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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GIFTS OF GOD, by JONES VERY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The light that fills thy house at morn
Last Line: What none can ever buy for gold.
First Line: The light that fills thy house at morn
Last Line: What none can ever buy for gold.
THE light that fills thy house at morn,
Thou canst not for thyself retain;
But all who with thee here are born,
It bids to share an equal gain.
The wind that blows thy ship along,
Her swelling sails cannot confine;
Alike to all the gales belong,
Nor canst thou claim a breath as thine.
The earth, the green out-spreading earth,
Why hast thou fenced it off from me?
Hadst thou than I a nobler birth,
Who callest thine a gift so free?
The wave, the blue encircling wave,
No chains can bind, no fetters hold;
Its thunders tell of Him who gave
What none can ever buy for gold.