Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALL IN ALL, by ALICE CARY



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First Line: Aweary, wounded unto death
Last Line: I am possessed of all.
Subject(s): Heaven


AWEARY, wounded unto death, --
Unfavored of men's eyes,
I have a house not made with hands,
Eternal, in the skies.

A house where but the steps of faith
Through the white light have trod,
Steadfast among the mansions of
The City of our God.

There never shall the sun go down
From the lamenting day;
There storms shall never rise to beat
The light of love away.

There living streams through deathless flowers
Are flowing free and wide;
There souls that thirsted here below
Drink, and are satisfied.

I know my longing shall be filled
When this weak, wasting clay
Is folded like a garment from
My soul, and laid away.

I know it by th' immortal hopes
That wrestle down my fear, --
By all the awful mysteries
That hide heaven from us here.

Oh what a blissful heritage
On such as I to fall;
Possessed of thee, my Lord and God,
I am possessed of all.





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