Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bore with thee, long, weary days and nights Last Line: A harvest--come and reap. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ | ||||||||
I bore with thee, long, weary days and nights, Through many pangs of heart, through many tears; I bore with thee, thy hardness, coldness, slights, For three and thirty years. Who else had dared for thee what I have dared? I plunged the depth most deep from bliss above; I not My flesh, I not My spirit spared: Give thou Me love for love. For thee I thirsted in the daily drouth, For thee I trembled in the nightly frost: Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth; Why wilt thou still be lost? I bore thee on My shoulders, and rejoiced: Men only marked upon My shoulders borne The branding cross; and shouted hungry-voiced, Or wagged their heads in scorn. Thee did nails grave upon My hands; thy name Did thorns for frontlets stamp between Mine eyes. I, Holy One, put on thy guilt and shame: I, God, Priest, Sacrifice. A thief upon My right hand and My left; Six hours alone, athirst, in misery: At length, in death, one smote My heart, and cleft A hiding place for thee. Nailed to the racking cross, than bed of down More dear, whereon to stretch Myself and sleep; So did I win a kingdom--share My crown; A harvest--come and reap. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MEDITATION ON SAVIORS by ROBINSON JEFFERS COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK TO A WREN ON CALVARY by LARRY LEVIS THE TRANSFIGURATION by EDWIN MUIR SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. by MARVIN BELL IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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