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First Line: What if a much of a which of a wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


A KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought
Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day; World; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "this ae nighte [night], this ae nighte [night]"
Last Line: And christ receive thy saule [soul]
Variant Title(s): The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge
Subject(s): Death;judgment Day;wakes; "dead, The;end Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man;


A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 1, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Niloiya said to noah, what aileth thee
Last Line: Shall have no let of me, to do its will.'
Subject(s): Arks; Floods; God; Judgment Day; Noah (bible); End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


A TINKLE OF BELLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of the moon on the white
Last Line: Sheer into the judgment day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bells; Judgment Day; Moon; Snow; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


AD ASTRA: 131, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O baleful lure, to lead our feet astray!
Last Line: Strong in whose strength man may think scorn of fate!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Judgment Day; Religion; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city
Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S


ALONE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I do when I stand in my place
Last Line: And I stand at god's judgment alone!
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


APOCALYPSE, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all sixty of us I am the only one who went
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


APOCALYPSE SOLILOQUY, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hope my death is not stolen from me
Last Line: An appointment kept in a private sea
Subject(s): Doomsday


BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time
Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark.
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


BILLY AND HIS DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! It's come, kids, come!
Last Line: Ef you don't hear little billy an' his big bass drum!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Drums; Judgment Day; Musical Instruments; Noises; Childhood; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


CHRIST'S COMING, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The peoples long have waited
Last Line: Exalt his holy name!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Justice; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


COMPANY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought, 'how terrible, if I were seen
Last Line: "I thought, ""why should I, if the rest are so?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


CONCLUSION, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is an ending, even to these things
Last Line: More graciously before our hearts were broken?
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


DIES IRAE, by ABRAHAM COLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day of wrath, that day of burning
Last Line: Spare, lord, in that hour of terror!
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


DIES IRAE, by THOMAS OF CELANO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day of vengeance, without morrow!
Last Line: Save him, god! From condemnation!
Variant Title(s): The Day Of Judgment
Subject(s): Consolation; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


DIES IRAE DIES ILLA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hears't thou, my soul, what serious things"
Last Line: "my hope, my fear! My judge, my friend! / take charge of me, and of my end"
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man


DOOMES-DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let not that day gods friends and servants scare
Last Line: The bench is then their place; and not the barre.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


DOOMSDAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise
Last Line: . . . . . . .
Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Judgment Day; Longing; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


DOOMSDAY, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The end of everything approaches
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


DOST THOU DENY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dost thou deny the virgin birth?
Last Line: When thou shalt face christ's judgment seat.
Subject(s): Devil; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


END OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE ELLISTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once I knew that the end of the world
Last Line: Who measure time by years.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


END OF THE WORLD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young in school in switzerland, about the time of the boer
Last Line: And the earth flourish long after mankind is out
Subject(s): Doomsday; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


END OF THE WORLD, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a weeping in the world
Last Line: Whereby we too must die.
Subject(s): Bible; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


ENGLAND'S ALFRED ABROAD, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrong? Are they wrong? Of course they are
Last Line: And the 'bus to cimiez.
Subject(s): Austin, Alfred (1835-1913); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns
Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings.
Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone
Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man.
Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FAREWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tie the strings to my life, my lord, / then I am ready to go!
Last Line: Now I am ready to go!
Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Prayer; Reformation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice
Last Line: And would suffice.
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FORMULA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw the flesh that made the lover burn
Last Line: X equals a—and so, he is destroyed.
Subject(s): Heaven; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


GOOD-NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You linger when you say good-night
Last Line: Or only on the day of days?'
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Fear; Judgment Day; Dead, The; Parting; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow
Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood.
Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow"";
Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence


HYMN CONCERNING THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by THOMASIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a thief, who falls at midnight on his unsuspecting prey
Last Line: When the master comes, to meet him, bearing with you lamps that burn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomasius, Christia
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


ILICET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an end of joy and sorrow
Last Line: The poppied sleep, the end of all
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Judgment Day; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Almighty judge, how shall poor wretches brook
Last Line: There thou shalt finde my faults are thine.
Subject(s): Judges; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


JUDGEMENT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, my day, yet ere thou art quite departed
Last Line: Thou who art christ, christ who is more than thou.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


JUDGMENT, by FERNAND MAZADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night the true god lists your every crime
Last Line: And the true god—I see it all—will pardon you.
Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


JUDGMENT DAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Every day is judgment day
Last Line: Sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


JUDGMENT DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When through our bodies our two spirits / burn
Last Line: Irked by long shadows, mocked by those bright far tones.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


LMFBR, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death himself, / (liquid metal fast breeder reactor)
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


ON ETHNIC DEFINITIONS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague
Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


ON THOSE THAT DESERVE IT, by FRANCIS QUARLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O when our clergy, at the dreadful day
Last Line: Durst ye not stoop to play the fools for him?
Subject(s): Clergy; Judgment Day; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shattered water made a misty din
Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken."
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore


RECOMPENSE, by JESSE M. BALL ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When sound shall cease, there being none to hear
Last Line: Not failure, not defeat, but consummation!
Subject(s): Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 3. RESURRECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trumpet's wild echo fills the skies
Last Line: And hell for the goats is selected.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


TESTIMONY OF HANDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is every day the judgment day?
Last Line: The hand that plies eternity!
Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE APPROACHETH THE HALL OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o my heart, my mother, my heart, my mother"
Last Line: "yea, millions-of-years, o my mother, my heart!"
Subject(s): Judgment Day;mythology - Egyptian; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man


THE CRY OF JOB, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, thou lovest the heart that's pure
Last Line: Come with thy judgment day to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Bible; God; Job (bible); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: With a whirl of thought oppressed
Last Line: I damn such fools! -- go, go, you're bit.'
Variant Title(s): On The Day Of Judgement
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O day of life, of light, of love
Last Line: Make all things new! And without end!
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT; AN ODE ATTEMPTED IN ENGLISH SAPPHIC, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the fierce north-wind with his airy forces
Last Line: Shout the redeemer.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Asunder shall the clouds be rolled
Last Line: With vanished light like dead men's eyes
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man


THE DOOM OF YS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you hear the bell? 'tis a silver chime
Last Line: It rings o'er the town that the deep sea hides!'
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE END OF THE WORLD, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Comrades! The end of the world's at hand!
Last Line: For the end of the world is here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE END OF THE WORLD, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow had fallen many nights and days
Last Line: "he can stay with me while I do not lift them."
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE END OF THE WORLD, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a subject profound I think I should
Subject(s): Doomsday


THE END OF THE WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE END OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The end of the world: it was given to me to see it
Last Line: Postpones the end of the world: in which we live forever
Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE EPITAPH ENDING IN AND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last storm, when hawks
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE ETERNAL JUSTICE, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god that god shall judge my soul, not man!
Last Line: All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE FIFTEEN DAYS OF JUDGEMENT, by SEBASTIAN EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then there shall be signs in heaven
Last Line: Mark yon shadow on the dial!
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Judgment Day; Ruins; Storms; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE FINAL CONFLAGRATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "verily, verily that day shall come"
Last Line: "this done, who shattered all, shall all restore"
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man


THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the primeval priest's assum'd power
Last Line: 9. And the salt ocean rolled englob'd
Variant Title(s): The Book Of Urizen
Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Judgment Day; Mythology; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed
Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus
Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE HYPOCRITES REWARD, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When came his final judgment
Last Line: He wore them in god's name.
Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE INEVITABLE. SURAT: 59, by KORAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the day of wrath and mercy cometh, none shall doubt it come
Last Line: "oh, ""companions of the right hand!"" oh! Ye others who were wise!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Quran
Subject(s): Heaven; Islam; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE JUDGE-MENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God hides from man the reck'ning day, that he
Last Line: Expect the coming of it ev'ry day.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE JUDGEMENT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The judgment trump has blown
Last Line: In one flood of viewless flame.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE JUDGEMENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In doing justice, god shall then be known
Last Line: Who shewing mercy here, few priz'd, or none.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air
Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy
Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE MILLENNIUM, by IDA TEEPLE WITTENBERGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The armaments and power of kings
Last Line: In chains in deepest hell!
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Peace; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn
Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house.
Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


THE SUMME, AND THE THE SATISFACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I drew up mine account
Last Line: By law, the bond once cancelled.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE TRUMPET CALL (1), by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over earth awakes a whirring
Last Line: "glad or grieving, thou shalt rise."
Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri
Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Trumpets; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: We met, a hundred of us met
Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam.
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


THE WHEAT AND THE TARES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Satan hath with devil's cunning
Last Line: Tares are tares, and wheat is wheat.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Judgments; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


TO HAYDN, by THOMAS HOLCROFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is the mighty master that can trace / the eternal lineaments of nature's fac
Last Line: And consonance sublime amid confusion hears.
Subject(s): Fights; Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809); Judgment Day; Thunder; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright
Last Line: Then chiefly lives.
Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence


WENDELL PHILLIPS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw him stand, upon the judgment day
Last Line: If but one soul be lost, how is man saved?'
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


WHALE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain, with a silver flail
Last Line: "and there was whale!"
Subject(s): Creation; God; Judgment Day; Whales; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


WHAT WE ARE, by PEARLE MOORE STEVENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I may not scale the mountain top
Last Line: For what we really are.
Subject(s): Good; Judgment Day; Truth; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


YOUR ACCOUNTING, by EMME MAAK    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you've walked with wisdom - known the way
Last Line: You've done god's work -- you'll get god's pay!
Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man