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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VOLITION, by THOMAS WADE Poet's Biography
First Line: God will'd creation, but creation was not
Last Line: But music and fine grace, graven on the soul, like laws.
First Line: God will'd creation, but creation was not
Last Line: But music and fine grace, graven on the soul, like laws.
GOD will'd creation: but creation was not
The cause of that Almighty Will of God,
But that great God's desire of emanation:
Beauty of human love the object is;
But love's sweet cause lives in the soul's desire
For intellectual, sensual sympathies:
Seeing a plain-plumed bird, in whose deep throat
We know the richest power of music dwells,
We long to hear its linked melodies:
Scenting a far-off flower's most sweet perfume,
That gives its balm of life to every wind,
We crave to mark the beauty of its bloom:
But bird nor flower is that volition's cause:
But music and fine grace, graven on the soul, like laws.
Other Poems of Interest...
BIRTH AND DEATH by THOMAS WADE
THE HALF-ASLEEP by THOMAS WADE
THE NET-BRAIDERS by THOMAS WADE
THE POETRY OF EARTH by THOMAS WADE
THE SERE OAK-LEAVES by THOMAS WADE
THE SWAN-AVIARY by THOMAS WADE
THE WINTER SHORE by THOMAS WADE
THE DAY AND THE WORK by EDWIN MARKHAM
CAVALIER TUNES: GIVE A ROUSE THEN FOR THE CLINIC by ROBERT BROWNING