sacred poetry
Devotional lyrical writing
Sacred poetry is verse that expresses religious devotion, spiritual experience, or the divine.
The tradition spans cultures and millennia—from the Psalms to Rumi to Hopkins.
Sacred poetry may be liturgical, meant for worship, or personal, exploring the poet's relationship with God or transcendence: Her sacred poetry drew on both Christian mysticism and nature imagery.
- psalmSacred scriptural song
- hymnReligious song of praise
- hymn singingVocalizing religious songs
- song of praiseMusic expressing adoration
- canticleScriptural text sung devotionally
scripture · antiphon · invocation · vision · divine inspiration · prophecy · verse · contemplation · doxology · gregorian chant · mantra · magnificat · holy scripture · liturgy · ecstasy · supplication · prayer · lamentation
- Baroque poetryconceit, conceits, rhetorical flourish, ornamentation, religious verse
- Hymnodyhymnals, hymnbooks, hymn books, psalmody, hymnody
- Sufi poetryRumi, masnavi, divine love, fana, mystical union
- devotionalsmorning devotional, daily reflection, daily reading, daily bread, devotional book
- hymnsAmazing Grace, Old Rugged Cross, Morning Has Broken, hymn, hymnal
- Italian Renaissance literatureDivine Comedy, Decameron, The Prince, Orlando Furioso, Inferno