Wednesday, April 12, 2017

"Wednesday in Holy Week" by Christina G. Rossetti : Christ in Poetry

WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
by Christina G. Rossetti

Man's life is death. Yet Christ endured to live
   Preaching and teaching, toiling to and fro,
Few men accepting what he yearned to give,
   Few men with eyes to know
   His face, that Face of Love he stooped to show.

Man's death is life. For Christ endured to die
   In slow unuttered weariness of pain,
A curse and an astonishment, passed by,
   Pointed at, mocked again
   By men for whom he shed his blood -- in vain?


Source: Christ in Poetry (1952), an anthology compiled and edited by Thomas Curtis Clark and Hazel Davis Clark

Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894)
English poet

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