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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAYER IN APRIL, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poet's Biography First Line: God grant that I may never be Last Line: Can I distrust eternity? Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology | |||
God grant that I may never be A scoffer at Eternity— As long as every April brings The sweet rebirth of growing things; As long as grass is green anew, As long as April's skies are blue, I shall believe that God looks down Upon His wide earth, cold and brown, To bless its unborn mystery Of leaf, and bud, and flower to be; To smile on it from tender skies— How could I think it otherwise? Had I been dust for many a year, I still would know when Spring was near, For the good earth that pillowed me Would whisper immortality, And I, in part, would rise and sing Amid the grasses murmuring. When looking on the mother sod, Can I hold doubt that this be God? Or when a primrose smiles at me, Can I distrust Eternity? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY |
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