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13th Century

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English version by
Mother Columba Hart

Original Language
Dutch

Love has subjugated me:

Themes

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages, by Ursula King
	Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by Mother Columba Hart
	Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, by Bernard Mcginn
	Sacred Voices: Essential Women's Voices Through the Ages, Edited by Mary Ford-Grabowsky
	The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone

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Love has subjugated me:
     To me this is no surprise,
     For she is strong and I am weak.
     She makes me
     Unfree of myself,
     Continually against my will.
She does with me what she wishes;
Nothing of myself remains to me;
     Formerly I was rich,
Now I am poor: everything is lost in love.

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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