GIVE us our daily Bread, O God, the bread of strength! For we have learned to know How weak we are at length. As children we are weak, As children must be fed; -- Give us Thy Grace, O Lord, To be our daily Bread. Give us our daily Bread, -- The bitter bread of grief. We sought earth's poisoned feasts For pleasure and relief; We sought her deadly fruits, But now, O God, instead, We ask Thy healing grief To be our daily Bread. Give us our daily Bread To cheer our fainting soul; The feast of comfort, Lord, And peace, to make us whole: For we are sick of tears, The useless tears we shed; Now give us comfort, Lord, To be our daily Bread. Give us our daily Bread, The Bread of Angels, Lord, By us, so many times, Broken, betrayed, adored: His Body and His Blood; -- The feast that Jesus spread: Give Him -- our life, our all -- To be our daily Bread! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THAT VAGRANT MISTRAL VEXING THE SUN: A FAR CRY by DARA WIER THE VOLUNTEER by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA by PHILLIS WHEATLEY |