person
Mary Magdalene
Magdalene
also: Magdalen, Magdalens
Mary Magdalene, the disciple and penitent of the Gospels; invoked in the plural as the attendants the monk imagines descending with the Son at the Last Judgment.
Reading notes
- The Book of Images §51 Magdalens
The penitent women of the Magdalene type; the monk imagines the Son sent down, attended by them, to those who long to die again.
- New Poems: The Other Part §29 came to the grave
Mary Magdalene, come with oils to anoint the dead Christ; the risen one forbids her touch ('Do not—', the Noli me tangere) to make of her the great Lover who loves beyond the beloved.