Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPONSA DEI, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography First Line: The lamb of god! Yea, mary, and thy lamb! Last Line: For a sick child, his own and mary's son? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary | ||||||||
THE Lamb of God! Yea, Mary, and thy Lamb! Ran with thee as the lamb beside his dam; He leaped, He played, fed full, He grew and throve In milky fields and pastures of thy love: His little feet the cowslips washed with gold, The dews, the winds were tender: heat and cold Softened for Him who bade them be, Earth smiled. The sun, the stars, loved Him, the growing child. When thou didst lean above His cot at night To listen for His breathing, soft and light, Two other eyes grew soft in love and joy, Marked how he throve and doated on the Boy: The Eyes for which Archangels veil the face, The unsleeping Lamps of Heaven, in that mild space; The Eyes of God, the Father, smiled upon The dewy slumber of the little Son. When He was sick and all thy lullabies Could bring no assuagement to His aching eyes (But did He ail as other children do?) Was there not One who shared thy watch and knew The pangs of parenthood and its great fears? Was He who turns the planets and the spheres Fearful and troubled, all His joy undone, For a sick Child, His own and Mary's Son? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MADONNA by KATHARINE LEE BATES BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA by HILAIRE BELLOC OUR LORD AND OUR LADY by HILAIRE BELLOC PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SONG OF MARY by LUCILLE CLIFTON ISLAND MARY by LUCILLE CLIFTON MARY'S DREAM by LUCILLE CLIFTON |
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