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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NORTHERN POEM, by NIKOLAY KLUYEV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset dreams on fir-tree cones
Last Line: Glimmer soft as wedding fires.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Poetry & Poets


A PILGRIM, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the trodden continent of years
Last Line: Only thy devotee!
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


A PILGRIMAGE, by NANCY BARR MAVITY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I put off my smoke-dimmed garment
Last Line: And my heart sang aloud for a sign!
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Wellesley College


A SPRINGTIME PILGRIMAGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Feet on the hills and heads in the sky
Last Line: Here in the hollow of tarrytown.
Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Spring


A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To kneel before some saintly shrine
Last Line: Our common earth a holy ground.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Summer


AFTER GOING BEYOND TALLEY ABBEY IN OCTOBER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was ever valley road so full of sound
Last Line: Turn in his tracks and swiftly steal away.
Subject(s): October; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roads; Travel; Wales; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen


AFTER THIS THE JUDGEMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As eager homebound traveller to the goal
Last Line: Thy life then ransomed mine, my god, my god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


AGATHA, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come with me to the mountain, not where rocks
Last Line: Give us with the saints a place!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Women; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips


AN ANNOTATION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emblem of early seeking, early finding
Last Line: So tossed you to the hooves of infamy?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists


AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the land their long lines pass
Last Line: A land to which all peoples turn.
Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips


AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY CONCERTS, by THEODORA ROSCOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They come as to a shrine
Last Line: And courage triumphs over all dismay!
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Symphonies; Concerts


BENARES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray for the sad souls that pray
Last Line: And will flow with forgiveness forever.
Subject(s): India; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


BON VOYAGE!, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To eastern lands, far-famed in song and / story
Last Line: And bring you home—the pilgrim journey through.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Friendship; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages


COMFORTERS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Raw april came. The snow was melting fast
Last Line: In the old english fashion.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


COUNSELS OF PERFECTION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the trees of pilgrimage
Last Line: Yet thou perchance no nigher.'
Subject(s): Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


DAY BY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With staff and shoon I journey
Last Line: Fares onward day by day?
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Journeys; Trips


DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone
Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow.
Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips


DESIRE MINTER, by MARION PERHAM GALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sees the white mist rise to blot the land
Last Line: "england . . . England is calling to my soul!"
Subject(s): Mayflower (ship); Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plymouth, Massachusetts


ELLIS ISLAND, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three thousand miles of atlantic seas and a throb
Last Line: "the grain of sand, the earth, the soul, our country—the word ""god!"
Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips


FAREWELL TO THE PILGRIMS, by THEODORE M. BAKKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blue is the sea below you
Last Line: Winged with prayer. Goodbye!
Subject(s): Peace; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


FRIENDSHIPS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like tropic isles within life's sea
Last Line: While pilgrims here below.
Subject(s): Friendship; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


GOAL, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travel! My pilgrimage hither-ward lies
Last Line: My forehead to god, my feet in the dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


HALLOWED SCENES, by GEORGE PAULIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They rise before me, robed in many hues
Last Line: Start from their hollow'd bed -- the thistle-tufted urn.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; War


ISLE OF MEMORY, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, most dear to memory
Last Line: And my soul rejoices now that such has been.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Memory; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was high feasting held at vaucouleur
Last Line: "his wrath, and they shall perish who oppress."
Subject(s): Faith; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology


LORD, BY WHAT INCONCEIVABLE DIM ROAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At rest from labour on the sabbath day
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


MAN'S PILGRIMAGE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh for the morning gleam of youth, the half-unfolded flower
Last Line: For day must pass, and night must come, before another morn.
Subject(s): Day; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


NEW YEAR, by FLORENCE WEISBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the life-path of our destiny
Last Line: To perfect day.
Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Judaism


NOMADS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are but pilgrims; and the skin
Last Line: Till death a dwelling-house provide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


NOT THANKFUL, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think the only person that
Last Line: And really he's not much to blame.
Subject(s): Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey


NOVEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: No matter how hard you try
Last Line: And so, cold old month, you're not so bad!
Subject(s): Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey


OFFERINGS, by ANNA ROZILLA CREVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pilgrimage! A pilgrimage!
Last Line: This rose whose name is love!
Subject(s): Coolbrith, Ina D. (1842-1928); Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


ON THE OREGON TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're the prairie pilgrim crew
Last Line: Flag that leads the white man 'round the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Cowboys; Oregon; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prairies; Plains


ONE STEP AT A TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a mine of comfort for you and me
Last Line: A single step at a time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Faith; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prayer; Roads; Travel; Belief; Creed; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


OSMAN AGA'S DEVOTION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sands of night are run
Last Line: In regard to aga's prayers.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prayer


PILGRIM SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Girdles of gold and of gramaraye
Last Line: (but shall I not forget?)
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


PILGRIMAGE, by LAURA CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will tread on the golden grass of my bright field
Last Line: In the glow of the early day; and the east is red.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Immortality; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Walking; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips


PILGRIMAGE, by HARRIET MILLS MCKAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lost atlantis did you call my name
Last Line: That we shall meet beyond eternity.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


PILGRIMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's but the meagre crust, love
Last Line: And pain is for a day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


PILGRIMS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pages of the perfect greek
Last Line: When shall we quite forget?
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


REPEATED PILGRIMAGE, by JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Return and go again and yet return!
Last Line: Would rise to parch my throat -- and I would flee.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


SAVAGES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heathen hailed us from the beach
Last Line: Who set thy temple on the hill.
Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SONG OF A PILGRIM-SOUL, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: March on, my soul, nor like a laggard stay!
Last Line: The creeds are milestones on the road to truth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips


THANKSGIVING DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brave and high-souled pilgrims, you who knew no fears
Last Line: And with hearts of thankfulness keep thanksgiving day.
Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving; Turkey


THE BREATH OF AVON; TO THE PILGRIMS OF GREATER BRITAIN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er of woe the dark may hide in
Last Line: Hold still a dream of music where they fell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore
Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


THE COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Se;f; Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Imagination; Journeys; Trips; Fancy


THE DOWNFALL OF THE GAEL, by FEARFLATHA O'GNIVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is in woe
Last Line: Or the billows burst o'er her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gnimb, Fearflatha
Subject(s): Exiles; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE EMBARKATION, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The band of pilgrim exiles in tearful silence stood
Last Line: "for the feeble and the faithful are the conquerors at last."
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Farewell; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


THE GROTTO OF EGERIA, by WILLIAM S. SOTHEBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can I forget that beauteous day
Last Line: Mysterious truths divine to earthly ear recount.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE HOURS; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The meadows are empty. There are two villages
Last Line: We were always counting our losses.
Subject(s): Bells; Echoes; Loss; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Villages


THE JEW IN AMERICA, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wing thee, my song, and in majestic flight
Last Line: We shall emerge, unchanged, to face our god.
Subject(s): Jews; Jews - United States; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Right To Asylum; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism


THE JEWISH PILGRIM, by FRANCES BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these the ancient holy hills
Last Line: Oh! Give the wanderer room.
Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Palestine; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Judaism


THE MAYFLOWER, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet as the honored name
Last Line: Their pilgrim fame shall be!
Subject(s): Fame; God; Mayflower (ship); Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Reputation


THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The peninsula seen from the hills near bath
Last Line: Where, once, there was a peaceful, tropical ocean.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Moths; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Supernatural; Illness


THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched
Last Line: Into tomorrow.
Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE OLD SAINT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day is gone, the solemn night draws down
Last Line: God's city with the mansions of the blest.
Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Rest; Sleep; Nightmares


THE OLD SHIP-YARD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ship-yard that I knew so well
Last Line: The voiceless yard, the vacant stream.
Subject(s): Memory; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Ships - Abandoning Of


THE PALMER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou come from the far-off land at last?
Last Line: "I bewail not my bright days past!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle pilgrim, tell me why
Last Line: God speed thee, pilgrim, on thy way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Journeys; Trips


THE PILGRIM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thanks, still encreasing turmoils; I
Last Line: Then be possest by what I needs at length must leave.
Subject(s): Christianity; Humility; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIM, by SOPHIE JEWETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pilgrim feet, pray whither bound?
Last Line: Long must be my pilgrimage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


THE PILGRIM, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A temple bell
Last Line: Toward nirvana!'
Subject(s): Bells; Buddhism; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Soul; Temples; Buddha; Buddhists; Mosques


THE PILGRIM, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, tree of life! The storms of years are shaking
Last Line: Farewell to all my dreams! Farewell to earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIM MAIDEN, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo, I have come a weary way
Last Line: Dedicated to love of god and liberty.
Subject(s): Footprints; Immigrants; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips


THE PILGRIM OF ST. JUST'S, by AUGUST PLATEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis night, and tempests whistle o'er the moor
Last Line: And sink in ruins like old rome.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIM SHIP, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lanterns at stern and prow flash down their wavering
Last Line: Calling jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIM [SONG], FR. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, by JOHN BUNYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would true valour see
Last Line: To be a pilgrim.
Variant Title(s): Mr. Valiant-for-truth;valiant-for-truth's Song
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIM; FOR AN ALBUM, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There stray'd awhile, amid the woods of dart
Last Line: Yet kept he safe his pledge, prizing his pilgrim-lot.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIMAGE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a weary road we wend, through this dim
Last Line: Frame.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIMAGE (OF SEVEN AND SEVENTY SISTERS), by ANNALEONE DAVIS PATTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the silver-ribboned highway
Last Line: Truly serves the lord.
Subject(s): Crusades; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Pioneers; Sisters


THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mother stood by the window
Last Line: "o mary, blessed be thou!"
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness


THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the window stood the mother
Last Line: "praise, mary, be to thee!"
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness


THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mother stood at her lattice
Last Line: "o mary, blest be thou!"
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness


THE PILGRIMS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The way is long and dreary
Last Line: Give us thy peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE PILGRIMS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is your lady of love, o ye that pass
Last Line: That man may reap and eat and live by day
Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Dead, The


THE PILGRIMS OF THIBET, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the road to llassa
Last Line: Till we to nirvana come.
Subject(s): Greed; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Tibet; Avarice; Cupidity


THE PLACE OF JOY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pilgrim sought the garden of delight
Last Line: "until contentment blossoms in the breast."
Subject(s): Doubt; Happiness; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Skepticism; Joy; Delight


THE QUEST OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What were our forefathers trying
Last Line: Is what our forefathers were trying to find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Home; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TWO PATHS; VIA DOLOROSA AND VIA GIOJOSA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My master, they have wronged thee and thy love
Last Line: From glory unto glory, even here!
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Praise


THE WANDERING PILGRIM, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will piggot must to coxwould go
Last Line: Thus william's wishes crown.
Subject(s): Fortune; Knights & Knighthood; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Truth


THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake
Last Line: As the waters fill the sea!
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


THEY SAID, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They said of her, she never can have felt
Last Line: What if her smiles concealed from you her dead?
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form
Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot.
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips


TO THE IDEAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a long lane that has no turning. True
Last Line: How long the lane that somewhere turns to you!
Subject(s): Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


TREASURE-TROVE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An evening palmer onward creeps the day
Last Line: As treasure-trove when I shall come that way.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Treasures


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 8. THE LAST PILGRIMAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enough of ease, o love, enough of light
Last Line: And all things born took comfort from the sun
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roses; Tristram And Isolde


UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Uphill
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips


ZION, by LOUIS FEDERLEICHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lovely dwellings fall the fervid rays
Last Line: All over olivet the morning breaks.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Zionism; Judaism