Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RESTORED, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poet's Biography First Line: Our father, when our loved one lay Last Line: We bless thee, o our god! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): God | ||||||||
Our Father, when our loved one lay With her languid eyes half closed, When the darkening shadow of the grave On her sunny brow reposed, 'Mid our woe thou didst send thy spirit down To renew her failing breath, And 'mid our joy we bless Thee now, O thou God of life and death! All, when she turned from the shadowy vale, From the night that gloomed before her, A new life burst, like a tropical day, In surpassing glory, o'er her! The stars pour down a purer light, The sunbeams richer fall, And sweeter far through the arch of heaven Sounds the wild-bird's early call. And each low wind that murmurs by, Or lingers on her brow, Seems a whisper from the realm of peace, The kiss of angels now; And flowers are far more blessed things, -- The lowliest that bloom Bear tracings of the loving hand That raised her from the tomb. Though she seemeth yet, with her noiseless step, Some fair and fleeting shade, And her voice hath the sound of a silver brook, Low rippling down the glade; -- Though faint the flush that sometimes comes Her glowing dreams to speak, As the shadow of a rose-leaf cast On a sculptured Psyche's cheek; -- Life, life, is thrilling through her veins! And her heart, these warm spring hours, Waked to new raptures and new loves, Seems beating under flowers, Like a pulse in the brow of a young May Queen, Just crowned in her morning bowers. That from her door to the place of graves The path is yet untrod, -- That we have not pressed on her warm young breast The icy burial sod, -- That she sleepeth, and waketh, and is not dead, We bless thee, O our God! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOUNTAIN IS STRIPPED by DAVID IGNATOW AS CLOSE AS BREATHING by MARK JARMAN UNHOLY SONNET 1 by MARK JARMAN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN BIRTH-DUES by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE SILENT SHEPHERDS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS ARIADNE by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT |
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