By chance, I found an excellent such book in Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from East to West, Daniel Ladinsky, editor (New York: Penguin Compass, 2002).

If we take friendship to mean the love we have with others, and especially the love we have with the Other, God himself, as our first and final Friend, the aphorism is transfigured into a truism.

Does Abraham love God more than his fellow human beings? ... In a 13th-century poem, Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn writes: Recall to our credit the many Akedahs, The saints, men and women, ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.

Love. It’s a subject of countless poems, songs and stories. From “love at first sight” to “everlasting love,” the world has a ...

These moving poems are a reminder that on Valentine’s Day, it’s OK to celebrate a broader definition of love. Some of the Renaissance’s most romantic love poems weren’t for lovers Home ...

The miscellany’s catalog describes the poem as “on constancy in love,” but it doesn’t mention the Bard, who died in ...