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A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost

Analysis

"A Prayer" is a poem written by Robert Frost. This poem is asking God to make it eternally spring so he can be happy while living with the glories of nature. It'll keep the trees perfect and the orchards white.

This poem is written as four stanzas with four lines in each. It is written as rhyming couplets.

Poem

A Prayer
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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 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 fulfill.
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Nationality
American

Literary Movement
19th Century

Subjects
Religion, Nature, Spring, God