O Christ our All in each, our All in all! Others have this or that, a love, a friend, A trusted teacher, a long-worked-for end: But what to me were Peter or were Paul Without Thee? fame or friend if such might be? Thee wholly will I love, Thee wholly seek. Follow Thy foot-track, hearken for Thy call. O Christ mine All in all, my flesh is weak, A trembling fawning tyrant unto me: Turn, look upon me, let me hear Thee speak: Tho' bitter billows of Thine utmost sea Swathe me, and darkness build around its wall. Yet will I rise. Thou lifting when I fall, And if Thou hold me fast, yet cleave to Thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK SONNET: 151 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WHEN LET BY RAIN by EDWARD TAYLOR NAMELESS PAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE FRATERNAL DUEL by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS TO HIS WIFE WITH A KNIFE ON THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY by SAMUEL BISHOP |