Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUESTION, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear and blessed dead ones, can you look and Last Line: But that he sees the end, while we only see the way? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Prayer | ||||||||
DEAR and blessed dead ones, can you look and listen To the sighing and the moaning down here below? Does it make a discord in the hymns of Heaven, -- The discord that jangles in the life you used to know? When we pray our prayers to the great God above you, Does the echo of our praying ever glance aside your way? Do you know the thing we ask for, and wish that you could give it, You, whose hearts ached with wishing in your own little day? Are your ears deaf with praises, you blessed dead of Heaven, And your eyes blind with, glory, that you cannot see our pain? If you saw, if you heard, you would weep among the angels, And the praises and the glory would be for you in vain. Yet He listens to our praying, the great God of pity, As He fills with pain the measure of our Life's little day, -- Could He bear to sit and shine there, on His white throne in Heaven, But that He sees the end, while we only see the way? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN LISTEN, LORD: A PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A PRAYER FOR THE FUTURE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) DIFFERENT WAYS TO PRAY by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE PRAYER DURING A TIME MY SON IS HAVING SEIZURES by SHARON OLDS WE WHO PRAYED AND WEPT by WENDELL BERRY PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER by WENDELL BERRY A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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