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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOD PREACHES, by EDITH BARRETT (PARKER) HINCKLEY
First Line: The calendar says that this is friday
Last Line: There is nothing mean or commonplace.
Subject(s): Cobwebs
First Line: The calendar says that this is friday
Last Line: There is nothing mean or commonplace.
Subject(s): Cobwebs
The calendar says that this is Friday,
So I must make my room all tidy,
Brush down that cobweb that shames my wall;
How it quivers and sways at the least windfall.
Look at the strands of gossamer steel
Like radiant spokes of a fairy wheel;
Amazing in plan, design and pattern,
It is copied, perhaps, from the rings of Saturn.
Excuse me, cobweb, for being vexed,
This is the sermon, you are the text:
In all the world of time and space
There is nothing mean or commonplace.
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