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Subject: PAGANISM & PAGANS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth
Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect


A BALLAD OF TANNHAUSER, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What hardy, tattered wretch is that
Last Line: Tannhäuser and the queen of love.
Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Paganism & Pagans; Redemption; Rome, Italy; Shame; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


A PAGAN, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright white clouds and april skies
Last Line: When it's dark at four of a winter's night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans


CHRIST AND THE PAGAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had no god but these
Last Line: "beyond eternal hope."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Paganism & Pagans


COOL REFLECTIONS DURING A MIDSUMMER WALK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O spare me -- spare me, phoebus! If, indeed
Last Line: Nymph of the stream, now take a grateful prayer.
Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Mythology - Classical; Nature - Religious Aspects; Paganism & Pagans; Prayer; Summer; Joy; Delight


SONNET TO MANON: ON READING CERTAIN LETTERS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reading these lines, this record of lost days
Subject(s): Letters; Past; Paganism & Pagans


THE PAGAN, by ROSE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: But I shall feel the wind again
Last Line: The loveliness I knew before.
Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans


THE PAGAN PAST, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What sylvan god was worshipped here?
Last Line: I sail, companioned by the past.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Pan (mythology); Past; Dead, The


THE PAGAN SOUL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You who were born for laughter and the bright
Last Line: Why are you bound who may not understand?
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Christianity; Paganism & Pagans


THE WHITE BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago apollo called to aristaeus
Last Line: Joy and pain of seeking, -- and at last we sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Bees; Greece; Insects; Paganism & Pagans; Beekeeping; Greeks; Bugs


THE WORLD; SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is too much with us: late and soon
Last Line: Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.
Variant Title(s): Rather A Pagan;worldliness
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Melancholy; Men; Nature; Paganism & Pagans; Social Protest; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dejection


TO A NEO-PAGAN, by LEE WILSON DODD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your praise of nero leaves me cold
Last Line: The mill of god with his angels in't!
Subject(s): Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Paganism & Pagans


TO APRIL, by DAVID INNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am pagan, so are you
Last Line: You are pagan, so am I.
Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans


VALE ET AVE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pagan, when he felt his days were done
Last Line: Hail, living fire, kind light of heaven, hail!
Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans; Christianity; Faith