Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EASTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL


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EASTER, by                    
First Line: O soul, be still! Scourge not thyself with doubt
Last Line: "recurrent resurrection is eternal life."
Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection


O soul, be still! Scourge not thyself with doubt.
Tear not thy little life about
With fever of a baffling quest
For what the angels seek, thou temporary guest.

Even as thou, the primal man was dumb
When from dead husks he saw new beauty come,
And when from nerveless grubby things,
The while he looked, bright crumpled wings
Burst forth in haste to meet the sun. Not thou
To-day hast more with thy demanding brow
Of this earth-mystery of life from death,—
This master-question of creation's breath,
When out of seeming death unfold
New lives more fair than were the old.

Go read the life-bloom scattered wide
On hill and field at Easter-tide.
From death comes life, the wonder-promise spread
For man before he had his stranger-being read.

And when my heart is with the silent band,
And thou for mine shalt lift another hand,
Thou'll see new roses from each winter dead
In garlands wreathed about some maiden's head,
Their petals tinted from the petals shed.

Each Spring-time answers to thy riddle-making strife,
"Recurrent resurrection is eternal life."





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