SPEAK, everlasting @3WORD,@1 oh speak, That I may break These Bonds of Death, & by My Resurrection make Reply. 2 Thy potent Voice wak'd that vast Deep Which lay asleep In deadly Darknes, and Rowz'd a World by its stout Command. 3 Thy Prophet Thou didst summon from His living Tombe, Where twice-devoured He Lay drownd both in the Whale, & Sea. 4 What though this Death wherein poor I Deep-plunged ly, Be more profound then all The Sea, more monstrous then the Whale? 5 What though the Worlds dark Wombe was not So foule a Grott As this in which I grope? Yet I am still in ken of Hope. 6 The deepest Deeps are shallow found When Thou dost sound: And I shall Rise, deer LORD, Yf Thou but soundst with thy sweet Word. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SUMMER MATURES by HELENE JOHNSON SONG by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY THE WATER-LILY by JOHN BANISTER TABB THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS BEING A MOTHER by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE CITY OF LAISH by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON DEATH (IN MEMORIAM MAGGIE MEAGHER) by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON THE LORDS' MASQUE: THE FIRST INVOCATION IN A FULL SONG by THOMAS CAMPION |