Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT WENT YE OUT TO SEE?, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea, along the shore Last Line: And not as do the scribes. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry | ||||||||
ACROSS the sea, along the shore, In numbers more and ever more, From lonely hut and busy town, The valley through, the mountain down, What was it ye went out to see, Ye silly folk of Galilee? The reed that in the wind doth shake? The weed that washes in the lake? The reeds that waver, the weeds that float? -- A young man preaching in a boat. What was it ye went out to hear By sea and land, from far and near? A teacher? Rather seek the feet Of those who sit in Moses' seat. Go humbly seek, and bow to them, Far off in great Jerusalem. From them that in her courts ye saw, Her perfect doctors of the law, What is it came ye here to note? -- A young man preaching in a boat. A prophet! Boys and women weak! Declare, or cease to rave; Whence is it he hath learned to speak? Say, who his doctrine gave? A prophet? Prophet wherefore he Of all in Israel tribes? -- He teacheth with authority, And not as do the Scribes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RELIGION AND DOCTRINE by JOHN MILTON HAY A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER by SIDNEY LANIER THE MAN CHRIST by THERESE (KARPER) LINDSEY OUR MASTER by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE LEPER (2) by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. THE CARPENTER by AMY BRUNER ALMY THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2) by WILLIAM BLAKE COMRADE CHRIST by VERNE BRIGHT WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING' by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH |
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