Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN PRAISE OF COMMON THINGS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For stock and stone Last Line: Is it but a step to run to thee. Subject(s): Worship | ||||||||
FOR stock and stone; For grass, and pool; for quince tree blown A virginal white in spring; And for the wall beside, Gray, gentle, wide; For roof, loaf, everything, I praise Thee, Lord; For toil, and ache, and strife, And all the commonness of life. Hearty, yet dim, Like country voices in a hymn, The things a house can hold; The memories in the air; And down the stair Fond footsteps known of old; The chair, the book or two; The little bowl of white and blue. What would it be, If loveliness were far from me? A staff I could not take, To hurry up and down, From field to town; Needs would my wild heart break; Or, I would vacant go, And, being naught, to nothing grow. This is the best: My little road from east to west, The breadth of a man's hand, Not from the sky too far, Nor any star, Runs through the unwalled land; From common things that be, Is it but a step to run to Thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL by CLAUDE MCKAY LITTLE WHITE CHURCH by MARILYN NELSON A STEEPLE ON THE HOUSE by ROBERT FROST MATE (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ANSWER TO PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by GEORGE SANTAYANA A CHRISTMAS FOLK-SONG by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE |
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