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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came
Last Line: And all but me asleep!
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


A CHURCH IN NORTH WALES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blessings be round it still! That gleaming fane
Last Line: Within thy lowly walls, for evermore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Churches; Wales; Cathedrals; Welshmen; Welshwomen


A CONSECRATION FOR A NON-SECTARIAN CHURCH, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before this new-made altar, lord
Last Line: And god himself shall be the light.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Churches; God; Religion - Reformers; Temples; Cathedrals; Mosques


A COUNTRY CHURCH, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think god seeks this house, serenely white
Last Line: And christ grew up in rural galilee.
Subject(s): Churches; Country Life; Cathedrals


A MODERN PREACHER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a preacher of the modern sort
Last Line: And well reported in the daily press.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Religious Press; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators


A PARAPHRASE ON THE PRAYER, USED IN THE CHURCH LITURGY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It will bear the repeating again and again
Last Line: Of glory to god, and salvation to man.
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Prayer; Cathedrals


A PEN-PICTUR' OF A CERT'IN FRIVVOLUS OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most ontimely old man yit!
Last Line: "sich a fool-old-man as me!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Churches; Old Age; Childhood; Cathedrals


A REBUKE TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by A LADY [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "yes, southey, yes, I to the house of prayer"
Last Line: "to meet, with kindred man, the parent god"
Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady
Subject(s): "churches;public Worship;southey, Robert (1774-1843);" Cathedrals;church Attendance


A SERMON FROM THE PEW IN FRONT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a lesson you may learn
Last Line: Truthful, brave, and folly free?
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


A SUGJESCHUN TO THE SEXTANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sextant of the meetin house, we no
Last Line: Only dont shut the dores so soon.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer Meetings; Cathedrals


A VERMONT 'DONATION', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's funny how our ancestors
Last Line: With some deliberation.
Subject(s): Charity; Churches; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Preaching & Preachers; Vermont; Philanthropy; Cathedrals


A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 5, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this chapel those who kneel are bigger than those
Last Line: Strings the white meadowsweet, eyes who never close.
Subject(s): Churches; Faith; Prayer; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed


ACCOMPLISHMENT, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: One and twenty summers come and gone!
Last Line: Forgetful of accomplishment.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Preaching & Preachers; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


AD ASTRA: 167, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The church of christ must heal the world's unrest
Last Line: The glory and wonder of this world's romance!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


AD ASTRA: 173, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In catholicity there breathes a voice
Last Line: And all men's hearts be knit in christ again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Eucharist; Love; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology


ALL-SAINTS, by EDMUND YATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a church which is furnish'd with mullion and gable
Last Line: "oh, where is all-sinners', if this is all-saints'?"
Subject(s): Churches; Saints; Sin; Cathedrals


ALMANSOR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fair cordova's cathedral
Last Line: And the christian gods wail loudly.
Subject(s): Churches; Kisses; Lips; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


AN ABANDONED CHURCH, by HARRY TRUMBULL SUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They put me on this hill, a pleasant place
Last Line: Much as the cow that daily comes and grazes?
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


AN ENGLISH CHURCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells awake the sabbath's choral prime
Last Line: Is bodied forth in gentle rites and pure.
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Churches; Cathedrals


AN INCIDENT IN A CHURCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one whose eyes, by gleam of waters caught
Last Line: The symbol of the holiest death of all.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ANY COUNTRY CHURCH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A shaft of sunlight strikes, shines through
Last Line: And fellow-convicts 'neath one self-same sentence ... Death.
Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Easter; Holidays; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; The Resurrection; Sunday


AT CHURCH, by CORA BABBITT JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The preacher preached from a pulpit
Last Line: And I knew that god lived there.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


AT NANKING - 1937, by EMMA M. LARSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The new church at nanking had rose-red roof
Last Line: Grant pardon, god, for fair gift taken back.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


AT STE. THERESE, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quaint stiff metres of olden france?
Last Line: Over the lombardy poplar trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan
Subject(s): Canada; Churches; France; Canadians; Cathedrals


AT TENNENT CHURCH, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As on the summer sabbath that saw the roll
Last Line: This spot is hallowed ground.
Subject(s): Churches; Monmouth, Battle Of (1778); Cathedrals


AT THE CHURCH DOOR, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is it sweet to hear the church-bells ringing
Last Line: And seal the poem with a noble rhyme!
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


BACH'S B MINOR MASS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The walgravian ancestors step inside trinity church
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Churches; Cathedrals


BALLAD OF THE BELLS, SELECTION, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah! What joy, the bagpipe and the flute touch our hearts
Last Line: Then in quaint pattern guarded them from sight.
Subject(s): Bells; Brides; Churches; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BEACON LIGHTS, by NELLIE E. WARREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: An airport and a beacon-light shining
Last Line: "shall be given to wear the crown."
Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


BELLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the bells ring every day
Last Line: Is glad to have them there.
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday


BETWEEN TWO STOOLS, by JOHN HEATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ned will not keep the jewish sabbath, not he
Last Line: He halts betwixt them both and so keeps neither.
Subject(s): Churches; Jews; Religious Freedom; Cathedrals; Judaism


BROTHERLY LOVE; OR, THE SITE OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a sweet traditionary tale
Last Line: Each with the golden sheaves within his arms.
Subject(s): Brothers; Churches; Family Life; Harvest; Love - Nature Of; Half-brothers; Cathedrals; Relatives


BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands
Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean


BY AUGHNA BRAE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I mind the burn; I mind the brae
Last Line: Thon spire by aughna brae!
Subject(s): Churches; Memory; Prayer; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday


CAMPUS ETCHING, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chapel tower that lifts against the sky
Last Line: Rapt in high song and austere orisons.
Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Singing & Singers; Soul; Cathedrals; Theology


CANDLELIGHT, by NORA HEFLEY MAHON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a potency in candlelight
Last Line: That seem so hallowed by the watch they keep.
Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Cathedrals


CARPE DIEM, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a time for all things, sweet!
Last Line: And mourn lost blisses.
Subject(s): Churches; Death; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Roses; Worship; Cathedrals; Dead, The


CATHEDRAL, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One by one the bells have broken their music
Last Line: And sun beats down beyond the broken door
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


CATHEDRAL, by GERALDINE FAY GAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walk, enrapt, through shadow-sheltered shrines
Last Line: And benediction is the wind's low sigh.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


CATHEDRAL BUILDERS, by JOHN ORMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They climbed on sketchy ladders towards god
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, by FLORA D. GRIERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Majestic city of the western world
Last Line: Cathedral of st. John divine.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


CATHEDRAL TOWERS, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw cathedral towers
Last Line: To worship evermore.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


CATHEDRAL WOODS, by AUGUSTA WRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: On sunday morning I leave town
Last Line: I pray in church of god.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Cathedrals


CHELSEA, 1860, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When old canute the dane
Last Line: From chelsea's student train.
Subject(s): Churches; Hudson River; New York City; Cathedrals; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


CHEMIN DE FER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A chapel has fallen into ruins
Last Line: Its severed goose-wing of snow.
Subject(s): Churches; Dreams; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Ruins; Saints; Cathedrals; Nightmares


CHRIST CHURCH, by EDWIN B. RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gray spire, that from the ancient street
Last Line: That cannot change, nor pass away.
Subject(s): Boston; Churches; Cathedrals


CHRISTMAS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis christmas day! 'tis christmas day!
Last Line: And christmas carols sing.
Subject(s): Bells; Christianity; Christmas Carols; Churches; Happiness; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Songs


CHURCH BELLS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is hushed; the street is holy ground
Last Line: His heart lies warm among his triple hills!
Subject(s): Bells; Boston; Churches; Cathedrals


CHURCH GOING, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I am sure there's nothing going on
Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


CHURCHES, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those stately structures which on earth I view
Last Line: Unto his temple, 'cause 'tis nearer home.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


CLEVEDON CHURCH, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward I watch the low green hills of wales
Last Line: And all his waves complain.
Subject(s): Churches; Clevedon, Great Britain; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Cathedrals


CLEVEDON VERSES: 1. HALLAM'S CHURCH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grassy field, the lambs, the nibbling sheep
Last Line: And spreads itself, and moans upon the roof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Churches; Clevedon, Great Britain; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Cathedrals


CONFESSION, by EDNA S. MCKINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat in church, the opening hymn was sung
Last Line: And so I spent my hour with god.
Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Sea; Trees; Cathedrals; Ocean


CONTRASTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the tall church steeples
Last Line: Grow deeper as years roll by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


COUNTRY CHURCH, by ALICE M. FERGUSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside the dusty road it towers high
Last Line: As does the humble little country church.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


DEDICATION, by REBECCA FUSFELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: My fount of beauty this year, oh god
Last Line: Of thy teachings.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Religious Education; Worship; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


DEDICATION, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We dedicate a church today
Last Line: To thee this church we dedicate.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Cathedrals


DEDICATION HYMN, CONSECRATION OF HANOVER ST. CHURCH, BOSTON, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The perfect world by adam trod
Last Line: "a humbler temple, ""made with hands."
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


DISGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pills? Talk to me of your pills? Well, that, I must say, is cool
Last Line: Suppose I should think of it, surely? But anyhow -- there -- I won't.
Subject(s): Calvinists; Churches; God; Sea; Suicide; Cathedrals; Ocean


DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking like raphael's perugino, eyes
Last Line: The two priests rose and left the room together.
Subject(s): Absolution; Churches; Clergy; Love; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 17. PLACES OF WORSHIP, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As star that shines dependent upon star
Last Line: Find solace which a busy world disdains.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 38. NEW CHURCHES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But liberty, and triumphs on the main
Last Line: That vale or hill prolongs or multiplies!
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 39. CHURCH TO BE ERECTED (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be this the chosen site; the virgin soil
Last Line: That shall protect from blasphemy the land.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 40. CHURCH TO BE ERECTED (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine ear has rung, my spirit sunk subdued
Last Line: Creep round its arms through centuries unborn.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 42. NEW CATHEDRALS, ETC., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open your gates, ye everlasting piles!
Last Line: Isis and cam, to patient science dear!
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ECHO AND THE FERRY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven
Last Line: Comes after -- with laughter comes after.
Subject(s): Children; Churches; Echo (mythology); Ferry Boats; Childhood; Cathedrals


ECHO IN A CHURCH, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall my troubled soul at large
Last Line: Echo. I am.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


EIDOLON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, sweet-eyed christ! Thy image smiles
Last Line: "and one word—""leonie!"
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ENGRAVEN ON A COLUMN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: View not this spire by measure given
Last Line: While deathless charity remains.
Subject(s): Churches; Death; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism


EXPECTATION, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fleet wheels had whirled for us, deep hedge-rows threading
Last Line: Swooped startled, as a bell began to—toll.
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salt is pity, brooms are fury
Last Line: The other half are mirrors
Subject(s): Churches; Mirrors; Salt; Cathedrals


FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome'
Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes.
Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


FAREWELL TO AN ANCIENT CHURCH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, thou consecrated dome
Last Line: Dear, venerated dome, farewell!
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


FIDELIA ARGUING WITH HER SELF ON THE DIFFICULTY FINDING TRUE RELIGION, by JANE BARKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Oh wretched world, but wretched above all
Last Line: In pennance my baptismal vows renew.
Subject(s): Churches; Life; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


FIRMILIAN; A TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three hours of study - and what gain thereby?
Last Line: Curtain descends.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Churches; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Magic; Plays & Playwrights ; Cathedrals; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists


FLORIDA FRIDAY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Florida with flora, brighter than a prize
Last Line: Florida flashes on the best of fridays
Subject(s): Florida; Churches; Cathedrals


FOODS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My roof is slate, my windows look
Last Line: No heart knows.
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Food & Eating; Hearts; Cathedrals


FOR THE ALTARPIECE OF THE ROSEAU VALLEY CHURCH, SAINT LUCIA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chapel, as the pivot of this valley
Subject(s): Churches; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Cathedrals


FRAGMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The candle's tallow
Last Line: It will faint and expire
Subject(s): Churches;death;prayer; "cathedrals;dead, The;


GLORIES, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the half open door
Last Line: Jostling to-day's glory of the west.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


GOTHIC CATHEDRAL, by CLARENCE L. HAYNIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know that god himself inspired the man
Last Line: Like hands that clasp above the breast in prayer.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


HALF-AND-HALF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You can't be, says a palestinian christian
Last Line: She is leaving nothing out.
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Palestine; Prayer; Ramadan; Cathedrals


HERE IS MUSIC: LIP-SERVICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In shocked surprise
Last Line: At peace, long since, with god.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mouths; Protestantism; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators


HIS MOTHER'S WAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tomps 'ud allus haf to say
Last Line: "it was mother's way."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Churches; Mothers; Cathedrals


HOLDEN CHURCH AND CEMETERY (KENYON, MINNESOTA), by GERTRUDE HANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today my feet have walked on sacred sod
Last Line: The heritage they left has timeless worth.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Churches; Pioneers; Graveyards; Cathedrals


HYMN FOR THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP AT GEORGETOWN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou dwellest not, o lord of all!
Last Line: And bless it for a mother's sake!
Subject(s): Churches; Mothers; Cathedrals


HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH, ST. PAUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things are thine: no gift have we
Last Line: To lead us from ourselves to thee!
Variant Title(s): Church Dedication
Subject(s): Churches; St. Paul, Minnesota; Cathedrals


HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF THOMAS STARR KING'S HOUSE OF WORSHIP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst these glorious works of thine
Last Line: The seamless robe that jesus wore.
Subject(s): Churches; King, Thomas Starr (1824-1864); Cathedrals


IN A CATHEDRAL CITY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These people have not heard your name
Last Line: The spot's unconsciousness of you!
Subject(s): Churches; Love; Cathedrals


IN A CHAPEL, by VERNA CLAIRE SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why is it that I seek
Last Line: I call my world -- subdued, or gone entirely.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


IN A CHURCH OF PADUA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In vaulted place where shadows flit
Last Line: Where more is hid than found.
Subject(s): Churches; Padua, Italy; Cathedrals


IN AN ALMSHOUSE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the dear summer evening! How the air
Last Line: You'll know that some day, maybe. Now begins....
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


IN AND OUT OF CHURCH, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dogma-dealer, talking treason
Last Line: And more just.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Churches; Social Protest; Cathedrals


IN APRIL ONCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Guido: thou are the knightliest jailer that ever stood
Last Line: Voice of the madman. Son of david, have mercy on us!
Subject(s): April; Churches; Florence, Italy; God; Plays & Playwrights; Popes; Prisons & Prisoners; Cathedrals; Papacy


IN CHURCH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the choir the boys are singing the hymn
Last Line: Of our sabbath, suffusing our sacred day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


IN ONE OF ITALY'S CATHEDRALS, by LAVINIA R. CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: In one of italy's cathedrals, vast-domed
Last Line: Seems beating out a prayer.
Subject(s): Churches; Humanity; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


IN SANCTUARY, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the lone floor of the rayless night
Last Line: And lo! The clear east all climbing rose.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sanctuaries; Cathedrals


IN THE CATHEDRAL, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before me the sexton's daughter fair
Last Line: From her bosom her kerchief had slipped.
Subject(s): Churches; Daughters; Cathedrals


IN THE OLD CATHEDRAL, by TRUDIE K. HOWREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: With anguished heart I entered its great door
Last Line: And yet -- I knew that I was not alone!
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


IN TROQUEER CHURCHYARD, by WILLIAM MCDOWALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, hoary ash! Whose hallow'd shade
Last Line: And claim the imperishable crown.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN CROSTHWAITE CHURCH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye vales and hills whose beauty hither drew
Last Line: Calmed in his soul the fear of change and death.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


INTERLUDE, by MARJORIE EASTWOOD DUDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bread of the world,' the choir sang
Last Line: Crept 'round the sculptured virgin's feet.
Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Clergy; Eucharist; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Communion; Church Attendance


IT ISN'T THE CHURCH - IT'S YOU, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you want to have the kind of a church
Last Line: It isn't the church -- it's you
Subject(s): Churches;public Worship; Cathedrals;church Attendance


L'ANGE PLEUREUR (AMIENS CATHEDRAL), by ALICE COLE KLEENE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Boy angel, what carved sorrow must you keep
Last Line: Whose garment changes, but he does not change.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


LAST POEMS: SONNET 4. TO ... IN CHURCH, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I was drawn here from a distant place
Last Line: And I confess it by adoring you.
Subject(s): Churches; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Cathedrals


LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do
Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship; Cathedrals; Relatives; Clemency


LIFE'S CATHEDRAL, by M. C. HAECKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Faith is a cathedral grand
Last Line: Is verily the life divine.
Subject(s): Churches; Faith; God; Praise; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Theology


LINNA, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The church was heavy with the deep sweet scent of / roses
Last Line: Amen.
Subject(s): Churches; Death; Household Employees; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids


LONDON CHURCHES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood, one sunday morning
Last Line: She sighed, and crept away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Adversity; Churches; London; Cathedrals


LOVE TO THE CHURCH, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love thy kingdom, lord
Last Line: And brighter bliss of heaven.
Variant Title(s): Psalm 137
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Prayer; Reformation; Cathedrals


LOVE'S COSMOPOLITAN;(DEDICATED TO CATHEDRAL OF ST. PAUL THE TENTMAKER), by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apostle, citizen, and artisan!
Last Line: Ambassador of god, great-hearted jew!
Subject(s): Churches; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Cathedrals; Saul Of Tarsus


LOVES ADVENTURE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love once a wooing went, & tride
Last Line: His nuptiall feast princelike to solemnize.
Subject(s): Churches; Courtship; God; Cathedrals


LUBBERLU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green were her eyes, - yellow were her eyes
Last Line: Over the hills and away.
Subject(s): Bible; Candles; Churches; Eyes; Jesus Christ; Lips; Cathedrals


MADAME METTE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Says bender to peter over their wine
Last Line: And lost my true dog also
Subject(s): Churches;death;drinks & Drinking;singing & Singers; "cathedrals;dead, The;


MADONNA DI CAMPAGNA..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Madonna di campagna is the name
Last Line: Whom the madonna gathers for repose?
Subject(s): Churches; Roads; Cathedrals; Paths; Trails


MARGARET SLACK AND THE PRINCE OF WALES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "you mothers and fathers, I hope you'll attend"
Last Line: And look to the rights of margaret slack
Subject(s): Babies;churches;love;wales; Infants;cathedrals;welshmen;welshwomen


MAY SUNDAY, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bells would be good if they could keep their place
Last Line: That break the deep enchantment of this hour!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Prayer; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday


MEDITATION IN CHURCH (TO MY MOTHER), by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The soft, clear tones of organ heard
Last Line: All these and more, thou art to me.
Subject(s): Churches; Meditation; Prayer; Cathedrals


MILAN CATHEDRAL, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through light green haze, a rolling sea
Last Line: Except to signify the host of heaven.
Subject(s): Churches; Milan, Italy; Cathedrals


MORWENNAE STATIO, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My saxon shrine! The only ground
Last Line: The changeless god's eternal fane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


MY TEMPLE, by NICOLAI MAKSIMOVICH VILENKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who rears a temple, rears two monuments
Last Line: And in their vanguard death, who shall prevail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Minsky, N.; Minsky, Nicolai Maksimovich
Subject(s): Churches; Death; Temples; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Mosques


NEW CHURCHES, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think god loves new churches [or, temples] built to him
Last Line: He kneels and holds the first communion there.
Variant Title(s): New Temples
Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Church Attendance


NORTH LAKE, by ALEXANDER HYND LINDSAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O you star-strewn stream of placid blue
Last Line: Is beauty shimmering in an emerald frame.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour
Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks


NOTRE DAME DE ROUEN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, as the vesper chant
Last Line: Victor and king!
Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


OLD CATHEDRAL, by WINIFRED WARNER KOONTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love an old cathedral
Last Line: To drop in, as I pass.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


OLD CHURCH IN AN ENGLISH PARK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowning a flowery slope, it stood alone
Last Line: Reigned there, the o'ershadowing spirit of the scene.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ON A CERTAIN SPINSTER WHO LINGERED IN CHURCH, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not hers the hungry gaze of souls unwed
Last Line: And needs must wait till each have said his prayer.
Subject(s): Churches; Despair; Prayer; Cathedrals


ON A DESECRATED CHAPEL NEAR LAUSANNE, NOW USED AS A STABLE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by a brook, whose stream lake leman feeds
Last Line: Of saints, that floor hoof-trampled and uptorn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Churches; Lausanne, Switzerland; Stables; Cathedrals


ON A NEW CHURCH, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shallow chancel, scarce six feet by ten
Last Line: The world's devotion by the chancel span.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


ON A SERMON PREACH'ED ON ... 'YOU HAVE SOLD YOUR SELVES FOR NAUGHT', by SARAH FYGE EGERTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With grotius on new-testament yo've done
Last Line: We scarcely know your pulpit from the bench.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah
Subject(s): Churches; Devil; Sermons; Cathedrals; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


ON A SPANISH CATHEDRAL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod
Last Line: With a reverence not to be bought, and a tenderness deeper than tears.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ON A WINDOW IN DONINGTON CHURCH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest, if they but knew it, how blest they are
Last Line: And for such sowers all the year is spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Churches; Windows; Cathedrals


ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple
Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky!
Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips


ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imperial iffley, cumnor bowered in green
Last Line: "even here remember me when thou shalt reign."
Subject(s): Churches; Oxford, England; Cathedrals


ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 3. AT COMMUNION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still must the implacable road lie dark and bare
Last Line: Though still thy hid communion serves me best.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Churches; Eucharist; Religion; Catholic Priests; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology


ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 4. AT A PROCESSION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the now redeem us into now!
Last Line: Yet time that is not now were but a dream.
Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


ON TRINITY SUNDAY (2), by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One god the father - certainly this term
Last Line: Will find in their true, single hearts a place.
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Faith; Holy Ghost; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Holy Spirit; Theology


ON VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH OF GRUYERE IN SWITZERLAND, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where gruyere's castle, rearing still on high
Last Line: Alone uncared for, crumbling to decay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Castles; Churches; Poverty; Switzerland; Wealth; Cathedrals; Swiss; Riches; Fortunes


ORGAN SONGS: A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, in the steeple the dull bell swinging
Last Line: Straight will arise in sorrow and song!
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Churches; Nativity, The; Cathedrals


ORGAN SONGS: TO A. J. SCOTT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked all night: the darkness did not yield
Last Line: Yet hear æolian sighs from thin chords blown?
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Dawn; Hope; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Optimism


OUR LADY'S CHAPEL; A LEGEND OF COBLENTZ, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er has crossed the mosel bridge
Last Line: Only light up one taper at a time.
Subject(s): Churches; Coblentz, Germany; Cathedrals


OUR NEW CHURCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As yet no organ rolls - no prayer-bell rings
Last Line: To draw them lovingly to rites divine!
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


OUR OLD CENTER-TOWN VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around our center meetinghouse
Last Line: As our poor meetinghouse.
Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Public Worship; Social Problems; Vermont; Cathedrals; Church Attendance


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 4. THE FAITHLESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A church-bell in the dawn
Last Line: I too -- alas! -- sleep on.
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Faith; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed


PRAYER OF SERVICE, by MABEL A. HANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grant me the grace to feel
Last Line: Their bitter night to day.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


RELIGION, by RUTH FENISONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bright new church for god they made
Last Line: As though he cared!
Subject(s): Children; Churches; God; Childhood; Cathedrals


REPLY TO AN INVITATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Peter is the cornerstone
Last Line: In such a mackination.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE ABANDONED CHAPEL, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a pool it is reflected fair, where all the frogs to sing are fain, where
Last Line: By day when I have naught to do, at midnight when I bay the fays.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE NUNS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who at night the convent walls
Last Line: O'er the keys are wildly straying.
Subject(s): Churches; Faces; Love; Nuns; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness
Last Line: And inside each of them vault opened behind vault endlessly
Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Cathedrals; Journeys; Trips


ROSAMOND C. BAILEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou brave, good woman! Loved
Last Line: Of the old church, with mute prayers and amens.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals


ROSLIN AND HAWTHORNDEN, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair roslin chapel, how divine
Last Line: From nature's solemn altar-stair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


RUINED CHURCH, by F. W. BATESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No stirring: bristly thistles guard
Last Line: Where parson sermoned long ago.
Subject(s): Churches; Ruins; Cathedrals


RUNNING IN CHURCH, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then, you were a hot-thinking, thin-lidded tinderbox
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


SAINT HUBERT OF GAMBAISEUIL, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of school I'd need an overplus, more lore than is assumed ad lib by a
Last Line: Ambrosia may the gods deny to him who finds his art a task.
Subject(s): Churches; Love; Religion; Schools; Cathedrals; Theology; Students


SAINT NAZAIRE, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The church at carcassone is filled with ghosts
Last Line: With the dust of stars forever and forever.
Subject(s): Churches; Ghosts; Prayer; Religion; Saints; Supernatural; Cathedrals; Theology


SAN BERNARDINO: CHAPEL OF SAN GABRIEL, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long one strays with dreamful fancies that they heart
Last Line: As if faith were shaken in the resurrection of the dead.
Subject(s): Churches; Missions & Missionaries; Saints; Cathedrals


SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 2. IN CHURCH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now to god the father,' he ends
Last Line: That had moved the congregation so.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have come to the church and chancel
Last Line: Where all's the same.
Subject(s): Churches; Love - Marital; Marriage; Cathedrals; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SIR OLAVE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of the cathedral
Last Line: "we plighted our vows of love tender."
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Life; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SOLEMN SANCTITY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some pious men are on this earth, who think
Last Line: Aisle and through the large cathedral door.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Praise; Prayer; Sanctuaries; Cathedrals


SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR, by JOHN UPDIKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels
Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones


ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I listen to the holy antheming
Last Line: Can rule thy stubborn feelings or can teach.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Churches; Hearts; Love; Saints; Cathedrals


ST. ANTHONY'S SERMON TO THE FISHES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: St. Anthony at church
Last Line: But preferred the old way
Subject(s): "anthony, Saint (250-355);churches;saints;sermons;" Cathedrals


ST. ARMORER'S CHURCH FROM THE OUTSIDE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Armorer's was once a great success
Subject(s): Churches; Christianity; Cathedrals


ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S, by GEORGE BANCROFT DUREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where but so short a while before had stood
Last Line: As that scarred cross mute pointing toward the sky.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ST. ISAAC'S CHURCH, PETROGRAD, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bow down my soul in worship very low
Last Line: Of man's divinity alive in stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Variant Title(s): Russian Cathedral
Subject(s): Churches; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Cathedrals; Leningrad; Petrograd


ST. MARY'S, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back to where the roses rest
Last Line: Of a prayer beneath a psalm.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


ST. MICHAEL'S CHAIR, AND WHO SAT THERE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Merrily, merrily rung the bells
Last Line: "in compliment to me."
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Death; Freedom; Marriage; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ST. SOPHIA, by H. S. GULLIVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was ever a soul of such wonderous style
Last Line: To the vast beyond where is god on high.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, by MABEL HALL GOLTRA    Poem Text                    
First Line: My house has many windows
Last Line: For the evening star to pass.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


STAR ISLAND CHURCH; ISLES OF SHOALS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray as the fog-wreaths over it blown
Last Line: Which are the ledges and which the walls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Churches; Islands; New Hampshire; Sea; Cathedrals; Ocean


SUNDAY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm always glad when sundays comes, and our
Last Line: Do not have to dodge or spurn the agent for a patent churn.
Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday


SUNDAY CHIMES IN THE CITY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the bridge, where in the morning blow
Last Line: Deploys her white and steady wing, alone.
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; London; Cathedrals


SUNRISE AT ST. LAURENCE CHURCH, by SUSIE E. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night hangs her sable curtain in the sky
Last Line: Are made into one body by the light of god.
Subject(s): Churches; Dawn; Night; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Bedtime


SURROUNDED, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly my suburb is surrounded by churches
Subject(s): Suburbs; Christianity; Churches; Cathedrals


THAT DAY, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke in a cold room
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE ARCHITECT (1), by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The only places I can find you
Last Line: Forms most faithfully the face of god.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Churches; Faith; Fathers & Daughters; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed


THE ASSIGNATION, OR LOVE IN A NUNNERY: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prologues, like bells to churches, toll you in
Last Line: Twas imitating you taught haynes to play.
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Clergy; Poetry & Poets; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 2. THE CHURCH, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a church?' - let truth and reason speak
Last Line: Regard the dead, but to the living live.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE BRIDE AND GROOM, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: True as magnet to the pole
Last Line: A happy groom and bride.
Subject(s): Churches; Happiness; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE CALL TO EVENING PRAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Allah ho akbar! Allah ho akbar!
Last Line: Naray'yana! Naray'yana!
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Virgin Mary; Theology


THE CATHEDRAL, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is a cathedral vast where thou
Last Line: And over all thy spirit broods supreme.
Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Prayer; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Church Attendance


THE CATHEDRAL IN TRONDHEIM, by JAKOB THORARENSEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here silent art, yet wise and watchful-eyed
Last Line: Are blended in majestic trinity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarn
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Infamous general, baron von plattenberg, if this song of love for my
Last Line: Barbarian!
Subject(s): Churches; France; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Songs


THE CATHEDRAL OF SWALLOWS, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who knows if god love these not more
Last Line: A huddle of houses, old, and brown.
Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Swallows; Cathedrals; Theology


THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my hall I stood; with sated eye
Last Line: Glory to god!—not all, not all is vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Vanity; Cathedrals


THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo I, the man who erst the muse did ask
Last Line: And roman rites retained, though roman faith be flown.
Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Monks; Rome, Italy; Cathedrals


THE CHAPEL OF TWO SAINTS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a famous tuscan city
Last Line: Of st. Peter and st. Paul!
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE CHILDREN'S CHURCH, by CARL GEROCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bells of the churches are ringing
Last Line: A breath in the infinite ear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gerok, Carl; Gerrock, Karl
Subject(s): Children; Churches; Childhood; Cathedrals


THE CHURCH, by ALICE B. NEAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clad in a robe of pure and spotless white
Last Line: Nor cast about her longing look, nor smile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Alice; Bradley, Emily
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE CHURCH, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank you for the food,' we said
Last Line: Candle of 'find it.' my life
Subject(s): Churches; Food & Eating; Cathedrals


THE CHURCH AND THE WEDDING, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll restore this old church for our marriage
Last Line: And then no more.
Subject(s): Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE CHURCH AT POLIGNAC, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kneel down in yon chapel, but only one prayer
Last Line: For, mercy, thy cause is the cause of mankind.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Churches; Polignac, Auguste De (1780-1847); Cathedrals


THE CHURCH BUILDER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The church flings forth a battled shade
Last Line: A cheaper gallows-tree!'
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE CHURCH FLOORE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark you the floore? That square & speckled stone
Last Line: Could build so strong in a weak heart.
Variant Title(s): The Church-floor
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE CHURCH IN 1849, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mighty mother, hearken! For thy foes
Last Line: A fisher on the lake of galilee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Sin; Cathedrals


THE CHURCH OF A DREAM; TO BERNHARD BERENSON, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind
Last Line: Melancholy remembrances and vesperal.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE CHURCH OF BROU, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the savoy valleys sounding
Last Line: The rustle of the eternal rain of love.
Subject(s): Hunting; Death; Churches; Youth; Graves; Hunters; Dead, The; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones


THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, SEEN FROM THE LAKE OF LUGANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sacred pile! Whose turrets rise
Last Line: Of fatal austrian spears.
Subject(s): Alps; Churches; Lugano (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Tell, William; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Cathedrals; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE CHURCH PORCH, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sparrows underneath thine eaves
Last Line: One little pipe for thy delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Churches; God; Humility; Prayer; Sparrows; Cathedrals


THE CHURCH STEPS, by GEORGE T. FOSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two centuries of steps and then
Last Line: And home of light.
Subject(s): Churches; Heaven; Cathedrals; Paradise


THE CHURCH TODAY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outwardly splendid as of old
Last Line: Like the dead moon, she still shines on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Churches; Moon; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


THE CHURCH WINDOWS, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word?
Last Line: And in the ear, not conscience, ring.
Variant Title(s): The Windows
Subject(s): Churches; Worship; Cathedrals


THE CHURCHYARD IN THE WOLD, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered far in the wold
Last Line: In a god whom no man knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Churches; God; Cathedrals


THE CLIFF CHURCH: (WEMBURY), by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here stand I
Last Line: To eternity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Churches; Devonshire, England; Cathedrals


THE DEAD CHURCH, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild, wild wind, wilt thou never cease thy sighing?
Last Line: Thy tears shall wake her frozen limbs to life and health again.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE DESERTED SHRINE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the temple for a people's need
Last Line: Of love that on forsaken hearts abide.
Subject(s): Churches; Decay; Ruins; Shrines; Temples; Cathedrals; Rot; Decadence; Mosques


THE DEVIL'S DUE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arsenius, priest of god, I tell
Last Line: The church their love built waits for them.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Churches; Labor & Laborers; Socialism; Cathedrals; Work; Workers


THE DOORS, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doors were oak, massive
Subject(s): Doors; Churches; Salome (1st Century A.d.); John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Cathedrals


THE ENGLISH FARM-LABORER'S SUNDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds are sweet that sweep to-day
Last Line: Each day in all the seven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Churches; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Sunday


THE FORESIDE MEETING HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The meeting house belies its age today
Last Line: When we are memories.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Prayer; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday


THE FOUR BRIDGES, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love this grey old church, the low, long nave
Last Line: Nor sleep so sweet: -- the word was -- eglantine.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Grief; Landscape; Love; Soul; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HOLY EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the immense cathedral of the holy earth
Last Line: Upon her myriad altars flames the one sacred fire.
Subject(s): Churches; Earth; God; Cathedrals; World


THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He wraps his scarf around my neck
Last Line: That howling will chew up your soul!
Subject(s): Advice; Animals; Bells; Children; Churches; Paranoia; Rabbits; Relationships; Childhood; Cathedrals; Hares


THE IVY COVERED CHURCH, by JAMES C. HAUPT    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's an ivy - covered church that I love dearly
Last Line: Our sins and shame on calvary.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE JUBILEE OF 1850, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless god, ye happy lands
Last Line: She was our lady's dower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Churches; England; Ireland; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; English; Irish; Theology


THE KIRK OF LAMINGTON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As cauld a wind as ever blew
Last Line: Ye'se a' be het e'er I come back.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE LANDMARK, by EULA GLADYS LINCOLN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old church stands beside the road
Last Line: Shall raze it to the ground.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE LITTLE CHURCH, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little church of long ago, where as a boy
Last Line: The joy of once more sitting in that church of long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER, by A. E. LANCASTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring him not here where our sainted feet
Last Line: Some little church round the corner.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE LIVING TEMPLE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in the world of light alone
Last Line: And mould it into heavenly forms!
Subject(s): Churches; Worship; Cathedrals


THE LONELY CHURCH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It stood among the chestnuts, its white spire
Last Line: To guide the living and to guard the dead.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE MARTINS IN THE CHURCH-TOWER, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We build our nests in the old church-tower
Last Line: In the old church-tower where the martins dwell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Churches; Martins; Cathedrals


THE OLD CHURCH, by LEILA RUSH KEMP    Poem Text                    
First Line: The massive walls seem to scorn the rage
Last Line: A peaceful refuge from all cares and strife.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE OLD CHURCH, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It lifteth its gray old spire from the heart of the busy town
Last Line: Of the hallelujahs rising in that temple of the lord.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Graves; Prayer; Sabbath; Temples; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday; Mosques


THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Palid and cold as the morning star
Last Line: And taming its raging waves.
Subject(s): Churches; Churchyards; Graves; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer Meetings; Worship; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones


THE OLD OLD CHURCH (FOR IRISH CHURCHMEN), by J. DE B. SAUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old old church of the old old faith!
Last Line: Bespeak our ancestry.
Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Irish


THE OLD STONE CHURCH, by FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old stone church, time-worn and gray
Last Line: The pastor and his flock repose.
Subject(s): Churches; New Jersey; Cathedrals


THE PARDONED SIN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up the worn steps and through the ivied porch
Last Line: "have washed away all record of thy sin!"
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Confessions; Forgiveness; God; Sin; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Clemency


THE PARSON AT FAULT, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A country parson took a notion
Last Line: "I have it not, I'll take my oath."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Cathedrals


THE PASSING OF THE OLD VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I go up and down these days
Last Line: Of course, must pass away.
Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Vermont; Cathedrals


THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE CHAPEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like one who leaves the trampled street
Last Line: The blessed peace that follows pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Churches; Life; Pain; Cathedrals; Suffering; Misery


THE PRAYER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of them that sit within the gate
Last Line: To know it pinchbeck at the last!
Subject(s): Churches; Faith; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Theology


THE PRAYER OF RUSBROCHIUS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O merciful lord! By the good which thou art
Last Line: Be thou the sole cause, the one reason of all!
Subject(s): Churches; God; Mercy; Prayer; Ruysbroeck, Jan Van (1293-1381); Cathedrals; Rusbrochius, Ioannis; Ruusbroec, Jan Van


THE RABBI'S VISION, by FRANCES BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ben levi sat with his books alone
Last Line: "but—""beware of broken vows!"
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Jews; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism


THE REVERSE OF THE GOLDEN SHIELD (AN EASTER MORNING REVERIE), by WILL MAJOR MAUPIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along the chancel rail, and on the altar stair
Last Line: Starve, and within the shadow of his church to-day.
Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Flowers; God; Holidays; Lilies; Prayer; Cathedrals; The Resurrection


THE ROAD TO CHURCH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rutted by wheels and scarred by hoofs
Last Line: Which they shall walk no more.
Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Roads; Cathedrals; Theology; Paths; Trails


THE RUINS OF SETON CHAPEL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beautiful the powerful, and the proud
Last Line: The pride and insignificance of man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Prayer; Ruins; Worship; Cathedrals


THE SCATTERED CONGREGATION, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We got ready and showed our home
Subject(s): Churches; Men; Cathedrals


THE SEXTON AND THE THERMOMETER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A building there is, well known, I conjecture
Last Line: "so, if you take the joke, why, I'll take the dollar!"
Subject(s): Churches; Janitors; Jokes; Thermometers; Cathedrals


THE SNOWDROP MONUMENT (IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL), by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marvels of sleep, grown cold!
Last Line: For when we wake -- with thee -- we shall be satisfied.'
Subject(s): Churches; Lips; Love; Monuments; Silence; Sleep; Cathedrals


THE SWALLOW'S NEST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the church with pray'r go by
Last Line: God dwelleth too.
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Churches; God; Swallows; Cathedrals


THE SWEEPER OF THE FLOOR, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought that in a solemn church I stood
Last Line: It is the lord! I cried, and saw no more.
Subject(s): Churches; Cleanliness; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Theology


THE THANK-OFFERING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Overbeck, the forest preacher
Last Line: "loveth god, alone."
Subject(s): Churches; New York City - Colonial Period; Praise; Rain; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


THE TWO CHURCH-BUILDERS; AN ITALIAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A famous king would build a church
Last Line: "the pious widow's name!"
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE VILLAGE CHURCH, by WARREN HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: To all the country-side a landmark fair
Last Line: Ye are the temple of the holy ghost.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THE VIRGIN OF SAINT MARK'S; THE SACRISTAN'S STORY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hid in a secret recess
Last Line: Keeps watch forevermore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Venice, Italy; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Virgin Mary


THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS; ADDRESSED TO TWO SWALLOWS .. DURING SERVICE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gay, guiltless pair
Last Line: And nature's own great god adore.
Subject(s): Birds; Churches; Swallows; Worship; Cathedrals


THE WORD SHE REMEMBERED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You remember the sermon you heard, my / dear?'
Last Line: To meet each cross with a happy song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Sermons; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


THIS, THY DAY, by RUTH CRARY CLOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through monumental windows of stained glass
Last Line: The worthy pastor knows... For love of him.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


THOUGHTS IN A CATHEDRAL, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, not with these thy priesthood dwells
Last Line: With these thy holy priesthood dwells.
Variant Title(s): In A Cathedral
Subject(s): Churches; Creation; God; Nature; Spring; Cathedrals


TO A PRIEST, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have listened to your profession of faith
Last Line: What manner of god is this that you have made in your own image?
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Religion; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology


TO AN UNFINISHED CHURCH, by BEULAH H. LYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where once a simple dwelling stood, your walls
Last Line: Forbid your roof to ever shut god out!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Cathedrals


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING AFTER CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunday morning just after church -- and a light warm
Last Line: Teeth.
Subject(s): Churches; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. YORK MINISTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Solid and ghostly in the pale winter morning
Last Line: To sit and sing—for pure joy simply to sit and sing!
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Democracy; God; Humanity; Nations; Cathedrals


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ARENZANO, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the great church over the little fishing-village
Last Line: And join the ave maria, ave, ave.
Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Religion; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Theology


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now fifty years through wind and sun and rain
Last Line: We shall perchance awaken.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Churches; Gold; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A VILLAGE CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stump of oak - a huge old ruin of a tree, shored up with props
Last Line: The peacock flew from its tree overhead to the east and into the night.
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Clergy; History; Mankind; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Human Race


TRINITY CHIMES: ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of the indian summer
Last Line: Who had no time for prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Heaven; Prayer; Trinity, The; Cathedrals; Paradise


TWO BACKGROUNDS: 1. LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR, by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here by the ample river's argent sweep
Last Line: Long years of peace and dreamless plenitude.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Churches; Cathedrals


UNORTHODOX, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not want to go to church that easter morning
Last Line: Of the resurrection morn.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


VERSES ON CLERGY PREACHING POLITICS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Indeed, sir peter, I could wish, I own
Last Line: If these good folks would keep within their tether!
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Churches; Cathedrals


VESPERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I leave the city behind me
Last Line: And the thrushes sing their hymn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Cathedrals; Theology


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 5. ON SIMONY, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw'st thou ever siquis patch'd on pauls church door
Last Line: For this thy base and seruile symonie.
Subject(s): Churches; Death; Cathedrals; Dead, The


VIRGIN IN GLASS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little virgin, fitted out in white
Last Line: Not wholly free
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


WEDDED, BUT NOT MATED, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wedding bells and death-knells
Last Line: The bells have ceased to swing.
Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Marriage; Wedding Song; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium


WHAT CHRI'MAS FETCHED THE WIGGINSES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter-time, er summertime
Last Line: "n' take the town o' chinkypin!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Churches; Summer; Winter; Nativity, The; Cathedrals


WHY ARE THEY SHUT?, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why are our churches shut with jealous care
Last Line: Why are they shut?
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sabbath; Sin; Soul; Cathedrals; Sunday


WRITTEN IN THE PORCH OF BINSTEAD CHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, sweet binstead! Take a fond farewell
Last Line: The soul to god, in reverential praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Churches; Farewell; God; Cathedrals; Parting


WRITTEN IN WINTERBORNE CAME CHURCH, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not use to listen well
Last Line: And climb the pulpit-stair.
Subject(s): April; Barnes, William (1801-1886); Churches; Poetry & Poets; Cathedrals


WRITTEN ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go thou and seek the house of prayer!
Last Line: And ponders on the world to come.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


YOUTH, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not theirs to question or to hesitate
Last Line: Gird thou our sinews and our souls to go!
Subject(s): Churches; God; Religion; Youth; Cathedrals; Theology