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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PRAISE Matches Found: 316 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD, by ANDRE HENRI CONSTANT VAN HASSELT Poem Text First Line: O restless swallow! Thou whose wings Last Line: "down in their depths he lies asleep!" Subject(s): Nature; Praise A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12. A RENUNCIATION, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white Last Line: Embrace, and kiss, and love me, in despite. Subject(s): Flattery; Love; Praise A CATCH, by THOMAS (TOM) BROWN Poem Text First Line: Some write in the praise Last Line: Or cry 'damn you and sink you?' Subject(s): Praise A CHAUNT IN PRAISE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many hymns have I chaunted, lady, in laud of thee Last Line: Eagles and ravens exulting scream from the wilderness. Subject(s): Love; Praise A CHILD'S BATTLES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise of the knights of old Last Line: Take my love. Subject(s): Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Praise A CHRISTMAS CAROL (ON THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god, thank god, we do believe Last Line: Firstborn of god and heir of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Praise; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A DIVINE PASTORAL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is my shepherd, my guardian, and guide Last Line: Be content all my life, and resign'd at my death. Subject(s): God; Hope; Lord's Supper; Praise; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Optimism A HEALTH, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: When we crown a bowl to him Last Line: We, byron, drink to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of neptune's empire let us sing Last Line: The praise of neptune's empery. Variant Title(s): A Hymn In Praise Of Neptune Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Praise; Sea; Ocean A LITTLE GIRL IN SCHOOL, by FRANCES VIOLA HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: A little girl in school Last Line: How merry were the days! Subject(s): Girls; Happiness; Life; Praise; Time; Joy; Delight A MAY SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O shepherdess come Last Line: And fresh is the may. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Love; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Singing & Singers A NIGHT'S WALK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "power, the noted highwayman, had long disturbed the peace" Last Line: "with utmost pluck and patience too, demand our highest praise" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;hunting;praise; Hunters A OUTRANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Say, why should I sing of an angel of light Last Line: Like an ardent red rose in a tropical breeze! Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Male-female Relations A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH ODE OF THE 3RD BOOK OF HORACE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sol with thee, dear fountain, plays Last Line: While you reign each a naïad of the stream. Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Praise; Water; Youth A PARAPHRASE ON THE 65TH PSALM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, jehovah, grateful sion sings Last Line: And the full valleys laugh and sing and shout around. Subject(s): Bible; Earth; God; Nature; Praise; Prayer; World A PARTERRE OF KINGS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With diamonds the boxes flashed and blazed Last Line: And nothing lacked that night save only art! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Diamonds; Praise; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes A SEAFOG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the sea came a chill gray mist Last Line: As it bows to its gracious king. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Grief; Praise; Soul; Dead, The; Haze; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, prithee now, what does it signify Last Line: To be cheerful and thankful for all. Subject(s): Praise; Virtue; Wisdom A SONG FOR OCTOBER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Fruitful october! So fair and calm Last Line: Chords of my heart give back to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Frost; Music & Musicians; October; Praise; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG OF LIFE, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For god, the living lord, my soul's athirst Last Line: Each soul of life his god must bless. Subject(s): God; Jews; Life; Praise; Judaism A SONG TO ILLINOIS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: Lift a song to illinois, a song of pride and praise Last Line: Her mighty, marching city, and the lifting hopes of men. Subject(s): Illinois; Praise; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A THANKSGIVING FOR F.D. MAURICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veil hath lifted and hath fallen; and him Last Line: His spirit send thou back in thine again. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Humility; Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805-1872); Piety; Praise; Virtue A TOAST, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's wine in the cup, vancouver Last Line: Vancouver, here's a ho! Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Praise; Vancouver, Canada A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors A TRIBUTE TO MR J. GRAHAM HENDERSON, THE WORLD'S FAIR JUDGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome home to hawick, mr j. Graham henderson Last Line: And to gainsay it there's few people can. Subject(s): Homecoming; Honor; Judges; Praise A VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her whose glamor moves and stirs Last Line: This valentine -- to new york city! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Praise; Valentine's Day A VESPER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds of the sunset, fold on fold Last Line: Perhaps to some one lost in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Praise; Singing & Singers ACCEPTED, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Accepted, perfect, and complete Last Line: One alleluia-song to thee! Subject(s): Praise ADON OLAM, by ISRAEL GOLLANCZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal lord, his praise I sing Last Line: God guarding me, I have no fear. Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism ADORATION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O master, at thy feet Last Line: For heaven and earth the one, the grand, the eternal theme. Subject(s): Praise AESTHETIC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a garb that was guiltless of colors Last Line: "I was thinking of nothing in space." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Praise; Women AFTERTHOUGHTS OF DONNA ELVIRA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, after all, were good Last Line: Or else we have never been born. Subject(s): Love; Praise; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ALAN SEEGER, by JOHN LANGDON JONES Poem Text First Line: The words are done. The covers of the song Last Line: Your music still is heard through many lands. Subject(s): Praise ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to the czar alexander! Last Line: Alexander! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Honor; Praise; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ALL THE WORLD SHALL COME TO SERVE THEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Shall hail thee crowned king Subject(s): God;jews;praise; Judaism ALLELUIA!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With windflower now and daffodil Last Line: Alleluia! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Jesus Christ; Praise; Resurrection, The AMAIRGEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amairgen the white-kneed sang Last Line: Amairgen, the singer of yore. Subject(s): Praise; Singing & Singers; Songs AMELIA EARHART, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Speak of her not with dull or careless reference Last Line: Speak of her proudly then, so valiant proved! Subject(s): Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937); Honor; Praise AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight AN EPISTLE TO DR. GUIBBONS, A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To trace all-wondrous nature's latent ways Last Line: Should be himself detain'd amidst us too. Subject(s): Death; Healing; Letters; Nature; Physicians; Praise; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors AN INFORMAL EPITAPH IN MEMORY OF A YOUNG POET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who so loved all grey religious things Last Line: And long and long for your return alone! Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Death; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The AN INVOCATION TO A WATER-NYMPH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair pearl crown'd nymph, whose gushing Last Line: That o'er thy cavern waves his solemn shade. Subject(s): Nature; Nymphs; Praise AN OFFERING, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer me, o my lord, my god, to bring Last Line: And heard as thou would'st have it sung for thee. Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Pain; Praise; Clemency; Suffering; Misery AN ORIENTAL BALLAD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fair is my yashmak, as sweet as a mosque Last Line: That I can exactly recall! Subject(s): Asia; Praise; Far East; East Asia; Orient AN UNPRAISED PICTURE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a picture once by angelo Last Line: Yet trembles forth a word of prayer and praise. Subject(s): Portraits; Praise; Tears; Time; Youth ANOTHER EPISTLE TO NELL, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: While phoebus did our summer arbours cheer Last Line: We'll please ourselves with one another's praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Praise; Seasons ARE WOMEN FAIR?, by FRANCIS DAVISON Poem Text Last Line: Or so kind-hearted, any may procure them. Subject(s): Love; Praise; Women ARMISTICE DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The crash of shells among the falling trees Last Line: Aye—a year of proudest glory—and of musing o'er our dead! Subject(s): Holidays; Praise; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War AT A GRAVE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For never yet, with ritual pomp and splendour Last Line: Then render all the praise to her. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Praise; Dead, The; Bereavement BEFORE BATTLE, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have toiled, o lord, with our blood and might Last Line: Our faith in thee. Subject(s): God; Jews; Pain; Praise; Judaism; Suffering; Misery BELLS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anklet-bells! Frail anklet-bells! Last Line: And peace for suffering hearts that die! Subject(s): Bells; Death; Melodies; Praise; Prayer; Dead, The BELSHAZZAR, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belshazzar is king! Belshazzar is lord! Last Line: And a mede's on the throne of belshazzar the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Praise; Judaism BIRTHDAY ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love and praise, and a length of days whose Last Line: Fair as youth and sublime as truth we find the fame that we hail to-day. Subject(s): Birthdays; Fear; Love; Praise BLESSED AMONG WOMEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed was she that bare Last Line: Thou fill men's eyes who listen with a heart that hears. Subject(s): Blessings; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Praise; Women; Women In The Bible BONNIE DUNDEE IN 1878, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bonnie dundee! I will sing in thy praise Last Line: And in conclusion, I will call thee bonnie dundee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BURIAL HILL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone with their beautiful faith Last Line: If the dream of their worship came true? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Memory; Praise; Worship; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones CANTICLE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Source First Line: Thine be the praise, good lord Last Line: Bless my lord and humbly serve him Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): God; Praise; Religion; Worship CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colin, worshipping some frail Last Line: Quite implicitly believes him. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Grief; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness CAUTIOUS ALICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So good a wife doth lissy make Last Line: She with his brethren only lieth. Subject(s): Marriage; Praise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHARLES DICKENS; IN MEMORIAM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Thou master of thought and depicter of men Last Line: Gives thee immortality. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Praise; Writing & Writers CLAY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal mind! Thy burning torch Last Line: Libations to the sea! Subject(s): God; Praise COLONEL TIL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We have seen scores of magnates come Last Line: Colonel til! Subject(s): Baseball; Farewell; Praise; Sports; Sportsmanship; War; Parting COLOSSIANS: 3, 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we cling to earth? Its sweetest pleasures Last Line: No longer cling to earth, but soar to yon bright heaven! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Praise; Singing & Singers; World; Songs COMPOSING, by AWHAD AD-DIN 'ALI IBN VAHID MUHAMMAD KHAVARANI Poem Source First Line: I wrote a panegyric on you -- and I'm sorry Last Line: I'd spent spunk on a worthless understanding Alternate Author Name(s): Anvari; Enweri Subject(s): Praise CONSECRATION HYMN, by RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883) Poem Text First Line: Father of life and light and power Last Line: "for truth and freedom, god and right." Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism CORONATION HYMN, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of old our city hath renown Last Line: O subject men, adore him! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Coronations; Courts & Courtiers; Praise COUPLETS IN PRAISE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of love, I sing here my whole soul to you Last Line: Mourn me and weep with you. Here ends my litany. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Praise DANIEL WEBSTER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Honor the home that reared him! - the hills, the wood, the stream Last Line: Union, now and forever!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; New Hampshire; Praise; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Liberty DE RERUM NATURE: BOOK 4. THE ARGUMENT, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet first his owne high prayses sings Last Line: Retaine mens love, when beauty fades away. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Praise DEAD, MY LORDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, my lords and gentlemen! Last Line: Dead, my lords and gentlemen! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Praise; Dead, The DEFIANCE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wide the way your beauty goes Last Line: When all is excellently done. Subject(s): Praise; Protestantism DEFIANCE TO FALSE GODS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You do not like my altar-smoke Last Line: And straightway must return to it! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Praise; Prayer DIVINE INFORMALITY, by MADELINE SLADE Poem Text First Line: Dear god, you seem so near, so close to me Last Line: Dear god, you seem so near, so close to me! Subject(s): Praise DR. GEORGE M. GOULD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He loved the bloom of the good, green earth Last Line: The matchless, brave light-bringer! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Gould, George Milbry (1848-1922); Praise; Dead, The EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise! Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World EARTHY LOVE IS OFFERED TO GOD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better to thee the heart of heathen fire Last Line: Thy vassal. Set his hands between thine own. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Praise EAST TO WEST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one Last Line: Die. Subject(s): England; Evening; Praise; Sea; United States; English; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; America EASTER SUNDAY, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: The bell choir hurls its hymn of stones Last Line: And then the pouring of the wine Subject(s): Clergy; Easter; God; Holidays; Praise; Religion ECLOGUE 1; TO DON PEDRO DE TOLEDO, VICEROY OF NAPLES, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet lament of two castilian swains Last Line: To fold their flocks, and step by step withdrew %through bowery lawns and pastures wet with dew Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Melancholy; Praise EDISON, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand leagues on the arctic sea Last Line: Whose master-thought is the joy of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931); Praise ELEGIAC VERSES ON THE DEATH OF LORD PALMERSTON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loftier muse, in higher strains, may sing Last Line: Still vibrates strong for him, revered of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; England; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English ELEGY ON JOHN HOGG, LATE PORTER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, what's ado? The deil be licket Last Line: Baith ear' and late. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Death; Praise; Dead, The EPISTLE TO THE LADY ANNE CLIFFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the tender youth of those fair eyes Last Line: Than th' ancestors' fair glory gone before. Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Eyes; Praise; Silence; Women; Youth EPISTLE TO THE LORD HENRY HOWARD, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise, if it be not choice, and laid aright Last Line: And though it hath not hap, it shall have fame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Howard, Henry (1540-1614); Praise; Truth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPISTLES BETWEEN ANDREW GRAY AND ROBERT FERGUSSON: TO R. FERGUSSON, by ANDREW GRAY Poem Text First Line: Deer r.Ie'en man dip my pen, / but how to write I dinna ken Last Line: Yours, andrew gray. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Praise ERASMUS WILSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ras wilson, I respect you, 'cause Last Line: A paw, fer old acquaintance sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Praise EVENING PRAYER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the light has gone away Last Line: Always better than before! Subject(s): Night; Praise; Prayer; Bedtime FISHERIES SCIENTIST FINDS THE WAY HOME, by PETER MUNRO Poem Source First Line: Between the time I debarked the arcturus, her deck Last Line: I will praise everything I see Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Home; Praise FLOWERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buds and bells! Sweet april pleasures Last Line: Hears the little children too! Subject(s): Flowers; Praise; Spring FOR COLONEL R. W. PRATT OF THE CARLISLE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the heart of these, the master saith Last Line: The lord in all his lowly ones can see! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Good; Praise; Soldiers FOR HIM I SING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To make himself by them the law unto himself Subject(s): Praise FOR LORD LUCAS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having found wings, he tossed, light as a feather Last Line: The flying ecstasy bright in his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Praise; Flying GEORGE ROLLESTON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead art thou? No more dead than was the maid Last Line: Or in thy loving change! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Praise; Rolleston, George (1829-1882); Dead, The GIFTS MISUSED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what a waste of feeling and of thought Last Line: The opiate of the mind! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Praise GLORY, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Glory of greece that arose, transfiguring / mountain and shore Last Line: The glory that grows with the years and never can pass away! Subject(s): Praise GOD EVERYWHERE, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wheresoe'er I turn mine eyes Last Line: Ascends to thee, to whom all praise be given. Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism GRATITUDE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you give thanks for this? --or that? No, god be thanked Last Line: Our very heart-beats praise the love that leads us. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Gratitude; Life; Love; Praise GREATNESS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: What makes a man great? Is it houses and / land? Last Line: Already you share in the greatness of god. Subject(s): God; Love; Praise HALLELUJAH!, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Praise the lord, I'm all but levitating Last Line: May I feel him, make my hair stand on end! Subject(s): Blessings; Fathers; God; Praise HEROIC STANZAS, CONSECRATED TO MEMORY OF OLIVER [CROMWELL], by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now 'tis time; for their officious haste Last Line: Where piety and valour jointly go. Variant Title(s): Heroic Stanzas Consecrated To The Glorious Memory Of His Most Serene Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; England; Freedom; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English; Liberty HUSKS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: She had foresworn all creeds Last Line: Toward symbol—earth-hidden. Subject(s): Faith; God; Praise; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology HYMN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the bitter shame and sorrow Last Line: "none of self, and all of thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Praise; Religion; Theology HYMN OF GLORY, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet hymns and songs will I indite Last Line: For thou art all my soul's delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Worship; Judaism HYMN OF PRAISE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Praise god for this all-beauteous earth Last Line: Hath builded our eternal home. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Praise; Religion; Theology HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou flower of flowers! I'll follow thee Last Line: I see no other, come do thou %waft my weak bark along! Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Praise; Women - Bible HYMN: FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I praised the earth, in beauty seen Last Line: Where thy redeem'd shall dwell with thee! Subject(s): God; Praise HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 1, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, the children are calling Last Line: Praise be done! Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Praise; Childhood HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 4, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we worship thee, o lord? Last Line: In loyal deeds and patient days. Subject(s): Children; Praise; Worship; Childhood IDA STRAUS, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wonder at, we praise your life Last Line: How small are we; how great are you! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Love; Praise; Dead, The; Judaism IDEAL PASSION, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady ne'er hath given herself to me Last Line: Of my sad verse, after I am dead! Subject(s): Desire; Immortality; Passion; Praise IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I praise god that he chose the green Last Line: To wrap our sweetheart-mother in. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Colors; God; Green (color); May (month); Praise IN MEMORIAM: T.S.K, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rare and radiant life, whose mission here Last Line: To the full sunshine of eternal love! Subject(s): Death; Good; Heaven; Life; Praise; Dead, The; Paradise IN PRAISE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Hoffman, young blonde wife %of the dentist-mayor, who taught Last Line: I want to praise them all, all of them, %these lovely women. Teachers Subject(s): Praise; Teaching And Teachers; Women IN PRAISE OF GREEK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, o lyric days, and bring Last Line: That bygone, golden tongue! Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Night; Praise; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean IN PRAISE OF GULMOHUR BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can rival your lovely hue Last Line: From a true wife's funeral pyre? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Spring IN PRAISE OF HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that will a wonder know Last Line: May admire, but cannot show it. Subject(s): Praise; Love IN PRAISE OF LAUDANUM, by WILLIAM HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel, o laudanum, thy power divine Last Line: And everything but mira is forgot. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Pleasure; Praise; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin IN PRAISE OF LOVE, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love to the foolish giveth wit by great and potent art Last Line: Toward finding one that worthily may fill her vacant place Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Praise IN PRAISE OF SCRAPPLE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Out upon your gibes ironic! Last Line: Grease your graceless adam's apple! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Praise INDIAN SUMMER: THIS IS THE WORD!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That makes a thing of flame the water-bird Last Line: Are not delivered to the insatiable sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Praise INVOCATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits! Intelligences! Passions! Dreams! Last Line: Who would not give his life for such a death? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Muses; Praise; Dead, The; Nightmares JAMES BARR AMES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Twin soul of coke! A peerless master, he Last Line: Of him whose work endureth to the end. Subject(s): Ames, James Barr (1846-1910); Judges; Praise JERUSALEM, by P. C. L. Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! Jerus'lem! Thy glories have fled Last Line: In the faith of his word, and the might of his arm. Subject(s): Faith; Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Praise; War; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Judaism JOHN L. HAS GONE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The years fly swiftly, and we know the dawn Last Line: Of graying age—for sullivan has gone! Subject(s): Death; Praise; Sullivan, John L. (1858-1918); Dead, The; Boston Strong Boy JOINT HEIRS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a precious meaning Last Line: By saints and angels heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Praise; Prayer; Paradise JOSEPH A. HOWELLS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stone, upon which with hands of boy and man Last Line: There needs no room for blame: blame there was none. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Brothers; Praise; Half-brothers KATHLEEN'S LOVER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had a thousand tongues Last Line: For thee to live, for thee to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love; Praise LAMENT & PRAISE SONG, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At this hour of unlettered Last Line: & clock of pewter strike %till new leaves redden the quad Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Lament; Praise LIFE'S CATHEDRAL, by M. C. HAECKER Poem Text First Line: Faith is a cathedral grand Last Line: Is verily the life divine. Subject(s): Churches; Faith; God; Praise; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Theology LIFE'S ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are very old, by the hearth's glare Last Line: And pluck life's roses, oh! To-day, to-day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Praise; Roses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The LINCOLN, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I mused by lincoln's statue on the square Last Line: Ring out his eulogy in silver songs. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Praise; Presidents, United States; Statues LINES IN PRAISE OF MR J. GRAHAM HENDERSON HAWICK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to mr j. Graham henderson, who is a good man Last Line: Will gain customers by it, the suit is so complete. Subject(s): Praise; Success LINES IN PRAISE OF PROFESSOR BLACKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The people's hearts are now full of sorrow Last Line: Worthy of a monument, and your name written thereon in letters of gold. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Honor; Memory; Praise; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Burials LINES IN PRAISE OF THE LYRIC CLUB BANQUET WHICH WAS HELD IN THE QUEEN', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1894, and on the 5th of september Last Line: Mcgonagall. Subject(s): Praise; Singing & Singers LINES IN PRAISE OF TOMMY ATKINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to tommy atkins, he's a very brave man Last Line: For remember tommy atkins is a very useful man. Subject(s): Heroism; Praise; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines LINES SPOKEN IN THE THEATRE, OXFORD, ON LORD GRENVILLE'S INSTALLATION, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye viewless guardians of these sacred shades Last Line: Our boast before, -- our chief and champion now! -- Subject(s): Praise; Scholarship & Scholars LINES TO JULIA M --; SENT WITH A COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S POEMS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there is magic in your look Last Line: Read by the music of her tongue. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Praise LOT'S WIFE PRAISES THE PILLAR, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Crimson light crawled into that strange day Last Line: His daughters, frantic to propagate the tribe Subject(s): Lot (bible); Praise LOVE'S KINGDOM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see no pomp of circumstance Last Line: And I am royal there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Praise MADONNA, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not by old masters, rich on crowded walls Last Line: Most pure exemplar of the purest grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Pictures; Praise MAN, THE IMAGE OF GOD, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exult, my soul, in consciousness proud Last Line: Like these, by singing e'er his praise. Subject(s): God; Jews; Justice; Mankind; Praise; Judaism; Human Race MEDITATIO DE POSTGATIO, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you ask me why inside Last Line: Postgate has commended me.... Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University; Praise MOMENTS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are moments in our life Last Line: When such a moment came to me! Subject(s): God; Life; Praise; Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean MORNING GLORIES, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I have started them in flats, from a few Last Line: In pale sheets, spare as shepherd's purse, and tight Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Praise; Sun MORNING SONG, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look for you early Last Line: Yet the breath of god in me. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism MORNING SONG, by HENRY SAMUEL JACOBS Poem Text First Line: At early morn, thee will I seek Last Line: Whilst yet in us the spirit lives. Subject(s): Devotion; Jews; Praise; Judaism MUSIC, by CLARA BOYNTON HADLEY Poem Text First Line: Is it not a means by which we connect Last Line: While we bow in grateful praise. Subject(s): Magic; Music & Musicians; Praise MUSOPHILUS: DEDICATION TO MASTER FULKE GREVILLE (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have erred or run a course unfit Last Line: Who herein holds an int'rest in my fame. Subject(s): Errors; Fortune; Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke; Praise; Virtue; Mistakes; Fallacies MY LADY OF EASTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The lilies that lean by the altar Last Line: That love is our calling! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Love; Praise; Religion; Saints; The Resurrection; Theology MY PROLOGUE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heat of youth, 'tis heat suppressed Last Line: It well may be; and they that read will know. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Praise; Youth; Nightmares NELL GWYN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, that no taint of the throne or the stage Last Line: That thy name was the last on the lips of king charles. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Women; English NESSMUK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hail thee, nessmuk, for the lofty Last Line: To hail thee first and greet thee, as they should. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Robin Hood NEW JERSEY, by MILDRED W. CLARK Poem Text First Line: State of my birth Last Line: "god, I thank thee!" Subject(s): Nature; New Jersey; Praise NICHOLAS OBERTING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing! O voice of valor, sing! Last Line: He was so sorry and satisfied! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bulls; Children; Heroism; Praise; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Heroes; Heroines NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 31, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind in every kind Last Line: Can praise truly none. Subject(s): Praise ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more of mirth and rural joys Last Line: "well-pleas'd I listen to thy lays of love." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Praise; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ODE TO AMERICA, by MARY P. DENNY Poem Text First Line: America, america! / we chant thy note of praise Last Line: Unto the perfect day! Subject(s): Praise; United States; Wealth; America; Riches; Fortunes ODE TO PROFESSOR DIMITRY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the man! What matchless godlike grace Last Line: How glorious yet, thou mecca of the soul! Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form); Praise; Teaching & Teachers ODE TO THE BEE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herds, blythsome tune your canty reeds Last Line: That lyart time can ne'er impair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Praise; Beekeeping; Bugs ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 5. ON LOVE OF PRAISE, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the springs within the mind Last Line: The suffrage of the good and wise. Subject(s): Praise OF CITY FLOWERS; ON READING CERTAIN POEMS IN PRAISE OF NEW YORK, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My city! How the younger poets mock Last Line: My grief alone, thou knowest, will be real. Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus Subject(s): New York City; Praise; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF HIS LADYE, by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not all the shippes bye venice quay Last Line: Can halve the wisdom in her kenne. Subject(s): Love; Praise OF THE APPLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The apples in the garden bed Last Line: "wherewith the world abounds,"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; God; Praise OLIVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who may praise her? Last Line: She remembers. Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love; Praise; Optimism ON A READING OF MATTHEW ARNOLD, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arnold is dead, and everyone forgets Last Line: Not chiefly good in this bœotian age?' Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Poetry & Poets; Praise ON GIFTS FOR GRACE, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a great teapot Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Praise ON KNOCKING OVER MY GLASS WHILE READING SHARON OLDS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The milk spread, %a translucent stain Last Line: To refill my glass %with her wild and holy blood Subject(s): Convents; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Praise; Prayer; Statues; Women - Bible ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring. Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness ON THE DEATH OF JOHN CASSELL; THE TRUE FRIEND OF THE WORKING MAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mournful voices thrill upon my ears? Last Line: The trophies of his power remain behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cassell, John (1817-1865); Death; England; Labor & Laborers; Praise; Dead, The; English; Work; Workers ON THE DISINTERESTED LOVE OF GOD (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my god, and freely too Last Line: I'll love him, as I did before. Subject(s): Love; Praise ON TRANSLATING THE PSALMS, by SAMPSON GIDEON JR. Poem Text First Line: How great thy thoughts, how glorious thy designs Last Line: That all the world in duty must esteem. Alternate Author Name(s): Guideon, Sampson, Jr.; Eardley, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Praise; Prayer; Judaism OTHERS MAY PRAISE WHAT THEY LIKE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And fully exudes it again Subject(s): Praise; Criticism & Critics OUR DEATHLESS DEAD, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we honor them? Last Line: These things will build our dead unwasting obelisk Subject(s): Death; Praise;memory PALMS AND MYRTLES, by ELASAR KOLIR Poem Text First Line: Thy praise, o lord, will I proclaim Last Line: "blessed art thou for evermore." Alternate Author Name(s): Kalir, Eleazar Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism PARAPHRASE OF ADON OLAM, by DAVID NUNES CARVALHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the glorious orbs of light Last Line: And save my soul in death. Subject(s): Devotion; God; Jews; Praise; Judaism PHILANDER, AN IMITATION OF SPENCER: ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM LEVINZ, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, ye weeping nine Last Line: And you in stella see philanders yet unborn! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Piety; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Spencer, William Robert (1769-1834); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement PIED BEAUTY, by STANLEY J. SHARPLESS Poem Text First Line: Glory be to god for hopkins' verse Last Line: Praise him! Subject(s): God; Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Religion; Theology PINDAR AND CORINNA; FOR CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Corinna, hail the victress! Evoae!' Last Line: Ethereal touched his soul awake with smiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Greece; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Greeks; Male-female Relations PLUTARCH, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: Chaeronean plutarch, to thy deathless praise Last Line: Their lives have parallels, but thine has none. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Praise; Statues PRAISE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All praise the midweek market Last Line: Them. Praise all. All praise Subject(s): Praise PRAISE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What song shall I sing to the heavens? Last Line: Want to chant to the heavens praise for the gift and the glory. Subject(s): Praise PRAISE, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will praise her sweet gentleness,' I said Last Line: In showers and a slim track lost in grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Praise PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: FOREWORD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us now praise famous men' Last Line: Walks with de la mare. Subject(s): Fame; Praise; Reputation PRAISE OF LITTLE WOMEN, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish to make my sermon brief, - to shorten my oration Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Praise PRAISE OF LITTLE WOMEN, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish to make my sermon brief, - to shorten my oration Last Line: By consequence, of woman-kind be sure to choose the least Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Praise PRAISE OF LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And shall love cease? Ask thine own heart, o woman Last Line: And leads to endless glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Passion; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness PRAISE PREMATURE, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise immature is idle breath Subject(s): Praise; Death; Dead, The PRAISE-GOD BAREBONES, by ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON CORTISSOZ Poem Text First Line: I and my cousin wildair met Last Line: "a pious melancholy?" Subject(s): Anabaptists; Barbon, Praise-god (1596-1680); Reformation; Barebone, Praise-god; Barebones, Praise-god PRAISES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vegetables please us with their modes and virtues Last Line: Flowers, love's language, love, heart's ease, poems, praise Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Plants; Praise; Vegetables; Planting; Planters PRAYER, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto thy rock, my soul, uplift thy gaze Last Line: Solomon ibn gabirol. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (1), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The famed italian muse, whose rhymes advance Last Line: Is forced to turn his satire into praise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muses; Oxford University; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PSALM: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah lord! How many be my foes! Last Line: Vpon thy people largely spred. Subject(s): Enemies; God; Praise; Soul PSALM: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let mee not lord Last Line: And fly with sudden shame. Subject(s): God; Pain; Praise; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery PSALM: 8, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How noble is thy mighty name Last Line: 9 how noble each-where is thy name! Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Names; Praise QUEEN MARY'S LETTER TO BOTHWELL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful gods! Have pity on my passion Last Line: And his the victory who most shall venture. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations RECONNAISSANCE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twere bliss to see one lark Last Line: As though one flower were not enough, thank god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; God; Larks; Praise; Spring; Skylarks RED GLOW THE ASSES, O ...ER ASHES, O, by DAVID E. JOYNER Poem Source First Line: Red glow the ashes o Last Line: Will proffer satisfaction: o! Subject(s): Death; Drinks And Drinking; Honor; Memory; Praise RESTRAINT, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: For you I dare not speak the praises Last Line: That you are come! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Praise REWARD AND PUNISHMENT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are the best and the worst of everything you require Last Line: You shall be for yourself both the praise and the blame. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Praise; Punishment ROBERT BURNS; WRITTEN FOR THE BURNS CENTENNIAL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frost had killed the daisies Last Line: And the wide world's love has crowned him! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Scotland ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 5. RASCALITY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich people only can be won Last Line: And earn a bellyful again. Subject(s): Money; Praise ROSA MYSTICA, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This rose so exquisite Last Line: There is the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; God; Praise; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RUSSELL GURNEY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that high country Last Line: As, whence thou cam'st, it knew the lofty place. Subject(s): Friendship; Praise; Scotland; Virtue SHAKESPEARE, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: Thou livest still: some modicum of time Last Line: None but thyself thyself could valuate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Fancy SIR JOHN CHIVERTON: DEDICATORY STANZAS., by WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When last we parted, lady, 'twas in tears Last Line: And win the silent thoughts, that in that bosom dwell Subject(s): Praise SISTER WATER: THE HAIL, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Tin, tin, tin! I fall from the sky with a mad drum-roll Last Line: Let us praise god, brother hail! Subject(s): God; Guilt; Poetry And Poets; Praise SISTER WATER: THE ICE, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: To cover the fishes in the depths, which are dying of cold Last Line: And I prayed, 'let us praise god, brother ice!' Subject(s): Death; Frost; God; Ice; Praise; Religion SISTER WATER: THE SNOW, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: I am perpetual change; no one form ever lasts in me Last Line: And I cried, 'let us praise god, sister snow!' Subject(s): Cold; God; Praise; Religion; Snow SISTER WATER: THE VOICES OF THE WATER, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: My drop seeks the entrails of the rock and penetrates them Last Line: Yea, sister voices, I sing Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Praise; Rhyme; Singing And Singers; Voices SISTER WATER: THE WATER THAT FLOWS ABOVE GROUND, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: I praise heaven because it offers me, in love, gems for my Last Line: Sister water, let us praise god! Subject(s): God; Nature; Praise; Religion; Rivers; Water SISTER WATER: THE WATER THAT FLOWS UNDER GROUND, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: I sing to heaven because my unknown streams make the Last Line: Caverns; and I said, 'sister water, let us bless the lord!' Subject(s): Blessings; God; Praise; Spring; Water SOLEMN SANCTITY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some pious men are on this earth, who think Last Line: Aisle and through the large cathedral door. Subject(s): Churches; God; Praise; Prayer; Sanctuaries; Cathedrals SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How have I dreamed you, lady Last Line: O lady, lady, does your chimney burn? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Praise SONG OF ISRAEL TO GOD, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love! Hast thou forgotten / thy rest Last Line: For I give thee my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Praise; Judaism SONGS OF CREATION: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the sixth day spake the lord thus Last Line: Man will praise and worship me. Subject(s): Creation; Nature; Praise SONNET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I sung how ocean woos the stars Last Line: Can it be love? Ah, god! If I were sure! Subject(s): Heaven; Moon; Praise; Soul; Paradise SONNET TO ARISTE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praise thee not, ariste, that thine eye Last Line: The fading orbit smiles serenely bright. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Praise; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO NICHOLAS BLACKLEECH OF GRAYES INNE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, that know the tuch of true conceat Last Line: Not for the gift, but for the givers sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Praise SONNET: 9, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I needs must praise the natural gifts of one Last Line: His cheerful sunset light far round him glows. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Praise SPINOZA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lock of hair to good spinoza's manes! Last Line: Crowned with her laurel his immortal name. Subject(s): Immortality; Praise STANZAS, ON PLANTING A BAY-TREE AT THE GRAVE OF CHURCHILL, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Above the bard's neglected grave Last Line: "which tells ""here churchill lies!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Churchill, Charles (1731-1764); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Tombs; Tombstones SUMMER AIRS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This air's a lovely thing: it blows Last Line: Fed on the very breath of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Air; God; Love; Praise; Summer SUPPLICATION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: She places an orange leaf in every fingerbowl Last Line: The mornings rise, orange leaves like small suns %floating in every bowl Subject(s): Praise; Prayer SWEATY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: West fresno is the only place I know Last Line: To perspire in some sweaty poems Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Praise T.T. IN COMMENDATION OF THE AUTHOR HIS WORKE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whylom that in a shepheards gray coate masked Last Line: (larke mounting muse) with more then common praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Praise TE DEUM, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Not because of victories Last Line: But at the common table Subject(s): Praise TE DEUM LANDAMUS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We praise thee! We bless thee! Last Line: Who takes our sins away. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Praise THANKSGIVING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Thanksgiving day is set apart Last Line: "praise father, son, and holy ghost!" Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Nations; Praise; Prayer; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Relatives THE ACCOLADE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twist your frown to a smile Last Line: "you won the good knight's accolade when you ""failed." Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Praise THE BATTLE OF ABU KLEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of mars, come join with me Last Line: Then the square was re-formed and the battle was o'er. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Praise; Soldiers; Victory; War THE BATTLE OF TEL-EL-KEBIR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain, come join with me Last Line: Arabi and his rebel army at kebir hill. Subject(s): Heroism; Praise; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines THE BEAUTIFUL SUN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful sun! With thy golden rays Last Line: In our prayers every morning and night! Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Praise; Sun; Joy; Delight THE BLACK HILLS, by NELLIE H. EVANS Poem Text First Line: Up to the hills - the hills of midnight blue Last Line: And lift to heights that ever arch and flame! Subject(s): Praise THE BOWER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you come out and see Last Line: I think this is praise that god on high receives. Subject(s): Praise THE BOY SINGING, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: A little boy / is sitting on a fallen log Last Line: Close to his happy heart. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Praise; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Joy; Delight THE DOCTOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We may idealize the chief of Last Line: Do we idealize the doctor some? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Physicians; Praise; Sickness; Doctors; Illness THE DYING SISTER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darling boy Last Line: Waiting for you! Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Praise; Separation; Isolation; Paradise THE ETHERIAL HUNGER, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been hungry all my days Last Line: O tables of the skies! Subject(s): Hunger; Love; Praise; Soul THE FESTIVAL OF SERPENTS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shining ones awake, we seek your chosen temples Last Line: Where life and death and sorrow and ecstasy are one. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Praise; Prayer THE FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I take my walks abroad Last Line: And there the wonder ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Fields; Friendship; God; Longing; Praise; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIRST SMILE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A smile, a smile, my darling Last Line: And fuller note of praise. Subject(s): Praise; Smiles THE GENTLE LIFE; IN MEMORIAM, REV. J.V. CLANCY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: This privilege was mine,--I knew the man Last Line: Have felt the warmth of his. God loved this man. Subject(s): Gentility; Mourning; Praise; Bereavement THE HYMN OF GLORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sweet hymns I chant, and weave melodious / songs" Last Line: "to lift my heart to thee, for whom I long" Subject(s): God;jews;praise;singing & Singers; Judaism THE LAST WORDS OF ST. TELEMACHUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound of weeping; wherefore weep Last Line: For ever blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Praise; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE LITANY OF NATIONS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If with voice of words or prayers thy sons Last Line: O mother, hear us, Subject(s): Europe; God; Nations; Praise THE LITTLE LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the little lady's dainty Last Line: Lady. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Hands; Praise THE MAKING OF BIRDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made him birds in a pleasant humour Last Line: Bade them soar and sing for his joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Creation; God; Praise; Singing & Singers THE MESSAGE-BEARER, by JOHN D. BARRY Poem Text First Line: Blind, she helps us all to see Last Line: Transmuting loss to gain! Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Praise; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery THE MEZUZAH, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cerberus breakers that brawl and that cry Last Line: On the threshold and doorpost, we also see god! Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Praise; Judaism THE MINISTRY OF SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In god's great field of labour Last Line: To praise him and rejoice. Subject(s): Children; Clergy; Praise; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Songs THE MINNESINGERS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the minstrels' strife engaging Last Line: From fair lips the praise most blest. Subject(s): Minstrels; Praise; Troubadours; Minnesingers THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: CONCLUSION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye read her story Last Line: And service of high praise in the eternal land! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Praise THE NEW TEMPLE, by LOUIS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: A new shrine stands in beauty reared Last Line: With concord and with peace. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Praise; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE NURSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Such innocent companionship Last Line: Within is only innocence. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Innocence; Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Praise; Childhood; Work; Workers THE PEARL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall it suffice Last Line: Return unblest into the primal sea? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Rebirth THE PRAISE OF ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour we roses into wine! Last Line: Drinking mid the summer's heat. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Praise; Roses THE PRAYSE OF LADY PECUNIA, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing not of angellica the faire Last Line: No wight, no beauty held; more faire, more deere. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Praise THE PRIDE OF A JEW, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With all my heart, in truth, and passion strong Last Line: And sing thy praises, o my song, alway! Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jews; Praise; Judaism THE PURBLIND PRAISES THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They cannot know, the keen of sight Last Line: That he remembers me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; God; Praise; Trees; Visually Handicapped THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My charlotte is a peerless gem Last Line: Than others' smiles, I ween! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND EPODE OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who free from cares and strife Last Line: In innocence of joy and rural mirth. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunting; Nature; Praise; Quiet Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Hunters THE SEVEN SISTERS, by NELLIE FORBES GABLE Poem Text First Line: Demurely sit you there a-row Last Line: The cloud-loved summits of the hills. Subject(s): Beauty; Praise THE STORY OF LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Louis xi, for trifles fain, I love you, curious man. Dear chafferer in Last Line: About his tattered hood ran a silver hem of moonlight fair. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SUPERMAN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man I give toast to Last Line: Of course you divine I -- allude to myself. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Praise THE TABERNACLE, by ROSE EMMA COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Let us build to the lord of the earth in each place Last Line: And vanish'd ere dawn spread her roseate light! Subject(s): Jews; Praise; Judaism THE THANK-OFFERING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Overbeck, the forest preacher Last Line: "loveth god, alone." Subject(s): Churches; New York City - Colonial Period; Praise; Rain; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology THE TOWN KARNTEEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town karnteel! - it's who'll Last Line: And racing, wid wheelborries! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Praise; Seasons; Towns THE TWILIGHT OF THE LORDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the sound a trumpet blown, or a bell for burial tolled Last Line: And the lordship of your godhead is gone, o lords our gods. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; English 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 USE OF BOOKS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's there to praise Last Line: Of those lost finds no longer use to me Subject(s): Books; Praise; Reading THE VICTOR, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They brought their peacock-lutes of praise Last Line: And laid my life before his feet. Subject(s): Praise THE VIKINGS' DAUGHTERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The outrage of these poor each day Last Line: Wronged thule's daughters shall be heard. Subject(s): England; Orkney Islands (scotland); Praise; Shetland Islands; Vikings; English THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away I heard it Last Line: From the throne of god. Subject(s): God; Praise; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THOSE OTHERS, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those others? - the men who stood Last Line: As the hallowed host goes by! Subject(s): Death; England; Patriotism; Praise; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THRESHOLD, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I stand here on the threshold of life's exit door Last Line: Nodding cheerfully as he passes me by Subject(s): Death; Praise; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Writing And Writers TO A DEAD STUDENT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew not your thoughts, nor regarded your books Last Line: Ere the books and the thought be forgot! Subject(s): Death; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The TO A GREAT EDITOR, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In every human life, however filled Last Line: You shall remain when it has passed away. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Alden, Henry Mills (1836-1919); Critics & Criticism; Editors; Praise TO ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D. (AT THE DINNER CELEBRATING HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY), by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No honors hath the state for you whose life Last Line: That all their ways fair fortune strew with flowers. Subject(s): Jacobi, Abraham (1930-1919); Physicians; Praise; Doctors TO AUBREY DE VERE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray of the dawn of truth, aubrey de vere Last Line: "we mean the same thing—will the will of god!" Subject(s): De Vere, Aubrey Thomas (1814-1902); God; Praise TO AURELIO SAFFI, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To god and man be simply true Last Line: Prospering onward without end. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Love; Praise; Truth; Virtue TO HELEN KELLER, by MADGE BARTON FEURER Poem Text First Line: You've had rhapsodic lyrics Last Line: "from me and america sent!"" . . . . . W. W." Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Praise TO HER MAJESTY CAROLINE ON HER ACCESSION TO THE THRONE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An english muse shall close the solemn scene Last Line: And rocks, and clouds, and trees, in little landskips rise. Subject(s): Colonialism; Courts & Courtiers; Creative Ability; Great Britain; Love; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY; A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORNONATION, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that wild deluge where the world was drowned Last Line: With their own peace their childrens happinesse. Variant Title(s): To His Sacred Majesty Charles The Second;to His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyric On His Coronation Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TO LOUIS KOSSUTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light of our fathers' eyes, and in our own Last Line: Men's heads abased before the muscovite. Subject(s): Kossuth, Louis (1802-1894); Lightning; Praise; Lightning Rods TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY RETURN FROM HANOVER WITH LORD HALIFAX, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a muse of fire and lofty style Last Line: But language fails to give th'ideas birth. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Praise; War TO MY HONORED FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As there is music uninform'd by art Last Line: "it shares at once his fortune and its own." Subject(s): Friendship; Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); Poetry & Poets; Praise TO THE BROWNING SOCIETY OF SHANGHAI, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be cruel to poets, and don't let them think Last Line: The time to praise poets is after they're dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Praise TO THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF HUNTINGDON, by BATHSUA PELL MAKIN Poem Text First Line: Illustrious lady, where shall I begin Last Line: Speak out the rest, you cannot reach her praise. Subject(s): Muses; Praise; Women TO THE COUNTESS OF EXETER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What charms you have, from what high race you sprung Last Line: Nor could he burn so fast, as thou could'st build. Subject(s): Charm; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Praise; Rome, Italy; Women TO THE FURZE BUSH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let burns and old chaucer unite Last Line: And beneficence learn from the furze! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TO THE LADY ELIZABETH HARLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When future ages shall with wonder view Last Line: A fairer column to the father's praise. Subject(s): England; Future; Praise; English TO THE LORD OF LIFE, by LEWIS ANGUS YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Thy glory glows in the golden dawn Last Line: Great lord of life, o bountiful giver! Subject(s): God; Life; Praise TO THE METROPOLIS OF GREAT BRITAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As perhaps I am the first who ever presented a work of this nature to the Last Line: Men, so is by none more passionately desired than by %the greatest of your admirers, %and most humbl Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain; Nations; Praise; War TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE DODINGTON, ESQ., by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As late I rov'd by lodon's whispering stream Last Line: "when on that theme my young and thomson fail?'" Subject(s): Apollo; Bubb Dodington, George. Baron Melcombe; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity TO THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master of human smiles and human moan Last Line: To live for love, and for love's sake to die. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Praise; Smiles; Dead, The; Destiny TO W. B. YEATS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathless of laurel plucked by delian springs Last Line: Where thy own rose reigns queen of all the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Temples; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Paradise; Mosques TO WALT WHITMAN, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello there, walt! Last Line: Forever on their own! Subject(s): Admiration; Language; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TRANSFIGURED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I watch a ball by rampant feet Last Line: Shall chime eternal praise. Subject(s): Evil; Heaven; Praise; Time; Paradise TRUST, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: Though bare of bloom the broad-leafed fig Last Line: And doth me to high place raise. Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism TWO LEADERS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O great and wise, clear-souled and high of heart Last Line: Pass with the stars, and leave us with the sun.' Subject(s): Leadership; Praise; Soul UNDER THE SURFACE: PRELUDE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take it, o father! This new book be thine Last Line: Shall all be thine for evermore. Amen. Subject(s): Praise; Prayer; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors UNWISE PRAISE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You praise your kid before his face, explain Last Line: "thong, and swat that kid until he's sore!" Subject(s): Praise VERNAL MAGIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through all my days I shall be glad of this Last Line: To lay a hand upon the lips of praise. Subject(s): Love; Magic; Praise; Spring VERSES TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, long ere this, no lay of mine Last Line: And on a fool 'tis wasted! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Youth; Praise VERSES: IN PRAISE OF SACRED POESY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all companions that a man can choose Last Line: "love one another, and remember mel." Subject(s): Praise VILLANELLE, WITH STEVENSON'S ASSISTANCE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is so full of a number of things Last Line: I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Praise VOS DEOS LAUDAMUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lords our gods, beneficent, sublime Last Line: And yours our worship yet, o lords our gods. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Praise WAITING, by EDGAR A. POST Poem Text First Line: I could say nice things about him Last Line: Till I stand before his bier. Subject(s): Praise; Waiting WALFORD DAVIES, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How jovial was his laughter Last Line: And he will make them sing. Subject(s): Good; Praise WEYLA'S SONG, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art orplede, my land Last Line: Kings, thy worshipers and watchers mild. Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich Subject(s): Home; Praise; Travel; Journeys; Trips WHOM THE GODS LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom the gods love die young . Ah, do not doubt of it Last Line: Laughing her gay girl's laughter, glad through eternity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens WOODROW WILSON - 1856-1924, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: The chill of no man's land had touched his lips Last Line: "one conqueror's work""—said harden—""wilson's thought." Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace; Praise; Presidents, United States; War; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Peace Movements YIGDAL, by FLORENCE AHRONSBERG Poem Text First Line: Extolled be the living god and lauded be his / name Last Line: For ever blessed be his name, his praise fore'er resound. Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Jews; Praise; Holy Spirit; Judaism YOUR HEIGHT IS OURS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O princely poet! - kingly heir Last Line: And then gave you to us. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Praise ZION, by EUGENE KOHN Poem Text First Line: Land of the cedar and palm Last Line: In god's time we shall come to thee. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Peace; Praise; Zionism; Judaism |
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