David King of Israel

She wrote that she wondered what they meant, that say, Religion is a melancholly Thing; I can see Nothing but Joy. I was with David singing, My Mountain stands strong, I shall never be moved...

She likens her address to the monarch here to the future king David 's power, as a boy, to sooth the troubled king Saul in the Old Testament: as blatantly self-confident an association as...

The essay, Back to my Own Country, considers the ways in which writing has helped AL to understand herself and her heritage (of which, she says, many Caribbean Britons are ignorant because information is...

The fact that Mary Sidney did not print the psalms, as she did her brother's poems, says something about her attitudes both to print and to her own ranked and gendered identity as an author...

The collection begins with Sarah, wife of Abraham, and moves on through twenty-one listings of renownedOld Testament women. Each is introduced with the statement: We find . . . .EB 's...

She heads her work with the quotation What think ye of Christ? (a question which St Matthew's Gospel reports Jesus as asking the Pharisees, arguably as a kind of trick), and adds, admiringly, others from...

The Jesse Tree, a masque by AR , was published. It was written for acting in Dorchester Abbey, which boasts a Jesse Window representing in stained glass the genealogical descent of Christ from...

After this celebration of David 's victories and his succession to the throne (the second in a series of Jewish Lyrics) comes a song welcoming the peace and another about a maiden whose lover...