Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR A MATERIALIST, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE


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First Line: I know your barren belief - that a rose will grow
Last Line: Envisage a sweet-scented waft as its trivial goal?
Subject(s): Materialism; Religion; Theology


I know your barren belief—that a rose will grow
From what was once the miracle of a man;
That only in this wise shall we thwart the grave;
Believe, my friend, and be satisfied, if you can.

But I have a mystical hunger, so great and intense
That only Almighty God with a purpose would fill
My fragile shell with its poignant immensity—
A hunger to find, emerging from death, that I still
Am the sum of myself! myself, to aspire and climb
Some further and undreamed slope of the range of Time.

I have faith that I shall. Is a rose worth the patience of Him
Who evolved through the aeons a man and endowed him with soul?
Would He who created the splendor of spirit and mind
Envisage a sweet-scented waft as its trivial goal?





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