By one great Heart the Universe is stirred; By its strong pulse stars climb the darkening blue; It throbs in each fresh sunset's changing hue, And thrills through low sweet song of every bird; By It, the plunging blood reds all men's veins; Joy feels that heart against his rapturous own, And on It Sorrow breathes her sharpest groan: It bounds through gladness and the deepest pains. Passionless beating through all Time and Space, Relentless, calm, majestic in Its march, Alike, though Nature shake heaven's endless arch, Or man's heart break, because of some dead face! 'Tis felt in sunshine, greening the soft sod, In children's smiling, as in mothers' tears: And, for strange comfort, through the aching years, Men's hungry souls have named the great Heart, God! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROBERT FROST RELATES THE DEATH OF THE TIRED MAN by LOUIS UNTERMEYER HOLY POEMS: 1 by GEORGE BARKER A SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY GOING OUT OF TOWN IN THE SPRING by JOHN DRYDEN CAMPS OF GREEN by WALT WHITMAN LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 10. THE FAIR by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE MAID OF LLANWELLYN; A SONG by JOANNA BAILLIE SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 31. A QUESTION by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |