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Poem by Bessie Rayner Parkes
Peace
THE steadfast coursing of the stars,
The waves that ripple to the shore,
The vigorous trees which year by year
Spread upwards more and more;
The jewel forming in the mine,
The snow that falls so soft and light,
The rising and the setting sun,
The growing glooms of night;
All natural things both live and move
In natural peace that is their own;
Only in our disordered life
Almost is she unknown.
She is not rest, nor sleep, nor death;
Order and motion ever stand
To carry out her firm behests
As guards at her right hand.
And something of her living force
Fashions the lips when Christians say
To Him Whose strength sustains the world,
"Give us Thy Peace, we pray!"
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Bessie Rayner Parkes's other poems:- The Watch in Heaven
- The Terrace of St. Germain
- The Coelian Hill
- To E.B.
- Carisbrooke Chimes
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Gerard Hopkins Peace ("When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut") William Yeats Peace ("AH, that Time could touch a form") Rupert Brooke Peace ("Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour") Henry Vaughan Peace ("My Soul, there is a country") Robert Anderson Peace ("Now, God be prais'd! we've peace at last") Gerald Massey Peace ("Yes, Peace is beautiful, and I do yearn") Eleanor Farjeon Peace ("I am as awful as my brother War") Robert Bloomfield Peace ("Halt! ye Legions, sheathe your Steel") George Herbert Peace ("SWEET Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave") Sara Teasdale Peace ("PEACE flows into me") Henry Van Dyke Peace ("Two dwellings, Peace, are thine") Charles Sorley Peace ("There is silence in the evening when the long days cease") December 1912Henry Newbolt Peace ("No more to watch by Night's eternal shore") Albery Whitman Peace ("As the raindrop on a flower") David Lawrence Peace ("PEACE is written on the doorstep")
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