Tag: Malcolm Guite

Poem for Fourth Sunday of Lent 2026

All things without, which round about we see,
We seek to know, and how therewith to do;
But that whereby we reason, live, and be,
Within ourselves we strangers are thereto.

—“Nosce Teipsum” by Sir John Davies1

NOTES:
1) Sir John Davies, “Nosce Teipsum,” Poetry Foundation, accessed March 15, 2026, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57129/nosce-tiepsum-of-human-knowledge
2) Malcolm Guite, “Week 4: Know Thyself: John Davies and Tennyson,” March 30, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 8, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/week-4-know-thyself-john-davies-and-tennyson-10/
3) “A poem for the fourth week of Lent (Laetare Sunday), 2022,” Coffeehouse Junkie, March 27, 2022, accessed February 13, 2026, https://coffeehousejunkie.net/2022/03/27/a-poem-for-the-fourth-week-of-lent-laetare-sunday-2022/

Poem for Third Sunday of Lent 2026

I knew, always, that I would be a worker in the vineyard,  
as are all men and women living at the same time,   
whether they are aware of it or not.

—“Late Ripeness” by Czeslaw Milosz1

NOTES:
1) Czeslaw Milosz, “Late Ripeness,” Poetry Foundation, accessed March 8, 2026, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49453/late-ripeness
2) Malcolm Guite, “Week 3: Dante and the Companioned Journey,” March 23, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 8, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/week-3-dante-and-the-companioned-journey-10/
3) 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

Poem for Second Sunday of Lent 2026

You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.

— “Postscript” by Seamus Heaney1

NOTES:
1) Seamus Heaney, “Postscript,” July 21, 2019, Poetry Daily, accessed March 1, 2026, https://poems.com/poem/postscript/
2) Malcolm Guite, “WEEK 2 Deepening the Life of Prayer,” March 16, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 1, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/week-2-deepening-the-life-of-prayer-10/

Poem for First Sunday of Lent 2026

I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field….
I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it…1

“The Bright Field” by R. S. Thomas

NOTES:
1) R. S. Thomas, “The Bright Field,” All Poetry, accessed February 22, 2026, https://allpoetry.com/poem/14375129-The-Bright-Field-by-Ronald-Stuart-Thomas
2) Malcolm Guite, “Word in the Wilderness Week 1: The Pilgrimage Begins,” March 9, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed February 22, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/word-in-the-wilderness-week-1-the-pilgrimage-begins-6/ 
3) 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