Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TE DEUM OF RENEWALS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY First Line: For thy sweet sunshine after nights of rain Last Line: We thank thee, lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology | ||||||||
For Thy sweet sunshine after nights of rain; For Thy sweet balm of comfort after pain; For Thy sweet peace that ends a long-drawn strife; For Thy sweet rest that ends a burdened life; For joy, dispersing sorrows as the sun Sucks up the morning mists, and as Thy winds Dispel the clouds and show the blue again, -- The deep, pure, tenuous, heavenly blue that seems, In its infinity of tenderness, Like to Thy Love, that fills all time and space With Thy sweet Spirit's all-abounding grace; For all Thy healing ministries, -- We thank Thee, Lord. For hearts estranged, won back to fellowship, And closer knit by sweet forgivenesses; For hearts made tenderer by fortune's blows; For souls by sorrows ripened in Thy love; Yea, and for pain that took our pride away, And cast us wholly on Thy charity; For darkened ways that led us to the Light, For blinding tears that yet renewed our sight; For travails and perplexities of mind Through which we wrestled, nobler life to find, -- And found, beyond our craving souls' upreach, The wonder of the lessons Thou wouldst teach; For dear lives salvaged from the hand of Death; For pure souls' fiery purgings without scathe; For answered prayers that showed Thy boundless love; For prayers unanswered, wiser love to prove; For all Thy leadings through life's devious ways, With faith illumined and high heart of grace; -- We thank Thee, Lord. | 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 NEW EARTH by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY |
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