7 Short Poems about Easter
- Apr 3
- 2 min read
7 Short Poems about Easter
The joy of the resurrection, spring and new life are the focus of these 7 short poems about Easter.
Easter Flowers
Departed to the Judgment, A Mighty Afternoon— Great Clouds accompanied the Day To its Tabernacle Room.
Emily Dickinson
2. At Easter
Like a sleep-waking child, The Earth, by Spring beguiled, Is opening her eyes Beneath the Easter skies.
John Banister Tabb
3. Easter Day
Rise, and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora.
Robert Herrick
4. from Easter Morning
Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day, Didst make thy triumph over death and sin: And having harrow'd hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive us to win.
Edmund Spenser
5. Easter Even
The tempest over and gone, the calm begun. Lo, it is finished, day and night are one. The dead is living who was dead before: He liveth rendered up to die no more.
Christina Rossetti
6. An Easter Carol
Spring bursts today, For Christ is risen and all His earth elite Sings out her billows of green grass and sheet Of sunshine, and soft winds, and swallows fleet.
Christina Rossetti
Easter Day
The stone is rolled, the mouth is wide, The living Lord is come outside, But in the tomb the darkness lies As deep as when it veiled His eyes. The guards are fled, the seal is broke, The heavy air is filled with smoke, And all the world is gone to see The miracle of Calvary. But I will stay and watch the stone, And I will watch it all alone, Until the thousand years be o’er And He is rolled inside once more. For if He be not there, then I Am more than ever doomed to die.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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