Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMPLICIT FAITH, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of all great nature's tones that sweep Last Line: Of god's divine simplicity. Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
Of all great Nature's tones that sweep Earth's resonant bosom, far or near, Low-breathed or loudest, shrill or deep, How few are grasped by mortal ear. Ten octaves close our scale of sound: Its myriad grades, distinct or twined, Transcend our hearing's petty bound, To us as colours to the blind. In Sound's unmeasured empire thus The heights, the depths alike we miss; Ah, but in measured sound to us A compensating spell there is! In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds its own beyond. Our narrow pale the vast resumes; Our seashell whispers of the sea: Echoes are ours of angel-plumes That winnow far infinity! -- Clasp thou of Truth the central core! Hold fast that centre's central sense! An atom there shall fill thee more Than realms on Truth's circumference. That cradled Saviour, mute and small, Was God -- is God while worlds endure! Who holds Truth truly holds it all In essence, or in miniature. Know what thou know'st! He knoweth much Who knows not many things: and he Knows most whose knowledge hath a touch Of God's divine simplicity. | 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 A BALLAD OF ATHLONE; OR, HOW THEY BROKE DOWN THE BRIDGE by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE |
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