Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CONFICENCE IN HEAVEN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY


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CONFICENCE IN HEAVEN, by                    
First Line: It is in vain the weary spirit strives
Last Line: A soul that trusts in heaven, though thus of all bereft.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe
Subject(s): Faith; Heaven; Belief; Creed; Paradise


IT is in vain the weary spirit strives
With that which doth consume it; -- there is born
A strength from suffering which can laugh to scorn
The stroke of sorrow, even though it rives
Our very heart-strings; -- but the grief the lives
For ever in the heart, and day by day
Wastes the soul's high-wrought energies away,
And wears the lofty spirit down, and gives
Its own dark hue to life, oh! who can bear?
Yet, as the black and threatening tempests bring
New fragrance to earth's flowers, and tints more fair,
So beneath sorrow's nurture virtues spring.
Youth, health, and hope, may fade, but there is left
A soul that trusts in Heaven, though thus of all bereft.





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