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Subject: ADVENT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADVENT (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This advent moon shines cold and clear
Last Line: My fair one, come away.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Advent


ADVENT (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come,' thou dost say to angels
Last Line: And we will answer, 'come.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Advent


ADVENT (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth grown old, yet still so green
Last Line: Earth grown old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Advent
Subject(s): Advent; Christmas; Nativity, The


ADVENT 1966, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because in vietnam the vision of a burning babe
Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); Advent; War Atrocities; Social Commentaries


ADVENT SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art coming, o my saviour
Last Line: Glorified, adored, and owned!
Subject(s): Advent


ADVENT SUNDAY, by JOHN KEBLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake - again the gospel-trump is blown
Last Line: The eye first finds thee out in thy secure repose?
Subject(s): Advent


ADVENT SUNDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, the bridegroom cometh
Last Line: To meet him in a rapture with a shout.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Advent


ADVENT THOUGHTS: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O herald whisper falling
Last Line: "he cometh!"" even so!"
Subject(s): Advent


CHRISTMAS EVE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the little chapel I burst
Last Line: To conclude with the doxology.
Subject(s): Christmas; Second Advent; Nativity, The; Second Coming Of Christ


CHRISTS TWOFOLD COMING, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy former coming was to cure
Last Line: To heale my earths infirmitie.
Subject(s): Second Advent; Second Coming Of Christ


CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How patient man is in his time
Last Line: Gesture, withdraw into damnation
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent


GODS DESCENT, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God is then said for to descend, when he
Last Line: Then ever, yet, the like was done before.
Subject(s): Second Advent; Second Coming Of Christ


HYMN: ADVENT SUNDAY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hosanna to the living lord!
Last Line: Hosanna! Lord! Hosanna in the highest!
Subject(s): Advent; Jesus Christ


HYMN: FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is grown old, and her pleasures are past
Last Line: And we look for our crown when judgment is near!
Subject(s): Advent


HYMN: SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT: 1, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lord will come! The earth shall quake
Last Line: Shall sing for joy -- the lord is come!
Subject(s): Advent


HYMN: SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT: 2, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sun and moon and stars
Last Line: Your redemption draweth nigh!
Subject(s): Advent; Redemption


HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh saviour, is thy promise fled?
Last Line: Then come and reap thy harvest there!
Subject(s): Advent; Messiah


IF CHRIST SHOULD COME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If christ should come to my store to-day
Last Line: In our daily toil we would do our best.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgments; Second Advent; Second Coming Of Christ


IN THE PARISH REGISTER AT EVERTON, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Advent marriages doth deny
Last Line: Rogation bids thee to contain, %but trinity sets thee free again
Subject(s): Advent


IN THE PARISH REGISTER AT ST. MARY'S CHURCH, HORNSEA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When advent comes do thou refraine
Last Line: Yet at rogation thou must tarrie %till trinitie shall bid thee marry
Subject(s): Advent


SECOND COMING, by SAMUEL KATZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sheets whiten about him. From the dark
Last Line: To warm him from the cold hands of his age.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Second Advent; Nightmares; Second Coming Of Christ


SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The end of all things is at hand
Last Line: The end of all things is at hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Advent


THE CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How patient man is in his time
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature; Second Coming Of Christ


THE SECOND COMING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The saviour came. With trembling lips
Last Line: "so much for calvary!"" he said."
Subject(s): Europe; Religion; Second Advent; Theology; Second Coming Of Christ


WHEN WE ARE ALL ASLEEP, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he returns, and finds the world so drear
Last Line: "let them sleep on untroubled -- it is best."
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Death; Peace; Second Advent; Dead, The; Second Coming Of Christ