Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MADONNA, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poet's Biography First Line: God made her on his loom of time Last Line: The echoes of a ceaseless song. Subject(s): Cavalry; Wales; Women; Welshmen; Welshwomen | ||||||||
GOD made her on His loom of time, And long He wove with wondrous things, He took a lamb from out a fold And spoiled the clouds of sunset gold: In purest lilies aureoled He chaliced blood that flowed in kings: He caught a sunbeam passing rare And bound it captive in her hair To glorify her face sublime. Then, like a fawn, He made her fleet, And with a wave He wrought her strong, And, at His word, the glory sped From a new rose that west winds fed To tinge her lips a crimson red And make her mouth a wonder-song: He gave her breath from hidden bowers Of violets and lotus flowers, So that her words were honey-sweet. Then lo! God kissed her in the dawn And gave her soul His gift of love: He put two lilies on her breast, And made her eyes twin pools of rest: And o'er the body He caressed He set peace brooding like a dove: He gave a secret to the wind That in deep travail she would find Eternal joy of anguish born. And in her Babe's divinity She read the miracles of God: Above His Heada thornéd star Within His sidea hidden scar To draw stranger nations from after Along a path unknown, untrod: And in His tiny, raisèd hands She saw uplifted in strange lands The cross and crown of Calvary. Behold she dwells amid the throng Of passing faces through the years, Her voice is as a glad refrain, Her touch is balm of dew and rain; Her fingers pluck the thorns of pain And staunch the bitter wells of tears; And down the labyrinths of sin Her angel-presence ushers in The echoes of a ceaseless song. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON WALES VISITATION by ALLEN GINSBERG WELSH INCIDENT by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE by THOMAS GRAY THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT by THOMAS GRAY WELSH LANDSCAPE by RONALD STUART THOMAS A BALLAD OF GLYNDWR'S RISING by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES A HYMN FOR ST. DAVID'S DAY (TO THE MEMORY OF SIR OWEN M. EDWARDS) by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND) by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES |
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