Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EYE HATH NOT SEEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our feet shall tread upon the stars Last Line: Who by thy promise with thee dwells Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; God; Saints | ||||||||
Our feet shall tread upon the stars Less bright than we. The everlasting shore shall bound A fairer sea. Than that which cold Now glitters in the sun like gold. Oh good, oh blest! but who shall say How fair, how fair, Is the light-region where no cloud Darkens the air, Where weary eyes Rest on the green of Paradise? There cometh not the wind nor rain Nor sun nor snow: The Trees of Knowledge and of Life Bud there and blow, Their leaves and fruit Fed from an undecaying root. There Angels flying to and fro Are not more white Than Penitents some while ago. Now Saints in light: Once soiled and sad ''" Cleansed now and crowned, fulfilled and glad. Now yearning through the perfect rest Perhaps they gaze Earthwards upon their best-beloved In all earth's ways: Longing, but not With pain, as used to be their lot. The hush of that beatitude Is ages long, Sufficing Virgins, Prophets, Saints, Till the new song Shall be sent up From lips which drained the bitter cup. If but the thought of Paradise Gives joy on earth. What shall it be to enter there Through second birth? To find once more Our dearest treasure gone before ? To find the Shepherd of the sheep, The Lamb once slain, Who leads His own by living Never again To thirst, or need Aught in green pastures where they feed. But from the altar comes a cry Awful and strong From martyred Saints : 'How long,' they say, 'O Lord, how long, Holy and True, Shall vengeance for our blood be due?' Then the Lord gives them robes of white. And bids them stay In patience till the time be full For the last day ''" The day of dread When the last sentence shall be said; When heaven and earth shall flee away. And the great deep Shall render up her dead, and earth Her sons that sleep. And day of grace Be hid for ever from Thy face. Oh hide us, till Thy wrath be past. Our grief, our shame. With Peter and with Magdalene, And him whose name No record tells Who by Thy promise with Thee dwells. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ST. AGNES' EVE by KENNETH FEARING THINKING ABOUT PAUL CELAN by DENISE LEVERTOV THE TEMPTATIONS OF SAINT ANTHONY by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY EL SANTO NINO DE ATOCHA by PAT MORA LA SAGRADA FAMILIA by PAT MORA THE VISITATION / LA VISITACION by PAT MORA NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ANUNCIACION by PAT MORA 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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