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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: very, Matches Found: 73 Very, Jones Poet's Biography poems available by this author ARK First Line: There is no change of time and place with thee AUTUMN FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Still blooming on, when summer flowers all fade Last Line: And to its close life's pilgrimage beguile. Subject(s): Flowers AUTUMN LEAVES Poem Text First Line: The leaves though thick are falling; one by one Last Line: The unseen hues of immortality. Subject(s): Leaves BARBERRY BUSH First Line: The bush that has most berries and bitter fruit BRANCH First Line: Thou bid'st me change with every changing hour Subject(s): Consolation CALL First Line: Why art thou not awake, my son? CLOUDED MORNING First Line: The morning comes, and thickening clouds prevail Last Line: As when we grope amid the gloom of night COLUMBINE First Line: Still, still my eye will gaze long fixed on thee Last Line: My weary eyes shall close like folding flowers in sleep DAY First Line: Day! I lament that none can hymn thy praise DAY OF DENIAL First Line: Are there not twelve whole hours in every day Last Line: How dark his darkness, who till latest eve %still slumbers on, nor then his couch will leave! ENOCH Poem Text First Line: I looked to find a man who walked with god Last Line: The only temple he delights to fill. FAIR MORNING First Line: The clear bright morning, with its scented air Last Line: Making the woods reecho with his song FIRST ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH First Line: With outward signs, as well as inward life Last Line: His providential purpose to fulfill Subject(s): Americans; United States HATH THE RAIN A FATHER? First Line: We say, 'it rains.' an unbelieving age! Last Line: And sendeth showers upon the springing grain Subject(s): Bible; Religion HEALTH OF BODY DEPENDENT ON SOUL First Line: Not from the earth or skies Subject(s): Religion HOME AND HEAVEN First Line: With the same letter heaven and home begin HYMN First Line: O god! Who dost the nations lead Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States I WAS SICK AND IN PRISON First Line: Thou hast not left the rough-barked tree to grow Last Line: And one by one new-born shall join the strain, %till earth restores her sons to heaven again IN HIM WE LIVE, & MOVE, & HAVE OUR BEING' First Line: Father! I bless thy name that I do live INDIAN'S RETORT, SELS. First Line: The white man's soul, it thirsts for gain Last Line: The white man steals, his is the name! Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest JOHN First Line: What went ye out to see? A shaken reed? Last Line: Repent! And see, while yet its light is given Subject(s): Bible; Religion LABOR AND REST First Line: Thou need'st not rest: the shining spheres are thine LIFE Poem Text First Line: It is not life upon thy gifts to live Last Line: The more to us doth of his bounty send. Subject(s): Religion; Worship; Theology LIGHT FROM WITHIN First Line: I saw on earth another light Subject(s): Religion MORNING First Line: The light will never open sightless eyes Last Line: To those who find on earth their place to stay MY MOTHER'S VOICE MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE First Line: For lack of knowledge do my people die! Last Line: War wastes our fields and doth the people slay! Subject(s): Bible; Religion NATURE Poem Text First Line: The bubbling brook doth leap when I come by Last Line: Hear from his father's lips that all is good. Subject(s): Nature OCTOBER First Line: The frost is out, and in the open fields Last Line: Has sent before this herald of decay %to bid me heed before the approach of winter's sterner day Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons PRESENCE First Line: I sit within my room, and joy to find Last Line: Whene'er I turn, art ever with me there Subject(s): Transcendentalism ROBIN First Line: Thou need'st not flutter from thy half-built nest Last Line: And the light wings of heart-ascending prayer %had learned that heaven is pleased thy simple joys to Subject(s): Robins SABBATIA First Line: The sweet-briar rose has not a form more fair SILENT First Line: There is a sighing in the wood Subject(s): Transcendentalism SOLDIER First Line: He was not armed like those of eastern clime SON First Line: Father, I wait thy word. The sun doth stand Subject(s): Transcendentalism SPIRIT First Line: I would not breathe, when blows thy mighty wind SUMACH LEAVES First Line: Some autumn leaves a painter took Last Line: Where, waving over hill and vale, %they gave its splendor to our fall THE COMING OF THE LORD Poem Text First Line: Come suddenly, o lord, or slowly come Last Line: Thou wilt to us thy word of promise keep. Variant Title(s): Take Ye Heed, Watch And Pray Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE COTTAGE Poem Text First Line: The house my earthly parent left Last Line: And called their friend, my father, god. THE CREATED Poem Text First Line: There is nought for thee by thy haste to gain Last Line: He saw thee lord of all his creatures stand. THE CUP Poem Text First Line: The bitterness of death is on me now Last Line: Lead on to joy eternal in the heaven. THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: I see them, crowd on crowd they walk the earth Last Line: Than those that to the earth with many tears they give. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: I would lie low, the ground on which men tread Last Line: And from my bosom find a surer rest. THE EYE AND EAR Poem Text First Line: Thou readest, but each lettered word can give Last Line: Itself by all things seen and owned as his. THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: I saw the spot where our first parents dwelt Last Line: No more for sin's dark stain the debt of death to pay. THE GIFTS OF GOD Poem Text First Line: The light that fills thy house at morn Last Line: What none can ever buy for gold. THE GRAVE-YARD Poem Text First Line: My heart grows sick before the wide-spread death Last Line: For in the body's health the soul's forgot. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE HAND AND FOOT Poem Text First Line: The hand and foot that stir not, they shall find Last Line: Bids spheres and atoms in just order move. THE IDLER Poem Text First Line: I idle stand, that I may find employ Last Line: Hang idly down still waiting thy commands. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE LAMENT OF THE FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: I looked to find spring's early flowers Last Line: "to glad the heart, and save from harm." Subject(s): Flowers THE LATTER RAIN Poem Text First Line: The latter rain, it falls in anxious haste Last Line: Declare to man it was not sent in vain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain THE LOST Poem Text First Line: The fairest day that ever yet has shone Last Line: That now to them dost all thy substance give. THE MORNING WATCH Poem Text First Line: Tis near the morning watch, the dim lamp burns Last Line: Till he the day's bright gates forever on them close! THE NEW BIRTH Poem Text First Line: Tis a new life; - thoughts move not as they did Last Line: Start from death's slumbers to eternity. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE NEW MAN Poem Text First Line: The hands must touch and handle many things Last Line: And bid them seek the morn the hills and fields once more. THE NEW WORLD Poem Text First Line: The night that has no star lit up by god Last Line: Their strong foundations laid by god's right hand. THE OLD ROAD Poem Text First Line: The road is left that once was trod Last Line: "but he shall walk with me, his god." THE ORIGIN OF MAN, I Poem Text First Line: Man has forgot his origin; in vain Last Line: The wondrous truths, which now they but conceal. THE PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou not visit me? Last Line: My spirit loves with thine in peace to dwell. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SONG Poem Text First Line: When I would sing of crooked streams and fields Last Line: By hill and grove, by field and stream delayed. Subject(s): Country Life THE SPIRIT LAND Poem Text First Line: Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand Last Line: That ne'er returns us to the fields of light Variant Title(s): The Present Heaven Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE STRANGERS Poem Text First Line: Each care-worn face is but a look Last Line: Who in each act that act have done. THE TREE Poem Text First Line: I love thee when thy swelling buds appear Last Line: On stars that brighter beam, when most we need their love. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Trees THE WILD ROSE OF PLYMOUTH Poem Text First Line: Upon the plymouth shore the wild rose blooms Last Line: Of love and beauty ever to remain. Subject(s): Flowers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roses THY BROTHER'S BLOOD Poem Text First Line: I have no brother. They who meet me now Last Line: Shall not be seen upon thy hand again. TO THE HUMMING-BIRD First Line: I cannot heal thy green gold breast TO THE PAINTED COLUMBINE First Line: Bright image of the early years Subject(s): Columbines; Plants TREES OF LIFE First Line: For those who worship thee there is no death Last Line: And as more high and wide their branches grow %they look more fair within the depths below VIOLET First Line: Thou tellest truths unspoken yet by man Subject(s): Transcendentalism WAR First Line: I saw a war, yet none the trumpets blew WINDFLOWER First Line: Thou lookest up with meek, confiding eye Last Line: O'erjoyed that in thy early leaves I find %a lesson taught by him who loved all humanity Subject(s): Flowers WORLD First Line: Tis all a great show YOURSELF Poem Text First Line: Tis to yourself I speak; you cannot know Last Line: Must both remain as strangers still to you. |
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