Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Of twisted innocence that you would plait For eyes that uncourageously await The coming of a kingdom that has been, So do I wonder what God's love can mean To you that all so strangely estimate The purpose and the consequent estate Of one short shuddering step to the Unseen. No, I have not your backward faith to shrink Lone-faring from the doorway of God's home To find Him in the names of buried men; Nor your ingenious recreance to think We cherish, in the life that is to come, The scattered features of dead friends again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE SOWER AND HIS SEED by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 119 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI GARDEN DAYS: 7. THE GARDENER by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE YEAR OF JUBILEE by HENRY CLAY WORK LANDSCAPE; TWILIGHT by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO LORD BYRON by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |