Today we have the last of Anne Locke’s sonnet sequence: it begins with a five sonnet introduction. In this sonnet, as in the psalm, the…
Posted: 8 September 2019
Categories: Poetry
Tag: Anne Locke
Posted: 7 September 2019
Categories: Poetry
I have not previously posted the introduction to the meditations of a penitent sinner, which have been the Sunday Sonnets for the last couple of…
Posted: 1 September 2019
Categories: Poetry
This is the second to last Sonnet in this sequence. The text is Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls…
Posted: 25 August 2019
Categories: Poetry
We are approaching the end of Anne Locke’s sonnet sequence. Why did I bother? Well, it is good, the first use of the Shakespearean Sonnet…
Posted: 11 August 2019
Categories: Poetry
It is late Sunday Evening. We have had a series of storms over the weekend, and other things to do. There has been a loss…
Posted: 4 August 2019
Categories: Poetry
Locke continues with the second half of her poem cycle. She is following the psalmist, who is praising God for his forgiveness despite (in the…
Posted: 21 July 2019
Categories: Poetry
One tries to keep this sonnet cycle in sequence. The text today is Restore unto me the joy of your salvation (again Psalm 51) and…
Posted: 14 July 2019
Categories: Poetry
The paraphrase that Locke did continues. Locke is working on the following verse Cast me not away from your presence/ and take not your Holy…
Posted: 7 July 2019
Categories: Poetry
This is one of those things where the older language and the newer language differ. The verse Locke is paraphrasing in a modern translation is….
Posted: 16 June 2019
Categories: Poetry
Locke continues. Hyssop was used to sprinkle consecrated water on healed lepers as a rite of purification. (Leviticus 14:3-8). Locke takes this as analogy: as…