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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GENERAL COMMUNION, by ALICE MEYNELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the throng, so deeply separate
Last Line: For each, the whole of the devoted sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion
First Line: I saw the throng, so deeply separate
Last Line: For each, the whole of the devoted sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion
ISAW the throng, so deeply separate,
Fed at one only board --
The devout people, moved, intent, elate,
And the devoted Lord.
O struck apart! not side from human side,
But soul from human soul,
As each asunder absorbed the multiplied,
The ever unparted, whole.
I saw this people as a field of flowers,
Each grown at such a price
The sum of unimaginable powers
Did no more than suffice.
A thousand single central daisies they,
A thousand of the one;
For each, the entire monopoly of day;
For each, the whole of the devoted sun.
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