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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MESSAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography First Line: To the house of the widow Last Line: God touches his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness | |||
TO the house of the widow, Where she wept alone, There came a kind woman To the cold hearthstone: God touches His own, she said,— God touches His own. Her tears fell so softly Without sigh or moan: God touches His own, she said, 'Tis well with His own. What is grief? What is Death? she said,— God touches His own. In the desolate Winter day Ere she was gone, She turned once again to say At the threshold stone: What is life? What's the world? she said,— God touches His own. The wind from over the bogs Like an echo blown, Brought back the word she had said: God touches His own. What is grief? What is Death? she said,— God touches His own. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS |
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