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Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by Therese, of Lisieux, St. (1873-1897)
... well as "Counsels and Reminiscences," letters, and selected poems. Also included are the preface by Cardinal Bourne ...
Therese, of Lisieux, St. (1873-1897)
Carmelite nun
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... himself for the insult by reading a tragic poem. Born about b.c. 480 at Leontini in Sicily ...
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... Only two fragments remain of his Greek poem in forty-two books. Marcellus of Side, ... the gods, and abstinence from flesh.…
Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ by John of the Cross, St. (1542-1591)
... but also one of Spanish literature. This poem of forty stanzas tells the story of ... having become separated from him. Overall, the poem loosely follows the narrative of Solomon’s ... note that one can even read the poem as an early Spanish translation of Solomon ...
John of the Cross, St. (1542-1591)
Spanish mystic, Carmelite friar and priest
Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
... upon Projects (1697) and the extremely popular satirical poem The True-Born Englishman (1701). Defoe's ironic ...
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
... which Lemuel's mother taught him, but a poem by itself, written by some other hand, and ...
Cowper, William (1731-1800)
... in 1755. Cowper wrote a sequence of poems, Delia, chronicling this affair but the book ... letter-writer. His first volume of poetry, Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple ... sofa, in later sections of the poem Cowper meditates on the immediate world around ...
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler by Augustine, Saint (354-430)
... , if I had been forbidden to read these poems, I would have grieved that I was not ...
