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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CRUCIFIXION, by ALICE MEYNELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, man's capacity
Last Line: Forsaken he went down, and was afraid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion
First Line: Oh, man's capacity
Last Line: Forsaken he went down, and was afraid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion
OH, man's capacity
For spiritual sorrow, corporal pain!
Who has explored the deepmost of that sea,
With heavy links of a far-fathoming chain?
That melancholy lead,
Let down in guilty and in innocent hold,
Yea into childish hands delivered,
Leaves the sequestered floor unreached, untold.
One only has explored
The deepmost; but He did not die of it.
Not yet, not yet He died. Man's human Lord
Touched the extreme; it is not infinite.
But over the abyss
Of God's capacity for woe He stayed
One hesitating hour; what gulf was this?
Forsaken He went down, and was afraid.
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