Poems 2022 ” they said to me

” they said to me in my childhood

his writings include A Sign of Contradiction

we may breathe a pure and invigorating if rather rarefied air

are ordained of God

Musurillo’s writings include Symbolism and the Christian Imagination and Acts of the Pagan Martyrs

Poems 2022 ” they said to meBy St. John of the Cross Translated by Roy Campbell Preface by Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S. J. Afterword by Conrad Pepler, O. P. The poetry of St. John of the Cross has received almost innumerable accolades. In his Preface to this volume, M. C. DArcy quotes Marcelino Menndez y Pelayo, the remarkable Spanish historian and critic, in praise of the poems of the Mystical Doctor: So sublime is this poetry that it scarcely seems to belong to this world at all;