Allah by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The speaker credits Allah with bringing light, rest, and relief from weeping. Though flowers wither and years pass, the speaker believes the heart will live forever and longs to reach Allah's dwelling, where darkness will vanish and the speaker's eyes will see.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 105 words
First lines
By Siegfried August Mahlmann
Allah gives light in darkness, / Allah gives rest in pain, / Cheeks that are white with weeping / Allah paints red again.
The flowers and the blossoms wither, / Years vanish with flying fleet; / But my heart will live on forever, / That here in sadness beat.
Gladly to Allah's dwelling / Yonder would I take flight; / There will the darkness vanish, / There will my eyes have sight.
Genres
- Devotional Poetry — The verses affirm Allah's power to comfort sufferers and express a longing to reach his dwelling.
- Lyric Poetry — Three short stanzas move from assurances of divine comfort to the speaker's personal sadness and hope of everlasting life.
Tags
divine consolation · sorrow · everlasting life · devotion
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 105 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
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