Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAYER TO GO TO PARADISE WITH THE ASSES, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poet's Biography First Line: O god, when you send for me, let it be Last Line: In the clear waters of eternal love. Subject(s): Heaven; Jammes, Francis (1868-1938); Paradise | ||||||||
O GOD, when You send for me, let it be Upon some festal day of dusty roads. I wish, as I did ever here-below By any road that pleases me, to go To Paradise, where stars shine all day long. Taking my stick out on the great highway, To my dear friends the asses I shall say: I am Francis Jammes going to Paradise, For there is no hell where the Lord God dwells. Come with me, my sweet friends of azure skies, You poor, dear beasts who whisk off with your ears Mosquitoes, peevish blows, and buzzing bees ... Let me appear before You with these beasts, Whom I so love because they bow their head Sweetly, and halting join their little feet So gently that it makes you pity them. Let me come followed by their million ears, By those that carried panniers on their flanks, And those that dragged the cars of acrobats, Those that had battered cans upon their backs, She-asses limping, full as leather-bottles, And those too that they breech because of blue And oozing wounds round which the stubborn flies Gather in swarms. God, let me come to You With all these asses into Paradise. Let angels lead us where your rivers soothe Their tufted banks, and cherries tremble, smooth As is the laughing flesh of tender maids. And let me, where Your perfect peace pervades, Be like Your asses, bending down above The heavenly waters through eternity, To mirror their sweet, humble poverty In the clear waters of eternal love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX |
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