Poem for Easter Sunday – 2026

And now he blesses hers who stood and wept
And would not be consoled, or leave her love’s
Last touching place, but watched as low light crept
Up from the east…

—“Easter Dawn” by Malcolm Guite¹

NOTES:
1) Malcolm Guite, “A Sonnet for Easter Dawn,” April 20, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 15, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/a-sonnet-for-easter-dawn-9/
2) Word in the Wilderness: A poem a day for Lent and Easter by Malcolm Guite, https://canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781848256781/word-in-the-wilderness