Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR A MATERIALIST, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE First Line: I know your barren belief - that a rose will grow Last Line: Envisage a sweet-scented waft as its trivial goal? Subject(s): Materialism; Religion; Theology | ||||||||
I know your barren beliefthat a rose will grow From what was once the miracle of a man; That only in this wise shall we thwart the grave; Believe, my friend, and be satisfied, if you can. But I have a mystical hunger, so great and intense That only Almighty God with a purpose would fill My fragile shell with its poignant immensity A hunger to find, emerging from death, that I still Am the sum of myself! myself, to aspire and climb Some further and undreamed slope of the range of Time. I have faith that I shall. Is a rose worth the patience of Him Who evolved through the aeons a man and endowed him with soul? Would He who created the splendor of spirit and mind Envisage a sweet-scented waft as its trivial goal? | 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 WOMAN SPEAKS ACROSS THE YEARS by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE |
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