Religion

'Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod'

by Michael Field 1846–1914 (Bradley) and 1862–1913 (Cooper)

From The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917)

Religion

Not alone in Palestine those blessed Feet have trod,
For I catch their print,
I have seen their dint
On a plot of chalky ground,
Little villas dotted round;
On a sea-worn waste,
Where a priest, in haste,
Passeth with the Blessed Sacrament to one dying, frail,

Through the yarrow, past the tamarisk, and the plaited
snail:
Bright upon the grass I see
Bleeding Feet of Calvary —
And I worship, and I clasp them round!
On this bit of chalky, English ground,
Jesu, Thou art found: my God I hail,
My Lord, my God!

MLA

Field, Michael. “'Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod'.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/213/.

Chicago

Field, Michael. “'Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod'.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/213/.

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