This poem seems to point to her relationship with the Rev. Charles ... and knows or seeks to know God, while she (in terrible, eloquent brevity) “could not.” The beloved’s shining presence ...

Why does this poem stick with you ... what it is we long for and our relationship with our longing. I trained in theology. To fixate too much on the word God, I think, is to miss out the fact ...

Another Christian approach to the Song of Songs was that the poem described God’s loving relationship with Jesus’ mother, Mary. These diverse interpretations may also have influenced medieval ...