Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAINT STEPHEN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poet's Biography First Line: All doctors and confessors, / martyrs and holy souls Last Line: When I come to die. Subject(s): Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.) | ||||||||
ALL Doctors and Confessors, Martyrs and holy Souls, Lighten my path of darkness With your aureoles, When I come to die. Three times shall I perish: Once when my will, Loathing itself for learning, Learns a heavenly skill To bring itself to die. Once when my tired body Death touches with his hand, Wrapping all my movements In a ghostly band, And to earth I die. OnceO Soul too happy If it probe the gloom Of its last deprival In the mystic tomb, Where the elect must die; If it find the inmost Final mystery Of dying even from Heaven, And that death is He! If it come to die. Pray, all you Confessors, And, O crowned with palm Stephen and all Martyrs, That I find your calm, When I come to die. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN PRAISE OF ST. STEPHEN by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY THE DEATH OF STEPHEN by JANET HAMILTON HYMN: ST. STEPHEN'S DAY by REGINALD HEBER ST. STEPHEN by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN SACRED EPIGRAM: ST. STEPHEN TO HIS FRIENDS ... by RICHARD CRASHAW SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE CROWN OF STEPHEN by RICHARD CRASHAW SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE JEWISH SLAUGHTERS OF STEPHEN by RICHARD CRASHAW SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE JEWISH SLAUGHTERS OF STEPHEN by RICHARD CRASHAW ST. STEPHEN'S DAY by PATRIC DICKINSON FOR A CHILD: 1. WALKING SONG by CHARLES WILLIAMS TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 8. AFTER RONSARD by CHARLES WILLIAMS |
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