UPON the faithful in the common things Enjoined of Duty, rarest blessings wait. A pious Nun (an ancient volume brings The legend and the lesson), while she sate Reading some scriptures of the Sacred Word, And marveling much at Christ's exceeding grace, Saw in her room a Vision of the Lord, With sudden splendor filling all the place! Whereat she knelt, enraptured; when a bell Signaled her hour to feed the convent's poor; Which humble duty done, she sought her cell, And lo! the Vision, brighter than before, Who, smiling, spake: "Even so is heaven obtained; I -- hadst thou lingered here -- had not remained!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY ON THYRZA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE USE OF FLOWERS by MARY HOWITT THE SECRETARY; WRITTEN AT THE HAGUE, 1696 by MATTHEW PRIOR BROOKLYN BRIDGE by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS THE FLYING DUTCHMAN by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE by EDMUND SPENSER EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 32. THERE'S NO DEFENCE AGAINST LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |