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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COLUMBA, SAINT (521-597) Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLUE EYE WILL LOOK BACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Never again to see its women and men Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 16. THE BLESSING OF SAINT COLUMCILLE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Torqued warriors turned their galley's crimson prow Last Line: The old gods listened, lonely in the dew. Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 20. SAINT COLUMBA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The murmuring tide foams slowly up the sands Last Line: The well-loved outline of his irish shore. Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History COLUMBA, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing a song of heroes Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint COLUMCILLE THE SCRIBE, by COLUMCILLE Poem Text First Line: My hand is weary with writing Last Line: Whence my hand is weary with writing. Alternate Author Name(s): Columba Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Writing & Writers; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint CREIDE'S LAMENT FOR DINERTACH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The arrows that murder sleep each hour Last Line: Hour of the long and frigid night Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) DERRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This is why I love derry Last Line: One end to the other of it Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) EXILE'S DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It would be delightful, son of my god, %in marvelous voyages Last Line: To spend the night with comgall, visit cainnech, %how lovely that would be! Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) IONA; A MEMORIAL OF ST. COLUMBA, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We gazed on corryvrekin's whirl Last Line: Shall brighten evermore. Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Iona, Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint LIADAN TELLS OF HER LOVE FOR CUIRITHIR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Kispleasing %is the deed I've done Last Line: Without cuirithir %it will never survive Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) OLD WOMAN OF BEARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The ebbing of the tide has come to me Last Line: In flood is now all in the wave of the ebb Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) POOR PAYMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've heard he gives no horses for poems Last Line: Instead he gives what he knows how: %a cow Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) THE CROSS OF THE DUMB; A CHRISTMAS ON IONA, LONG, LONG AGO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One eve, when st. Columba strode Last Line: Who on that day was glad and proud! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Columba, Saint (521-597); Generosity; Guests; Iona, Scotland; Miracles; Salvation; Strangers; Nativity, The; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Visiting THE PROPHECY OF ST. ORAN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The storm had ceased to rave: subsiding slow Last Line: "that his blaspheming tongue may blab no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Ireland; Missionaries & Missions; Oran, Saint; Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Irish THREE BEST BELOVED PLACES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Other places in groups of three Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) WEARY MY HAND WITH WRITING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The possessions of men of art. %weary my hand with writing Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597) |
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