When they did greet me Father, sudden Awe Weigh'd down my spirit! I retired and knelt Seeking the throne of grace, but inly felt No heavenly visitation upwards draw My feeble mind, nor cheering ray impart. Ah me! before the Eternal Sire I brought Th' unquiet silence of confused Thought And shapeless feelings: my o'erwhelmed Heart Trembled: & vacant tears stream'd down my face. And now once more, O Lord! to thee I bend, Lover of souls! and groan for future grace, That, ere my Babe youth's perilous maze have trod, Thy overshadowing Spirit may descend And he be born again, a child of God! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY SHADOW by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TO EMILY DICKINSON by MARY BOWEN BRAINERD ABER STATIONS: STATIO SEXTA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN QUESTION AND ANSWER by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING PEGGIE'S CHARMS by ROBERT BURNS ALLAH IS WITH THE PATIENT by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR SONNET: 186 by LUIS DE CAMOENS MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: THE MASQUE-WRITER'S APOLOGY by THOMAS CAMPION |