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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MARKHAM, EDWIN Matches Found: 165 Markham, Edwin Poet's Biography 165 poems available by this author A BLOSSOMING BOUGH Poem Text First Line: A blossoming bough against the sky Last Line: And orchards like white seas! A CAROL FOR THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: Blow, bugles, blow! Subject(s): Patriotism A CREED Poem Text First Line: Here is the truth in a little creed Last Line: In christ is all the god we know. Variant Title(s): Inbrothered Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology A GUARD OF THE SEPULCHER Poem Text First Line: I was a roman soldier in my prime Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The A LEAF FROM THE DEVIL'S JEST-BOOK Poem Text First Line: Beside the sewing-table chained and bent Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A LOOK INTO THE GULF Poem Text First Line: I looked one night, and there semiramis Last Line: Her weary lips beat on without a sound. A LYRIC OF THE DAWN Poem Text First Line: Alone I list Subject(s): Transience; Nature; Impermanence A MENDOCINO MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Once in my lonely, eager youth I rode Last Line: Bearing the pines hewn out of oregon. Subject(s): Mendocino, California; Travel; Journeys; Trips A PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Teach me, father, how to go Last Line: On the way and be their best. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A SONG FOR HEROES Poem Text First Line: A song for the heroes who saw the sign Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines A SONG OF VICTORY Poem Text First Line: But now above the thunder of the drums Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day A WORKMAN TO THE GODS Poem Text First Line: Once phidias stood, with hammer in his hand, Subject(s): Phidias (409-430 B.c.); Perfection AFTER READING SHAKESPERE Poem Text First Line: Blithe fancy lightly builds with airy hands Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AFTER READING SHAKESPERE First Line: Blithe fancy lightly builds with airy hands Last Line: Outward he wanders in the unknown night, %and we are shadows moving in a dream Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) AN EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Let us not think of our departed dead Last Line: Where all may taste a more immortal bread. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology AN OLD ROAD Poem Text First Line: A host of poppies, a flight of swallows Subject(s): Nature ANCHORED TO THE INFINITE Poem Text First Line: The builder who first bridged niagara's gorge Last Line: And—we are anchored to the infinite! Subject(s): God; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls ANGELUS First Line: Far through the lilac sky the angelus bell Subject(s): Religion ANN RUTLEDGE First Line: She came like music: when she went ASCENSION First Line: In the gray dawn they left jerusalem Last Line: He was uplifted from us, and was gone %into the darkness of another dawn Subject(s): Ascension Day AT LITTLE VIRGIL'S WINDOW Poem Text First Line: There are three green eggs in a small brown pocket Subject(s): Religion; Theology AT LITTLE VIRGIL'S WINDOW First Line: There are three green eggs in a small brown pocket Last Line: And our god be glads and world be sweeter Subject(s): Religion AUTOCHTHON Poem Text First Line: In a rude country some four thousand miles Last Line: O leader in a commonwealth of thought! Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Judgments; Life; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron BEFORE MARY OF MAGDALA CAME First Line: From silvering; mid-sea to the syrian sand BELIEVE, O FRIEND First Line: Impossible, you say, that man survives Variant Title(s): The Unbelievabl BREATHLESS AWE Poem Text First Line: Two things,' said kant, 'fill me with breathless awe' Subject(s): Religion; Theology BREATHLESS AWE Subject(s): Religion BROTHERHOOD (1) Poem Text First Line: Of all things beautiful and good Subject(s): Patriotism BROTHERHOOD (1) First Line: Of all things beautiful and good Subject(s): Patriotism BROTHERHOOD (2) Poem Text First Line: The crest and crowning of all good Last Line: Make way for brotherhood—make way for man. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology BUTTERFLY First Line: O winged brother on the harebell, stay CAROL FOR THE NEW YEAR First Line: Blow, bugles, blow! Subject(s): Patriotism CHILD OF MY HEART Poem Text First Line: Child heart Last Line: Would that my own heart could suffer it all! Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHRIST OF THE ANDES First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day CLIMB OF LIFE First Line: There's a feel of all things flowing Subject(s): Religion CONSCRIPTS OF THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Give thanks, o heart, for the high souls Subject(s): Justice CONSCRIPTS OF THE DREAM First Line: Give thanks, o heart, for the high souls Subject(s): Justice CONSECRATED GROUND; READ AT THE NEW YORK CITY HALL Poem Text First Line: Let there be prayer and praise Last Line: There where the deathless climb the deathless skies. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New York City; Independence Day; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple CONSECRATION OF THE COMMON WAY First Line: The hills that had been lone and lean Last Line: The stone the angel rolled away with tears %is back upon your mouth these thousand years Subject(s): Christmas COURAGE, ALL! First Line: Old gods, avaunt! The rosy east is walking DIVINE STRATEGY First Line: No soul can be forever banned DREYFUS Poem Text First Line: A man stood stained! France was one alp of hate Last Line: And shrug the shoulder for reply to god. Subject(s): Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935); Jews; Justice; Judaism DUTY Poem Text First Line: When duty comes a-knocking at your gate Last Line: And bring seven other duties to your door. Subject(s): Duty EARTH IS ENOUGH Poem Text First Line: We men of earth have here the stuff Last Line: To build eternity in time! Subject(s): Religion; Theology ERRAND IMPERIOUS First Line: But harken, my america, my own Subject(s): Patriotism FATE OF THE FUR FOLK First Line: Early, while the east is pale Subject(s): Animals FATHER'S BUSINESS First Line: Who pust back into place a fallen bar Last Line: His name is whispered in the god's abode Subject(s): Religion FLYING MIST First Line: I watch afar the moving mystery Subject(s): Nature FOR THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: Are you sheltered, curled up and content by your world's warm fire? Last Line: Out to some battle. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FORGOTTEN MAN First Line: Not on our golden fortunes builded high - FREE NATION First Line: And this freedom will be the freedom of all Last Line: Except as he finds it %in the security of all Subject(s): Religion GRAY NORNS First Line: What do you bring in your sacks, gray girls? GUARD OF THE SEPULCHER First Line: I was a roman soldier in my prime Last Line: For we, who all the wonder might have told, %kept silence, for our mouths were stopt with gold Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The HARVEST SONG First Line: The gray hulk of the granary uplooms against the sky HOW OSWALD DINED WITH GOD First Line: Over northumbria's lone, gray lands HOW SHALL WE HONOR THEM? Subject(s): Peace HOW THE GREAT GUEST CAME Poem Text First Line: Before the cathedral in grandeur rose Last Line: "I was the child on the homeless street!" Variant Title(s): The Great Guest Comes Subject(s): Charity; Faith; Religion; Philanthropy; Belief; Creed; Theology HOW TO GO AND FORGET First Line: I know how to hold IF HE SHOULD COME Poem Text First Line: If jesus should tramp the streets tonight Last Line: Out of a thousand lands? Subject(s): Jesus Christ IN DEATH VALLEY Poem Text First Line: There came long stretches of volcanic plains Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN DEATH VALLEY First Line: There came long stretches of volcanic plains Last Line: It was the mark of some ancestral grief - %grief that began before the ancient flood Subject(s): Grief INVISIBLE BRIDE First Line: The low-voiced girls that go JEWS First Line: Once verily, o mighty czar, your JOY OF THE MORNING Poem Text First Line: I hear you, little bird Last Line: Nor such a listener. Subject(s): Morning JUDAS AGAINST THE WORLD First Line: The mother of judas iscariot JUGGLER OF TOURAINE, SELS. LEAF FROM THE DEVIL'S JEST-BOOK First Line: Beside the sewing-table chained and bent Last Line: A white face floating in the whirling ball, %a dead face splashing in the river reeds? Subject(s): Death LEAGUE OF LOVE IN ACTION First Line: O league of kindness, woven in all lands Variant Title(s): The Red Cros LINCOLN SLAIN First Line: In the moment of his glory Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN TRIUMPHANT Poem Text First Line: Lincoln is not dead Last Line: To make the world a world of friends. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: When the norn mother saw the whirlwind hour Last Line: And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Religion; United States - History; Theology LION AND LIONESS Poem Text First Line: One night we were together, you and I Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION AND LIONESS First Line: One night we were together, you and I Subject(s): Animals; Lions LITTLE BROTHERS OF THE GROUND First Line: Little ants in leafy wood LIVE AND HELP LIVE Poem Text First Line: Live and let live!' was the call of the old Last Line: The cry of the christ for a comrade-like earth. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LOVE'S VIGIL Poem Text First Line: Love will outwatch the stars, and light the skies Last Line: That in the cosmic council he is god. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOVERS Poem Text First Line: God could not fill all places; so he made Last Line: When god shall fill it as one sounding sea! Subject(s): Love MAN UNDER THE STONE First Line: When I see a workingman with mouths to feed Subject(s): Justice MAN WITH THE HOE (GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION) First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: When this dumb terror shall reply to god %after the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Labor And Laborers MAN-MAKING Poem Text First Line: We are all blind, until we see Last Line: The builder also grows. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MAN-TEST Poem Text First Line: When in the dim beginning of the years Last Line: "with all in life to win or all to lose." Variant Title(s): The Testing Subject(s): Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology MANHATTAN, 1609 Poem Text First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame! Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MIGHTY HUNDRED YEARS First Line: It is the hour of man: new pruposes Subject(s): Patriotism MY COMRADE Poem Text First Line: I never build a song by night or day Last Line: For she can take away the dread of things. NAIL-TORN GOD Subject(s): Religion NEED OF THE HOUR First Line: Fling forth the triple-colored flag to dare Last Line: We need the faith to go a path untrod, %the power to be alone and vote with god Subject(s): Patriotism NEW TRINITY First Line: Three things must a man possess if his soul would live NO SANCTUARY First Line: Over the hills with terror-cry Subject(s): Animals OPPORTUNITY Poem Text First Line: In an old city by the storied shores Last Line: "o traveler, tomorrow is too late!" Subject(s): Opportunity OUR DEATHLESS DEAD Poem Text First Line: How shall we honor them? Last Line: These things will build our dead unwasting obelisk Subject(s): Death; Praise;memory OUR ISRAFEL First Line: The sad great gifts the austere muses bring - PEACE Poem Text First Line: O brother, lift a cry, a long world cry Last Line: To end it in the sacred name of man! Subject(s): Peace; Social Protest; War PEACE (2) First Line: What was the first prophetic word that rang PILGRIM First Line: Man becomes a pilgrim of the universe Subject(s): Religion POET First Line: His home is on the heights; to him Subject(s): Religion POETRY Poem Text First Line: She comes like the hush and beauty of the night Last Line: From worlds before and after. POWER First Line: All worlds lie folded in the arms of power Last Line: Downward on man at some imperious call %and gives him power to perish for his dreams PREPAREDNESS Poem Text First Line: For all your days prepare Last Line: When you are the hammer, strike. REVELATION Poem Text First Line: I made a pilgrimage to find the god Last Line: Saw his bright hand send signals from the suns. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RHYME FOR THANKSGIVING DAY First Line: I count up in this hour of cheer RULES FOR THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Stand straight: / step firmly, throw your weight Last Line: The earth is friendly as a mother's breast. SAINT PATRICK Poem Text First Line: Wandered from the antrim hills Last Line: With the druid groves of oak. Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day SAN FRANCISCO DESOLATE First Line: A graon of earth in labor-pain SING A WHILE LONGER Poem Text First Line: Has the bright sun set, Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence SONG FOR HEROES First Line: A song for the heroes who saw the sign Subject(s): Heroism SONG OF VICTORY First Line: But now above the thunder of the drums Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day SONG TO A TREE First Line: Give me the dance of your boughs, o tree Last Line: Your comrade on the way SOWER First Line: Soon will the lonesome cricket by the stone STONE REJECTED First Line: For years it had been trampled in the street Last Line: That long has lighted up an altar-place SWUNG TO THE VOID First Line: Once, suddenly, I found myself alone TASK THAT IS GIVEN TO YOU First Line: To each one is given a marble to carve for the wall THANKSGIVING First Line: I thank thee, father, for this sky THANKSGIVING ROSARY First Line: A roof so low I lose no strain THE ANGELUS Poem Text First Line: Far through the lilac sky the angelus bell Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE ASCENSION Poem Text First Line: In the gray dawn they left jerusalem Subject(s): Ascension Day THE CHANT OF THE VULTURES Poem Text First Line: We are circling, glad of the battle: we joy in the smell of the smoke Last Line: We tell all the winds of their glory: we publish their fame with a croak! Subject(s): Vultures; War THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES Poem Text First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day THE CLIMB OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: There's a feel of all things flowing Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CONSECRATION OF THE COMMON WAY Poem Text First Line: The hills that had been lone and lean Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The THE CRICKET Poem Text First Line: The twilight is the morning of his day Subject(s): Crickets THE DARING ONE Poem Text First Line: I would my soul were like the bird Subject(s): Birds THE DAY AND THE WORK Poem Text First Line: To each man is given a day and his work for the day Last Line: So your work is awaiting: it has waited through ages for you. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE DESIRE OF NATIONS Poem Text First Line: Earth will go back to her lost youth Last Line: More than the light of law that rose on rome. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nations; Peace THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Ah, great it is to believe the dream Last Line: "and say at the end, ""the dream is true!" Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Nightmares; Belief; Creed THE ERRAND IMPERIOUS Poem Text First Line: But harken, my america, my own Subject(s): Patriotism THE FATE OF THE FUR FOLK Poem Text First Line: Early, while the east is pale Subject(s): Animals THE FATHER'S BUSINESS Poem Text First Line: Who puts back into place a fallen bar Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE FLYING MIST Poem Text First Line: I watch afar the moving mystery Subject(s): Nature THE HEART'S RETURN Poem Text First Line: When darkened hours come crowding fast Last Line: Folding his happy sheep and knowing all his tasks are done. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE JOY OF THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: I ride on the mountain tops, I ride Last Line: My body's a bough in the wind, my heart a bird! Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LAST FURROW Poem Text First Line: The spirit of earth with still, restoring hands Last Line: Yet are the bleak graves lonely in the rain. THE LIZARD Poem Text First Line: I sit among the hoary trees Last Line: The circle of eternal youth. Subject(s): Lizards THE MAN UNDER THE STONE Poem Text First Line: When I see a workingman with mouths to feed Subject(s): Justice THE MAN WITH THE HOE Poem Text First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MAN WITH THE HOE OUTWITTED Poem Text First Line: He drew a circle that shut me out Last Line: We drew a circle that took him in! Variant Title(s): Outwitted Subject(s): Forgiveness; Labor & Laborers; Clemency; Work; Workers THE MIGHTY HUNDRED YEARS Poem Text First Line: It is the hour of man: new pruposes Subject(s): Patriotism THE NEED OF THE HOUR Poem Text First Line: Fling forth the triple-colored flag to dare Subject(s): Patriotism THE NIGHT MOTHS Poem Text First Line: Out of the night to my mountain porch they came Last Line: Why this rich beauty wandering the night? Subject(s): Moths THE PANTHER Poem Text First Line: The moon shears up on tahoe now Last Line: Across the caverns of the night! Variant Title(s): Paid In Full Subject(s): Panthers THE PLACE OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky Last Line: In the hollow of god's palm. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE POET Poem Text First Line: His home is on the heights; to him Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE RIGHT KIND OF PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: Gone is the city, gone the day Last Line: The wise man said. THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS Poem Text First Line: It was near the first cock-crowing Last Line: Lord of peoples, light of nations, elder brother, tender friend. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The THE TOILERS Poem Text First Line: Their blind feet drift in the darkness, and no one is leading Last Line: Or flung as a meat to the cannons that hunger in battle. THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901 Poem Text First Line: I see a hell of faces surge and whirl Last Line: And, under all, the silence of the dead! Subject(s): Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen THE WHIRLWIND ROAD Poem Text First Line: The muses wrapt in mysteries of light Last Line: The whirlwind road of song if they would know. THE WORLD-PURPOSE Poem Text First Line: Men sadly say that love's high dream is vain Subject(s): Religion; Theology THEY WAIT FOR YOU Poem Text First Line: Look not, o friend, with unavailing tears Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THEY WAIT FOR YOU First Line: Look not, o friend, with unavailing tears Subject(s): Hope TO A YOUNG MAN First Line: I do not say to you, be rich TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL Poem Text First Line: Fate laid upon you silence and the night Last Line: God knows that I am with you in this fight! Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Destiny; Optimism TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD First Line: Hail to the hero of the arctic dare Subject(s): Science TWO AT A FIRESIDE Poem Text First Line: I built a chimney for a comrade old Last Line: Yet all the way I glowed before the fire. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TWO TAVERNS First Line: I remember how I lay VERMIN IN THE DARK First Line: In storied venice, down whose rippling streets VICTORY IN DEFEAT Poem Text First Line: Defeat may serve as well as victory Last Line: To stretch our spaces in the heart for joy. Subject(s): Defeat; Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight VIRGILIA Poem Text First Line: Had we two gone down the world together Last Line: Forgotten in the sea. WALT WHITMAN First Line: O shaggy god of the ground, barbaric pan! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN First Line: O shaggy god of the ground, barbaric pan! Last Line: And leave you in your immortality Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WE HAVE BROKEN OUR BREAD TOGETHER WIND AND LYRE Poem Text First Line: Thou art the wind and I the lyre Subject(s): Religion; Theology WIND AND LYRE First Line: Thou art the wind and I the lyre Last Line: Light my soul to the mother-sea Subject(s): Religion WORLD-PURPOSE First Line: Men sadly say that love's high dream is vain Subject(s): Religion YOUNG LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Men saw no portents on that winter night Last Line: To bend the law to let his mercy out. Variant Title(s): The Coming Of Lincoln Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States YOUR TEARS First Line: I dare not ask your very all |
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