Easter Poetry
Easter Poetry allows writers to express their sentiments, beliefs, or well wishes inspired by the
Easter season.
This page offer some links to poems about and inspired by the Easter holiday.
Easter
Liturgical feasts of the Middle Ages were often celebrated with poetry and music, dramatizing parts of the text of the Scriptures. Monks in tenth-century
Switzerland used tropes (elaborations on parts of the Liturgy) set to music. The Introit was especially popular, often being sung by choirs of men and boys. Ecclesiastical drama began with the trope that was used as the Introit of the Mass on Easter Sunday. A St. Gallen manuscript dating from the time of the tenth century monk Tutilo has survived with the
Introit. It has four sentences:
- Quem quaeritis in sepulchro, o christicolae
- Jesum Nazarenum, o coelicolae
- Non est hic. Surrexit, sicut praedixerat.
- Ite nuntiate quia surrexit de sepulchro. Resurrexi, postquam factus homo, tua jussa paterna peregi.
Translated, it reveals the conversation held between the holy women (Mary, the mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene; and Mary, the sister of Lazarus) and the angels at Christ's sepulchre.
- Whom do ye seek in the sepulcher, O followers of Christ?
- Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified, O heavenly ones.
- He is not here; he is risen, just as he foretold.
- Go, announce that he is risen from the sepulchre.
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