Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peace, Our love and our desire, glow bright with hope; Lift us above this transitory scope Of earth, these pleasures that begin and cease, This moon which wanes, these seasons which decrease: We turn to Thee; as on an eastern slope Wheat feels the dawn beneath night's lingering cope, Bending and stretching sunward ere it sees. Alone Lord God, we see not yet we know; By love we dwell with patience and desire, And loving so and so desiring pray; Thy will be done in earth as heaven today; As yesterday it was, tomorrow so; Love offering love on love's self-feeding fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE AWAKENING by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN; PARODY OF TENNYSON'S 'LOCKSLEY HALL' by THEODORE MARTIN THE TUFT OF KELP by HERMAN MELVILLE THE BLUET by W. I. LINCOLN ADAMS |