Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 6. THE WOMAN WHOM SATAN HAD BOUND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years eighteen she, patient soul Last Line: And hoping I endure. Subject(s): Bible; Exorcism; Jesus Christ; Women | ||||||||
FOR years eighteen she, patient soul, Her eyes had graveward sent; Her earthly life was lapt in dole, She was so bowed and bent. What words! To her? Who can be near? What tenderness of hands! Oh! is it strength, or fancy mere? New hope, or breaking bands? The pent life rushes swift along Channels it used to know; Up, up, amid the wondering throng, She rises firm and slow To bend again in grateful awe For will is power at length In homage to the living Law Who gives her back her strength. Uplifter of the down-bent head! Unbinder of the bound! Who seëst all the burdened Who only see the ground! Although they see thee not, nor cry, Thou watchest for the hour To lift the forward-beaming eye, To wake the slumbering power! Thy hand will wipe the stains of time From off the withered face; Upraise thy bowed old men, in prime Of youthful manhood's grace! Like summer days from winter's tomb, Shall rise thy women fair; Gray Death, a shadow, not a doom, Lo, is not anywhere! All ills of life shall melt away As melts a cureless woe, When, by the dawning of the day Surprised, the dream must go. I think thou, Lord, wilt heal me too, Whate'er the needful cure; The great best only thou wilt do, And hoping I endure. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV LOST AND FOUND by GEORGE MACDONALD THAT HOLY THING by GEORGE MACDONALD THE BABY, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by GEORGE MACDONALD |
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