Great God: within whose simple essence, we Nothing but that which is Thy Self can find; When on Thyself Thou didst reflect Thy mind Thy thought was God, which took the form of Thee; And when this God, thus born, Thou lov'st, and He Loved Thee again, with passion of like kind, As lovers' sighs which meet become one mind, Both breathed one Spirit of equal deity. Eternal Father, whence these two do come And wil'st the title of my father have, An heavenly knowledge in my mind engrave, That it Thy Son's true Image may become: Incense my heart with sighs of holy Love, That it the temple of the Spirit may prove. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FATIGUE; EPIGRAM by HILAIRE BELLOC ROSE AYLMER by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 106 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE SORROWS OF WERTHER by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY AT LORD'S [CRICKET GROUND] by FRANCIS THOMPSON TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |