A Better Resurrection
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
Drag the words to the correct places to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, returning them to the word bank and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks.
I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My ______ within me like a stone
Is numb'd too much ______ hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
No ______ hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.
My life is like a ______ leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my ______ is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud ______ greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall - ______ sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me.
My ______ is like a broken bowl,
A broken bowl that ______ hold
One drop of water for my soul
Or ______ in the searching cold;
Cast in the fire the perish'd thing;
Melt and remould it, till it be
A ______ cup for Him, my King:
O Jesus, drink of me.