person
Elizabeth
The aged kinswoman of Mary, herself miraculously pregnant with John the Baptist; her grave, knowing welcome at the Visitation draws from Mary the Magnificat (Luke 1).
Reading notes
- The Life of the Virgin Mary §4 the cousin
Elizabeth, Mary's aged kinswoman, herself miraculously pregnant with John.
- New Poems: The Other Part §30 the tall, bearing matron
Elizabeth, herself with child (John the Baptist), whose knowing welcome at the Visitation steadies the pregnant Mary and draws out the Magnificat.