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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOSES Matches Found: 67 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FLOW'RET IN THE GARLAND; FOR OUT GREAT CENTENARIAN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Somewhere I have read or heard it Last Line: For thy gift — for montefiore. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Prayer; Religion; Paradise; Theology AT SINAI, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: Down from the mist-clad mountain moses came Last Line: Whate'er the lord hath bidden, shall we do! Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Ten Commandments; Judaism ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the tongue as red as scarlet Last Line: "sprang from moses mendelssohn!" Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786) BURIAL OF MOSES, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By nebo's lonely mountain Last Line: Of him he loved so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology CHARITY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue Last Line: For ever blessing, and for ever blessed. Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Knowledge; Moses; Religion; Paradise; Theology ESCAPING, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: He was the only one who succeeded in escaping Last Line: And his name. It was moses Subject(s): Gratitude; Moses; Survival GALILEE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose another time while walking on water Last Line: Over his head, was drifting even then %toward the nakedness of eternity? Subject(s): Moses; Religion GEORGE MOSES HORTON, MYSELF, by GEORGE MOSES HORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel myself in need Last Line: And dart from world to world. Subject(s): Horton, George Moses (1797-1883) GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 16, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The carriage's jolting woke me up Last Line: "when I view the matter closely." Subject(s): Chezy, Helmine (1783-1856); Germany; Karschin, Anna Luise (1711-1791); Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786); Mendelssohn-bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847); Chezy, Wilhelmine Christiane Von Klencke; Germans; Karsch, Anna GOD LET MOSES SEE HIS BACK, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Outside a bankrupt seaside motel Last Line: Her eyes fixed on some invisible point Subject(s): Art And Artists; Moses IN OUR YARD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, moses, seeing god Last Line: That held a mocking-bird. Subject(s): God; Moses INTERCESSION OF THE SAINTS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While moses on the mountain lay Last Line: And stay heaven's rising flame. Subject(s): Moses INVOCATION, by JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM Poem Source First Line: Moses come down from that peak Last Line: Hands like a matador, come, come to me Subject(s): Moses; Religion IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: His country's treasure and his people's pride Subject(s): "jews;memory;montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885);" Judaism IT ALWAYS FELT TO ME A WRONG, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My justice bleeds for thee! Variant Title(s): Poem: 521; Poem: 59 Subject(s): Moses JOCHANAN HAKKADOSH: NOTE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses the meek was thirty cubits high Last Line: "keeps falling, nor has reached the bottom yet." Subject(s): Moses JOCOSERIA: PRELUDE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanting is - what? Last Line: Grows love! Subject(s): Moses MIRIAM, by PENINA MOISE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the flexile reeds of nile a lovely infant slept Last Line: Farewell, inspired miriam, thou lost star of the sea Subject(s): Miriam (bible); Moses; Women In The Bible MIRIAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, miriam! Pearl of the morning, gazelle of the palm-land, soul of my spirit Last Line: Thy bitterness, oh, miriam, is sweeter than all their sweetness! Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Miriam (bible); Moses; Women In The Bible MONTEFIORE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw - 'twas in a dream, the other night Last Line: And in a moment was a lonely man! Subject(s): Charity; Dreams; Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Philanthropy; Nightmares; Judaism MONTEFIORE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Somewhere I have seen the picture Last Line: Blessed be thou for montefiore! Subject(s): Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885) MOSES, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing high-hearted moses Last Line: Stooped to borrow from the jew. Subject(s): Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism MOSES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on bones Last Line: God had got his eye on Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Old Age; Slavery; Serfs MOSES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on bones Last Line: Like a bush %god got his eye on Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Old Age; Slavery MOSES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe in the god of the hebrews Subject(s): Moses; Religion; Theology MOSES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe in the god of the hebrews Last Line: Streetlights with each whack Subject(s): Moses; Religion MOSES, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, the patriot fierce, became Last Line: To gain his future rest! Subject(s): Moses MOSES AND THE DERVISH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, that heaven's seven climates hath spread forth Last Line: The circumstance according to the worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Judaism MOSES IN THE DESERT, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go where a foot hath never trod Last Line: That power belongs to god alone. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism MOSES MENDELSSOHN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Once, through a night of darkness and of shadow Last Line: Should mark thy people, moses mendelssohn! Subject(s): Jews; Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786); Judaism MOSES ON MOUNT NEBO, by I. SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: He stood on nebo's lofty crest Last Line: He sleeps, his sepulchre unknown. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Graves; Jews; Moses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism MOSES ON MOUNT SINAI, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up a rough peak, that toward the stormy sky Last Line: "nature's just bounds and thy discerning will!" Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Moses; Sinai, Mount MOSES: A PLAY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pharaoh's desires Last Line: They take it thus — or die Subject(s): Jews; Moses MOSES: A STORY OF THE NILE: 9. THE DEATH OF MOSES, SELECTION, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His work was done; his blessing lay Last Line: We know where he is laid. Subject(s): Moses MOSES: A STORY OF THE NILE: FLIGHT INTO MIDIAN: 3, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love of moses for his race soon found Last Line: For the priest of midian. Subject(s): Moses MOSES: A STORY OF THE NILE: FLIGHT INTO MIDIAN: 4, SELECTION, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men grow strong in action, but in solitude Last Line: The oppressed go free. Subject(s): Moses MOSES: A STORY OF THE NILE: FLIGHT INTO MIDIAN: 5, SELS., by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Moses MOSES: A STORY OF THE NILE: FLIGHT INTO MIDIAN: 6, SELECTION, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But pharaoh was strangely blind, and turning Last Line: Triumph was the requiem of their foes. Subject(s): Moses MOUNT SINAI, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From sinai's top the lightnings flashed Last Line: For none can see his face and live. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Judaism OLD MAN IS LIKE MOSES, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: Every man can be like that Last Line: The thing the others will see Subject(s): Death; Evening; Moses ON SEEING MICHELANGELO'S MOSES, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Jovelike, imperious, and unafraid Last Line: This is no man. It is the voice of god. Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Moses; Sculpture & Sculptors ON THE PICTURE OF THE FINDING OF MOSES BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This picture does the story express Last Line: Because I from the waters drew him. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Judaism OUT OF EGYPT, by DOROTHEA DE PASS Poem Text First Line: The flaming sunset bathed the distant hills Last Line: Of sin. Subject(s): Bible; Israel; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in doubt, in weariness, in woe" Last Line: Was rolling o'er their head Subject(s): Egypt;jews;moses;red Sea; Judaism PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 77. AL-MUTAHALI, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis written in the chapter 'of the cave' Last Line: Exalted art thou past our ken. Variant Title(s): Moses And The Angel Subject(s): Angels; Bible; God; Islam; Jews; Moses; Judaism SEMITIC INTERLUDE; A SONNET SEQUENCE, by MARTIN FEINSTEIN Poem Text First Line: Pharaoh is mighty on his throne Last Line: But hears the bright voice of the blinded bird. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Jews; Moses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism SINAI, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the moses: I the mouth of god Last Line: I strike the steel to unavoidable things. Subject(s): Moses SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE, by E. YANCEY COHEN Poem Text First Line: Sweet blue-eyed charity, devout and calm Last Line: This hero crested with his hundred years! Subject(s): Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Judaism SONNET ADDRESSED TO SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE, by CANON JENKINS Poem Text First Line: If patriarchal days alone were thine Last Line: Leaning on god, to wait the coming day. Subject(s): Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Judaism THE 'MOSES' OF MICHAEL ANGELO, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who is he that, sculptured in huge stone Last Line: Had been your error in adoring him. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Jews; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Moses; Sculpture & Sculptors; Judaism THE BURNING BUSH (DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF SALLIE LYTTLE HATTON), by HENRY HARVEY FUSON Poem Text First Line: The burning bush, a scarlet flame Last Line: Shall live another day! Alternate Author Name(s): Fuson, H. H. Subject(s): God; Moses THE DEATH OF MOSES, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, who spake with god as with his friend Last Line: "he dwells not with you dead, but lives as law." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Law & Lawyers; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Attorneys; Theology THE DEATH OF MOSES, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: See moses nebo's slopes ascend Last Line: From doors against thee barred! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Moses; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MOSES, by JESSIE G. MCCARTEE Poem Text First Line: Led by his god, on pisgah's height Last Line: And mourn your prophet dead! Subject(s): Moses THE DEATH OF MOSES, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's hope! My childhood's dream! Last Line: But seen, and not possest? Subject(s): Moses THE DEATH OF MOSES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Israel, my hour is come Last Line: And triumphantly fight for the lord. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Faith; God; Moses; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE FIRST SONG OF MOSES, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the praises of the lord be sung Last Line: The seed of israel safe and dry-shod came. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism THE STREAM IN THE DESERT, by JESSIE G. MCCARTEE Poem Text First Line: From the parch'd bosom of the desert bursting Last Line: Burst forth, and bade the dying pilgrim live. Subject(s): Moses THE UNSEEN FACE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do beseech thee, god, show me thy face.' Last Line: Thou hadst beheld god's face, and straightway died! Subject(s): Christianity; Faces; God; Moses THE YOUNG MOSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The world was at his feet Last Line: "to lead them, if the might, from bondage" Subject(s): Bible;egypt;god;jews;moses; Judaism THEOLOGICAL EXPERTS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gay monkey reigns Last Line: To their sweet serenade. Subject(s): Moses; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools TO A DARK MOSES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the one Subject(s): African Americans; Moses; Negroes; American Blacks TO A DARK MOSES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the one Last Line: I am burning %I am not consumed Subject(s): African Americans; Moses TOUCH WHAT HE LOST, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: If moses had Last Line: To the rock Subject(s): Moses VIOLIN SONGS: THE TEMPLE OF GOD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the desert by the bush Last Line: In his heart he makes his home. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); God; Jesus Christ; Job (bible); Moses; Prayer; Temples; Mosques VISION OF MOSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, to whom by a peculiar grace Last Line: "murder'd the father of that very child." Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Religion; Theology YIGDAL, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The living god we praise, exalt, adore! Last Line: Praised be his glorious name for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): God; Jews; Moses; Prophecy & Prophets; Judaism |
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