Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
After sunset, mourners keep a trembling vigil for their Master, whose bleeding and weeping have ceased. They ask him to renew his youth and arise, while dawn has yet to break.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Christian Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 142 words
First lines
A Song for All Maries.
Our Master lies asleep and is at rest; / His Heart has ceased to bleed, His Eye to weep. / The sun ashamed has dropt down in the west; / Our Master lies asleep.
Now we are they who weep, and trembling keep / Vigil, with wrung heart in a sighing breast, / While slow time creeps, and slow the shadows creep.
Renew Thy youth, as eagle from the nest; / O Master, who hast sown, arise to reap: / No cock-crow yet, no flush on eastern crest; / Our Master lies asleep.
Genres
- Christian Devotional Poetry — The title names the two Marys, and the mourners address their Master in a prayer asking him to arise.
- Lyric Poetry — Rhymed stanzas express collective grief and supplication through the repeated refrain that the Master lies asleep.
Tags
mourning · vigil · prayer · Christian devotion · renewal
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Christian Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 142 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
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