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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHURCHES Matches Found: 401 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A CHURCH IN NORTH WALES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings be round it still! That gleaming fane Last Line: Within thy lowly walls, for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Churches; Wales; Cathedrals; Welshmen; Welshwomen A CONSECRATION FOR A NON-SECTARIAN CHURCH, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Before this new-made altar, lord Last Line: And god himself shall be the light. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Churches; God; Religion - Reformers; Temples; Cathedrals; Mosques A COUNTRY CHURCH, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: I think god seeks this house, serenely white Last Line: And christ grew up in rural galilee. Subject(s): Churches; Country Life; Cathedrals A MODERN PREACHER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a preacher of the modern sort Last Line: And well reported in the daily press. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Religious Press; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators A PARAPHRASE ON THE PRAYER, USED IN THE CHURCH LITURGY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will bear the repeating again and again Last Line: Of glory to god, and salvation to man. Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Prayer; Cathedrals A PEN-PICTUR' OF A CERT'IN FRIVVOLUS OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most ontimely old man yit! Last Line: "sich a fool-old-man as me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Churches; Old Age; Childhood; Cathedrals A REBUKE TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "yes, southey, yes, I to the house of prayer" Last Line: "to meet, with kindred man, the parent god" Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): "churches;public Worship;southey, Robert (1774-1843);" Cathedrals;church Attendance A SERMON FROM THE PEW IN FRONT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a lesson you may learn Last Line: Truthful, brave, and folly free? Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals A SUGJESCHUN TO THE SEXTANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sextant of the meetin house, we no Last Line: Only dont shut the dores so soon. Subject(s): Churches; Prayer Meetings; Cathedrals A VERMONT 'DONATION', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's funny how our ancestors Last Line: With some deliberation. Subject(s): Charity; Churches; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Preaching & Preachers; Vermont; Philanthropy; Cathedrals A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 5, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this chapel those who kneel are bigger than those Last Line: Strings the white meadowsweet, eyes who never close. Subject(s): Churches; Faith; Prayer; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed ABANDONED CHURCH, by LAURENCE HUTCHMAN Poem Source First Line: I was in it once Last Line: Through the broken panes %of the framed sky Subject(s): Abandonment; Churches ABANDONED CHURCH OF CHRIST, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: No song for the unseen Last Line: In the february morning, disburdening %no song Subject(s): Abandonment; Churches; Women's Rights 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 ACCOMPLISHMENT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: One and twenty summers come and gone! Last Line: Forgetful of accomplishment. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Preaching & Preachers; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops AD ASTRA: 167, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The church of christ must heal the world's unrest Last Line: The glory and wonder of this world's romance! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology AD ASTRA: 173, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In catholicity there breathes a voice Last Line: And all men's hearts be knit in christ again. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Eucharist; Love; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology ALL-SAINTS, by EDMUND YATES Poem Text First Line: In a church which is furnish'd with mullion and gable Last Line: "oh, where is all-sinners', if this is all-saints'?" Subject(s): Churches; Saints; Sin; Cathedrals ALMA ROSE WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: On the carriage on my way, (blots? Clots?) of dark on the hills Last Line: When I see you-if seas be calm and weather clear, alma rose Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters; Writing And Writers ALMANSOR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fair cordova's cathedral Last Line: And the christian gods wail loudly. Subject(s): Churches; Kisses; Lips; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology AN ABANDONED CHURCH, by HARRY TRUMBULL SUTTON Poem Text First Line: They put me on this hill, a pleasant place Last Line: Much as the cow that daily comes and grazes? Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals AN ENGLISH CHURCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells awake the sabbath's choral prime Last Line: Is bodied forth in gentle rites and pure. Subject(s): Anglican Church; Churches; Cathedrals AN INCIDENT IN A CHURCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one whose eyes, by gleam of waters caught Last Line: The symbol of the holiest death of all. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ANGELUS, by SIMEON BERRY Poem Source First Line: When they came to the final chorus of silent night Last Line: Their belief that there was anything up there to see Subject(s): Churches; Religion ANY COUNTRY CHURCH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A shaft of sunlight strikes, shines through Last Line: And fellow-convicts 'neath one self-same sentence ... Death. Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Easter; Holidays; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; The Resurrection; Sunday ARCH OF SANCTIFICATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could use a dove in my heart Last Line: It's to taunt, to beg them to speak Subject(s): Arches; Catholics; Churches; God; Religion; Spirituality ARCTIC CATHEDRAL, by KRISTJANA GUNNARS Poem Source First Line: In the ice cathedral of troms0 they had Last Line: In an ocean of blue, a sea of purple light Subject(s): Churches; Ice AT A WEDDING, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You drive up to the country club Last Line: To the soprano of the crystal Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song AT CHURCH, by CORA BABBITT JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: The preacher preached from a pulpit Last Line: And I knew that god lived there. Subject(s): Churches; God; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology AT NANKING - 1937, by EMMA M. LARSON Poem Text First Line: The new church at nanking had rose-red roof Last Line: Grant pardon, god, for fair gift taken back. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals AT STE. THERESE, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quaint stiff metres of olden france? Last Line: Over the lombardy poplar trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): Canada; Churches; France; Canadians; Cathedrals AT TENNENT CHURCH, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on the summer sabbath that saw the roll Last Line: This spot is hallowed ground. Subject(s): Churches; Monmouth, Battle Of (1778); Cathedrals AT THE CHURCH DOOR, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it sweet to hear the church-bells ringing Last Line: And seal the poem with a noble rhyme! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals AT THE SYNOD IN ST. PATRICK'S, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This head meant to be massive and therefore Last Line: Learn why such light should sadden as it charms Subject(s): Churches AULD KIRK OF SCOTLAND, by GEORGE+(1) MURRAY Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: The gude aild kirk o' scotland Subject(s): Churches AUNT JANEY VISITED BY THE SPIRIT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: It was a hot Last Line: In my arms Subject(s): Aunts; Catholics; Churches; Preaching And Preachers BACH'S B MINOR MASS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The walgravian ancestors step inside trinity church Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Churches; Cathedrals BALLAD OF THE BELLS, SELECTION, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ah! What joy, the bagpipe and the flute touch our hearts Last Line: Then in quaint pattern guarded them from sight. Subject(s): Bells; Brides; Churches; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BAPTIZING, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The preacher braced himself Last Line: Up on the wings of angels Subject(s): Churches; Religion BARBARA ROSE WRITES FROM SOUTH UIST, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: It's been cold here and hard, with the war Last Line: Safe, aloft in all that wild blue, untethered Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Saint Kilda (scotland); Secrets; Sin; Writing And Writers BARBED-WIRE WINTER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: --boy! Last Line: Knows why. %and then the long life began Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Clergy; Love; Marriage BEACON LIGHTS, by NELLIE E. WARREN Poem Text First Line: An airport and a beacon-light shining Last Line: "shall be given to wear the crown." Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology BEFORE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The tourist photographs the cathedral Last Line: Before we see each other? Subject(s): Churches; Marriage BEFORE THE PALE CANVAS OF THE AFTERNOON, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Floating-like scattered down- %a phantom silver cloud Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Churches BELLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the bells ring every day Last Line: Is glad to have them there. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday BETWEEN TWO STOOLS, by JOHN HEATH Poem Text First Line: Ned will not keep the jewish sabbath, not he Last Line: He halts betwixt them both and so keeps neither. Subject(s): Churches; Jews; Religious Freedom; Cathedrals; Judaism BLACK CHURCHES BURNING, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: Patriotic, family oriented %religious, angry white men Last Line: Hey mom, pass me the bottle %and the gasoline Subject(s): African Americans - History; Churches; Fire BLACK MADONNA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: In mexico there's a madonna with her teeth ajar Last Line: They butt into the wooden benches %until they collapse Subject(s): Churches; Convents; Nuns BRIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sunlight on the cathedral Last Line: Looking at this? Subject(s): Churches; Insanity; Light; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) BROTHERLY LOVE; OR, THE SITE OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: There is a sweet traditionary tale Last Line: Each with the golden sheaves within his arms. Subject(s): Brothers; Churches; Family Life; Harvest; Love - Nature Of; Half-brothers; Cathedrals; Relatives BUCK, ALONE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Out for sulfur shelf, walking up a trail, the damp gray day Last Line: Tongue and palate, swallow sweetness, spit out pith. I fill %my plastic bag and stroll on home Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Sabbath BUILDING OF A NEW CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They built the front, upon my word Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Churches BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean BY AUGHNA BRAE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: I mind the burn; I mind the brae Last Line: Thon spire by aughna brae! Subject(s): Churches; Memory; Prayer; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday CAMPUS ETCHING, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: The chapel tower that lifts against the sky Last Line: Rapt in high song and austere orisons. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Singing & Singers; Soul; Cathedrals; Theology CANDLELIGHT, by NORA HEFLEY MAHON Poem Text First Line: There is a potency in candlelight Last Line: That seem so hallowed by the watch they keep. Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Cathedrals CARPE DIEM, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time for all things, sweet! Last Line: And mourn lost blisses. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Roses; Worship; Cathedrals; Dead, The CATHEDRAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one the bells have broken their music Last Line: And sun beats down beyond the broken door Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals CATHEDRAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one the bells have broken their music Last Line: And sun beats down beyond the broken door Subject(s): Churches CATHEDRAL, by GERALDINE FAY GAY Poem Text First Line: I walk, enrapt, through shadow-sheltered shrines Last Line: And benediction is the wind's low sigh. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals CATHEDRAL BUILDERS, by JOHN ORMOND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They climbed on sketchy ladders towards god Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals CATHEDRAL BUILDERS, by JOHN ORMOND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They climbed on sketchy ladders towards god Last Line: Cocked up a squint eye and said, 'I bloody did that' Subject(s): Churches CATHEDRAL OF MILAN, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With steps subdued, silence, and labour long Subject(s): Churches; Travel CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, by FLORA D. GRIERSON Poem Text First Line: Majestic city of the western world Last Line: Cathedral of st. John divine. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals CATHEDRAL TOWERS, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: I saw cathedral towers Last Line: To worship evermore. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals CATHEDRAL WOODS, by AUGUSTA WRAY Poem Text First Line: On sunday morning I leave town Last Line: I pray in church of god. Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Cathedrals CATHEDRALS BY THE SEA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For aeons had the self-responsive tide Last Line: The sullen diapason of the sea. Subject(s): Churches; Sea CELEBRATION, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Summer days disrupted by trickster's Last Line: Dies in full view, while they celebrate Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Churches; Worship CHAPEL, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin's mind was clouded by the sun Last Line: And windows one day in nineteen sixty-one Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Teaching And Teachers CHARLES D'ORLEANS: BALLADE LXIX: 'J'AY FAIT L'OBSEQUE DE MA DAME', by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood in love's cathedral where Last Line: This richest treasure the world contained Subject(s): Churches; Love CHARTRES, by RAYMOND HENRI Poem Source First Line: These carved and glowing crowds Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Chartres, France; Churches CHELSEA, 1860, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When old canute the dane Last Line: From chelsea's student train. Subject(s): Churches; Hudson River; New York City; Cathedrals; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple CHEMIN DE FER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A chapel has fallen into ruins Last Line: Its severed goose-wing of snow. Subject(s): Churches; Dreams; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Ruins; Saints; Cathedrals; Nightmares CHRIST CHURCH, by EDWIN B. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Gray spire, that from the ancient street Last Line: That cannot change, nor pass away. Subject(s): Boston; Churches; Cathedrals 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 CHRISTMAS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Tis christmas day! 'tis christmas day! Last Line: And christmas carols sing. Subject(s): Bells; Christianity; Christmas Carols; Churches; Happiness; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Songs CHURCH, by CHARLES RANN KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: This [church] is no dead pile of stones and unmeaning Subject(s): Churches CHURCH, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Source First Line: The blinding july sun at ten o'clock Last Line: A little thing, this church? Remove its roots, %ossa upon pelion would not fill the pit Subject(s): Churches; Religion CHURCH, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for the food,' we said Last Line: Candle of 'find it.' my life Subject(s): Churches CHURCH BELLS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is hushed; the street is holy ground Last Line: His heart lies warm among his triple hills! Subject(s): Bells; Boston; Churches; Cathedrals CHURCH BOILER, by DAVID SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Dear mr pitt, I'm told Last Line: Of heavenly wisdom. The sale helped raise the funds, %and we have pleasure in settling your account Subject(s): Churches; Heating Systems CHURCH BURNING, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Already it is almost nothing, a darkness Last Line: With a guttural spark: niggers, niggers. %his ancient prayer flares Subject(s): African Americans; Churches; Fire; Georgia (state) CHURCH GOING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I am sure there's nothing going on Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology CHURCH GOING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I am sure there's nothing going on Last Line: If only that so many dead lie round Subject(s): Churches; Religion CHURCH IN SARAJEVO, by ERNEST BAYER Poem Source First Line: Just another church Last Line: Pleading for shalom to conquer time Subject(s): Churches; Sarajevo, Bosnia CHURCH OF SAN ANTONIO DE LA FLORIDA, by PAUL PETRIE Poem Source First Line: A cleaning woman opened the rusty door Last Line: And through the walls run rats with small, red eyes Subject(s): Churches; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Spain CHURCH UNIVERSAL, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One holy church of god appears Last Line: With bread of life earth's hunger feed; %redeem the evil time! Subject(s): Churches; Religion CHURCH WINDOWS, by JUDITH NEELD Poem Source First Line: Mary, they have led you where Variant Title(s): Two Windoes Of The Carthedra Subject(s): Churches CHURCH-GOING PEOPLE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The land went from one generation Last Line: In their flowers on the altar Subject(s): Churches CHURCHES, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those stately structures which on earth I view Last Line: Unto his temple, 'cause 'tis nearer home. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals CLEVEDON CHURCH, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward I watch the low green hills of wales Last Line: And all his waves complain. Subject(s): Churches; Clevedon, Great Britain; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Cathedrals CLEVEDON VERSES: 1. HALLAM'S CHURCH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grassy field, the lambs, the nibbling sheep Last Line: And spreads itself, and moans upon the roof. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Churches; Clevedon, Great Britain; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Cathedrals CONCEPT OF GOD, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Years later, nothing inside the church Last Line: At how old, how much like a woman %it makes her look Subject(s): Churches; God; Public Worship; Religion CONFESSION, by EDNA S. MCKINLEY Poem Text First Line: I sat in church, the opening hymn was sung Last Line: And so I spent my hour with god. Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Sea; Trees; Cathedrals; Ocean CONFESSIONS OF A YELLSTER: CHACUN A SON GOUT, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was boisterous and turbulent as a youth, a loud mouthed, impossible Last Line: And when I go to sleep, my dreams are full of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Peace; Secrets CONFIRMATION DAYS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Sitting around in a blue funk, idly Last Line: Which, come to think of it, would have explained a lot Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Clergy; Confirmation CONGREGATION, by JEFF HARDIN Poem Source First Line: She comes to sing and hear a song Last Line: She sees the stains her yard's become Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Preaching And Preachers CONTRASTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the tall church steeples Last Line: Grow deeper as years roll by. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals COUNTRY CHURCH, by ALICE M. FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: Beside the dusty road it towers high Last Line: As does the humble little country church. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals COUNTRY CHURCH, by PEARCE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Within these walls of rustic wood Subject(s): Churches COUNTRY CHURCH (MANAFON), by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The church stands, built from a river stone Last Line: With so smooth care, no friendly god has cautioned %the brimming tides of fescue for its sake Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Churches; Spring DEDICATION, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: My fount of beauty this year, oh god Last Line: Of thy teachings. Subject(s): Churches; God; Religious Education; Worship; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools DEDICATION, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN Poem Text First Line: We dedicate a church today Last Line: To thee this church we dedicate. Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Cathedrals DEDICATION HYMN, CONSECRATION OF HANOVER ST. CHURCH, BOSTON, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect world by adam trod Last Line: "a humbler temple, ""made with hands." Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals DISGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pills? Talk to me of your pills? Well, that, I must say, is cool Last Line: Suppose I should think of it, surely? But anyhow -- there -- I won't. Subject(s): Calvinists; Churches; God; Sea; Suicide; Cathedrals; Ocean DIVERSE SHADES: LIVERPOOL, by C. B. COX Poem Source First Line: Cathedral confronts cathedral Last Line: Transforming stranger into friend Subject(s): Automobiles; Churches DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking like raphael's perugino, eyes Last Line: The two priests rose and left the room together. Subject(s): Absolution; Churches; Clergy; Love; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops DUOMO, MILAN, by RAYMOND HENRI Poem Source First Line: Here living and the stone Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Churches; Milan, Italy EASTER, GRAVE TENDING, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: Just after milking, hanna loften Last Line: Outlining %what's no longer there Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Holidays ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 17. PLACES OF WORSHIP, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As star that shines dependent upon star Last Line: Find solace which a busy world disdains. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 38. NEW CHURCHES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But liberty, and triumphs on the main Last Line: That vale or hill prolongs or multiplies! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 39. CHURCH TO BE ERECTED (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be this the chosen site; the virgin soil Last Line: That shall protect from blasphemy the land. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 40. CHURCH TO BE ERECTED (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine ear has rung, my spirit sunk subdued Last Line: Creep round its arms through centuries unborn. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 42. NEW CATHEDRALS, ETC., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open your gates, ye everlasting piles! Last Line: Isis and cam, to patient science dear! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECHO AND THE FERRY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven Last Line: Comes after -- with laughter comes after. Subject(s): Children; Churches; Echo (mythology); Ferry Boats; Childhood; Cathedrals ECHO IN A CHURCH, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall my troubled soul at large Last Line: Echo. I am. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals EIDOLON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, sweet-eyed christ! Thy image smiles Last Line: "and one word—""leonie!" Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ELBA, by ROGER SHEFFER Poem Source First Line: One mile east of elba's big white church Last Line: The other writing your name %in a patch of mud Subject(s): Churches ENGRAVEN ON A COLUMN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: View not this spire by measure given Last Line: While deathless charity remains. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism EPITAPH FOR JOHN WARREN, BUILDER, DIED REBUILDING .. 1608, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A speaking stone Last Line: Who with the church %his own life finished Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Cambridge, England; Churches EXPECTATION, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fleet wheels had whirled for us, deep hedge-rows threading Last Line: Swooped startled, as a bell began to—toll. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salt is pity, brooms are fury Last Line: The other half are mirrors Subject(s): Churches; Mirrors; Salt; Cathedrals FACING THE STORM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The church made in the shape of a boat Last Line: Finds it hard to stay afloat Subject(s): Churches; Longevity; Ships And Shipping; Storms FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome' Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAREWELL TO AN ANCIENT CHURCH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou consecrated dome Last Line: Dear, venerated dome, farewell! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals FIDELIA ARGUING WITH HER SELF ON THE DIFFICULTY FINDING TRUE RELIGION, by JANE BARKER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Oh wretched world, but wretched above all Last Line: In pennance my baptismal vows renew. Subject(s): Churches; Life; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology FIRMILIAN; A TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours of study - and what gain thereby? Last Line: Curtain descends. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Churches; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Magic; Plays & Playwrights ; Cathedrals; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists FLORIDA FRIDAY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Florida with flora, brighter than a prize Last Line: Florida flashes on the best of fridays Subject(s): Florida; Churches; Cathedrals FOODS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My roof is slate, my windows look Last Line: No heart knows. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Food & Eating; Hearts; Cathedrals FOR THE ALTARPIECE OF THE ROSEAU VALLEY CHURCH, SAINT LUCIA, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chapel, as the pivot of this valley Subject(s): Churches; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Cathedrals FOR THE ALTARPIECE OF THE ROSEAU VALLEY CHURCH, SAINT LUCIA, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chapel, as the pivot of this valley Last Line: The real faces of angels Subject(s): Churches; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island) FRAGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The candle's tallow Last Line: It will faint and expire Subject(s): Churches;death;prayer; "cathedrals;dead, The; GLORIES, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Through the half open door Last Line: Jostling to-day's glory of the west. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals GOTHIC, by ANTHONY WALTON Poem Source First Line: They come quietly Last Line: To the promise of heat, %homage, %ilumination Subject(s): Churches; Service GOTHIC CATHEDRAL, by CLARENCE L. HAYNIE Poem Text First Line: I know that god himself inspired the man Last Line: Like hands that clasp above the breast in prayer. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals GREAT CHURCH-GOING MAN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Bunk dawson used to stand up Last Line: He got shot in the back Subject(s): Churches 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 HAYDN'S CREATION: ARDMORE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1978, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark we gather to try to make Last Line: Dawns on the angels' wooden cheeks. Is gone Subject(s): Churches; Religion HERE IS MUSIC: LIP-SERVICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: In shocked surprise Last Line: At peace, long since, with god. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mouths; Protestantism; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators HIS MOTHER'S WAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomps 'ud allus haf to say Last Line: "it was mother's way." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Churches; Mothers; Cathedrals HOLDEN CHURCH AND CEMETERY (KENYON, MINNESOTA), by GERTRUDE HANSON Poem Text First Line: Today my feet have walked on sacred sod Last Line: The heritage they left has timeless worth. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Churches; Pioneers; Graveyards; Cathedrals HOLYROOD ABBEY, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: No guidebook description prepares for this Last Line: Like a fragment of the cross Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Churches; Clergy; Death; Monasteries; Religion; Skeletons HYMN FOR THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP AT GEORGETOWN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dwellest not, o lord of all! Last Line: And bless it for a mother's sake! Subject(s): Churches; Mothers; Cathedrals HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH, ST. PAUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things are thine: no gift have we Last Line: To lead us from ourselves to thee! Variant Title(s): Church Dedication Subject(s): Churches; St. Paul, Minnesota; Cathedrals HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF THOMAS STARR KING'S HOUSE OF WORSHIP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these glorious works of thine Last Line: The seamless robe that jesus wore. Subject(s): Churches; King, Thomas Starr (1824-1864); Cathedrals IN A CATHEDRAL CITY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These people have not heard your name Last Line: The spot's unconsciousness of you! Subject(s): Churches; Love; Cathedrals IN A CHAPEL, by VERNA CLAIRE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Why is it that I seek Last Line: I call my world -- subdued, or gone entirely. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals IN A CHURCH OF PADUA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vaulted place where shadows flit Last Line: Where more is hid than found. Subject(s): Churches; Padua, Italy; Cathedrals IN A COUNTRY CHURCH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To one kneeling down no word came Last Line: Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree %golden with fruit of a man's body Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Churches; Spring IN AN ALMSHOUSE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the dear summer evening! How the air Last Line: You'll know that some day, maybe. Now begins.... Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology IN AND OUT OF CHURCH, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dogma-dealer, talking treason Last Line: And more just. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Churches; Social Protest; Cathedrals IN APRIL ONCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guido: thou are the knightliest jailer that ever stood Last Line: Voice of the madman. Son of david, have mercy on us! Subject(s): April; Churches; Florence, Italy; God; Plays & Playwrights; Popes; Prisons & Prisoners; Cathedrals; Papacy IN CHURCH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the choir the boys are singing the hymn Last Line: Of our sabbath, suffusing our sacred day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals IN CHURCH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I try %to analyse the quality Last Line: On emptiness, nailing his questions %one by one to an untenanted cross Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Churches IN ONE OF ITALY'S CATHEDRALS, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: In one of italy's cathedrals, vast-domed Last Line: Seems beating out a prayer. Subject(s): Churches; Humanity; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology IN SAINT JUDE'S CHURCH NEAR CHESAPEAKE BAY NAVAL STATION, by LLEWELLYN TERESA MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: We enter a wilderness of pews hand-hewn Last Line: To our unknowing hearts, moving among our cells, %removing all the bars Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay; Churches IN SANCTUARY, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the lone floor of the rayless night Last Line: And lo! The clear east all climbing rose. Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sanctuaries; Cathedrals IN THE CATHEDRAL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before me the sexton's daughter fair Last Line: From her bosom her kerchief had slipped. Subject(s): Churches; Daughters; Cathedrals IN THE OLD CATHEDRAL, by TRUDIE K. HOWREN Poem Text First Line: With anguished heart I entered its great door Last Line: And yet -- I knew that I was not alone! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals IN TROQUEER CHURCHYARD, by WILLIAM MCDOWALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, hoary ash! Whose hallow'd shade Last Line: And claim the imperishable crown. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN CROSTHWAITE CHURCH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vales and hills whose beauty hither drew Last Line: Calmed in his soul the fear of change and death. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals INTERLUDE, by MARJORIE EASTWOOD DUDLEY Poem Text First Line: Bread of the world,' the choir sang Last Line: Crept 'round the sculptured virgin's feet. Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Clergy; Eucharist; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Communion; Church Attendance IT ISN'T THE CHURCH - IT'S YOU, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you want to have the kind of a church Last Line: It isn't the church -- it's you Subject(s): Churches;public Worship; Cathedrals;church Attendance KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buttress frowns, the gorgeous windows blaze Last Line: And the same hand that finished overthrew. Subject(s): Churches; Cambridge University L'ANGE PLEUREUR (AMIENS CATHEDRAL), by ALICE COLE KLEENE Poem Text First Line: Boy angel, what carved sorrow must you keep Last Line: Whose garment changes, but he does not change. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals LA CATHEDRALE ENGLOUTIE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient place. The roofs are high and grey Last Line: The schools are good,' he sighs. 'the streets are safe the disorder in the dress Subject(s): Churches; Religion LAST POEMS: SONNET 4. TO ... IN CHURCH, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I was drawn here from a distant place Last Line: And I confess it by adoring you. Subject(s): Churches; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Cathedrals LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship; Cathedrals; Relatives; Clemency LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do Last Line: We had no time, of course, we have no time %to do all the forgiving that we must do Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship LIFE'S CATHEDRAL, by M. C. HAECKER Poem Text First Line: Faith is a cathedral grand Last Line: Is verily the life divine. Subject(s): Churches; Faith; God; Praise; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Theology LINNA, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church was heavy with the deep sweet scent of / roses Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Household Employees; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids LONDON CHURCHES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood, one sunday morning Last Line: She sighed, and crept away. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Adversity; Churches; London; Cathedrals LOVE TO THE CHURCH, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thy kingdom, lord Last Line: And brighter bliss of heaven. Variant Title(s): Psalm 137 Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Prayer; Reformation; Cathedrals LOVE'S COSMOPOLITAN;(DEDICATED TO CATHEDRAL OF ST. PAUL THE TENTMAKER), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apostle, citizen, and artisan! Last Line: Ambassador of god, great-hearted jew! Subject(s): Churches; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Cathedrals; Saul Of Tarsus LOVES ADVENTURE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Love once a wooing went, & tride Last Line: His nuptiall feast princelike to solemnize. Subject(s): Churches; Courtship; God; Cathedrals LUBBERLU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green were her eyes, - yellow were her eyes Last Line: Over the hills and away. Subject(s): Bible; Candles; Churches; Eyes; Jesus Christ; Lips; Cathedrals LUCIA, by M. RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Poem Source First Line: In the church of st mikulash Last Line: Lucia, my double, penetrated with light Subject(s): Churches; Light MADAME METTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Says bender to peter over their wine Last Line: And lost my true dog also Subject(s): Churches;death;drinks & Drinking;singing & Singers; "cathedrals;dead, The; MADONNA DI CAMPAGNA..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madonna di campagna is the name Last Line: Whom the madonna gathers for repose? Subject(s): Churches; Roads; Cathedrals; Paths; Trails MARGARET SLACK AND THE PRINCE OF WALES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you mothers and fathers, I hope you'll attend" Last Line: And look to the rights of margaret slack Subject(s): Babies;churches;love;wales; Infants;cathedrals;welshmen;welshwomen MASS AT DAWN, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Long ago, in times departed Last Line: And the marvel does not follow! Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mass; Temples; Worship MAY SUNDAY, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bells would be good if they could keep their place Last Line: That break the deep enchantment of this hour! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Prayer; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday MEDITATION IN CHURCH (TO MY MOTHER), by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The soft, clear tones of organ heard Last Line: All these and more, thou art to me. Subject(s): Churches; Meditation; Prayer; Cathedrals MILAN CATHEDRAL, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through light green haze, a rolling sea Last Line: Except to signify the host of heaven. Subject(s): Churches; Milan, Italy; Cathedrals MIXTEC CODICES, by ROGER MOORE Poem Source First Line: Two breasts one green and one yellow symbolic of the hill where the church ... Last Line: And at the end that heart will receive no mercy in its turn Subject(s): Birds; Churches; Love MORWENNAE STATIO, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My saxon shrine! The only ground Last Line: The changeless god's eternal fane. Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals MOTHER CHURCH, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With four feet planted on four standpoints Last Line: Take comfort from the mystery %of enraptured sacrifice Subject(s): Churches; St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco MY BROTHER, THE WEDDING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy walks me slowly past the guests and they rise Last Line: I don't recognize anyone Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Honeymoons; Wedding Song MY TEMPLE, by NICOLAI MAKSIMOVICH VILENKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rears a temple, rears two monuments Last Line: And in their vanguard death, who shall prevail. Alternate Author Name(s): Minsky, N.; Minsky, Nicolai Maksimovich Subject(s): Churches; Death; Temples; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Mosques NEW CALVARY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The saintly congregation of calvary baptist church in birmingham (white) Last Line: To the finest sermon he has ever preached Subject(s): African Americans; Churches NEW CHURCH, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: When grass beckons %and soil and water shout Last Line: Am I dreaming? Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Prisons And Prisoners; Religion 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 NEW ENGLAND GOTHIC, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because a thin-lipped ancestor Subject(s): Churches; Religion NEW ENGLAND STEEPLE, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tall on the village hill the church stood lonely Subject(s): Churches; Religion NORTH LAKE, by ALEXANDER HYND LINDSAY Poem Text First Line: O you star-strewn stream of placid blue Last Line: Is beauty shimmering in an emerald frame. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals NOT THE COUNTING OF STRANGE HERBS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Or tanks rolling onto the streets Last Line: Who is recording this? Who else %is in charge Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Marriage NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks NOTRE DAME DE ROUEN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, as the vesper chant Last Line: Victor and king! Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology OBLIQUE RAIN: POEM 2, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: Inside, the church lights up today's rain Last Line: In the rain as it stops Subject(s): Churches; Rain OLD CATHEDRAL, by WINIFRED WARNER KOONTZ Poem Text First Line: I love an old cathedral Last Line: To drop in, as I pass. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals OLD CHURCH IN AN ENGLISH PARK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowning a flowery slope, it stood alone Last Line: Reigned there, the o'ershadowing spirit of the scene. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ON A CERTAIN SPINSTER WHO LINGERED IN CHURCH, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Not hers the hungry gaze of souls unwed Last Line: And needs must wait till each have said his prayer. Subject(s): Churches; Despair; Prayer; Cathedrals ON A DESECRATED CHAPEL NEAR LAUSANNE, NOW USED AS A STABLE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by a brook, whose stream lake leman feeds Last Line: Of saints, that floor hoof-trampled and uptorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Churches; Lausanne, Switzerland; Stables; Cathedrals ON A NEW CHURCH, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shallow chancel, scarce six feet by ten Last Line: The world's devotion by the chancel span. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology ON A SERMON PREACH'ED ON ... 'YOU HAVE SOLD YOUR SELVES FOR NAUGHT', by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With grotius on new-testament yo've done Last Line: We scarcely know your pulpit from the bench. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Churches; Devil; Sermons; Cathedrals; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub ON A SPANISH CATHEDRAL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod Last Line: With a reverence not to be bought, and a tenderness deeper than tears. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ON A WINDOW IN DONINGTON CHURCH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blest, if they but knew it, how blest they are Last Line: And for such sowers all the year is spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Churches; Windows; Cathedrals ON FAIRFORD WINDOWS, SELS., by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know no paint of poetry Last Line: And christ, as in a glass we see Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Art And Artists; Churches; Windows ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky! Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips ON MY PARISH REGISTER CHEST, LONDESBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE, by RICHARD WILTON Poem Source First Line: In the scant compass of this iron chest Last Line: Like autumn trees their leaves for ever shedding, %which into vast eternity are hurried Subject(s): Churches ON THE ABANDONMENT OF THE COUNTRY CHURCHES OF WEST VIRGINIA, by ROGER+(2) WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Gusts play in the hardwoods. Appalachia's brittle Last Line: Its beseechments into a sort of deafness Subject(s): Churches; West Virginia ON THE BELL FRIEZE OF A ROMAN CHURCH, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: Home for receiving those from whom god has withdrawn Last Line: Truth's secret tears, %the offer of such refuge Subject(s): Churches ON THE CHURCH MARQUEE, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: Faith is a knowledge of the heart Last Line: They will leave no sign Subject(s): Churches; Faith ON THE CHURCH'S DANGER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good halifax and pious wharton cry Subject(s): Churches ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial iffley, cumnor bowered in green Last Line: "even here remember me when thou shalt reign." Subject(s): Churches; Oxford, England; Cathedrals ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 3. AT COMMUNION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still must the implacable road lie dark and bare Last Line: Though still thy hid communion serves me best. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Churches; Eucharist; Religion; Catholic Priests; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 4. AT A PROCESSION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the now redeem us into now! Last Line: Yet time that is not now were but a dream. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology ON TRINITY SUNDAY (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One god the father - certainly this term Last Line: Will find in their true, single hearts a place. Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Faith; Holy Ghost; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Holy Spirit; Theology ON VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH OF GRUYERE IN SWITZERLAND, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where gruyere's castle, rearing still on high Last Line: Alone uncared for, crumbling to decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Castles; Churches; Poverty; Switzerland; Wealth; Cathedrals; Swiss; Riches; Fortunes ORGAN SONGS: A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, in the steeple the dull bell swinging Last Line: Straight will arise in sorrow and song! Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Churches; Nativity, The; Cathedrals ORGAN SONGS: TO A. J. SCOTT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked all night: the darkness did not yield Last Line: Yet hear æolian sighs from thin chords blown? Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Dawn; Hope; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Optimism ORTHODOXIES 22, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The encounter between an elder of the church and a saint Last Line: During the world war I equinox dreadnoughts hit the flour factories at gallipoli Subject(s): Churches; Gallipoli Campaign (1915) ORTHODOXIES 24, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: At the chapel of the three angels, a ritual. The scarlet Last Line: Theodoros, the commander with the black dimple Subject(s): African Americans; Churches; Slavery OUR LADY'S CHAPEL; A LEGEND OF COBLENTZ, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er has crossed the mosel bridge Last Line: Only light up one taper at a time. Subject(s): Churches; Coblentz, Germany; Cathedrals OUR NEW CHURCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As yet no organ rolls - no prayer-bell rings Last Line: To draw them lovingly to rites divine! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals OUR OLD CENTER-TOWN VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around our center meetinghouse Last Line: As our poor meetinghouse. Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Public Worship; Social Problems; Vermont; Cathedrals; Church Attendance PARADISO, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: A day as hot as my uncle's three hearths Last Line: To be torn open, to be greedily eaten Subject(s): Churches; Stones PEPPERING BELL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At burpham church, the only bell Last Line: A better belle is going! Subject(s): Bells; Brides; Churches; Marriage PETITION FOR MERCY, by MARTA BOSWELL Poem Source First Line: Years since I have been to church Last Line: To find my way out into the universe %dense with undiscovered stars Subject(s): Churches PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU AT THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD IN ASCONA, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: Far from our village on the other side of the hill, we found the Last Line: The house of the dead - so full of life and love Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Death; Photography And Photographers; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Prayer; Stones; Travel POETIC EPIGRAMS: 4. THE FAITHLESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A church-bell in the dawn Last Line: I too -- alas! -- sleep on. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Faith; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed PRAYER OF SERVICE, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: Grant me the grace to feel Last Line: Their bitter night to day. Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology PRIEST, by WILLIAM FAULKNER Poem Source First Line: Evening like a nun shod with silence, evening like a girl slipping along Last Line: Ave, maria; deam gratiam...Tower of ivory, rose of lebanon Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Women - Bible RED HYMNAL, by JOSHUA KRYAH Poem Source First Line: What breaks so fervently loose Last Line: Announcing the horn in your side Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Prayer; Saints; Singing And Singers RELIGION, by RUTH FENISONG Poem Text First Line: A bright new church for god they made Last Line: As though he cared! Subject(s): Children; Churches; God; Childhood; Cathedrals REPLY TO AN INVITATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Peter is the cornerstone Last Line: In such a mackination. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE ABANDONED CHAPEL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: In a pool it is reflected fair, where all the frogs to sing are fain, where Last Line: By day when I have naught to do, at midnight when I bay the fays. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE NUNS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who at night the convent walls Last Line: O'er the keys are wildly straying. Subject(s): Churches; Faces; Love; Nuns; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness Last Line: And inside each of them vault opened behind vault endlessly Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Cathedrals; Journeys; Trips ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness Last Line: And inside them all vault opened behind the vault endlessly Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel ROSAMOND C. BAILEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou brave, good woman! Loved Last Line: Of the old church, with mute prayers and amens. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals ROSLIN AND HAWTHORNDEN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair roslin chapel, how divine Last Line: From nature's solemn altar-stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals RUINED ABBEY: SINGLE PANEL FROM AN ALTARPIECE, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: St. Joseph is about to gouge his thumb Last Line: Somewhere a stone rolls back from an empty tomb Subject(s): Churches RUINED CHURCH, by F. W. BATESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No stirring: bristly thistles guard Last Line: Where parson sermoned long ago. Subject(s): Churches; Ruins; Cathedrals RUNNING IN CHURCH, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, you were a hot-thinking, thin-lidded tinderbox Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals SACRAMENT, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: One sunday morning %after a spring rain Last Line: Occasionally a grain or two of sand %still crunched in our mouths Subject(s): Churches; Mormons; Religion - Reformers; Sacraments SACRED EPIGRAM: PETERHOUSE PRAYING FOR ITS HOUSE OF GOD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As now the coming day is still in the prayers of the world Last Line: And so added the wings of an eagle to his riches Subject(s): Churches SACRED EPIGRAM: THE GROANS OF PETERHOUSE ..., by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O too happy is that [phoenix] and the noble name Last Line: So may a long youth smile on you, never to yield to querulous old age Subject(s): Churches SACRILEGIOUS GAMESTERS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger journeyed through the town Last Line: Of the sacrilegious crew that turned %the old church to a hell Subject(s): Churches SAGE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Laurel foster never married Last Line: Of his knife blade, his pocket knife %and split his infinitives Subject(s): Churches; Marriage SAINT HUBERT OF GAMBAISEUIL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Of school I'd need an overplus, more lore than is assumed ad lib by a Last Line: Ambrosia may the gods deny to him who finds his art a task. Subject(s): Churches; Love; Religion; Schools; Cathedrals; Theology; Students SAINT NAZAIRE, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: The church at carcassone is filled with ghosts Last Line: With the dust of stars forever and forever. Subject(s): Churches; Ghosts; Prayer; Religion; Saints; Supernatural; Cathedrals; Theology SAN BERNARDINO: CHAPEL OF SAN GABRIEL, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Long one strays with dreamful fancies that they heart Last Line: As if faith were shaken in the resurrection of the dead. Subject(s): Churches; Missions & Missionaries; Saints; Cathedrals SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 2. IN CHURCH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now to god the father,' he ends Last Line: That had moved the congregation so. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals SCATTERED CONGREGATION, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We got ready and showed our home Last Line: Don't know. But that's where we're going Subject(s): Churches; Men SCHISM, by ANDREW SHIELDS Poem Source First Line: Every fifteen minutes Last Line: Later, from the other Subject(s): Churches; Music And Musicians; Time SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the church and chancel Last Line: Where all's the same. Subject(s): Churches; Love - Marital; Marriage; Cathedrals; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SIR OLAVE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of the cathedral Last Line: "we plighted our vows of love tender." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Life; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SKY IS FULL OF BLUE & FULL OF THE MIND OF GOD (2), by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A girl wrote that once Last Line: It is the sanctus; I know it; I'm ready Subject(s): Churches; God; Monasteries SOLEMN SANCTITY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some pious men are on this earth, who think Last Line: Aisle and through the large cathedral door. Subject(s): Churches; God; Praise; Prayer; Sanctuaries; Cathedrals SOLVITE TEMPLUM HOC, by JOHN R. HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Your parable struck lightning in the eyes Last Line: He sees in you the church you will rebuild Subject(s): Churches; Religion SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels Last Line: Majesty! We have lifted you up on the backs of slaves %whoselives you still hold as the curved earth Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids SPOKANE FALLS, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: In vain her veins incised - jagged boulders Last Line: But, what a waste of rocks %for that 'chapel,' they called it Subject(s): Churches SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 8. ANGEL DUST, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: I met monsignor in the vestibule Last Line: Letting them divvy the body and soul Subject(s): Angels; Churches; Death; Religion ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listen to the holy antheming Last Line: Can rule thy stubborn feelings or can teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Churches; Hearts; Love; Saints; Cathedrals ST. ANTHONY'S SERMON TO THE FISHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: St. Anthony at church Last Line: But preferred the old way Subject(s): "anthony, Saint (250-355);churches;saints;sermons;" Cathedrals ST. ARMORER'S CHURCH FROM THE OUTSIDE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Armorer's was once a great success Subject(s): Churches; Christianity; Cathedrals ST. CECILIA AT A REED ORGAN BY ORAZIO GENTILESCHI & GIOVANNI LANFRANCO, by STEPHEN BURT Poem Source First Line: Her tutelary angel has arrived Last Line: And rises to its memorized demands Subject(s): Churches; Organs (musical Instruments) ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S, by GEORGE BANCROFT DUREN Poem Text First Line: Where but so short a while before had stood Last Line: As that scarred cross mute pointing toward the sky. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ST. FRIDESWIDE'S CHAPEL CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: In this ancient place Last Line: Like a glass window, %like an eye moving behind clouds Subject(s): Churches; Oxford University; Religion ST. ISAAC'S CHURCH, PETROGRAD, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow down my soul in worship very low Last Line: Of man's divinity alive in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Variant Title(s): Russian Cathedral Subject(s): Churches; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Cathedrals; Leningrad; Petrograd ST. MARY'S, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back to where the roses rest Last Line: Of a prayer beneath a psalm. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ST. MICHAEL'S CHAIR, AND WHO SAT THERE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily, merrily rung the bells Last Line: "in compliment to me." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Death; Freedom; Marriage; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ST. SOPHIA, by H. S. GULLIVER Poem Text First Line: Was ever a soul of such wonderous style Last Line: To the vast beyond where is god on high. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, by MABEL HALL GOLTRA Poem Text First Line: My house has many windows Last Line: For the evening star to pass. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals STAR ISLAND CHURCH; ISLES OF SHOALS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray as the fog-wreaths over it blown Last Line: Which are the ledges and which the walls. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Islands; New Hampshire; Sea; Cathedrals; Ocean STATIC, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: It was a shocking winter when the deacons Last Line: His holy feet, ready to shock the hell out of everybody Subject(s): Churches; Electricity; Religion SUNDAY, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Fruit-vender church Last Line: Comes scampering out of church Subject(s): Churches; Markets; Merchants; Sabbath 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, 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 AFTERNOON SERVICE IN ST. ENDOC CHURCH, CORNWALL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come on! Come on! This hillock hides the spire Last Line: The second evening and the fourteenth psalm' Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship SUNDAY CHIMES IN THE CITY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the bridge, where in the morning blow Last Line: Deploys her white and steady wing, alone. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; London; Cathedrals SUNRISE AT ST. LAURENCE CHURCH, by SUSIE E. WILSON Poem Text First Line: Night hangs her sable curtain in the sky Last Line: Are made into one body by the light of god. Subject(s): Churches; Dawn; Night; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Bedtime SURROUNDED, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my suburb is surrounded by churches Subject(s): Suburbs; Christianity; Churches; Cathedrals SWIFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Caged in a cathedral he Last Line: Lashed others to be free Subject(s): Churches; Freedom; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TECUMSEH AMONG THEM, by PHILIP RAISOR Poem Source First Line: Almost every sunday, sermons torched Last Line: I knew gods were at his feast Subject(s): Children; Churches; Sermons; Tecumseh (1768-1813) THAT DAY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in a cold room Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE ARCHITECT (1), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The only places I can find you Last Line: Forms most faithfully the face of god. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Churches; Faith; Fathers & Daughters; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed THE ASSIGNATION, OR LOVE IN A NUNNERY: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prologues, like bells to churches, toll you in Last Line: Twas imitating you taught haynes to play. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Clergy; Poetry & Poets; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE BOROUGH: LETTER 2. THE CHURCH, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a church?' - let truth and reason speak Last Line: Regard the dead, but to the living live. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE BRIDE AND GROOM, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: True as magnet to the pole Last Line: A happy groom and bride. Subject(s): Churches; Happiness; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CALL TO EVENING PRAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Allah ho akbar! Allah ho akbar! Last Line: Naray'yana! Naray'yana! Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Virgin Mary; Theology THE CATHEDRAL, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is a cathedral vast where thou Last Line: And over all thy spirit broods supreme. Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Prayer; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Church Attendance THE CATHEDRAL IN TRONDHEIM, by JAKOB THORARENSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here silent art, yet wise and watchful-eyed Last Line: Are blended in majestic trinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarn Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Infamous general, baron von plattenberg, if this song of love for my Last Line: Barbarian! Subject(s): Churches; France; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Songs THE CATHEDRAL OF SWALLOWS, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if god love these not more Last Line: A huddle of houses, old, and brown. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Swallows; Cathedrals; Theology THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before my hall I stood; with sated eye Last Line: Glory to god!—not all, not all is vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Vanity; Cathedrals THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I, the man who erst the muse did ask Last Line: And roman rites retained, though roman faith be flown. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Monks; Rome, Italy; Cathedrals THE CHAPEL OF TWO SAINTS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a famous tuscan city Last Line: Of st. Peter and st. Paul! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CHILDREN'S CHURCH, by CARL GEROCK Poem Text First Line: The bells of the churches are ringing Last Line: A breath in the infinite ear. Alternate Author Name(s): Gerok, Carl; Gerrock, Karl Subject(s): Children; Churches; Childhood; Cathedrals THE CHURCH, by ALICE B. NEAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clad in a robe of pure and spotless white Last Line: Nor cast about her longing look, nor smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Alice; Bradley, Emily Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CHURCH, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for the food,' we said Last Line: Candle of 'find it.' my life Subject(s): Churches; Food & Eating; Cathedrals THE CHURCH AND THE WEDDING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll restore this old church for our marriage Last Line: And then no more. Subject(s): Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CHURCH AT POLIGNAC, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kneel down in yon chapel, but only one prayer Last Line: For, mercy, thy cause is the cause of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Churches; Polignac, Auguste De (1780-1847); Cathedrals THE CHURCH BUILDER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The church flings forth a battled shade Last Line: A cheaper gallows-tree!' Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CHURCH FLOORE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark you the floore? That square & speckled stone Last Line: Could build so strong in a weak heart. Variant Title(s): The Church-floor Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CHURCH IN 1849, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty mother, hearken! For thy foes Last Line: A fisher on the lake of galilee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Sin; Cathedrals THE CHURCH OF A DREAM; TO BERNHARD BERENSON, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind Last Line: Melancholy remembrances and vesperal. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CHURCH OF BROU, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the savoy valleys sounding Last Line: The rustle of the eternal rain of love. Subject(s): Hunting; Death; Churches; Youth; Graves; Hunters; Dead, The; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, SEEN FROM THE LAKE OF LUGANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sacred pile! Whose turrets rise Last Line: Of fatal austrian spears. Subject(s): Alps; Churches; Lugano (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Tell, William; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Cathedrals; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CHURCH PORCH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrows underneath thine eaves Last Line: One little pipe for thy delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Churches; God; Humility; Prayer; Sparrows; Cathedrals THE CHURCH STEPS, by GEORGE T. FOSTER Poem Text First Line: Two centuries of steps and then Last Line: And home of light. Subject(s): Churches; Heaven; Cathedrals; Paradise THE CHURCH TODAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outwardly splendid as of old Last Line: Like the dead moon, she still shines on. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Churches; Moon; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology THE CHURCH WINDOWS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word? Last Line: And in the ear, not conscience, ring. Variant Title(s): The Windows Subject(s): Churches; Worship; Cathedrals THE CHURCHYARD IN THE WOLD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered far in the wold Last Line: In a god whom no man knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Churches; God; Cathedrals THE CLIFF CHURCH: (WEMBURY), by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stand I Last Line: To eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Churches; Devonshire, England; Cathedrals THE DEAD CHURCH, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild, wild wind, wilt thou never cease thy sighing? Last Line: Thy tears shall wake her frozen limbs to life and health again. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE DESERTED SHRINE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was the temple for a people's need Last Line: Of love that on forsaken hearts abide. Subject(s): Churches; Decay; Ruins; Shrines; Temples; Cathedrals; Rot; Decadence; Mosques THE DEVIL'S DUE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arsenius, priest of god, I tell Last Line: The church their love built waits for them. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Churches; Labor & Laborers; Socialism; Cathedrals; Work; Workers THE DOORS, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The doors were oak, massive Subject(s): Doors; Churches; Salome (1st Century A.d.); John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Cathedrals THE ENGLISH FARM-LABORER'S SUNDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are sweet that sweep to-day Last Line: Each day in all the seven. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Churches; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Sunday THE FORESIDE MEETING HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The meeting house belies its age today Last Line: When we are memories. Subject(s): Churches; God; Prayer; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday THE FOUR BRIDGES, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love this grey old church, the low, long nave Last Line: Nor sleep so sweet: -- the word was -- eglantine. Subject(s): Churches; God; Grief; Landscape; Love; Soul; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness THE HOLY EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the immense cathedral of the holy earth Last Line: Upon her myriad altars flames the one sacred fire. Subject(s): Churches; Earth; God; Cathedrals; World THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wraps his scarf around my neck Last Line: That howling will chew up your soul! Subject(s): Advice; Animals; Bells; Children; Churches; Paranoia; Rabbits; Relationships; Childhood; Cathedrals; Hares THE IVY COVERED CHURCH, by JAMES C. HAUPT Poem Text First Line: There's an ivy - covered church that I love dearly Last Line: Our sins and shame on calvary. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE JUBILEE OF 1850, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bless god, ye happy lands Last Line: She was our lady's dower. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Churches; England; Ireland; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; English; Irish; Theology THE KIRK OF LAMINGTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As cauld a wind as ever blew Last Line: Ye'se a' be het e'er I come back. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE LANDMARK, by EULA GLADYS LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: The old church stands beside the road Last Line: Shall raze it to the ground. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE LITTLE CHURCH, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little church of long ago, where as a boy Last Line: The joy of once more sitting in that church of long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER, by A. E. LANCASTER Poem Text First Line: Bring him not here where our sainted feet Last Line: Some little church round the corner. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE LIVING TEMPLE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the world of light alone Last Line: And mould it into heavenly forms! Subject(s): Churches; Worship; Cathedrals THE LONELY CHURCH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stood among the chestnuts, its white spire Last Line: To guide the living and to guard the dead. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE MARTINS IN THE CHURCH-TOWER, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We build our nests in the old church-tower Last Line: In the old church-tower where the martins dwell. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Churches; Martins; Cathedrals THE OLD CHURCH, by LEILA RUSH KEMP Poem Text First Line: The massive walls seem to scorn the rage Last Line: A peaceful refuge from all cares and strife. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE OLD CHURCH, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lifteth its gray old spire from the heart of the busy town Last Line: Of the hallelujahs rising in that temple of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; God; Graves; Prayer; Sabbath; Temples; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday; Mosques THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Palid and cold as the morning star Last Line: And taming its raging waves. Subject(s): Churches; Churchyards; Graves; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer Meetings; Worship; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD OLD CHURCH (FOR IRISH CHURCHMEN), by J. DE B. SAUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: The old old church of the old old faith! Last Line: Bespeak our ancestry. Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Ireland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Irish THE OLD STONE CHURCH, by FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old stone church, time-worn and gray Last Line: The pastor and his flock repose. Subject(s): Churches; New Jersey; Cathedrals THE PARDONED SIN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Up the worn steps and through the ivied porch Last Line: "have washed away all record of thy sin!" Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Confessions; Forgiveness; God; Sin; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Clemency THE PARSON AT FAULT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A country parson took a notion Last Line: "I have it not, I'll take my oath." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Cathedrals THE PASSING OF THE OLD VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go up and down these days Last Line: Of course, must pass away. Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Vermont; Cathedrals THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE CHAPEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like one who leaves the trampled street Last Line: The blessed peace that follows pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Churches; Life; Pain; Cathedrals; Suffering; Misery THE PRAYER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Of them that sit within the gate Last Line: To know it pinchbeck at the last! Subject(s): Churches; Faith; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Theology THE PRAYER OF RUSBROCHIUS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O merciful lord! By the good which thou art Last Line: Be thou the sole cause, the one reason of all! Subject(s): Churches; God; Mercy; Prayer; Ruysbroeck, Jan Van (1293-1381); Cathedrals; Rusbrochius, Ioannis; Ruusbroec, Jan Van THE RABBI'S VISION, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ben levi sat with his books alone Last Line: "but—""beware of broken vows!" Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Jews; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE REVERSE OF THE GOLDEN SHIELD (AN EASTER MORNING REVERIE), by WILL MAJOR MAUPIN Poem Text First Line: Along the chancel rail, and on the altar stair Last Line: Starve, and within the shadow of his church to-day. Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Flowers; God; Holidays; Lilies; Prayer; Cathedrals; The Resurrection THE ROAD TO CHURCH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rutted by wheels and scarred by hoofs Last Line: Which they shall walk no more. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Roads; Cathedrals; Theology; Paths; Trails THE RUINS OF SETON CHAPEL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful the powerful, and the proud Last Line: The pride and insignificance of man! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Prayer; Ruins; Worship; Cathedrals THE SCATTERED CONGREGATION, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We got ready and showed our home Subject(s): Churches; Men; Cathedrals THE SEXTON AND THE THERMOMETER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A building there is, well known, I conjecture Last Line: "so, if you take the joke, why, I'll take the dollar!" Subject(s): Churches; Janitors; Jokes; Thermometers; Cathedrals THE SNOWDROP MONUMENT (IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvels of sleep, grown cold! Last Line: For when we wake -- with thee -- we shall be satisfied.' Subject(s): Churches; Lips; Love; Monuments; Silence; Sleep; Cathedrals THE SWALLOW'S NEST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the church with pray'r go by Last Line: God dwelleth too. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Churches; God; Swallows; Cathedrals THE SWEEPER OF THE FLOOR, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought that in a solemn church I stood Last Line: It is the lord! I cried, and saw no more. Subject(s): Churches; Cleanliness; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Theology THE THANK-OFFERING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Overbeck, the forest preacher Last Line: "loveth god, alone." Subject(s): Churches; New York City - Colonial Period; Praise; Rain; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology THE TWO CHURCH-BUILDERS; AN ITALIAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A famous king would build a church Last Line: "the pious widow's name!" Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE VILLAGE CHURCH, by WARREN HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: To all the country-side a landmark fair Last Line: Ye are the temple of the holy ghost. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE VIRGIN OF SAINT MARK'S; THE SACRISTAN'S STORY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a secret recess Last Line: Keeps watch forevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Venice, Italy; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Virgin Mary THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS; ADDRESSED TO TWO SWALLOWS .. DURING SERVICE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gay, guiltless pair Last Line: And nature's own great god adore. Subject(s): Birds; Churches; Swallows; Worship; Cathedrals THE WORD SHE REMEMBERED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the sermon you heard, my / dear?' Last Line: To meet each cross with a happy song. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Sermons; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THIS, THY DAY, by RUTH CRARY CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: Through monumental windows of stained glass Last Line: The worthy pastor knows... For love of him. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THOUGHTS IN A CATHEDRAL, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not with these thy priesthood dwells Last Line: With these thy holy priesthood dwells. Variant Title(s): In A Cathedral Subject(s): Churches; Creation; God; Nature; Spring; Cathedrals THRENODIA ON SAMUEL STONE, by EDWARD BULKLEY Poem Source First Line: Last spring this summer may be autumn styl'd Last Line: For hooker, shepard, and hayne's company Subject(s): Churches; Death; Heaven; Religion TO A PRIEST, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: I have listened to your profession of faith Last Line: What manner of god is this that you have made in your own image? Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Religion; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology TO AN UNFINISHED CHURCH, by BEULAH H. LYON Poem Text First Line: Where once a simple dwelling stood, your walls Last Line: Forbid your roof to ever shut god out! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Cathedrals TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING AFTER CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday morning just after church -- and a light warm Last Line: Teeth. Subject(s): Churches; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. YORK MINISTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solid and ghostly in the pale winter morning Last Line: To sit and sing—for pure joy simply to sit and sing! Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Democracy; God; Humanity; Nations; Cathedrals TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ARENZANO, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great church over the little fishing-village Last Line: And join the ave maria, ave, ave. Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Religion; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fifty years through wind and sun and rain Last Line: We shall perchance awaken. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Churches; Gold; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A VILLAGE CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stump of oak - a huge old ruin of a tree, shored up with props Last Line: The peacock flew from its tree overhead to the east and into the night. Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Clergy; History; Mankind; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Human Race TRADITIONAL VERSE ON CHURCH AT WINWICK, & MODERN ADDITION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The church at little winwick, %it stands upon a sod Last Line: Since on that high and lofty spire, %there's moved a single stone Subject(s): Churches TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY HOUSE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The house is brown, a simple framed structure Last Line: Traveling over a great distance at a spirited pace Subject(s): Angels; Churches; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Spirituality; Women - Bible TRINITY CHIMES: ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light of the indian summer Last Line: Who had no time for prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; God; Heaven; Prayer; Trinity, The; Cathedrals; Paradise TWO BACKGROUNDS: 1. LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by the ample river's argent sweep Last Line: Long years of peace and dreamless plenitude. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Churches; Cathedrals TWO STUDIES OF THE JUMPING CHURCH AT KILDEMOCK: 1, by JOSEPH WOODS Poem Source First Line: The church didn't jump, only the gable Last Line: And the church, its shrunken enclosure Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Churches TWO STUDIES OF THE JUMPING CHURCH AT KILDEMOCK: 2, by JOSEPH WOODS Poem Source First Line: So the hand runs over pieces of jamb Last Line: To drain through an absent ovary %and out onto the earth Subject(s): Churches UNATTRIBUTED FRAGMENT (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Tonight I fancy the moon's road over the water to skye Last Line: To kiss. I must go. And will I? Tomorrow I am seventeen Subject(s): Churches; Saint Kilda (scotland) UNATTRIBUTED FRAGMENT (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Sister mary cairnith lit the lamps Last Line: None needing suck, my daughter's (heart?) stops Subject(s): Churches; Convents; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters UNORTHODOX, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not want to go to church that easter morning Last Line: Of the resurrection morn. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals UPON FAIRFORD WINDOWS, by RICHARD CORBET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, you anti-saints, why glass Last Line: The inside, dross, the outside, saint Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Art And Artists; Churches; Windows USPENSKI CATHEDRAL, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: As you came Last Line: Attending to your wounds Subject(s): Churches; God; Prayer VERSES FOR THE NEW SPIRE, WINGHAM CHURCH, KENT, 1793, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In seventeen hundred and ninety three, %richard hodgman, of folkstone Last Line: If you finish me well, for to make me secure, %so that a hundred of years may endure Subject(s): Churches; Kent, England; Spires VERSES ON CLERGY PREACHING POLITICS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed, sir peter, I could wish, I own Last Line: If these good folks would keep within their tether! Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Churches; Cathedrals VESPERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the city behind me Last Line: And the thrushes sing their hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Cathedrals; Theology VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 5. ON SIMONY, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saw'st thou ever siquis patch'd on pauls church door Last Line: For this thy base and seruile symonie. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Cathedrals; Dead, The VIRGIN IN GLASS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little virgin, fitted out in white Last Line: Not wholly free Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals VISITING MY MOTHER'S FAMILY CHURCH, by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: The women wear black stockings Last Line: Amen. Amen. Now we can eat Variant Title(s): Visiting My Mother's Family's Churc Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Service VISITING ST. B'S, by CHRISTIAN KARLSON STEAD Poem Source First Line: We were talking about gender Last Line: Even the flies in st. B's %can recognize a stranger Subject(s): Churches; Language WALKING TO MY OFFICE ON EASTER SUNDAY MORNING, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: I move through the quiet morning, watching a cluster of blackbirds arc Last Line: Much work to be done Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form) WEDDED, BUT NOT MATED, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wedding bells and death-knells Last Line: The bells have ceased to swing. Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Marriage; Wedding Song; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium WHAT CHRI'MAS FETCHED THE WIGGINSES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter-time, er summertime Last Line: "n' take the town o' chinkypin!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Churches; Summer; Winter; Nativity, The; Cathedrals WHEN SEVERN'S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let not our times halt in their better choice! Subject(s): Severn (river), England; Floods; Wales; Churches WHO HEARS THE PARSON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To sqauat with hymn book he doth use Subject(s): Clergy; Churches; Public Worship WHY ARE THEY SHUT?, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why are our churches shut with jealous care Last Line: Why are they shut? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sabbath; Sin; Soul; Cathedrals; Sunday WRITTEN IN THE PORCH OF BINSTEAD CHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, sweet binstead! Take a fond farewell Last Line: The soul to god, in reverential praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Churches; Farewell; God; Cathedrals; Parting WRITTEN IN WINTERBORNE CAME CHURCH, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not use to listen well Last Line: And climb the pulpit-stair. Subject(s): April; Barnes, William (1801-1886); Churches; Poetry & Poets; Cathedrals WRITTEN ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou and seek the house of prayer! Last Line: And ponders on the world to come. Subject(s): Churches; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology YOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE PEW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The congregation stared Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Churches; Flirtation YOUTH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Not theirs to question or to hesitate Last Line: Gird thou our sinews and our souls to go! Subject(s): Churches; God; Religion; Youth; Cathedrals; Theology |
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