Posts by Dave Fielding
A Perfect Love
The Lord Is My Shepherd
The Legend of St. Christopher
A Wanderer’s Psalm
My True Love Hath My Heart
Mirrors
The Cavalier
The Daffodills
The Burning Babe
“The Burning Babe” is a 16-line poem written in 1595 by Robert Southwell, an English Jesuit priest, and martyr who would later by ordained a saint. The poem depicts the speaker encountering a baby Jesus surrounded by flames, symbolizing his fiery love and the suffering he endures for humanity. The baby explains that the fire…
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