Legends and Lyrics. Part 2

By a dying fire, a shadowed portrait of a nun seems to hold “a world of sorrow”—and calls up the legend of Sister Angela, the convent’s brightest heart.

In Adelaide Anne Procter’s opening poem, a convent among Provence’s hawthorn woods shelters pilgrims, villagers, and the wounded as war reaches its gates. Sister Angela, orphaned and raised by the nuns, tends a young foreign knight; as he recovers, his tales of tourneys and lovely ladies open a dazzling world beyond her prayers and quiet duties. The nuns see only their gentle, faithful girl, but Angela’s heart is beginning to listen elsewhere—and the danger is not only in the soldiers outside. What will the knight’s world ask her to leave behind?

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