Share:
  Guess poet | Poets | Poets timeline | Isles | Contacts

Thomas Traherne - Aspiration (excerpt)Thomas Traherne - Aspiration (excerpt)
Work rating: Low


Unto the spring of purest life Aspires my withered heart, My soul confined in this flesh Employs both strength and art, Working, struggling, suing still From exile home to part. Where all the saints themselves shall shine As bright as brightest sun, In fullest triumph crowned they To mutual joys shall run, And safely count their fights and foes When once the war is done. For being freed from all defect They feel no fleshly war, Or rather both the flesh and mind At length united are, For joying in so rich a peace They can admit no jar. Who know the Knower of all things, What can they choose but know? They all behold each other`s hearts, And all their secrets shew; One act of will and not of will From all their minds do flow Though all their merits diverse be According to their pains, Yet love doth make that every one`s Which any other gains, And all which doth belong to one To all of them pertains. O King of kings, give me such strength In this great war depending, That I may here prevail at length And ever be ascending, Till I at last arrive to Thee The source of all felicity!
Source

The script ran 0.001 seconds.