Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HILLS OF THE LORD, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poet's Biography First Line: God ploughed one day with an earthquake Last Line: And his peace everlasting to me. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology | ||||||||
GOD ploughed one day with an earthquake, And drove his furrows deep! The huddling plains upstarted, The hills were all a-leap! But that is the mountains' secret, Age-hidden in their breast; "God's peace is everlasting," Are the dream-words of their rest. He hath made them the haunt of beauty, The home elect of his grace; He spreadeth his mornings on them, His sunsets light their face. His thunders tread in music Of footfalls echoing long, And carry majestic greeting Around the silent throng. His winds bring messages to them, Wild storm-news from the main; They sing it down to the valleys In the love-song of the rain. Green tribes from far come trooping, And over the uplands flock; He weaveth the zones together In robes for his risen rock. They are nurseries for young rivers; Nests for his flying cloud; Homesteads for new-born races, Masterful, free, and proud. The people of tired cities Come up to their shrines and pray; God freshens again within them, As he passes by all day. And lo, I have caught their secret, The beauty deeper than all, This faith -- that life's hard moments, When the jarring sorrows befall Are but God ploughing his mountains; And the mountains yet shall be The source of his grace and freshness And his peace everlasting to me. | 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 MOTHER'S BREAST by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT AUNT PHILLIS'S GUEST; ST HELENA ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1863 by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT |
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