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Poem by Richard Chenevix Trench
Lines
Not thou from us, O Lord, but we
Withdraw ourselves from thee.
When we are dark and dead,
And Thou art covered with a cloud,
Hanging before Thee, like a shroud,
So that our prayer can find no way,
Oh! teach us that we do not say,
“Where is _thy_ brightness fled?”
But that we search and try
What in ourselves has wrought this blame;
For thou remainest still the same;
But earth’s own vapours earth may fill
With darkness and thick clouds, while still
The sun is in the sky.
Richard Chenevix Trench
Richard Chenevix Trench's other poems:- On the Results of the Last French Revolution
- The Same
- England (We look for, and have promise to behold)
- To England
- Sonnet (You say we love not freedom, honoured friend)
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Samuel Johnson Lines ("Wheresoe'er I turn my view") 1777John Keats Lines ("UNFELT unheard, unseen") Thomas Hood Lines ("Let Us Make a Leap, My Dear") Robert Burns Lines ("I MURDER hate by field or flood") 1790Thomas Hardy Lines ("Before we part to alien thoughts and aims") John Lockhart Lines ("When youthful faith hath fled") Joseph Drake Lines ("Day gradual fades, in evening gray") George Morris Lines ("O Love! the mischief thou hast done!") Oliver Holmes Lines ("COME back to your mother, ye children, for shame") Francis Thompson Lines ("O tree of many branches! One thou hast") Thomas Talfourd Lines ("HOW simple in their grandeur are the forms ") John Reade Lines ("I KNELT down as I poured my spirit forth by that gray gate") Samuel Coleridge Lines ("RICHER than miser o’er his countless hoards") William Wordsworth Lines ("STRANGER! this hillock of misshapen stones") Ebenezer Elliott Lines ("FROM Shirecliffe, o’er a silent sea of trees") Letitia Landon Lines ("She kneels by the grave where her lover sleeps") William Watson Lines (" Go, Verse, nor let the grass of tarrying grow") Charlotte Dixon Lines ("PALEST of lights! why quench thy feeble lamp?")
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