Poetry is supposed to be the language of souls . Yet not every poem touches our hearts maybe because the poet wasn't talking about a personal experience thus , he couldn't express the feelings in a right way or maybe feeling a poem differs from one person to another . Inspite of all of that there are some poems that make our hearts dance on its rythm no matter how different are we . One of these poems that i couldn't resist & felt it from the first time i read is a poem called " The Gifts Of God " written by a famous poet called George Herbert. Maybe i felt it in that way because it is a religious poem or maybe the true feelings the poet is expressing are the real reason. No matter what are the reasons this poem was like a healing substance for my heart & soul in a life that is full of many things that hardend our hearts & make the purity of our souls & hearts disappear day after day.
The poet says:
When God at first made man,
Having a glasse of blessings standing by ;
Let us (said HE) poure on him all we can ;
Let the worlds riches , which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.
So strength first made a way ;
Then beautie flowed , then wisdom , honour , pleasure :
When almost all was out God made a stay,
Perceiving that alone , of all his trasure ,
Rest in the bottome lay.
For if I should (said HE)
Bestow this jewell also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
And rest in Nature , not the God of Nature:
So both should losers be.
Yet let him keep the REST
But keep them with repining restlesnesse :
Let him be rich and wearie , that at least ,
If goodnesse leade him not , yet wearinesse
May tosse him to my breast.
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The poet imagined a scene that God at the beginning of creation was holding a glass that contains all the gifts & pleasures we have in our immortal life .Then the poet start to mention all these gifts ,first God pour on man strength then he poured beauty , this shows that man is the prettiest creature ever . then wisdom wish is the gift that only Man has it , no other creature . The next gifts was honour & pleasure . Yet when the last gift in the glass was the only one left God stoped pouring saying that he will keep this last gift which the poet described it as a "jewell " which is the gift of REST. The poet imagines that God said that if he gives the man the gift of rest , then man would forget the giver & starts to adore the gift itself . He said he will start to find rest in nature not in the God of nature then both man & nature will be losers . God kept the gift of rest as if some people the good in them did not lead them into God then, maybe search for rest will lead them to God to get the ultimate rest . Maybe the idea is not to give man everything as not to forget that there is another life that has another gifts which are much more beautiful . God wants us to differiate between the love of the gift & the love of the giver .Preventing the gift of rest will make man search for something which is undefined for him all over his life till the judgement day . He will not ever find this thing except when he come back to God .Maybe it is the only thing that relates our immortal life on earth with the mortal life we will have when we meet God , we will search now & finally we will find it there . Despite that experience proved we will never find this thing here in our immortal life yet, we can not ever stop searching as our mortal goal is to find rest.
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مقدرتش اكتب النوت بالعربى عشان القصيدة نفسها انجليزية ولانى مش متمكنة من اللغة لدرجة انى اترجم القصيدة بطريقة شعرية فا هضطر اترجم الفكرة العامة فقط . القصيدة بتتكلم عن معنى جميل اووووى ان ربنا ماعطناش نعمة الراحة فى الحياة عشان نفهم ان الراحة هتبقى فى قربنا منه بس و مننساش ان هو اللى خلقنا و اعطانا كل النعم ديه .الشاعر اتكلم اننا مهما اشياء بنحبها او كنا مع اشخاص بنحبهم فا دايما هنحس ان فى شىء ناقصنا حتى لما ساعات بنغلط و نفتكر ان فى شىء هيوصلنا للراحة و الشىء ده بيبقى هدف دنيوى زى المال و السلطة و الحب و ......فالغريب ان مهما طالت رحلتنا للوصول للهدف اللى تخيلناه الا اننا اول اما بنلاقيه و نفتكر اننا هنستريح بنبتدى ندور على هدف غيره و نفضل فى الدايرة ديه الا ناس قليلة اوووى هى اللى بتفهم اننا مهما نجحنا و فى عز لحظات الانتصار بنجاحتنا ديه لو مكوناش قريبين من ربنا و فاكرين فضله علينا فى الوصول لاهدافنا و شاكرينه عمرنا ما هنحس بالراحة ابدا . قربنا من ربنا هيريحنا بنسبة كبيرة . ايمانا انه المتحكم فى مصير كل شىء و علمنا انه الرحيم هيطمنا و مش هنخاف على زوال مال او سلطة او ضياع حب او جمال . الانسان مخلوق من جسد و روح و قرب الانسان من مصدر روحه اللى هو ربنا جل و علا هو ده بس اللى هيريحه.
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The poet says:
When God at first made man,
Having a glasse of blessings standing by ;
Let us (said HE) poure on him all we can ;
Let the worlds riches , which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.
So strength first made a way ;
Then beautie flowed , then wisdom , honour , pleasure :
When almost all was out God made a stay,
Perceiving that alone , of all his trasure ,
Rest in the bottome lay.
For if I should (said HE)
Bestow this jewell also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
And rest in Nature , not the God of Nature:
So both should losers be.
Yet let him keep the REST
But keep them with repining restlesnesse :
Let him be rich and wearie , that at least ,
If goodnesse leade him not , yet wearinesse
May tosse him to my breast.
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The poet imagined a scene that God at the beginning of creation was holding a glass that contains all the gifts & pleasures we have in our immortal life .Then the poet start to mention all these gifts ,first God pour on man strength then he poured beauty , this shows that man is the prettiest creature ever . then wisdom wish is the gift that only Man has it , no other creature . The next gifts was honour & pleasure . Yet when the last gift in the glass was the only one left God stoped pouring saying that he will keep this last gift which the poet described it as a "jewell " which is the gift of REST. The poet imagines that God said that if he gives the man the gift of rest , then man would forget the giver & starts to adore the gift itself . He said he will start to find rest in nature not in the God of nature then both man & nature will be losers . God kept the gift of rest as if some people the good in them did not lead them into God then, maybe search for rest will lead them to God to get the ultimate rest . Maybe the idea is not to give man everything as not to forget that there is another life that has another gifts which are much more beautiful . God wants us to differiate between the love of the gift & the love of the giver .Preventing the gift of rest will make man search for something which is undefined for him all over his life till the judgement day . He will not ever find this thing except when he come back to God .Maybe it is the only thing that relates our immortal life on earth with the mortal life we will have when we meet God , we will search now & finally we will find it there . Despite that experience proved we will never find this thing here in our immortal life yet, we can not ever stop searching as our mortal goal is to find rest.
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مقدرتش اكتب النوت بالعربى عشان القصيدة نفسها انجليزية ولانى مش متمكنة من اللغة لدرجة انى اترجم القصيدة بطريقة شعرية فا هضطر اترجم الفكرة العامة فقط . القصيدة بتتكلم عن معنى جميل اووووى ان ربنا ماعطناش نعمة الراحة فى الحياة عشان نفهم ان الراحة هتبقى فى قربنا منه بس و مننساش ان هو اللى خلقنا و اعطانا كل النعم ديه .الشاعر اتكلم اننا مهما اشياء بنحبها او كنا مع اشخاص بنحبهم فا دايما هنحس ان فى شىء ناقصنا حتى لما ساعات بنغلط و نفتكر ان فى شىء هيوصلنا للراحة و الشىء ده بيبقى هدف دنيوى زى المال و السلطة و الحب و ......فالغريب ان مهما طالت رحلتنا للوصول للهدف اللى تخيلناه الا اننا اول اما بنلاقيه و نفتكر اننا هنستريح بنبتدى ندور على هدف غيره و نفضل فى الدايرة ديه الا ناس قليلة اوووى هى اللى بتفهم اننا مهما نجحنا و فى عز لحظات الانتصار بنجاحتنا ديه لو مكوناش قريبين من ربنا و فاكرين فضله علينا فى الوصول لاهدافنا و شاكرينه عمرنا ما هنحس بالراحة ابدا . قربنا من ربنا هيريحنا بنسبة كبيرة . ايمانا انه المتحكم فى مصير كل شىء و علمنا انه الرحيم هيطمنا و مش هنخاف على زوال مال او سلطة او ضياع حب او جمال . الانسان مخلوق من جسد و روح و قرب الانسان من مصدر روحه اللى هو ربنا جل و علا هو ده بس اللى هيريحه.
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