Contents
Introduction
Nature’s God
Hildegard of Bingen
From Meditations
Lucille Clifton
“spring song”
Walter Chalmers Smith
“Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
Robert Frost
“A Prayer in Spring”
Wendell Berry
“Prayer after Eating”
Joy Harjo
“Eagle Poem”
Wrestling
John Donne
“Holy Sonnet XIV”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord”
SAID
Psalm (from 99 Psalms)
Marilyn McEntyre
“Assurance”
Praying
George Herbert
“The Call”
Thomas Merton
“The Candlemas Procession”
Denise Levertov
“The Avowal”
Galway Kinnell
“Prayer”
Scott Cairns
“Possible Answers to Prayer”
Mary Oliver
“Praying”
Marin Sorescu
“Prayer”
Witnessing
T. S. Eliot
From “The Dry Salvages”
Richard Wilbur
From “The Eye”
Francisco X. Alarcón
“L.A. Prayer”
Anna Kamienska
“Those Who Carry”
Michael Chitwood
“On Being Asked to Pray for a Van”
Anonymous
Truck Driver’s Prayer by a Young Ghanaian Christian
Known and Knowing
Psalm 139:1–12
Praying with Poems, Praying through Poems: An Afterword
Works Cited
List of Permissions