Love is Strong as Death
A speaker facing death admits never having sought the divine addressee and asks to be seen. The answering voice affirms that it has already sought, found, and bound the speaker with love, and now embraces them through death's darkness.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 137 words
First lines
"I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee, / I have not thirsted for Thee: / And now cold billows of death surround me, / Buffeting billows of death astound me, -- / Wilt Thou look upon, wilt Thou see / Thy perishing me?"
"Yea, I have sought thee, yea, I have found thee, / Yea, I have thirsted for thee, / Yea, long ago with love's bands I bound thee: / Now the Everlasting Arms surround thee, -- / Through death's darkness I look and see / And clasp thee to Me. "
Genres
- Devotional Poetry — An appeal to a divine addressee receives an answer promising love and protection through death's darkness.
- Lyric Poetry — Two brief, rhymed stanzas pair a speaker's urgent fear of death with a direct answering assurance.
Tags
death · divine love · prayer · spiritual consolation
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 137 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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