Jan Struther Poems on God Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Though God in seven daysThe world and all its waysOnce for his own delight did fashion truly,Yet every man aliveMust ...

Pity me, O my people! I am old.It is a long time since I made the world.Out of the mist ...

I HATE to watch them reaping the Five Acre,The field at the hill's foot, steeply sloping.One sees the pattern too ...

Dear, if some god (lonely in ParadiseAnd jealous of my two-fold ecstasy)Were to demand one half as sacrifice-My love for ...

Some god, quite irresponsible and young,Has jumbled time and place and dealt amiss:A day of Grecian spring-time he has flungInto ...

Dear, if my rival only wereA woman whom you found more fair,A lust for wealth, a thirst for fame.A creed, ...

Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again!I have been long a slave, and now am free;I have ...

King Midas saw a buttercupIn a meadow blowing;King Midas saw a marigoldIn a garden growing;King Midas saw a yellowhammerOn a ...

THEY are wrong. It is not the knowing of good from evil,Virtue from vice,God from devil,That drives us from paradise:But ...

Jan Struther Poems on God (9 Poems)