Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOLGOTHA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: Alone I stand upon the sacred height Last Line: In shades of death, the light of life to find. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Calvary | ||||||||
A LONE I stand upon the sacred height, Where erst, at noon, the night its mantle flung O'er the Divine Humanity that hung To brutal gaze exposed. The conscious light To sudden blindness withered at the sight Of mortal pangs from wounds immortal wrung; The earth her gates sepulchral open swung, Impatient for the soul's descending flight To her expectant shades. O Calvary! Again the dripping darkness crowns thy brow, And I (as then, to His all-seeing mind) Weep 'mid the general gloom. Oh! let me be, As in those hours of anguish, hidden now In shades of death, the light of life to find. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CHARGE BY THE FORD by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH THE BALLAD OF THE COMFORTING by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON SINAI AND CALVARY by JOHN MILTON HAY CALVARY by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS CALVARY by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE GOOD-FRIDAY by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER ON CALVARY by JOHN BANISTER TABB ANONYMOUS by JOHN BANISTER TABB |
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