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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PENANCE, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Mortal! If e'er thy spirits faint
Last Line: And sanctify thy woe.
Subject(s): Penance
First Line: Mortal! If e'er thy spirits faint
Last Line: And sanctify thy woe.
Subject(s): Penance
MORTAL! if e'er thy spirits faint,
By grief or pain opprest,
Seek not vain hope, or sour complaint,
To cheer or ease thy breast:
But view thy bitterest pangs as sent
A shadow of that doom,
Which is the soul's just punishment
In its own guilt's true home.
Be thine own judge; hate thy proud heart;
And while the sad drops flow,
E'en let thy will attend the smart,
And sanctify thy woe.
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