Musings
These are the short articles from the weekly Mount Hope Lutheran School Newsletter. Topics include poems, paintings, great literary works, and the philosophy of classical education. You can browse through past articles here on the website, and you can subscribe to receive new ones in your inbox using the form on this page.
The Ivy Green
The brave old plant, in its lonely days, shall fatten upon the past: For the stateliest building man can raise, is the Ivy’s food at last.
A Hymn to God the Father
Who more can crave than thou hast done? That gav’st a Son, to free a slave, first made of nought; with all since bought.
Holy Sonnet X
You only get to die once. Practice scorning death now so that you regard it with the proper contempt when the time comes.
How Lovely Shines the Morning Star
Pastor Nicolai wrote this hymn in the midst of a devastating plague and while burying dozens of people a week.
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, our love shall live, and later life renew.
The Joy of Sonnets
The sonnet form gives the poet precisely 140 syllables in which to make a point. One might think this would be limiting. Quite the opposite.
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