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Subject: JESUS CHRIST - LIFE & MINISTRY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the woods my master went
Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880.
Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master
Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology


A SLUMBER STORY, by ROBERT J. IRISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: At slumber time the nodding heads
Last Line: My faith becomes the firmer.
Subject(s): Children; Faith; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Childhood; Belief; Creed; Theology


ABNEGATION, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ, dear christ, were the wood-ways sweet
Last Line: Ay,—and for that dost thou live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


BLIND BARTIMAEUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind bartimaeus at the gates
Last Line: "thy faith from blindness gives release!"
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Bible; Blindness; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology


CAROL NAIVE, by JOHN MCCLURE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was never none other / like our god's mother
Last Line: Like our god's mother.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CHRIST STILLING THE TEMPEST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear was within the tossing bark
Last Line: "speak, and say, ""peace be still!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


CHRIST'S GIVING, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The spirit of self-sacrifice
Last Line: Such was christ's giving.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR.    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Now comes the ordered prime
Last Line: That holds all mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CHRISTS ACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ never did so great a work, but there
Last Line: His humane nature, and his part divine.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


COMRADE CHRIST, by VERNE BRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give us jesus christ, the carpenter
Last Line: Christ, the carpenter, has come again.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


CRUCIFIXUS PRO NOBIS: 2. CHRIST IN THE GARDEN, by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, how he glows for heat!
Last Line: He only breathes a sigh, and weeps a tear.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


HIS SIMPLE CREED, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He taught them his new simple law
Last Line: And shall while life endures.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology


HYMN: SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake! Not, oh mother! Sounds of lamentation!
Last Line: Strong was the word of god to succour thee!
Variant Title(s): The Widow Of Nain
Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship; Death - Babies


KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs
Last Line: The madman saith he said so: it is strange.
Variant Title(s): An Epistle; Containing The Strange Medical Evidence Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experiments Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Concerning The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish ...
Subject(s): Arabs; Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Physicians; Religion; Doctors; Theology


MARY, by CARLA LANYON LANYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When that my son was born in a little town
Last Line: To keep a christian peace.
Subject(s): Israel (state); Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Discrimination; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Religious Conflict


MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: THURSDAY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead as men are, in trespasses and sins
Last Line: The gate of life, and paradise regain'd.
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology


MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: WEDNESDAY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Justice demandeth satisfaction' - yes
Last Line: Itself restor'd,—not any thing in lieu.
Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Justice; Religion; Theology


OUR MASTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal love, forever full
Last Line: And its obedience praise!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology


RELIGION AND DOCTRINE, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood before the sanhedrim
Last Line: He knew, and not the sanhedrim.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship


THE CARPENTER, by AMY BRUNER ALMY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jesus was a carpenter. He gladly plied
Last Line: The light, the way of life, for all mankind.
Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


THE CHRIST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The good intent of god became the christ
Last Line: Since christ in all the ways of man hath trod.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology


THE COMING OF THE HEALER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the watch of lonely mountain prayer
Last Line: So shall the people praise thy name, our saviour and our god.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


THE DISCIPLES: OVERTURE, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I write of the disciples, because he
Last Line: Grace to endure yet faithful to the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Disciples, Twelve


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 HEALING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Freshly the cool breath of the coming eve
Last Line: Full on his beaming countenance -- arose!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


THE LEPER (2), by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Room for the leper! Room!' and, as he came
Last Line: Prostrate at jesus' feet, and worshipped him.
Subject(s): Asia; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Leprosy; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Lepers


THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suffer little children to come unto me,'
Last Line: The anti-christ of schrecklichkeit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Children; Evil; Hell; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Childhood


THE MAN CHRIST, by THERESE (KARPER) LINDSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He built no temple, yet the farthest sea
Last Line: The kingdom of the truth.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology


THE PRODIGAL SON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young man - / young man
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roman sentinel stood helm'd and tall
Last Line: Jesus went calmly on his way to nain.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Death - Babies


WHAT WENT YE OUT TO SEE?, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the sea, along the shore
Last Line: And not as do the scribes.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry