English Poetry. Jones Very. Change. Джонс Вери.

Jones Very (Джонс Вери)

Change

Father! there is no change to live with Thee,
Save that in Christ I grow from day to day,
In each new word I hear, each thing I see,
I but rejoicing hasten on the way;
The morning comes with blushes overspread,
And I new-wakened find a morn within;
And in its modest dawn around me shed,
Thou hear'st the prayer and the ascending hymn;
Hour follows hour, the lengthening shades descend,
Yet they could never reach as far as me,
Did not thy love thy kind protection lend,
That I a child might sleep awhile on Thee,
Till to the light restored by gentle sleep
With new-found zeal I might thy precepts keep.

Jones Very’s other poems:

1. The Light from Within
2. To the Hummingbird
3. Nature
4. He Gave Me No Meat
5. To the Fossil Flower

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

Algernon Swinburne (Алджернон Суинбёрн) Change (“But now life’s face beholden”)

George Wither (Джордж Уидер) Change (“The voice which I did more esteem”)

William Howells (Уильям Хоуэллс) Change (“SOMETIMES, when after spirited debate”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Change (“Changed? Yes, I will confess it – I have changed”)

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