Dear God, I am so far away from Thee; So far from faith, in lonely fear and cold, In space illimitable, time grown old, Despair unending as eternity. Yet well I know that somewhere waits for me A father's care, and tenderness untold, Love I may never claim, will never hold, Because the Truth my blind eyes could not see. By my own fault, my own most wilful fault, I set my feet upon a strange lost path, That seemed to lead to beauty, but the track Bent sharply into shadows. One might halt The swift descent, but not the darkening wrath Of clouds that hide from sight the long road back. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DREAM LIFE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON BOYHOOD FRIENDS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE PROGRESS OF POETRY; A VARIATION by MATTHEW ARNOLD SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT [1583] by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW LAUS VENERIS by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE COWBOY VERSUS BRONCHO by JAMES BARTON ADAMS A SWING SONG by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |