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‘A Hymn to God the Father’ delves deeply into the topic of God, exploring the speaker's relationship with the divine. The poem presents a heartfelt and intimate address to God, expressing the speaker's longing for forgiveness and redemption.
The poems on this list are addressed to God, consider religion in a new way, or question the nature of faith. They are written by a variety of poets, from Maya Angelou to John Milton, and take different approaches to the theme of God.
William Blake mostly wrote romantic poetry and prophetic works. The Divine Image portrays an ideal world. The poem presents four traditional Christian virtues (Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love), which exist in the human heart and connect it with God.
The best Holy Sonnet 14: Batter my heart, three-person'd God study guide on the planet. The fastest way to understand the poem's meaning, themes, form, rhyme scheme, meter, and poetic devices.
"The Pulley" is English Metaphysical poet George Herbert's reflection on humanity's restlessness and God's loving wisdom. In this tender, witty poem, a speaker imagines God creating humankind and giving people every possible blessing but one: "rest."
This poem, written using the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet form, sees Donne calling upon God to take hold of him and consume him, in a collection of images that are at once deeply spiritual and physically arresting. Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you.
Through an extended metaphor in which God is a cloth maker and the speaker acts as God's cloth-making tools, the speaker offers himself up as God's humble earthly servant. By following God’s instructions and living a deeply religious life, argues the poem, people can best know and serve God.
