POETRY ~ DANIEL MITSUI

Daniel Mitsui ~ Poetry

My approach to poetry is like my approach to visual art; I want my verse to be detailed and vigorously medieval in spirit. Most of it is religious in subject. I write in meter and rhyme, with an early modern diction. I have set the works here in typefaces that I designed myself.

I prefer to write in popular, singable verse forms, such as carols and ballads. I invite composers to set these carols to music; some already have, and have allowed their compositions to be downloaded here.

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THE BESOM OF RUIN: A Song of Consolation

MARY BEARS EMMANUEL: A Carol for Advent

THE DEW FALLS: A Carol for Advent

A CARRACK AND TWO CARAVELS: A Carol for Advent

THE FRUIT OF THY WOMB: A Carol for Advent

WHEN GOD MADE ADAM: A Carol for Christmas at Midnight

GOOD SHEPHERDS: A Carol for Christmas at Midnight

A LIGHT SHINES TODAY: A Carol for Christmas at Daybreak

THE WORD OF GOD: A Carol for Christmas Day

PURPLE AND PALL: A Carol on the Ara Cæli

THE VIRGIN SANG: A Christmas Lullaby

SING NOWELL: A Carol for Christmas

NEW YEARS AND AGES: A Carol for Circumcision Day

THE WISEST OF THE WISE: A Carol for Epiphany

THE TREASURES OF THE EARTH: A Carol for Epiphany

JESUS LIVES IN EGYPT: A Carol on the Flight into Egypt

THE WAY TO BETHLEHEM: A Nursery Rhyme for Epiphany

GOD IS IN THE TEMPLE AGAIN: A Carol for Candlemas

IN THE DESERT: A Carol on the Temptation of Jesus Christ

THE ANGEL’S GREETING: A Carol on the Annunciation

MOTHER WITHOUT MACKLE: A Litany of the Virgin Mary

THY BOSOM FRIEND: A Carol on the Betrayal of Jesus Christ

COME WAVING BRANCHES: A Carol for Palm Sunday

BAKËD BREAD AND WINE SO RED: A Carol for Maundy Thursday

SING WELLAWAY: A Carol on the Agony in the Garden

THE HEN SHRIKE: A Ballad on the Death of Jesus Christ

THE HEMLOCK: A Carol on the Death of Jesus Christ

A GODFORSAKEN GOD: An Alphabet on the Death of Jesus Christ

NO GREATER LOVE: A Romance on the Death of Jesus Christ

A WRETCH ON A GALLOW TREE: A Song of Consolation

BROKEN THINGS: A Ballad for the Holy Triduum

SEVEN TIMES SEVEN: A Counting Song on the Passion of Jesus Christ

CHRIST IS RISEN: A Carol for Easter

HE IS NOT DEAD: A Carol for Easter Week

ABUNDANT SIGNS AND WONDERS: A Carol on the Ascension of Jesus Christ

COME TO THE FEAST: A Carol for the Downtrodden

VANITAS VANITATUM: A Song on Earthly Transience

SING A SONG OF AGES: A Nursery Rhyme on the Infancy, Passion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

O STAR OF HEAVEN: A Carol in Time of Pestilence

O VIRGIN OF MERCY: A Carol in Time of War

THE BESOM OF RUIN:

A SONG OF CONSOLATION