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Subject: CHURCH ATTENDANCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HYMN IN TIME OF IDOLS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though they may crowd
Last Line: From whom their lord and king is far.
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


A PICTURE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No bell and steeple - let there be for me
Last Line: The blackbird calling from his lilac tree.
Subject(s): Courtship; Public Worship; Church Attendance


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


BABY IN CHURCH, by MINNIE M. GOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Aunt nellie had fashioned a dainty thing
Last Line: Ere our baby re-enter the family pew.
Subject(s): Babies; Public Worship; Infants; Church Attendance


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


BELLS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark, my soul! The bells do ring
Last Line: Would yield or feel, or any excellence.
Subject(s): Bells; Public Worship; Church Attendance


CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children
Last Line: Perform your office!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance


DEO GRATIAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "in a church this chance befell, / bells to morning mass did ring"
Last Line: "with his saints to sing sans end / blissful, deo gratias"
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


EFFECT OVER DISTANCE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The six-foot indigo plumes of the 'sacred necropolis bird
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Public Worship; Jews; Church Attendance; Judaism


FAME - FAME - FAME, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's a fad of my own, that I'd like to be known
Last Line: On the strength of his health and his mirth.
Subject(s): Fame; Public Worship; Reputation; Church Attendance


GIRLS GOING TO CHURCH, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning is easter on the lawns
Subject(s): Public Worship; Girls; Church Attendance


GOSPEL VILLANELLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem 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


HAGIOS PANAGHIOTES: THE CHURCH IN TOLON, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Feeling nervous, out of place and halfway through
Last Line: On the dead. Light the candle one more time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


HER BONNET, by MARY ELEANOR WILKINS FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When meeting-bells began to toll
Last Line: Only that her pretty bonnet kept away the aureole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkins, Mary E.
Subject(s): Hats; Public Worship; Vanity; Church Attendance


HOLLY AND PINE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When christmas comes with mirth and cheer
Last Line: When again the christmas angels come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Public Worship; Childhood; Church Attendance


HYMN FOR THE RE-DEDICATION OF A MEETING-ROOM REPAIRED, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy temple stands, oh god of grace!
Last Line: And find their god, their saviour here!
Subject(s): God; Public Worship; Church Attendance


IN A COUNTRY CHURCH, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The organ peals, the people stand
Last Line: Though truth seem far, we know her face!
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


IN CHURCH, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The priest, in thoughtless daily use
Last Line: That proud tired yielding to the sun's.
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


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


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


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


MY LADY GOES TO CHURCH, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When sabbath comes, and holy calms
Last Line: My lady goes to church!
Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday


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


OF BEHAVIOR IN CHURCH, by JOHN MIRK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yet thou moste teach them mare
Last Line: "grant me the bliss withouten end. Amen."
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


ON A HYMN-BOOK, by WILLIAM J. HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old hymn-book, sure I thought I'd lost you
Last Line: Mrs. Samuel jones.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hymns (as Literary Form); Irony; Public Worship; Church Attendance


ON SUNDAY MORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On sunday morn, down sacred aisle
Last Line: On sunday morn!
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath; Male-female Relations; Church Attendance; Theology; Sunday


ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Due praise be his whose skill to strasburg gave
Last Line: To ponder on eternity how few!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Clocks; Public Worship; Strasbourg, France; Time; Church Attendance


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


PARS DE HAT EROUN', by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ef yer wants ter gain de kingdom,'
Last Line: The end.
Subject(s): African Americans; Clergy; Deception; Money; Public Worship; Salvation; Negroes; American Blacks; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance


PARSON PRITCHETT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was at protracted meetin', an' the country / church was jammed
Last Line: But ole parson pritchett nailed 'em an' I guess they'll stay away.
Subject(s): Clergy; Public Worship; Sin; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance


PLACES OF WORSHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit! Whose life-sustaining presence fills
Last Line: Their claim on human hearts to solemn tenderness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


PRISONERS' EVENING SERVICE; SCENE OF FRENCH REVOLUTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What was our doom, my father? -- in thine arms
Last Line: In life, in death, we yield thee boundless trust!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Prisons & Prisoners; Public Worship; Convicts; Church Attendance


RELIGION, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hassan bedriddin, clad in rags, ill-shod
Last Line: "it is the only place where I am not."
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


REMARKS TO THE BACK OF A PEW, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All this whining and repining!
Last Line: It should be!
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


REPENTANCE (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last sunday at st. James's prayers
Last Line: By half so much repent
Subject(s): Public Worship;repentance; Church Attendance;penitence


SABBATH REMINISCENCES, by MRS. JOHN GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I remember, I remember, when sabbath morning rose
Last Line: From heaven descending to the earth, led back from earth to heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewers, Miss
Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday


SONG BEFORE SORROW, by LOUISE A. BALDWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I can be brave when dim cathedral bells
Last Line: Resound the brazen note of bugle calls.
Subject(s): Faith; Public Worship; Belief; Creed; Church Attendance


SPATTER'S RAMBLES: CHURCH CONGREGATIONS, by HUGH KELLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: To our parish church sunday evening, I went
Last Line: "says your friendly adviser,—jack spatter."
Alternate Author Name(s): Spatter, Jack
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


SPEED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They tell how fast the arrow sped
Last Line: Of him who's late for chapel
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


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


SUNDAY, by JAY G. SIGMUND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The preacher's voice droned on and on
Last Line: Her gemless, withered hands.
Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday


SUNDAY BELLS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sweet sabbath bells
Last Line: With blood he hath bought us: then praise him to-day!
Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 10. GOING TO CHURCH, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke at three; for I was bid
Last Line: By the vibrations of my heart.
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


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


THE CHURCH OF UNBENT KNEES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went by the church to-day
Last Line: My god of unbent knees!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


THE ECHO OF THE SABBATH BELL - HEARD IN THE WOODS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dong -- sounds the brass in the east
Last Line: And the sun has not reached its tower.
Subject(s): Bells; Public Worship; Church Attendance


THE HOME ALTAR, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should we seek at all to gain
Last Line: This duteous worship mild, and reasonable fear.
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


THE MISSES POAR DRIVE TO CHURCH, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out from the tall plantation gate
Last Line: Than the overseer of a patch-work nation!
Subject(s): Public Worship; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Church Attendance


THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER, ON 'THE HIGHER CRITICISM', by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since reverend doctors now declare
Last Line: And read that moderate man voltaire.
Subject(s): Bible; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology


THE WHEELING GOSPEL TABERNACLE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Homer rhodeheaver, who was the evangelist billy sunday's psalmodist
Last Line: Homer had times between hymns to make some lonely widow happy
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Evangelists; God; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology


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


TRUANT, by MARY CASS CANFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fifty ladies trot to church
Last Line: God is in the apple trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): C.; Mulme, Mary Cass
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


WESTLAND ROW, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every sunday there's a throng
Last Line: As they thought of during prayers.
Subject(s): Clergy; Prayer; Public Worship; Sabbath; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance; Sunday


WHERE TO GO ON SUNDAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How to spend a sunday - that's the problem now
Last Line: Why not church on sunday? Ever thought of that?
Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday


WHITE SPIRITUAL, by WILLIAM BERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dim old church
Last Line: And the greasy candles burning.
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance