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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MORMONS Matches Found: 264 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 21ST BIRTHDAY, by LEWIS HORNE Poem Source First Line: The small child ins never far away Last Line: What shall I say? What can I tell you %but you're twice-distilled for beauty Subject(s): Mormons 6-AUG, by MARDEN J. CLARK Poem Source First Line: Go get dressed. You're no man for this army!' Last Line: We must at least let he silent waves of our love %be known: we love Subject(s): Mormons ABOVE BEAR LAKE, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sky and lake the same blue Last Line: Whip three bears! Whip, whip three bears! Subject(s): Mormons ADONI: COVER ME WITH THY ROBE, by COLIN B. DOUGLAS Poem Source Last Line: Shelter me with thy robe Subject(s): Mormons ADVENT, by CLINTON F. LARSON Poem Source First Line: The gentle god is our guest Last Line: Our guest is a gentle god, a lamb Subject(s): Mormons ADVICE, by MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: Lift your withered hands and feel Last Line: Back in layers row on row %its living form against the light Subject(s): Mormons AFTER FISHING, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: The headlights %catch the shine Last Line: I curl against your palm %and give myself to sleep Subject(s): Mormons AFTER THUNDER, by M. D. PALMER Poem Source First Line: This creek is singing the song that Last Line: But not beyond what pulls us down and in Subject(s): Mormons APOGEE OF LONELINESS, by RANDALL L. HALL Poem Source First Line: On the lake Last Line: So near escaping from the reassurance of return %we hold our breath Subject(s): Mormons APPRENTICE, by JOHN STERLING HARRIS Poem Source First Line: While yet a boy he learned his father's trade Last Line: He hung upon the nails %and showed he knew his father's trade Subject(s): Apprentices; Mormons ARAB INSURRECTION: A MEMOIR, by CLINTON F. LARSON Poem Source First Line: White as stone, he sits agape in a chair Last Line: Him as he is, rocking in a chair, their whim %always before him, endlessly wavering and dim Subject(s): Mormons ASSUAGEMENT, by MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: I am in the standing position Last Line: When you look on me, gelede man, %wear the carved mask and kneel Subject(s): Mormons AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS, by R. A. CHRISTMAS Poem Source First Line: The mass grave here is set with stones Last Line: We read, as guilt and innocence, %the record of our ignorance Subject(s): Mormons AT THE WALL, by VERNICE WINEERA PERE Poem Source First Line: It is 3:00 shabbat Last Line: Raze the rock of thine austerity Subject(s): Jerusalem; Mormons AT UTAH LAKE, by LORETTA RANDALL SHARP Poem Source First Line: Her nipples ripen in the october night Last Line: Her mouth round and pale %as the waiting moon Subject(s): Mormons AUTUMN, by KARL C. SANDBERG Poem Source First Line: On the coolness of the nights an edge Last Line: Sadness and anticipation enter in Subject(s): Mormons AWAKENING, by DANIELLE BEAZER Poem Source First Line: Emma fans herself by the sea Last Line: As I leaned forward %and caught myself Subject(s): Mormons BEFORE I WAS BORN, MY FATHER, by SALLY T. TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: In a darkened room, I saw Last Line: The face that I had dreamed Subject(s): Mormons BEREFT, by MARY BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: The man who lives behind us Last Line: It spills torn, oozing-sweet %onto our lawn Subject(s): Mormons BLACKBERRY, by PENNY ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Sucking darkness into swollen lobes Last Line: She flinches, sighing, 'oh, eden, eden' Subject(s): Mormons BLESS OUR FAST, WE PRAY, by JOHN SEARS TANNER Poem Source First Line: On bended knees, with broken hearts Last Line: That we may feel thy presence here %and feast with thee today Subject(s): Mormons BLUE HER EYES, by VERNICE WINEERA PERE Poem Source First Line: In a world of brown Last Line: Blue, her eyes Subject(s): Mormons BORN AGAIN, by MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: As you enter the water unsinning Last Line: To the font I add a cup of tears. %and my own beginning Subject(s): Mormons BRAZILIAN AFTERNOONS, by RANDALL L. HALL Poem Source First Line: On verandas, in the arbored shade of vines and trees Last Line: Waiting in the melting gauze of summer afternoons Subject(s): Mormons BRIGHT WAVES AND SEPARATE ENTITIES (1), by KATHY EVANS Poem Source First Line: Gulls tumble in air Last Line: Breathing inside her satin skin, %crying 'world! World!' %to the midnight gulls Subject(s): Mormons BRIGHT WAVES AND SEPARATE ENTITIES (2), by KATHY EVANS Poem Source First Line: A fleet of schooners leaves me beached Last Line: This infant, breathing inside her satin skin, %crying 'world! World!' to the midnight gulls Subject(s): Mormons CANCELLATION, by STEVEN WILLIAM GRAVES Poem Source First Line: Men less sensitive have struggled with this Last Line: We will rehearse a more sufficient speech %for strangers, for friends become strangers Subject(s): Mormons CATHEDRAL, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My steps are worn echoes Last Line: Each falling note a thorn %in the crown of blood Subject(s): Mormons CHILDREN OF OWL, by DONNELL WALKER HUNTER Poem Source First Line: When you choose to follow owl Last Line: Beside the perfect cross, %your track in the snow Subject(s): Mormons CHRISTMAS IN UTAH, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: In barns turned from the wind Last Line: A brazen angel blows his silent trumpet Subject(s): Christmas; Mormons; Utah CHRISTMAS PRESENT, by P. KAREN TODD Poem Source First Line: I could picture you: quixote in a bathrobe Last Line: And held your umbrella over them, too Subject(s): Mormons CITYPEOPLE SPEAK, by PHILIP WHITE Poem Source First Line: Up on the hill, a rough Last Line: Bent up there. From here, %her song was like a cry Subject(s): Mormons CODA, by M. D. PALMER Poem Source First Line: After the crowning moment Last Line: Smoothing back %the soil disturbed in harvest Subject(s): Mormons COLLEAGUES, by LORETTA RANDALL SHARP Poem Source First Line: I cannot remember the anger beginning Last Line: Yet when dogs bark at night, I turn; I turn until I wake Subject(s): Mormons COMING APART TOGETHER, by MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: We exchange in great detail the weather report Last Line: Just as if we ourselves had invented %the weather, our bodies, and love itself Subject(s): Mormons COMING HOME IN THE EVENING, by JOHN W. SCHOUTEN Poem Source First Line: Lightning rings the valley Last Line: Boxcars rumbling away like dreams Subject(s): Mormons CONFESSIONS OF A DISBELIEVER, by DONNELL WALKER HUNTER Poem Source First Line: When you walk alone wind tries Last Line: All her friends to sing the world's secrets %just beyond the edge of town Subject(s): Mormons CONSCIENCE OF THE VILLAGE, by DAVID L. WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: His eyes milky, intensely blue Last Line: He and nathan pulled a big one %into shore Subject(s): Mormons CONSIDERING - THE END, by EMMA LOU THAYNE Poem Source First Line: So finally I consider only life: the holocaust ahead Last Line: It's time. It's time we said together %yes to life. To ashes, simply no Subject(s): Mormons COYOTE, by PENNY ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Enemy of sheep Last Line: Glutting on ngarbage and stray kittens, %seducer of pedigreed bitches Subject(s): Mormons CREATION, by KARL KELLER Poem Source First Line: God may have his presence Last Line: Becomes, like god, %himself Subject(s): Mormons CRI DU CHAT, by EUGENE ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: How could a cat's cry be the voice of god? Last Line: Monstrous. It seems, to them, god speaks in dreams %of their responsibilities Subject(s): Mormons DARK MONTHS, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: Frost nails to the soil Last Line: Offers its untouched light, %its cold promises Subject(s): Mormons DEATH CALLS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made you some breakfast Last Line: Were charred, that I passed %the salt you always took Subject(s): Mormons DEATH IS THE FRAME OF LOVE, by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source Last Line: But bone framed joy from love's mere flesh and air Subject(s): Mormons DEATH OF RAMSES II, by CLINTON F. LARSON Poem Source First Line: Like droplets from a clock, or rain Last Line: To feel my passing into the silent tomb Subject(s): Mormons DECISION, by RICHARD TICE Poem Source First Line: Dawn, and you walk the street again Last Line: Each day between the narrowing %of walls or narrowing of world Subject(s): Mormons DEPLETION, by EDWARD L. HART Poem Source First Line: The city darkens with the natural night Last Line: From strain of too much day to make more light Subject(s): Mormons DIVORCE, by LAURA HAMBLIN Poem Source First Line: With the heat at the end of august %I am glad I sleep alone Last Line: Awake and naked on my wedding night Subject(s): Mormons DREAMING AMONG THE HYDRANGEAS, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: My mother's been sleeping on the patio Last Line: And fish, like darting fingers, %move cleanly against the stars Subject(s): Mormons DRIVING MY DAUGHTER TO MOOSE JAW FOR PATRIARCHAL BLESSING, by LEWIS HORNE Poem Source First Line: Driving south, we watch the snow across Last Line: Little by little we see her go. It's our %intent. How perfectly serene the cold Subject(s): Mormons DRIVING THE PROVO RIVER, by JOHN+(3) DAVIES Poem Source First Line: Leaving the car, horn bellowing Last Line: Now the lights come on like lights Subject(s): Mormons DROUGHT, by PENNY ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Drought has withered the city's strident stalks Last Line: From rivers of plankton, teeming towers sprang Subject(s): Mormons DUNES AT TRURO, by STEVEN WILLIAM GRAVES Poem Source First Line: It seemed that everyone ached to eat fried clams Last Line: Snows thick %to their being black, hissing at our knees Subject(s): Mormons DURING RECESS (1), by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: Spring sneaked into town while court convened Last Line: Give me, unjustified, %what killing cost: more sky, more time Subject(s): Mormons DURING RECESS (2), by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: As court's proceeded, spring has come Last Line: What killing cost: more sky, more time Subject(s): Mormons E.H. 1817, by JOHN STERLING HARRIS Poem Source First Line: It looks like any framing square Last Line: If it were needed %for the building of new jerusalem Subject(s): Mormons EACH LIFE THAT TOUCHES OURS FOR GOOD, by KAREN LYNN DAVIDSON Poem Source Last Line: Who bless our days with peace and love, %we praise thy goodness, lord above Subject(s): Mormons EARLY ELEGY IN LOWER CASE, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: I pay my respects by saying what's true Last Line: For my brother's sake I weep at your death %for my sisters I keep my seat as you pass Subject(s): Mormons EARLY FROST, by HELEN CANDLAND STARK Poem Source First Line: This year I cannot bear an early frost Last Line: This year, I cannot bear %an early frost Subject(s): Mormons EARLY INVITATIONS, by STEVEN WILLIAM GRAVES Poem Source First Line: Come with me. Let us begin by setting Last Line: Our vision of haystacks and birds begins %in blue and ends in sounds intensely green Subject(s): Mormons EARLY MORNING IN MAPLETON, by JOHN W. SCHOUTEN Poem Source First Line: It's cool, cold Last Line: And suddenly, I feel planted Subject(s): Mormons ELEGY FOR GEOFFREY BARBER, by MARY BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: We are still driving away Last Line: Until we see your face again %and our doors are unlocked forever Subject(s): Mormons EMBRYO, by SALLY T. TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Creation. %before it is, it moves Last Line: The angel of death %stands ready before dawn Subject(s): Mormons FADING FAMILY PORTRAIT, by SALLY T. TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Lifting her paper bones so she can lie Last Line: Thinking of the unanswered question - why? Subject(s): Mormons FAITH, by KARL KELLER Poem Source First Line: Sacramental hours %cross this chapel of infinity Last Line: But no one comes Subject(s): Mormons FALLOW, by JOHN STERLING HARRIS Poem Source First Line: She eased herself into the bed beside him Last Line: But it comforts those that live, %when all the meaning's gone Subject(s): Mormons FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone line goes cold Last Line: Pacing toward what I know Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons FAUN, ON READING HORACE'S ADDRESS TO SPRING OF BANDUSIA, by STEPHEN ORSON TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: There is no answer to the flow of swift water Last Line: And at night descended on the quiet grass %to glitter in the last starlight, and chill my feet Subject(s): Mormons FINAL PREPARATIONS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the only one at church Last Line: Melts to glass, and the whole earth %is shot like marble Subject(s): Mormons FINDING QUESTIONS, by ANITA TANNER Poem Source First Line: Rummaging through old books Last Line: What must be miles and miles of veins Subject(s): Mormons FIRST SPRING, by M. D. PALMER Poem Source First Line: The first spring after the fall Last Line: Old arrangement as we worked %together toward a rhythm of our own Subject(s): Mormons FISH CENSUS, by STEPHEN GOULD Poem Source First Line: Cicadas in the dry pines overhead; vortex Last Line: Present as wrecked marmots on stone slopes Subject(s): Mormons FISHERS, by ROBERT A. REES Poem Source First Line: In the last days of summer Last Line: A rainbow over the broken world Subject(s): Mormons FLY FISHING, by RICHARD TICE Poem Source First Line: Like a dry fly, feathered and barbed Last Line: A sleek sinuous upward arching %gleaming rainbow of perception Subject(s): Mormons FOR ANDERS AT SEVENTY DAYS, by DENNIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Watching you nap open-mouthed on the couch reminds me Last Line: Gasping after a breath of that open air Subject(s): Mormons FOR BREAD AND BREATH OF LIFE, by BRUCE W. JORGENSEN Poem Source First Line: Our god who flamed within a tree Last Line: May all be quickened by thy breath Subject(s): Mormons FOR KATHLEEN: MARRIAGE, by ROB HOLLIS MILLER Poem Source First Line: Memory won't fade with seasons Last Line: Eventually intelligible Subject(s): Mormons FOR LINDA, by LORETTA RANDALL SHARP Poem Source First Line: If only there were daisies her in tin cans Last Line: And the wind that testifies a presence %by the space it leaves when passing through Subject(s): Mormons FOR RUSS, by MARGARET RAMPTON MUNK Poem Source First Line: If they asked me Last Line: Thank you for this gift to me, %this and every year Subject(s): Mormons FOR THE WELSH MORMONS, by JOHN+(3) DAVIES Poem Source First Line: Roads under snapped peaks have eased us Last Line: Changing and not changing to stay intact Subject(s): Mormons FRAGMENT OF A DIALOGUE; FOR GENE ENGLAND, by BREWSTER GHISELIN Poem Source First Line: Firm on our atoll, desert Last Line: Let us not forget one another Subject(s): Mormons FRIENDS: A MORAL SONG, by BRUCE W. JORGENSEN Poem Source First Line: They had not meant Last Line: Sharing the guilt without the sin, %warding each other's blame Subject(s): Mormons FROM THE NEXT WEIRD SISTER, by LAURA HAMBLIN Poem Source First Line: It matters not that my ankles are shapely and graceful Last Line: We go in search of newts and a messiah Subject(s): Mormons GATHERING APPLES IN FIRST SNOW, by BRUCE W. JORGENSEN Poem Source First Line: This year october takes us sudden, breaks Last Line: Sand spilled on parchment, salt on old oilcloth Subject(s): Mormons GENTLE WAY (FOR DAVID O. MCKAY), by EDWARD L. HART Poem Source First Line: He left to other men the path Last Line: To live to the last breath's release %in love, the gentle love Subject(s): Mormons GHOST TRUCK, by R. A. CHRISTMAS Poem Source First Line: Now I lay me down by the freeway Last Line: Crying, with the phone in her hand. %'the war is over,' she said Subject(s): Mormons GILEAD, by ROBERT A. REES Poem Source First Line: The sugar maple burns Last Line: Their foliage ever green %against the dying year Subject(s): Mormons GRANDMOTHER, by MARILYN MCMEEN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Were you cold? Last Line: Yes, that is right Subject(s): Mormons GROUP SESSION, by STEPHEN GOULD Poem Source First Line: A hour and a half Last Line: But without the appetite for it Subject(s): Mormons GUILT, by CAROL LYNN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: I have no vulture sins, god Last Line: Like static through my prayer Subject(s): Mormons HAIKU, by RICHARD TICE Poem Source First Line: Night rain Last Line: Into the rain Subject(s): Mormons HAIKU, by RICHARD TICE Poem Source First Line: The persimmon leaf Last Line: Than the one before Subject(s): Mormons HAIKU, by RICHARD TICE Poem Source First Line: Now the wild geese Last Line: Call and call Subject(s): Mormons HAIKU, by RICHARD TICE Poem Source First Line: Night in the sickroom Last Line: And the crickets cry Subject(s): Mormons HALF THE FERRIS WHEEL, by KATHY EVANS Poem Source First Line: If ever you belonged back in this world Last Line: The seats rock back and forth in the wind Subject(s): Mormons HALF-CASTE, by VERNICE WINEERA PERE Poem Source First Line: Here, beside the creek Last Line: A half-caste child %so lacking in grace Subject(s): Mormons HANDWRITTEN PSALM, by KATHY EVANS Poem Source First Line: Certain the ashes Last Line: Perfect %against the sky Subject(s): Mormons HARD FREIGHT, by STEVEN WILLIAM GRAVES Poem Source First Line: Against the eastern bench where foothills Last Line: At ever long interval %our vow one day to return Subject(s): Mormons HAY DERRICK, by JOHN STERLING HARRIS Poem Source First Line: You can see the derrick there Last Line: And the autumn winds stirred the hay %like unkmept hair on the head of a boy Subject(s): Mormons HEBREWS 11: STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source First Line: Had we a home elsewhere and chose one here? Last Line: One home, all crystal, radiates thy name Subject(s): Mormons HERITAGE, by VERNICE WINEERA PERE Poem Source First Line: Take the sharpened pipi shell Last Line: Taking my place on this vast marae %that is the pacific Subject(s): Mormons HOMECOMING, by VERNICE WINEERA PERE Poem Source First Line: I saw you as the tug Last Line: Save for wind-whipped waves Subject(s): Mormons HOMESTEAD IN IDAHO, by CLINTON F. LARSON Poem Source First Line: Solomon? Since I talked with him I've thought Last Line: In an artifice of death that he afterwards saw. %solomon! Subject(s): Mormons HORSESHOE CANYON: THE WALL PAINTINGS, by PATRICIA GUNTER KARAMESINES Poem Source First Line: Suns, sands, and winds render everything ghost Last Line: There is no waking; we are veiled in the sun. %at night, we dream the moon and her flocks Subject(s): Mormons HOW GLORIOUS IS THE VOICE WE HEAR, by DONNELL WALKER HUNTER Poem Source Last Line: Help him while he teaches light in life's darkness %and guides us back to thy eternal fold Subject(s): Lee, Harold B.; Mormons I KNOW MY FATHER LIVES, by REID N. NIBLEY Poem Source Last Line: The spirit whispers this to me and tells me that I can, %andtells me that I can Subject(s): Mormons I WILL MAKE THEE A TERROR TO THYSELF (JER. XX:4), by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source First Line: I have made endeavour to serve thee, lord Last Line: And, yes, matching %thy love Subject(s): Mormons I WILL ONE DAY BE A WIDOW, LOVE, by PENNY ALLEN Poem Source Last Line: But miss you, miss you, never quite complete Subject(s): Mormons IMPRINTS, by P. KAREN TODD Poem Source First Line: Eucalyptus and date palms grow in my mind Last Line: Imprinted on your pillow, %a shadow behind my eyes Subject(s): Mormons IN BEAVER CANYON; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by R. A. CHRISTMAS Poem Source First Line: Driving down beaver canyon, bill Last Line: Leaving me thankful, dark and still Subject(s): Mormons IN CELEBRATION OF A DAUGHTER, by LAURA HAMBLIN Poem Source First Line: More your father's child Last Line: All that was not you %found itself already shrinking Subject(s): Mormons IN THE OSSUARY, by P. KAREN TODD Poem Source First Line: Chipping off bits of matrix rock Last Line: Bury these riddles in the sure and certain hope of excavation? Subject(s): Mormons INDIAN PLAYMATE, by MARILYN MCMEEN BROWN Poem Source First Line: When I go (be quiet, they told me) Last Line: You, busy, build the same crumbling walls %I build out of the same slivers of stone Subject(s): Mormons INTO LIGHT, by RICHARD TICE Poem Source First Line: The sand, white as salt Last Line: Hurling from sight into forever Subject(s): Mormons JESSE, by CLINTON F. LARSON Poem Source First Line: We stumbled up the stairs, onto the back porch Last Line: Near the lake, where the lights of evening ease %and whisper into being beyond the gloss of day Subject(s): Mormons JOSEPH'S CHRISTMAS EVE, by MARDEN J. CLARK Poem Source First Line: Seems almost jahveh didn't want us here Last Line: As though that manger were their source. It is: %the word himself, jahveh, lies here Subject(s): Mormons KILLER, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: Sometime before it became too late Last Line: A sane man lives by his heart. %a crazy man lives in his head Subject(s): Mormons LABOR, by SALLY T. TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Mountains cup the patchwork Last Line: There is yet time. He rises on an elbow, %then turns to cushion her back Subject(s): Mormons LATTER DAYS, by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source First Line: The trees are still in mist this august morning Last Line: Trees will be lost to site one august morning Subject(s): Mormons LAUNCHING, by EDWARD L. HART Poem Source First Line: The gyroscope in the skull wobbles eccentric Last Line: Leaving the apple rotting in the neck Subject(s): Mormons LAW OF GRAVITY, by ROB HOLLIS MILLER Poem Source First Line: This man, my grandfather Last Line: Flutters %like butterflies Subject(s): Mormons LEARNING TO QUILT, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: The patchwork, stretched on frames Last Line: From christening gowns, the old wools %of the fathers' first suits Subject(s): Mormons LETTER TO A FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: The days you instill in me only exhaustion Last Line: Bowed for blood that shines from a newly found grave Subject(s): Mormons LIAR, by MARY BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: I love your lies Last Line: Between true lies and %lies that are true Subject(s): Mormons LIGHT, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: A boy comes selling light Last Line: Like any patient child of the covenant, %for the destroying angel to pass me by Subject(s): Mormons LIGHT CAME DOWN, by BRUCE W. JORGENSEN Poem Source First Line: Just a dusty country boy Last Line: When you and him come down, %when you the light come down Subject(s): Mormons LITANY FOR DARK SOLSTICE, by BRUCE W. JORGENSEN Poem Source First Line: Dead of winter Last Line: Break me to christ Subject(s): Mormons LOVE OF CHRIST, AND SPRING, by STEPHEN ORSON TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Christmas past and the advent of small birds come Last Line: Her breath streams back a mist of ice, among the stars a road Subject(s): Mormons LOVE SONG TO THE END OF SUMMER, by EMMA LOU THAYNE Poem Source First Line: It is clear now, body. Every day can be late august Last Line: Under the wrinkles that tell you now, I can hear you now %saying, 'I still love you,' and to time, ' Subject(s): Mormons LOVERS AT TWILIGHT, by CLINTON F. LARSON Poem Source First Line: A distinction may be made between the two Last Line: The will awake to attend what never will tire %in the chasm of night? Subject(s): Mormons LULLABY IN THE NEW YEAR, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: One week is not too soon to learn a very Last Line: I kiss your hair again. %all right, I whisper, accept, accept, and sleep Subject(s): Mormons LURE, by DONNELL WALKER HUNTER Poem Source First Line: The thrad of my life is waxed Last Line: Drops into the kingdom of darkness %where stars refuse to shine Subject(s): Mormons MANTI TEMPLE, by KARL KELLER Poem Source First Line: A faceless stone stands above my valley Last Line: Where are carved cherrystones into stars Subject(s): Mormons MARRIAGE PORTION, by HELEN CANDLAND STARK Poem Source First Line: Across resisting waters our norse sires Last Line: Roses from deserts are a brilliant yield %if we prize, too, the lilies of the field Subject(s): Mormons MARTIAL ART, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've hung up the white robe Last Line: And let each splinter smoulder %in the eye of god Subject(s): Mormons MASSADA, by EMMA LOU THAYNE Poem Source First Line: The remaindering of zeal is more than irrestible Last Line: As the tram rides its thick wire up for the view Subject(s): Mormons MIDNIGHT REASSEMBLED, by KATHY EVANS Poem Source First Line: Tonight the stars Last Line: It's what the japanese once called %a slender sadness Subject(s): Mormons MILLIE'S MOTHER'S RED DRESS, by CAROL LYNN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: It hung there in the closet Last Line: Then mother took her turn %in death Subject(s): Mormons MISSING PERSONS, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: I know where the bodies are buried in my house Last Line: And closing the closet door %as if in the dark the ghosts will rest Subject(s): Mormons MR. BOJANGLES, by CLIFTON JOLLEY Poem Source First Line: Bojangles so much burdens me Last Line: Sole worn through behind the tap, %from black to black Subject(s): Mormons MULTIPLICITY, by RONALD WILCOX Poem Source First Line: There has been one and one only perfect moment Last Line: Your heart you squeezed through your thighs, mary kelly, %ina summer afternoon deep as kentucky Subject(s): Mormons MY CHILDREN ON THE BEACH AT DEL MAR, by KARL KELLER Poem Source First Line: These are fragments of myself Last Line: A way out we turn it greys %you've closed it you've closed the way out! Subject(s): Mormons MY FATHER TAMED WILD HORSES, by VENETA LEATHAM NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: My father who is eighty shot white bears Last Line: He gave me bows, and arrow barbs, %my ride, his rein, my name Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Mormons MY KINSMAN, by EUGENE ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: My father's flesh appears the same Last Line: And watched my father take his hold %on what endures behind the veil Subject(s): Mormons MY NAME WAS CALLED, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't know what would be done with me Last Line: When my name was called Subject(s): Mormons MYTHICAL BIRD, by ROB HOLLIS MILLER Poem Source First Line: The hollering and %beating of bushes by Last Line: Pecking around scurrying out of the way %oblivious to evolution Subject(s): Mormons NELLIE UNTHANK, by IRIS PARKER CORRY Poem Source First Line: Aged ten, %walked, starved, froze Last Line: Nellie scrubbed the floor Subject(s): Mormons NEW NAME AND BLESSING, by DENNIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: She holds her breath, sitting under green water Last Line: Attention held like tinder for the fire Subject(s): Mormons NEW YORK PROVINCIAL, by EDWARD L. HART Poem Source First Line: Now this poem is about seagulls,' she said Last Line: We won't understand - 'a seagull.' our state bird, %I tell her. 'you mean eagle,' she assured me Subject(s): Mormons NEXT DAY, by DANIELLE BEAZER Poem Source First Line: Of all the days, his was the quietest Last Line: Trying to find a face somewhere %in the moon Subject(s): Mormons NEXT WEIRD SISTER ATTEMPTS REPENTANCE, by LAURA HAMBLIN Poem Source First Line: Thinking it had been a while Last Line: Give me - give me - %then thought of killing swine Subject(s): Mormons NEXT WEIRD SISTER BATHES IN THE RIVER JORDAN, by LAURA HAMBLIN Poem Source First Line: You have seen her in the water, at dawn Last Line: But you have seen, and you know - %for her hands have touched the water Subject(s): Mormons NIGHT WALK, by JOHN W. SCHOUTEN Poem Source First Line: It was nighttime in the back lot Last Line: Flows into the grass %and is lost like the stars at sunrise Subject(s): Mormons NIGHT WATCH, by KARL C. SANDBERG Poem Source First Line: No, I think you do not hear aright Last Line: And let this gaunt sanpete county farmer %die alone Subject(s): Mormons NURSERY RHYME; WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF CARL GUSTAV JUNG, by VENETA LEATHAM NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: Hush a-lorn, newly born Last Line: Hush a-lull breast of gull %soft little one Subject(s): Mormons OCTOBER 9, 1846, by LORETTA RANDALL SHARP Poem Source First Line: Listless as game birds Last Line: While making way to the great salt lake Subject(s): Mormons OLD PHILOSPHER, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: It is worth the coin in pain to wrench my head Last Line: The robin spoke the word: ergo, I am Subject(s): Mormons OLEANDER, by LORETTA RANDALL SHARP Poem Source First Line: The blood has not yet clotted Last Line: Small and cold as her morning yield Subject(s): Mormons; Oleanders ON SECOND WEST IN CEDAR CITY, UTAH: CANTICLE FOR THE VIRGIN, by BRUCE W. JORGENSEN Poem Source First Line: One street west, in the ward chapel Last Line: In the disquietude of god Subject(s): Mormons ON THE EVENING OF PRESIDENT SMITH'S LEAVING, by STEPHEN ORSON TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: To watch the sunset Last Line: That our years came but of grief Subject(s): Mormons ON THE STRANDING OF GREAT WHALES, by DENNIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: They come to the beach for the reasons we take the sand Last Line: To see the great mother Subject(s): Mormons ON UTAH LAKE, by VERNICE WINEERA PERE Poem Source First Line: You laugh at my fear Last Line: Who rise like a cloud in the cold %and call to me, 'come, fly!' Subject(s): Mormons ONE TO LOVE, by ALFRED ISLAY WALDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where's the maid that I can love Last Line: But I'd be satisfied with one. Subject(s): Mormons ONE YEAR, SELS., by MARGARET RAMPTON MUNK Subject(s): Mormons OPEN RANGE, WYOMING, by PATRICIA GUNTER KARAMESINES Poem Source First Line: On wyoming's genderless open range Last Line: Where antelope stand or sway, and seem to be %the only vegetation for seasons Subject(s): Mormons OUR SAVIOR'S LOVE, by EDWARD L. HART Poem Source Last Line: In thee our hearts rejoice Subject(s): Mormons OUR TOWN, by DONNELL WALKER HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Isn't sure enough of itself Last Line: Where are the bees and when will whipporwills %return to sing? Subject(s): Mormons OVER THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY, by DANIELLE BEAZER Poem Source First Line: Walking home %he recalls a lover Last Line: Over the other side of the country Subject(s): Mormons PAPER FLOWERS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your mother made perfect %lotus blossoms from tissue paper Last Line: Each page a faded yellow petal Subject(s): Mormons PASSING THE SACRAMENTY AT EASTGATE NURSING HOME, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: Every third sunday we gave them Last Line: And I with clean and careful hands %laid the bread on her tongue Subject(s): Mormons PASSOVER: A MIRRORED EPIPHANY, by RANDALL L. HALL Poem Source First Line: How many years from bethlehem Last Line: Tugged and beckoned by the nascent possibilities %of love or abdication Subject(s): Mormons; Passover PHILANTHROPIST SPEAKS TO HIS LAWYER, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: I don't mind giving it away - the estate Last Line: I feel it most in the afternoons Subject(s): Mormons PILGRIMS, by EUGENE ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: Honorable dead chinook, tyee, king Last Line: The changing angle, sun against dark sea, %to guide you home Subject(s): Mormons PORCUPINE, by DONNELL WALKER HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Two porcupines dead Last Line: Like praying over %folded paws Subject(s): Mormons PORT PARTUM BLUES, by PENNY ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Uncomfortable companions in the %pulse of days Last Line: But when, now you've gone, will I %stop tearing? Subject(s): Mormons PRAYERS; FOR SYLVIA PLATH, by MARY BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: Even god is an atheist, but Last Line: Their pale moist lips open, straining %as if to scream Subject(s): Mormons PROPHET, by CLIFTON JOLLEY Poem Source First Line: The common cripple to the sound of palmyra Last Line: And, plunging headlong into pentecost, %was dead Subject(s): Mormons PSALM FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT, by ELOUISE BELL Poem Source First Line: Bring forth thy sabbath, o lord Last Line: For thy servant waits Subject(s): Mormons QUICKENING, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: My ribs remember - you thumped Last Line: A slight moan, like a small animal, %dying Subject(s): Mormons RAIN COMING, by JOHN W. SCHOUTEN Poem Source First Line: The limbs of the sycamore flatten Last Line: That dark eastward flow Subject(s): Mormons RAMSES II, by DENNIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: How time permutes all glory! Ramses, now Last Line: Those hundred sixty feet and strike his belly Subject(s): Mormons RATTLESNAKE, by BREWSTER GHISELIN Poem Source First Line: I found him sleepy in the heat Last Line: From the wild grain of the hill Subject(s): Mormons; Rattlesnakes RED, by KATHY EVANS Poem Source First Line: The softest part is the entrance. Slide Last Line: A tulip, the positive part of the wing Subject(s): Mormons RED BUTTES IN NAVAHO COUNTRY, by KARL C. SANDBERG Poem Source First Line: The hunter among the navahos, they say Last Line: In the stillness of the buttes, %dark red in the land of the navahos Subject(s): Mormons RELINQUISHING, by KAREN MARGUERITE MOLONEY Poem Source First Line: We didn't know how softly you would die Last Line: But fall so easily - and gather speed Subject(s): Mormons RESIDUAL FARMER, by ANITA TANNER Poem Source First Line: The only man around who lives inside Last Line: Beneath his rubber boots, his slowing stride Subject(s): Mormons RETIREMENT; A RHYME OF THE SAD PERSONAL PRONOUNS, by VENETA LEATHAM NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: Gathered thwe rushes Last Line: Who was to blame %the ways winds blow? Subject(s): Mormons RURAL TORTILLAS, by M. D. PALMER Poem Source First Line: Out in the country Last Line: And the child smiled one %more time at their old joke Subject(s): Mormons SABBATH FLOWER, by STEPHEN GOULD Poem Source First Line: It is all grown quiet Last Line: As the named immersion's prayer %is growing, still Subject(s): Mormons SABBATICAL, by DONNELL WALKER HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Some day I want to take my leave Last Line: Listen hard. Whatever grass says, %it speaks for me Subject(s): Mormons SACRAMENT, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: One sunday morning %after a spring rain Last Line: Occasionally a grain or two of sand %still crunched in our mouths Subject(s): Churches; Mormons; Religion - Reformers; Sacraments SALUTATION, by LORETTA RANDALL SHARP Poem Source First Line: Deciding they should visit teach, beth Last Line: Sisters, bedridden north of the bowery Subject(s): Mormons SCRIPTURE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark book where words crowded together Last Line: Wandering the shadow of the tabernacle world Subject(s): Mormons SCRIPTURE LESSON, by KARL C. SANDBERG Poem Source First Line: Here beginneth the text Last Line: Except those that %sleep gorged in a cage Subject(s): Mormons SEA IN THE DESERT, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: A little sea Last Line: The waters of that sea %are rising blindly to the full Subject(s): Mormons SEED, by PHILIP WHITE Poem Source First Line: I was born in the desert Last Line: Against the disadvantage %of seed Subject(s): Mormons SELF-PORTRAIT AS BRIGHAM YOUNG, by R. A. CHRISTMAS Poem Source First Line: He pioneered his name into the church Last Line: Drive on, drive on Subject(s): Mormons SERVANT GIRL, by PATRICIA GUNTER KARAMESINES Poem Source First Line: The servant girl is moving by the table Last Line: Staring through water beads with unwondering eyes Subject(s): Mormons SKELETON'S REAPPRAISAL, by RONALD WILCOX Poem Source First Line: The objective eye must see itself first Last Line: With her love, lying through the teeth of time Subject(s): Mormons SNOWFALL ON GLENFLESK, by KAREN MARGUERITE MOLONEY Poem Source First Line: The hush that sheathes the road is sure and slow Last Line: Our sanctum still as haunted as the snow Subject(s): Mormons SNOWY OWL AT WOODLAND PARK ZOO, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Stoic, he eyes Last Line: Unseen, to fall %accurate on its prey Subject(s): Mormons SOME NIGHTS, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: Some nights in a small cove Last Line: Violining melodies pitched %between the currents of our speech Subject(s): Mormons SOMEWHERE NEAR PALMYRA, by ROBERT A. REES Poem Source First Line: He saw something that morning Last Line: Flashing through the morning mist Subject(s): Mormons SONG FOR HIS LEFT EAR, by DENNIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: By sheer nerve you've gone ban gogh one better Last Line: You have ears for the inaudible %whispering you to act Subject(s): Mormons SONG OF CREATION, by LINDA SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: Who made the world, my child? Last Line: Listen to mother and father laughing %behind the locked door Subject(s): Mormons SONG OF THE AIRWAY, by DAWSON POWELL Poem Text First Line: Where prodding saints once walked to dreamless sleep Last Line: I shall be gone where mate-less eagles cry. Subject(s): Mormons SOPHIA, by STEPHEN ORSON TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: I searched that old house for you Last Line: An answer to my question Subject(s): Mormons SPRING, by EDWARD L. HART Poem Source First Line: Spring came slowly to the valley lands Last Line: And felt the unfettered freedom of the live %loadlifted limbs Subject(s): Mormons SUMMER DAYS, A PAINTING BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE Poem Source First Line: The skull of an elk is the center -- parched, cleaned Last Line: Eyeless sockets and the silent, imminent skull Subject(s): Mormons SUNRISE ON CHRISTMAS, by EUGENE ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: Looking up the glacial valley of the weber Last Line: It is the april blood upon my tongue Subject(s): Mormons TADPOLES, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: Asleep beside me, my wife dreams of babies Last Line: They hang like whispers in a foreign movie, %the same phrase over and over, pleasurable tiny stabs Subject(s): Mormons TAG, I.D., by JOHN STERLING HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Bright oval on a light chain Last Line: Stainless steel coin %for the boatman Subject(s): Mormons TAKE, EAT, by COLIN B. DOUGLAS Poem Source First Line: Like a deer he comes to me Last Line: And in the bright morning, %like a deer he comes to me Subject(s): Mormons TEACH ME TO WALK IN THE LIGHT, by CLARA W. MCMASTER Poem Source Last Line: Gladly, gladly we'll walk in the light Subject(s): Mormons TEFNUT, by PENNY ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Tefnut, the great mother, came weeping to egypt Last Line: What is such power to one who makes the mover? Subject(s): Mormons TEMENOS, by EUGENE ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: This neutral room, enclosed and left to books Last Line: To try again the old repulse, to think %that lifted circle on the darkening bank Subject(s): Mormons THAT THE SOUL MAY WAX PLUMP, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dumpy little mother on the undertaker's slab Last Line: Lay youthful, cool, triumphant, with a long smile Subject(s): Mormons THE FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone line goes cold Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons; Agriculture; Farmers THE FLOATING MORMON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That summer she hadn't struggled Last Line: Like parents' front-seat voices. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Mormons; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts THE MORMON TRIAL; ELDER SAUL'S STORY, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: On cummorah hill Last Line: By jordan river! Subject(s): Mormons THE WIND-BOUND MISSION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the west the godless mormons dwell Last Line: Stand in the baffling wind and speak of heaven! Subject(s): Livingstone, David (1813-1873); Mackenzie, John (1835-1899); Missions & Missionaries; Mormons THINGS IN THE NIGHT SKY, by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE Poem Source First Line: First the deepening of elements we long for Last Line: Receiving infinite differences %dark centers of bright stars Subject(s): Mormons THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME', by ELOUISE BELL Poem Source First Line: Blinking out into the april brightness Last Line: What fit we to the water, and the bread? Subject(s): Mormons THY SERVANTS ARE PREPARED, by MARILYN MCMEEN BROWN Poem Source Last Line: While darkness draws away %from thy revealing light Subject(s): Mormons TIMPANOGOS, by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source First Line: Across the silver %network of birch and poplar Last Line: A shiver of gold Subject(s): Mormons TO A DAUGHTER ABOUT TO BECOME A MISSIONARY, by EMMA LOU THAYNE Poem Source First Line: Twenty-two, she sleeps upstairs Last Line: Of dr. Pepper lip gloss beneath the down, %above the furrows of knees along the floor Subject(s): Mormons TO A DYING GIRL, by CLINTON F. LARSON Poem Source First Line: How quickly must she go? Last Line: Or spring the fragile snow, %so quickly she must go Subject(s): Mormons TO KEVIN: NEWLY A MISSIONARY, by MARDEN J. CLARK Poem Source First Line: You stand before the gates of paradox Last Line: Of self that harvests precious heads of grain %including yours: a tongue rock-blunt and plain Subject(s): Mormons TO MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER, WRITTEN ON A FLIGHT ..., by SUSAN HOWE Poet's Biography First Line: Caught here, in an arc Subject(s): Mormons TO MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER, WRITTEN ON A FLIGHT ..., by SUSAN HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caught here, in an arc Last Line: Through which I see you. Sunlight where we both dwell Subject(s): Mormons TO THE SOUND OF THE RAIN, by CAROL LYNN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: I want to love you tonight Last Line: As I love you tonight %to the sound of rain Subject(s): Mormons TO UTAH, by EDWARD L. HART Poem Source First Line: Nobody wanted this place Last Line: Frost pried free a block at last %to stand capstone at the temple crest Subject(s): Mormons; Utah TRIAD, by MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: Stephen %carries secrets he hasn't had time Last Line: His body enough to shelter him %from rain and other agonies Subject(s): Mormons TRIBUNAL ALIEN, by STEPHEN GOULD Poem Source First Line: The city of peace Last Line: In your release are the forbiddings in my flesh, %barabbas, brother Subject(s): Mormons TRUANT OFFICER RECALLS SWEET MAGGIE, by KAREN MARGUERITE MOLONEY Poem Source First Line: Loved her? I left her. Don't think that qualifies Last Line: But she never thought so. Never. Can you beat that? Subject(s): Mormons VARIATIONS ON DEATH, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all, summer was over Last Line: She rolls herself over, asleep %in a field of white roses Subject(s): Mormons VIEW OF LITTLE SCOPE; DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT, by BREWSTER GHISELIN Poem Source First Line: On the desolate hills by the river Last Line: On the pathway of the lost, %gleaming in enormous light Subject(s): Mormons VIEWING, by KAREN MARGUERITE MOLONEY Poem Source First Line: Point of yet another unmarked road, space Last Line: Surprised to doubt the languor of my island Subject(s): Mormons WALKING PROVO CANYON, by LORETTA RANDALL SHARP Poem Source First Line: At dawn the wind %delivered the oaks Last Line: They rattled the death of all green things Subject(s): Mormons WASATCH, by MARDEN J. CLARK Poem Source First Line: Whose fault lies here and subtly traces Last Line: And love to these higg peaks? Whose fault %if now these plates again should stir? Subject(s): Mormons WE MEET AGAIN AS SISTERS, by PAUL L. ANDERSON Poem Source Last Line: That we, with heav'nly parents, %may sing eternally Subject(s): Mormons WEATHERED CROSS BESIDE THE WALL, by KATHRYN R. ASHWORTH Poem Source Last Line: Thy hand that blossoms like a rose %upon a winter day? Subject(s): Mormons WEDDING SONGS: 1, by COLIN B. DOUGLAS Poem Source First Line: On the first morning of our marriage Last Line: And let white seafoam wash about our ankles Subject(s): Mormons WEDDING SONGS: 2, by COLIN B. DOUGLAS Poem Source First Line: We lay down among flowers Last Line: And your dress was yellow among the flowers Subject(s): Mormons WEDDING SONGS: 3, by COLIN B. DOUGLAS Poem Source First Line: The whiteness of foam Last Line: My fingertips touched your sleeve Subject(s): Mormons WEDDING SONGS: 4, by COLIN B. DOUGLAS Poem Source First Line: I come with gifts of milk and wine Last Line: And enter your garden of roses Subject(s): Mormons WEDDING SONGS: 5, by COLIN B. DOUGLAS Poem Source First Line: Your hand through the parted veil Last Line: Could not have burned more bright Subject(s): Mormons WEIGHT OF GLORY, by BRUCE W. JORGENSEN Poem Source First Line: Those I must leave Last Line: Alone into love Subject(s): Mormons WHAT DOESN'T END WHEN THE YEAR BEGINS, by JOHN+(3) DAVIES Poem Source First Line: It's over, the goodwill season, and even Last Line: Been crushed into one small part of the country %white and only once this once Subject(s): Mormons WHEN IT STOPPED SINGING, by DONNELL WALKER HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Grass, whgen it stopped singing Last Line: Across the land. But the haystack %and all the buffalo were gone Subject(s): Mormons WHERE CAN I TURN FOR PEACE?, by EMMA LOU THAYNE Poem Source Last Line: Constant he is and kind, %love without end Subject(s): Mormons WILDERNESS, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: A sacramento family camps on vacation Last Line: I wanted never to think about that cold again Subject(s): Mormons WILL YOU REMEMBER, LOVELY ONE?, by MARILYN MCMEEN BROWN Poem Source Last Line: About our shade and underneath %a short eternity Subject(s): Mormons WINDS (WORLD WAR II), by HELEN CANDLAND STARK Poem Source First Line: The door shut by itself,' my frightened child Last Line: Longing to hear the one who mastered winds, say %'peace, peace, be still' Subject(s): Mormons WINTER, by EDWARD L. HART Poem Source First Line: As usual: six, and we dressed Last Line: Night rolled from the hills in a wave %and swallowed the world to our door Subject(s): Mormons WINTER HORSES, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: West of home, horse heaven hills Last Line: Winter landscapes. I know they lie down %to give birth or die Subject(s): Mormons WINTER LANDSCAPE, by RANDALL L. HALL Poem Source First Line: The frigid hills, bound silently in snow Last Line: A small warmth in a shiver of space Subject(s): Mormons WITNESS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hand I dipped in the missouri Last Line: Toward whatever is there, with this loyal hand Subject(s): Mormons WOMAN DREAMS OF HER DAUGHTER, BORN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: At the far end of twin lakes, you spend Last Line: From the pools of pre-dawn light Subject(s): Mormons WOMAN OF ANOTHER WORLD, I AM WITH YOU, by EMMA LOU THAYNE Poem Source First Line: You, woman of different tongue, %awaken me Last Line: To let the light that guides us both %tell me where to be Subject(s): Mormons WOMAN WHOSE BROOCH I STOLE, by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE Poem Source First Line: She hadn't hoped to be lifted after passing Last Line: Coming through in pink glitter and gold Subject(s): Mormons WORLD WAS UNPERFECTED TILL MADE FLESH, by PENNY ALLEN Poem Source Last Line: Refuse and swill and rut: damn the divine, %as devils still desire to enter swine Subject(s): Mormons YEAR OF THE FAMINE, by IRIS PARKER CORRY Poem Source First Line: When the iron works was shutting down Last Line: In the year of the famine, 1856 Subject(s): Mormons |
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