Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINKS WITH HEAVEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poet's Biography First Line: Our god in heaven from that holy place Last Line: The little children pleading for their mothers. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Mothers | ||||||||
OUR God in Heaven from that holy place To each of us an angel guide has given; But Mothers of dead children have more grace,-- For they give angels to their God and Heaven. How can a Mother's heart feel cold or weary Knowing her dearer self safe, happy, warm? How can she feel her road too dark or dreary Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm? How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding, Our God forgot, our holy saints defied; But can a mother hear her dead child pleading, And thrust those little angel hands aside? Those little hands stretched down to draw her ever Nearer to God by mother love:--we all Are blind and weak, yet surely she can never, With such a stake in Heaven, fail or fall! She knows that when the mighty Angels raise Chorus in Heaven, one little silver tone Is hers forever, that one little praise, One little happy voice, is all her own. Ah, saints in Heaven may pray with earnest will And pity for their weak and erring brothers; Yet there is prayer in Heaven more tender still,-- The little Children pleading for their Mothers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY MOTHER'S HANDS by ANDREW HUDGINS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS IN THE 25TH YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH by JUDY JORDAN THE PAIDLIN' WEAN by ALEXANDER ANDERSON BLASTING FROM HEAVEN by PHILIP LEVINE A DOUBTING HEART by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER |
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