Barry walks us through five excellent poems about love, sorrow, and sacrifice. In doing so, he reminds us that good poetry not only reveals something about the universe, but also something significant about ourselves.

 

 

 

Poems:

  • “Marvel No More” and “Description of the Contrarious Passions in a Lover” by Sir Thomas Wyatt,
  • “Sonnet 1” by Edmund Spenser
  • “The Burning Babe” by Robert Southwell
  • “On My First Son” by Ben Jonson

 

Scripture: Heb 4