Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROADSIDE POEMS: THE SHADOWS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little boy, with smooth, fair cheeks Last Line: Those shadows, lord, for thee! Subject(s): Children; God; Religion; Shadows; Childhood; Theology | ||||||||
MY little boy, with smooth, fair cheeks, And dreamy, large, brown eyes, Not often, little wisehead, speaks, But hearing, weighs and tries. "God is not only in the sky," His sister said one day Not older much, but she would cry Like Wisdom in the way "He's in this room." His dreamy, clear, Large eyes look round for God: In vain they search, in vain they peer; His wits are all abroad! "He is not here, mamma? No, no; I do not see him at all! He's not the shadows, is he?" So His doubtful accents fall Fall on my heart, no babble mere! They rouse both love and shame: But for earth's loneliness and fear, I might be saying the same! Nay, sometimes, ere the morning break And home the shadows flee, In my dim room even yet I take Those shadows, Lord, for thee! | 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 LOST AND FOUND by GEORGE MACDONALD THAT HOLY THING by GEORGE MACDONALD THE BABY, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by GEORGE MACDONALD |
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