Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I LOOK FOR THE LORD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our wealth has wasted all away Last Line: And sweetness to the taste Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Desolation; Earth; God; Heaven | ||||||||
Our wealth has wasted all away, Our pleasures have found wings; The night is long until the day; Lord, give us better things ''" A ray of light in thirsty night And secret water-springs. Our love is dead, or sleeps, or else Is hidden from our eyes: Our silent love, while no man tells Or if it lives or dies. Oh give us love, O Lord, above In changeless Paradise. Our house is left us desolate. Even as Thy word hath said. Before our face the way is great; Around us are the dead. Oh guide us, save us from the grave. As Thou Thy saints hast led. Lead us where pleasures evermore And wealth indeed are placed, And home on an eternal shore, And love that cannot waste: Where joy Thou art unto the heart, And sweetness to the taste. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN by EDWARD FIELD THE CITY OF GOD by LINDA GREGG BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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