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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GOOD Matches Found: 108 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BUNDLE OF MYRRH IS MY WELL-BELOVED UNTO ME', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy cross cruciferous Last Line: Thy cross cruciferous Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Crucifixion, The A CHILD IS BORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A child is born!' the magi cried, and then Last Line: "lord of the earth beneath and heaven above." Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Good; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A FAVOR OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for making this sacrifice,' Subject(s): Markets; Accidents; First Aid; Good Samaritan; Supermarkets A GOOD FRIDAY DEVOTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo, even now, the sky's far rim Last Line: Forever more 'tis easter morn. Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; The Resurrection; Virgin Mary A GOOD MAN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: He lived a very blameless life Last Line: But none remembered quite his name. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Good; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE GORDON GABELL Poem Text First Line: A little bit of heaven Last Line: Is sent to earth below! Subject(s): Good; Heaven; Paradise A PRAYER, by CLARENCE M. BURKHOLDER Poem Text First Line: Lord, let not my religion be Last Line: And neighbor unto every man. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Good Samaritan; Prayer A SEASONABLE MORAL, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woman sang her ballad to the sky Last Line: The chance is such as you ought not to take. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Gifts & Giving; Good Samaritan; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 5. THE TELLING OF STORIES, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Science? It comes from the forehead of the snake Last Line: But within its extravagant realm, in its heights and depths. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists AIR OF PERFORMANCE - AT LIANCOURT, by ARMAND SCHWERNER Poem Source First Line: What is common in the evocations of ritual Last Line: That his ccxviieme reflexion morale is not about -- anything Subject(s): Good; Good Samaritan AS CREATED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a space for good to bloom Last Line: After all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Good; Hearts; Mankind; Human Race BEING GOOD, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's the use of being good? Last Line: Than I am. Subject(s): Children; Good; Childhood BRUCE: JAMES OF DOUGLAS, by JOHN BARBOUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus douglas to saint andrews came Last Line: Much love and honour to him brought. Subject(s): Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The CAESAR AND CHRIST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Proud caesar came in strength of steel Last Line: And he lives. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Evil; Good; Jesus Christ; War; Dead, The CAROL: NEW STYLE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus christ should come again Last Line: On christmas day in the morning. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Crucifixion; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CHRISTIANITY AND WAR, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Talk, if you will, of hero deed Last Line: Of war-like followers of jesus. Subject(s): Christianity; Evil; Good; Hypocrisy; Jesus Christ; Religion; War; Theology COMPARISON, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Some tell us heaven is perfect-bright and fair Last Line: Earth, too, is fair, and god pronounced it good. Subject(s): God; Good; Heaven; Paradise CONFLICT, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: When I see the falling bombs Last Line: To make a thousand roads converge? Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Soldiers; War DOUGLAS OF THE BLEEDING HEART, by MORITZ GRAF VON STRACHWITZ Poem Text First Line: Earl douglas, don thy helm so bright Last Line: King robert bruce's heart. Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce DUALITY; FROM ME SPRING GOOD AND EVIL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who gave thee such a ruby flaming heart Last Line: O'erthrown but in the unconflicting spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Character; Evil; Good; Human Abnormalities; Pain; Peace; Deformities; Suffering; Misery EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born Last Line: Time bowed before eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness FOR COLONEL R. W. PRATT OF THE CARLISLE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the heart of these, the master saith Last Line: The lord in all his lowly ones can see! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Good; Praise; Soldiers FOR THE RIGHT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us stand for the right, whatever betide Last Line: Resisting the evil that dwells in the land. Subject(s): Good; Truth FRAGMENT OF A HYMN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O goodness of god! More exceedingly great Last Line: And of glory to come, for whoe'er would embrace. Subject(s): Fragmentation; Good GOLDIE GOODWIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My old uncle sidney he says it's a sign Last Line: "good's 'bout 'leventy-hunnerd times better than gold!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Good; Uncles; Childhood GOOD AND EVIL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the messenger that stays Last Line: Uncertain shadows here. Subject(s): Evil; Good GOOD FRIDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise up above my self Last Line: If they want it Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ GOOD FRIDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise up above my self Last Line: Men will be gods %if they want it Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ GOOD FRIDAY, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a dream - the outline of that face Last Line: I stumble on -- is it too dark to pray? Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my chief good Last Line: And all the writings blot or burn. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by EDGAR DANIEL KRAMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You drove the nails in his white Last Line: That the saviour was crucified. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by CATHERINE F. MANNING Poem Text First Line: Today he dies, and dies once more in vain Last Line: "unechoed, while their lips say, ""we believe""." Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Sonnet (as Literary Form) GOOD FRIDAY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter and james and john Last Line: I hear the cock crow yet. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heart of three-in-the-evening Last Line: I kneel -- and I weep and pray. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I for thy sake was pierced Last Line: But bear it bravely, even to calvary. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This day upon the bitter tree Last Line: That is not all unworthy of %the god I mourn? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by LUCY H. KING SMITH Poem Text First Line: Come we unto an altar, kneel, and pray Last Line: Give dreams of thy immortal paradise. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold in every crimson glow Last Line: Love crucified for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by MARTHA PROVINE LEACH TURNER Poem Text First Line: There was no glory on the hills that day Last Line: Against a vacant sky. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Religion; Theology GOOD FRIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friday is a heavenly day Last Line: Died—and forgave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Easter; Forgiveness; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Clemency GOOD FRIDAY, by FLAVIA VIDAL Poem Source First Line: Absinthe, green, bewitching moon Last Line: Sprout up phosphorescences of gangrene! Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Love; Redemption GOOD FRIDAY, by A. J. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: How often have I peered Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a stone, and not a sheep Last Line: And smite a rock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus christ, grown faint upon the cross Last Line: Heart, o lord jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY -- 1917, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: The die is cast for war! Last Line: Amen! Amen! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Reconciliation; Religion; War; Theology GOOD FRIDAY EVENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cherub's heart or hand for us might ache Last Line: More and yet more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY HYMN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord christ paid life with death Last Line: And in the living see the dead. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up thy hill of sorrows Last Line: To a throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT, by FANNY HOWE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Has my father abandoned me? Or what do I mean Last Line: I am falling to the end of the opening question. %outside its law Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last the bird that sang so long Last Line: His figure ashen-stolen %sank in the moon's broad gold Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, 1613. RIDING WESTWARD, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this Last Line: That thou mayest know me, and I'll turn my face. Subject(s): Bible; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Religion; Theology GOOD FRYDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But now ye sceen is chang'd, chang'd is ye day Last Line: Who turnes ye crosse into so sweet a thing. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Pain; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GOOD NEWS BLUES, by JAMES MCKEAN Poem Source First Line: I'm not myself whoever that is 7:00 saturday morning Last Line: Before ecstasy. How's the family? How's the garden growing? %thanks for stopping by Subject(s): Good; Morning; News GOOD SAMARITAN ET AL., by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The priest, the levite, the samaritan, and the man who fell Last Line: Aside, for a parable's sake. And without the parable, I would %never have been saved Subject(s): Good Samaritan GOOD SAMARITANS, by JACK BERNIER Poem Source First Line: The headlines in the newspaper Last Line: Police are good samaritans.' Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Police GOOD-FRIDAY, by MARIA JAMES Poem Text First Line: The scene is fresh before us Last Line: Who came the lost to save. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD-FRIDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be hushed, my heart, remembering Last Line: Full paid on calvary. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Calvary; Catholic Church - Clergy; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Catholic Priests GOODFRYDAY (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Weep & spare not / good eyes are not Last Line: Weep & spare not. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HYMN TO THE SUPREME BEING, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father supreme! Eternal god! Last Line: And smite our guilty breasts. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week HYMN: GOOD FRIDAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh more than merciful! Whose bounty gave Last Line: Nor let thy glorious blood be spilt in vain. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice HYMN: THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who yonder on the desert heath Last Line: "such be thy gratitude!" Subject(s): Good Samaritan IN EQUAL SACRIFICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus of old the douglas did Last Line: The heart he bore to the holy land. Subject(s): Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce IN HER PRESENCE AT LAST, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He walked the world with bended head Last Line: No good deed ever joins the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Good Deeds IN MEMORIAM, REV. HENRY E. WARREN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The kindest man Last Line: The man whose heart was kind. Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Kindness IN MEMORIAM: T.S.K, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rare and radiant life, whose mission here Last Line: To the full sunshine of eternal love! Subject(s): Death; Good; Heaven; Life; Praise; Dead, The; Paradise JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS, by DE FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Perhaps you are right, dear Last Line: If you but understood. Subject(s): Friendship; Good LIGHT AND SHADE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast done well to kneel and say Last Line: Of its most sacred brotherhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Good; Life; Love; Soul LITTLEWIT AND LOFTUS, by PAMELIA VINING YULE Poem Text First Line: John littlewit, friends, was a credulous man Last Line: And I'm wise although knowing no more! Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Good; Humility; Men; Science; Wisdom; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Scientists MA BELLE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For your eyes of heavenly hue Last Line: I dearly love you. Subject(s): Beauty; Good; Love MEMORIAL, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toiling early, and toiling late Last Line: Comes blossoming out of the dust. Subject(s): Good; Charity METEOROLOGY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl Last Line: Even the best days Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming MOTHER WONDER, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: I have washed their clothes and their faces Last Line: I wonder! Subject(s): Children; Good; Hearts; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood NORA'S CHARM, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the fisher's wife at her neighbor's door Last Line: "and lets the evil in!" Subject(s): Fairies; Evil; Good; Charms (magic) NORTHUMBERLAND BETRAYED BY DOUGLAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now list and lithe, you gentlemen" Last Line: There douglas landed lord percye Subject(s): "douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of;percy Family, Northumberland, England;scotland - Relations With England;" "douglas The Good;black Douglas, The; NOTTMAN, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was nottman waving at me Last Line: "of red, nottman always shut off the steam." Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Variant Title(s): How Little Tom Was Saved Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Railroads; Railways; Trains ON GOOD FRIDAY, THE DAY OF OUR SAVIOUR'S PASSION, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep this great day! Let tears o'erflow your eyes Last Line: May we shed pious tears, and of our sins repent. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week ONE: 28, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man who had fallen among thieves Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Good Samaritan; Religion; Theology ONE: 28, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man who had fallen among thieves Last Line: A million billion trillion stars Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Good Samaritan; Religion ORMAZD AND AHRIMAN; A COSMIC ROMANCE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ormazd, the spirit of light, the spirit of good Last Line: Back to those holds of midnight whence he came. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Evil; Good; Meliorism; Mythology PARABLE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young man who had great possessions dreamed Last Line: Ever went empty-handed from his door. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Jesus Christ; Poverty PAUSE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god of truth! Shall man essay Last Line: Behold them only through our tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Sin PRAETORIUM SCENE: GOOD FRIDAY, by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Source First Line: Rome did its worst; thorns platted hor his brow Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week PRAYER FOR A LITTLE BOY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But while I live I want to be from quick and angry / passions free Last Line: Things.—amen. Subject(s): Boys; Good; Prayer RESPONSIBILITY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, lying among roses in the garden of the great inn Last Line: "I am dry: leave my soul at the inn." Subject(s): Death; Evil; Good; Soul; Dead, The REWARD AND PUNISHMENT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are the best and the worst of everything you require Last Line: You shall be for yourself both the praise and the blame. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Praise; Punishment ROUNDING THE CAPE, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The low sun whitens on the flying squalls Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Good Hope, Cape Of SONG OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of the good samaritan, of pity and the fixed stars Last Line: Where the mocked, unpremeditated bowl of the hand %makes the world nothing, pouring in oil and wine Subject(s): Good Samaritan STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been on duty from two till four Last Line: And get my bloody old sins washed white! Subject(s): Army Life; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War SUNBEAM AND SHADOW, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunbeam was a lovely child Last Line: Like two fair flowers together, and so the story ends. Subject(s): Change; Children; Cousins; Forgiveness; Good; Rudeness; Childhood; Clemency; Bad Manners TAKE PARADISE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: A willowy swamp once stewed just off %the highway by the lake, till kmart Last Line: This anchor of the human spirit, where you can get %the cheapest batteries in town Subject(s): Angels; Good; Heaven; Saints; Sky THE BIG GAME, by ALEX. C. D. NOE Poem Text First Line: I may save a million pounds Last Line: And know I once was there. Subject(s): Fullness; Good Samaritan; Humanity; Life; Satiation THE CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was only the clinging touch Last Line: It hath made the whole day sweet. Subject(s): Children; Good Samaritan; Touch (sense); Childhood THE CHILD HEART, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shy flowers smile in the face of their father the bountiful bright one Last Line: And serve them ever with gladness, and learn to be pure and good. Subject(s): Good; Love; Nature - Religious Aspects THE CONTRAST TO WATTS' HYMN 'THE POTTER AND THE CLAT', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the potter and the clay Last Line: And shew what he, in christ, has done. Subject(s): Good; Love; Pottery And Potters; Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) THE GOLDEN APPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She saw on the far bank a golden apple Last Line: With gloss of gold on his ruddy hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Evil; Fruit; Good; Temptation THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who bleeds in the desert, faint, naked, and torn Last Line: Than that which is tendered to anguish and woe. Subject(s): Cuthites (samaria); Good Samaritan THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by ORVILLE LAWRENCE KUHN Poem Text First Line: Though priests and levites riding by Last Line: The good samaritan! Subject(s): Good Samaritan THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that thy creed were sound Last Line: When comes a foe, my wounds with oil and wine to tend. Subject(s): Catholics; Good Samaritan; Travel; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Journeys; Trips THE GOOD SAMARITAN ET AL., by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The priest, the levite, the samaritan, and the man who fell Subject(s): Good Samaritan THE HEART OF THE BRUCE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King robert bore with gasping breath Last Line: Deplore the douglas' fall. Subject(s): Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE ODE OF GOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal spring, and source Last Line: But the sweet presence of a heavenly friend. Subject(s): Good THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Servant of god! Thy soul's pure spring of life Last Line: No more thy captives, taken at thy will. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Bible; God; Good; Humanity THE VIGIL OF GOOD FRIDAY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the night? 'tis dark Last Line: Love weeps for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week THERE IS BUT ONE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have sung of blood and battle Last Line: Have I made my lesson plain? Subject(s): Clergy; Good; Religion; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology; First World War UNIVERSAL GOOD, THE OBJECT OF THE DIVINE WILL; AND EVIL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The god of love, delighting to bestow Last Line: May both be found self-evidently true. Subject(s): Good; Gratitude; Love WALFORD DAVIES, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How jovial was his laughter Last Line: And he will make them sing. Subject(s): Good; Praise 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 WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Who is my neighbor? He of whom 'tis said Last Line: To prove my love to them in everything. Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Love; Neighbors |
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