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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHANT OF DEPARTURE; A MISSIONARY'S PRAYER, by ALFRED BARRETT First Line: Woman who walked home on the arm of john Last Line: Stand by my side beneath the southern cross. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Missionaries & Missions; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary | |||
Woman who walked home on the arm of John Another way from that your Son had gone, Woman who walked And talked, Unwavering, of what must yet be done -- Woman, behold your son! Behold Him who in boyhood haunts will not grow old; Who goes predestined to an alien grave In clay or sand or wave -- Yet sails enamored of one hope: to see, As John from his dawn-lit faces on the shore At Shantung or the coast of Travancore. Woman who walked home on the arm of John, When on Some night of tears I hear the palm trees toss, Stand by my side beneath the Southern Cross. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MADONNA by KATHARINE LEE BATES BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA by HILAIRE BELLOC OUR LORD AND OUR LADY by HILAIRE BELLOC PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SONG OF MARY by LUCILLE CLIFTON ISLAND MARY by LUCILLE CLIFTON MARY'S DREAM by LUCILLE CLIFTON A MARTYR'S MASS; FATHER MIGUEL PRO, EXECUTED AY MEXICO CITY, 1927 by ALFRED BARRETT |
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