Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EASTER (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: Tears have done: / our rising sun Last Line: And sing him now his morning-sacrifice. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection | ||||||||
TEARS have done: Our Rising Sun Shall drie you up, & bring His ever-smileing Spring Of purest Joyes, which blest at first Old Paradise, where they were nurst. What though that Night were long? This gilded Day Wears on his Forehead an eternall Ray. Now JESUS lives, We cannot die Or but to live immortally. In Him w' are rose again Before Death us hath slain. Then sing we on, Tears have done. CHORUS Rise Heart; Thy Lord was early up, arise And sing Him now his Morning-Sacrifice. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER EVE by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON EASTER SUNDAY by LUCILLE CLIFTON GOD SEND EASTER by LUCILLE CLIFTON NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA by NORMAN DUBIE EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES by ELENI SIKELIANOS SPANISH EASTER: 1926 by CONRAD AIKEN Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A CONCLUSORIE HUMNE TO THE SAME WEEK; & FOR MY FRIEND by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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