Unanswered Prayers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMCNOPQRS TUVWJXYKZA2CB2| Like some school master kind in being stern | A |
| Who hears the children crying o er their slates | B |
| And calling Help me master yet helps not | C |
| Since in his silence and refusal lies | D |
| Their self development so God abides | E |
| Unheeding many prayers He is not deaf | F |
| To any cry sent up from earnest hearts | G |
| He hears and strengthens when He must deny | H |
| He sees us weeping over life s hard sums | I |
| But should He give us the key and dry our tears | J |
| What would it profit us when school were done | K |
| And not one lesson mastered | L |
| What a world | M |
| Where this if all our prayers were answered Not | C |
| In famed Pandora s box were such vast ills | N |
| As lie in human hearts Should our desires | O |
| Voiced one by one in prayer ascend to God | P |
| And come back as events shaped to our wish | Q |
| What chaos would result | R |
| In my fierce youth | S |
| I sighed out a breath enough to move a fleet | T |
| Voicing wild prayers to heaven for fancied boons | U |
| Which were denied and that denial bends | V |
| My knee to prayers of gratitude each day | W |
| Of my maturer years Yet from those prayers | J |
| I rose always regirded for the strife | X |
| And conscious of new strength Pray on sad heart | Y |
| That which thou pleadest for may not be given | K |
| But in the lofty altitude where souls | Z |
| Who supplicate God s grace are lifted there | A2 |
| Thou shalt find help to bear thy daily lot | C |
| Which is not elsewhere found | B2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Unanswered Prayers
Unanswered Prayers is a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Unanswered Prayers poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Best Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox