English Poetry. Jones Very. Life. Джонс Вери.

Life

IT is not life upon Thy gifts to live,
But, to grow fixed with deeper roots in Thee;
And when the sun and shower their bounties give,
To send out thick-leaved limbs; a fruitful tree,
Whose green head meets the eye for many a mile,
Whose moss-grown arms their rigid branches rear,
And full-faced fruits their blushing welcome smile
As to its goodly shade our feet draw near;
Who tastes its gifts shall never hunger more,
For 'tis the Father spreads the pure repast,
Who, while we eat, renews the ready store,
Which at his bounteous board must ever last;
For none the bridegroom's supper shall attend,
Who will not hear and make his word their friend.

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

Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) Life (“As late I journey’d o’er the extensive plain”)

Charlotte Brontё (Шарлотта Бронте) Life (“LIFE, believe, is not a dream”)

Abraham Cowley (Абрахам Каули) Life (“Life’s a name”)

Anna Barbauld (Анна-Летиция Барбо) Life (“Life! I Know Not What Thou Art”)

Bryan Procter (Брайан Проктер) Life (“WE are born; we laugh; we weep”)

Francis Bacon (Фрэнсис Бэкон) Life (“THE world’s a bubble, and the life of man”)

Florence Coates (Флоренс Коутс) Life (“Before we knew thee thou wert with us; ay”)

Paul Dunbar (Пол Данбар) Life (“A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in”)

James Johnson (Джеймс Джонсон) Life (“Out of the infinite sea of eternity”)

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк) Life (“LET me but live my life from year to year”)