BEFORE Him weltered like a shoreless sea The souls of them that had not sought to be, With all their guilt upon them, and they cried, They that had sinned from hate and lust and pride, "Thou that didst make us what we might become, Judge us!" The Judge of all the earth was dumb; But high above them, in His sovereign place, He lifted up the pity of His face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO CERTAIN POETS by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER SONG FOR A LITTLE HOUSE by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY SONNET: 55 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 9. AT STUDY by MARK AKENSIDE STANZAS IN THE MEMORY OF EDWARD QUILLINAN, ESQ. by MATTHEW ARNOLD HYMN TO FIRE by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT |