Loaves Fishes and Leftovers by Ted Loder

Loaves Fishes and Leftovers by Ted Loder

This book features all of William Shakespeare's poetry, including the Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece and The Passionate Pilgrim.

Each poem is printed on its own on the page, without footnotes and annotations.

Includes a new gallery of many illustrations of Shakespeare and his art, and a bibliography of references. 356 pages.

Includes a bibliography of references.

This is from 'The Passionate Pilgrim':

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,

That like two spirits do suggest me still;

My better angel is a man right fair,

My worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.

To win me soon to hell, my female evil

Tempteth my better angel from my side,

And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,

Wooing his purity with her fair pride.

And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend,

Suspect I may, yet not directly tell:

For being both to me, both to each friend,

I guess one angel in another's hell;

The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt,

Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

The Rev. Dr. Theodore W. Loder served for almost thirty-eight years as Senior Minister of one of Philadelphia's most unusual churches. The First United Methodist Church of Germantown, named The Oddball Church by the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, is a thriving, ethnically-mixed metropolitan congregation of over one thousand members. Loder's social activism grows out of a long history of involvement in social causes. He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., in the sixties, opened his church as a Public Sanctuary Church, co-founded a job-training program for high school dropouts, a nonprofit housing renovation corporation, and an ecumenical consortium to rehabilitate abandoned houses. He also serves on the Philadelphia Mayor's Advisory Commission for Children and Families. A cum laude graduate from Yale Divinity School, with an honorary doctorate from Willamette University, Dr. Loder currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.