Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE AND DEATH: 7, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poet's Biography First Line: The wish behind the thought is the soul's star Last Line: If from its chosen work that soul were torn? Subject(s): Faith; Soul; Belief; Creed | ||||||||
THE wish behind the thought is the soul's star Of faith, and out of earth we build our heaven. Life to each unschooled child of time has given A fairy wand with which he thinks to unbar The dark gate to a region vast and far, Where all is gained at length for which he has striven -- All loss requited -- all offences shriven -- All toil o'erpassed -- effaced each battle-scar. But ah! what heaven of rest could countervail The ever widening thought -- the endless stress Of action whereinto the heart is born? What sphere so blessed it could overbless With sweets the soul, when all such gifts must fail, If from its chosen work that soul were torn? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 4 by MARK JARMAN QUIA ABSURDUM by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET TO FORTUNE by LUCY AIKEN JONATHAN EDWARDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS by ROBERT LOWELL RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION by MINA LOY CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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