The Lowest Place by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The speaker asks God for the lowest place, recalling that He died so the speaker might live and share His glory. If even that place is too high, the speaker asks for one lower still, from which to see and love God.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Christian Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 83 words
First lines
Give me the lowest place: not that I dare / Ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died / That I might live and share / Thy glory by Thy side.
Give me the lowest place: or if for me / That lowest place too high, make one more low / Where I may sit and see / My God and love Thee so.
Genres
- Christian Devotional Poetry — The speaker addresses God in prayer, grounding a plea for a humble place in His death that grants the speaker life.
- Lyric Poetry — Two rhymed four-line stanzas express the speaker's personal wish to see and love God.
Tags
humility · prayer · redemption · divine love
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Christian Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 83 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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