Emptiness



Where there is nothing God comes in:
The Very God has room enough
In the poor heart that's stripped so clean
Of earth and all the joys thereof.

I looked for shadow and the night
When Death had taken her Love away,
But for the darkness there was light,
And for the night clear floods of day.

Great light that filled it to the brim
And overflowed and spilt around,
Flowing from Him, pulsing from Him,
And all the heart was holy ground.

The earth, the heavens, cannot contain
Our God, nor any starry place;
But He who takes delight with men
Bounds Him within a narrow space.

And where her poor heart bleeds and breaks
Because her dearest Love is dead,
The Lord of Life comes in and takes
Warm to His arms the piteous head.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX ABAB CDCD XEXE FGFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 708
Words 139
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Katharine Tynan

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