O Christ our All in each, our All in all! Others have this or that, a love, a friend, A trusted teacher, a long-worked-for end: But what to me were Peter or were Paul Without Thee? fame or friend if such might be? Thee wholly will I love, Thee wholly seek. Follow Thy foot-track, hearken for Thy call. O Christ mine All in all, my flesh is weak, A trembling fawning tyrant unto me: Turn, look upon me, let me hear Thee speak: Tho' bitter billows of Thine utmost sea Swathe me, and darkness build around its wall. Yet will I rise. Thou lifting when I fall, And if Thou hold me fast, yet cleave to Thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US by ROBERT HERRICK ESCAPE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SONNET: 42 by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TELLING THE BEES (A COLONIAL CUSTOM) by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE THE SWING by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |