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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAINT PAUL: 5, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography
First Line: What was their tale of some one on a summit
Last Line: Shall there be truce betwixt my flesh and soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus
First Line: What was their tale of some one on a summit
Last Line: Shall there be truce betwixt my flesh and soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus
What was their tale of some one on a summit,
Looking, I think, upon the endless sea,—
One with a fate, and sworn to overcome it,
One who was fettered and who should be free?
Round him a robe, for shaming and for searing,
Ate with empoisonment and stung with fire,
He thro' it all was to his lord uprearing
Desperate patience of a brave desire.
Ay and for me there shot from the beginning
Pulses of passion broken with my breath;
Oh thou poor soul, enwrapped in such a sinning,
Bound in the shameful body of thy death!
Well, let me sin, but not with my consenting,
Well, let me die, but willing to be whole:
Never, o Christ,—so stay me from relenting,—
Shall there be truce betwixt my flesh and soul.
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