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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHURCH ATTENDANCE Matches Found: 55 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 |
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