Lord, grant me grace to love Thee in my pain, Thro' all my disappointment love Thee still, Thy love my strong foundation and my hill, Tho' I be such as cometh not again, A fading leaf, a spark upon the wane: So evermore do Thou Thy perfect Will, Beloved thro' all my good, thro' all mine ill, Beloved tho' all my love beside be vain. If thus I love Thee, how wilt Thou love me. Thou Who art greater than my heart? (Amen!) Wilt Thou bestow a part, with- hold a part? The longing of my heart cries out to Thee, The hungering thirsting longing of my heart: What I forewent wilt Thou not grant me then? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TRASH MEN by CHARLES BUKOWSKI IMPELLED by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON REMBRANDT TO REMBRANDT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON NIGHT AND DAY: 2 by ISAAC ROSENBERG PROLONGED SONNET: WHEN THE TROOPS WERE RETURNING FROM MILAN by NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI |