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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHRISTIANITY Matches Found: 845 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A BALLAD OF TANNHAUSER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hardy, tattered wretch is that Last Line: Tannhäuser and the queen of love. Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Paganism & Pagans; Redemption; Rome, Italy; Shame; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A CALVARY PATH, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the stone steps Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A CHILD IS BORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A child is born!' the magi cried, and then Last Line: "lord of the earth beneath and heaven above." Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Good; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND ANTHEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark to the voices of the night Last Line: On that first christmas night. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas Carols; Happiness; Holidays; Singing & Singers; Winter; Joy; Delight; Songs A CREED, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God sends no message by me. I am mute Last Line: Welcomes the poor in spirit—who were least. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Humility; Nature; Oaths; Belief; Creed A DROP OF DEW, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the orient dew Last Line: Into the glories of the almighty sun. Variant Title(s): On A Drop Of Dew Subject(s): Christianity; Dew; Nature A DUBIOUS NIGHT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bell diphthonging in an atmosphere Last Line: I weary of the confidence of god Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A HIDDEN LIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned Last Line: Arose and died upon the listener's ear. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Education; Family Life; Farm Life; God; Love; Quiet Life; Dead, The; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers A HINT TO CHRISTIAN POETS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where now the jove, the phoebus, and the nine Last Line: Will rise spontaneous in your purer breast. Subject(s): Bible; Christian Science; Christianity; Poetry & Poets A HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In the steps of christ I follow Last Line: And three crosses on the hill. Subject(s): Christianity; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Legends; Sermons; Speech; Oratory; Orators A HYMN FOR PROCESSION WITH CROSS AND BANNERS, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onward, christian soldiers, / marching as to war Last Line: Men and angels sing. Subject(s): Christianity A HYMN OF UNITY, by ROBERT FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come, we come, we come Last Line: One hope, one lord. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity A JOURNEY TO HELL: PART 3. THE PARISH POOR-OFFICERS, by EDWARD WARD Poem Text First Line: These souls, my lord, assembled at the bar Last Line: Shameful to own and scandalous to hear. Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Soul; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips A MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a pirate, greedy and bold Last Line: A pious example of christian peace! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; War; Peace Movements A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE, by BLANCHE EDENS CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: As I look all around me and wonder Last Line: Living the new year, day by day. Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Leadership; New Year 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 PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY, by MOLLY WHITFORD ANDERSON HALEY Poem Text First Line: O master of the galilean way Last Line: To heal a wounded world and bring it peace! Subject(s): Christianity A PRAYER TO EVE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of fictions / and of irony Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A PREPARATORY HYMNE TO THE WEEK OF MEDITACIONS UPON, & DEVOUT EXERCISE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: No days, nor weeks, must I Last Line: Think heavn above my head doth ly. Subject(s): Christianity; Meditation A PURIFICATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At start of spring I open a trench Last Line: The old escapes into the new Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A REFUSAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the grave dean of westminster Last Line: That I ensconce swinburne! Subject(s): Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Westminster Abbey A SONG OF YOUNG CHRISTIANS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a scoff for the old and a shout for the new Last Line: As the young grow old, serving god. Subject(s): Christianity A SPIRITUAL AND WELL-ORDERED MIND, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on the front / of some cathedral pile Last Line: Through every broad receptacle of sense. Subject(s): Worship; Christianity A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A THIRD POSSIBILITY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fired the brush pile by the creek Last Line: Between the two, and liked them both Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A WORLD WITHOUT OBJECTS IS A SENSIBLE EMPTINESS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tall camels of the spirit Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ABENAMAR, ABENAMAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O thou moor of moreria Last Line: Well my wedded lord loves me Subject(s): Christianity; Courts And Courtiers; Truth ABSOLUTION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Travel to the great church at cluny, and pope innocent Last Line: In speyer, 1451: in this place is full pardon of all sins Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; God; Penance; Religion AD ASTRA: 149, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sceptic warns us that the christian creed Last Line: Until we lay them at our master's feet? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Christianity; Self-love 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: 170, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What signifies that anglican and greek Last Line: Yet ever the crook of christ would all enfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise ADONIS IS OLDER THAN JESUS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever heard of a place called byblus? Last Line: Tender life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Loss; Mythology; Religion ADORATION OF THE MAGI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A boy -- okay,it's me -- wears a fringed Last Line: One hand pressed hard into his crotch Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ADULTERER, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: In my shadow world, no one Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ADVENT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see the cradle rocking Subject(s): Christianity ADVENT PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Almighty god, our heavenly father Last Line: And then in thy kingdom for ever. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AFTER MINDWALK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we've laboriously Last Line: Pervades, elusive but persistent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AFTER THE LAST WORDS, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: By how I'm dead. Make what you will of that Last Line: Fall dry as crumbs, nor will they comfort you Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AGATHA, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mountain, not where rocks Last Line: Give us with the saints a place! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Women; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips AGLAE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Atrium of aglae's house in rome. A fountain Last Line: O christ, accept me! I believe! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Roman Empire; Theology ALATUS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their supply lines cut Last Line: Toward the hid pulse of things, its / winged skeleton Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Autumn; Theology ALATUS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their supply lines cut Last Line: Toward the hid pulse of things, its %winged skeleton Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ALL MY SALVATION LIES IN THEE, by MARGARET OF ANGOULEME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, o god, save me, I cry Last Line: What will become of me? Alternate Author Name(s): Marguerite D'angouleme; Marguerite Of Navarre; Marguerite De Valois Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation ALTARWISE BY OWL-LIGHT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Altarwise by owl-light in the halfway house Subject(s): Christianity ALTARWISE BY OWL-LIGHT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Altarwise by owl-light in the halfway house Last Line: My nest of mercies be rude, red tree Subject(s): Christianity AMY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amy, this promise thy promise be Last Line: L ove to him that loveth thee! Subject(s): Christianity AN ANNIVERSARY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we have been becomes Last Line: In the country we have married Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology AN APARTMENT WITH A VIEW, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in rome, vatican bells tolling Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Christianity AN ART-LOVER TO CHRIST, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If these I love, what love have I for thee Last Line: For thou art noble; and I love them best. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Love AN EARLY CHRISTIAN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt in the panther-fells Last Line: "and I cried in pain: ""o lord my god!" Subject(s): Christianity; Love - Complaints AN INDIAN FLAG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden gates were opening Last Line: The greatest and the best. Subject(s): Christianity; India; Missionaries & Missions ANALYSIS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes there was a visitor again last night Last Line: His love my downfall and rising %tearing apart to make me whole Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AND ALSO FROM THE SON, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: As you might expect, my momentary vision barely Last Line: Influx of approaching shade, who would say? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANGELS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cats wind together in the barn Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANIMAL NATIVITY, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The iliad of peace began Last Line: Remembered as a star Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANNIVERS: BAPTISMI, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: How much worse than in vain Last Line: When thou, not I, sole owner art of me. Subject(s): Baptism; Birth; Christianity; Christenings; Child Birth; Midwifery ANNIVERSARIUM BAPTISMI (3), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O deer & memorable day to me Last Line: Eases soft chains on my diseases rage. Subject(s): Baptism; Christianity; Christenings ANNIVERSARY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we have been becomes Last Line: Darkened, we are carried %out of need, deep %in the country we have married Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANOTHER REVENANT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One long-dead / returned for a night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ANOTHER REVENANT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One long-dead %returned for a night Last Line: A fabric %one with our listening Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANOTHER SONG, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Most mornings I wake up slowly. That's just Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANOTHER VOICE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sword bites for peace Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ANOTHER VOICE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sword bites for peace Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APOLOGIST'S EVENING PRAYER, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS Poem Source First Line: From all my lame defeats and oh! Much more Last Line: Take from me all my trumpery lest I die Subject(s): Christianity APOSTACY, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This last denial of my faith Last Line: His name her latest word. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Faith; Christianity; Death; Belief; Creed; Dead, The APPLE FOOLS, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Apple fools we are Last Line: The crowded table the %pinions' fold Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPRENTICE EATS GLASS, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Your friend, the end, comes every day Last Line: There is little they can say Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPRENTICE IS AMAZED, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Oh, for the holiness which is a needle Last Line: Was going to contain that Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPRENTICE PROPHECIES, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: It's the wreath you don't come upon Last Line: You'll keep waiting for it to end Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPRENTICE SEES HIMSELF IN THE SUNSET, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: The lepers grew excited Last Line: Might save you from speaking Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AS A CHILD IN THE TEMPLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm looking forward to my death,' she said Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology AS A CHILD IN THE TEMPLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm looking forward to my death,' she said Last Line: Saved, not for the last time, by my ignorance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ASH WEDNESDAY (AFTER HEARING A LECTURE ON THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION), by JOHN ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Here in the lonely chapel I will wait Last Line: Strong with new love where thou dost kneel, the cross whereon christ died. Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Christianity; Faith; Prayer; Solitude; Belief; Creed; Loneliness AT A COUNTRY FUNERAL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Now the old ways that have brought us Last Line: A second and more final death Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology AT A COUNTRY FUNERAL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the old ways that have brought us Last Line: Faithful to the fields, lest the dead die %a second and more final death Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BACK PORCH FUNDAMENTALIST, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: In the afternoon %he chose the corner in the sun Last Line: On this tree is the keys of the kingdom Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BEACON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BELOVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonathan the son of saul Last Line: Onto the roof of the king's house Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Love; Religion BENEATH SEARCHLIGHTS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shop windows glow like fish tanks. Even in twon Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology BENEATH SEARCHLIGHTS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shop windows glow like fish tanks. Even in twon Last Line: But that's untrue. Too stark. Sometimes - tonight!- %I satisfy the light that questions me Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BIBLIOGRAPHERS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucifer blazing in superb effigies Last Line: (the shadow-god envisaged in no cloud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BIRDBONES, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: The girdle is a grass leaf dried and curled Last Line: Come down because the sky stops, not their bones Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BIRTHDAY IN QUEBEC: 1, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I remember today a [quebec] roadside, the crucifix Last Line: To hold the huge landscape: crops, houses and men, in its fire Variant Title(s): The Crucifi Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BLUE LIGHT, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The angels stood %with their backs to me Last Line: I turned from them, %I let them go Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BROTHERS OF THE FAITH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In christ there is no east or west Last Line: Throughout the whole wide earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): No East Or West Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology BURDEN, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou the burden, lord Last Line: God, draw her close to thee! Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation; Religion BURNING OF THE EXETER THEATRE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, which many people will long remember Last Line: Because whatever is given towards a good cause they will it regain. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fire; Dead, The BUT GOD IS SILENT/PSALM 114, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sotto voce %cynics pass the word Last Line: Our momentous friend %our androgynous lover Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CAEDMON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All others talked as if Subject(s): Caedmon (7th Century); Christianity; Religion; Theology CAEDMON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All others talked as if Last Line: And pulled my voice %into the ring of the dance Subject(s): Caedmon (7th Century); Christianity; Religion CALVARY PATH, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the stone steps Last Line: Cross of the calvary Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CANTICLE FOR GOOD FRIDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Religion; Theology CANTICLE FOR GOOD FRIDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top Last Line: Creation's issue congealing (and one woman's Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Religion CATHEDRAL SERVICE, by PETER KOCAN Poem Source First Line: I'm only here because I wandered in Last Line: When two or three were gathered in his name Subject(s): Christianity CESTELLO ANNUNCIATION, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The angel has already said, 'be not afraid' Last Line: Lets her refuse, accept, refuse, and think again Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHANT OF PRESTER JOHN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the golden heart of the dawn Last Line: This was the chant of prester john! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers CHARGE AND BENEDICTION, by H. EUGENE FARLOUGH Poem Source First Line: I charge you to %get-to-stepping Last Line: Now and forevermore. %right on Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation CHARITY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: True test and savour of a christian soul Last Line: Meted to christian folk on christian ground! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Charity; Christianity; Religion; Philanthropy; Theology CHIMES OF NEVERWHERE, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many times did the church prevent war? Last Line: For the devil's at home in neverwhere Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHORUSES FROM THE ROCK, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eagle soars in the summit of heaven Last Line: Bring us farther from god and nearer to the dust Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Christianity CHRIST AND ORPHEUS (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What means this vain ideal of our lord Last Line: Thy wisdom match messias with a shade? Subject(s): Christianity; Orphism (mystic Greek Cult) CHRIST AND ORPHEUS (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O give thy king no bynames! Nor decry Last Line: Bold pen obtrudes the margin on the text. Subject(s): Christianity; Orphism (mystic Greek Cult) CHRIST AND ORPHEUS (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, it is a deep religious loss Last Line: Which death and hebrus strove in vain to quell. Subject(s): Christianity; Orphism (mystic Greek Cult) CHRIST AS A GARDENER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boxwoods planted in the park spelled live Subject(s): Christianity; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST AS A GARDENER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boxwoods planted in the park spelled live Last Line: Of milkweed, thistle, cattail, and goldenrod Subject(s): Christianity; Gardens And Gardening; Jesus Christ; Religion CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS BY EL GRECO, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: The honey-red hue of the picture Last Line: Instead, of a %smaller cross Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHRIST'S TWIN, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was formed of chicken blood and lightning Last Line: They would drown for love Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Native Americans; Religion CHRISTENDOM, by RAYMOND OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Look at the gallimaufry - hurdygurdy Last Line: So let me shove my scrupulous distress %up some grotto, and I'll say yes, oh yes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHRISTENDOM, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first mine infant-ear Last Line: Make up the king of glory's diadem. Subject(s): Christianity; Imagination; Fancy CHRISTIAN AND JEW; A DIALOGUE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh happy, happy land! Last Line: Let life begin.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christianity; Jews; Judaism CHRISTIAN EPIGRAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Egyptian woman Last Line: See who it can Subject(s): Christianity CHRISTIAN EXALTATION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christian soldier! Shouldst thou rue Last Line: That fadeless symbol of the cross. Subject(s): Christianity CHRISTIAN HUMANITY, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: Each time (child of the puszta) I closed Last Line: We left it there. I - not looking back - %my humanity, a piece Subject(s): Christianity; Humanity; Hunting CHRISTIAN SETTLEMENTS IN AFRICA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winds! What have ye gathered from afric's strand Last Line: "when the sun from the midnight of chaos burst." Subject(s): Africa; Christianity; Missions & Missionaries CHRISTIAN VALUES, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, dear! %the christian virtues will disappear! Last Line: The christian virtues will disappear Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Christianity CHRISTIANITY, by EDWARD FARQUHAR Poem Source First Line: What are thy titles, majesty of man? Subject(s): Christianity CHRISTIANITY AND WAR, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Talk, if you will, of hero deed Last Line: Of war-like followers of jesus. Subject(s): Christianity; Evil; Good; Hypocrisy; Jesus Christ; Religion; War; Theology CHRISTIANITY HOPPING, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: On sunday mornings we were presbyterian so we could drink coffee and Last Line: Then we got lost somewhere upstairs Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Native Americans - Religion; Presbyterianism; Religion - Reformers CHRISTIANS AT WAR, by JOHN KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Onward, christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain Last Line: History will say of you: 'that pack of g - d fools' Subject(s): Christianity; Hate; World War I CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING, VIRGIN, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Death's stone rolled away from mouth and eyes Last Line: Urgent perfume of decay Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHRISTMAS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: This is the day the great god pan lies dead Last Line: To soothe his sobbing with the pipes of pan. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The 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 CHRISTMAS DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Today, o god Last Line: As our knees bend to salute your cradle. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation CHRISTMAS ROUNDELAY, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: Where will you lie, little christmas child Last Line: To all who are lonely and sad Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas CHRISTMAS TREES', by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Christianity; Christmas; Christmas Trees; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS TREES', by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell Last Line: We hear too late or not too late Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Christianity; Christmas; Christmas Trees CHRISTMAS, MADISON SQUARE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dismal darkness stands the christmas pine Last Line: Ascends. Subject(s): Christianity; Poverty; Solitude; Loneliness CHRISTMASTIDE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not go tonight to bethlehem Last Line: To guide me on to holy bethlehem. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christianity; Christmas; Emptiness; Nativity, The CHURCHGOING, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lutherans sit stolidly in rows; Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Christianity; Slavery; Hypocrisy; Serfs CLEVELAND, ANGELS, OGRES, TROLLS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still today, sober and tenured as I can be Subject(s): Christianity; Religion COLONEL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father lifts the crippled airman's body Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology COLONEL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father lifts the crippled airman's body Last Line: And I don't want to be a soldier yet Subject(s): Christianity; Religion COMING FORTH, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry. I have a hard time not laughing Last Line: Should be a thousand worlds better than this Subject(s): Christianity; Religion COMMUNION PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Almighty god and merciful father, %we ask you Last Line: In whose name we pray along with your whole church. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation COMMUNION PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Holy god, %our loving creator, %close to us breathing Last Line: With the entire family of your faithful people everywhere Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation CONSIDER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have considered the lilies of the field Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology CONSIDER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have considered the lilies of the field Last Line: Beckons the hollow, two-note fluting of an owl Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CRAZE FIELD, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These lagoons, these watercourses Last Line: Are hidden, in the craze, under small pagoda eaves Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CREED AND DEED, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What care I for caste or creed? Last Line: One god and one humanity. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Religion; Theology CREEDS, by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lutheran, popish, calvinistic, all these creeds and doctrines three Last Line: Extant are; but still the doubt is, where christianity may be. Alternate Author Name(s): Golaw, Salomon Von; Logau, Frederick Von Subject(s): Christianity CROW'S THEOLOGY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crow realized god loved him Last Line: One of them much bigger than the other %loving his ememies %and having all the weapons Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Christianity CRUCIFIXION TO THE WORLD BY THE CROSS OF CHRIST, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I survey the wondrous cross / on which the prince of glory died Last Line: Demands my soul, my life, my all. Variant Title(s): The Cross;glorying In The Cross;the Wondrous Cross Subject(s): Christianity; Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CRUCIFIXION: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot dark they dug a hole Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology CRUCIFIXION: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot dark they dug a hole Last Line: Or does god simply choose us all? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CRY FOR THE NATIONS, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Oh! Cry for the nations Last Line: Whole world. He who has ears let him hear Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability DASH IT, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: How wonderfully it was all arranged that each Last Line: I have been through for this one evening on earth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DEAD CHRIST, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There seems no reason he should've died. His hands Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology DEAD CHRIST, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There seems no reason he should've died. His hands Last Line: Today, the empty corpse. Most christs return. %but this one's flesh. He isn't coming back Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DEATH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not, my friends, that we are growing old Last Line: The mother of our youth!—she maketh speed. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DEED, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As george washington hacked at his cherry tree, Subject(s): Washington, George (1732-1799); Christianity DENIAL [OR, DENIALL], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my devotions could not pierce Last Line: And men my rhyme. Subject(s): Christianity; Worship DESERT RUN, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are caught pulling the brake Last Line: You managed to catch the last train out Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DIAGONALS: HANDS, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Hammer in whose hands Last Line: Cross forever upon sky Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Christianity DISCIPLINARIAN TREATISES: 10. A RECUPERATION OF SIN, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I suppose we might do away with words like sin Last Line: Once more the spectacle of the innocent's blood Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DISCOVERERS; IN MEMORY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS WHO DIED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High glory his who walks where god alone Last Line: For god and man, for liberty and right. Subject(s): Christianity; World War I; First World War DON'T LOSE HOPE, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: When life's troubles Last Line: Shall your victory come Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability DREAM, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Day by day, troubles were added to my list Last Line: Allow god to change your life and renew you Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability DREAM SONGS CONCLUDED, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Henry was sick of winter, john dying of Last Line: At last I am free. %I am free Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DREAMER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are few probabilities through Last Line: That it jogs Subject(s): Dreams; Sea Voyages; Slavery; Faith; Christianity; Social Commentaries DUBIOUS NIGHT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bell diphthonging in an atmosphere Subject(s): Christianity; Religion EARTH REDEEMED, by GEORGE F. MACLEOD Poem Source First Line: When we partake of the living bread and the living vine, our triune god Last Line: Even as now we are bound together in thee Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation EASTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O soul, be still! Scourge not thyself with doubt Last Line: "recurrent resurrection is eternal life." Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord jesus christ, we greet you Last Line: That we may proclaim your name boldly %on our lips. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation EASTER 1984, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we saw human dignity / healing humans in the middle of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER 1984, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we saw human dignity %healing humans in the middle of the day Last Line: Free never to torture man again, %free to believe him risen Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Religion EASTER MONDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the rain a world is growing green Last Line: Let us wax and wane. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER WINGS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store Last Line: Affliction shall advance the flight in me. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; God; Holidays; Religion; Wings; The Resurrection; Theology ECCE HOMO, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ bends, protects his groin. Thorns gouge Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ECCE HOMO, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Christ bends, protects his groin. Thorns gouge Last Line: O crucify; we sing. O crucify him Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ECLOGUE AND ELEGY, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Before the ants Subject(s): Christianity; Religion EL GRECO: ESPOLIO, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The carpenter is intent on the pressure of his hand Subject(s): El Greco (dom??nikos Theotok??poulos (1541-1614); Carpenters; Christianity EL GRECO: ESPOLIO, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The carpenter is intent on the pressure of his hand Last Line: But it's too late now for the other carpenter's boy %to return to this peace before the nails are ha Subject(s): Christianity EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After she said it, %the crowd grabbed her roughly Last Line: But men were putting neon signs around it Subject(s): Christianity; Religion EPIPHANY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Holy jesus, %before your infant form Last Line: To go home by another way. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If moral virtue was christianity %christ's pretensions were all vanity Last Line: Both read the bible day & night, %but thou read'st black where I read white Variant Title(s): The New La Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE CID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was when from spain across the main the cid had come to rome Last Line: To curse ruy diaz de bivar, god's scourge upon the moor Subject(s): Christianity; Cid, El (1043-1099); Repentance; Sin EXILE, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Here exactly -- a little elbow room. Here, in this margin of poor Last Line: Demands of heathen kings and their last, conclusive embrace Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FACING IT, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Who could declare your death, standing Last Line: Risen? We have not turned that page Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FAITH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Illustrious mayd, what foule idolatrie Last Line: To make a soule grow faire, which was forlorne. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Belief; Creed FAITH, by B. M. BLATCHLEY Poem Text First Line: I sail my bark on a placid sea Last Line: By my faith in the father dear. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Belief; Creed FAITH'S REVIEW AND EXPECTATION, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amazing grace! How sweet the sound Last Line: But god, who call'd me here below, %will be forever mine Variant Title(s): Amazing Grace (with Music Subject(s): Christianity 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 FAMILY, by JULIA ESQUIVEL Poem Source First Line: Where are your brothers %and your mother, lord Last Line: Revive in me the flame %of your love Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation FAREWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tie the strings to my life, my lord, / then I am ready to go! Last Line: Now I am ready to go! Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Prayer; Reformation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FATHER, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Never had the old man made such a journey Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FATHER OF MERCIES, by ANNE STEELE Poem Source First Line: Father of mercies, in thy word what endless glory shines Last Line: Teach me to love thy sacred word, and view my saviour there Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation FEAR: THE FACELESS EVIL, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Fear is a faceless evil Last Line: Sing, dance, and run circles around the head of fear Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability FEBRUARY 1: IGNATUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even now at the end Last Line: Make of me one good meal Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FEBRUARY 5: AGATHA, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was born of wealthy parents, but her only wealth, and Last Line: We can accept with certainty nothing of her story, but what will our doubt cost us Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FIRE AND ST. FRANCIS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As he sat eating by the fire one night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology FIRE AND ST. FRANCIS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As he sat eating by the fire one night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FIRST CHRISTMAS, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: On that night when christ was born Last Line: With worshipers above Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, / it is I who am absent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, %it is I who am absent Last Line: The sapphire I know is there? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion FOOLING GOD, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must become small and hide where he cannot reach Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology FOOLING GOD, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must become small and hide where he cannot reach Last Line: With their own tongues %and taste the everlasting life Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FOR ANNE AT PASSOVER, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold easter week and the hard buds, forming, shake Last Line: We are all babes who suck at love together Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Critics And Criticism; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jews; Passover; Religion - Reformers FOR LENT, by ERNEST T. CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: As we near the hallowed grounds of gethsemane and golgotha, we Last Line: Through jesus christ our lord. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation FOR STRENGTH THROUGH THE DAY, by LAZARUS LAMILAMI Poem Source First Line: Great bunji god Last Line: Our good friend, amralba Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation FOR THE NEW YEAR, by RUTH C. DUCK Poem Source First Line: Now that the mad rush is over Last Line: In this world you love in jesus %our christ, amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation FOR THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY SERVICES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God of all life Last Line: Through jesus christ our lord. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation FOR US, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we have not learned that god's in man Last Line: Then christ arose in vain! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Christianity FOREIGN MISSIONS IN BATTLE ARRAY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An endless line of splendor Last Line: The world shall be reborn! Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Christianity FRAGMENTS OF A POEM ON THE EXCELLENCE OF CHRISTIANITY, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whate'er thy nature, cause, or name Last Line: And framed to human duty human will. Subject(s): Christianity FRANCIS HELPS A BROTHER WHO IS IN SIN, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Francis walked in silence Last Line: The sound echoed through the trees in the twilight Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FRANCIS MEETS A LEPER, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He heard the bell toll, erratic Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GAELIC LONG TUNES, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On sabbath days, on circuit days Last Line: Music impelled the, singing, like solar wind Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GENERAL GORDON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victorious through failure! Faithful lord Last Line: —farewell a while! We climb where thou hast clomb! Subject(s): Christianity; Generals; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); War GETHSEMANE, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Damp wind, the innocent Last Line: Of the avon lady, her heels up the walk Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GIFT, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: On that quiet hillside in judea, I watched one lonely night Last Line: And no man left as he entered, who had looked on the infant's face Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas GIFT, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: Our children make christmas holy Last Line: Who was that little christmas birthday boy Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas GIFT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They hung the lambs and cut t heir white throats. Blood Last Line: Almost eager now that you had no choice Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GIFT OF TONGUES, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Once, we knew words were magic Last Line: With a perfect pandemonium of words Subject(s): Christianity; God; Language; Prayer; Religion GLACIER'S DAUGHTERS, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Mother plasma. Father fire Last Line: God howls and we suck him down Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GLASS MAN, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: This is where he washed to shore Last Line: Confusion which brought him here Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GLORY GLORY/PSALM 19, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The heavens bespeak the glory of god Last Line: No creature, no least being but catches fire from him Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GNOMONS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In april, thirteen centuries ago, Subject(s): Time; Bede, Saint. The Venerable (673-735); Christianity GOD, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Numbers from one to ten, however, are called Last Line: Basso finality, thus: god Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GOD OF OUR LIFE THROUGH ALL THE CIRCLING YEARS, by HUGH THOMSON KERR Poem Source Last Line: Our heart's true home when all our years have sped Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology GOLD HAIR; A STORY OF PORNIC, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the beautiful girl, too white Last Line: The corruption of man's heart. Subject(s): Death; Hair; Greed; Christianity; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity GOLGOTHA, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our crosses are hewn from different trees Last Line: For on the summit we bleed alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Christianity GOOD CHRISTIANS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play their offensive and defensive parts Last Line: Till they be hid o're with a wood of darts. Subject(s): Christianity GOOD FRIDAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Saviour of the world Last Line: And transform us by your grace. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation GOOD NEWS, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hobbled, the halt the-hasten-to-blame-it-on-childhood Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Dead, The GOSPEL POEM #1, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Jesus %loaded jowl cakes mother of seismic dreams Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GOSPEL POEM #2, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Jesus %good friday blood on the teeth night a Last Line: Along our beetled bones Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GOSPEL POEM #3, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Jesus %risen %past the amphibial claws Last Line: Furnished ash we wait Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GOSPEL VILLANELLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus will always be there. He's waiting. It's true.' Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FROM A MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE, by GREER ANNE WENH-IN NG Poem Source First Line: It is indeed good and right to give you thanks and praise Last Line: Our lord and savior, jesus, the christ Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation GREAT THANKSGIVING EUCHARISTIC PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Eternal god, holy and mighty Last Line: All glory and honor are yours, eternal god, %now and forever. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation GUEST, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed into the doorway Last Line: To permit me to forget him- %knowing I won't. He's the guest%of my knowing, though not asked Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Religion HALF-AND-HALF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full 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 HATRED, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Hatred is sometimes a welcoming feeling Last Line: You from receiving blessings from god Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability HEAL MY HANDS!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Lord, near thy cross, as men count nearness Last Line: Heal my hands. Subject(s): Christianity; Cross, The; God; Religion; Theology HEAR ME LORD, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Let not my enemies rejoice against me Last Line: Let not my face be covered in shame Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability HEART OF GOD, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Who can know the heart of god? Last Line: Hence, he requires us to serve him with whole heartedness Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability HEAT LIGHTNING IN A TIME OF DROUGHT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor drunk, stood on his lawn and yellled Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HEAT LIGHTNING IN A TIME OF DROUGHT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor drunk, stood on his lawn and yellled Last Line: I wish my soul were larger than it is Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HEAVEN-HAVEN; A NUN TAKES THE VEIL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired to go / where springs not fail Last Line: And out of the swing of the sea. Variant Title(s): Surcease;heaven-haven Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Life Change Events; Nuns; Sea; Paradise; Ocean HEBRON; THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when the coveted blessing is once gained Last Line: The pupil of pure love is quick to learn. Subject(s): Christianity; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Jews; Judaism HERE I AM, by CAROLINE MALVEZIN Poem Source First Line: Blessed art thou, o lord Last Line: All souls! %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation HESTER PRYNNE RECALLS A SUNDAY IN JUNE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our affair had just begun Last Line: If you are my friends Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HEWN HANDS, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Little mary %she's a buried cargo Last Line: Every straggler every all-night pilgrim Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HIS CLERIC'S EYE, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A young priest, dead suddenly Last Line: New eyes, new heart, the runner's burning start Variant Title(s): In Memoriam (ii Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HIS SAVIOURS WORDS, GOING TO THE CROSSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have, have ye no regard, all ye Last Line: Had he not drank them up for you. Subject(s): Christianity; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HOLY COMMUNION, by OLIVE WYON Poem Source First Line: Lord, this is thy feast Last Line: Lord jesus, come to us Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation HOLY INNOCENTS, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Some horror routed them from their homes Last Line: For their children who were no more Subject(s): Christianity; Religion 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: 15, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou love god, as he thee! Then digest Last Line: But, that god should be made like man, much more. Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnets: 11 Subject(s): Christianity HOLY SONNET: 19, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one! Last Line: Those are my best days, when I shake with fear. Subject(s): Christianity HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HOLY SONNET: SATIRE 3. ON RELIGION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids Last Line: Power from god claym'd, then god himselfe to trust. Variant Title(s): Satire 3. The Search For True Religion Subject(s): Christianity HOLY THURSDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he climbed to the wolf's lair Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HOLY THURSDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he climbed to the wolf's lair Last Line: Who was my constant myth and terror Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HOLY WELL, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll drink if I can find it Last Line: Ordinary: a wren entrusting %an egg to a saint's hand Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Catholic Church; Miracles HOW DO I THANK GOD?, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: How do I thank god for all his mercies? Last Line: This way will I thank god, and thank %him everyday of my life Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability HOW SHALL WE SING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND?, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crept up, watched a black Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HOW SHALL WE SING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND?, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We crept up, watched a black Last Line: But it will never feel like home Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HUMANIST, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The venice portrait: he Last Line: Dryly against the robes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HUNGARIAN NATIONAL HYMN, by FERENC KOLCSEY Poem Source First Line: God bless all hungarians Last Line: For time past and to come Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation HYMN FOR MY BROTHER'S ORDINATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ to the young man said: 'yet one thing more' Last Line: And thus to journey on! Subject(s): Christianity HYMN OF THE HUNGARIAN GALLEY SLAVES, by KAROLY JESZENSKY Poem Source First Line: Lift up thy head, o zion, weeping Last Line: He will fold his own securely. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation 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 HYMN: BEFORE THE SACRAMENT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bread of the world, in mercy broken Last Line: That by thy grace our souls are fed! Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HYPERBOLE, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Praise the lord Last Line: Losing our way Subject(s): Christianity; Religion I AM NO MYSTIC, by LESBIA HARFORD Poem Source First Line: I am no mystic. All the ways of god Last Line: To that transcendent mystic love with which %the seraphim burn Subject(s): Christianity I CRY, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Moment after moment, day after day I cry Last Line: God will rescue me from %the mouth of the lion Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was just before easter Last Line: "next to me,"" history writes." Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Festivals; Holidays; The Resurrection; Fairs; Pageants I LEARNED THAT HER NAME WAS PROVERB', by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the secret names / of all we meet who lead us deeper Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology I LEARNED THAT HER NAME WAS PROVERB', by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the secret names %of all we meet who lead us deeper Last Line: Where we shall know %what it is to arrive Subject(s): Christianity; Religion I WOKE UP, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: I woke up one morning Last Line: I slept like the innocent and free Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability ICARIUM MARE, by VINICIUS DE MORAES Poem Source First Line: We have heard of the undimmed air Last Line: To gather tokens of the light %not in the bullion, but in the loose change Subject(s): Christianity; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Religion ICHTHYOLOGY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Rib of carp, I will tell your strange story Last Line: Long before the dreary portraits of bread and wine Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Religion IMAGIST AT CONEY ISLAND, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: One decade into the 20th century Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IMMORTAL, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beckoner of hotheads, brag-tester, lord of the demi-suicides Last Line: His speed, his streetlights pointing every way, his unblief in joking Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IMPERATIVE, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: The thing to remember Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN A CHURCHYARD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That flower unseen, that gem of purest ray Last Line: These unseen gravestones, and the darker dead Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology IN A CHURCHYARD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That flower unseen, that gem of purest ray Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN EARTHEN VESSELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dear lord's best interpreters Last Line: The blessed master none can doubt, %revealed in holy lives Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN MEMORY OF JANE FRASER; AN ATTEMPTED REPARATION, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When snow like sheep lay in the fold Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology IN MEMORY OF JANE FRASER; AN ATTEMPTED REPARATION, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When snow like sheep lay in the fold Last Line: Dead comes upon the alder shook Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Religion IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Here, behind this attic door is borges Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN THANKFULL REMEMBRANCE FOR MY DEAR HUSBANDS SAFE ARRIVALL, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I render to thy name Last Line: In strict and upright wayes Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation IN THE CATHEDRAL, PETERBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hart brought wulfade to a well Last Line: Wulhere endued, with high devotion, %the abbey of brough with great possession Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Wulfhere, King Of The Mercians (d. 674) IN THE MIDST OF AN ILLNESS, by HULDREICH ZWINGLI Poem Source First Line: Console me, lord god, console me! Last Line: Constantly abide by thee, however he rages Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between painting a roof yesterday and the hay Last Line: Whistle opens in the air, broad and pointed like a leaf Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Religion; Theology INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between painting a roof yesterday and the hay Last Line: In the light like a curling vine and the bobwhite's %whistleopens in the air, broad and pointed as a Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Religion INHERITANCE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the house are all her years Last Line: It opens its mouth as if to speak Subject(s): Christianity; Religion INVALID OF PARK STREET, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Like stitches in a gown, holding sleeve to bodice Last Line: To past on your window when the fire goes out Subject(s): Christianity; Religion INVOCATION OF PEACE; AFTER THE GAELIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep peace I breathe into you Last Line: Peace! Peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Language; Peace; Prayer; Gaelic ISAIAH: 35, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose shall bloom in the lonely place Last Line: For sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Subject(s): Christianity IT'S ALL VERY WELL WANTING LIBERATION, by PATRICIA BAXTER Poem Source First Line: God of vision, %you have brought women together Last Line: As a witness for others. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation JACK RHYMER, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Who am I? A tramp, I guess Last Line: Hosannas for my own defeat Subject(s): Christianity; Religion JANUARY PRAYER, by JOAN OLIVER Poem Source First Line: You are the three, you are the three Last Line: To the holy land of the dollar Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Rites And Ceremonies JESUS, THE ROCK OF MY SALVATION, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: When the wind blows, the earth quakes Last Line: Can any be compared to him? Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability JOHN CHRISTIAN, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: John christian knew the bible page by page Last Line: By killing christ and spilling human blood. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Theology JOHN SAYS MASS ON ALL SOULS' DAY, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: John lifts the bread Last Line: Across a sooty %opened countenance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion JOSEPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never in all her sweet and holy youth Last Line: Is not yet given ... One day I may know! Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Childhood; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coming we had of it Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi; Estrangement; Outcasts; Nativity, The JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coming we had of it Last Line: With an alien people clutching their gods. %I should be glad of another death Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi JUGGLER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A ball will bounce, but less and less Subject(s): Christianity; Jugglers; Religion; Theology JUGGLER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ball will bounce, but less and less Last Line: For him we batter our hands %who has won for once over the world's weight Subject(s): Christianity; Jugglers; Religion LACHRIMAE: 7. LACHRIMAE AMANTIS, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is there in my heart that you should sue Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LACHRIMAE: 7. LACHRIMAE AMANTIS, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is there in my heart that you should sue Last Line: Tomorrow I shall wake to welcome him Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LAMENT PSALM TWENTY-FOUR, by ANNE WEEMS Poem Source First Line: O my god, it is not fair! Last Line: Who is life eternal Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation LAST ON EARTH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is said that many have been cured of madness by drinking Subject(s): Christianity; God; Drinks & Drinking; Insanity; Wine; Madness; Mental Illness LAST RITES, by DAVID CITINO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When death dances in Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LAST RITES, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When death dances in Last Line: Let the darkness race across your body Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LEADER, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: A leader is nonexistent until he embraces the laws of god Last Line: More importantly, a leader puts god first in all %that he does Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability LEMNISCUS AD COLUMNAM S. SIMEONIS STYLITAE APPENSUS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: For still ye reverend pillar stands Last Line: Crowned by its nobilitie. Subject(s): Christianity; Mark, Saint (c. 46 A.d.) LEONARD COMMITS REDDEEMING ADULTERIES ..., by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I take off my glasses, these eyes are dark magnets Last Line: Break for me, destroying the ring's raised signature, %the cracked edges melting to mine Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LEONARD REFUSES TO ATONE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon comes up, a white cow Last Line: And become the dark thing %that walks among you, %pure, deaf, and full %of my own ingenious sins Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LETTER FROM SANTA CRUZ, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: I do not know the date Last Line: My hands open to receive whoever comes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LETTER FROM SHAMAN: THE TRIBE WITH NO MYTH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their territory there lived Last Line: Drifting, missing but not quite lost Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LIAR'S PSALM: REPENTANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I repent the actual. It has never got me anywhere Last Line: A word to say. Forgive me now my finger in the wound, and knuckle deep Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LIMBO, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The preacher waited. So here Subject(s): Abortions; Death; Christianity; Dead, The LITANY, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Mother of sorrow Last Line: In protest, crying out %to be loved Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LITANY FOR THE LIVING, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Hildegard of bingen Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LITTLE WHITE CHURCH, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us free will baptists walked a thin tightwire Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Worship; Christianity; Free Will & Determinism LOCUST SONGS: SHILOH CHURCH, 1862: TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stamping-ground of the shod word! So hard Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LOCUST SONGS: SHILOH CHURCH, 1862: TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stamping-ground of the shod word! So hard Last Line: But with what blood, and to what end, shiloh? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LORD ANSWERED ME, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: In my distress I prayed unto the lord Last Line: The god who answers %my every prayer Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability LORD ESTABLISH ME, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Lord, I see my enemies rejoice Last Line: Because your word is life Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability LORD, I AM THINE, by SAMUEL DAVIES Poem Source First Line: Lord, I am thine, entirely thine Last Line: And on that grace I dare depend Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation LORD, TEACH US TO LOVE, by JOHN W. DE GRUCHY Poem Source First Line: It is easy, lord, to mouth the word Last Line: Teach us to forgive as you have forgiven us Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back Last Line: So I did sit and eat. Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry & Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul; Bereavement; Theology LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Last Line: Of dark habits, %keeping their difficult balance Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry And Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul 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 VERSUS LUST, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Love is blind, they say Last Line: Indeed, love covers a multitude of sins Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability LOVES MONARCHIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mighty love / thou universall life & soule Last Line: Poore soule should not obey love's monarchie. Subject(s): Christianity; Worship LOVES OF THE PUPPETS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meeting when all the world was in the bud Last Line: Anc made the birds explode for miles around Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LOVES OF THE PUPPETS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meeting when all the world was in the bud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LUCIFER'S EPISTLE TO THE FALLEN, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Lucifer, son of the morning, pretty boy Last Line: Anything, and it will be added to your %account. Nothing will be beyond us; nothing %dares touch my Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LUKE 14: A COMMENTARY (1), by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is there, like clouseau Last Line: I'm a jew. %and I'm a comedian Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: With farmers and their brides sowing %and reaping. When they died %they became two spirits of the wo Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion MAN AND GOD, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Can a man resist god? Last Line: Resist god and become %the devil's breakfast Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability MAN WEARING BIRD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could be stone Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MAN WEARING BIRD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could be stone Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAN WHO COULDN'T BELIEVE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was the sort who entertained Last Line: And alone. He didn't have a prayer Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAN WHO WISHES TO FEED ON MAHOGANY, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Not the man who wishes to feed on mahogany Last Line: And one loved something here; and here; and here Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAN WITH THE HOE, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking about air conditioning's willis carrier Last Line: Whom I understand, but not before they speak Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MARTYR, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Set to flame, his eyes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MARY KROGER, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I had such fury I would choose Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MARY MAGDALENE'S LEFT FOOT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the picture in newsweek or time Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MARY MAGDALENE'S LEFT FOOT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the picture in newsweek or time Last Line: Will ever know of where we place our lips Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MATTHEW VIII, 28 FF, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbi, we gadarenes Last Line: We had rather you shoved off Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MATTHEW VIII, 28 FF, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbi, we gadarenes Last Line: We had rather you shoved off Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MEDITATION AFTER AN INTERVIEW, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I speak myself, and my name Last Line: I meet in your darkness and hear it %singing content in your silence Subject(s): Christianity MEDITATION IN THE SPRING RAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the april rain I climbed up to drink Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MEDITATION IN THE SPRING RAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the april rain I climbed up to drink Last Line: For a time I was lost and free, speechless %in the multitudinous assembling of his word Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MEDITATION ON THE NATIVITY, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: All gods and goddesses, all looked up to Last Line: A maid, a child, god young Subject(s): Christianity MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: FRIDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With hearts deep rooted in love's holy ground Last Line: To god's good pleasure, with a christ-like mind. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: THURSDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead as men are, in trespasses and sins Last Line: The gate of life, and paradise regain'd. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: TUESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour died, according to our faith Last Line: Pain is its cure, and it exists no more. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; Healing; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Belief; Creed; Cures; Theology MEMORIES, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: Do you look earthward sometimes Last Line: That through you we are set free Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas MENTAL HORIZONS: 1. MR. SMALLMAN-SELFISHNESS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: With the markets his spirits rise and fall Last Line: Hatched in this lilliputian hive. Subject(s): Christianity; Selfishness; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States MENTAL HORIZONS: 6. BROTHER BIGHEART-CHRISTIANITY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: The creed I hold is too divine Last Line: That throbs its way to the throne of god. Subject(s): Christianity; God; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States MERCY OF GOD, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: The mercy of god is great Last Line: For his mercy endures forever Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability MESSAGE FROM INLAND, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: I am clothed %in the seamless Last Line: I have lashed %a riding %light %to my heart Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MIDNIGHT GLADNESS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pleated lampshade, slightly askew Last Line: At my lips before darkness. Gift after gift Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MIDNIGHT GLADNESS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pleated lampshade, slightly askew Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MISERY CORD (IN MEMORY OF F.S. MURRAY), by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Misericord. The misery cord Last Line: Christ grand us the other half Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MONASTERY ORCHARD IN EARLY SPRING, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God's cows are in the fields Last Line: And blossom, and bear each fruit to glory %letting it fall Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MORNING PRAYER SONG, by JAN KARAFIAT Poem Source First Line: O, our dear god Last Line: And let us love one another. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation MORNING'S NEWS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To moralize the state, they drag out a man Last Line: And the summer's garden continues its descent %through me, toward the ground Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MOSTLY MY NIGHTMARES ARE DULL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly my nightmares are dull. On autumn nights Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MOSTLY MY NIGHTMARES ARE DULL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly my nightmares are dull. On autumn nights Last Line: As if I'll only -- fat chance -- live it once Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MOTHER I LOVE, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: The mother I love is the ideal woman Last Line: Indeed can take her place Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability MY CHURCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On me nor priest nor presbyter nor pope Last Line: The church is mine that does most christlike deeds Subject(s): Christianity MY HELP IS IN GOD, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Where will my help come? Last Line: He will dry my tears forever Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability MY JESUS, AS THOU WILT!, by BENJAMIN SCHMOLCK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: My lord, thy will be done Alternate Author Name(s): Schmolke, Benjamin Subject(s): Christianity MYSTERIES OF THE INCARNATION: 1. SHE SAID YEAH, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The land lies open: summer fallow, hayfield, pasture Last Line: Refectory window. She said yeah. And then the angel left her Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MYSTERIES OF THE INCARNATION: 4. THE THRONE OF GRACE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First their car broke down, then darlene and kaylee drank up Last Line: Then he shook his head and went back to eating Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MYSTERIES OF THE INCARNATION: 5. TRUE LOVE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds all wounds Last Line: We are god's chosen now Subject(s): Christianity; Religion NAMING THE LIVING GOD, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The special theory came to me,' einstein said Last Line: The name of the living god Subject(s): Christianity; Religion NARROW ROAD, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Narrow is the road we travel Last Line: Everlasting joy with our savior, jesus christ Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability NEO-THOMIST POEM, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is my shepherd, I shall not Last Line: Want him for long Subject(s): Christianity NEW YEAR'S EVE IN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flying in %before snow closed the airport Last Line: He says, loosening his loincloth, %'than the beginning thereof' Subject(s): Christianity; Religion NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 4. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A much-indebted muse, o yorke! Intrudes Last Line: Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.' Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fear; God; Life; Night; Old Age; Dead, The; Bedtime NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 2, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, my darling nuns Last Line: Who rustles dryly inside my gown? Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Convents; Nuns; Religion NURSING HOME, 3RD SHIFT, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: This one guy who had recently been brought in Last Line: Getting a little closer to where I want to be Subject(s): Christianity; Religion OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Observations are usually Last Line: Less and less about more and more Subject(s): Christianity; Religion OCTOBER, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: It's nuthatch on the box elder outside the window Last Line: Laughing, scrounging. He stays and dies, %or stays, and stays Subject(s): Christianity; Religion OCTOBER MAPLES, PORTLAND, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves, though little time they have to live Last Line: They could not choose but to return in blue Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology OCTOBER MAPLES, PORTLAND, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves, though little time they have to live Last Line: They could not choose but to return in blue Subject(s): Christianity; Religion 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 OLD CHRISTOVAL'S ADVICE; AND THE REASON HE GAVE IT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thy debtor be poor, old christoval cried Last Line: And remember'd what I might have been. Subject(s): Advice; Christianity; Debt; Humility; Morality; Ethics 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 PRAYER-BOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ary scheffer! When beneath thine eye Last Line: Making all burdens light, and breaking every chain. Subject(s): Blacks; Christianity; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ON A THEME FROM JULIAN'S CHAPTER 20, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six hours outstretched in the sun, yes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ON A THEME FROM JULIAN'S CHAPTER 20, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six hours outstretched in the sun, yes Last Line: He saw, and sorrowed in kinship Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ON SEEING A THOUSAND SABBATH SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PROCESSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What went ye out to see? Last Line: And reap thy full reward above! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Religion; Sabbath; Childhood; Theology; Sunday ON SLOW LEARNING, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: If you've ever owned Last Line: Or, looking up with tiny, wet eyes, might offer %an honest shrug. Forgive him Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Turtles ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER (1631), by ANNE DE ROHAN Poem Source First Line: After suffering so much strain Last Line: Washed in the great creator's blood Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 1770, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, happy saint, on thine immortal throne Last Line: Till life divine re-animates his dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): An Elegaic Poem Subject(s): Christianity; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Whitefield, George (1714-1770) ON THE FEAST OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: The solstice moon rides within a ring of ice Last Line: In the dream she road out to tell it to the frozen moon Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ON TRINITY SUNDAY (1), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Co-equal trinity was always taught Last Line: By its paternal, filial, spirit bliss. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Trinity Sunday 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 WHITSUNDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, ascended into heav'n again Last Line: Who hear this inward teacher and obey. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology ONE THING SURE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though all the world is inky black Last Line: The christ who dwells in you! Subject(s): Christianity ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS', by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The religion of sweet jesus Last Line: By a christian gun Subject(s): Christianity; Missionaries & Missions; Slavery; Serfs ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS', by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The religion of sweet jesus Last Line: Tis holier to die %by a christian gun Subject(s): Christianity; Missionaries And Missions; Slavery ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by FLOYD HARDIN Poem Text First Line: Help me, o christ, to hold thy sacred cross Last Line: (his head appears!—thank god!—I've popped my man!) Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War ORGAN SONGS: A PRAYER FOR THE PAST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All sights and sounds of day and year Last Line: What home is too may know? Subject(s): Aging; Children; Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Life; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: I KNOW WHAT BEAUTY IS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know what beauty is, for thou Last Line: All glory else is glorified. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; God ORGAN SONGS: LIGHT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First-born of the creating voice! Last Line: For god is light. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Light; Nature; Truth ORGAN SONGS: LONGING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is full of inarticulate pain Last Line: Thou art my solitude, my mountain-calm! Subject(s): Christianity; God; Longing; Love ORGAN SONGS: SYMPATHY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grief held me silent in my seat Last Line: Smile in my infant's smile. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Grief; Sympathy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy 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 DIM EYES SEEK A BEACON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "first the cross, and then the crown" Subject(s): Christianity OUR FATHER, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Glory to the father Last Line: Who to bring him mirrors Subject(s): Christianity; Religion OUR LADY OF ARDBOE, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just there, in a corner of the whin-field Subject(s): Christianity OUR LADY OF PITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She stands, our lady of pity Last Line: The city, with want and sin Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Christianity OUR LOST ANGELS, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Ages ago, clouds brought them near Last Line: We must now be wrapped Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PALM SUNDAY, by MAY HAMMOND WITTERS Poem Text First Line: Dear master: I've no palms to strew upon Last Line: Is my savior pacing off the miles to calvary -- for me. Subject(s): Christianity PASSIO XL MARTYRUM, by ARTHUR E. BAKER Poem Text First Line: See how the sparks fly snapping down the wind! Last Line: The trumpet! And this cursed watch is over. Subject(s): Christianity; Yale University PASTOR PRAISES THE CREATOR, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dearly beloved, I mean today Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PENTECOST, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O seasonable feast! / never had we Last Line: And britains chaos into order tame! Subject(s): Christianity; Rites & Ceremonies PENTECOST, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: What is this holy spirit? Last Line: And what is it doing in the eggplant Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PENTECOST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We thank you, compassionate god Last Line: Through jesus our crucified and risen savior. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PICTURE OF A NATIVITY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology PICTURE OF A NATIVITY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils Last Line: Freeze into an attitude %recalling the dead Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PLACE-RITUALS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the word our lips caress, our teeth bite Subject(s): Prayer; Infinity; Christianity PLANXTY IRWIN, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the music's in the room Last Line: So did they all Subject(s): Christianity; Religion POETRY AND RELIGION, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Religions are poems. The concert Last Line: Who fly with wings shut, then beating, and again shut Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PORTRAIT OF THE TOWN LEONARD, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I saw him look my way and crossed Last Line: Till windowed hulks, forgotten death cars reared %where dark fish leapt, and gaped, and snatched the Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRAGUE: OLD WOMAN IN THE STREET, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the country saying, she was only Last Line: You neared. Unbearably, the quick dead cried out Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRAISE IN SUMMER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurely yet most surely called to praise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Summer; Theology PRAISE IN SUMMER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurely yet most surely called to praise Last Line: That trees grow green, and moles can course in clay, %and sparrows sweep the ceiling of our day? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Summer PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My prayers, my god, flow from what I am not Last Line: If the lion in us pray-thou answered the lamb Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prayer, the church's banquet, angels' age Last Line: The land of spices, something understood. Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYER FOR AFRICA, by MAAKE J. MASANGO Poem Source First Line: The sun that is so good Last Line: That are low; help us, fulfilling god, to love as you have loved us. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE, by RUBEM A. ALVES Poem Source First Line: You know, o god Last Line: And an embrace of the future. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR GOD'S PRESENCE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, lord, and tarry not Last Line: Great king of righteousness Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR PEACE, by JANE PARKER HUBER Poem Source First Line: Great god, whose will is peace for all the earth Last Line: Bring us, at last, to our eternal home Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR PEACE, by THOMAS A. PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: We are tired, lord Last Line: And be forgiven. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR SACRAMENTAL PRESENCE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, o my lord, I see thee face to face Last Line: My strength is in thy might, thy might alone Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR THE CITY, by JOY F. PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: O lord, you gave your servant john Last Line: Let all our cities shine forth peace Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR THE LAND, by DANIEL BETETA Poem Source First Line: The earth is no longer producing fruit Last Line: And may your spirit purify us. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR THOSE WHO SERVE, by PETER MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: Lord jesus, %bless all who serve us Last Line: Days of stress and strain, preaches sermons %without words. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER FOR THOSE WITH AIDS, by CHRIS GLASER Poem Source First Line: Dear god, %friends with aids Last Line: Our god. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER OF CONFESSION, by RACHEL HENDERLITE Poem Source First Line: We come to thee, o christ, confessing to thee the fears that Last Line: Give us the strength and peace that only thou canst give. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER OF PETITION FOR THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Grant unto us, o god Last Line: In and with thee, we can do all things. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER OF RETURN, by MICHEL BOUTTIER Poem Source First Line: Your presence, lord Last Line: In your power and your joy! Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYER TO EVE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of fictions %and of irony Last Line: Come with us, muse of exile, %mother of the road Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRAYERS FOR THE BAPTISM OF A CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God of love, we rejoice again Last Line: With you, father, and the holy spirit, %one god for ever. Amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PRAYING DRUNK, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our father who art in heaven, I am praying drunk Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology PRAYING DRUNK, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father who art in heaven, I am praying drunk Last Line: He goes. As I fall past, remember me Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA Poem Text First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream Last Line: Long grass. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PRESENCE OF GOD, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: He spoke in a thimble Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRESENCE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE NATURAL WORLD: MOLLUSC, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By its nobship sailing upside down Last Line: Underleaf may this and every snail sense %itself ornament the weave of presence Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRINCIPLES OF SCARCITY, DOCTRINES OF GROWTH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Research shows that for each discovery Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PROCLAIM THE LORD, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Proclaim the lord all the people Last Line: My endeavors for all to see Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability PROOF, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I love god for causing me to be Last Line: Crossed out delete and wrote his patient stet Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PROSPECT OF THE INTERIOR, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: A little daunting, these periodic Last Line: Coracle, the allocated oar Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PSALM 1, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Happy is the one who walks otherwise Last Line: But the way of heedlessness is oblivion Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 10, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Why do you stand aloof Last Line: And thus no mortal of the earth can be arrogant Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 100, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All the earth shouts for you! Last Line: And throughout the generations Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 102, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Hear my prayer %let my cry come before you Last Line: In the soil of this spirit Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 103, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My soul is for your blessing Last Line: My soul is for your blessing Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 104, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My soul is for your blessing %for you are very great Last Line: My soul is for your blessing- %I praise that too Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 104: THE MAJESTY AND MERCY OF GOD, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Oh, worship the king all glorious above Last Line: With true adoration shall lisp to thy praise. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Religion; Theology PSALM 107, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Thus the inspired ones speak Last Line: And have confidence in your steadfast love Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 109, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You whom I regularly praise Last Line: To save him from people like that Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 11, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I have trusted you Last Line: Your face glows with it Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 115, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Nor for our sake, o lord, not for us Last Line: Until a timeless and endless tomorrow Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 117, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Nations, give praise Last Line: Without end- %praise that Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 118, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Gratitude to you for your goodness Last Line: For your kindness pierces time through Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 12, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I call out to you %for the real is gutted Last Line: As if the world were made for them Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 121, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I lift my eyes to the mountain peak Last Line: Secure my departure %now: %always Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 122, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Joy drenched me when you said Last Line: I pledge myself to seek the good Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 123, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Unto thee oppressed thou great commander of heaven Last Line: Whose scornfull misery greatly thy mercy needeth. Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 123, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Up toward you %I lift my eyes Last Line: Oppressed by the disdaining other %inside and out Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 124, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: If you had not stood by us Last Line: You to whom all speech is addressed Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 125, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: As sion standeth very firmly stedfast Last Line: Peace be for ever Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 125, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Like unmovable zion Last Line: Find a towering lasting and patient peace Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 126, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: When long absent from lovely sion Last Line: To see our buisiness joyfuly reaped Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 126, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: When you bring us out from enclosure Last Line: Our arms full of sheaves Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 128, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: All happyness shall thee betide Last Line: But gifts of peace shall grace Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 128, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Happy is the one who stands in awe of you Last Line: For all who question and struggle Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 13, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: How long will you persist in forgetting me? Last Line: In this sudden opening to you Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 130, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Out of the depths I call to you Last Line: And you will loose all our bindings %surely Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 130, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the depth of my mind Last Line: Will redeem at the end Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation PSALM 131, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You know that my heart is not haughty Last Line: From this day forth %and always Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 133, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: How good %how pleasant Last Line: For life, life always Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 137, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: We sat by the waters of babylon Last Line: Are dashed against the rock of faith Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 139, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You have searched me inside and out with your beam Last Line: On the way to your timeless time Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 14, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The useless fool says in his heart Last Line: And the struggles will rejoice with strong singing Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 145, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I will hold you highest in my heart Last Line: Everywhere and always Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 146, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My soul brims with gratitude for you Last Line: Zion's guide for all the generations- %praise is yours Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 147, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Praise: %how good it is to sing to you Last Line: For this too we are grateful Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 148, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Praise to you from the sky's boundary Last Line: And are close at hand Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 15, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Who can rest in your tent? Last Line: Will never be shaken Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 150, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Praise to you in your holiness Last Line: Every breath is your praise Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 16, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Protect me from fear Last Line: Your right hand my chief delight %always Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 17, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Hear the justice of my case Last Line: Filled with a quiet vision of you Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 18, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O love you, o god, my strength Last Line: David and his seed %always Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 19, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The heavens express your fire Last Line: My rock, my release Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 2, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: What makes nations erupt and people's minds go Last Line: In the kingdom of what is Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 20, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: In trouble %answer us Last Line: Now as we call out to your calling Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 21, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Sovereignty shines through power Last Line: We sing in praise of your power Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 22, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My god, my god, why have you forsaken me? Last Line: That this is how you are Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 23, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You are my shepherd, I am content Last Line: I will always live within your home Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 24, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All the earth and all that fills it belongs to you Last Line: All in all, this is what burns ever bright Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 25, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Now as I sing %I lift up my soul to you Last Line: From our pitiful distress Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 27, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You are my light and my help Last Line: I wait only for you Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 28, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I call out to you, my rock Last Line: Open us up in the timeless days Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 29, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O high and mighty ones Last Line: So that we may be blessed with peace Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 3, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: How many are my tormentors Last Line: And blessings rain down on your people Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 30, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I will lift you up Last Line: Pouring out my gratitude without end Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 31, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: In you I put my trust Last Line: Be strong and of good cheer Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 32, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Happy is the one who is forgiven Last Line: The upright in heart shout for joy Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 33, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Upright hearts rejoice in you Last Line: That refreshes our body's hope Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 34, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Every moment I bless you Last Line: And none who trust you will know remorse Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 36, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I feel the heedless impulse in my heart Last Line: Thrust down %unable to rise Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 37, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Don't fear the heedless ones Last Line: To waiting with what is Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 39, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I said, I will be careful Last Line: Before I travel on %and am gone Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 4, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Because I call %you answer Last Line: I find my completion Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 40, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I waited patiently for you Last Line: My help, my deliverer %o don't delay! Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 42, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: As the hart thrills for the fresh brook Last Line: When I am whole Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 44, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Blessing on you, my rock Last Line: Happy those who give themselves to you Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 46, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You are our protection and strength Last Line: Our defense at the silent center of things Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 48, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You are greatness Last Line: Even into death Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 49, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: People, listen to me Last Line: And perish, like any animal Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 5, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Listen %incline your ear toward me Last Line: Circling them round like a shield Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 50, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You-out of your namelessness Last Line: Will feel my kindness and my help Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 51, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Be gracious with me in your loving-kindness Last Line: Then the bullocks and the incense can be offered on %the altars Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 55, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Listen to my prayer Last Line: My trust is yours Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 57, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Be gracious, be gracious, be gracious Last Line: Raise yourself up and blaze out over all the body %of earth! Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 59, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Release me from torment Last Line: For your are my shield %my kindness Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 6, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Con't crush me with your anger Last Line: Suddenly it is turned-shamed and disarmed Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 62, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My soul waits quietly for you Last Line: For all according to their acts Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 65, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For you praise waits in zion Last Line: They murmur it, shout it, sing it out Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 72, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Endow power with justice Last Line: It fills the world to the brim with its brightness Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 73, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: It is true-the strugglers Last Line: In speaking only of what you are Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 74, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Why have you cast us off forever? Last Line: Their snarling noises ascending all the time Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 75, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: We give thanks to you, endless thanks Last Line: But the horns of the upright you raise Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 77, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I shout out to you, I wail Last Line: In moses and aaron's care Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 8, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Your unsayable name: it covers all the earth Last Line: Your unsayable name covers heaven and earth Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 80, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Listen, shepherd of israel Last Line: Turn our hearts around, shine on us, open us up Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 81, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I sing to you my strength Last Line: And out of the rock sweet honey would flow Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 84, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: How lovely is your house! Last Line: Happy is the one whose trust rests solid with you Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 86, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Listen to me, answer me, for I am desperate Last Line: Knowing you have helped me and given me comfort Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 87, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You love zion's gates Last Line: Here is the source of all my joy Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 88, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Now you are my only help Last Line: Is altogether put out Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 89, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I will forever sing of your kindness Last Line: Ingratitude I speak these words to you Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 90, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You have always been a refuge to me Last Line: And let all that I do %be yours Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 92, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: It is good to thank you, good to pronounce your Last Line: Sealed and without a crack Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 93, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You are sovereign Last Line: Even past the end of time Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 94, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Shine your light on action Last Line: Brought to wholeness in its time Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 95, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: We are here %singing to you Last Line: That they would never enter my place Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 96, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I sing a new song to you and the earth sings too Last Line: Who comes with the sweetness of truth Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 97, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: You are sovereign! %the earth is glad Last Line: And give thanks for the holiness of memory Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PSALM 98, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: To you we sing a new song Last Line: To establish justice and harmony everywhere Subject(s): Christianity; Zen Buddhism PURIFICATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At start of spring I open a trench Last Line: The deathless earth. Beneath that seal %the old escapes into the new Subject(s): Christianity; Religion QUESTION, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: O, little donkey, you have long shaggy ears Last Line: Again bear the glorified christmas king? Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas RE-ROOTING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were trying to put the roots back Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology RE-ROOTING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were trying to put the roots back Last Line: Even this digging, better than nothing, %has not yet begun Subject(s): Christianity; Religion RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECOGNITION OF THE END OF A MARRIAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God of all mercy Last Line: Who is able to make all things new. %amen Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation REDEMPTION, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having been tenant long to a rich lord Last Line: Who straight, your suit is granted, said, and died. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Belief; Creed REDEMPTION, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning this / july, so far Subject(s): Christianity; Conduct Of Life REDEMPTION, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Just when I was coming out of the water Last Line: For him to rescue me from the water Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability REGARDING THE MONUMENT, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Of course it is made of would, and want, Last Line: If more powerfully, and more horribly Subject(s): Christianity; Religion RELIGION, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, when I walk in those groves Last Line: And turn once more our water into wine! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Christianity; Miracles RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This misalliance / follows the custom Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Belief; Creed RELIQUARY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The golden lock from my son's first haircut Last Line: Of the holy bones of my black dog who could fly Subject(s): Baptism; Christianity; Spiritual Life ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers RULE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The oil for extreme unction must be blessed Last Line: Things must be done in one way or another Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Rites And Ceremonies RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism S. BARNABAS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tis not so poore a thing to be Last Line: That heathen god e'r sate upon. Subject(s): Barnabas, Saint (1st Century); Christianity S. JAMES BP. OF JERUSALEM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: All yee whose pride is built upon Last Line: In truth is, what's in shadows heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Legends; Passover; Saints S. JOHN BAPTIST, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: When nights black houres be almost spent Last Line: Then herod at his feast beheld thee heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Worship S. MARK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tis not thine alexandrian seat Last Line: Whom thou recordest, can reward thy story. Subject(s): Christianity; England; Saints; English S. PHILIP, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twelve golden trumpets to proclaime Last Line: Occasioned thy so happy state. Subject(s): Christianity; Saints S. STEPHEN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Blind foolish jews, ye stones yee throw Last Line: Yet he sole soveraigne is. Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops SABBATHS: 1985 I, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not again in this flesh will I see Last Line: Is here, shaping the seasons of his wild will Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SABBATHS: 1985 I, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not again in this flesh will I see Last Line: Is here, shaping the seasons of his wild will Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SABBATHS: 1985 III, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awaked from the persistent dream Last Line: We are all praising, praying to the light we are, but cannot know Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SABBATHS: 1985 III, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awaked from the persistent dream Last Line: The lights we are, but cannot know Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SACRAMENTS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the sun dancers, in their helmets of sage Last Line: Then the systole, the blackness of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SAINT CLARE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First I heard the voice throbbing across the river Last Line: Except by reaching the gate Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Variant Title(s): The Cal Subject(s): Christianity; Clare, Saint (1194-1253); Religion SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 1. AT THE PIANO, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night two hunters, drunk, came in the tent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 1. AT THE PIANO, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night two hunters, drunk, came in the tent Last Line: Which was rouged crimson with red clay and blood Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 4. LOOSE CHANGE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'd sip our water and wait till supper came Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 4. LOOSE CHANGE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We'd sip our water and wait till supper came Last Line: Take this, you slut, I've stolen it for you Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SAINTS' LOGIC, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love the drill, confound the dentist. Subject(s): Christianity SALVATION, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Granted, the choir %is an embarrassment. Those faces Last Line: Of salvation, it is what we all expect Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SALVATOR MUNDI: VIA CRUCIS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe he looked indeed / much as rembrandt envisioned him Subject(s): Christianity; God; Religion; Theology SALVATOR MUNDI: VIA CRUCIS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe he looked indeed %much as rembrandt envisioned him Last Line: Up from those depths where purpose %drifted for mortal moments Subject(s): Christianity; God; Religion SATAN ABSOLVED; A VICTORIAN MYSTERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Satan. To-day is the lord's 'day.' once more on his / good pleasure Last Line: Michael (aside). The anti-christ! Subject(s): Angels; Antichrist; Christianity; Devil; Evil; Heaven; Mystery; Religion & Science; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise SAVIOR, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the rain began to fall, he rolled back Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SAY-BUT-THE-WORD CENTURION ATTEMPTS A SUMMARY, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That numinous healer who preached saturnalia and paradox Last Line: And live the impossible. As each time we have, with mixed cries Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SEA OF KANSAS, OHIO TUNDRA, TIME STILL RUNNING OUT, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kansas one million centuries ago, a tropical sea Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make no mistake if he rose at all Last Line: And crushed by remonstrance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make no mistake if he rose at all Last Line: And crushed by remonstance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SIGN OF YOUR FATHER, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: (the grain of wheat) Last Line: You say to them: 'it is a movement %and a rest' Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SILEX SCINTIALLANS: THEY ARE ALL GONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are all gone into the world of light! Last Line: Where I shall need no glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Ascension Hymn;beyond The Veil;departed Friends;beauteous Death;the World Of Light;friends Gone Subject(s): Ascension Day; Christianity; Consolation; Death; Heaven; Immortality; Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement; Theology SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: ON NATURE OF THE CANDLE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It stands to reason. Wax crafted by bees Last Line: Of our brief wisdom lingering in the room Subject(s): Candles; Christianity; Religion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: THE FAMILY JEWELS, by DAVID CITINO Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning he put man's parts Subject(s): Bodies; Christianity; Passion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: THE FAMILY JEWELS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning he put man's parts Last Line: And profane, the family jewels Subject(s): Bodies; Christianity; Passion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES BIBLE STUDY CLASS: HOMAGE TO ONAN, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Resurrection man, father Last Line: Didn't fail, to move to death Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES FOLKLORE CLASS: DOCTRINES STRAWBERRY, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, full of the mercy only Last Line: Waiting for him to come again Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Strawberries SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES HOME EC CLASS: THE FEAST, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On time for every meal Last Line: Unappeased, our need, the feast Subject(s): Christianity; Food And Eating; Religion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THE SCIENCE CLASS: FOSSILS, PHYSICS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil bones, splintered bits of pelvis Last Line: By rubbing it across the heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Fossils; Human Behavior; Schools; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Students SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA PROVES TO ENTOMOLOGY CLASS ... FROM CRICKET, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Our mothers and fathers, %sojourners in bogs, architects Last Line: Chanting the history of the world Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SITTING IN THE SIXTH GRADE AT ASCENSION OF OUR LORD SCHOOL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was a new catechism, a new testament Last Line: And all the things that might be without being seen Subject(s): Christianity; Religious Education SITUATION NO. 13: CITY HALL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tall in a top hat %the mayor, who minutes before Last Line: What's your next move? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SITUATION NO. 33: THE FEAST, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're told the ingredients Last Line: Do you accept? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SITUATION NO. 7: THE POISON LOVER, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night %deep in middle age Last Line: Scapular, mojo, prayer %what do you do? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SITUATION NO. 9: THE CORPOSANT, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You wake at the end of the night %young again, all things new Last Line: Tell me, what's the difference now %between what's left of you %and dawn? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SLIP, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river takes the land, and leaves nothing Last Line: On what remains. Seed will sprout in the scar. %though death is in the healing, it will heal Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SOMETIME DURING ETERNITY, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Christianity SONG FOR THE MORNING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come forth, come forth, my maidens, 'tis the day of good st. John Last Line: To dress with flowers the snow-white wether, ere the sun has dried the dew Variant Title(s): Song For The Morning Of The Day Of Saint John The Baptis Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Festivals; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Romance SONG FOR THE MORNING OR EVENING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, how endless is thy love! Last Line: Demand perpetual songs of praise. Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation; Worship SONG FROM THE DEEP, by KALMAN CSIHA Poem Source First Line: Christ our lord, your orphaned nation Last Line: And for our sighs your peace impart Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation SONG OF THE CHRISTIAN WORKMAN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Our master toiled, a carpenter Last Line: Who serve in labor's brotherhood? Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SONNET, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art indeed just, lord, if I contend Last Line: Mine, o thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Variant Title(s): "justus Quidem Tu Es, Domine;""thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend""; Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; God; Religion; Theology SONNET. CHRISTIANITY, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in the east a star! The orient shade Last Line: Still brightening kindles faith, lo, in the east a star! Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 22, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Happy inn of viveros Last Line: The wine a moor Subject(s): Christianity; Moors (people) SPLINTER, by MIMI MORIARTY Poem Source First Line: A splinter in his finger %a subtle warning Last Line: A splinter in his finger %a subtle warning Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SPRING IN NAZARETH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is come!' a shepherd Last Line: Green, green, the barley and the corn! Subject(s): Christianity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Spring; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary SPRING SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green of jesus Subject(s): Christianity; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Roman Catholics; Catholicism SS. SIMON & JUDE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: When love the king of bounty, did Last Line: Simon & jude are read. Subject(s): Christianity; Saints ST AETHELBURGA; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen, saint, evangelist; sweet, patient, fain to wait Last Line: She enters through that gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Aethelburga Of Kent (d. 647); Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Kent, England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ST. ARMORER'S CHURCH FROM THE OUTSIDE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Armorer's was once a great success Subject(s): Churches; Christianity; Cathedrals ST. CHRISTOPHER OF THE GAEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the wattle-woven house Last Line: The peace of perfect peace he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Christianity; Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Druids; Faith; Legends; Monks; Peace; Salvation; Druidism; Belief; Creed ST. CHRISTOPHER; FOR A CHILD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was none so tall as this giant bold Last Line: Was changed to giant christopher. Subject(s): Christianity; Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Jesus Christ ST. JOHN'S EAGLE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He holds his course, he stoops not at command Last Line: Remember what you wrote as thoughtful men! Subject(s): Christianity STILL, STILL WITH THEE, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, still with thee, when purple morning breaketh Last Line: Shall rise the glorious thought -- I am with thee. Variant Title(s): When I Awake I Am Still With Thee Subject(s): Christianity; Dawn; Prayer; Reformation; Religion; Sunrise; Theology STORMS OF LIFE, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: When we are tossed to and from Last Line: God and to your freedom Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability STYLITE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saint on the pillar stands Last Line: Hair above the groin %and his eyes on the world Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Christianity SUITE TO APPLENESS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you love me drink this discolored wine Last Line: Her mountains strewn and crushed. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Christianity; Drinks & Drinking; Fruit; Judgments; Temptation; Wine SUITE TO APPLENESS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or in the orchard that night Last Line: As an apple. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Christianity; Crows; Fruit; Night; Bedtime SUMMER, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Fills the white enamel bucket, overflows Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SUNDAY, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Late arrivals at mass, in lace Last Line: Futility civilization Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Mass; Sabbath SUNDAY MORNING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Complacencies of the peignoir, and late / coffee and oranges in a sunny chair Last Line: Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; God; Life; Nature; Religion; Dead, The; Theology SURPRISE, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: A voice calling from the trees Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SURROUNDED, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my suburb is surrounded by churches Subject(s): Suburbs; Christianity; Churches; Cathedrals SWIMMERS, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Even at night the ducks are at work Last Line: Once to walk proud upon our home Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SYCAMORE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the place that is my own place, whose earth Last Line: I see that it stands in its place, and feeds upon it, %and is fed upon, and is native, and maker Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TAMARACK BLUE, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As any brush-wolf, driven from the hills Last Line: Something in palsied mullein troubles me. Subject(s): Blue (color); Christianity; Wolves TANGMALANGALOO, by P. J. HARTIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime Last Line: "it's the day before the races out at tangmalangaloo." Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2) Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Last Line: The weaver at rest Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weavers And Weaving; Women And Religion TEACHER'S PRAYER, by ANN PLATO Poem Source First Line: Teach me, o lord, the secret errors of my way Last Line: That sphere with duty, and perform thy will Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation TENEBRAE, by PERCY. WILLIAM ALEXANDER Poem Full Text First Line: Sayest thou then to all that will to hearken Subject(s): Christianity TERESA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the sun's eclipse Last Line: The tempered consonants of discipline Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Theology; Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint TERESA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the sun's eclipse Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582) TERMINUS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the roll of folly and of crime Last Line: The church bowed eastward still, and all was well. Subject(s): Christianity; Worship THAT MAN AS A RATIONAL ANIMAL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abiding provenance I would have said Last Line: Innocence of first inscription Subject(s): Christianity THE 'HIGHER CRITICISM', by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sophistry! How many lips have kissed Last Line: By all, disprove, perforce, each lying test. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Belief; Creed THE ABIDING BURG (DEDICATION: TO THE SMALL TOWNS OF CHRISTENDOM), by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Text First Line: There lived a man before the altar - flame Last Line: Resting eternally his travelling feet. Subject(s): Christianity; Oxford University; Towns THE ADMIRABLE CONVERSION OF S. PAUL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: A thirst againe? But even now Last Line: A sweet & intellectuall star. Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Saints THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A boy -- okay,it's me -- wears a fringed Last Line: One hand pressed hard into this crotch Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE AFTER WOMAN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of the ancient eve Last Line: This song is sung and sung not, and its words are sealed. Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE ALDERMAN'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom are they ushering from the world, with all Last Line: Dropping upon his urn their marble tears. Subject(s): Christianity; Funerals; Generosity; Sin; Strangers; Towns; Wealth; Burials; Riches; Fortunes THE ANCHORAGE, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think you would like this seaside town-it makes me dream of whales. Last Line: That move through them. Just motion, and union, and light Subject(s): Seashore; Childhood Memories; Christianity THE ANGEL FOOD DOGS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaping, leaping, leaping Subject(s): Christianity; Women; Theology THE APOSTATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, hypocrite harry, that hamburg hand-kisser Last Line: Bless the poet, heinrich, as he blesses you. Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Hypocrisy; Jews; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Judaism; Feminism THE AUTHOR, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Accursed the man, whom fate ordains, in spite Last Line: And will, though poor without, have peace within. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Christianity; Education; Hypocrisy; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Virtue THE BEACON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea Last Line: Assembles all the sea Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE BIBLE, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is my christian brother linked with me Subject(s): Christianity; Bible THE BIBLIOGRAPHERS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucifer blazing in superb effigies Last Line: The shadow-god envisioned is no cloud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE BIGOT, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The foolish roman fondly thought Last Line: To fit your own contracted heart. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Pantheism; Racism; Religion; Rome, Italy; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Theology THE BURNT-OFFERING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice-happy he whose heart, each new-born night Last Line: Sleep's ashes only hide a glowing fire. Subject(s): Christianity; Fire; Rites And Ceremonies; Sacrifices THE CALL OF THE CHRISTIAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not always as the whirlwind's rush Last Line: Thy father's call of love! Subject(s): Christianity THE CANDLE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The life and death I once did mark Last Line: Converts ye candles into starrs. Subject(s): Candles; Christianity; Faith; Humanity; Youth; Belief; Creed THE CASTLE OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The castle is built with a lordly design Last Line: Of our castle of christian endeavor. Subject(s): Christianity THE CESTELLO ANNUNCIATION, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The angel has already said, 'be not afraid' Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE CHRISTENIN', by PRIAM [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "on the plains of tooraneedin, where the rabbits keep on breedin'" Last Line: He's the one and only christian pig in all the countryside Alternate Author Name(s): Priam Subject(s): Baptism;christianity;ireland;pigs; Christenings;irish;boars;hogs THE CHRISTIAN CALLING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thy night is dark; behold, the shade was deeper" Last Line: And the bright morning yet will break for thee Subject(s): Christianity THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR IN THE COLISEUM; 'CHRISTIANOS AND LEONES', by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christian, come forth! The hungering lions crave Last Line: Him may we, steadfast in the faith, resist! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Christianity; Coliseum, Rome; Martyrs; Rome, Italy THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIM'S HYMN, by WILLIAM WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Guide me, o thou great jehovah Last Line: Lord, I long to be with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Pantycelyn Variant Title(s): Arglwydd Arwain;praying For Strength Subject(s): Christianity THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A christian! Going, gone! Last Line: How long, o god, how long? Subject(s): Auctions; Christianity; Slavery; Serfs THE CHRISTIAN WOMAN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Beautiful as morning in those hours Last Line: Down to death's chamber, and his bridal-bed. Subject(s): Women; Christianity; Death THE CHRISTIAN'S CONFIDENCE, by CHARLES H. MCLEAN Poem Text First Line: I sought him and found him Last Line: Flooded my soul. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHRYSALIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I floated sightless, nor did know Last Line: And from that world a mighty angel fled. Subject(s): Christianity; Creation; God THE CHURCH OF CHRIST: 1. CHOSEN IN CHRIST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou chosen church of jesus, glorious, blessed, and secure Last Line: Theme of never-ending praises, god of sovereign grace, to thee! Subject(s): Christianity THE CHURCH OF CHRIST: 2. CALLED, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy brethren, called and chosen by the sovereign voice of might Last Line: For the prize of this high calling bravely to the end endure. Subject(s): Christianity THE CHURCH OF CHRIST: 3. JUSTIFIED, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Israel of god, awaken! Church of christ arise and shine Last Line: "by his name thou shalt be called, christ, ""the lord our righteousness!" Subject(s): Christianity THE CHURCH OF CHRIST: 5. JOINED TO CHRIST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joined to christ in mystic union Last Line: When their glorious head is crowned! Subject(s): Christianity THE CHURCH OF CHRIST: 6. PRESENTED FAULTLESS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our saviour and our king Last Line: My glorious diadem!' Subject(s): Christianity THE CHURCH OF CHRIST: 7. GLORIFIED, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sovereign lord and gracious master Last Line: Sing the glory of his grace. Subject(s): Christianity THE CHURCHMAN'S THREE WISHES IN FAVOUR OF THE BURIAL BILL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A churchman, three things in this christian land Last Line: Not solemnized in lent. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Christianity; Funerals; Religion; Wishes; Burials; Theology THE COLLAR, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I struck the board and cried, no more Last Line: And I replied, my lord. Subject(s): Anger; Christianity; Despair; Faith; God; Revolutions; Belief; Creed THE CONTENTED MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How good god is to me,' he said Last Line: "he keeps me smiling to the end." Subject(s): Christianity; God; Paris, France THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind was my friend who, in the eastern land Last Line: The patient christ, and mary at the tomb! Subject(s): Christianity; Islam THE CRITICS AT GETHSEMANE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even here we meet the critics. The deep grief Last Line: And works, in simple faith, as best she may. Subject(s): Christianity; Gethsemane THE CROSS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since christ embraced the cross itself, dare I Last Line: That crosses children, which our crosses are. Subject(s): Christianity; Crosses THE CRUSADERS' MARCH, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raise ye up the song of zion Last Line: Cross and banner, sword and spear! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Christianity; Crusades; Faith; Martyrs; Belief; Creed THE CURSE OF LOVE, by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With heavy anguish, hopeless straining Last Line: Promised to death, and to love—doomed. Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): Christianity; Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets THE DEATH OF MATTAHIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of my age, attend Last Line: Hope lifts my soul to thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Death; Fathers & Sons; Legacies; Mysticism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MOSES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Israel, my hour is come Last Line: And triumphantly fight for the lord. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Faith; God; Moses; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE DEATH OF STEPHEN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O power invincible of faith and love Last Line: Thus, martyr'd stephen, thus wert thou avenged. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Christianity; God; Martyrs; Religion; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.); Theology THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rage of babylon is roused Last Line: Alas, more dreadful thy remember'd guilt! Subject(s): Babylon; Christianity; Guilt; Prophecy & Prophets; Punishment; Repentance; Penitence THE DISCIPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are changed, and gone the day Last Line: In that fear doubteth thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Doubt; Education; Faith; Fathers & Sons; God; Humility; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE DIVINE MISSION, by ALFRED GIBBS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on the earth had settled moral night Last Line: Thy majesty and power vindicate! Subject(s): Christianity THE DRUM, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a rhythm down the road where the elms overarch Last Line: "of the drum!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Christianity; Drums; Musical Instruments; Vengeance; War THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY AT AUGSBURG, by MARY CASS CANFIELD Poem Text First Line: The first faint light of early day Last Line: Engraved with heaven's own light! Alternate Author Name(s): C.; Mulme, Mary Cass Subject(s): Christianity THE END OF THE WAY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I seen by the winding way Last Line: Jesu, I am tired. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Love - Complaints THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GIFT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They hung the lambs and cut t heir white throats. Blood Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE GREATEST WORK, by RAY M. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: He built a house; time laid it in the dust Last Line: Lasts longer than a granite monument. Subject(s): Christianity THE GUEST, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed into the doorway Last Line: Of my knowing, but not asked Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Religion; Visiting; Theology THE HOLY DUST, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeping an ancient chapel through the night Last Line: With happy lips she kissed each cherished head. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Christianity THE HOME-COMING, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roman net grips land and sea Last Line: Of a young jew crucified? Subject(s): Christianity; Homecoming THE HOUND OF HEAVEN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I fled him, down the nights and down the days Last Line: "thou dravest love from thee, who dravest me." Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; God; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE HUMANIST, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The venice portrait: he Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE INCARNATE ONE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windless northern surge, the sea-gull's scream Subject(s): Christianity THE JEW IS TRUE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth among this homeless race Last Line: The better christian is the jew. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Israel; Jews; Religion - Reformers; Judaism THE JEW TO THE GENTILE, by SARA MESSING STERN Poem Text First Line: The priest bent angry gaze upon the jew Last Line: "can bring more souls to god than all man's creed." Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Christianity; Jews; Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict THE JEW'S APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN, by J. W. BLENCOWE JR. Poem Text First Line: Cease, christian, cease the word of scorn Last Line: On judah's race—on israel's name. Subject(s): Christianity; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Judaism THE KINGDOM OF ALL-SOULS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard in my youth of a kingdom, lying far at the whole world's end Last Line: Majestical over my dark form that soul of morning towered. Subject(s): Christianity; Civilization; Humanity THE KINGDOM OF GOD, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: O world invisible, we view thee Last Line: Not of gennesareth, but thames! Variant Title(s): In No Strange Land Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE KINGS, by HENRY WILLIAM HOYNE Poem Text First Line: Three kings riding forth of old Last Line: You have wandered from your star! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Social Protest; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology THE LAST HOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Lord, in the gloom of my distress Last Line: "and ""death"" were life's supreme appeal." Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Despair; God; Hope; Religion; Dead, The; Optimism; Theology THE LAY OF ST. ALOYS; A LEGEND OF BLOIS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saint aloys / was the bishop of blois Last Line: You never can make a silk purse of a sow's ear!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Christianity; Saints THE LEGEND OF JUBAL, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cain was driven from jehovah's land Last Line: The all-creating presence for his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Christianity; Death; Heroism; Legacies; Legends; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE LEGEND OF THE PASQUE FLOWER, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL Poem Text First Line: There's a legend as old as the calendar year Last Line: Who heed the season's clarion call. Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Legends; The Resurrection THE LIAR'S PSALM: REPENTANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I repent the actual. It has never got me anywhere Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE LITANY [TO THE HOLY SPIRIT], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hour of my distress, / when temptations me oppress Last Line: Sweet spirit, comfort me! Variant Title(s): His Litany To The Holy Spirit;the Holy Spirit Subject(s): Christianity; Holy Ghost; Holy Spirit THE LOVER'S ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden through the favouring night Last Line: Says for manuel's soul a prayer. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Escapes; Granada, Spain; Love; Moors (land); Dead, The; Fugitives THE MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: Practice resurrection Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE MEDITATION OF COLUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise be to god, and a blessing too at that, and a blessing Last Line: And hath no thought of my sons in the deeps of the air and the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; Meditation; Salvation THE MESSAGE OF AN AEOLIAN HARP, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, my mother Last Line: "the breath of heaven, the spirit of our god." Subject(s): Christianity; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE MODERN MADONNA, by ALICE MAUDE SPOKES Poem Text First Line: In paintings of the madonna and her child Last Line: "a gas-mask on his ""madonna and her saint." Subject(s): Christianity; Paintings And Painters; Religion; Theology THE MONASTERY ORCHARD IN EARLY SPRING, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's cows are in the fields Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE MORNING'S NEWS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To moralize the state, they drag out a man Last Line: Through me, toward the ground Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE OLD MASS SHANDRYDAN, by P. J. HARTIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can see it in my dreaming o'er a gap of thirty years Last Line: When I saw it o'er the tail-board of the old mass shandrydan. Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2) Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Mass; Relatives THE OXEN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock Last Line: Hoping it might be so. Subject(s): Animals; Christianity; Christmas; Mythology; Oxen; Nativity, The THE PAGAN SOUL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who were born for laughter and the bright Last Line: Why are you bound who may not understand? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; Paganism & Pagans THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE PILGRIM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Thanks, still encreasing turmoils; I Last Line: Then be possest by what I needs at length must leave. Subject(s): Christianity; Humility; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims THE POET TO HIS BELOVED, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, tonight you've been crucified Last Line: And there’s a good friday sweeter than that kiss Subject(s): Passion; Christianity THE PRETENCE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Vain hart, why wouldst thou try Last Line: Thou fearest thine own weapon, lawfulness. Subject(s): Christianity; Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE PROOF, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I love god for causing me to be Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE REAL CHRIST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should jesus christ once more to earth return Last Line: The son of mary will return again. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion - Disestablishment THE RED CROSS KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "blow, warder, blow thy sounding horn" Last Line: And the feast eat merrily Subject(s): Christianity;knights & Knighthood THE RETREAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy those early days! When I / shined in my angel-infancy Last Line: In that state I came return. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence; Children; Christianity; Faith; Innocence; Nostalgia; Regret; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Belief; Creed THE ROMAN PHILOSOPHER TO CHRISTIAN PRIESTS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well have ye spoken, but the words ye said Last Line: And I forget not, neither can forgive. Subject(s): Christianity; Rome, Italy THE ROSE OF SHARON AND THE LILY OF THE VALLEYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou hearken to thy saviour Last Line: That the souls redeeméd know! Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology THE SENDING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas god in heaven who spake to death Last Line: "I was so weary, death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Jesus Christ THE SLIP, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river takes the land, and leaves nothing Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE SONG OF A CHRISTIAN SOJOURNER IN AMERICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: If christ be god, I him adore Last Line: Nor sin nor hell shall come between. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastward rocks of almeria's bay Last Line: On aught but blackness overhung by stars.] Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Farewell; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain; War; Parting; Male-female Relations THE STRANGER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He waited here among us for a fortnight and a day Last Line: Me rovin' rangin' soldier lad from god knows where. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; Soldiers; Strangers THE SURPRISE OF ANTIOCH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully beamed the pale moonlight Last Line: The traitor's head away! Subject(s): Blood; Christianity; Crusades; Fights; Swords THE SYCAMORE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the place that is my own place, whose earth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weaving & Weavers; Women & Religion THE TORN KAKEMONO, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: When I was very little, I went to a missionary school Last Line: Like the mist in the valley that day. Subject(s): Buddhism; Christianity; Scrolls; Buddha; Buddhists THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad as the weary traveller, tempest-tost Last Line: And freed the nation best beloved of god. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Sex Role; Victory; Women THE TRUMPET CALL (1), by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over earth awakes a whirring Last Line: "glad or grieving, thou shalt rise." Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Trumpets; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE UNSEEN FACE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do beseech thee, god, show me thy face.' Last Line: Thou hadst beheld god's face, and straightway died! Subject(s): Christianity; Faces; God; Moses THE VIKING GRAVE AT LADBY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old whale hump of earth Last Line: They have grown their wheat out of his grave. Subject(s): Christianity; Graves; Vikings; Tombs; Tombstones THE VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We met, a hundred of us met Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE VOICE OF CHRISTMAS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot put the presence by, of him, the crucified Last Line: The master of the centuries who will not be denied! Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Crucifixion; Religion; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE WATERFALL, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what deep murmurs through times silent stealth Last Line: Not this with cataracts and creeks. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Christianity; Waterfalls THE WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood THE WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels; Theology THE WILD ROSE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes hidden from me Last Line: Again what I chose before Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE WINDHOVER: TO CHRIST OUR LORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught this morning morning's minion, king Last Line: Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. Variant Title(s): The Windhover Subject(s): Birds; Christianity; Falcons; Hawks; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE WITCH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Here, father! I have found a horse-shoe Last Line: She may recover; so drive t'other nail in! Subject(s): Christianity; Curses; Fathers & Sons; Horseshoes; Witchcraft & Witches THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THE YOUNG BROTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tonsures halted. They knelt to pray Last Line: Christ, bring us all to a merciful end! Subject(s): Monks; Christianity THEOLOGY OF DOUBT, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I have come to believe this fickleness Subject(s): Christianity; Religion THERE IS A WAY, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Sometimes in our lives Last Line: So should you pant for him Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability THIRD POSSIBILITY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fired the brush pile by the creek Last Line: Between the two, and liked them both Subject(s): Christianity; Religion THIS DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry wafer / sour wine Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THIS DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry wafer %sour wine Last Line: A sorrel grass, %a crust, %water, %salt Subject(s): Christianity; Religion THIS IS EARTH, OUR HOME, by WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O god, we thank you for this earth, our home Last Line: Who lives and reigns for ever and ever Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 3, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that supper the paraclete Last Line: The feast, and the feeder are one Subject(s): Christianity; Corpses TO A COMRADE IN ARMS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red fool, my laughing comrade Subject(s): Christianity; Soldiers' Writings TO A COMRADE IN ARMS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red fool, my laughing comrade Last Line: What vow shall we vow who love you Subject(s): Christianity; Soldiers' Writings TO HIS SKELETON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why will you vex me with Last Line: And do not colonize Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO HIS SKELETON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why will you vex me with Last Line: And do not colonize Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO LOVE THOSE WHOM I DO NOT LOVE, by GENEVIEVE GRAVES Poem Source First Line: Lord, %you who love this person whom I do not love Last Line: Lord! Teach me to love with your love Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation TO MARCUS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have been far, and I Last Line: We shall succeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Christianity; Friendship; Future; Winter TO MR JAMES SCRYMGEOUR, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to james scrymgeour Last Line: Because he is the poor man's friend. Subject(s): Christianity; Kindness TO MY FATHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take of the first fruits, father, of thy care Last Line: Revealed man's glory, god's great human heart. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Fathers & Sons; God; Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in dream, / the boat Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in dream, %the boat Last Line: Your silence was just such a song Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO TANYA AT CHRISTMAS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, my delight Last Line: That rises on all I know Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO TANYA AT CHRISTMAS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, my delight Last Line: And song. The song will tell %how old love sweetens the fields Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO THE UNSEEABLE ANIMAL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being, whose flesh dissolves Last Line: Keeps us near you Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO THE UNSEEABLE ANIMAL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being, whose flesh dissolves Last Line: That we do not know you %is your perfection %and our hope. The darkness %keeps us near you Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TOO BUSY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord has a job for me, but I had so much to do Last Line: Nobody else can do the work that god's marked out for you. Variant Title(s): Get Somebody Else Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology 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 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 TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years are nothing Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness. Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY AMUSING DESPAIR, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I confess that I am not Last Line: But not a strong interest Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY FAREWELL, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Things are happening. Daily Last Line: Suffer the children. Finished. Keep Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY GOOD LUCK, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Fortunately, there are mitigating circumstances Last Line: And which returns unbidden, undeserved, mercifully Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY IMITATION, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I sold my possessions, even the colorful pencils Last Line: I rose again, bloodless and feeling pretty good. %I forgave everything Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY INCREDULITY, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Lazarus, of course, %is another story Last Line: Bury lazarus as often as it takes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRINITIE SUNDAY (FOR A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Fond syllogismes, in vaine / you arme your propositions three Last Line: (chorus) thrice holie holie holie trinitie. Subject(s): Christianity; Trinity, The TYING ONE ON IN VIENNA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been, faithfully, to the thirty-nine birthplaces of beethoven Last Line: Hooray for purple and gold, for liquor and angels! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Vienna; Women; Women's Rights; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Feminism TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii; Theology; Second World War TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Last Line: And what to say of him, god knows %such violence. And such repose Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii UNDER THE DRUMLIN, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: I will tell you what lies under this hill Last Line: They are the suns that called us in the common night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion UNDIVINE COMEDY, SELS., by ZYGMUNT KRASINSKI Subject(s): Christianity UNREASONABLE REASON, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: All christian soules beware; hell never went Last Line: Is in thy blessed bosome to expire. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; God; Religion; Temptation; Belief; Creed; Theology UPON MY SON SAMUEL, HIS GOEING FOR ENGLAND, NOVEMBER 6, 1657, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mighty god of sea and land Last Line: For ever happefy'd with thee Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation UPON THE LORD'S PRAYER, by JOHN BUNYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father which in heaven art Last Line: The glory also shall be thine %for evermore Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation VALE ET AVE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pagan, when he felt his days were done Last Line: Hail, living fire, kind light of heaven, hail! Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans; Christianity; Faith VARIATION AND REFLECTION ON A THEME BY RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If just for once the swing of cause and effect Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology VARIATION AND REFLECTION ON A THEME BY RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If just for once the swing of cause and effect Last Line: God's flight circles us Subject(s): Christianity; Religion 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 WAKING HERE, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: This night, one of those clouded Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WASHING DISHES LATE AT NIGHT, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The room tips %where we have rearranged it Last Line: The pale light %in which we live, both of us afraid Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WATCHING 'DARK CIRCLE', by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men are willing to observe Last Line: And ruth landy of the independent documentary group. Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing; Christianity; Motion Pictures, Documentary; Religion; Theology WATCHMEN, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: A man was walking down a dark and dreary road on a cold Last Line: With faith you can move mountains Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Last Line: Too bright, unsparing, whole Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents WE ARE ALL KIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: We are all kin - oh, make us kin indeed! Last Line: Heal every wound and end the fruitless strife! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology WE WILL NOW HEAR THE WORD OF GOD FROM EACH OF OUR BELOVED, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Rev stump is believe it or not for real Last Line: One cold christian curse %bestowal, blessing Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WHAT IS A REVIVAL?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Revival? When the atmosphere Last Line: Expand to grass and flower and tree. Subject(s): Christianity WHAT LIGHT DESTROYS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm thinking of st. Paul -- st. Paul Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Troy; Theology WHAT LIGHT DESTROYS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm thinking of st. Paul -- st. Paul Last Line: That if the moon were my blue coin, I'd never spend it Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Troy WHAT MY TEACHERS TAUGHT ME I TRY TO TEACH MY STUDENTS, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: A bird in the hand Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Last Line: And turn with them in the dance %in the sweet enclosure %of the song, and timeless %is the wheel tha Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing And Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels WHO ARE YOU?, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: You are the bright morning star Last Line: My only peace in times of trouble, %you are jesus Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability WHO WERE 'THE FATHER AND THE SON', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To own the miracle Subject(s): Christianity WHOLE WHEAT, DECAF BLACK, A MORBID CURIOSITY (VERSION 1), by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We study the paper, fingers darkening Last Line: What was she wearing Subject(s): Christianity; Injustice WHOLE WHEAT, DECAF BLACK, A MORBID CURIOSITY (VERSION 2), by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We study the paper, fingers Last Line: And then what happened Subject(s): Christianity; Injustice WHY GOD MADE CHRISTMAS, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: The lord looked down on the earth he had made Last Line: Only then, are you safe and blest Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas WILD ROSE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes hidden from me Last Line: Again what I chose before Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WILL OF GOD, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: Anguish engulfs me like a blanket Last Line: Blessings chased me down the street %and overlook me Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability WITH ME, LORD, by J. BARRIE SHEPHERD Poem Source First Line: Before I awaken this morning Last Line: And the over-arching wonder %of your gift of life Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WOMAN IS WAITING FOR A BUS, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: In the rain, in baltimore Last Line: Warmth, she waits -- black %ancient beautiful eve Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WORK AND CONTEMPLATION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman singeth at her spinning-wheel Last Line: The better for the sweetness of our song. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Christianity; Work; Workers WORLD WITHOUT OBJECTS IS A SENSIBLE EMPTINESS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tall camels of the spirit Last Line: Lampshine blurred in the steam of beasts, the spirit's right oasis, light incarnate Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WORSHIP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pagan's myths through marble lips are spoken Last Line: And in its ashes plant the tree of peace! Subject(s): Christianity; Worship YOUNG MONK, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Wine, water %like the red patch, yellow body of a peach Last Line: This life for life %and a walk through the trees Subject(s): Christianity; Religion YOUR PROMISE IS FOR EVER SURE, by CHIAKA OSUJI Poem Source First Line: You have made me a promise lord Last Line: Good because your word is for ever sure Subject(s): Christianity; Creative Ability YULE AT THENGELFOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was yule at thengelfor Last Line: At the sharp white tide of yule! Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Pacifism; War; Nativity, The; Peace Movements |
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