Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BE WITH US, by HENRY CHAPPELL First Line: We raise, o lord, the massy pile Last Line: And peace eternal fill the heart. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology | ||||||||
WE raise, O Lord, the massy pile Wherein to render homage meet; Carved altar-piece and marbled aisle We lay as tributes at Thy feet. Do Thou, O Lord, Who gavest each A temple sacred and apart, Down from Thy Heaven in mercy reach And fill with peace each troubled heart. We set, O Lord, the sacred pane All storied with Thy servants' lives, Who wrought in far off days Thy fane To strike from prisoned souls their gyves. Their hope is ours, our needs the same, Dark passions sway this busy mart; O write in glowing lines Thy name Upon the tablets of each heart. Life's little river narrows fast, And twilight merges into dark; The soundless ocean, chill and vast, Receives each life-tossed, weary bark. O Thou, Who left the starry skies To bear for us the cross's smart, Be with us till the Dawn shall rise And peace eternal fill the heart. | 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 THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY |
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