Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THIS NEAR-AT-HAND LAND BREEDS PAIN BY MEASURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Come, gaze upon jesu Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ | ||||||||
This near-at-hand land breeds pain by measure: That far-away land overflows with treasure Of heaped-up good pleasure. Our land that we see is befouled by evil: The land that we see not makes mirth and revel, Far from death and devil. This land hath for music sobbing and sighing: That land hath soft speech and sweet soft replying Of all loves undying. This land hath for pastime errors and follies: That land hath unending unflagging solace Of full-chanted "Holies." "Up and away," call the Angels to us; "Come to our home where no foes pursue us. And no tears bedew us; "Where that which riseth sets again Where that which springeth flows in a river For ever and ever; "Where harvest justifies labour of sowing, Where that which budded comes to the blowing, Sweet beyond your knowing. "Come and laugh with us, sing in our singing; Come, yearn no more, but rest in your clinging. See what we are bringing; "Crowns like our own crowns, robes for your wearing; For love of you we kiss them in bearing, All good with you sharing: "Over you gladdening, in you delighting; Come from your famine, your failure, your fighting; Come to full wrong-righting. "Come, where all balm is garnered to ease you; Come, where all beauty is spread out to please you; Come, gaze upon Jesu." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MEDITATION ON SAVIORS by ROBINSON JEFFERS COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK TO A WREN ON CALVARY by LARRY LEVIS THE TRANSFIGURATION by EDWIN MUIR SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. by MARVIN BELL IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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