Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

PENIEL by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY

First Line: MY RACHEL AND MY BENJAMIN, O LORD
Last Line: "MY HEART AND FLESH CRY, ""GOD OF BETHEL, COME!"
Subject(s): GOD; GRIEF; LOVE; SORROW; SADNESS;
MY Rachel and my Benjamin, O Lord,
Have passéd over with the flocks and herds.
I watch with awful night beside the ford;
My hands are guilty. Stains of lying words
Are thick upon my lips; yet must I pray.
Whether Thy Presence lame me, leave me dumb,
Cast scales upon mine eyes, or slay me quite,
My heart and flesh cry, "God of Bethel, Come!"



Home: PoetryExplorer.net