Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE IS GROWTH, by LUCY LARCOM Poet's Biography First Line: Life is growth, and growth is change Last Line: Thou, who makest all things new! Subject(s): Life; Wheaton Seminary, Massachusetts | ||||||||
(SUNG AT A REDEDICATION, WHEATON SEMINARY, MASSACHUSETTS.) LIFE is growth, and growth is change: Shall the new be counted strange, While the rich Past lends perfume To the Present in its bloom? Giving on -- as they have given, Passed beyond us into heaven -- Hearts in this Thy service, Lord, Find their gift its own reward. New things blossom out of old; Fading lives with youth unfold, Standing in Thy sunrise bright, Bearing flower and fruit of light. Looking up into Thy face, Let us broaden, in our place; Glad in opening wide our doors, -- Glad in pouring out our stores! Let our wish, our plan, our end, With Thy widening purpose blend! Shape Thou what we will and do -- Thou, who makest all things new! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROWN THRUSH by LUCY LARCOM THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861 by LUCY LARCOM A HEART'S PRAYER by LUCY LARCOM A LOYAL WOMAN'S NO by LUCY LARCOM A YEAR IN HEAVEN by LUCY LARCOM |
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