Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXILE FROM GOD, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to lay my body down Last Line: Exile from god. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
I do not fear to lay my body down In death, to share The life of the dark earth and lose my own, If God is there. I have so loved all sense of Him, sweet might Of color and sound, -- His tangible loveliness and living light That robes me 'round. If to His heart in the hushed grave and dim We sink more near, It shall be well -- living we rest in Him. Only I fear Lest from my God in lonely death I lapse, And the dumb clod Lose him; for God is life, and death perhaps Exile from God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND THE BLACK PANTHER by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK |
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