My Period Had Come for Prayer
poem 564
My Period Had Come for Prayer - meaning Summary
Prayer Becomes Awe
The poem depicts a sudden, personal impulse to pray that propels the speaker outward and upward in search of God. expecting a visible dwelling or face, she finds only vast, empty horizons and an immense silence. That absence transforms her original petition into reverent astonishment: the encounter eclipses petitionary prayer and becomes an act of worship born of awe rather than request.
Read Complete AnalysesMy period had come for Prayer No other Art would do My Tactics missed a rudiment Creator Was it you? God grows above so those who pray Horizons must ascend And so I stepped upon the North To see this Curious Friend His House was not no sign had He By Chimney nor by Door Could I infer his Residence Vast Prairies of Air Unbroken by a Settler Were all that I could see Infinitude Had’st Thou no Face That I might look on Thee? The Silence condescended Creation stopped for Me But awed beyond my errand I worshipped did not pray
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