A Prayer in Spring

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? I'm hoping to post a new poem each day. Who would like to join me?

Having recently completed a lovely six week long study of Robert Frost and his poetry, I'm going to start off with a piece he wrote which is especially suited to this time of year when we look forward to days filled with sunlight, birdsong, and apple blossoms. In this poem we are encouraged to savor the season and its daily pleasures. It reminds me that God's creation exists to glorify Him and that we who are part of it bring praises to His name when we delight in that which He has made.

A Prayer in Spring

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;

And give us not to think so far away

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here

All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,

Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;

And make us happy in the happy bees,

The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird

That suddenly above the bees is heard,

The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,

And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,

The which it is reserved for God above

To sanctify to what far ends He will,

But which it only needs that we fulfull.

~Robert Frost~