First Things RSS Feed - Robert Schultz https://www.firstthings.com/author/robert-schultz en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:30 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/robert-schultz 60 Winter Smoke https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/01/winter-smoke https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/01/winter-smoke Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 -0500 From the stack outside the window’s frame,
White smoke, mostly steam, breaks hard across
A bright blue square of winter sky.
It tumbles in gusts, and its knots untie
Then vanish in air.

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]]> In A Field Of Weeds https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/12/in-a-field-of-weeds https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/12/in-a-field-of-weeds Sun, 01 Dec 1991 00:00:00 -0500 “Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

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]]> Olive Bed https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/05/olive-bed https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/05/olive-bed Wed, 01 May 1991 00:00:00 -0400 “There was a bole of an olive tree with long leaves growing
Strongly in the courtyard, and it was thick, like a column.
I laid down my chamber around this.”
The Odyssey, Book XXIII

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]]> When Lilacs Shake https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/when-lilacs-shake https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/when-lilacs-shake Mon, 01 Apr 1991 00:00:00 -0500 Now, in April, when lilacs shake 
in gusts of rain, the crown-like buds 
Waving thick and green on sceptre tips, 
I ask myself: What have we been. 
We two curled tight in winter’s dark?

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