Mastery and Mercy: A Study of Two Religious Poems

allusion Arnaut Daniel Ash Wednesday Beatrice beauty becomes Blessed Blessed Virgin Mary bones Cavalcanti Christ Christian Church contrition crucified Dante Dante's death desert despair divine drowned Evelyn Underhill exile experience expression Ezra Pound Falk Laws Felix Randal flesh forgiveness fountain garden Gerard Manley Hopkins glory God's mastery grace Guido Cavalcanti heart heaven Holy hope and love hope to turn Hopkins wrote Hopkins's horror human Incarnation Jeremy Taylor Jesus Lady light Lord man's Mary's colour mastery and mercy means meditation mind pain Passion past peace penitent poem of Ash poet poetry pray prayer Purgatory quotation reader Redeem redemption rejoice repentance restoration rhythm Robert Bridges rocks Rose Saviour sense shipwreck sins sorrow soul spirit stanza storm stressed syllables suffering T. S. Eliot Testament things third stair thou hast tion truth unspoken verse Virgin Mary vision walk in darkness wide window wind words wreck