Great God: within whose simple essence, we Nothing but that which is Thy Self can find; When on Thyself Thou didst reflect Thy mind Thy thought was God, which took the form of Thee; And when this God, thus born, Thou lov'st, and He Loved Thee again, with passion of like kind, As lovers' sighs which meet become one mind, Both breathed one Spirit of equal deity. Eternal Father, whence these two do come And wil'st the title of my father have, An heavenly knowledge in my mind engrave, That it Thy Son's true Image may become: Incense my heart with sighs of holy Love, That it the temple of the Spirit may prove. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMING BRAVES by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON HILL-SIDE TREE by MAXWELL BODENHEIM EROS TURANNOS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON LINES COMPOSED AT GRASMERE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ARCHEANASSA by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS ON MR. CRUIKSHANK OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH by ROBERT BURNS |