"NOW when you come to Weeping Cross" The priest said, the priest said, "You shall kneel bare-kneed on the wounding stones As you knelt at the dead man's head. "And when you have prayed at Weeping Cross" The priest hissed, the priest hissed, "You shall kiss the mould where nettles spring, As the dead man's face was kissed. "A kiss for the chilling kiss you gave Before you used your knife; A kiss for the burning kiss you gave Beseeching him back to life. "Go, bare your body at Weeping Cross; And pray each passer-by To cast a stone for love of your soul, Whether you live or die." "I'll weep and pray for a night and a day" The woman said, the woman said; "But weeping brings no ease to me Since my lap held that head. "I sealed my daughter's shame with a knife When I kept my daughter's tryst: It is but just that I should die Who kissed as Judas kissed." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JAWEH AND ALLAH BATTLE by ALLEN GINSBERG ECSTASY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER by JOHN CROWE RANSOM PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 1 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A LULLABY by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA THESEUS, SELECTION by BACCHYLIDES THE LUMINOUS HANDS OF GOD by ELEANOR WARFIELD KENLY BACON |