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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 39. NOT CHRIST, BUT CHRIST'S GOD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) First Line: Though christ we need not, yet the god who shone Last Line: Not in one heart alone god's spirit glows. Subject(s): Jesus Christ | |||
Though Christ we need not, yet the God who shone Upon the Jewish hero's soul we need. Though we despise the grey-beard Church's creed, Christ we despise not,nor his image wan Upon the canvas of vast centuries gone: The tender heart that for the race did bleed We reverence, and to its great thoughts give heed, Yet the huge surge of Progress thundereth on! The God of Christ we yearn for more than we Desire the Hebrew. 'Mid our lanes of rose, Where the soft clinging honeysuckle grows And scents the shoreside,by our own wild sea, We would with God the eternal Father be; Not in one heart alone God's Spirit glows. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MEDITATION ON SAVIORS by ROBINSON JEFFERS COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK TO A WREN ON CALVARY by LARRY LEVIS THE TRANSFIGURATION by EDWIN MUIR SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. by MARVIN BELL A GIFT OF SPRING by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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