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    Twenty Poems by St. John of the Cross: With linked Table of Contents
    Twenty Poems by St. John of the Cross: With linked Table of Contents
    Twenty Poems by St. John of the Cross: With linked Table of Contents
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    Twenty Poems by St. John of the Cross: With linked Table of Contents

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    Saint John of the Cross was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered, along with Saint Teresa of Ávila, as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. He is particularly known for his writings. Both his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and one of the peaks of all Spanish literature. These are 20 of his finest poems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateDec 5, 2014
    ISBN9781633845893
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      Twenty Poems by St. John of the Cross - Saint John of the Cross

      Twenty Poems by St. John of the Cross

      By Saint John of the Cross

      Sublime Books

      Copyright © 2014 Sublime Books

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      ISBN 978-1-63384-589-3

      Table of Contents

      His Heart an Open Wound

      Trinity

      Within the Trinity

      By the Waters of Babylon

      Song of the Soul That Rejoices in Knowing God Through Faith.

      The Dark Night

      The Living Flame Of Love

      Stanzas Concerning an Ecstasy Experienced in High Contemplation

      Stanzas of the Soul That Suffers with Longing to See God

      Stanzas Given a Spiritual Meaning

      A Gloss (With Spiritual Meaning)

      Full of Hope I Climbed the Day

      I Came into the Unknown

      I Live Yet Do Not Live in Me

      Love’s Living Flame

      The Fountain

      The Sum of Perfection

      Without a Place and With a Place

      On the Communion of the Three Persons (from Romance on the Gospel)

      A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ

      His Heart an Open Wound

      Stanzas Applied Spiritually to Christ and the Soul.

      A lone young shepherd lived in pain

      withdrawn from pleasure and contentment,

      his thoughts fixed on a shepherd-girl

      his heart an open wound with love.

      He weeps, but not from the wound of love,

      there is no pain in such affliction,

      even though the heart is pierced;

      he weeps in knowing he’s been forgotten.

      That one thought: his shining one

      has forgotten him, is such great pain

      that he bows to brutal handling in a

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