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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JOHN THE BAPTIST, SAINT (1ST CENTURY) Matches Found: 27 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEATH IN THE DESERT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supposed of pamphylax the antiochene Last Line: But 't was cerinthus that is lost.] Subject(s): Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology A LEGEND OF THE CHILD JESUS; WRITTEN FOR A CHILD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: You ask a story, dearest. Here is one Last Line: Healed by the kisses of the holy child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) ABOVE THE BATTLE'S FRONT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh foolish people, and without understanding Last Line: Thorn-crowned above the water and the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buddhism; Evil; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Hate; Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Saints; Social Protest; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); War; Buddha; Buddhists AN EPISTLE TO J. BL-K-N, ESQ.: ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The point mr. Bl-k-n, disputed upon Last Line: And rejoice in the health of its master;adieu! Subject(s): Food & Eating; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Locusts; Vegetables ANCIENT BALLAD: MASS OF LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dawn of a bright june morning %the birthday of saint john Last Line: Instead of amen, amen %they sang amor, amor Subject(s): Clergy; Hearts; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Love; Mass APOCRYPHA, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When john the baptist was so young Last Line: He shaped a kiss: all day she smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Mothers BEFORE THE PICTURE OF THE BAPTIST, BY RAPHAEL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baptist might have been ordained to cry Last Line: "make straight a highway for the lord -- repent!" Subject(s): Florence, Italy; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Raphael (1483-1520) FOR THE BAPTIST, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last and greatest herald of heaven's king Last Line: Repent!' Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Saint John Baptist;sonnet: Repent, Repent!;the Baptist's Sonnet Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody coming in blackness Last Line: In blackness like a star Subject(s): Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody coming in darkness Subject(s): Religion; Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers; Theology JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody coming in blackness Last Line: Somebody bigger than me coming %in blackness like a star Subject(s): Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching And Preachers S. JOHN BAPTIST, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: When nights black houres be almost spent Last Line: Then herod at his feast beheld thee heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Worship SACRED EPIGRAM: ON ST. JOHN WHOM DOMITIAN PUT IN BOILING OIL, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That fire - which running in a flickering flame through the whole world Last Line: To give it oil is not [the way], domitian Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE VOICE OF THE BAPTIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much the baptist had to speak, so many streams of thought Last Line: But with one word he had said everything Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) SACRED EPIGRAM: ST. JOHN IN EXILE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An exile is he [who was the] love of christ: yet the exile found christ Last Line: Exile, if the bosom of christ is the exile Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) SACRED EPIGRAM: ST. JOHN TO HIS MOTHER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, why doe you ask for the right hand or the left for me Last Line: I do not like to be so far from his holy bosom Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) SACRED EPIGRAM: THE DELEGATION OF THE BAPTIST TO CHRIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray, who are you? The baptist send that [question] to his master Last Line: The lame walks, the dead lives: I pray, who is he? Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) SACRED EPIGRAM: TO DOMITIAN. ABOUT ST. JOHN AT LATERAN GATE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it true that you would go unpunished? But still you shall not go unpunished Last Line: Is it thus that your pallas helps you, domitian? Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) SACRED EPIGRAM: TO ST. JOHN, THE BELOVED DISCIPLE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enjoy yourself: hide your head in his majestic bosom, for then it Last Line: O it will be enough for me to have been able to ride on his back Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O jesus, if one minute, if one hour Last Line: Least, as I know, of all men woman-born. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) SONG FOR THE MORNING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come forth, come forth, my maidens, 'tis the day of good st. John Last Line: To dress with flowers the snow-white wether, ere the sun has dried the dew Variant Title(s): Song For The Morning Of The Day Of Saint John The Baptis Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Festivals; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Romance ST. JOHN BAPTIST PAINTED BY HERSELF IN THE WILDERNESS ..., by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's my fire, when it does shine Last Line: My associates onely are divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) ST. JOHN BAPTIST, FR. THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think he had not heard of the far towns Last Line: To him whose face was covered by a cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) THE DOORS, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The doors were oak, massive Subject(s): Doors; Churches; Salome (1st Century A.d.); John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Cathedrals THE HYMNARY: 361. ST. JOHN BAPTIST, by BEDE Poem Text First Line: Hail, harbinger of morn Last Line: While time endureth and when time is o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): The Venerable Bede (beda) Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) THE PRECURSOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As john of old before his face did go Last Line: "I come,"" proclaims the snow." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) TO GOD (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do with me, god! As thou didst deal with john Last Line: My sackcloth here; but there my stole of white. Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology |
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