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Subject: CALVARY
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First Line: And would you tear it from their aching sight
Last Line: And cometh none with any hope of cheer?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Calvary


CALVARY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If he could doubt on his triumphant cross
Last Line: My god, my god! Why hast thou forsaken me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Calvary; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice


CALVARY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked alone to my calvary
Last Line: But never a cross my eyes could see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Calvary


CALVARY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow
Last Line: Are we to keep christ writhing on the cross!
Subject(s): Calvary; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


CALVARY, by JOHN ROTHSCHILD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Acres of crosses - wooden crosses - bleak
Last Line: Of folded arms in the menacing hour?
Subject(s): Calvary; Crosses; Crucifixion; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The


CALVARY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint incense from the lily goes
Last Line: (and where is calvary?)
Subject(s): Calvary; Dreams; Nightmares


CALVARY AND EASTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A song of sunshine through the rain
Last Line: Were just three days apart
Subject(s): Calvary;easter;holidays; The Resurrection


GOLGOTHA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone I stand upon the sacred height
Last Line: In shades of death, the light of life to find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Calvary


GOOD-FRIDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be hushed, my heart, remembering
Last Line: Full paid on calvary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Calvary; Catholic Church - Clergy; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Catholic Priests


IN NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the modern world, deformed and vast
Last Line: The monstrous secret that propels the stars.
Subject(s): Calvary; Life, Modern; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ON CALVARY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the shadow of the rood
Last Line: Bade him break his heart for love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Calvary


ON THE HEIGHTS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On pisgah each must stand
Last Line: The victim dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Calvary


OUR CALVARY, by CONSTANCE HOLM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tree
Last Line: At this, our calvary.
Subject(s): Calvary


RECOGNITION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When christ went up to calvary
Last Line: "of eden and gethsemane!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Calvary


REMEMBERING CALVARY, by ETHEL FANNING YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Help me to suffer when I most would spare
Last Line: Remembering calvary.
Subject(s): Calvary


SAINT JOHN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He loved you and you lay upon his breast
Last Line: Kept thee for very love on calvary
Subject(s): Calvary; Catholics; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; John The Apostle, Saint (1st Century); Martyrs


SINAI AND CALVARY, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two mountains hallowed
Last Line: The love of god to win.
Subject(s): Calvary; Sinai, Mount


STABAT MATER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The star that in his splendor hid her own
Last Line: On tearful calvary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Calvary; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary


THE BALLAD OF THE COMFORTING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary smiled on her little son
Last Line: Her torn heart beat again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Calvary; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth


THE CHARGE BY THE FORD, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eighty and nine with their captain
Last Line: Give them the roll of the drum!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Calvary; United States - History


THE CHILD ON CALVARY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cross is tall
Last Line: To kiss the holy ground.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Calvary


THE SYMBOL LOVE CHOSE; A RED CROSS POEM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love:--that sweet goddess of mercy
Last Line: He gave her this symbol of red.
Subject(s): Calvary; Cross, The; Crucifixion; Love; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology