Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVERLASTING LOVE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL


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First Line: God's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more
Last Line: "sings on: -- ""god's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?"
Subject(s): God; Kindness; Love; Religion; Theology


"GOD'S everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?"
O true and tender friend, well hast thou spoken.
My heart was restless, weary, sad, and sore,
And longed and listened for some heaven-sent token:
And, like a child that knows not why it cried,
'Mid God's full promises it moaned, "Unsatisfied!"

Yet there it stands. O love surpassing thought,
So bright, so grand, so clear, so true, so glorious;
Love infinite, love tender, love unsought,
Love changeless, love rejoicing, love victorious!
And this great love for us in boundless store:
God's everlasting love! What would we more?

Yes, one thing more! To know it ours indeed,
To add the conscious joy of full possession.
O tender grace that stoops to every need!
This everlasting love hath found expression
In loving-kindness, which hath gently drawn
The heart that else astray too willingly had gone.

From no less fountain such a stream could flow,
No other root could yield so fair a flower:
Had He not loved, He had not drawn us so;
Had He not drawn, we had nor will nor power
To rise, to come; -- the Saviour had passed by
Where we in blindness sat without one care or cry.

We thirst for God, our treasure is above;
Earth has no gift our one desire to meet,
And that desire is pledge of His own love.
Sweet question; with no answer! oh how sweet!
My heart in chiming gladness o'er and o'er
Sings on: -- "God's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?"





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