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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poet's Biography First Line: Vital spark of heavenly flame! / quit, o quit this mortal frame! Last Line: O death! Where is thy sting? Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Variant Title(s): Ode: The Dying Christian To His Soul Subject(s): Bible; Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology | |||
Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my Soul, can this be Death? The world recedes; it disappears! Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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