Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


THE POWER OF GOD by ANONYMOUS

First Line: DISTINQUISH GOD IN YOUR IMAGININGS
Last Line: "A LORD MOST POWERFUL, IN PRAISE MOST HIGH"
Subject(s): GOD;

DISTINQUISH god in your imaginings
From men that die, think not of him as flesh.
You know him not. Sometimes he leaps in fire,
Swift, unapproachable; sometimes in water
Comes, or in the darkness clothed about,
And still is god in likeness of a beast,
In wind, cloud, lightning, thunder and rain.
The sea and all the rocks therein obey him;
Springs, rivers, tributaries all are his.
The mountains tremble, earth and the nethermost depths
Of monstrous ocean, earth and the mountain-tops
Tremble before the terrible eye of god,
A lord most powerful, in praise most high.



Home: PoetryExplorer.net