Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PIETER MARINUS, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I have known all fruits of this thy world Last Line: And I'll go home. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise | ||||||||
LORD, I have known all fruits of this thy world; Like Solomon king, I have been fain of all, War, women, and wine,but mine was spirit of Nantes. And now, O Lord, I'm old and fain for Thee. But, Lord, my soul's so grimed and weather-worn, So warped and wrung with all iniquities, Piracies, brawls, and cheated revenues, There's not a saint but would look twice at it. So, when my time comes, send no angels down With lutes, and harps, and foreign instruments, To pipe old Pieter's spirit up to heaven Past his tall namesake sturdy at his post. But let me lie awhile in these Thy seas. Let the soft Gulf Stream and the long South Drift, And the swift tides that rim the Labrador, Beat on my soul and wash it clean again. And when Thy waves have smoothed me of my sins, White as the sea-mew or the wind-spun foam, Clean as the clear-cut images of stars That swing between the swells,then, then, O Lord, Lean out, lean out from heaven and call me thus, "Come up, thou soul of Pieter Marinus," And I'll go home. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX A CHILD'S SONG OF CHRISTMAS by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL |
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