Litscape.com

Link To This Page

Hymn To The Virgin

By Frances Sargent Locke Osgood


Mother of the spirit-child!
Of the guileless and the meek
Mournful are thine eyes, but mild
With a beauty from above;
Pale, but eloquent with love,
Thy youthful brow and cheek!
Thou, oh! thou hast known a parent's wasting grief!
A suppliant parent kneels, imploring thy relief!

By the pure and solemn joy
Filling all thy maiden breast,
When the precious heaven-born boy,
Glowing with celestial charms,
Lay within those virgin arms
A bright and wondrous guest!
Hear, in mercy, hear the faltering voice of grief!
A suppliant mother kneels, imploring thy relief!

By thine anguish in that hour,
Hour of wo and dread, when Death
Dared to stay the awful power,
High, majestic, yet benign;
Dared to seal the truths divine
Which dwelt upon his breath!
By thy hope, thy trust, thy rapture, and thy grief,
Oh! sainted Marie! send this breaking heart relief!

Source Book

Poems

by Frances Sargent Locke Osgood

Copyright 1855
Published by Boston: Ticknor And Fields

 

To Link To This Page

If you have a website and feel that a link to this page would fit in nicely with the content of your pages, please feel free to link to this page. Copy and paste the following html into your webpage. (You may modify the link text to suit your needs).

This link will look like this:

Hymn To The Virgin
by Frances Sargent Locke Osgood


Home | Authors | Poems | Fables | Songs
Themes | Elements of Poetry | About | Contact
Website design by
The Bitmill® Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Valid CSS!