Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | I. The Divine Element—(God, Christ, the Holy Spirit) | | Two Sayings | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
| | | TWO sayings of the Holy Scriptures beat | |
| Like pulses in the Church’s brow and breast; | |
| And by them we find rest in our unrest, | |
| And heart-deep in salt tears, do yet entreat | |
| God’s fellowship, as if on heavenly seat. | 5 |
| The first is Jesus wept, whereon is prest | |
| Full many a sobbing face that drops its best | |
| And sweetest waters on the record sweet: | |
| And one is, where the Christ denied and scorned | |
| Looked upon Peter. Oh, to render plain, | 10 |
| By help of having loved a little and mourned, | |
| That look of sovran love and sovran pain | |
| Which he who could not sin yet suffered, turned | |
| On him who could reject but not sustain! | | | | |
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