Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROADSIDE POEMS: ZACCHAEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom the heavy burden clings Last Line: And saved the lost whom he had won. Subject(s): Bible; Guests; Jesus Christ; Salvation; Truth; Zacchaeus; Visiting; Zaccheus | ||||||||
TO whom the heavy burden clings, It yet may serve him like a staff; One day the cross will break in wings, The sinner laugh a holy laugh. The dwarfed Zacchæus climbed a tree, His humble stature set him high; The Lord the little man did see Who sought the great man passing by. Up to the tree he came, and stopped: "To-day," he said, "with thee I bide." A spirit-shaken fruit he dropped, Ripe for the Master, at his side. Sure never host with gladder look A welcome guest home with him bore! Then rose the Satan of rebuke And loudly spake beside the door: "This is no place for holy feet; Sinners should house and eat alone! This man sits in the stranger's seat And grinds the faces of his own!" Outspoke the man, in Truth's own might: "Lord, half my goods I give the poor; If one I've taken more than right With four I make atonement sure!" "Salvation here is entered in; This man indeed is Abraham's son!" Said he who came the lost to win And saved the lost whom he had won. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ZACCHEUS by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING LOST AND FOUND by GEORGE MACDONALD THAT HOLY THING by GEORGE MACDONALD THE BABY, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by GEORGE MACDONALD THE EARL O' QUARTERDECK by GEORGE MACDONALD THE WIND AND THE MOON by GEORGE MACDONALD A BOOK OF DREAMS by GEORGE MACDONALD A CHRISTMAS PRAYER by GEORGE MACDONALD A HIDDEN LIFE by GEORGE MACDONALD |
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