The Mountain Spring, and Other Poems

There is water in the hills, and there is grace. Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass wrote these poems in an era when faith and the natural world were not yet strangers, when a mountain spring could teach you something about the human soul. This collection gathers verses that move from the physical world its streams, its seasons, its quiet dawns into the deeper country of spirit. Glass turns biblical figures Bartimaeus, Zacchaeus, the desperate hemorrhaging woman into witnesses of a faith that interrupts ordinary life. The language is lyrical without preciousness, devotional without didacticism. These are poems for readers who want to feel, not just think. Whether Glass writes of Jesus interceding in some private grief or traces the way light falls across a hillside, she locates something true about the hunger for connection to something larger than oneself. The collection does not preach; it offers. For readers drawn to early 20th-century American poetry, for those who find spiritual solace in verse, for anyone who has ever looked at water moving over stone and sensed meaning there.