Let down the bars, O Death! The tired flocks come in Whose bleating ceases to repeat Whose wandering is done Thine is the stillest night Thine the securest fold; Too near thou art for seeking thee Too tender to be told...Learn More