DISTINQUISH god in your imaginings From men that die, think not of him as flesh. You know him not. Sometimes he leaps in fire, Swift, unapproachable; sometimes in water Comes, or in the darkness clothed about, And still is god in likeness of a beast, In wind, cloud, lightning, thunder and rain. The sea and all the rocks therein obey him; Springs, rivers, tributaries all are his. The mountains tremble, earth and the nethermost depths Of monstrous ocean, earth and the mountain-tops Tremble before the terrible eye of god, A lord most powerful, in praise most high. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALMANACH DU PRINTEMPS VIVAROIS by HAYDEN CARRUTH MOTHER (MARGERY CARRUTH, 1896-1981) by HAYDEN CARRUTH OUR CAMP; IN THE AUTUMN WOODS by ROBERT FROST MAGDALEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GHOSTS OF THE OLD YEAR by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE COTTON CLUB by CLARENCE MAJOR THE EXPANDED COMPOSITION by CLARENCE MAJOR THE SLAVE TRADE: VIEW FROM THE MIDDLE PASSAGE by CLARENCE MAJOR |