Anthony Evan Hecht God Poems

  • 1.
    For Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt
    Composed in the Tower before his execution
    These moving verses, and being brought at that time
    Painfully to the stake, submitted, declaring thus:
    ...
  • 2.
    SHEPHERD


    Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel,
    ...
  • 3.
    It was a villainous spirit, snub-nosed, foul
    Of breath, thick-taloned and malevolent,
    That squatted within him wheresoever he went
    .......And possessed the soul of Saul.
    ...
  • 4.
    Higgledy piggeldy
    Archangel Rafael,
    Speaking of Satan's re-
    Bellion from God:
    ...
  • 5.
    Powder and scent and silence. The young dwarf
    Shoulders his lute. The moon is Levantine.
    It settles its pearl in every glass of wine.
    Harlequin is already at the wharf.
    ...
  • 6.
    Tonight my children hunch
    Toward their Western, and are glad
    As, with a Sunday punch,
    The Good casts out the Bad.
    ...
Total 6 God Poems by Anthony Evan Hecht

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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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