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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HUMILITY Matches Found: 70 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CREED, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God sends no message by me. I am mute Last Line: Welcomes the poor in spirit—who were least. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Humility; Nature; Oaths; Belief; Creed A NARROW GIRDLE OF ROUGH STONES AND CRAGS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And point rash-judgement is the name it bears Subject(s): Humility; Charity A THANKSGIVING FOR F.D. MAURICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veil hath lifted and hath fallen; and him Last Line: His spirit send thou back in thine again. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Humility; Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805-1872); Piety; Praise; Virtue A THOUGHT (1), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearts that are great beat never loud Last Line: Earth knows a little -- god, the rest. Subject(s): Humility AGAINST WOMEN'S FASHIONS, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greatest of virtues is humility Last Line: By example of her your horns cast away. Subject(s): Fashion; Humility ASOLANDO: HUMILITY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What girl but, having gathered flowers Last Line: Not the worst bud -- who can tell? Subject(s): Humility ASPIRATION, by MARGUERITE WARREN WATSON Poem Text First Line: You are my much beloved, gentle son Last Line: One so fit to journey up toward thee! Subject(s): Desire; Humility CATHERINE TO GREGORY, THE POPE, by MARY KATE BLAND Poem Text First Line: Most holy christ on earth, I catherine Last Line: To die. Thy blessing, father -- rise and come! Subject(s): Death; Humility; Jesus Christ; Popes; Dead, The; Papacy CHARITAS NIMIA; OR THE DEAR BARGAIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what is man? Why should he coste thee Last Line: As then in death, so now in love. Subject(s): Humility CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 9. OF HUMILITY, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou be not that gentle shep-heard swaine Last Line: Seen, known, admir'd, is god aboue. Subject(s): Humility CLUB LAW, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, since by a lucky knack Last Line: You're safe in your location. Subject(s): Humility; Singing & Singers; Smiles DEATH, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have made light of death Last Line: None may be there to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Death; Humility; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Dead, The; Loneliness DEVIL'S GOLD (A HAMPTON LEGEND), by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The general rolled in a coach-and-four Last Line: Are marked with the hate of gold. Subject(s): Devil; Humility; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DO YOU KNOW?, by GRACE BROWN FRINK Poem Text First Line: About ten or fifteen years ago Last Line: Then honestly and frankly tell them so. Subject(s): Humility; Knowledge DUST, by DOLORES CAIRNS Poem Text First Line: I said, being humble Last Line: Of this terrible dust? Subject(s): Dust; Humility EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If moral virtue was christianity %christ's pretensions were all vanity Last Line: Both read the bible day & night, %but thou read'st black where I read white Variant Title(s): The New La Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity FASTING, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What though her face be pale? This onely showes Last Line: Keeps her stomach fresh for paradise. Subject(s): Heaven; Humility; Sacrifices; Strength; Paradise FIRST GLIMPSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When love glimpsed me for the first time Last Line: Though I was made of mud Subject(s): God; Humility; Love - Beginnings HEAR ME, O ALLAH!, by GEORGE SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: I would not be too happy nor too rich Last Line: Neither a saint nor sinner let me die! Subject(s): God; Humility; Prayer; Wisdom HUMBLE HEART, by ALFRED NORRIS Poem Source First Line: I would not ask thee that my days Subject(s): Humility HUMILITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The bird that soars on highest wing Last Line: The footstool of humility Subject(s): Humility;religion; Theology HUMILITY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humble we must be, if to heaven we go Last Line: Grace is increased by humility. Subject(s): Humility HUMILITY, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird that soars on highest wing Last Line: The footstool of humility. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Hope; Humility; Optimism HUMILITY, by LILIANA URSU Poem Source First Line: Here, the word Last Line: To the statues of wax, %their burned hands beseeching Subject(s): Humility HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail creatures are we all! To be the best Last Line: To god, thy conscience, and the grave Subject(s): Humility I THINK CONSTANTLY OF THOSE WHO WERE TRULY GREAT, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And. To be pertfectly honest, it bums me out Subject(s): Humility IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: A LESSON IN HUMILITY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time, my soul, thou shouldst be purged of pride Last Line: And leave thee if thou couldst, to face men's frown! Subject(s): Humility; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts IT DOES ME GOOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To bow my body to the ground Last Line: Emperor rules by my humility %it is my humility that rules Subject(s): Humility 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 LOVE AND HUMILITY, by HENRY MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far have I clambered in my mind Last Line: That thou maist raise me with the just. Variant Title(s): Charitie And Humilitie;an Hymn In Honour Of Charitie And Humilitie Subject(s): Humility MAGNANIMOUS, by ELLEN DE YOUNG KAY Poem Source First Line: The ethics put it well Subject(s): Humility MORTALITY, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Last Line: O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Subject(s): Death; Humility; Mortality; Dead, The OLD CHRISTOVAL'S ADVICE; AND THE REASON HE GAVE IT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thy debtor be poor, old christoval cried Last Line: And remember'd what I might have been. Subject(s): Advice; Christianity; Debt; Humility; Morality; Ethics ON READING COLERIDGE'S EPITAPH, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit! So oft in radiant freedom soaring Last Line: One lesson breathing thence profound humility! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Humility; Poetry & Poets ORGAN SONGS: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet heart, submissive, meek Last Line: Than if broad lands were mine. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Humility; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 24. AR-RAFI, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom hath he chosen for his priests and preachers Last Line: Nor any low whom he doth call. Subject(s): God; Humility; Islam PETER'S DENIAL OF HIS MASTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' all forsake thee, master, yet not I Last Line: And of its height humility the base. Subject(s): Humility; Virtue PRIDE AND HUMILITY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He passed me by in april, lord Last Line: And walked beside her — blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Humility ROADSIDE POEMS: AFTER THOMAS KEMPIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who follows jesus shall not walk Last Line: Of the one thing needful! Subject(s): God; Humility; Jesus Christ; Knowledge; Life; Pride; Truth; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect 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 SAMPLER POEM: HUMILITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The bird which soars on highest wing Last Line: In lark and nightingale we see %what honour hath humility Subject(s): Humility SONG OF AN ATOM, by JOSEPHINE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: In the golden morn I love to roam Last Line: So small a thing as I. Subject(s): God; Humility SUBMISSION, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Oft has my prostrate soule to thee Last Line: My troubled will, is, to deny it. Subject(s): Humility; Prayer 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 CLOD AND THE PEBBLE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love seeketh not itself to please Last Line: "and builds a hell in heaven's despite." Variant Title(s): True And False Love Subject(s): Bible; Humility; Love; Mythology THE CROWN IMPERIAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That humbleness may not take wing Last Line: To have thee near his window planted. Subject(s): Humility THE DISCIPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are changed, and gone the day Last Line: In that fear doubteth thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Doubt; Education; Faith; Fathers & Sons; God; Humility; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL: PREFACE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will tell you what joseph of arimathea Last Line: What I called humility they called pride Subject(s): Bible; Humility; Mythology THE HAPPIEST HEART, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who drives the horses of the sun Last Line: And left to heaven the rest. Subject(s): Home; Humility THE HERETIC: 4. HUMILITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god, if I have ever been / so filled with ignorance and sin Last Line: A faith that flaunts its very disbelief. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Humility THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are hermit souls that live withdrawn Last Line: And be a friend to man. Subject(s): Humility; Religion; Theology THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would choose to be a door-keeper Last Line: In the house of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; God; Houses; Humility THE KING'S FAVORITES, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A king, once summoned his favorites Last Line: "since I've lost ambition and high-headed pride?" Subject(s): Ambition; Humility; Pride; Prudence; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Caution THE LAY OF THE HUMBLE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no comeliness of frame Last Line: Will be his only measure. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Humility THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery THE PILGRIM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Thanks, still encreasing turmoils; I Last Line: Then be possest by what I needs at length must leave. Subject(s): Christianity; Humility; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims THE RESOLVE, by MARY LEE CHUDLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For what the world admires I'll wish no more Last Line: Esteems it mean to court the world for praise. Subject(s): Humility; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE SERVANT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Now on my conscience thou art right Last Line: Best have it, when I have it not at all. Subject(s): God; Humility; Service THE SHEPHERD BOY'S SONG, FR. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, by JOHN BUNYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that is down need fear no fall Last Line: Is best from age to age. Variant Title(s): The Valley Of Humiliation Subject(s): Humility; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE SURRENDER, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Oft have I calm'd misfortunes deep Last Line: That heart is soundest, wch is most contrite. Subject(s): Humility THE TABLET OF TRUTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, mr. Clipstone, and take Last Line: To gaze on my tablet of truth. Subject(s): Death; Humility; Life; Love; Truth; Dead, The THE TITANIC PYGMY, by ROBERT HUGH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Lord, we have boasted we are wise Last Line: And trav'lers to the unseen shore. Subject(s): Disasters; Humility; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Vanity; Worship TO ARMS!, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the cry, 'to arms! To arms Last Line: And her ironclads the sea! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humility; Trafalgar, Battle Of; War; Waterloo; Weapons; Ammunition; British Empire; England - Empire; Battle Of Waterloo TO HANG OUR HEAD OSTENSIBLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon a plane of gauze! Subject(s): Humility TO THE EXCELLENT ORINDA, by PHILO PHILIPPA Poem Text First Line: Let the male poets their male phoebus chuse Last Line: Wit is still higher by humility. Subject(s): "humility; Philips, Katherine (""orinda"") (1631-64); Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; TRUE GREATNESS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If laureled heroes could eliminate Last Line: The dross refiners separate from gold. Subject(s): Greatness; Heroism; Humility; Heroes; Heroines TWO HORSES AND A DOG, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without external reference Last Line: Wearing dogtags with scripture on them Subject(s): Honesty; Humility; Morality; Ethics WILLIAM OF THE FERRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Near clyde's gay stream there dwelt a maid Last Line: With william of the ferry Subject(s): Ferry Boats;humility;peace WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab |
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