[Of all that God has shown me]
Of all that God has shown me
I can speak just the smallest word,
Nor more than a honey bee
Takes on his foot
From an overspilling jar.
Mechtild of Madgeburg, “[Of all that God has shown me]” translated by Jane Hirshfield, from Women in Praise of the Sacred (New York: Harper Collins, 1994).
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Poet Mechtild of Magdeburg
Subjects Religion, God & the Divine, The Spiritual
Poetic Terms Metaphor
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SUBJECT Religion, God & the Divine, The Spiritual
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