Another Year

Another Year collects the meditative verses of Frances Ridley Havergal, the nineteenth-century British poet whose devotional poetry has moved readers for over a century. These readings capture the quiet urgency of a poet reflecting on time's relentless march and the soul's ongoing conversation with faith. Written with the precision and warmth that characterized Havergal's work, the collection offers moments of hard-won hope, gentle surrender, and clear-eyed gratitude for another turn around the sun. The poems carry the particular weight of someone who understood that each new year is both a gift and an interrogation: what have I done with the time I was given, and what will I do with what remains? For readers who find comfort in religious poetry, or who seek meditative verses for the turn of the calendar, these readings provide a luminous companion. Havergal writes not with triumphalism but with the tender honesty of someone who has looked at her own life clearly and still chooses faith.