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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:- Sonnet to Silvio Pellico, on Reading the Account of His Imprisonment
- To a Friend Entering the Ministry
- On Revisiting the Seine
- To the Same (Look, dearest, what a glory from the sun)
- To the Same (O dowered with a searching glance to see)
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
John Keats Lines ("UNFELT unheard, unseen") William Wordsworth Lines ("STRANGER! this hillock of misshapen stones") Samuel Coleridge Lines ("RICHER than miser o’er his countless hoards") Thomas Hood Lines ("Let Us Make a Leap, My Dear") Thomas Hardy Lines ("Before we part to alien thoughts and aims") Samuel Johnson Lines ("Wheresoe'er I turn my view") 1777Francis Thompson Lines ("O tree of many branches! One thou hast") Robert Burns Lines ("I MURDER hate by field or flood") 1790William Watson Lines (" Go, Verse, nor let the grass of tarrying grow") Letitia Landon Lines ("She kneels by the grave where her lover sleeps") Oliver Holmes Lines ("COME back to your mother, ye children, for shame") Joseph Drake Lines ("Day gradual fades, in evening gray") Ebenezer Elliott Lines ("FROM Shirecliffe, o’er a silent sea of trees") George Morris Lines ("O Love! the mischief thou hast done!") John Lockhart Lines ("When youthful faith hath fled") 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")
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