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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born
Last Line: Time bowed before eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born
Last Line: Time bowed before eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness
The stars wailed when the reed was born,
And heaven wept at the birth of the thorn:
Joy was pluckt like a flower and torn,
For Time foreshadowed Good-Friday Morn.
But the stars laughed like children free
And heaven was hung with the rainbow's glee
When at Easter Sunday, so fair to see,
Time bowed before Eternity.
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