Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PHILIPPIAN, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER


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PHILIPPIAN, by                    
First Line: Whatsoever things are lovely' - ah, saint paul
Last Line: The word you sent from rome to make men wise.
Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus


"Whatsoever things are lovely" -- ah, Saint Paul
I dare not think on loveliness at all,
For fear I see a face I must not see,
And long for hands that are not stretched to me;
For fear I break a flower and wish a thing
That is not mine for garnering.

"Whatsoever things are lovely . . . think on these."
Oh, bring the eyes to beauty, bend the knees!
Was it a silent or a singing way
That Paul or Ephesus knelt down to pray?
No matter, for all lively things are pain
To me become Philippian in vain.
Ah, Paul, I practice in perverted guise
The word you sent from Rome to make men wise.





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