My God, how wonderful Thou art, Thy majesty how bright, How beautiful Thy mercy-seat, In depths of burning light! How dread are Thine eternal years, O everlasting Lord; By prostrate spirits day and night Incessantly adored! How wonderful, how beautiful, The sight of Thee must be, Thine endless wisdom, boundless power, And awful purity! O how I fear Thee, living God, With deepest, tenderest fears, And worship Thee with trembling hope, And penitential tears! Yet I may love Thee too, O Lord, Almighty as Thou art, For Thou hast stooped to ask of me The love of my poor heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MODERN LOVE: 50 by GEORGE MEREDITH SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE SELF-DECEPTION by MATTHEW ARNOLD A WORD TO THE WEST END by THOMAS ASHE ON THE DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEWIS [JANUARY 14, 1807] by JOEL BARLOW IN THE GARDEN (WITH APOLOGIES TO ALFRED NOYES) by MARJORIE W. BRACHLOW THE DOUBTER'S PRAYER by ANNE BRONTE |