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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: channing, william Matches Found: 44 Channing (1817-1901), William Ellery Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery 25 poems available by this author A POET'S HOPE Poem Text First Line: Lady, there is a hope that all men have Last Line: If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea. CONFESSIO AMANTIS Poem Text First Line: I still can suffer pain Subject(s): Transcendentalism CONTENT Poem Text First Line: Within the unpainted cottage dwell Subject(s): Transcendentalism EARTH-SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: I have woven shrouds of air Last Line: I polish the green ice, and gleam the wall %with the white frost, and leaf the brown trees tall EDITH Poem Text First Line: Edith, the silent stars are coldly gleaming Last Line: Thy sweetness stills to rest the winter's pain. FLIGHT OF THE WILD GEESE Poem Text First Line: Rambling along the marshes Subject(s): Geese HARBOR Poem Text First Line: No more I seek, the prize is found Last Line: Where overjoyed at rest I stand, %and drink the sound I hoped to hear HILLSIDE COT Poem Text First Line: And here the hermit sat, and told his beads Subject(s): Hermits HYMN OF THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: My highway is unfeatured air Last Line: Are mirrored in its round abode. Subject(s): Earth; World MEMORY First Line: In sweet dreams softer than unbroken MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Once we built our fortress MURILLO'S MAGDALEN First Line: Here eyes are fixed; they seek the skies Last Line: Who may renew my light in me, %and both shall thus the past forget? Subject(s): Murillo, Bartolome Esteban (1617-1682) MY SYMPHONY First Line: To live content with small means; to seek elegance NATURE Poem Text First Line: I love the universe, - I love the joy Subject(s): Transcendentalism NO ONE BULL-DOG YET COULD EAT PRIMAVERA, THE BREATH OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: With the rush and whirl of the fleet wild brook Subject(s): Transcendentalism SEA SONG Poem Text First Line: Our boat to the waves go free Last Line: Fear not we the whirl of the gale. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean SLEEPY HOLLOW Poem Text First Line: No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral Last Line: God's mercy in thy thought and life confest Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Death; Dead, The TEARS IN SPRING Poem Text First Line: The swallow is flying over Last Line: To the spring that comes and kisses his feet. THE BARREN MOORS Poem Text First Line: On your bare rocks, o barren moors Last Line: To stand between two silent floors. THOUGHTS First Line: Bible is a book worthy to read Subject(s): Transcendentalism TO MY COMPANIONS First Line: Ye heavy-hearted mariners TO THE POETS First Line: They who sing the deeds of men Subject(s): Transcendentalism UNA First Line: We are centered deeper far Subject(s): Transcendentalism WALDEN LAKE Poem Text First Line: It is not far beyond the village church Last Line: And with those virtues which are like the stars! Variant Title(s): Walden Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Walden Pond, Massachusetts Gannett, William Channing Poet's Biography 19 poems available by this author A MOTHER'S BREAST Poem Text First Line: When among all life's miracles I try Last Line: Makes gentlest landfall on a mother's breast. Subject(s): Mothers A.L.G. First Line: So early lost, I cannot tell the lift Last Line: Inwrought and deathless tokens pledge us joy %what day my mother meets her grateful boy! AUNT PHILLIS'S GUEST; ST HELENA ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1863 Poem Text First Line: I was young and 'harry' was strong Last Line: Outshines the best that we think we see. Subject(s): Consolation CONSIDER THE LILIES First Line: He hides within the lily Last Line: Till chaos blooms to beauty, %thy purpose crowning all! Subject(s): God DEAR TOGETHERNESS First Line: I dreamed of paradise, - and still Last Line: To still go on, and go together Subject(s): Family Life HIGHWAY First Line: When the night is still and far Subject(s): Religion IN LITTLES First Line: A little house of life IN TWOS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere in the world there hide Last Line: Then two at the heart of all! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LISTENING FOR GOD First Line: I hear it often in the dark MARY'S MANGER-SONG Poem Text First Line: Sleep, my little jesus Last Line: Sleep, my jesus, sheep! OLD LOVE SONG First Line: Play it slowly, sing it lowly Subject(s): Love OUR FATHER First Line: It were a blessed faith to think SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH First Line: The lord is in his holy place SUNDAY ON THE HILL-TOP Poem Text First Line: Only ten miles from the city Last Line: When it cannot be lifted away? Subject(s): Milton, Massachusetts THE HILLS OF THE LORD Poem Text First Line: God ploughed one day with an earthquake Last Line: And his peace everlasting to me. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE STREAM OF FAITH Poem Text First Line: From heart to heart, from creed to creed Last Line: That ever-deepening roll! Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology WHERE DID IT GO First Line: Where did yesterday's sunset go WHO WERT AND ART AND EVER MORE SHALL BE First Line: Bring, o morn, thy music! Bring, on night, thy hushes! Subject(s): Transcendentalism WORD OF GOD First Line: It sounds along the ages Subject(s): Transcendentalism |
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