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Subject: GRACE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GRACE BEFORE DINNER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, who kindly dost provide
Last Line: Lord, bless us with content. Amen!
Subject(s): Grace


AN EASTER OFFERING, by NANCY A. BASTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now, nature, from the fertile mold
Last Line: He lives, our resurrected king!
Subject(s): Easter; Grace; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection


ANOTHER GRACE FOR A CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here a little child I stand
Last Line: Amen.
Variant Title(s): A Child's Grace;grace Before Meat;a Grace;a Grace For A Child
Subject(s): Grace; Holidays; Prayer; Thanksgiving


ANSELMO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years did I vainly seek the good
Last Line: So it is I am blest and glad alway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Grace; Prayer


ATTIDUDINIST, by JACQUES GEORGES CLEMENCEAU LE CLERQ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grace was the loftiest recompense I wooed
Last Line: My high despair into a pirouette.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tanaquil, Paul
Subject(s): Grace


BROTHERS: 7. STILL THERE IS MERCY, THERE IS GRACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How otherwise / could I have come to this
Last Line: But, amen, yours.
Subject(s): Creation; Grace; Mercy; Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips


BROWN, OF GRACE CHURCH, 1864, by PETER MARIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O glorious brown! Thou medley strange
Last Line: The pew, the ball, the hearse, the wine!
Subject(s): Grace Church, New York City; New York City - 19th Century; Saints


CHILDREN OF GRACE, ASLEEP, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: We never climbed beyond the town
Last Line: Labored -- and lie.
Subject(s): Children; Grace; Sleep; Childhood


CONTRA MORTEM: THE WOMAN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among birches moving their white halfnakedness
Last Line: Given and perfect and beyond and inconsolable
Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Women


F.R.H.'S THANKS, WITH 'SONGS OF GRACE AND GLORY' TO CLARA OVERTON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet flowers of spring
Last Line: In heaven above.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grace; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


FALIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the frost-grown city of falias lit by the falling stars
Last Line: For the old impossible haven 'mid the old auroral fires?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Cold; Desire; Grace; Ravens; Stars


FALLING FROM GRACE, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house of god is locked
Last Line: And charges in pursuit of winged temptation
Subject(s): Grace; Religion


GRACE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You must come and hold me again
Last Line: Earth of your back
Subject(s): Grace; Women


GRACE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the young professor folded
Subject(s): Grace


GRACE AFTER MEALS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our rock with loving care
Last Line: "by blessing of the lord. / our rock, etc"
Subject(s): God;grace;jews;prayer;temples; Judaism;mosques


GRACE AFTER MEAT (1), by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, in whom we live and move
Last Line: And we desire no more. Amen!
Subject(s): Grace


GRACE AFTER MEAT (2), by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, we thank and thee adore
Last Line: Let william hislop give the spirit.
Subject(s): Grace


GRACE AFTER MEAT (3), by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O lord, since we have feasted thus
Last Line: And jock bring in the spirit! Amen.
Subject(s): Grace


GRACE BEFORE MEAT, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O lord, when hunger pinches sore
Last Line: A tup or wether head! Amen.
Subject(s): Grace


GRACE BEFORE MEAT, by ANITA FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Saint francis, bless my table's spread
Last Line: Amen.
Subject(s): Grace; Prayer


GRACE BEFORE MEAT (AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO CHARLES LAMB), by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not that the life itself is less than meat
Last Line: If broken, pledged in love's eternal grace.
Subject(s): Grace


GRACE CHIMES, by MEREDITH NICHOLSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lead, kindly light,' I heard the glad bells ring
Last Line: And thought how god existeth everywhere.
Subject(s): God; Grace Church, New York City; Religion; Theology


GRACE DARLING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take, o star of all our seas, from not an alien hand
Last Line: While the sea that spared thee girds and glorifies the land.
Subject(s): Death; Grace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean


GRACE FOR CHILDREN, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What god gives, and what we take
Last Line: Make it ever flourishing.
Subject(s): Grace


GRACE FOR GRACE, by MARK GUY PEARSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy gifts without thy grace are lacking still
Last Line: The grace to share with him in poorer plight.
Subject(s): Grace; Religion; Theology


GRACELESS RECAPTURED AS GRACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ...To reduce the distinction
Last Line: In the morning nothing is seen moving, %nothing not moving
Subject(s): Grace


GROWING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto him that hath, thou givest
Last Line: Daily let me grow in grace.
Subject(s): Grace; Jesus Christ


HER GRACE IS ALL SHE HAS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Another art, to praise
Subject(s): Grace


JUMP-TO-GLORY JANE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A revelation came on jane
Last Line: For england up the ladder-stairs.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Grace


LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back
Last Line: So I did sit and eat.
Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology


NEPHEW RUBS THE SORE FEET, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Creaks in the pulley
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aunts; Grace; Nature


ON A PASSENGER FERRY, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The deck is big, and crowded. In one corner
Subject(s): Paley, Grace (1922-2007)


ON THE NATURE OF FREE GRACE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grace, to be sure, is, in the last degree
Last Line: Impow'r'd by him, to do what good we can.
Subject(s): Grace


ORGAN SONGS: THE GRACE OF GRACE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I the grace to win the grace
Last Line: Thy grace divine is all, and more.
Subject(s): Ambition; Grace


OVER THE WATERS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the crystal waters
Last Line: Could mirror grace like hers?
Subject(s): Grace


PERDITA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'twas only a tiny, withered rose"
Last Line: But it once belonged to grace
Subject(s): Grace


ROADSIDE POEMS: HE HEEDED NOT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of whispering trees the tongues to hear
Last Line: An earnest, fearless, hopeless face.
Subject(s): Anger; Calm; Children; Grace; Humility; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Childhood


SOMETHING YOU WON'T EVER BRING PRESSURE TO BEAR ON, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I barely understand: a true comparison
Subject(s): Grace; Riddles


SOMETIMES, by C. MARGARET BRANDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes I catch sweet glimpses of his face
Last Line: And praise thee for thy wondrous saving grace.
Subject(s): God; Grace


TABLE RULES FOR LITTLE FOLKS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In silence I must take my seat
Last Line: In praise for his wondrous love
Subject(s): Children;etiquette;grace; Childhood;manners;courtesy


THE PRODIGAL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I came to you banned, dishonored
Last Line: O brothers, your love -- your love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grace


THE ROSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, edith! Spare the rose; it lives, it lives
Last Line: And fill with eden odours all the air.
Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; God; Grace; Innocence; Prayer; Punishment; Roses; Salvation


TUNE ME, O LORD, INTO ONE HARMONY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tune me, o lord
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): God; Grace; Love


VERSES LEFT ON A LADY'S TOILETTE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why will young flavia, all-accomplisht fair
Last Line: Who tire with gems and silks the dazled eyes.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Simplicity; Vanity; Women