Skip to content
Linespedia

O Wind Of God.

Topics: classic

O wind of God, that blowest in the mind,         Blow, blow and wake the gentle spring in me;     Blow, swifter blow, a strong warm summer wind,         Till all the flowers with eyes come out to see;         Blow till the fruit hangs red on every tree,     And our high-soaring song-larks meet thy dove--     High the imperfect soars, descends the perfect love!     Blow not the less though winter cometh then;         Blow, wind of God, blow hither changes keen;     Let the spring creep into the ground again,         The flowers close all their eyes and not be seen:         All lives in thee that ever once hath been!     Blow, fill my upper air with icy storms;     Breathe cold, O wind of God, and kill my cankerworms.

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"O wind of God, that blowest in the mind,..."

Exploring the themes of classic, George MacDonald delivers a powerful performance in "O Wind Of God."... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

"I know what beauty is, for thou             Hast set the world within my heart;             Of me thou madest it a part;         I never lo"

"Ance was a woman wha's hert was gret;         Her love was sae dumb it was 'maist a grief;     She brak the box--it's tellt o' her yet--"

"Within each living man there doth reside,     In some unrifled chamber of the heart,     A hidden treasure: wayward as thou art     I love thee"

"And is not Earth thy living picture, where     Thou utterest beauty, simple and profound,     In the same form by wondrous union bound;     Whe"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

"I know what beauty is, for thou             Hast s..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.