Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HA' BIBLE, by ROBERT NICOLL Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I could worship thee! Last Line: A sunbeam sent from god,an everlasting bow! Subject(s): Bible; Books; God; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology | ||||||||
AH, I could worship thee! Thou art a gift a God of love might give; For love and hope and joy In thy Almighty-written pages live; The slave who reads shall never crouch again; For, mind-inspired by thee, he bursts his feeble chain! God! unto thee I kneel, And thank thee! Thou unto my native land Yea, to the outspread earth Hast stretched in love thy everlasting hand, And thou hast given earth, and sea, and air Yea, all that heart can ask of good and pure and fair! And, Father, thou hast spread Before men's eyes this charter of the free, That all thy book might read, And justice, love, and truth, and liberty. The gift was unto men,the giver, God! Thou slave! it stamps thee man,go spurn thy weary load! Thou doubly precious book! Unto thy light what does not Scotland owe: Thou teachest age to die, And youth in truth unsullied up to grow! In lowly homes a comforter art thou,: A sunbeam sent from God,an everlasting bow! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY BONNIE BESSIE LEE by ROBERT NICOLL |
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