|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAYER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography
First Line: God, god, how oft in what assault of prayer
Last Line: Beat with the flow and falling of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Prayer
First Line: God, god, how oft in what assault of prayer
Last Line: Beat with the flow and falling of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Prayer
GOD, God, how oft in what assault of prayer
Must man subdue the soul and bend the knee,
How often in the infinite of air
Must hurl the litanies that cry for thee,
And look to heaven, and tell himself that there
No voice hath been and yet a voice shall be:—
O say how often, till the last despair
Seize him and madden, as it maddens me?
But who contends with God? it is in vain:
How should a sinner of the Just complain?
From the Almighty shall a man be free?
Nay, till I die must I beseech again,
Yea, till I die the pulses of my pain
Beat with the flow and falling of the sea.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN
LISTEN, LORD: A PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
A PRAYER FOR THE FUTURE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)
DIFFERENT WAYS TO PRAY by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
PRAYER DURING A TIME MY SON IS HAVING SEIZURES by SHARON OLDS
WE WHO PRAYED AND WEPT by WENDELL BERRY
PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER by WENDELL BERRY
ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS