WHAT but the love of God could have softened And made forgiving the people of Spoon River Toward me who wronged the bed of Thomas Merritt And murdered him beside? Oh, loving hearts that took me in again When I returned from fourteen years in prison! Oh, helping hands that in the church received me, And heard with tears my penitent confession, Who took the sacrament of bread and wine! Repent, ye living ones, and rest with Jesus. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DAISY by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN by GEORGE GORDON BYRON BUNKER HILL by GEORGE HENRY CALVERT IN THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH; 1677 by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ASLEEP, ASLEEP; MARTYDOM OF SAINT STEPHEN by LUCY ANN BENNETT POEM-SKETCH IN 3 PARTS: THE COMING OF THE GREAT BIRD by HILDA CONKLING WHEAT by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DEWSON |