Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH AND LIFE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Still the heart and stay the breath Last Line: Just for you and just for me. Subject(s): Life | ||||||||
Still the heart and stay the breath -- There's a deeper death than death! This is death, when living soul Yields to deadly sin's control; When, beneath the devil's arts, Love, the light of life, departs; When the body, moving still, Bears about a lifeless will, And the spirit, formed to rise Ever-growing in the skies, Is a dead and empty seed: This, ah, this is death indeed! Rich the years, with fruitage rife -- There's a higher life than life! This is life, when spirits press Into every nobleness; When on failure and defeat Power sets his lordly seat; When, although the body fail, Spirit energies prevail, And the world beholds a man After the Creator's plan, Soul from all its bondage freed; This, ah, this is life indeed! Hear the resurrection cry: Dying, yet you shall not die! Christ is He that conquereth All this deeper death than death; Christ, from out of mortal strife, Won this higher life than life -- Wins it through eternity, Just for you and just for me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRIVILEGE OF BEING by ROBERT HASS SEAWATER STIFFENS CLOTH by JANE HIRSHFIELD SAYING YES TO LIVING by DAVID IGNATOW THE WORLD IS SO DIFFICULT TO GIVE UP by DAVID IGNATOW A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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