"GOD'S everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?" O true and tender friend, well hast thou spoken. My heart was restless, weary, sad, and sore, And longed and listened for some heaven-sent token: And, like a child that knows not why it cried, 'Mid God's full promises it moaned, "Unsatisfied!" Yet there it stands. O love surpassing thought, So bright, so grand, so clear, so true, so glorious; Love infinite, love tender, love unsought, Love changeless, love rejoicing, love victorious! And this great love for us in boundless store: God's everlasting love! What would we more? Yes, one thing more! To know it ours indeed, To add the conscious joy of full possession. O tender grace that stoops to every need! This everlasting love hath found expression In loving-kindness, which hath gently drawn The heart that else astray too willingly had gone. From no less fountain such a stream could flow, No other root could yield so fair a flower: Had He not loved, He had not drawn us so; Had He not drawn, we had nor will nor power To rise, to come; -- the Saviour had passed by Where we in blindness sat without one care or cry. We thirst for God, our treasure is above; Earth has no gift our one desire to meet, And that desire is pledge of His own love. Sweet question; with no answer! oh how sweet! My heart in chiming gladness o'er and o'er Sings on: -- "God's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOUTH AND ART by ROBERT BROWNING A CRADLE SONG by PADRAIC COLUM THREE KINGS OF ORIENT by JOHN HENRY HOPKINS JR. MEN AND BOYS by KARL THEODORE KORNER EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG by ALEXANDER POPE IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 67 by ALFRED TENNYSON |