I will Lift up Mine Eyes Unto the Hills
A speaker longs to escape earthly suffering, recounting frustrated hopes, unfulfilled love, and the deaths of loved ones. Saints proclaim rest, love, and life in Jesus, while the speaker's faltering soul receives invitations from the saints and Jesus to come and see.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Christian Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 453 words
First lines
I am pale with sick desire, / For my heart is far away / From this world's fitful fire / And this world's waning day; / In a dream it overleaps / A world of tedious ills / To where the sunshine sleeps / On the everlasting hills. -- / Say the Saints: There Angels ease us / Glorified and white. / They say: We rest in Jesus, / Where is not day or night.
Genres
- Christian Devotional Poetry — The saints answer earthly suffering with declarations of rest, reciprocal love, and life in Jesus; Jesus closes with an invitation to be with Him.
- Lyric Poetry — Four rhymed stanzas voice the speaker's longing, disappointed hopes, grief, and uncertainty through first-person lament and recurring replies from saints.
Tags
Christian faith · heavenly rest · grief · unfulfilled love · immortality
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Christian Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 453 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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