Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A THOUGHT FOR A LONELY DEATH-BED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If god compel thee to this destiny Last Line: And smile away my mortal to divine!' Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
INSCRIBED TO MY FRIEND E. C. IF God compel thee to this destiny, To die alone, with none beside thy bed To ruffle round with sobs thy last word said And mark with tears the pulses ebb from thee, -- Pray then alone, 'O Christ, come tenderly! By thy forsaken Sonship in the red Drear wine-press, -- by the wilderness outspread, -- And the lone garden where thine agony Fell bloody from thy brow, -- by all of those Permitted desolations, comfort mine! No earthly friend being near me, interpose No deathly angel 'twixt my face and thine, But stoop Thyself to gather my life's rose, And smile away my mortal to Divine!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
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