Bees in Amber

“Not what, but WHOM,” John Oxenham begins: in the darkest hour, faith is not an argument but a companion walking beside us.

In this early-20th-century collection, Oxenham’s speakers meet life on the pilgrim road: sorrow sifts the soul like grain, a new year opens onto unknown seas, and even a looming shadow may hold a gentler face than expected. Their trials are met with prayer, tenderness and a stubborn hope that suffering can yield something beautiful. Through poems of belief, love, loss and the mystery beyond death, Oxenham asks what may grow from the hardest ground—and what waits at the end of the way. What might the soul become when its journey is complete?

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