Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMPRESSIONS OF DIVINITY, by BENJAMIN SIMMONS First Line: But your conception Last Line: "be with you always. Amen." Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology | ||||||||
But your conception Of what He is and was and shall be So my professor Reassured me. For God no longer has The beard, the august, stately mien, The voice of exceptional thunder, With which my childhood clothed divinity. Anthropomorphic (so my professor says) Are childhood days. "God is Love!" That was sweet To whisper in my sweetheart's ear, And I felt virtuous and somewhat Godlike In loving her. Surely God was near When we were hand in hand A-coming home, of summer evenings Or along a streety wilderness of snow. Ah, then I loved God best. And now, that I am strictly scientific, Solving formulae, calculating reactions, Computing, experimenting, observing, Gathering all manner of data, God is the steady, final determinant Chief factor in equations, Of those unbroken unbreakable laws, Disciplinarian for forces, regulator of statistics, Relator of everything From Ptolemy to Einstein, there is God, Adjusting every nice relationship. And Sunday when I go to church I hear: "And now may the peace of the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit, Be with you always. Amen." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES |
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