Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE NEAR WONDERS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Not all the doming majesty above
Last Line: Wraps all his power and ensphering love.
Subject(s): God


Not all the doming majesty above
When midnight spreads her stateliness of stars
More moves the soul than some imperial grove
Where darkly silent rise the pillared pines,
Their boughs withdrawn communing to the sky.
Not all the lifted clouds that catch the sun
And break its rays to glory, cardinal,
Sapphire, the hue of spring, the flush of love,
With that heaped splendor more delight the eye
Than arbutus, the daughter of the snow,
Couched in a cradle of the spring's first green,
Warming her white with rose, her purity
With graciousness. And not the hurricane
That booms its terrors through the blackened air,
Crashing a splintered world beneath its wrath,
So awes the spirit as a golden day
When, on the meadow prone, the listening ear
Beats to the undertone of nature, vast,
Resistless, loving, from her reservoirs
Of solitude up-summoning the grass,
The insects, and the flowers. Far or near,
In mountains or a pebble, in the sweep
Of ocean's tossed horizons limitless,
Or in the cup of some bee-fretted bloom,
See the same might, the same enchantment see!
For God is One; or here or there, is One;
Beneath all surfaces, but yet the same;
Within all voices, evermore the One;
Changing with infinite variety,
Still in all changes His authentic Self,
That loves the pansy as the Pleiades,
Cares for the ant as for the universe,
And close about the lowliest human lot
Wraps all His power and ensphering love.





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