In mourning the apostle night and day Lay on the hill whence Christ had entered Heaven: "Do you thus leave your faithful to despair? Has this your splendor blinded you to earth? Shall I not ever hear your voice again, And kiss your garment's hem and kiss your feet? I clamor for a sign · yet you are silent." Then there approached a stranger: "Brother speak! Upon your cheek there burns such agony That it will singe me if I cannot quench it." "Your comfort avails nothing .. leave the stricken! I seek my Lord who has forgotten me." The stranger vanished .. the apostle knelt With a wild cry · for by heaven's radiance Which hung about that place he was aware That through blind pain and all too fragile hope He had not seen: the Lord had come and gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MAN IN A ROOM by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ROBIN ADAIR by CAROLINE KEPPEL ESCAPE AT BEDTIME by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON EASTER 1916 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SPANISH WINGS: A LEAF FROM A LOG BOOK by H. BABCOCK |