Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GIRL'S FAITH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the miles that stretch between Last Line: Whose smile shall wake my world to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Girls; God; Life; Belief; Creed; Destiny | ||||||||
Across the miles that stretch between, Through days of gloom or glad sunlight, There shines a face I have not seen Which yet doth make my world more bright. He may be near, he may be far, Or near or far I cannot see, But faithful as the morning star He yet shall rise and come to me. What though fate leads us separate ways, The world is round, and time is fleet. A journey of a few brief days, And face to face we two shall meet. Shall meet beneath God's arching skies, While suns shall blaze, or stars shall gleam, And looking in each other's eyes Shall hold the past but as a dream. But round and perfect and complete, Life like a star shall climb the height, As we two press with willing feet Together toward the Infinite. And still behind the space between, As back of dawns the sunbeams play, There shines the face I have not seen, Whose smile shall wake my world to Day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION by ROBERT BLY FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WE COME BACK by KENNETH REXROTH |
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