English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Unknown God. Элис Мейнелл.

Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл)

The Unknown God

One of the crowd went up,
And knelt before the Paten and the Cup,
Received the Lord, returned in peace, and prayed
Close to my side. Then in my heart I said:

"O Christ, in this man's life!—
This stranger who is Thine—in all his strife,
All his felicity, his good and ill,
In the assaulted stronghold of his will,

"I do confess Thee here,
Alive within this life; I know Thee near
Within this lonely conscience, closed away
Within this brother's solitary day.

"Christ in his unknown heart,
His intellect unknown—this love, this art,
This battle and this peace, this destiny
That I shall never know, look upon me!

"Christ in his numbered breath,
Christ in his beating heart and in his death,
Christ in his mystery! From that secret place
And from that separate dwelling, give me grace!"

Alice Meynell’s other poems:

1. The Visiting Sea
2. The Young Neophyte
3. To O——, of Her Dark Eyes
4. The Wind Is Blind
5. The Voice of a Bird

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Anna Barbauld (Анна-Летиция Барбо) The Unknown God (“To learned Athens, led by fame”)

George Russell (Джордж Расселл) The Unknown God (“Far up the dim twilight fluttered”)

To the dedicated English version of this website

---