|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CATHOLICS Matches Found: 152 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods my master went Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880. Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology A CATHOLIC TO HIS ULSTER BROTHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no bond of blood to you, my brother? Last Line: "lead on! Or follow, o my irish brother." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Catholics; Ireland; Ulster, Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Irish A CERTAIN CREDITOR, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, there was a certain creditor Last Line: A sum whose total I shall never know. Subject(s): Catholics; Debt; Prayer; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Theology A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE SIXTH PEARLE. JUSTICE, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: Her justice next appears, which did support Last Line: Are the maine pillers of romes hierarchy. Subject(s): Catholics; Fables; Justice; Pearls; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Allegories A CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me at christmas time and Last Line: Within her tiny, crumpled hand I touched the mighty hand of god! Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The A SHADOW OF TRUTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a wondrous vision - a dream, but not of night Last Line: "when the base fiend expediency o'ercomes the seraph right!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Catholics - England; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict A STREET MELODY, by BELLE COOPER Poem Text First Line: A song soars from a sordid city street Last Line: Assisi lifts her towers to heaven again. Subject(s): Catholics; Italy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Italians ACTS: 1. AT MORNING, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I offer thee Last Line: My god, I offer thee. Subject(s): Catholics; God; Prayer; Roman Catholics; Catholicism 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 AD MATREM COELIS, by LINDA LYON VAN VOORHIS Poem Source First Line: The subtle tracery of the leafless bough Last Line: Who, knowing stars, was fearless of the night Subject(s): Catholics AFTERMATH, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the fields where thou hadst mown in summertide Last Line: If her feet have hallowed for an aftermath? Subject(s): Catholics; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise AMBERGRIS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Caught in the cobblestones, her heel Last Line: And the great barrier reef --%knocked, bone on bone Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States AN EASTER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden sun climbs up the sky Last Line: God sends thee easter day! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Prayer; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection AN INCIDENT, by FREDERICK TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the lord's table waiting, robed and stoled Last Line: At his own holy table, face to face! Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism ARCH OF SANCTIFICATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could use a dove in my heart Last Line: It's to taunt, to beg them to speak Subject(s): Arches; Catholics; Churches; God; Religion; Spirituality AUNT JANEY VISITED BY THE SPIRIT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: It was a hot Last Line: In my arms Subject(s): Aunts; Catholics; Churches; Preaching And Preachers AVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of the fair delight Last Line: O mary virgin, full of grace! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary BELLES LETTRES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: She had learned %to sip tea from a glass Last Line: They'd called it a 'vestibule,' %which made her love words Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States BOOMERS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: This is the last fallout shelter poem Last Line: Clinging to half-lives, as we are now Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States BORN IN NOVEMBER, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Season of evenings always gray and backlit Last Line: She will always love november Subject(s): Catholics; Holidays; November; Thanksgiving; Winter BRIER; GOOD FRIDAY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because, dear christ, your tender, wounded arm Last Line: The crown of thorns upon your bleeding brow Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Catholics; Humanity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Selfishness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism BRITANNIA REDIVIVA; A POEM ON BIRTH OF JAMES PRINCE OF WALES, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our vows are heard betimes! And heaven take care Last Line: Nor hopes nor fears your steady hand beguile; your self our balance hold, the world's our isle Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) BROADSIDE POSTED IN COUNTRY INN IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1655, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I hold as faith Last Line: Is catholick and wise Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics CALLING OF THE DISCIPLES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some jesus %has come on me Last Line: Laughing like god's fool %behind this jesus Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Religion CANA, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I walk the dog beside the sound Last Line: Just as the harbor waters turn to wine Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CATHOLIC BELLS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' I'm no catholic Last Line: The beginning and the end %of the ringing! Ring ring %ring ring ring ring ring! %catholic bells --! Subject(s): Bells; Catholics CATHOLIC HYMN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At morn - at noon - at twilight dim Last Line: With sweet hopes of thee and thine! Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism CAUTION HORSES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Hang their heads over the fence Last Line: Sweep the ground %at their feet Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CHERRY-RIPE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here you are again, on that shaky ladder in the south Last Line: Chose one more night without love and left me barren Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CHRIST BROUGHT HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Herod by his great cruelty Subject(s): Catholics; Mary I, Queen Of England (1516-1568) COMMUNICANTS, by J. C. EVANS Poem Text First Line: I know some lowly, cringing clods Last Line: Hung high against the blue. Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Eucharist; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Communion COMPOSING ON THE COMPUTER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I've learned to love the clicking of the keyboard -- Last Line: Background noise now for every poem Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CONFIRMATION DAY, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: O bernadette, the day I took your name Last Line: Please don't go back to france %we could have such a blast Subject(s): Catholics; Confirmation; Jesus Christ CONFIRMATION DAYS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Sitting around in a blue funk, idly Last Line: Which, come to think of it, would have explained a lot Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Clergy; Confirmation CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Can there be passion in a house Last Line: One calls out into the fields %the other comes Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States DEATH'S DETAILS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: She irons her mother's dress for the open casket Last Line: Into the shape of the neat collar she'll wear into the ground Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States DEDICATION, by VICTORIA SAFFELLE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Holy jesus, thou art born %for my sake on christmas morn Last Line: I will rise from death to thee Subject(s): Catholics DIVINA COMMEDIA (INTRODUCTORY POEMS): 1, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I seen at some cathedral door Last Line: While the eternal ages watch and wait. Variant Title(s): With The Ages Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism DOCKER, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, in the corner, staring at his drink Subject(s): Hate; Religious Discrimination; Catholics; Ireland EASTER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So death %being the harvest of god Last Line: Dupe, opening, shall find bats far gone with my sap Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Harvest; Holidays; Poverty EASTER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it risen?-spirit of earth Last Line: Spirit of heaven. Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection EASTER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there not one, when in the upper room Last Line: Even as around them fell the greeting, 'peace'? Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Easter; Holidays; Peace; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER DAY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Christ the lord is risen today Last Line: Hail him lord this easter day! Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Resurrection, The; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER HYDRANGEAS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: These potted pink hydrangeas Last Line: Please say yes Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 25. THE VIRGIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother! Whose virgin bosom was uncrost Last Line: Of high with low, celestial with terrene! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Virgin Subject(s): Catholics; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 33. THE REVIVAL OF POPERY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saintly youth has ceased to rule, discrowned Last Line: Runs through blind channels of an unknown tongue. Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism EPIGRAM BETWEEN A CATHOLIC DELEGATE AND HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ..., by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said his highness to ned, with that grim face of his Last Line: "you're forbidding enough, in all conscience, already!" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Dialogue Between A Catholic Delegate And Duke Of Cumberland Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism EPITHALAMION, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The carpenters came %who invited Last Line: That stirred her %and a black wing Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States EVENING PRAYER, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sang her little bedtime air Last Line: Of heaven's angels, listening. Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore Last Line: O come quickly, glorious lord, and raise my sprite to thee! Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Theology FIRST HAIR CUT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The barber's rough bristles brushed Last Line: The fluorescent light licked %my bare neck to stone Subject(s): Barbers; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FIRST NIGHT OF FIREFLIES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It would be this way: twilight Last Line: With a grass nest, a punctured lid %he was coming over Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLESH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Your newborn neck recalls the potter's fragrant spit Last Line: Just as mad and milky dim as when we buried them Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Poems pressed into your palm with your fare receipt Last Line: Poems clipped and filed with family recipes Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 2, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Poems (the smell of mothballs, of cedar) pinned to wirehangers Last Line: Was like to feel the garment from inside Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLU SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: We keep passing the fever between us, a monster's Last Line: While you are spiking, soaked in your own sweat Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FONTANELLE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The soul keeps pouring in before it closes Last Line: More gently here on top, %before the small skull shuts Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FOR THE HOLY FAMILY, BY MICHELANGELO (IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn not to the prophet's page, o son! He knew Last Line: The seed o' the woman bruise the serpent's head. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary FRANCE'S SHAME, by B. B. USHER Poem Text First Line: Talk not of christian france, lest mantling shame Last Line: See france degraded, humbled in the dust. Subject(s): Catholics; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Judaism FUSES: 2, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fuses: on the feminity of the church as the reason of its impotence Last Line: Pantheism: I am all; all are I. %maelstrom Subject(s): Catholics HERE'S A CHRISTMAS CARD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: With the blank look of abbot thayer's angel Last Line: And not in the bright throbbing of the stars Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH: THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS, by SAMUEL JOHN STONE Poem Text First Line: The church's one foundation Last Line: Shall be the church at rest. Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism HOLY CROSS DAY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fee, fawm, fum! Bubble and squeak! Last Line: "south, east, and on to the pleasant land!" Subject(s): Catholics; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Judaism HOLY SONNET: 10, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Last Line: And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. Variant Title(s): "sonnet On Death;elegie;death Rebuked;""death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee""; Subject(s): Catholics; Death; Freedom; Immortality; Religion; Social Protest; Victory; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology HOLY SONNET: 14, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Batter my heart, three-personed god; for, you Last Line: Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnet: 171;to E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 10;the Soul To Her Rescuer;""batter My Heart, Three-personed God; For, You""; Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Freedom; Salvation; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Liberty HOLY SONNET: 18, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Show me dear christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear Last Line: When she is embraced and open to most men. Variant Title(s): "show Me Clear Christ, Thy Spouse, So Bright And Clear""; Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Protestantism; Roman Catholics; Catholicism HOPKINS ENTERS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, by DAVID SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Dressed mainly in black and with hair Last Line: As far as doctor newman's room Subject(s): Catholics; Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) HYMN TO GOD MY GOD, IN MY SICKNESS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I am coming to that holy room Last Line: Therefore that he may raise the lord throws down. Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Death; Geography; God; Sickness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Illness IN LENTEN GARB, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In lenten garb - unlovely gray Last Line: In lenten garb. Subject(s): Catholics; Lent; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Theology IN MEMORIAM: W.G. WARD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, whose like on earth I shall not find Last Line: How loyal in the following of thy lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Catholics; Ward, William George (1812-1882); Roman Catholics; Catholicism IN SHADOW; (A GARDEN OVERLOOKING THE OLD MISSION, SANTA BARBARA), by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou a heritage, / grave olive tree? Last Line: In gethsemane. Subject(s): Catholics; Eden; Roman Catholics; Catholicism IN THE GARDEN AT SWAINSTON (IN MEMORIAM - SIR JOHN SIMEON), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingales warbled without, / within was weeping for thee Last Line: Three dead men have I loved, and thou art last of the three. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Catholics; Isle Of Wight; Mourning; Simeon, Sir John; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Bereavement IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "glows once more in the russian sky, the blood" Last Line: "my brother, jesus of nazareth" Subject(s): Catholics;jesus Christ;jews;russia; Roman Catholics;catholicism;judaism;soviet Union;russians IONA, by FREDERICK TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I landed on iona's holy isle Last Line: In whom all saints are one for evermore! Subject(s): Catholics; Iona, Scotland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism IS IT TRUE?, by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON Poem Text First Line: Said the child of the bright yellow hair Last Line: "like elsie'sand said: ""I'm a jew." Subject(s): Catholics; Children; History; Jesus Christ; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Childhood; Historians; Judaism LEDA'S CHILDREN, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The swan honking of the woman Last Line: Shit she leaves behind, only to %step, once more, in my own Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LENTEN THOUGHTS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yet many were offended in him Last Line: Must jesus be crucified anew? Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology LES ONCLES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Snow on the roof but fire in the cellar' Last Line: I had learned enough of that language to ask %'but didn't you use the familiar?' Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LITERALLY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Abortion was merely a metaphor Last Line: I am now trying my best to ignore Subject(s): Abortion; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LOT'S WIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The last time we cast shadows %on the wall Last Line: And god, his mouth, his wet mouth, %always the taste of Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MAMA ROSANNA'S LAST BEAD-CLACK, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm sitting on my couch saying my rosary. I haven't Last Line: To my house and burn my bedding. Lamp of god, kill me Subject(s): Aids (disease); Catholics; Sickness MAN WHO TOUCHED THE TWELVE-ARMED GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I am clever,' says the man. 'the guards Last Line: Curving ram's horns, necklace of claws, tiger teeth Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MIDNIGHT MASS FOR THE DYING YEAR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, the year is growing old Last Line: Christe, eleyson! Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The MIDWIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Fingers a pelvis model %thrust on a stick like sculpture Last Line: Clatters his trucks, like anybody's son Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MISERERE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of fortune I envy not Last Line: For ever -- o miserere. Subject(s): Catholics; Fate; Fortune; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Destiny MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary mother, pray for one Last Line: Kneeling before the mercy gate. Subject(s): Catholics; Cavalry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Prayer; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary MY FATHER'S CORNET, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The parched leather case, flecked in the corners Last Line: To. We never learned much more Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MY PARENTS BUY A BURIAL PLOT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It took her fifteen years to get him Last Line: I'll be in hell if she's been right all along Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NOVEMBER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here comes our last storm with thunder Last Line: And the dust that settles in the cleavage %of ripe plums? Subject(s): Autumn; Catholics - United States; Seasons; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NUNS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: When our nun drove the idiot's head into the blackboard Last Line: Not even from thirst, or from hunger Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Nuns; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NUTCRACKER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Not to be confused with the little wooden priapus Last Line: Secretly. I clicked her empty legs like castanets Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States ODE ON THE PASSION, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sable clad, urania come Last Line: And proud captivity an humbled captive led! Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Crucifixion; Death; Passion; Piety; Prayer; Sin; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The ON ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT THE JEWS TO CHRISTIANITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou canst wash the ethiopian white Last Line: Each one to answer for himself alone Subject(s): Bible;catholics;jews;religion - Reformers; Roman Catholics;catholicism;judaism ON THE DEATH OF MR. CRASHAW, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet and saint! To thee alone are given Last Line: Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing. Subject(s): Catholics; Crashaw, Richard (1613-1649); Roman Catholics; Catholicism OUT OF THE SHADOW, by MARGARET FAIRLESS BARBER Poem Text First Line: Out of the shadow of the night Last Line: The centre of all mystery! Alternate Author Name(s): Fairless, Michael Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The; Theology PAGAN WOMAN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To go dying and singing. And to baptize the shadow Last Line: Leaving thousands of eyes of blood on the dagger Subject(s): Catholics; Judith (bible); Women In The Bible PARISH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The priests, the priests %in their loneliness imagined our lives Last Line: The men you imagine yourselves to be Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States PETITE STE. ROSALIE, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father couture loves a fricassee Last Line: He's a sensible curé, so jolly and free! Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): Catholics; Clergy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops POMEGRANATE SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: First frost-the sugar-shocked leaves Last Line: Darkness-god, I'd barter my soul for these Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States PRAYER OF A MOTHER-TO-BE, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: Dear god of life and every new born thing Last Line: "of such the kingdom is; let us be led." Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; God; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Child Birth; Midwifery; Roman Catholics; Catholicism PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF CHARTRES, by HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gracious lady: / simple as when I asked your aid before Last Line: The futile folly of the infinite! Subject(s): Catholics; Chartres, France; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary PROLOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, like lawful monarchs, ruled the stage Last Line: Of presbyterians who would kings maintain, %of forty thousand five would scarce remain Subject(s): Catholics; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746) RAIN: SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: It is palm Last Line: A lesson about jesus %into his palm Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Sabbath; Youth READING JAMES WRIGHT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: If I go down all the way with you Last Line: Lank and rambling? She never %threw herself into the sea Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States; Wright, James (1927-1980) RUINED STATUES IN THE LOUVRE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Infant love left his palm print on this aphrodite's naked back Last Line: Against each other in their tombs-for the hundredth time or so %that day, you let my hand go Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Louvre, Paris; Statues; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States SAINT AGNES' EVE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep on the convent-roof the snows Last Line: The bridegroom with his bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Eve Of St. Agnes;saint Agnes Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Catholics; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Saints; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise 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 SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, by ALICE CECILIA COOPER Poem Text First Line: Through broken arches moonbeams softly shine Last Line: Awake in us dear memories of god's peace. Subject(s): Catholics; San Juan Capistrano, California; Roman Catholics; Catholicism SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN POET AND FRIEND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I note the moods and feelings men betray Last Line: Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws! Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; England; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; English; Religious Conflict SIDE BY SIDE, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: Jew and christian, side by side Last Line: Though a sadness thrills in the springtide air. Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Brotherhood; Catholics; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Judaism SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: She hated to give him up Last Line: For the sun to slip through Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Temples; Women - Bible SOLOMON, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sun, groaned solomon Last Line: Find that which is forever new. Subject(s): Catholics; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Roman Catholics; Catholicism SONNET WRITTEN IN HOLY WEEK AT GENOA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered in scoglietto's far retreat Last Line: The cross, the crown, the soldiers, and the spear. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Catholics; Genoa, Italy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism SONNETS ON PICTURES: MARY MAGDALEN AT THE DOOR OF SIMON THE PHARISEE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair? Last Line: He needs me, calls me, loves me: let me go!' Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Mary Magdalen; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Mary Magdalene SPLITTING WOOD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It's best when you take off your shirt Last Line: Winter, this will burn between us Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States SPRING SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green of jesus Subject(s): Christianity; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Roman Catholics; Catholicism SPRING SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green of jesus Last Line: In the body of jesus and %the future is possible Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Your face is like an angel's %I've kissed it Last Line: Mundane as a supermarket, %it's my life too Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 6, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I wish you could have heard ginsberg Last Line: But cover the fire, boy, %cover the fire Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States THAT WHICH HATH WINGS SHALL TELL', by LINDA LYON VAN VOORHIS Poem Source First Line: Think on st. Francis' feathered friends, dear heart Last Line: Stronger their clasp upon the wind-swept bough %when the birds sleep Subject(s): Catholics THE CATHOLIC BELLS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' I'm no catholic Subject(s): Bells; Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE CONFESSIONAL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a lie - their priests, their pope Last Line: Lies -- lies, again -- and still, they lie! Subject(s): Catholics; Clergy; Confessions; Lies; Spain; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE DREAM OF PIO NONO, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced that while the pious troops of france Last Line: Said cardinal antonelli, with a smile. Subject(s): Antonelli, Giacomo. Cardinal (1806-1876); Catholics; Pius Ix, Pope (1792-1878); Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that thy creed were sound Last Line: When comes a foe, my wounds with oil and wine to tend. Subject(s): Catholics; Good Samaritan; Travel; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Journeys; Trips THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death. Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE GUARDIAN ANGEL (A PICTURE AT FANO), by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear and great angel, would'st thou only leave Last Line: This is ancona, yonder is the sea. Subject(s): Catholics; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE GUARDIAN OF THE RED DISK (SPOKEN BY A CITIZEN OF MALTA - 1300), by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious title held in high repute Last Line: Guarding the red disklest one rogue escape! Subject(s): Catholics; Clergy; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 1, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A milk-white hind, immortal and unchang'd Last Line: The lady of the spotted muff began. Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 1 Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dame, said the panther, times are mended well Last Line: Then couch'd her self securely by her side. Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 2 Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 3, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much malice mingled with a little wit Last Line: With glorious visions of her future state. Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 3 Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Converts, Catholic; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Stillingfleet, Edward (1635-1699); Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 74. ST. LUKE THE PAINTER (OLD & NEW ART), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give honour unto luke evangelist Last Line: Ere the night cometh and she may not work. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 86. LOST DAYS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lost days of my life until to-day Last Line: "and thou thyself to all eternity!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Melancholy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dejection THE MIDNIGHT MASS; AN INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light lay trembling in a silver bar Last Line: Their saviour face to face. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Catholics; French Revolution (1789); Roman Catholics; Catholicism 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 PASSOVER IN THE HOLY FAMILY (FOR A DRAWING), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here meet together the prefiguring day Last Line: And mary culls the bitter herbs ordained. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE PATIENT CHURCH, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bide thou thy time! Last Line: True seed! Thou shalt prevail! Subject(s): Catholics; Patience; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE SPANISH FRIAR, OR THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, luck for us, and a kind hearty pit Last Line: By way of thanks, we'll send 'em o'er our plot. Subject(s): Catholics; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails THE STIGMATA; FOR JOHN J. DONLAN, PH.D., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Silent the mountain; on the plains below Last Line: That to the little griefs of earth he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Jesus Christ; Saints; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE VINTAGE, by BELLE COOPER Poem Text First Line: In tuscany, the vintage season reigns Last Line: A fount of strength to brim earth's loving-cup. Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE VISITATION OF OUR LADY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is passing along to-day Last Line: In the time of love's dear visiting. Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Virgin Mary THESE BAPTIZING WATERS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We are at the thin brink that marks Last Line: These baptizing waters Subject(s): Baptism; Catholics; Water TO BECOME AN ISLANDER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Steal a sloop from the harbor Last Line: Burn your face brown before sunset Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO CARDINAL MANNING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, wakeful, for the skylark voice in men Last Line: Brings vengeance down; nor them who rouse revile. Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism TO POPE JULIUS II, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sir if one of the old proverbs Last Line: Sending it to pick fruit from a dry tree Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Catholics; Popes TO SEDNA, THE INUIT SEA GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: In the storm when your father flung Last Line: Has brought your father, and all his work, down Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO THE CLOSE FRIEND MOST UNLIKE ME, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Sunday I thought of you-- Last Line: The little boy under the wheel of that car, for instance--alive Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 4. THE STANDARDS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That last Last Line: Into the sea, and sea shall be no more. Subject(s): Catholics; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict WILD GIRLS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Wild girls are all around us %and the memory of snow Last Line: Wild girls are dancing %bears groan in the forest Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WINTER SOLSTICE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Our new pup backs into her plastic den Last Line: As she leapt straight for him into the sun Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WOMEN AND MEN: A RETROSPECTIVE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I know they exist, I saw them -- Last Line: Bearing burdens on their backs, %walking uphill, fully clothed Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WORKING CLASS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: How often in my presence someone's used Last Line: And he was. And they were. And we have been Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WORLD'S WORTH, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis of the father hilary Last Line: He said: 'o god, my world in thee!' Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Pax Vobis Subject(s): Catholics; Faith; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Belief; Creed |
|