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Last Line: "welcome love, and welcome gladness! / hallelujah!"
Subject(s): Jesus Christ;mary Magdalen;women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


ABSOLVED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far floating o'er its native fen
Last Line: Of radiant rest, appears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Clouds; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


AN ANNUAL OF THE DARK PHYSICS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The baltic sea froze in 1307. Birds flew south
Last Line: Nothing happened that was worthy of poetry.
Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Lent; Mary Magdalen; Suicide; Women In The Bible; Eckhart, Meister; Mary Magdalene


AND SHE WASHED HIS FEET WITH HER TEARES, AND, by EDWARD SHERBURNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


APPROACHING THE LORD, by VALLATTOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: But who is this approaching now in fear
Last Line: Can hearts reach any higher bliss than this?
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


AT GLASTONBURY, by HENRY KINGSLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Magdalen at michael's gate
Variant Title(s): The Blackbird's Song; Magdale
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


FOR THE MAGDALENE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These eyes, dear lord, once brandons of desire
Last Line: Thus sighed to jesus the bethanian fair, %his tear-wet feet still drying with her hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible


LENT, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary magdalene, that easy woman
Last Line: I bring back the petticoat and the bottle of scent
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


LENT, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary magdalene, that easy woman
Last Line: I bring back the petticoat and the bottle of scent
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MAGDALEN, by GEORGE KENYON ASHENDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though he had vowed she was divinely fair
Last Line: Of having been a magdalen arraigned.
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MAGDALEN, by AUGUSTINE BOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She loved everyone she saw
Last Line: Her avowels might be soft, easy to tear, %but her soft heart did not know how to hurt you
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MAGDALEN, by MILES MENANDER DAWSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the sacrificial lamb
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MAGDALEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the day that the world shall end my dear
Last Line: And forfeited heaven for him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sacrifices; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MAGDALEN, by ANNA KIRBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have eaten
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MAGDALEN, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are rosetta stone
Last Line: Translates morning into women who see angels, %into one woman who, weeping, %wakens you
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MAGDALEN, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hebrew girl, with flaming brow
Last Line: From out a broken heart!
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


MAGDALEN, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If any woman of us all
Last Line: Could we but also claim that deed!
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


MAGDALEN (AFTER SWINBURNE), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She hath done what she could'
Last Line: "she hath done what she could."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


MAGDALEN TO HER POET, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take back thy song; or let me hear what thou
Last Line: The pity at whose touch dies every sin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MAGDALENA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Magdalena's robes are trailing through the highway's soiling
Last Line: Faithful to the hand that saved her and his love-light in her eyes
Subject(s): Love;mary Magdalen;women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


MAGDALENA, by ELSA BARKER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen the master's face
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Mary Magdalene


MAGDALENE, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each night brings back my demon
Last Line: And, swooning, I prepare your body %for other oils than these
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Scottish Translations; Women - Bible


MAGDALENE, by FRANCES VEJTASA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your face tradition wrongs
Last Line: Placed blight -- not heaven.
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one, and broken hearted!
Last Line: For ever, towards the skies.
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALEN, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O eyes that strip the souls of men
Last Line: "for love of him, for love of him."
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALEN, by KAHLIL GIBRAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: His mouth was like the heart of a pomegranate, and the shadows
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MARY MAGDALEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poor mary magdalen
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MARY MAGDALEN SPEAKS TO THE MADONNA FROM ANOTHER GOSPEL, by MADELINE TIGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mary of marble, %pieta
Last Line: Blessed are the women %who have danced and loved
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MARY MAGDALENE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I fell, o lord, before thy feet
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dawn she sought the saviour slain
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MARY MAGDALENE, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wash your ankles %with my tears. Unhem
Last Line: By wrecking their bodies on other men
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Native Americans; Women - Bible


MARY MAGDALENE, by AUGUSTE GOMEZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, lonely heart of a thousand dreams
Last Line: Good and evil—and magdalene!
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALENE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When blessed marie wip'd her saviours feet
Last Line: And yet, in washing one, she washed both.
Variant Title(s): Marie Magdalene
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALENE, by KASSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord, this woman who fell into many sins
Last Line: Do not overlook me, your slave, %in your measureless mercy
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion


MARY MAGDALENE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She came in deep repentance
Last Line: Loved much, and was forgiven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALENE AND I, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The seven unclean spirits of mary magdalene'
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY; A SONG FOR ALL MARIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our master lies asleep and is at rest
Last Line: Our master lies asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALENE AND THE SUN, by DAVID CONSTANTINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hugging her breasts, waiting in a hard garden
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


MARY MAGDALENE AT THE SEPULCHRE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weeper! To thee how bright a morn was given
Last Line: Awed by the mighty gift thy tears and love had won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MARY MAGDALENE BEARING TIDINGS OF THE RESURRECTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then was a task of glory all thine own
Last Line: Whose undespairing love still owned the spirit's worth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


MAUDLIN; OR, THE MAGDALEN€™S TEARS, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If faith is a tree that sorrow grows
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Mary Magdalene


ON CARLO DOLCE'S MAGDALEN, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou fairest penitent! How pure the light
Last Line: And the lone heart of love, in heaven its home of rest!
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


ON MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes' flood licks his feet's fair stain
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


ONE VERSION, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that mary magdalene
Last Line: I know the woman well.
Variant Title(s): Mary Magdalene
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A choir of angels glorified the hour
Last Line: His mother stood apart. No other looked %into her secret eyes. Nobody dared
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Russia - Stalin Era; Women - Bible


S. MARY MAGDALEN'S OINTMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forbid her not, nor ask a reason why
Last Line: And fill th' eternall mouth of holy fame.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DAY OF THE MASTER'S PASSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay even you too adore the ashes of your phoenix
Last Line: Moistened this eternal morning of life and your day
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


SACRED EPIGRAM: THE FIRST DAY OF WEEK COMETH MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You came beore the rosy dawn, holy
Last Line: And to be the new morning star for the new sun!
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


SAINT MARY MAGDALENE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What great apostle, / when the christ rose
Last Line: And himself appears.
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Religion; Saints; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology


SANTA MARIA MAGDALENA, by PAT MORA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her sins, which are many are forgiven
Last Line: Prim critics in our pompous monotone?
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen


SONNETS ON PICTURES: MARY MAGDALEN AT THE DOOR OF SIMON THE PHARISEE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair?
Last Line: He needs me, calls me, loves me: let me go!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Catholics; Mary Magdalen; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Mary Magdalene


SPOIL, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair spoil I thought him as I reached the well
Last Line: "peace! . . . And two hours ago I thought him spoil!"
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology


ST. MARY MAGDALEN, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, beauteous saint! More white than day
Last Line: Who saint themselves, they are no saints.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Saints; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


ST. MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD WATSON DIXON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kneeling before the altar step
Last Line: Of utter woe
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 12. MARY MAGDALENE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With wandering eyes and aimless zeal
Last Line: Dwell'st with him in god's heart!
Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


THE NEW MAGDALEN, by RICHARD L. CARY JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The yellow death came stealing
Last Line: The true new magdalen?
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


THE PENITENT, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I come to thee blind, despairing
Last Line: These my tears on thy feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Mary Magdalen; Repentance; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Penitence


THE SEED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bearing a life unseen
Last Line: Love-lost -- and saved!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


THE WEEPER (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, sister springs
Last Line: A worthier object -- our lord's feet.
Variant Title(s): Saint Mary Magdalene Or The Weeper
Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology


TO MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one
Last Line: Forever, to the skies
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women - Bible; Women And Religion


TO OTHER MARYS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ said, 'mary,' as he walked within the garden
Last Line: "mary"" was the first name that god ever said."
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Mary (name); Mary Magdalen; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Names; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Virgin Mary


TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (1), by HENRY CONSTABLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blessed offender, who thyself hast tried
Last Line: And in my spouse's palace give me place
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (2), by HENRY CONSTABLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Such as returned from sight of men, like thee
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (3), by HENRY CONSTABLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet saint: thou better canst declare to me
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible


TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (4), by HENRY CONSTABLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For few nights solace in delitious bed
Last Line: What high rewards by little pain is won
Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible


TO ST. MARY MAGDALEN, by BENJAMIN DIONYSIUS HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid the white spouses of the sacred heart
Last Line: Like that long gold which wiped the feet of god?
Alternate Author Name(s): Edmund, Father
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


WEEPER (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, sister springs!
Last Line: Crown'd heads are toyes. We goe to meet %a worthy object, our lord's feet
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible