Poems for Holy Saturday

Here’s the section of Poems for Holy Saturday from our larger compilation of Poems for Holy Week.

5. Holy Saturday:

• Sepulchre, by George Herbert
• John Keble:  Easter Eve
• Emily Polis Gibson:  Be Still and Wait
• Emily Polis Gibson: Great Gaps
• Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Truth of Holy Saturday: Only the wound is there
• Upon our Saviour’s Tomb, wherein never man was laid.
• Easter Night, Alice Meynell
• We Simply Have to Wait, John Harrell
• The Stones (excerpt), by Wendell Barry
• A Fitting Silence, Emily Polis Gibson