Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HYMNARY: 275. EASTER. A SEQUENCE OF THE 12TH CENTURY, by ANONYMOUS First Line: Our salvation to obtain Last Line: "hear us, help us in our need" Subject(s): Easter;holidays; The Resurrection | ||||||||
OUR salvation to obtain Christ our Passover is slain: Unto Christ we Christians raise This our sacrifice of praise. By the Lamb the sheep were bought; By the Pure the guilty sought: With their God were made at one Sinners by the sinless Son. In a dark mysterious strife Closed the powers of Death and Life, And the Lord of Life was slain: Yet He liveth and doth reign. "Say what saw'st thou, Mary, say, As thou wentest on thy way." "Christ's, the Living's, tomb; the throes Earth was torn with as He rose: And the angels twain who bare Witness that He was not there; And the grave-clothes of the Dead, And the cloth that bound His head: Christ our Hope is risen, and He Goes before to Galilee." Trust we Mary: she is true; Heed we not the faithless Jew. Conqueror, King, to Thee we raise This our sacrifice of praise: We believe Thee risen indeed; Hear us, help us in our need. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER EVE by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON EASTER SUNDAY by LUCILLE CLIFTON GOD SEND EASTER by LUCILLE CLIFTON NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA by NORMAN DUBIE EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES by ELENI SIKELIANOS SPANISH EASTER: 1926 by CONRAD AIKEN TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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