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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RELIGION Matches Found: 6061 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ADAM LAY I-BOWNDYN [OR, I-BOUNDEN, OR, Y-BOUNDEN]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "adam lay I-bowndyn, bowndyn in a bond" Last Line: Therefore we may singen / deo gracias Variant Title(s): O Felix Culpa;bless The Time The Apple Was Taken Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;eden;love;religion;sin; Theology "I SING OF A MAIDEN [OR, SYGE OF A MAYDEN]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I sing of a maiden that is makeles Last Line: Well may such a lady / goddes mother be Variant Title(s): Two Carols To Our Lady Subject(s): Christmas Carols;mary. Mother Of Jesus;religion;women - Bible; Virgin Mary;theology "KNIGHT, KNIGHT, CLERK WEND TO DEATH", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I wende to dede, knight stithe in stoure" Last Line: Bes ware with me! To dede I wende Subject(s): Religion; Theology "LAYING UP TREASURE, FR. THE MAHABHARATA", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "before the ender comes, whose charioteer" Last Line: Thou in thy virtue shall survive them all Subject(s): Religion; Theology "MANE NOBISCUM, DOMINE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one summer, ere ascension fell, / 't was evensong, and eke sunday" Last Line: "when we from out this world be brought / mane nobiscum, domine!'" Subject(s): Religion; Theology "STONE THE WOMAN, LET THE MAN GO FREE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "yes, stone the woman, let the man go free!" Last Line: In his eternal and divine decree / condemn the woman and forgive the man? Subject(s): Religion; Theology "WHERE, OH WHERE ARE THE HEBREW CHILDREN?", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Safe now in the promised land Subject(s): Religion; Theology 1914 - AND AFTER, SELS., by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion 1959, LOOMIS AVENUE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The intimate smell that belongs Last Line: Calling us home Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Preaching And Preachers; Religion; Sermons; Speech 27-MAR, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hat he bought in 1949, for Last Line: And he would finish his scraping, god or no god Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Life; Religion 4-JUN, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: God, who with all his might Last Line: Of candy. Some guy in uniform %who wants to sell you air Subject(s): Religion 45 MERCY STREET, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream, / drilling into the marrow Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology 45 MERCY STREET, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream, %drilling into the marrow Last Line: And its hauled up %notebooks Subject(s): God; Religion 7-APR, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: And she was right Last Line: Anything given in a world %running like clouds Subject(s): Religion A BAG OF TOOLS, by R. L. SHARPE Poem Text First Line: Isn't it strange / that princes and kings Last Line: Or a steppingstone. Variant Title(s): Stumbling Block Or Steppingstone Subject(s): Religion; Theology A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods my master went Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880. Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, awake, thou heavy sprite Last Line: Then watch and labour, while time is! Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: View me, lord, a work of thine Last Line: Yet thy grace can lift me high. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A BOOK OF DAYS; 10. EPIPHANY, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last, snow, flocked Last Line: Its breath that breathes Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology A BOOK OF DAYS; 25. PENTECOST, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun gone for a moment, air Last Line: Of the word that was, that was to be Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology A BUSH CHRISTENING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the outer barcoo where the churches are few Last Line: How he came to be christened maginnis! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology A CABINET OF SEEDS DISPLAYED, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the original monies of the earth Subject(s): Religion; Seeds; Theology A CALVARY PATH, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the stone steps Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A CANTICLE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, o lord,when my life hath increase Last Line: And the roses of paradise blow! Subject(s): Religion; Theology A CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS DAY BEFORE DAWN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, bethlem town to-night is cold Last Line: A world more sorrowful than theirs. Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Religion; Theology A CAROL: STANDARD OF THE CROSS, by HARRIET BREWER Poem Text First Line: O'er the silent meadows Last Line: "on earth, peace, good-will." Subject(s): Religion; Theology A CENTURY OF EPIGRAMS: 54, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what is love? Misunderstanding, pain Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A CERTAIN CREDITOR, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, there was a certain creditor Last Line: A sum whose total I shall never know. Subject(s): Catholics; Debt; Prayer; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Theology A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FIRST PEARLE. RELIGION, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: The goodliest pearl in fair eliza's chain Last Line: And against england never could prevaile. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nations; Pearls; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology A CHANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the angel that cometh? Last Line: "in the name of the lord!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Religion; Theology A CHANT ROYAL TO MIRACLES, by GRACE FRENCH SMITH Poem Text First Line: Whoever buries truth has lost a wing Last Line: Oh god, for power to see beyond the veil! Subject(s): Religion; Theology A CHILD IS BORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A child is born!' the magi cried, and then Last Line: "lord of the earth beneath and heaven above." Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Good; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHILD MY CHOICE, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let folly praise that fancy loves, I praise and love that child Last Line: Correct my faults, protect my life, direct me when I die. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A CHILD OF LONELINESS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pith of faith is gone. And as there lie Last Line: God's love, god's wisdom, child of loneliness. Subject(s): Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness A CHILD'S PRESENT TO HIS CHILD-SAVIOR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, pretty child and bear this flower Last Line: To spoil the first impression. Variant Title(s): To His Saviour, A Child; A Present, By A Child Subject(s): Bible; Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that god lives very high! Last Line: Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?' Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a song in the air Last Line: And we greet in his cradle our saviour and king. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bleak mid-winter Last Line: Give my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Gift Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Christmas Gifts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology 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 CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS HYMN (OLD STYLE: 1837), by ALFRED DOMETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the calm and silent night! Last Line: Centuries ago! Variant Title(s): The Nativity;a Christmas Chant Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS SONNET; FOR ONE IN DOUBT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you that in your sorrow disavow Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS WISH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At christmas season's glad return Last Line: And god's rich love be understood. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A COMMENT ON THE SCRIPTURE: 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD', JOHN, I,1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the word - saith john Last Line: That was in the beginning—is the end. Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Life; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A CONCEPT SELF-CONCEIVED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The latest creed that has to be believed Last Line: The rule is, never give a child a choice Subject(s): Religion; Theology A CONFESSION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my god, thou hast wounded me with love Subject(s): Religion; Theology A CONSECRATION FOR A NON-SECTARIAN CHURCH, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Before this new-made altar, lord Last Line: And god himself shall be the light. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Churches; God; Religion - Reformers; Temples; Cathedrals; Mosques A CRADLE SONG, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! My dear, lie still and slumber Last Line: Can to greater joys aspire. Variant Title(s): A Cradle Hymn Subject(s): Mothers; Religion; Theology A CREED, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the truth in a little creed Last Line: In christ is all the god we know. Variant Title(s): Inbrothered Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology A CURSE AGAINST ELEGIES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love, why do we argue like this Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 3. DEMETER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stood thy temple, on the mountain's horn Last Line: Great mother, vanished from the mountain's horn. Subject(s): Demeter; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Religion; Ceres; Human Race; Theology A DEATH IN THE DESERT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supposed of pamphylax the antiochene Last Line: But 't was cerinthus that is lost.] Subject(s): Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology A DESIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, to have dwelt in bethlehem Last Line: And worship and believe. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Christmas; Desire; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A DIALOGUE ABOUT COMPELLING A PERSON TO TAKE OATHS TO THE GOVERNMENT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why so grave, harry? What's the matter, pray? Last Line: At present, sur, god bless ye! And fareweel! Subject(s): John Paul Ii, Pope; Oaths; Popes; Religion; Wojtyla, Karol Jozef; Papacy; Theology A DIEU! AND AU REVOIR!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: As you love me, let there be Last Line: "his father!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology A DILETTANTE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friend, be patient: goes the world awry? Last Line: The beauty and the pain are more alike. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): God; Religion; Sin; Theology A DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cruelty has a human heart Last Line: The human heart, its hungry gorge. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; War; Theology A DREAM QUESTION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked the lord, 'sire, is this true Last Line: Within the ethic of my will.' Subject(s): Bible; God; Religion; Theology A DUAL PERSONALITY, by MARTHEDITH FURNAS Poem Text First Line: My father comes from quaker stock Last Line: And has the devil in it! Subject(s): Dual Personalities; Hypocrisy; Religion; Theology A DUBIOUS NIGHT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bell diphthonging in an atmosphere Last Line: I weary of the confidence of god Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A FATHER'S PRAYER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, give me faith Last Line: To thy wide charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A FLOW'RET IN THE GARLAND; FOR OUT GREAT CENTENARIAN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Somewhere I have read or heard it Last Line: For thy gift — for montefiore. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Prayer; Religion; Paradise; Theology A FOREST HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The groves were god's first temples. Ere man learned Last Line: Learn to conform the order of our lives. Variant Title(s): God's First Temples;the Groves Subject(s): Forests; Religion; Trees; Woods; Theology A GLANCE BEHIND THE CURTAIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see but half the causes of our deeds Last Line: An arm of tougher sinew than the sword. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A GLEN AMONG THE HILLS, by JAMES NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: The sun had roll'd behind the western wave Last Line: His presence shed at midnight on the hills. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A GRANNY, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The cross her withered fingers hold Last Line: Here was thy meek, thy trusting, stainless heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Religion; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Theology A HAIRBREADTH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis in the twinkle of escape Last Line: Awaits the hesitating will. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology A HEATHEN HYMN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, the giver of my days Last Line: And let me lose myself in thee. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A HIGH WAY AND A LOW, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: To every man there openeth Last Line: The way his soul shall go. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): The Ways Subject(s): Religion; Theology A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW, by MARY A. FORD Poem Text First Line: The surging sea of human life forever onward rolls Last Line: Beneath the shadow of thy throne a hundred years from now. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this auspicious, memorable morn Last Line: We are, in christ, eternally alive. Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds watch their flocks by night Last Line: The offspring of this world below. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The; Theology A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christians awake, salute the happy morn Last Line: [or, of angels, and of angel-men, the king.] Variant Title(s): Christmas Carol Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Religion; Theology A HYMN FOR EASTER DAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is risen! He, who came Last Line: Cho. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, &c. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Salvation; The Resurrection; Theology A HYMN FOR THE NEW AGE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: O master of the modern day Last Line: Thrill us anew with holy power! Subject(s): Religion; Theology A HYMN OF SLEEP, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Another day is dying Last Line: And are asleep on jesu's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Religion; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun Last Line: I fear no more. Variant Title(s): For Forgiveness;to Christ Subject(s): Forgiveness; Prayer; Religion; Remorse; Repentance; Clemency; Theology; Penitence A HYMN; AFTER READING 'LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT', by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lead gently, lord, and slow Last Line: My greater, guiding star! Subject(s): Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Religion; Theology A LAST APPEAL, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O somewhere, somewhere, god! Unknown Last Line: Ah! It was I. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Religion; Theology A LAST PRAYER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, I scarcely dare to pray Last Line: Let me repentant work for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A LENTEN CALL, by HILDA JOHNSON WISE Poem Text First Line: Twas the second of march, in the present year Last Line: To the world, the flesh and the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Human Behavior; Lent; Lust; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A LIGHT EXISTS IN SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon a sacrament Subject(s): Nature; Religion A LITHUANIAN ELEGY, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mist mist my beauty lost Last Line: Red ribbons like strips of meat in the rain Subject(s): Religion; Theology A LITTLE PAGE'S SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's lark at morning I would be Last Line: And maybe praise! Subject(s): Religion; Spring; Theology A LITTLE TE DEUM OF THE COMMONPLACE; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: With hearts responsive Last Line: We thank thee, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): A Te Deum Of The Commonplace Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology A LITTLE UNCOMPLICATED HYMN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is what I wanted to write Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A LITTLE WORD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: I spoke a word Last Line: Be such as bring forth noble deeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Language; Religion; Words; Vocabulary; Theology A LULLABY, by JANET LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lullee, lullay / I could not love thee more Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A MAIDEN'S DREAM, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought, in slumber as I lay and dreamt Last Line: That I awoke and start out of my dream. Subject(s): Fortitude; Hospitality; Justice; Prudence; Religion; Temperance; Wealth; Caution; Theology; Prohibition; Riches; Fortunes A MAN MUST LIVE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man must live!' we justify Last Line: Win life forever more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology A MAXIM FOR EVERY DAY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Find good in all you can Last Line: And leave the rest with god! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A MECCAN PROPHECY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not roum, but meccah! Where the skies Last Line: To move the world! ... Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): God; Islam; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Theology A MEDITATION ON THE THREE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess, by threefold ceremonies adored Last Line: To dwell where wholly thou and thine are his. Subject(s): Meditation; Religion; Theology A MINOR PROPHET, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend, a vegetarian seer Last Line: Throbbing respondent to the far-off orbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Salvation; United States; Belief; Creed; Theology; America A MORNING PRAYER, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: For burden that is mine to bear Last Line: This day, o lord, amen. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A MORNING PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me today do something that will take Last Line: "the world is better that I lived today." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, thou hast known Last Line: Bless her in earth and heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Religion; Theology A NATION'S STRENGTH, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not gold, but only man can make Last Line: And lift them to the sky. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A NEW EARTH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God grant us wisdom in these coming days Last Line: With hearts courageous we may fairer build this last. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): For A New World Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; Religion; Theology A NEW ORPHIC HYMN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The peaks, and the starlit skies, the deeps of the fathomless seas Last Line: And the voice through the darkness heard, and the rush of winnowing wings! Variant Title(s): God Within Yet Above Subject(s): Religion; Theology A NUN, AT SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god, they are sending me to rome Last Line: The sea is a terrible thing! Subject(s): Life; Nuns; Religion; Rome, Italy; Sea; Theology; Ocean A PARAPHRASE ON THE COLLECT FOR ADVENT SUNDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god, thy heav'nly grace impart Last Line: One glorious god triune, for evermore. Subject(s): Bible; God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A PARAPHRASE ON...LEVITICUS: 11; CONTAINING REASONS OF PROHIBITIONS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of feathred foules, that fanne the bucksom aire Last Line: Flittyng, with littel leathren sailes dispredde. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Food & Eating; Religion; Theology A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Long pored saint austin o'er the sacred page Last Line: Than infinite minds conceive god's nature infinite! Subject(s): "augustine, Saint (354-430);god;religion;saints;" Augustine Of Hippo;theology A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE AND DESIGN OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is religion? Why it is a cure Last Line: And what religion is they only know. Subject(s): Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools A PRAYER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear god, the light is come, our outgrown creeds" Last Line: Yet shall our eyes behold love's perfect day Subject(s): Prayer;religion; Theology A PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: May the strong arms of god be ever round about thee! Last Line: "die not thou for her,—never,—for I can." Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Prayer; Religion; Theology A PRAYER, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: As I lie in bed, / flat on my back Last Line: O god, give me words to make my dream-children live. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A PRAYER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lord, hear my morning's prayer! Last Line: One christ to share my earth!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A PRAYER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not for light in darkness do we pray Last Line: The deed, the deed. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A PRAYER, by MAX EHRMANN Poem Text First Line: Let me do my work each day Last Line: And may the evening's twilight find me gentle still. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A PRAYER, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teach me, father, how to go Last Line: On the way and be their best. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A PRAYER, by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cast prostrate, in mourning Last Line: Wings of thy spirit. Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): God; Mourning; Prayer; Religion; Bereavement; Theology A PRAYER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, our father, if we had but truth! Last Line: Thy garment's hem, which truth and good we name. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Religion; Theology A PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me too brave to lie or be unkind Last Line: Let me be joy, be hope! Let my life sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S MAJESTY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, whose mercy is our state Last Line: With wisdom that can never end. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Depressions, Economic; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Prayer; Religion; Recessions; Theology A PRAYER FOR TODAY, by CHARLES NELSON PACE Poem Text First Line: Lord, in an age of steel and stone Last Line: Which call life into lordlier ways. Subject(s): Modern Man; Prayer; Religion; Theology A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE SOUL OF AN ECCENTRIC MAN, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Lord of the understanding heart Last Line: As death's now opening gates. Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Religion; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Theology A PRAYER OF THE PEOPLES, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of us who kill our kind! Last Line: We, who pray, ourselves are fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): God; Prayer Meetings; Religion; Soul; Theology A PRAYER TO EVE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of fictions / and of irony Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A PRESENCE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: When the departing, great sun stands Last Line: Like hidden trumpets, answering drums. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A PROGNOSTICATION UPON CARDS AND DICE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the sixth day of the next new year Last Line: Whose very beard is flesh, and mouth is horn. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): On The Cards And Dice Subject(s): Bible; Gambling; Religion; Wagering; Betting; Theology A PSALM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, in whom my deepest being dwells Last Line: Hide not thyself, let first love prove not wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A PSALM OF LIFE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, in mournful numbers Last Line: Learn to labor and to wait. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Religion; Theology A PURIFICATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At start of spring I open a trench Last Line: The old escapes into the new Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A QUESTION, by PETER TAYLOR FORSYTH Poem Text First Line: Now who will rise Last Line: A central, funded, founded faith? Alternate Author Name(s): Forysth, P. T. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A REAL INCIDENT OF THE PERSECUTING TIMES IN SCOTLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay within that lonely cot Last Line: He rose, and scotland left for aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; God; Persecution; Religion; Scotland; Dead, The; Theology A RHAPSODY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a god most surely in the heavens Last Line: Of fair love lost for ever and a day. Subject(s): God; Happiness; Love; Nature; Religion; Joy; Delight; Theology A ROSE TO THE LIVING, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose to the living is more than Last Line: Sumptuous wreaths to the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Religion; Theology A RUSTIC BRIDGE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A rustic bridge; the copse at dawn Last Line: God's love can ring from star to utmost star. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A SAINT OF CORNWALL, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know who saint mawes was, but he Last Line: Like a good old master mariner whose sailing days are done. Subject(s): Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Theology A SHORT HISTORY OF JUDAIC THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbis wrote Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 45, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it chance your eye offend you Last Line: When your sickness is your soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 47. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the hangman stops his cart Last Line: Live, lads, and I will die.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Theology A SILENT TE DEUM, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: We thank thee, lord / for all thy golden silences Last Line: Thank thee, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology A SIMPLIFICATION, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those great rough ranters, branns Last Line: Maggot off a dead beetle Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Religion; Speech; Theology; Oratory; Orators A SLUMBER STORY, by ROBERT J. IRISH Poem Text First Line: At slumber time the nodding heads Last Line: My faith becomes the firmer. Subject(s): Children; Faith; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Childhood; Belief; Creed; Theology A SMALL FIG TREE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am dead, to be sure Subject(s): Bible; Curses; Religion; Theology A SMILE AS SMALL AS MINE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Precisely their necessity. Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology A SOLILOQUY ON READING THE 5TH AND 8TH VERSES OF THE 37TH PSALM, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In psalm, this evening order'd to be read Last Line: Commit and trust, and he will bring to pass. Subject(s): Bible; God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A SONG FOR SIMEON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, the roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A SONG IN PASSING, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where am I now? And what Last Line: Is the almight face Subject(s): Religion; Theology A SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD; MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDENTS' SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We in our wandering Last Line: "brother to brother pressed, / tara, tantara, teino!" Subject(s): Brotherhood;catholic Church - Clergy;religion; Catholic Priests;theology A SONG OF THE ROAD, by FRED G. BOWLES Poem Text First Line: I lift my cap to beauty Last Line: The simple are so great! Subject(s): Religion; Simplicity; Theology A SONG TO DAVID, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that sitt'st upon a throne Last Line: Determined, dared, and done. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Religion; Strength; Worship; Theology A SOUL; A STUDY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stands as pale as parian statues stand Last Line: Her face and will athirst against the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Statues; Women; Women & Religion A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit passed before me: I beheld Last Line: Heedless and blind to wisdom's wasted light!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION, AT THE PRESIDENT'S LEVEE ..., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the plant by williams set Last Line: Henceforth the road to heaven! Subject(s): Brown University; Religion; Theology A STICK OF INCENSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence did all that fury come? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A STRIP OF BLUE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not own an inch of land Last Line: Some sea-like glimpse of thee. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A STUDENT'S PRAYER, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Bible; God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A SUN-DAY HYMN [OR LAMENT], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of all being! Throned afar Last Line: One holy light, one heavenly flame! Variant Title(s): The Lord Is My Light Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A SUPPLICATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, we whose sturdy sires Last Line: Turn thou our souls from the dread glamour -- gold! Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Humanity; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology A TE DEUM FOR GOD'S OWN SELF, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: For thine own self Last Line: Without ending -- praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology A THIRD POSSIBILITY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fired the brush pile by the creek Last Line: Between the two, and liked them both Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seen by memory's magic Last Line: Slightly prized to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology A THOUGHT FOR A LONELY DEATH-BED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If god compel thee to this destiny Last Line: And smile away my mortal to divine!' Subject(s): Religion; Theology A TRUE LENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a fast, to keep Last Line: And that's to keep thy lent. Variant Title(s): To Keep A True Lent Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Lent; Religion; Theology A VALEDICTION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God be with thee, my beloved - god be with thee! Last Line: May god love thee, my beloved, -- may god love thee! Subject(s): Religion; Theology A VIRGIN LIFE, by JANE BARKER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Since gracious heven, you have bestow'd on me Last Line: To serve her god, her neighbour, and her friends. Subject(s): Life; Religion; Virginity; Theology; Vestals A VIRILE CHRIST, by REX BOUNDY Poem Text First Line: Give us a virile christ for these rough days! Last Line: Silent, upon the cross on calvary? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A WARRIOR'S PRAYER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, in sore distress, I heard one pray Last Line: Rest from the fight! Subject(s): Religion; War; Theology A WEDDING TOAST, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: St. John tells how, at cana's wedding-feast Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology A WORD FROM THE PSALMIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take heed, ye unwise among the people Last Line: O ye fools, when will ye understand? Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology A WORLD WITHOUT OBJECTS IS A SENSIBLE EMPTINESS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tall camels of the spirit Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 2. THE RABBI IN TOWN, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But in town, what? In bratslav or zlatipolia Last Line: "that penetrates your being. And all being." Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Towns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 3. EQUITY, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing how bad he feels, how much he grieves Last Line: For god, who must also grieve cut off from him. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Absence; Mourning; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Bereavement; Theology A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 4. MIRRORS, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The face of the moon reflects the sun's bright light Last Line: "to worship himself, what need would he have of us?" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Mirrors; Religion; Sun; Theology A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 5. THE TELLING OF STORIES, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Science? It comes from the forehead of the snake Last Line: But within its extravagant realm, in its heights and depths. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists A.M. FOG, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night’s afterbirth, last dream before waking Last Line: And knew. And switched the light on. Wide awake Subject(s): Fog; Religion; Haze; Theology ABER STATIONS: STATIO QUARTA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have not seen the sun for many days Last Line: But that is what I meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ABORTION, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody who should have been born %is gone Last Line: Or say what you meant %you coward - this baby I bleed Subject(s): Abortion; God; Religion ABOU BEN ADHEM, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abou ben adhem (may his tribe increase!) Last Line: And lo! Ben adhem's name led all the rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): Abou Ben Adhem And The Angel Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Service; Theology ABOUT MAYA, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Lift the mosquito net and look at yourself Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion ABOVE THE HEAVENS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the gold the sunbeams fling Last Line: Come down to me and you! Subject(s): Religion; Theology ABOVE THE HILLS OF TIME THE CROSS IS GLEAMING, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source Last Line: Till we are gathered to thy home above Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion ABRAHAM, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Source First Line: I was made father-of-the-multitude Subject(s): Abraham; Religion ABRAHAM, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivulet-loving wanderer abraham Subject(s): Religion; Theology ABRAHAM, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivulet-loving wanderer abraham Last Line: The promise had not come, and left his bones, %far from his father's house, in alien canaan Subject(s): Religion ABRAHAM TO KILL HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Manners may prevail Variant Title(s): Poem: 1317; Poem: 133 Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion ABRIDGED BESTIARY, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the story goes, noah took animals of every variety Last Line: Recreated, according to the discarded pictures that the %monkey had saved for god Subject(s): Boats; God; Noah (bible); Religion; Sea Voyages ABSOLUTION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Travel to the great church at cluny, and pope innocent Last Line: In speyer, 1451: in this place is full pardon of all sins Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; God; Penance; Religion ABT VOGLER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build Last Line: The c major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Religion; Theology ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHTNESS: 1. DANTE MOUNTING TO THE ROSE OF HEAVEN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Not one of us Last Line: Of implacable bright Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHTNESS: 2. AT ELEUSIS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Even at eleusis, %after the long journey Last Line: Then silence. Then they saw Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHTNESS: 3. A CELEBRATION, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: And then quiet Last Line: But that, too, %maintaining its fixities Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHTNESS: 4. THE CLINGING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The I ching calls it clinging, fire Last Line: But clings to the burning object %and thus is bright' Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ABYSS, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief Last Line: Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. Variant Title(s): "the Terrible Sonnets: 2;""no Worst, There Is More, Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief""; Subject(s): Death; Despair; Grief; Religion; Social Protest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology ACCEPTANCE, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think nor reason Last Line: And oh, his certain hands! Subject(s): Religion; Theology ACCLAIMING RAIN, by ROSE ANN SPAITH Poem Source First Line: Today rain plays more exquisitely Last Line: I tilt my face upward %and pray for an encore Subject(s): Rain; Religion ACCORDING TO THY GRACIOUS WORD, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Religion ACHIEVEMENT, by BERTA HART NANCE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ACROSTIC ON WILLIAM PADDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One, who was well acquainted with his worth Last Line: Your souls with mine ever long shall %meet in bliss Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion ACTS: 2. AT NOON, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, in thy pierced hands Last Line: Let me abide. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 126, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How else had the pharaonic priesthood curb'd Last Line: That their own perseverance did not steal? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology AD ASTRA: 129, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Had not the greeks of old as fine a sense Last Line: In that first sign and sacrament of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Holy Spirit; Theology AD ASTRA: 131, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O baleful lure, to lead our feet astray! Last Line: Strong in whose strength man may think scorn of fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Judgment Day; Religion; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology AD ASTRA: 133, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To man pertains a glory that doth force Last Line: That glance to which the might of godhead cleaves! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology AD ASTRA: 134, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In his own image god created man Last Line: But down the ages prowls the selfsame range. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 148, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Two roads present themselves to every man Last Line: And soul or body now must meet the blade! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 154, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And others, more defiant in their tone Last Line: What answer that can wholly set at ease? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology AD ASTRA: 155, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Who hath not felt how little here availeth Last Line: Unclasp'd by god, to close in him again. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 156, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tis easier to believe than disbelieve! Last Line: Lights with the lily, reddens with the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Spring; Theology AD ASTRA: 157, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Who, that hath scaled the heights, knows not the hour Last Line: Before the throne of thrones omnipotent? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology AD ASTRA: 159, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But live the christ-like life, and thou shalt know Last Line: Till disbelief a doubt of doubt betrays! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 164, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And canst thou doubt that christ doth surely live? Last Line: The harmony that links all sentient things. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 167, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The church of christ must heal the world's unrest Last Line: The glory and wonder of this world's romance! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology AD ASTRA: 169, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For what avail these conflicts dire of creed Last Line: And in men's hearts the lamp of faith renew? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology AD ASTRA: 172, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our passionate conflicts have their day and die Last Line: Who fervently the selfsame christ profess? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Worship; Theology AD ASTRA: 173, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In catholicity there breathes a voice Last Line: And all men's hearts be knit in christ again. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Eucharist; Love; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology AD ASTRA: 174, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In all religions god hath sacrifice! Last Line: When from high mosque muezzin calls to prayer.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 178, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The lord shall be the god of the whole earth! Last Line: The night of doubt and discord pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 76, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why thro' vast aeons was the light delay'd? Last Line: And never a wind of grace blew from his throne! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Kindness; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 87, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tho' sore adread, o wherefore need we doubt Last Line: No babylon amid the desert rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 89, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How meetly from the poor his gospel came Last Line: And in men's hearts the living truth instil. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Eucharist; Jesus Christ; Religion; Communion; Theology AD ASTRA: 91, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Yet even the chosen of god were not exempt Last Line: Still clave they to their vain imaginings! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 92, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Forewarn'd , they had their fate before their eyes Last Line: And drag their generations in the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 96, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Will they at last their rock of refuge find? Last Line: In whom the future and the past are one! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 98, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O god, if all our thoughts of thee are vain! Last Line: Too shallow for the needs of every day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AD BESTIAS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have the power to lift us higher Last Line: To forge the martyr's crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology AD COELUM, by HARRY ROMAINE Poem Text First Line: At the muezzin's call for prayer Last Line: Had reached him through the gods they knew. Subject(s): Religion; Theology AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy glory alone, o god, be the end of all that I say Last Line: And the light of thy glory, o god, be unveiled in the dawning of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ADAM AND EVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The names %of the things Last Line: My body opens %into brothers Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion ADAM AND EVE, SELS., by ERNEST SANDEEN Poem Source First Line: In the beginning, at every step, he turned Subject(s): Religion ADAM POSED, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could our first father, at his toilsome plough Last Line: T' have hit the wavering form, or given this thing a name! Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology ADAM'S HYMN IN PARADISE, by JOOST VAN DEN VONDEL Poem Source First Line: O father, we approach thy throne Subject(s): Religion ADDICT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepmonger %deathmonger Last Line: Now I'm borrowed. %now I'm numb Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; God; Religion; Suicide ADDRESS TO THE REV. DR. JOHN MUIR, ST JAMES' PARISH, GLASGLOW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Servant of god! Through fifty honoured years Last Line: Our god, our faith, our hope, our church, the same! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Clergy; Glasgow, Scotland; God; Religion; Service; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology ADESTS FIDELES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O come, all ye faithful Last Line: Word of the father, %now in flesh appearing Subject(s): Religion ADJUSTMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree of faith its bare, dry boughs must shed Last Line: And the new gospel verifies the old. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ADMONITIONS TO A SPECIAL PERSON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch out for power Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ADMONITIONS TO A SPECIAL PERSON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch out for power Last Line: Like a happened balloon Subject(s): God; Religion ADONIS IS OLDER THAN JESUS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever heard of a place called byblus? Last Line: Tender life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Loss; Mythology; Religion ADORATION, by JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTTE GUYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my god, but with no love of mine Last Line: Our source, our centre, and our dwelling-place! Alternate Author Name(s): Guion, De La Mothe; Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvieres De La Mothe; Guyon Du Chesnoy Variant Title(s): By Thy Life I Live Subject(s): God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology ADORATION, by DAVID MORTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the last light of amber day is dying Subject(s): Religion ADORATION OF THE MAGI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A boy -- okay,it's me -- wears a fringed Last Line: One hand pressed hard into his crotch Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ADRIFT, by MARK ROZEMA Poem Source First Line: He rides west into the chukchi sea Last Line: Where there is no bottom, %there is no shore Subject(s): Alaska; Religion ADULTERER, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: In my shadow world, no one Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ADVENT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ADVENT, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Religion ADVENT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year draws down. In the meadows Subject(s): Antoninus, Saint (1389-1459); God; Religion; Theology ADVENT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year draws down. In the meadows Last Line: God goes again to birth Subject(s): Antoninus, Saint (1389-1459); God; Religion ADVERSITY, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the uses of adversity Subject(s): Religion ADVICE FROM THE MUSE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How credible, the room which you evoke Last Line: That slight uncertainty which makes us sure Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Religion ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Day after day I sit and write Last Line: Be ever our desires. Subject(s): Advice; African Americans - Women; Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology AFFIRMATION, by MINOT JUDSON SAVAGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How shall come the kingdom holy Subject(s): Religion AFRICA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I slept, I dreamed. I seemed to climb a hard, ascending track Subject(s): Religion AFTER, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have lived and rejoiced in the living Subject(s): Religion AFTER MINDWALK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we've laboriously Last Line: Pervades, elusive but persistent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AFTER AUSCHWITZ, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger, / as black as a hook Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Shoah; Judaism; Theology AFTER AUSCHWITZ, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger, %as black as a hook Last Line: I beg the lord not to hear Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion AFTER BATTLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When after many battles past Subject(s): Religion AFTER CHRISTMAS, by CONSUELO VALENCIA Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AFTER DEATH, LIKE FLOWS TO LIKE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I often think of them Last Line: Or say their names %when we begin Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life AFTER GIVING BIRTH I RECALL THE MADONNA AND CHILD, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: Who could ever believe it Last Line: I can see the head. %it's glowing Subject(s): Birth; Religion AFTER LORCA, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The church is a business, and the rich / are the business men Subject(s): Religion; Theology AFTER LORCA, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The church is a business, and the rich %are the business men Last Line: And the poor love it %and think it's crazy Subject(s): Religion AFTER THE FUNERAL, by PAULETTE ROESKE Poem Source First Line: My dream confirms it Last Line: He pulls me up Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality AFTER THE LAST WORDS, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: By how I'm dead. Make what you will of that Last Line: Fall dry as crumbs, nor will they comfort you Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AFTER THE MIDRASH CLASS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: One wintry night, I drove gloria home Last Line: I'd never have to be as valiant as gloria Subject(s): Religion AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEC, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Source First Line: I have no temple and no creed Subject(s): Religion AFTER THE STORM, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: After the storm - thy calm Last Line: Temples of grace all dedicate to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology AFTER WORK, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, when thou seest that my work is done Last Line: Will I come. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said the anger would come back Last Line: And you will die somewhat, %again and again Subject(s): God; Religion AGAIN THE STORY IS TOLD, by ADA JACKSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AGAINST DEATH IS NO DEFENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Man, hef in mynd & mend thi mys Subject(s): Religion AGAINST SILENCE, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That silence on your end will cost us Last Line: The moon, rabbinical, mutters a prayer Subject(s): Religion; Silence AGAINST TRADUCERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Holy wrytt sayth no thyng sother Subject(s): Religion AGAMEMNON: HYMN TO ZEUS, by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus, by what ever name soe'er Last Line: Resistless, toward the eternal shore Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Religion AGAPE HOUSE, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: For a while we lived in a commune Last Line: We could have been anywhere, %we could have been anyone Subject(s): Prayer; Religion AGE IS GREAT AND STRONG. HER CHAINS ARE RIVEN, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion AGLAE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Atrium of aglae's house in rome. A fountain Last Line: O christ, accept me! I believe! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Roman Empire; Theology AGONY OF GOD, by GEORGIA HARKNESS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AH! YET CONSIDER IT AGAIN, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old things need not be therefore true Last Line: Far less consider it again. Subject(s): Religion; Theology AH, NOT TO BE CUT OFF, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion AHOLIBAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning god made thee Last Line: If his were that aholibah. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Women; Theology AIDS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, by PETER KOCAN Poem Source First Line: The wages of sin is death. These words run Last Line: The promised payment in the promised coin Subject(s): Bible; Religion AIRMAN'S PRAYER, by HUGH R. BRODIE Poem Source First Line: Almighty and all present power Variant Title(s): A Sergeant's Praye Subject(s): Religion AIRMEN'S HYMN, by HARRY WEBB FARRINGTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ALATUS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their supply lines cut Last Line: Toward the hid pulse of things, its / winged skeleton Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Autumn; Theology ALATUS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their supply lines cut Last Line: Toward the hid pulse of things, its %winged skeleton Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ALIVE FOR EVERMORE, by AMOS NIVEN WILDER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ALL BEAUTIFUL THE MARCH OF DAYS, by FRANCES WHITMARSH WILE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ALL DAY AND NIGHT, MUSIC, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Religion ALL FELLOWS, SELS., by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear love, when with a two-fold mind Subject(s): Religion ALL HAIL, THE PAGEANT OF THE YEARS, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion ALL IN ALL (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know thee, each in part Last Line: Are starlight to the noon of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine Last Line: The soul that must endure it. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Vanity; Theology ALL MY HEART THIS NIGHT REJOICES, by PAUL GERHARDT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ALL MY PRETTY ONES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, this year's jinx rides us apart Last Line: Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, %bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; God; Religion ALL RIGHT, DEATH, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Who needs to fear death? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion ALL RIGHT, YOU CRAZY WOMAN, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Just to have your feet touching him Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion ALL SAINTS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have brought gold and spices to my king Last Line: For lo! His banner over thee is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Theology ALL SAINTS' DAY, by JOHN HART Poem Source First Line: And the tall god caught on the marble Last Line: The dismal falcon down to rock and nail Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Religion ALL SOULS ARE THINE, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of life, where e'er they be Subject(s): Religion ALL SOULS', by DANA GIOIA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose there is no heaven and no hell Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology ALL SOULS', by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose there is no heaven and no hell Last Line: They watch the shadows lengthen on the grass. %the pallor of the rose is their despair Subject(s): Immortality; Religion ALL SOULS' MORNING, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jittery light, scraps of wind, the monotone of rain Last Line: I write: in backlit mist, the thrushes' feathers are silk Subject(s): Religion ALL'S WELL, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Is the pathway dark and dreary? Last Line: All's .... Well! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology ALL'S WELL, by HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL Poem Text First Line: The day is ended. Ere I sink to sleep Last Line: The morning light may break. Variant Title(s): An Evening Prayer Subject(s): Religion; Theology ALL'S WELL, by WILLIAM ALFRED QUAYLE Poem Source First Line: My heart %the sun hath set Subject(s): Religion ALL'S WELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds, which rise with thunder, slake Last Line: The glaring sunshine never knew! Subject(s): Religion; Theology ALLEGORY OF EVIL IN ITALY, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visconti put you on their flag: a snake Last Line: At the wreath of snakes that sometimes crowns me Subject(s): Religion ALLEGORY OF SMELL, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His smile says he has had the smell of it Last Line: His red eyes shine with tears from the onion he eats Subject(s): Religion ALMANSOR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fair cordova's cathedral Last Line: And the christian gods wail loudly. Subject(s): Churches; Kisses; Lips; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology ALMIGHTY GOD; CHORUS OF PRIESTS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god! When round thy shrine Last Line: Eternal life and peace and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Religion; Theology ALMIGHTY LORD, WITH ONE ACCORD, by MELANCTON WOOLSEY STRYKER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ALMOST AGAINST MY WILL, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Once more I was %not prepared Last Line: Echoing through %my body's deepening canyons Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ALOFT IS RISEN THE GREAT ILLUMINER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O mothir of god, inuolot virgin mary Subject(s): Religion ALPHABETICAL DEVOTION TO THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of ihu criste be euer oure spede Subject(s): Religion ALTAR, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One by one I lit the candles of nothingness Last Line: My candelabrum is ablaze Subject(s): Religion ALTARS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Source First Line: Ye barren peaks, so mightily outlined Subject(s): Religion ALTRUISM, by DAVID STARR JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The god of things as they are Last Line: The love of the mother and child. Subject(s): Altruism; Religion; Theology ALUMNUS FOOTBALL, SELS., by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: For when the one great scorer comes Last Line: He marks - not that you won or lost - %but how you played the game Subject(s): Football; Religion; Sportsmanship AMARYLLIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a cat consume a hummingbird, seen Last Line: "no contrivance, no gasp, / no dream Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology AMARYLLIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a cat consume a hummingbird, seen Last Line: Where there is no head Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality AMBITION BIRD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it has come to this Last Line: There is folly enough inside this one Subject(s): God; Religion AMBOYNA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As needy gallants, in the scrivener's hands Last Line: As much improper as would honesty. Variant Title(s): Satire On The Dutch Subject(s): Cruelty; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Merchants; Plays & Playwrights ; Religion; Dramatists; Theology AMERICA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My country, 'tis of thee Subject(s): Religion AMERICA FIRST, by GEORGE ASHTON OLDHAM Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AMERICA'S GOSPEL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion AMERICAN HEAVEN, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the century %winds up shopping Last Line: The blue scent %of mirrors the %speeding world resembles Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality AMORETTI: 68, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most glorious lord of life, that on this day Last Line: Love is the lesson which the lord us taught. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "easter Day;christ's True Love's Example;easter Morning;sonnet On Easter;easter;""most Glorious Lord Of Lyfe That On This Day""; Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology AN AGNOSTIC, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No disciple am I, lord Last Line: And I follow thee. Subject(s): Agnosticism; Doubt; Faith; God; Religion; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Theology AN ANCIENT PRAYER, by THOMAS HARRY BASIL WEBB Poem Text First Line: Give me a good digestion, lord, and also something to digest Last Line: To get some happiness from life and pass it on to other folk. Subject(s): Religion; Theology AN ANNIVERSARY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we have been becomes Last Line: In the country we have married Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology AN APPEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her, o cruel england! Last Line: They can die and go to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): England; Faith; Ireland; Religion; English; Belief; Creed; Irish; Theology AN EASTER SONG, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song of sunshine through the rain Last Line: Were just three days apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Variant Title(s): Calvary And Easter Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology AN EASTER SONG, TO ROSEMARY, AET. 10, by A. L. MACKENZIE JR. Poem Text First Line: Mine is the gift and you the giver Last Line: And we'll play in the halls of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackenzie, Archibald L., Jr. Subject(s): Easter; Heaven; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Paradise; Theology AN ECHO FROM THE SEA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: As a shell upon the shore Last Line: God and heaven. Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology AN ELEGY IS PREPARING ITSELF, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are pines that are tall enough Subject(s): Religion; Theology AN EPISODE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING IN NEW ENGLAND, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As night pushes its red forerunners Subject(s): Revivals; Religion; New England; Religious Revivals; Theology AN EPITAPH, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us not think of our departed dead Last Line: Where all may taste a more immortal bread. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology AN OBSESSIVE COMBINATION OF ONTOLOGICAL INSCAPE ..., by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Busy, with an idea for a code, I write Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AN OLD CHRISTMAS CAROL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh wake ye, little children Last Line: For this is christmas day. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Childhood; Nativity, The; Theology AN OLD SONG RE-SUNG, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three ships a-sailing Last Line: When wilt thou come for me? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Religion; Theology ANALYSIS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes there was a visitor again last night Last Line: His love my downfall and rising %tearing apart to make me whole Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANCHORESS, by ANNE SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: The light flickers in the white grass Last Line: Toward god like a blind mole %feeding on darkness Subject(s): Religion ANCIENT HISTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain Last Line: The gaunt wild man whose lovely sons were dead. Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; Religion; Soldiers; Theology ANCIENT HYMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "art thou weary, art thou languid, art thou sore" Last Line: "answer, 'yes'" Subject(s): Religion; Theology ANCIENT MASTERS WERE PROFOUND AND SUBTLE, by LAO TZU Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ANCIENT THOUGHT, by WATSON KERR Poem Source First Line: The round moon hangs like a yellow lantern in the trees Last Line: Surely god is nigh Subject(s): Religion AND ALSO FROM THE SON, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: As you might expect, my momentary vision barely Last Line: Influx of approaching shade, who would say? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Break in the sun till the sun breaks down %and death shall have no dominion Subject(s): Bible; Death; Life Change Events; Religion; Time AND HE ANSWERED THEM NOTHING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty nothing! Unto thee Last Line: Tis made by nothing now again Subject(s): Bible; Religion AND ONE FOR MY DAME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A born salesman, %my father made all his dough Last Line: Its highways built up like new loves, raw and speedy Subject(s): Americans; Fathers; God; Religion; United States AND SO AT LAST, by DAVID STARR JORDAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion AND THAT WILL BE HEAVEN, by EVANGELINE PATERSON Poem Source Last Line: Never turning away %again Subject(s): Religion AND THE GREATNESS OF THESE --, by J. R. PERKINS Poem Text First Line: I have seen an old faith falter Last Line: Rise up and smile and love again. Subject(s): Religion; Theology AND THE LIFE EVERLASTING', by PERCY CLOUGH AINSWORTH Poem Source First Line: It will not meet us where the shadows fall Subject(s): Religion AND THE WORLD WAS MADE FLESH', by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light looked down and beheld darkness Subject(s): Religion AND THOU?, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: For thee, - earth's fetters worn Last Line: "come -- enter in, and share my happiness!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY?, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, come! / and let us go unto our god Last Line: And, brother, what shall you say? Subject(s): African Americans; Brotherhood; God; Religion; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology AND WITH NO LANGUAGE BUT A CRY, by AMOS NIVEN WILDER Poem Source First Line: I have a heart that cries to god Subject(s): Religion AND YET I KNOW, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ANDREA DEL SARTO (CALLED THE FAULTLESS PAINTER), by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But do not let us quarrel any more Last Line: Again the cousin's whistle! Go, my love. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Religion; Sarto, Andrea Del (1486-1531); Theology ANDREW RYKMAN'S PRAYER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Andrew rykman's dead and gone Last Line: Make his prayer our own? Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Religion; Dead, The; Theology ANGEL FOOD DOGS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaping, leaping, leaping Last Line: And fly off into my terrified years Subject(s): God; Religion ANGEL UNAWARES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If after kirk ye bide a wee Last Line: Add you your soul unto our prayers; %be you our angel unawares Subject(s): Religion ANGELS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cats wind together in the barn Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANGELS, by PAUL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The angels take approaches. Some enter by root Subject(s): Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of fire and genitals, do you know slime Variant Title(s): Slime Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of fire and genitals, do you know slime Last Line: As the sun dies in your arms and you loosen its terrible weight Variant Title(s): Slim Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 2. ANGEL OF CLEAN SHEETS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of clean sheets, do you know bedbugs Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 2. ANGEL OF CLEAN SHEETS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of clean sheets, do you know bedbugs Last Line: But inside my hair waits the night I was defiled Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 3. ANGEL OF FLIGHT AND SLEIGH BELS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of flight and sleigh bells, do you know paralysis Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 3. ANGEL OF FLIGHT AND SLEIGH BELS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of flight and sleigh bells, do you know paralysis Last Line: Where I stand in stone shoes as the world's bicycle goes by Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 4. ANGEL OF HOPE AND CALENDARS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of hope and calendars, do you know despair Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 4. ANGEL OF HOPE AND CALENDARS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of hope and calendars, do you know despair Last Line: There are no prayers here. Here there is no change Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 5. ANGEL OF BLIZZARDS AND BLACKB, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of blizzards and blackouts, do you know raspberries Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 5. ANGEL OF BLIZZARDS AND BLACKB, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of blizzards and blackouts, do you know raspberries Last Line: Take me back to that red mouth, that july 21st place Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 6. ANGEL OF BEACH HOUSES AND PICNICS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of beach houses and picnics, do you know solitaire Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANGELS OF THE LOVE AFFAIR: 6. ANGEL OF BEACH HOUSES AND PICNICS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of beach houses and picnics, do you know solitaire Last Line: And left hundreds of unmatched people out in the cold Subject(s): God; Religion ANGELS, STAR, AND MAGI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As holy kyrke makys mynd Subject(s): Religion ANGELUS, by SIMEON BERRY Poem Source First Line: When they came to the final chorus of silent night Last Line: Their belief that there was anything up there to see Subject(s): Churches; Religion ANGELUS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the lilac sky the angelus bell Subject(s): Religion ANGOSTO THEO, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I framed weak phantasies of thee Last Line: Would raise my voice in song. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ANGRY SAMSON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are they blind, the lords of gaza Last Line: A-clank to my stride Subject(s): Bible; Religion ANIMA MUNDI, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anima mundi' - of thyself existing Last Line: Hope of the human heart, descend, descend! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Religion; Theology ANIMAL NATIVITY, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The iliad of peace began Last Line: Remembered as a star Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANIMALS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do not live in the world Last Line: On the sixth day we came Subject(s): Bible; Memory; Religion ANNA WHO WAS MAD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anna who was mad, / I have a knife in my armpit Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ANNA WHO WAS MAD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anna who was mad, %I have a knife in my armpit Last Line: Pick up the parker pen I gave you. %write me. %write Subject(s): God; Religion ANNIVERSARY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we have been becomes Last Line: Darkened, we are carried %out of need, deep %in the country we have married Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANNUNCIATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel and the girl are met Last Line: As if their grace would never break Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Religion ANNUNCIATION, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Surely god thought this would be a moment Last Line: With hollow, profoundly reluctant eyes Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality ANODYNE: PAIN, by THOMAS KEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since 'tis god's will, pain, take your course Last Line: Beneath his wing's propitious shade. Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Suffering; Misery; Theology ANOTHER CROSS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Religion ANOTHER REVENANT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One long-dead / returned for a night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ANOTHER REVENANT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One long-dead %returned for a night Last Line: A fabric %one with our listening Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANOTHER SONG, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Most mornings I wake up slowly. That's just Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANOTHER VOICE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sword bites for peace Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ANOTHER VOICE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sword bites for peace Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ANOTHER YEAR (1), by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another year of setting suns Subject(s): Religion ANSWER TO PRAYER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Der ain't no use in sayin' de lawd won't answer / prah Last Line: Night. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Nativity, The; Theology ANT HILLS, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's true that my soul mea culpa is empty Last Line: Under god (undercut underground): we can count Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are they clinging to their crosses Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Antichrist; Religion - Disestablishment; Smith, Frederick E., Earl Of Birkenhead; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are they clinging to their crosses Last Line: But the souls of christian peoples - %chuck it, smith! Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Antichrist; Religion - Disestablishment; Smith, Frederick E., Earl Of Birkenhead; Wales ANTIGONE: WOMEN, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then she brought more dust Last Line: She has never learned to yield Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ANTIPHONAL HYMN IN PRAISE OF INANNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: No one has sung 'let the world know!' Last Line: O my lady, wife of an, I have told you fury! Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion APOCRYPHA, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You lie in my arms Last Line: I wrestle with the angel Subject(s): Religion APPEAL TO ALL MOTHERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Off all women that euer were borne Subject(s): Religion APPEAL TO THE MOONGOD NANNA-SUEN TO THROW OUT LUGALANNE ..., by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: O suen, the usurper lugalanne means nothing to me! Last Line: Inanna! %let me call to her! Ace is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy parables discarding Last Line: That is not an answer, surely? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology APPLE FOOLS, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Apple fools we are Last Line: The crowded table the %pinions' fold Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPLE SHRINE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week you gathered armfuls of apple blossoms Last Line: Our tree will be strung with a rosary of apples Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality APPLE TREE, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light! Subject(s): Religion APPREHENSION, by JAMES ANDERSON FRASER Poem Text First Line: I do not fear Last Line: And unloved. Subject(s): Religion; Theology APPRENTICE EATS GLASS, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Your friend, the end, comes every day Last Line: There is little they can say Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPRENTICE IS AMAZED, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Oh, for the holiness which is a needle Last Line: Was going to contain that Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPRENTICE PROPHECIES, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: It's the wreath you don't come upon Last Line: You'll keep waiting for it to end Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPRENTICE SEES HIMSELF IN THE SUNSET, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: The lepers grew excited Last Line: Might save you from speaking Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APPROACHES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou turn'st away from ill Last Line: Then christ is thy very soul. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology APPROXIMATE WEIGHT OF FIRE IN THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS, by DAWN KARIMA PETTIGREW Poem Source First Line: Manna redpaint measuring Last Line: Is like that %only quiet Subject(s): Peace; Religion APRIL, by ISOBEL MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: Always the month of april fills Subject(s): Religion APRIL HILL, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She did not climb the april hill' Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion APRIL, BEIJING, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the self - containment of my old face Last Line: The dust rises Subject(s): Religion ARCH OF SANCTIFICATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could use a dove in my heart Last Line: It's to taunt, to beg them to speak Subject(s): Arches; Catholics; Churches; God; Religion; Spirituality ARE THE MULTIPLE RELIGIONS ALL IMPRESSIONS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Of the single truth? Wisdom wells up Last Line: Not give us the reality of ocean Subject(s): Religion ARE YOU LOOKING FOR ME? I AM IN THE NEXT SEAT, by KABIR Poem Source Variant Title(s): Breat Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion ARGUMENT OF A DISSENTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never to the church will give Last Line: That there is one dissenter less. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Dissenters; Graves; Religion; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology ARIDITY, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O soul, canst thou not understand Last Line: That quiet waiteth for his voice Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Religion ARMAGEDDON, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Antichrist, playing his lissome flute and merry Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ARMAGEDDON, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Antichrist, playing his lissome flute and merry Last Line: These armageddons weary me much,' he said Subject(s): Bible; Religion ARMAGEDDON, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is growing weary of its emperors and / kings Last Line: The devil having ridden on the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Theology ARMY OF THE DEAD, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come thou from the four winds, o breath Subject(s): Religion ARRAIGNMENT, SELS., by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did you do with the world that you bade us bow to anew? Subject(s): Religion ARRIVAL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old inn glimmered like a glowworm eye Subject(s): Death; Religion ARROW, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life of men Subject(s): Religion ART AND WORSHIP, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: However it may help us to transcend Last Line: Finding forms for what we know must be, %yet can't be understood by what we know Subject(s): Religion AS A CHILD IN THE TEMPLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm looking forward to my death,' she said Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology AS A CHILD IN THE TEMPLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm looking forward to my death,' she said Last Line: Saved, not for the last time, by my ignorance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AS A MAN SOWETH, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion AS CHRIST WAS THEN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: As christ was then, so god is now Last Line: So will he be to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology AS DOWN IN THE SUNLESS RETREATS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Last Line: The hope of my spirit turns trembling to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Religion; Theology AS I ON GO MY WAY, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My life shall touch a dozen lives before this day is done Subject(s): Religion AS IF THERE WERE ONLY ONE, by MARTHA SERPAS Poem Source First Line: In the morning god pulled me onto the porch Last Line: And that morning were my first day back Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality AS IT WAS WRITTEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, earth, / riding your merry-go-round Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AS IT WAS WRITTEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, earth, %riding your merry-go-round Last Line: With its hungry red mouth %to suck at my scars Subject(s): God; Religion AS KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame Last Line: To the father through the features of men's faces. Subject(s): Religion; Theology AS ONCE THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion AS THY DAYS SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God broke our years to hours and days Last Line: We only bear the burden by the hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Variant Title(s): Hour By Hour Subject(s): Religion; Time; Worship; Theology AS TRULY AS GOD IS OUR FATHER, SO TRULY IS GOD OUR MOTHER, by JULIAN OF NORWICH Poem Source Last Line: Love. Why does he reveal it to you? For love Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Worship AS WITH GLADNESS MEN OF OLD, by WILLIAM CHATTERTON DIX Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ASCENSION, by DENIS DEVLIN Poem Source First Line: It happens through the blond window, the trees Last Line: Life with its dark, and love above the laws Subject(s): Bible; Religion ASCENSION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body lay on the bier of death Last Line: "but say, from vienna or munich instead." Subject(s): Ascension Day; Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology ASCENSION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretching himself as if again Subject(s): Ascension Day; Religion; Theology ASCENSION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretching himself as if again Last Line: Mothering his birth: %torture and bliss Subject(s): Ascension Day; Religion ASCENSION OF THE RED MADONNA, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's been gone whenever I looked Last Line: The photographer's blinded plate, %appearing as nothing is everything Subject(s): Religion ASENATH, by DIANA HUME GEORGE Poem Source First Line: Why did you choose me for your wife, joseph? Last Line: What are you dreaming, %diviner of dreams? Subject(s): Bible; Religion ASOLANDO: REVERIE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know there shall dawn a day Last Line: And power comes full in play. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ASPECTS OF EVE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To have been one / of many ribs Subject(s): Religion; Theology ASPECTS OF EVE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To have been one %of many ribs Last Line: Which unexpectedly %open Subject(s): Religion ASPIRATION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never know how high we are Last Line: For fear to be a king. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ASPIRATION, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ASSASSIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The correct death is written in Last Line: I will see him home Subject(s): God; Religion ASSISI, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even in february the buses came and climbed the hill Last Line: Until, word for word, we could repeat it Subject(s): Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Religion; Saints AT A BURIAL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of all light and darkness Last Line: Lord of all life and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Burials; Theology AT A CALVARY NEAR THE ANCRE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One ever hangs where shelled roads part Last Line: Lay down their life; they do not hate Subject(s): Bible; Religion AT A COUNTRY FUNERAL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Now the old ways that have brought us Last Line: A second and more final death Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology AT A COUNTRY FUNERAL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the old ways that have brought us Last Line: Faithful to the fields, lest the dead die %a second and more final death Subject(s): Christianity; Religion AT A SMALL COLLEGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words jut forward out of the stone Last Line: You remember to breathe, to stand on the earth again Subject(s): Religion; Universities & Colleges AT A TEA PARTY, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Over the teacup's rim Last Line: And make me whole. Subject(s): God; Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology AT CHURCH, by CORA BABBITT JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: The preacher preached from a pulpit Last Line: And I knew that god lived there. Subject(s): Churches; God; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology AT EIGHTY-THREE, SELS., by THOMAS DURLEY LANDELS Poem Source First Line: Thank god for life, with all its endless store Subject(s): Religion AT EVEN, WHEN THE SUN WAS SET, by HENRY TWELLS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AT EVENTIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AT LAST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on my day of life the night is falling Last Line: The life for which I long. Variant Title(s): To Paths Unknown Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology AT LITTLE VIRGIL'S WINDOW, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are three green eggs in a small brown pocket Subject(s): Religion; Theology AT LITTLE VIRGIL'S WINDOW, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are three green eggs in a small brown pocket Last Line: And our god be glads and world be sweeter Subject(s): Religion AT MY FATHER'S FUNERAL, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I am holding Last Line: In our future lives Subject(s): Religion AT SEA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy beauty fills each bubble-dome Last Line: My bosom -- lord, abide. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean AT SUMMER CAMP, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone is leaving - tears. Someone Last Line: Taking a lost one home, past the trees %and the lake and all you wanted to say Subject(s): Camping; Religion AT THE DAWN, by ALICE MACDONALD KIPLING Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AT THE END OF THINGS, by ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE Poem Source First Line: The world arose as a man to find him Subject(s): Religion AT THE MANGER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O shut your bright eyes that mine must endanger Last Line: Dream while you may Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Religion AT THE PAUWELS, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: I walked on the edge of the churchyard, my shoes hurt my Subject(s): Religion AT THE PLACE OF THE SEA, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Text First Line: Have you come to the red sea place in your life Last Line: In a place that his hand hath made. Subject(s): Red Sea; Religion; Theology AT THE SET OF THE SUN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AT THE SUMMIT, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: A myriad carven statues Last Line: Unmelted, unintermittent, %shines forever Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality AT THE VERY MOMENT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: No matter what you know Last Line: It will break in your hands Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life AT THE WORST, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And man is left alone with man' Subject(s): Religion AT THIRTEEN, I DESPISED THE UNEQUAL, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Struggling marriages in my home town, envied Last Line: The message, at the time Subject(s): Religion AT THIRTEEN, I WANTED, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: To believe I was adopted Last Line: Then I went in to my family Subject(s): Religion AT TWENTY-FOUR I THOUGHT MY FUTURE WAS FIXED, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: At twenty - four, I visited a palmist Last Line: Until we turn the corner Subject(s): Religion ATALANTA IN CALYDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars Last Line: For the hands of their kingdom are strong. Subject(s): Atalanta; Fates (mythology); Mankind; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Human Race; Theology ATHALIE, SELS., by JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ATHEIST'S WAIL, by DOROTHY DUCAS Poem Source First Line: I have stood gazing down at newly turned sod Subject(s): Religion ATOM, by THOMAS THORNELY Poem Source First Line: Wake not the imprisoned power that sleeps Subject(s): Atoms; Religion ATONEMENT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: How often we neglect a friend Last Line: A wreath to lay upon his bier. Subject(s): Guilt; Religion; Theology ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a very virtuous burgher Last Line: "dance before the master's throne?" Subject(s): Creation; Grief; Religion; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology ATTAINMENT, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the heights of great endeavour Subject(s): Religion ATTAINMENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss Last Line: Material things must answer and obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Materialism; Religion; Worship; Theology AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology AUGUST 17TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AUGUST 17TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Last Line: And then stitched up again for the long voyage back Subject(s): God; Religion AUGUST 8TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And do not be indiscreet or unconventional. Play it safe Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology AUGUST 8TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And do not be indiscreet or unconventional. Play it safe Last Line: Spooking my lonely hours, you were there, but pretend Subject(s): God; Religion AUGUSTINE: LETTER TO GOD, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: Where praise is impossible Last Line: I stretch %only to where I have started Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); God; Religion; Saints AURORA LEIGH; A POEM IN NINE BOOKS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of writing books there is no end Last Line: The rest in order: - last, an amethyst Subject(s): Books; Landscape; Mothers; Religion AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This day winding down now Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day winding down now Last Line: And the flood flowers now Subject(s): Bible; Religion AUTOBIOGRAPHY: NEW YORK (2 - 10), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not believe that david killd goliath Last Line: I will fight in my own way %with a couple of pebbles and a sling Subject(s): Bible; Religion AUTUMN, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today the peace of autumn pervades the world Subject(s): Religion AUTUMN AND DEATH, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology AUTUMN AND DEATH, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons AUTUMN LEAVES, by MINNIE CASE HOPKINS Poem Text First Line: About the chilly, ragged lawns they lie Last Line: Could ask a fairer fate for them, or me? Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology AVE GLORIOSA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Haill! Glaid and glorius Subject(s): Religion AVE GRACIA PLENA, DEVOIDE OF ALL TRESPACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was this his coming! I had hoped to see Last Line: And over both with outstretched wings the dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology AVE REGINA CELORUM (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Haile be thou, maide, modir of crist Subject(s): Religion AVE REGINA CELORUM (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Off all the bryddus that euer seyt were Subject(s): Religion AWAKE, AWAKE TO LOVE AND WORK!, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The god who gave all worlds that are, %and all that are to be Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion AWARENESS, by MIRIAM TEICHNER Poem Text First Line: God-let me be aware Last Line: God—let me be aware. Subject(s): Religion; Theology AWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot say, and I will not say Last Line: He is not dead -- he is just away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): He Is Not Dead Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology AZALEAS IN EPIPHANY, by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Delicate hot-pink bloom Last Line: Blazing into creation, %the word's embodiment Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers; Religion AZTECS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: We have all had our hearts torn Last Line: Beneath the unyielding sun Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life €ŒNOTHING IS REALLY HARD BUT TO BE REAL€”€?, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Poetry & Poets; Theology BABEL AND BETHEL, by FRANK BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: There was a multitude striving to build Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Religion BABY PICTURE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the heart of the grape Last Line: Merely a kid keeping alive Subject(s): God; Religion BABYLON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow, daughter of babylon, bow thee to dust! Last Line: And the satyrs shall dance, and the bittern shall cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Religion; Theology BABYLON SLIM / -NESS OF, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Numb rhythm before christ Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Religion BACK, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me where I've been Last Line: Because he bore my name. Variant Title(s): Black Subject(s): Religion; War; World War I; Theology; First World War BACK PORCH FUNDAMENTALIST, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: In the afternoon %he chose the corner in the sun Last Line: On this tree is the keys of the kingdom Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BAD TIMES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion BAGATELLES: 2, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: For kitty has a golden head Last Line: Is my religion too. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Theology BALADE BY SQUIRE HALSHAM, by SQUIRE HALSHAM Poem Source First Line: The worlde so wide, th'aire so remuable Subject(s): Religion BALANCE WHEEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I waved at the sky Subject(s): God; Religion BALLAD OF JOKING JESUS, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: - I'm the queerest young fellow that you ever heard Last Line: And olivet's breezy... Goodbye, now, goodbye Subject(s): Bible; Religion BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all Last Line: Sin' they nailed him to the tree. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology BALLAD OF THE LONELY MASTURBATOR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the affair is always death Last Line: At night, alone, I marry the bed gone Subject(s): God; Love; Religion BALLAD OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the toilers from whom god barred Last Line: "god, give us another chance!" Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Unsuccessful Subject(s): Failure; God; Labor & Laborers; Life; Religion; Sin; Soul; Success; Work; Workers; Theology BALLAD OF WONDER, by ELEANOR SLATER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion BALLADE OF LOST OBJECTS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the ribbons I tie my hair with? Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Youth; Theology BALLADE OF LOST OBJECTS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the ribbons I tie my hair with? Last Line: But where in the world did the children vanish? Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Youth BANARAS IS ANOTHER NAME FOR THE WORLD, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: A sadhu carries a lamp to the ganges Last Line: How might you bathe in the river without getting in? Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality BANISHMENT FROM UR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You asked me to enter the holy cloister Last Line: My soft mouth of honey is suddenly confused. %my beautiful face is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion BANISHMENT FROM UR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You asked me to enter the holy cloister Last Line: My beautiful face is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion BANQUET, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One dwelt in darkness and sang within his dwelling Subject(s): Religion BAPTIZING, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The preacher braced himself Last Line: Up on the wings of angels Subject(s): Churches; Religion BARABBAS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he opens the gates of the morning Last Line: Amplias. Perhaps, perhaps! Subject(s): Bible; Generosity; Pride; Religion; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Theology BARABBAS SPEAKS, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source Subject(s): Religion BARGAIN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Source First Line: Tell me your name,' I challenged christ Subject(s): Religion BAT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His awful skin Last Line: Like a misshapen udder Subject(s): God; Religion BATHERS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the great bronze tub of summer Last Line: Squatting in the mud Subject(s): Religion BATTERY MOVING UP TO A NEW POSITION FROM REST CAMP: DAWN, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sign of life we rouse Subject(s): Religion BATTLE, by ABRAHAM ABULAFIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When yalweh spoke to me, when I saw his name Last Line: Overcame all the days of the week Alternate Author Name(s): Abulafia, Abraham Ben Samuel Subject(s): Religion BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord Last Line: While god is marching on. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; United States - History; United States; War; Liberty; Theology; America BATTLE OF PEACE, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion BAYONET, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can I do with this bayonet Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology BAYONET, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can I do with this bayonet Last Line: Vut with all the vibrations %of a crucifix Subject(s): God; Religion BE BORN AGAIN!, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall lay bare love's inmost meaning, who Subject(s): Religion BE STILL, by KATHARINA VON SCHLEGEL Poem Source First Line: Be still my soul: the lord is on thy side Last Line: His voice who ruled them while he dwelt below Subject(s): Religion BE STRONG, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be strong! / we are not here to play, to dream, to drift Last Line: Faint not -- fight on! To-morrow comes the song. Subject(s): Religion; Strength; Theology BE STRONG, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be strong to hope, o heart Last Line: Thou wouldst be strong! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Religion; Strength; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology BE TRUE [THYSELF], by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou must be true thyself Last Line: A great and noble creed. Subject(s): Religion; Theology BE WITH US, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: We raise, o lord, the massy pile Last Line: And peace eternal fill the heart. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology BEACON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BEACON LIGHTS, by NELLIE E. WARREN Poem Text First Line: An airport and a beacon-light shining Last Line: "shall be given to wear the crown." Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology BEAR UP A WHILE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye good distressed! Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Religion BEAUTITUDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And is it well with thee Last Line: May enter in. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology BEAUTY OF JOB'S DAUGHTERS, by JAY MACPHERSON Poem Source First Line: The old, the mad, the blind have fairest daughters Last Line: In all the land no women found so fair Subject(s): Bible; Daughters; Job (bible); Religion BECAUSE THOU DID'ST GIVE, by HARRY MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Out of the garden comes the tree Subject(s): Religion BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A lone tern turns in the blowsy wind Last Line: The tide will have them soon. Moments %are what we have Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality BED-ROCK, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: I have been tried Last Line: For true happiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology BEFORE ACTION, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: By all the glories of the day Last Line: Help me to die, o lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War BEFORE DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come in this hour to set my spirit free Last Line: Hungered for what my heart shall never say. Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Theology BEFORE THE ANAESTHETIC, OR A REAL FRIGHT, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intolerably sad, profound Last Line: But still you go from here alone' %say all the bells about the throne Subject(s): Religion BEFORE THE MONSTRANCE, by ROBERT LIETZ Poem Source First Line: I kneel on tiles at the back Last Line: Night-lit bulbs no longer visible %in the wash of stronger light Subject(s): Religion BEFORE THERE WAS A TRACE OF THIS WORLD OF MEN, by BIBI HAYATI Poem Source Subject(s): Religion BEFORE THY THRONE, O GOD, WE KNEEL, by WILLIAM BOYD CARPENTER Poem Source Last Line: A newborn people may we rise, %more pure, more true, more nobly wise Subject(s): Religion BEGGING JIXIAN TO SEND DOWN DIVINE WRITINGS, by WU SHI NU Poem Source First Line: Though destiny is cruel to this phoenix pair Last Line: With how much bitter pain? Subject(s): Religion BEGIN AGAIN, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day is a fresh beginning Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Variant Title(s): New Every Morning; A Fresh Beginnin Subject(s): Religion BEGIN THE DAY WITH GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Every morning lean thine arms awhile Last Line: Turn strong to meet thy day Subject(s): Religion BEGINNING THE HEGIRA: FOOD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want mother's milk Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology BEGINNING THE HEGIRA: FOOD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want mother's milk Last Line: And you walk away reading the paper Subject(s): God; Religion BEGINNING THE HEGIRA: THE MONEY SWING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, father, / I hold this snapshot of you Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology BEGINNING THE HEGIRA: THE MONEY SWING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, father, %I hold this snapshot of you Last Line: If you don't want it to be snow %you just pay money Subject(s): God; Religion BEGINNING WITH AND, by ALBERTA TURNER Poem Source First Line: And you feel a vague lump in your throat, a need Last Line: Till the gun grows heacy and you lay it down Subject(s): Religion BEHOLD JESUS ON THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Godys sone that was so fre Subject(s): Religion BEING SORRY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a kid I wanted to drop Last Line: And whatever was in those three little dots at the end Subject(s): Religion BELIEVERS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: I heard one talking yesterday of god! Last Line: Help thou our unbelief! Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology BELIEVERS' BEST BUY, by ROGER WODDIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The church's publication %is there to be explored Last Line: But if you're into evil, %consult the april 'witch' Subject(s): Religion; Stone, Samuel John (1839-1900) BELLEROPHON: THERE ARE NO GODS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doth some one say that there are gods above? Last Line: Is built up from our good and evil luck. Variant Title(s): Kings Subject(s): Agnosticism; Religion; Theology BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the circus poster Last Line: All the trembling bells of you %were mine Subject(s): God; Religion BELLS OF DUMBLETON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So frankly had the cowslips come Last Line: Friend! Subject(s): Bells; Religion; Self-doubt; Theology BELOVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonathan the son of saul Last Line: Onto the roof of the king's house Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Love; Religion BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay! / why stay? The road is free Last Line: What the poet had intended. Subject(s): Religion; Theology BENEATH SEARCHLIGHTS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shop windows glow like fish tanks. Even in twon Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology BENEATH SEARCHLIGHTS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shop windows glow like fish tanks. Even in twon Last Line: But that's untrue. Too stark. Sometimes - tonight!- %I satisfy the light that questions me Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BENEATH THE CROSS, by ELIZABETH CECILIA CLEPHANE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion BENEATH THE FORMS OF OUTWARD RITE, by JAMES A. BLAISDELL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion BENEDICTION, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: At dusk, I traced the peddler's hymn Last Line: Beneath the glittering cross %of a dragonfly Subject(s): Religion BENEDICTION, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now unto him who brought his people forth Subject(s): Religion BENIGNANT DEATH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanking god for life and light Last Line: If we could not die! Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean BEST TREASURE, by JOHN J. MOMENT Poem Source First Line: There are veins in the hills where jewels hide Last Line: The best we shall find is a friend Subject(s): Religion BESTIARY U.S.A.: HORNET, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red-hot needle Subject(s): God; Hornets; Religion; Theology BESTIARY U.S.A.: HORNET, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red-hot needle Last Line: He wants you to walk into him as into a dark fire Subject(s): God; Hornets; Religion BESTIARY U.S.A.: STAR-NOSED MOLE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mole, angel-dog of the pit Subject(s): Moles; Religion; Theology BESTIARY U.S.A.: STAR-NOSED MOLE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mole, angel-dog of the pit Last Line: Wearing your cross on your nose Subject(s): Animals; God; Moles; Religion BESTIARY U.S.A.: WHALE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whale on the beach, you dinosaur Subject(s): God; Religion; Whales; Theology BESTIARY U.S.A.: WHALE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whale on the beach, you dinosaur Last Line: Putting on our socks and working in the little boxes we call the office Subject(s): God; Religion; Whales BETRAYAL, by HESTER H. CHOLMONDELEY Poem Text First Line: Still, as of old Last Line: Himself, not christ. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology BETTER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better for sin to dwell from heaven apart Last Line: Were deeper hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology BETTER A DAY OF FAITH, by HENRY BURKE ROBINS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion BETTER FATE, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Source First Line: This - this our life - is like the moth's who flies Subject(s): Religion BETTER THAN GOLD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better than grandeur, better than gold Last Line: And centre there, are better than gold. Subject(s): Home; Religion; Theology BETWEEN LIVING AND DREAMING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Religion BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND MORNING, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion BETWEEN WORLDS, by ADAM CRAIG HILL Poem Source First Line: So many mornings I awoke Last Line: Between one world and another, %and I knew it was important,%and I knew it was impossible Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality BEWARE THE PAINS OF PURGATORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why sittist tho so syngyng, thenkyst thou nothyng Subject(s): Religion BEYOND, by JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART Poem Source First Line: It is an old belief Subject(s): Religion BEYOND, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seemeth such a little way to me Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion BEYOND ELECTRONS, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE Poem Text First Line: They who once probed and doubted now believe Last Line: And find a living god behind his deeds. Subject(s): Faith; Religion & Science; Belief; Creed BEYOND KNOWLEDGE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rescued world newcomer Last Line: "o child, it is a rescued sin!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Bible; Children; Redemption; Religion; Sin; Childhood; Theology BEYOND OUR POWER OF VISION, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion BHAGAVAD-GITA, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Religion BIBLE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion BIBLE STUDIES: 1, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: Outside kroger, the prophet rages Last Line: No, there is none righteous, no, not one Subject(s): Religion BIBLIOGRAPHERS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucifer blazing in superb effigies Last Line: (the shadow-god envisaged in no cloud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BIBLIOLATRES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowing thyself in dust before a book Last Line: Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit. Subject(s): Books; Religion; Reading; Theology BIDE A WEE!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thought the times be dark and dreary Last Line: Is a heartsome song Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion BIG BOOTS OF PAIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There can be certain potions Last Line: Of its greed for love %next thursday Subject(s): God; Religion BIG HEART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big heart, %wide as a watermelon Last Line: Takes it all in -- %all in comes the fury of love Subject(s): God; Religion BIGOT, by ELEANOR SLATER Poem Source First Line: Though you be scholarly, beware Subject(s): Religion BILBAO ALONE, by JILL PELAEZ BAUMGAERTNER Poem Source First Line: Some of the sounds here are familiar Last Line: Is it always as ominous as these first few hours of unfamiliarity? Subject(s): Religion BIRD IN THE HAND, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not feel the peace of the saints Subject(s): Religion BIRDBONES, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: The girdle is a grass leaf dried and curled Last Line: Come down because the sky stops, not their bones Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BIRTH OF GOD (FROM AN EARLY PHOTOGRAPH), by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: At first silence, a gas or two, a wind unchallenged Last Line: As wind and out of reach he wouldn't chase it to the moon Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality BIRTHDAY IN QUEBEC: 1, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I remember today a [quebec] roadside, the crucifix Last Line: To hold the huge landscape: crops, houses and men, in its fire Variant Title(s): The Crucifi Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BIRTHMARK, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Is god only %a drop of honey on the tongue? Last Line: As you were being born? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more wine? Then we'll push back chairs and talk Last Line: And studied his last chapter of saint john. Subject(s): Religion; Sleep; Theology BISHOP GLOBE-TROTTER, by LEWIS SASSE II Poem Text First Line: Being raised to the purple gave me an itching foot Last Line: Buddhists, confucianists, christians, and an atheist. Subject(s): Cairo; Prayer; Religion; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips BIT OF THE BOOK IN THE MORNING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To hallow the end of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion BLACK ART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman who writes feels too much Last Line: To eat up all the weird abundance her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion BLACK DOG, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I fly the flag of the menstruating black dog Last Line: Than anything in it Subject(s): Religion BLACK HERALDS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Last Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Subject(s): Black (color); Death; Ignorance; Pain; Religion BLACK MADONNA GREETS A SUNRISE, BROAD & PARRISH, by NEHASSAIU DEGANNES Poem Source First Line: Buttocks hugged tight Last Line: Is eve's lustral mirage Subject(s): Dawn; Religion BLACK SPIRITUAL: CRUCIFIXION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dey [or, they] crucified my lord Subject(s): Religion BLACK SPIRITUAL: JACOB'S LADDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We are climbing jacob's ladder Subject(s): Religion BLESS THIS HOIUSE, O LORD, WE PRAY, by HELEN TAYLOR Poem Source Last Line: Ever open to joy and love Subject(s): Religion BLESSED BE THE PAPS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose he had been tabled at thy teats Last Line: The mother then must sunk the son Subject(s): Bible; Religion BLESSING, AND HONOR, AND GLORY, AND POWER, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dying in weakness, but rising to reign Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The BLIND, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: Seeking god Last Line: And still waters. Subject(s): Blindness; God; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Show me your god!' the doubter cries Last Line: Is blind of soul, and cannot see! Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology BLIND, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Give no pity because my feet Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny Subject(s): Religion BLIND, by NORMAN V. PEARCE Poem Text First Line: I cannot view the bloom upon the rose Last Line: And thank my god and do not ask for more. Subject(s): Blindness; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND BARTIMAEUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind bartimaeus at the gates Last Line: "thy faith from blindness gives release!" Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Bible; Blindness; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND BUT HAPPY, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: O what a happy soul am I Last Line: I cannot, and I won't. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny Subject(s): Blindness; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know what mother's face is like Subject(s): Religion BLIND GUIDES, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: And who are these poor souls who in your name Last Line: Would judge the nations by their garbled truth. Subject(s): Blindness; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLITHE MASK, by DALLETT FUGUET Poem Source First Line: He went so blithely on the way Last Line: He whistled that he might not weep Subject(s): Religion BLOOD, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Known for its repertory lineages Subject(s): Blood; Religion; Theology BLOOD, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Known for its repertory lineages Last Line: Blood surfaces our dust, and something more, %the potent changing earth of us Subject(s): Blood; Religion BLUE LIGHT, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The angels stood %with their backs to me Last Line: I turned from them, %I let them go Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BLUE WAVE BREAKING, SELS., by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion BO TREE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: There are many roads Last Line: Of the enlightment tree Subject(s): Religion BOAT (ST. PETER'S TESTIMONY), by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I owned a little boat a while ago Subject(s): Religion BODHIDHARMA RETURNING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I once carried a world on my back Last Line: Toward the thin filament %of sun Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life BODY OF GOD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is the great urge that has not yet found a body Last Line: The rest, the undiscoverable, is the demi-urge Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOETHIUS AT CAVALZERO, by JOHN MACOUBRIE Poem Source First Line: If, as plato called them, shadows Subject(s): Religion BOG SACRIFICE, by JOHN FINLAY Poem Source First Line: The iron and acid water of the bog Last Line: The bog seemed never raised above the sea, %but underneath, out of whose depths she came Subject(s): Religion BOLEROS 14, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night enters the plaza, step by step, in the singular Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology BOMB THAT FELL ON AMERICA, SELS., by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I went to call on the lord in his house on the high hill Subject(s): Religion BONDS, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion BOOK OF DAYS 10, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last, snow, flocked Last Line: That whimpers that turns that catches %its breath that breathes Variant Title(s): Epiphan Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality BOOK OF DAYS 25, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun gone for a moment, air Last Line: Of the body the tongue of the holiest ghost %of the word that was, that was to be Variant Title(s): Pentecos Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality BOOK OF ISAIAH, PART 1, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isaiah awoke angry Last Line: He grinned in the dark, she went back inside Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOOK OF WISDOM, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I go on loving anyone at fifty Last Line: Hymns of the terrible organ in decay Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT, by JOHN NELSON DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Four are the men who tell of the life of our saviour and master Last Line: Next is the letter by judas, and last is the great revelation. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Religion; Story-telling; Reading; Theology BORN IS OUR GOD EMANUEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In bedlam thys berde of lyf Subject(s): Religion BORODIN, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world was loveliness I was Subject(s): Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887); Composers; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology BOTTLE, by RALPH KNEVET Poem Source First Line: Thou bearst the bottle, I the bag (oh lord Last Line: And to the brim, these shall thy bottle fill Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOUNDLESS LOVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose boundless love bestows Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion BOY'S PRAYER, by A. B. PONSONBY Poem Source First Line: God of our boyhood, whom we yield Subject(s): Religion BRAHMA, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the red slayer think he slays Last Line: Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. Subject(s): Brahma; God; Religion; Theology BRAND SPEAKS, by HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As catholics make of the redeemer Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarme, Brynjolf Subject(s): Religion BREAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Be gentle %when you touch bread Subject(s): Religion BREAD COME FROM HEAVEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is bred fro heuene cam Subject(s): Religion BREAK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was also my violent heart that broke Last Line: The zeal of my house doth eat me up Subject(s): God; Religion BREAK AWAY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your daisies have come Last Line: No matter how often I sweep the floor Subject(s): God; Religion BREAK DOWN THE WALLS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Break down the old dividing walls Last Line: One living of the living word. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology BREAKDANCING, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive the boy on the screen is doing it Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Theology; Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint BREAKDANCING, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive the boy on the screen is doing it Last Line: Turning into the living past Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582) BREAST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the key to it Last Line: I burn the way money burns Subject(s): God; Religion BREASTPLATE OF SAINT PATRICK, by PATRICK (372-466) Poem Source First Line: I bind myself [or, unto myself] today Last Line: Alone, and in a multitude Alternate Author Name(s): Succat Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Religion BREATHE ON ME, BREATH OF GOD, by EDWIN HATCH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion BREATHLESS AWE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two things,' said kant, 'fill me with breathless awe' Subject(s): Religion; Theology BREATHLESS AWE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion BRIAR ROSE (SLEEPING BEAUTY), by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider / a girl who keeps slipping off Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology BRIAR ROSE (SLEEPING BEAUTY), by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider %a girl who keeps slipping off Last Line: God help -- %this life after death up Subject(s): God; Religion BRIDGE YOU'LL NEVER CROSS, by GRENVILLE KLEISER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion BRIDGES OF DREAMS, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: I built a bridge of dreams across Last Line: Of all my dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Religion; Nightmares; Theology BRING THE DAY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees and lilies there were Subject(s): Religion; Theology BRING THE DAY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees and lilies there were Subject(s): Religion BRING THEM BACK, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many are out of the fold to-day Last Line: To the straight and narrow track. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology BRING US THE LIGHT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: I hear a clear voice calling, calling Last Line: Bring, o, bring us the light! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology BROKEN BODIES, by LOUIS GOLDING Poem Source First Line: Not for the broken bodies Subject(s): Religion BROKEN PINION, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I walked through the woodland meadows Variant Title(s): The Bird With A Broken Win Subject(s): Religion BROTHER FRANCISCO ANTHONY EATS AN APPLE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the first bite watered his thirst Last Line: Was immortality, he said, or never %to have tasted this fruit Subject(s): Fruit; Religion BROTHER, ABIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Brother, a-byde, I the desire and pray Subject(s): Religion BROTHERHOOD, by OZORA STEARNS DAVIS Poem Source First Line: At length there dawns the glorious day Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion BROTHERHOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brother man! Fold to thy heart Last Line: And in its ashes plant the tree of peace Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion BROTHERHOOD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, what a world, if men in street and mart Last Line: Rise to the meaning of true brotherhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): True Brotherhood Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology BROTHERHOOD (2), by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crest and crowning of all good Last Line: Make way for brotherhood—make way for man. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology BROTHERS, by GEORGE E. DAY Poem Source First Line: I honor the land that gave me birth Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion BROTHERS OF THE FAITH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In christ there is no east or west Last Line: Throughout the whole wide earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): No East Or West Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology BROTHERS: 7. STILL THERE IS MERCY, THERE IS GRACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How otherwise / could I have come to this Last Line: But, amen, yours. Subject(s): Creation; Grace; Mercy; Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips BUCK, ALONE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Out for sulfur shelf, walking up a trail, the damp gray day Last Line: Tongue and palate, swallow sweetness, spit out pith. I fill %my plastic bag and stroll on home Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Sabbath BUDDHA IN GLORY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Center of all centers, core of cores Last Line: Will be, when all the stars are dead Subject(s): Imagination; Religion; Vision BUDDHIST TEMPLE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by BERNETTA VIOLA QUINN Poem Source First Line: This is the year of the snake Last Line: The pagan sun shines in my christian eyes Subject(s): Buddhism; Religion BUILDERS, by PURD E. DEITZ Poem Source First Line: We would be building; temples still undone Last Line: We build with thee, o grant enduring worth %until the heavenly kingdom comes on earth Subject(s): Religion BUILDING FOR ETERNITY, by N. B. SARGENT Poem Text First Line: We are building in sorrow or joy Last Line: In the city of light above? Subject(s): Religion; Theology BULWARK OF LIBERTY, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? Variant Title(s): Ultimate Justice Of The Peopl Subject(s): Religion BUMPER STICKERS ARE WINDBAGS HUFFING AT STRANGERS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I stare at a bumper sticker that said: I Last Line: For more spacious housing Subject(s): Religion BURDEN, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou the burden, lord Last Line: God, draw her close to thee! Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation; Religion BURDEN-BEARERS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Burden-bearers are we all Last Line: To god. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology BURIAL OF MOSES, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By nebo's lonely mountain Last Line: Of him he loved so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology BURNING BUSH, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When moses, musing in the desert, found Last Line: The bush is still a bush, and fire is fire Subject(s): Religion BURNING BUSH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thy wisdom and thy might appear Last Line: O grant us in our souls to see %the living flame that comes from thee Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion BURNING ISLAND, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wave god who broke through me today Subject(s): Nature; Buddhism; Religion; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology BURNING LADDER, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jacob %never climbed the ladder Last Line: Shivering. Gravity %always greater than desire Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion BUSIRIS THE PROUD, by JAMES CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: In a silence like that of sahara lies goshen Last Line: The wilderness welcomes the feet of the free! Subject(s): Egyptology; Religion; Theology BUT GOD IS SILENT/PSALM 114, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sotto voce %cynics pass the word Last Line: Our momentous friend %our androgynous lover Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's light shines; shine as it will Last Line: It will not love its darkness half so well Subject(s): Bible; Religion BUT THIS IS ALSO EVERLASTING LIFE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We call this time, and gauge it by the clock Subject(s): Religion BUT WHEN YE PRAY, by FRANCES CROSBY HAMLET Poem Text First Line: But when ye pray, say our - not mine or thine Last Line: When all can pray, not mine, or thine, but our. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology BUT WHO SHALL SEE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: But who shall see the glorious day Last Line: Some long-lost exile home! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Zionism; Judaism; Theology BUYING THE WHORE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the roast beef I have purchased Last Line: Its cold hard quarters Subject(s): God; Religion BY AN EVOLUTIONIST, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man Last Line: A height that is higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Religion; Theology BY GENTLE LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May we and all who bear thy name Last Line: And for thy truth the world endure Subject(s): Religion BY HIM, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What comfort by him do we win Last Line: Can man forget this story? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion BY NIGHT, by PHILIP JEROME CLEVELAND Poem Source First Line: The tapers in the great god's hall Last Line: Dark hours of grief and pain reveal %the undreamed constancy of love Subject(s): Religion BY THE CAMP FIRE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, 'twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide Last Line: Some light of knowledge would be shed, and some few riddles would be read. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Religion CABINET OF SEEDS DISPLAYED, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the original monies of the earth Last Line: And think the hurricane, where power lies Subject(s): Religion; Seeds CAEDMON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All others talked as if Subject(s): Caedmon (7th Century); Christianity; Religion; Theology CAEDMON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All others talked as if Last Line: And pulled my voice %into the ring of the dance Subject(s): Caedmon (7th Century); Christianity; Religion CAEDMON, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above me the abbey, grey arches on the cliff Last Line: Unhaunted bed Subject(s): Religion CAELICA: 109, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sion lies waste, and thy jerusalem Last Line: To yield the sin her everlasting doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Bible; Jerusalem; Religion; Theology CAESURA, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job sat in a corner of the dump eating asparagus Last Line: The weather of the soul, vandalized, out-at-elbow. A blight, spared though Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CAESURA, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job sat in a corner of the dump eating asparagus Last Line: The weather of the soul, vandalized, out-at-elbow. A blight. Spared, though Subject(s): Bible; Religion CALIBAN - AND I, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Source First Line: Dear god, dear god, the soul that knows not thee Subject(s): Religion CALIBAN IN THE COAL MINES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, we don't like to complain Last Line: Fling us a handful of stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Mines & Miners; Religion; Social Protest; Theology CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS; OR, NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will sprawl, now that the heat of day is best Last Line: One little mess of whelks, so he may 'scape!] Subject(s): Caliban; Religion; Theology CALL ME NOT DEAD WHEN I, INDEED, HAVE GONE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CALL OF BROTHERHOOD, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard it, the dominant call Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion CALLING OF THE DISCIPLES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some jesus %has come on me Last Line: Laughing like god's fool %behind this jesus Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Religion CALLING OUT TO BUDDHA, by TAI AN Poem Source First Line: Calling out to amida is calling your own heart Last Line: Let day and night dharma's song Subject(s): Religion; Zen Buddhism CALVARY PATH, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the stone steps Last Line: Cross of the calvary Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CAMPING IN THE CASCADES, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: After four days in the mountains Last Line: Feather, carrying god's golden solar eye, %turns black with wind Subject(s): Cascade Range; Religion CAMPUS ETCHING, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: The chapel tower that lifts against the sky Last Line: Rapt in high song and austere orisons. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Singing & Singers; Soul; Cathedrals; Theology CANA, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend! Whose presence in the Last Line: And water turned to wine Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Jesus Christ - Legends; Miracles; Religion; Theology CANDLE AND BOOK, by NINA WILLIS WALTER Poem Source First Line: One tiny golden upward-pointing flame Last Line: Needing no other symbols of his love Subject(s): Religion CANDLEMAS DAY, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: Through what obscure, half-comprehending night Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Candlemas; Religion CANNIBALS OF AUTUMN, by BARBARA JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Neither time's worn edges, nor violent windows Last Line: On windy days that shake all contemplation %blowing boxes on the water Subject(s): Religion CANTERBURY TALES, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Sea CANTICLE FOR GOOD FRIDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Religion; Theology CANTICLE FOR GOOD FRIDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top Last Line: Creation's issue congealing (and one woman's Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Religion 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 CANTICLE OF THE CREATURES [OR, SUN], by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Source First Line: Oh, most high, almight, good lord god, to thee belong Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Religion CANTICLE OF THE SUN, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Source First Line: Most high, all-powerful sweet lord Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Religion CAPELLA, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: I'm standing here in the church Last Line: At dinner by firelight in this %house we built with our own hands Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality CAROL WITH VARIATIONS, 1936, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Little town of bethlehem, how still we see thee lie Last Line: Hear the carol, once again- %peace on earth, good will to men Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion CARPENTER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, at joseph's humble bench Last Line: Home to thy father thou shalt bear %another child made thee like to thee Variant Title(s): At Joseph's Benc Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion CARPENTER OF GALILEE, by HILDA WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Source Last Line: The carpenter needs more Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion CARPENTERS, by TURNER CASSITY Poem Source First Line: Forgiven, unforgiven, they who drive the nails Last Line: They guard the branch he hangs from. Guilt occurs %where it can be afforded Subject(s): Crucifixion; Religion CARRY ON!, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to fight when everything's right Last Line: Carry on, my soul! Carry on! Subject(s): Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War CARTOONS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife rises every few hours to nurse our infant, so these Last Line: Robots with powerful beams of light Subject(s): Television; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Censorship; Cartoons & Cartoonists CASUALTY, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: Our neighbor, mrs. Waters' only son Subject(s): Religion CATHEDRAL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Source First Line: Each lonely haunt where vanished tribes have dwelt Subject(s): Religion CATHEDRALS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Orleans, %st. Denis, %notre-dame Last Line: Let us go in peace Subject(s): Religion CEILED HOUSES; A MESSAGE FOR THESE TIMES, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: What are these ceiled houses?' Last Line: "your self-made gods or me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology CENTAUR SONG, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A creature half horse, half human Last Line: And breed foals without the aid of stallions Subject(s): Religion CENTRAL CALM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My souls soars up the atmosphere Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Religion CENTURIES ARE HIS. I WILL NOT BE, by GEORGIA MOORE EBERLING Poem Source Last Line: His kingdom shall yet rule though stars be dust Subject(s): Religion CENTURY OF EPIGRAMS: 54, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what is love? Misunderstanding, pain Last Line: Like an old brandy after a long rain, %distinquished, and familiar, and aloof Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): Religion CESTELLO ANNUNCIATION, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The angel has already said, 'be not afraid' Last Line: Lets her refuse, accept, refuse, and think again Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHACO CANYON, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: I came from the love of puzzles and ghosts Last Line: Cliff-hung silhouette the pilgrim fears, a god Subject(s): Canyons; Religion CHALLENGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Oh that some spirit might in us renew Last Line: "our god is working with us, now and here!" Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Veterans Day; Theology CHALLENGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: This is no time for fear, for doubts of good Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Veterans Day CHALLENGE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quiet and courageous night Last Line: The cold complacency of earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Religion; Theology CHAMBER MUSIC: 14, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My dove, my beautiful one Last Line: Arise, arise! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CHANTICLEER, by WILLIAM AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: All this night shrill chanticleer Last Line: God and man, we do confess: %hail, o sun of righteousness! Subject(s): Religion CHAOS - AND THE WAY OUT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a knocking on the outer door Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion CHARITY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue Last Line: For ever blessing, and for ever blessed. Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Knowledge; Moses; Religion; Paradise; Theology CHARITY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: True test and savour of a christian soul Last Line: Meted to christian folk on christian ground! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Charity; Christianity; Religion; Philanthropy; Theology CHARITY THE DAUGHTER OF HUMILITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently I took that which ungently came Last Line: Give him the rotten timber for his pains! Variant Title(s): Forbearance Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CHARTER OF SALVATION, by GEORGE ARTHUR CLARKE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHARTLESS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never saw a moor Last Line: As if the chart were given. Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Heaven; Religion; Sky; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Theology CHATTAHOOCHEE, by PATRICK PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Like a spirit moving through the flower Last Line: Bringing the scattered pieces back together Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Tragedy CHERUBIM, SELS., by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered like a sheep that's lost Subject(s): God; Religion CHESAPEAKE REVELATION, 1786, by MORRIS CREECH Poem Source First Line: Though fearsome to reveal, my brethren, hear Last Line: Who judges us but will not show his face, %held in the whited sepulcher of grace Subject(s): Religion CHILD, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young child, christ, is straight and wise Last Line: For the young child. Christ, straight and wise. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology CHILD BEARERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jean, death comes close to us all Last Line: In the worry festering inside us, %let our children go so fast %they go Subject(s): God; Religion CHILD THAT DIED FOR US, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oure lady hade a childe bothe fryssh and gaye Subject(s): Religion CHILD'S OFFERING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The wise may bring their learning Subject(s): Religion CHILD-SONGS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still linger in our noon of time Last Line: The childlike heart is all! Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology CHILDHOOD, by JOHN ERSKINE Poem Source First Line: To be himself a star most bright Subject(s): Religion CHILDREN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The childen are all crying in their pens Last Line: In the private holiness %of my hands Subject(s): God; Religion CHILDREN IN THE MARKET-PLACE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like children in the market-place Last Line: The everlasting good we seek %we can attain through thee Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion CHIMES OF NEVERWHERE, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many times did the church prevent war? Last Line: For the devil's at home in neverwhere Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHINA SONNET, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a red banner across the center of this poem Last Line: They enter and depart through the doors of poetry Subject(s): Religion CHINESE PARENTS COUNT ON SONS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: To live with them, support them in their age, said Last Line: People used euphemisms only with children Subject(s): Religion CHOICE, by ELLEN COIT ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Ask and it shall be given Last Line: Your heaven or hell. Subject(s): Religion; Theology CHOICE, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No slepy poison is more strong to kill Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion CHOICE; OR, AFTER ADAM VISITS A CATHEDRAL TO STUDY A FESCO OF PARADISE, by JULIE MOULDS Poem Source First Line: Adam, a white soul, after all his spinning through thistle, sweat Last Line: Crossing his song with hers; the harmony, the fire Subject(s): Religion CHORUS FOR EASTER, by DAVID MORTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CHRIST ALL-SUFFICIENT, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Religion CHRIST AND THE LITTLE ONES, by JULIA GILL Poem Text First Line: The master has come over jordan Last Line: That hour to her spirit were given. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST AND WE, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHRIST AS A GARDENER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boxwoods planted in the park spelled live Subject(s): Christianity; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST AS A GARDENER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boxwoods planted in the park spelled live Last Line: Of milkweed, thistle, cattail, and goldenrod Subject(s): Christianity; Gardens And Gardening; Jesus Christ; Religion CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS BY EL GRECO, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: The honey-red hue of the picture Last Line: Instead, of a %smaller cross Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHRIST CHILD, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Religion CHRIST CHILD AT CHRISTMAS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear jesus, dear, may I come in? Subject(s): Religion CHRIST IN BONDS, by LAURANCE J. NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: He came, and yet his own receiv'd him not!' Last Line: "christ jesus reigns!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Thule Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST IN INTROSPECT, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I - who have the healing creed Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Religion CHRIST IN THE CITY, by FRANK MASON NORTH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHRIST LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Greater love hath no man than this Last Line: Christ died for his enemies, not his friends. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Theology CHRIST OF EVERYWHERE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the summit-wall and bridge for two races Last Line: And here below, peace to the men of good will Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sinai, Mount; Worship CHRIST OF THE WORLD'S HIGHWAY, by DOROTHY CLARKE WILSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHRIST OUR CONTEMPORARY, by WILLIAM CHARLES BRAITHWAITE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHRIST PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS, by THOMAS KELLY (1769-1855) Poem Source First Line: The head that once was crowned with thorns Last Line: Their name an everlasting name, %their joy the joy of heaven Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The CHRIST SPEAKS, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHRIST THE ANSWER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CHRIST TRIUMPHANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have laboreded sore and suffered deyth Subject(s): Religion CHRIST'S BONDSERVANT, by GEORGE MATHESON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Make me a captive, lord Last Line: When on thy bosom it has leant %and found in thee its life Subject(s): Religion CHRIST'S BONDSERVANT, by GEORGE MATHESON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CHRIST'S KINGDOM AMONG THE GENTILES, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Last Line: Their early blessings on his name. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST'S PASSION, TAKEN OUT OF A GREEK ODE, by BEN MASTERS Poem Text First Line: Enough, my muse, of earthly things Last Line: That he will still require some waters to his blood. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST'S TWIN, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was formed of chicken blood and lightning Last Line: They would drown for love Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Native Americans; Religion CHRIST, DEFEND ME FROM MY ENEMIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now rightwis iuge, crist lord ihu Subject(s): Religion CHRIST, THE END, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: As ghost I returned to them Last Line: Our knock, fearful. The beginning Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality CHRIST, THE MAN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lord, I say nothing; I profess Last Line: Gives its best time and thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRISTENDOM, by RAYMOND OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Look at the gallimaufry - hurdygurdy Last Line: So let me shove my scrupulous distress %up some grotto, and I'll say yes, oh yes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHRISTIAN HERO: A.M.D.G, by JOHN D. WALSHE Poem Source First Line: Yon lowly shrub that skirts the mountain way Subject(s): Religion CHRISTIAN PARADOX, by WALTER CHALMERS SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CHRISTIAN PARADOX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is in loving - not in being loved, %the heart finds its quest Last Line: It is in giving, not in getting, %our lives are blest Subject(s): Love; Religion CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion CHRISTIAN, DOST THOU SEE THEM?, by ANDREW OF CRETE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHRISTIANITY AND WAR, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Talk, if you will, of hero deed Last Line: Of war-like followers of jesus. Subject(s): Christianity; Evil; Good; Hypocrisy; Jesus Christ; Religion; War; Theology CHRISTIANITY HOPPING, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: On sunday mornings we were presbyterian so we could drink coffee and Last Line: Then we got lost somewhere upstairs Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Native Americans - Religion; Presbyterianism; Religion - Reformers CHRISTINA, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: The giant granite-gray shape Last Line: And how close they were on that stony ground %next to their little fire Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Religion CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING, VIRGIN, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Death's stone rolled away from mouth and eyes Last Line: Urgent perfume of decay Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CHRISTMAS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells of waiting advent ring Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology CHRISTMAS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells of waiting advent ring Last Line: That god was man in palestine %and lives today in bread and wine Subject(s): Christmas; Religion CHRISTMAS AT BABBITT'S, by HENRY HALLAM TWEEDY Poem Source First Line: On christmas eve they filled the hpouse, some fifty guests all told Last Line: O little lord of christmas, let us keep the day with thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion CHRISTMAS DAY (WITH MUSIC), by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The herald angels sing Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology CHRISTMAS DAY (WITH MUSIC), by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The herald angels sing Last Line: Glory to the new-born king. Amen Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Religion CHRISTMAS DAY. THE FAMILY SITTING, by JOHN MEADE FALKNER Poem Source First Line: In the days of caesar augustus Last Line: I may go up to jerusalem %out of galilee Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion CHRISTMAS ENCYCLICAL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When nations at their christmas feast Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS EVE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sharp diamond, my mother Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CHRISTMAS EVE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sharp diamond, my mother Last Line: Somehow, it were one of yours Subject(s): God; Religion CHRISTMAS EVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The door in on the latch tonight Last Line: I would not bar a single door %where love might enter in Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion CHRISTMAS EVE MEDITATION, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted Last Line: By whose descent among us %the worlds are reconciled Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion CHRISTMAS IS REALLY FOR THE CHILDREN, by STEVE TURNER Poem Source Last Line: What jesus did when he grew up %or whether there's any connection Subject(s): Christmas; Religion CHRISTMAS MORNING, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells ring clear as bugle note Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by MARION LOCHHEAD Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS PASTORAL, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS POEM, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: The ice on your windshield Last Line: The shells adown the gates of hell - %(but those hands bleed, my dear) Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by RALPH SPAULDING CUSHMAN Poem Source First Line: Let not our hearts be busy inns Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS SONG, by FLORENCE EVELYN DRATT Poem Source First Line: Oh, christmas is a jolly time Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS SONNET; FOR ONE IN DOUBT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you that in your sorrow disavow Last Line: And strangely has not yet been crucified Subject(s): Christmas; Religion CHRISTMAS STAR, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS TODAY, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can they honor him - the humble lad Last Line: With deathless words—would kneel again and weep. Variant Title(s): Christmas 1930 Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology CHRISTMAS, 1919, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall ever a star shine out to men Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Religion CHRISTUS CONSOLATOR, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the dead I knelt for prayer Last Line: "he smiled: ""abide in me." Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Religion; Dead, The; Theology CHRISTUS NATUS EST, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem / on christmas morn Last Line: Hosannah! Christus natus est Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology CHRISTUS NATUS EST, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem %on christmas morn Last Line: Hosannah! Christus natus est Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion CHRISTUS; A MYSTERY, SELS., by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CHRONICLES: DUST, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not john's new jerusalem rising out of babylon Last Line: New meaning: there is, of course, nothing more than us Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion CHURCH, by LOUIS HENRI JEAN FARIGOULE Poem Source First Line: The self-deceit of having wrought the light Alternate Author Name(s): Romains, Jules Subject(s): Religion CHURCH, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Source First Line: The blinding july sun at ten o'clock Last Line: A little thing, this church? Remove its roots, %ossa upon pelion would not fill the pit Subject(s): Churches; Religion CHURCH AND STATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is fresh matter, poet, / matter for old age meet Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Government; Religion; Theology CHURCH AND STATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is fresh matter, poet, %matter for old age meet Last Line: Wine shall run thick to the end, %bread taste sour Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Government; Religion CHURCH GOING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I am sure there's nothing going on Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology CHURCH GOING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I am sure there's nothing going on Last Line: If only that so many dead lie round Subject(s): Churches; Religion CHURCH IN THE HEART, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHURCH TRIUMPHANT, by S. RALPH HARLOW Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CHURCH UNITY GLASGOW STYLE, by WILLIAM GILFEDDER Poem Source First Line: The great ecumenical disaster of our time Last Line: It's either wedlock or the tomahawk %whit'll be jimmy Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Religion CHURCH UNIVERSAL, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One holy church of god appears Last Line: With bread of life earth's hunger feed; %redeem the evil time! Subject(s): Churches; Religion CHURCHES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Beautiful is the large church Subject(s): Religion CIGARETTES AND WHISKEY AND WILD, WILD WOMEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps I was born kneeling Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CIGARETTES AND WHISKEY AND WILD, WILD WOMEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps I was born kneeling Last Line: In case mercy should come %in the nick of time Subject(s): God; Religion CINDERELLA, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You always read about it Last Line: Regular bobbsey twins. %that story Subject(s): God; Religion CITY CHURCH, by E. H. K. Poem Source First Line: There is a sentinel before the gate Subject(s): Religion CITY HALL, by BELLE RANDALL Poem Source First Line: City hall, five a.M Subject(s): Religion CITY OF GOD, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou not made with hands Subject(s): Religion CITY OF GOD, by HENRY BURKE ROBINS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CITY OF GOD, by ANNA LOUISE STRONG Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Anise Subject(s): Religion CITY OF THE LIGHT (1), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Hail the glorious golden city %pictured by the seers of old! Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of thr light Variant Title(s): The City Of Our Hop Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CITY OF THE LIGHT (2), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the golden city %mentioned in the legends old? Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of the light Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CIUDAD ACUNA, by PETER LASALLE Poem Source First Line: Let me have this forever Last Line: With their trunks whitewashed so bright lower down Subject(s): Mass; Mexico; Religion CIVIL WAR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am torn in two Last Line: And sing an anthem %a song of myself Subject(s): God; Religion CIVITAS DEI, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Walls cannot save the cities from their fate Subject(s): Religion CLAMBERING UP THE COLD MOUNTAIN PATH, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Religion; Zen Buddhism CLAMS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient of days, bless the innocent Last Line: Thumps for representation, joy Subject(s): Religion CLEAR JANUARY, ZERO DEGREES, MY LAST, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day in that state's Last Line: Sunday morning light %about their white, white necks Subject(s): Fathers; Religion; Winter CLEVELAND, ANGELS, OGRES, TROLLS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still today, sober and tenured as I can be Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CLIMB OF LIFE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a feel of all things flowing Subject(s): Religion CLOSE IN MY BREAST THY PERFECT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu, my luf, my joy, my reste Subject(s): Religion CLOSER TO THEE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Closer, closer would I be Last Line: Blessed jesus, let me be! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology CLOSING GESTURE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spheres are weary of the ether wind Last Line: Forever changeless against a changing sky. Subject(s): Faith; God; Prayer; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology CLOSING THE DOORS, by IRENE PETTIT MCKEEHAN Poem Text First Line: I have closed the door on doubt Last Line: And the breeze of the world blowing through. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology CLOTHES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put on a clean shirt Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CLOTHES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put on a clean shirt Last Line: I would die full of questions trousseau Subject(s): God; Religion CLOUD, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And, laterally Last Line: And, as it moved, he named it tenderness Subject(s): Bible; Religion CLOUDS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Working - class clouds are living together Last Line: To a certain cloud Subject(s): Religion CLUB WOMAN, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She scarce had entered in the gate Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion COAST, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: I thought I found the answer when Last Line: So elated, darkness hardly mattered Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality COCK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month before his dinner with the visiting spanish lawyer, Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Religion; Fathers & Sons; Lesbians; Theology COCKROACH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roch, foulest of creatures Last Line: And held up to the light like a glass of water Subject(s): God; Religion COLD IRON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold is for the mistress - silver for the maid Last Line: Iron, out of calvary, is master of men all!' Subject(s): Religion; Theology COLONEL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father lifts the crippled airman's body Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology COLONEL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father lifts the crippled airman's body Last Line: And I don't want to be a soldier yet Subject(s): Christianity; Religion COLORS OF TULIPS AND ROSES ARE NOT THE SAME, by MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB Poem Source Last Line: Those who know are always drunk on the wine of the self Subject(s): Religion COME NOT, O LORD!, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not, o lord! In the dread robe of splendour Last Line: Oh! Turn upon us the mild light of thy love! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology COME ON, MIND, LET'S GO STEAL, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Then grab those feet and run Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion COME THOU MY LIGHT, by HUGH THOMSON KERR Poem Source Subject(s): Religion COME UNTO ME, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Come unto me, all you heavily burdened ones! Last Line: And you shall find rest for your souls! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology COMFORT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak low to me, my saviour, low and sweet Last Line: He sleeps the faster that he wept before. Subject(s): Consolation; Religion; Theology COMFORTED, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: A great wind blowing, raging sea Last Line: My heart is comforted in thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion COMING DAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion COMING FORTH, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry. I have a hard time not laughing Last Line: Should be a thousand worlds better than this Subject(s): Christianity; Religion COMING OF THE PLAGUE, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September was when it began Last Line: And hear the sound of rushing wind Subject(s): Bible; Religion COMMINATION, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like john on patmos, brooding on the four Last Line: View thy damnation and depart in peace Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bible; Religion COMMON LIVING DIRT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small ears prick up on the bushes Last Line: On our knees, the common living dirt Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion COMMONPLACES, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A commonplace life,' we say, and we sigh Last Line: Of our commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Religion; Simplicity; Theology COMMUNION, by DOROTHY P. ALBAUGH Poem Text First Line: It may be that he sits so still Last Line: To books, can read a red squirrel's mind. Subject(s): Religion; Theology COMMUNION, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I have knelt and tried to pray tonight Last Line: "and do with me according to thy word." Subject(s): Eucharist; Religion; Communion; Theology COMMUNION HYMN, by ALICE FREEMAN PALMER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion COMP. RELIGION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It all begins with fear of mana Last Line: Of mana as they ever were Subject(s): Religion; Theology COMP. RELIGION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It all begins with fear of mana Last Line: Of mana as they ever were Subject(s): Religion COMPENSATION, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crooked and dwarfed the tree must stay Last Line: And love looks into heaven through tears. Subject(s): Religion; Theology COMPENSATION, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to think when life is done Last Line: My debt to god for life divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Variant Title(s): When Life Is Done Subject(s): Religion; Theology COMPLAINING, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not beguile my heart Last Line: That I may climbe and finde relief. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology COMPLINE, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now I lay me down to sleep Subject(s): Religion COMPLINE, by RAYMOND OLIVER Poem Source First Line: I shape this day till I can feel its heft Last Line: Of evening, come to terms. I contemplate %and weigh them now, like phrases of a psalm Subject(s): Religion COMPLINE, by RICK (DIDACUS) WILSON Poem Source First Line: The mountains' frayed edges Last Line: To shelter %the vernicle of their hands Subject(s): Religion COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE VALLEYS OF WESTMORELAND ON EASTER SUNDAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With each recurrence of this glorious morn Last Line: And benefits were weighed in reason's scales! Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology COMRADE RIDES AHEAD (TO THE MEMORY OF EMERSON HOUGH), by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time brings not death, it brings but changes Subject(s): Religion CONCENTRATION CAMP, by MARC LEVY Poem Source First Line: When I was little - please forgive me - Last Line: Until her bat mitzvah, it's okay Subject(s): Death; Religion CONCEPT OF GOD, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Years later, nothing inside the church Last Line: At how old, how much like a woman %it makes her look Subject(s): Churches; God; Public Worship; Religion CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear god - obey his just decrees Last Line: Hosanna! Thou hast won the race Subject(s): Bible; Religion CONDEMNING THE MOONGOD NANNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: As for me, my nanna ignores me Last Line: Turn them against your own body. %they are made for you' Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CONFESSION, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Father boguslaw was the priest I waited for, the one whose breath Last Line: For both of us Subject(s): Confessions; Religion CONFESSION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my god, hou hast wounded me with love Subject(s): Religion CONFIRMATION, by JACKIE BARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %on the verge Last Line: I've barely time to wake %with yes %on my lips Subject(s): Religion CONSCIENCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet still there whispers the small voice within Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Religion CONSCIENCE, by CHARLES WILLIAM STUBBS Poem Text First Line: I sat alone with my conscience Last Line: Will be judgment enough for me. Subject(s): Religion; Theology CONSCIENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am that tamerlane Last Line: His sole vicegerent crowned. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye,' I said to my conscience Last Line: "remorse sits in my place." Subject(s): Conscience; Religion; Theology CONSCRIPT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indifferent, flippant, earnest, but all bored Last Line: The nail-marks glowing in his feet and hands Subject(s): Religion; World War I CONSECRATION, by MARIANNE FARNINGHAM HEARN Poem Source First Line: Just as I am, thine own to be Subject(s): Religion CONSECRATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh god, I offer thee my heart Last Line: That sterner grace - to offer thee my head Subject(s): Religion CONSIDER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have considered the lilies of the field Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology CONSIDER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have considered the lilies of the field Last Line: Beckons the hollow, two-note fluting of an owl Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CONSIDER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider / the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief Last Line: To do us good. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CONSOLATION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No god is left us to adore Last Line: Omnipotent as ever. Subject(s): Agnosticism; Faith; God; Love; Religion; Religion - Disestablishment; Belief; Creed; Theology CONSORTING WITH ANGELS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was tired of being a woman Last Line: I'm no more a woman %than christ was a man Subject(s): God; Religion; Women CONTEMPLATIONS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time now past in [or, is] the autumnal tide Last Line: Shall last and shine when all of these are gone. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness CONTENT [IN SERVICE], by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was too ambitous in my deed Subject(s): Religion CONTINUATION OF LUCAN, SELS., by THOMAS MAY Subject(s): Religion CONTINUING CITY, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, who made man out of dust Subject(s): Religion CONTRABAND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CONTRABAND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason Last Line: Splinters of fire, a strain of music heard, %then lost, then heard again Subject(s): God; Religion CONVENT, by JACKIE BARTLEY Poem Source First Line: You must learn first Last Line: In clothesbakets %and kitchen drawers Subject(s): Religion CONVENT OF THE ARCHANGEL, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: The young nun welcomes us, two strangers, Last Line: To carry with us out into the world Subject(s): Religion CONVENTIONALITY, by ELOISE WADE HACKETT Poem Source First Line: Man wrap themselves in smug cocoons Subject(s): Religion CONVERSION, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: It happened in the cold and starlit dawn Last Line: I know the cause shall stand, though I may fall. Subject(s): Conversion; Faith; God; Religion; Self; Belief; Creed; Theology CONVERSION, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Religion CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In 1956 I was the shepherd boy Last Line: To be apprehended by all that light Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Spirituality COPAN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Let the priests speak of time Last Line: Bring us to mother moon Subject(s): Religion CORDELIA, by BERNETTA VIOLA QUINN Poem Source First Line: Poor fool, poor faithful little lifeless fool Last Line: The endless way her shattered father goes Subject(s): Death; Religion CORINTHIANS, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CORN LAW RHYMES, SELECTION, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wilt thou save the people? Last Line: God, save the people! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology CORNERSTONE, by EDWARD A. CHURCH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Undir a park ful prudently pyght Subject(s): Religion COTTAGER'S HYMN, by PATRICK BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Subject(s): Religion COULD YE NOT WATCH ONE HOUR?', by GODFREY FOX BRADBY Poem Source First Line: Not for one hour; so much the daily task Subject(s): Religion COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE AND PATIENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I see a rybane ryche and newe Subject(s): Patience; Prudence; Religion COUNT THAT DAY LOST, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you sit down at set of sun Last Line: Then count that day as worse than lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Variant Title(s): At The Set Of Sun Subject(s): Religion; Theology COUNTRY BURIAL, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the words of the magnificence and doom Last Line: Brings numbness to the untranslatable heart Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion COUNTRY CHURCH, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He could not separate the thought Subject(s): Religion COUNTRYMAN'S GOD, by ROGER WINSHIP STUART Poem Source First Line: Who reaps the grain and plows the sod Subject(s): Religion COURAGE, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Courage is armor Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Religion COURAGE, by PAUL GERHARDT Poem Source First Line: Give to the winds thy fears Last Line: When fully he the work hath wrought %that caused thy needless fear Subject(s): Religion COURAGE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in the small things we see it Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology COURAGE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in the small things we see it Last Line: You'll put on your carpet slippers %and stride out Subject(s): God; Religion COVENANT, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, then, is the covenant you shall keep Subject(s): Religion COVENANT OF GRACE, SELS., by ANN STANFORD Poem Source First Line: Brother symmes conversed with her on the ship Subject(s): Religion COVENANT: A LANDSCAPE, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: Covenant sleeps encircled by two brooks Last Line: Our city is nourished by thier secret waters Subject(s): Landscape; Religion CRADLE CAROL, by ELEANOR SLATER Poem Source First Line: The little birds praise you Subject(s): Religion CRAZE FIELD, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These lagoons, these watercourses Last Line: Are hidden, in the craze, under small pagoda eaves Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CREATION, by MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: One must say it; it presses against the brain Subject(s): Religion CREATION, by LAWRENCE R. KAHN Poem Text First Line: God gave sod to the man Last Line: Created love. Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Theology CREATION, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: First it was a fire Last Line: This home, %this where we are Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life CREATION OF LIGHT, by MAURA Poem Source First Line: God sits on the firmament arch Subject(s): Religion CREATION'S LORD, WE GIVE THEE THANKS, by WILLIAM DE WITT HYDE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CREDO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Creo que si ... I believe Subject(s): Religion; Theology CREDO, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not what, what whom, I do believe! Last Line: But whom! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology CREDO, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: I know my people. Looking from afar Last Line: And I shall bid my kinsmen enter in. Subject(s): Houses; Religion; Theology CREDO, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is too high to measure out each thing Subject(s): God; Religion CREDO, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heaven for which I wait Subject(s): Religion CREED, by NORMAN MACLEOD (1812-1872) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I believe in human kindness Subject(s): Religion CREED, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold that when a person dies Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Faith; Religion CREED AND DEED, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What care I for caste or creed? Last Line: One god and one humanity. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Religion; Theology CREED IN A GARDEN, by NEWMAN FLOWER Poem Source First Line: I believe in the god of my garden, the god of the trees Subject(s): Religion CREEDLESS LOVE, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion CREEDS, by WILLIAM ORDWAY PARTRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The creed thy father built, wherein his soul Last Line: So broad that all mankind may feast with thee. Subject(s): Religion; Theology CREEDS, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pitiful are little folk Last Line: Denominational. Subject(s): Religion; Theology CRIMES OF LUGALANNE, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: I can't appease ashimbabbar, the moon god an Last Line: Throw this man out of the city %and capture him! Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CRIMSON TREE, by ELIZABETH MAXWELL PHELPS Poem Text First Line: This is not just a tree, red-gold Last Line: Hosannah and amen in me! Subject(s): Religion; Trees; Theology CRIPPLES AND OTHER STORIES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My doctor, the comedian Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology CRIPPLES AND OTHER STORIES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My doctor, the comedian Last Line: As you prod me with your rib dog's neck Subject(s): God; Religion CROSS, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tree which heaven has willed to dower Last Line: God on thee endured to die Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Salvation CROSS AND THE CROWN, by THOMAS KELLY (1769-1855) Poem Source Subject(s): Religion CROSS AT THE CROSSWAYS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion CROSS MAKERS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Source Subject(s): Crucifixion; Religion CROSS PURPOSES, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Daddy voted for al smith Last Line: With marriage if it cost too much Subject(s): Fights; Religion CROSSING MYSELF, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: Shyly at first Last Line: Before turning his jewish face %toward that last kiss Subject(s): Relationships; Religion CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages; Theology; Ocean CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind Last Line: This dead street never stops Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages CROSSING THE BAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset and evening star Last Line: When I have crossed the bar. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Death; Evening; Immortality; Religion; Sea; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Theology; Ocean CRUCIFIXION, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the crowd's multitudinous mind Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): Religion CRUCIFIXION OF OUR BLESSED LORD, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is but a sorry scene Last Line: While wrath and vengeance sleep Subject(s): Bible; Religion CRUCIFIXION: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot dark they dug a hole Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology CRUCIFIXION: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot dark they dug a hole Last Line: Or does god simply choose us all? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion CRUSHED FENDER, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It happened in milan one summer night Last Line: My face averted to conceal my shame. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Religion; Theology CRYSTAL HIGHWAY, by ALICE HANSCHE SORENSON Poem Text First Line: The storm has spent its fury Last Line: From the finger tips of god! Subject(s): God; Knees; Prayer; Religion; Theology CRYSTAL PALACE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning by morning I look up at the twin / towers Last Line: If I but clapped my hands. Subject(s): Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology CUP OF HAPPINESS, by GILBERT OLIVER THOMAS Poem Source Subject(s): Home; Religion CURSE AGAINST ELEGIES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love, why do we argue like this Last Line: Talk back to your old bad dreams Subject(s): God; Religion CURSE ON HEROD, by AMY WITTING Poem Source First Line: May you live forever. In that eternity Last Line: But to the bad children, christmas does not come Subject(s): Bible; Rachel (bible); Religion; Women In The Bible CURSE ON URUK, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: What am I in the place of nourishment Last Line: When the people of the city hear my sacred song, %they are ready to die Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CUT HAIR OF NUNS, by VALERIE WOHLFELD Poem Source First Line: Austere as horsehair, or luxuriant as cashmere Last Line: Locket-locked oval-window shut midair Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion CUTTING UP AN OX, by CHUANG TZU Poem Source First Line: Prince wen hui's cook Subject(s): Religion CYCLE FOR MOTHER CABRINI, SELS., by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Saint, who overlaps Subject(s): Religion CYNTHIA, by JOHN D. WALSHE Poem Source First Line: O cynthia! Fair empress of the night! Subject(s): Religion DADDY WARBUCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's missing is the eyeballs Last Line: As we board our velvet train Subject(s): God; Religion DANCE CHANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O wahkonda (master of life) pity me! Subject(s): Religion DANCE CHANTE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail! Hail! Hail! Subject(s): Religion DANUBE AND THE EUXINE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Danube, danube! Wherefore com'st thou Last Line: I am christian stream no more!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Danube (river); Religion; Theology DARK MOTHER, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: It will dive fast to its freedom Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion DARKNESS AND LIGHT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: There is darkness still, gross darkness, lord Last Line: And one high consecration. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): Spread The Light Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology DASH IT, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: How wonderfully it was all arranged that each Last Line: I have been through for this one evening on earth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DAT GAL O' MINE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skin as black an' jes as sof' as a velvet dress Last Line: O' mine. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love; Religion; Sabbath; Theology; Sunday DAVID, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one, said the sculptor, is the last of the biblical figures Subject(s): Religion DAVID, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O for a feast, pomegranate wine, and song Last Line: Over the world, even amid death Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Death; Israel; Plays And Playwrights; Prophets And Prophecy; Religion DAVID AND BATHSHUA: THE WITCH'S RUNE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Dread not the trumpets of the wind Last Line: For love is of life the master-chord! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DAVID AND GOLIATH, by P. HATELY WADDELL Poem Source First Line: Sma' was I, amang brether o' mine Last Line: Frae the folk o' israel, hame wi' me! Subject(s): Bible; David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Religion DAVID IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: David and his three captains bold Last Line: That I should drink it, god forbid.' Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Bible; Religion DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He knew that the trumpet he had blown Subject(s): Livingstone, David (1813-1873); Religion DAVID'S PECCAVI, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In eaves sole sparrow sits not more alone Last Line: Wit bought with loss, will taught by wit, will mend Variant Title(s): Psalm 102, Verses 6 And Subject(s): Bible; Religion DAVID, AGED FOUR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Christmas is a bitter day Subject(s): Religion DAWN, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: Out of the scabbard of the night Last Line: An lo - the dawn Subject(s): Religion DAWN OF PEACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes - 'on our brows we feel the breach' Subject(s): Religion DAY, by SIGBJORN OBSTFELDER Poem Source First Line: I wake %a new day pours over me its blossom Subject(s): Religion DAY AND NIGHT: HOW THEY CAME TO BE, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: In those times %when just saying a word Last Line: Following the daytime of the hare Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion DAY BY DAY, by JULIA HARRIS MAY Poem Source First Line: I heard a voice at evening softly say Subject(s): Religion DAY BY DAY, by STEPHEN F. WINWARD Poem Source First Line: Day by day,' the promise reads Last Line: Daily strength for daily needs Subject(s): Religion DAY OF LIFE - NIGHT COMES SOON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I wente one my playing Subject(s): Religion DAY RETURNS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day returns %and brings us the petty round Last Line: And grant us in the end %the gift of sleep. Amen Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Religion DAY SHALL YET BE FAIR, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion DAY'S DEMAND, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion DAY'S END, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day ends: %breasting the north Last Line: Our spirits meet, %and prayer is sweet! Subject(s): Religion DAY'S WORK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Use well the moment; what the hour %brings for thy use is in thy power Last Line: Round the task that rules the day, %and do his best Subject(s): Religion DAYDREAM, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a daydream near the lake in canada Last Line: But they die in my cruel song Subject(s): Religion DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Out of the depths Last Line: Thy charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology DE PROFUNDIS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Days so dark with death's eclipse! Last Line: And the dead he watcheth best. Subject(s): Religion; Theology DEAD, by ROBERT J. CROT Poem Source First Line: The dead are silent. Passionless and still Subject(s): Religion DEAD CHRIST, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There seems no reason he should've died. His hands Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology DEAD CHRIST, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There seems no reason he should've died. His hands Last Line: Today, the empty corpse. Most christs return. %but this one's flesh. He isn't coming back Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DEAD FAITH, by FANNY HEASLIP LEA Poem Source First Line: She made a little shadow-hidden grave Subject(s): Religion DEAD HEART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not a turtle Last Line: It kills %without drawing blood Subject(s): God; Religion DEAF AND DUMB; A GROUP BY WOOLNER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the prism's obstruction shows aright Last Line: As favored mouth could never, through the eyes. Subject(s): Religion; Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892); Theology DEAR GOD, THE DAY IS GREY. MY HOUSE, by ANNE HALLEY Poem Source Last Line: All piecemeal deaths, trash, undevout %and sullen sacrifice,to thee Subject(s): Religion DEAR NIGHT, THIS WORLD'S DEFEAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Religion DEAR SON, LEAVE THY WEEPING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A baby ys borne us blys to bryng Subject(s): Religion DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a stranger in the land Last Line: I have no friend save god! Subject(s): Death;religion; "dead, The;theology; DEATH, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why be afraid of death, as though your life were breath? Last Line: And work, nor care to rest, and find the last the best. Variant Title(s): Emancipation Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology DEATH, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: I am the key that parts the gates of fame Last Line: The waking from a dream that man calls—life. Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology DEATH, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This starry world, and I in it Last Line: As it is now, at this moment. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DEATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the production of the metal proveth the work of the alchemist Subject(s): Religion DEATH (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a sad land, that in one day Last Line: Tis last good-night, our sun shall never set. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology DEATH AND RESURRECTION, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth to earth, and dust to dust! Last Line: "earth to earth, and dust to dust!" Variant Title(s): A Dirge Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION, by MARYA ALEXANDROVNA ZATURENSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When that body loved Subject(s): Religion DEATH BABY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was an ice baby. %I turned to sky blue Last Line: And there will be %that final rocking Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH IS BEFORE ME TODAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Death; Religion DEATH KING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hired a carpenter Last Line: His tyranny, his absolute kingdom, %with my aphrodisiac Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF SAUL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleeping armies of the living god Last Line: And further still from him he could not name Subject(s): Bible; Religion DEATH OF SOUTHWELL, SELS., by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Topcliffe's horses shake Subject(s): Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oysters we ate, %sweet blue babies Last Line: And the child was defeated. %the woman won Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 2. HOW WE DANCED, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my cousin's wedding Last Line: Like a great god and we bent together %like two lonely swans Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 3. THE BOAT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father %(he calls himself 'old sea dog') Last Line: The cold wing that has clasped us %this bright august day Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 4. SANTA, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, %the santa claus suit Last Line: For the train that comes no more Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 5. FRIENDS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, %who were all those friends Last Line: Oh god, %he was a stranger, %was he not Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 6. BEGAT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father me not Last Line: We are two birds on fire Subject(s): God; Religion DEATH ON A CROSSING, by EVANGELINE PATERSON Poem Source First Line: What he never thought to consider was whether Last Line: And no sweet chariot swung, to carry him home Subject(s): Religion DEATH SPEAKS, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you? Last Line: I shall bedrench the lowlands of shinar %with the unhappy blood of belshazzar Subject(s): Death; God; Judgments; Religion; Sin DEATH'S VALLEY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, do not dream, designer dark Last Line: Sweet, peaceful, welcome death. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Inness, George (1825-1894); Paintings & Painters; Religion; Theology DEATH, THE PORT OF PEACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Howe, cometh al ye that ben y-brought Subject(s): Religion DEATH, THE SOUL'S FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thynk, man, qware-off thou art wrought Subject(s): Religion DEBT, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I owe a debt to the night Last Line: A forgiveness Subject(s): Religion DEBTOR AND CREDITOR AM I, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: All who have lived and gone Last Line: And therewith -- life's eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology DECADENT POETS OF KYOTO, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Their poetry is remembered for a detailed calligraphy Last Line: Remained afloat longer than a battleship Subject(s): Religion DECEMBER JOURNAL, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is not offered to the senses Last Line: The other world is here, just under our fingertips Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): December; Religion DECISION, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shakes the eye but the invisible Last Line: As a man turns to face on-coming snow Subject(s): Religion DECLARATION OF BELIEF, by WALTER RUSSELL BOWIE Poem Source First Line: I believe in god the creator of heaven and earth, lord of all power and might Subject(s): Religion DECONSTRUCTING STEFAN, OR DESTRUCTING STEFAN, by EMMA STRAUB Poem Source First Line: From the lips of monks Last Line: I will expose you %you are exposed Subject(s): Relationships; Religion DEDICATION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands Last Line: While round these hallowed walls the storm %of earth-born passion dies Subject(s): Prayer; Religion DEDICATION, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, in the strength of grace Subject(s): Religion DELPHI, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Two eagles, sharp of beak and eye Last Line: In the oracle's cave Subject(s): Religion DEMON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mentioned my demon to a friend Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DEMON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mentioned my demon to a friend Last Line: At that anonymous altar Subject(s): God; Religion DEPARTING THIS BODY, THIS WORLD, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Kabbalists say, the soul is filled Last Line: Are mountains once more and rivers are again rivers Subject(s): Religion DEPARTMENT OF TALMUD, SELS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Your new book of poems just came Last Line: Furrow the nape of your neck' Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Religion DEPARTURE IN MIDDLE AGE, by ROLAND MATHIAS Poem Source First Line: The hedges are dazed as cock-crow, heaps of leaves Subject(s): Religion DEPENDENCE ON GOD, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the needle, that directs the hour Subject(s): Religion DESCRIPTION OF A RELIGIOUS HOUSE [AND CONDITION OF LIFE], by JOHN BARCLAY (1582-1621) Poem Source First Line: No roofs of gold o'er riotous tables shining Last Line: Below: but meditates her immortall way %home to the original source of light and intellectual day Alternate Author Name(s): Barclaii, Joannis Variant Title(s): Decscription Of A Conven Subject(s): Nuns; Religion DESERT RUN, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are caught pulling the brake Last Line: You managed to catch the last train out Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DESERTS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: A desert does not have to be Last Line: When faith is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Deserts; Faith; Food & Eating; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology DESIRE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of love, joy Last Line: The desire of god . . . A flame-white secret for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists DESOLATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gracious spirit sings as it comes Last Line: Out by root and crown Subject(s): Religion; Theology DESOLATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gracious spirit sings as it comes Last Line: Unless the solitary will forbear, %the blade enters the ground %to tear the world's comfort %out, ro Subject(s): Religion DESPAIR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is he? / a railroad track toward hell Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DESPAIR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is he? %a railroad track toward hell Last Line: My arms have been speechless Subject(s): God; Religion DESPISED AND REJECTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sun has set, I dwell Last Line: The mark of blood for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology DESTINY, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A honest and a perfect man Subject(s): Religion DESTRUCTION OF SODOM, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: One would never suspect there were so many vices Last Line: Forgive us our bodies, forgive our bodies' uses Subject(s): Bible; Religion DEUS ABSCONDITUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god has did himself from me Last Line: These shadows in the vale below. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology DEVIL TO PAY, SELS., by DOROTHY LEIGH SAYERS Subject(s): Religion DEVIL'S MEDITATION, by MICHAEL SWEANY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion DEVOTIONAL SONNET, by TIMOTHY REID STEELE Poem Source First Line: Lord, pity such sinners. Monday afternoon Subject(s): Religion DEVOTIONS, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Both relished the yield Last Line: And we kiss with a gift of tongues %and forget how jesus was betrayed Subject(s): Faith; God; Jesus Christ; Religion DEVOURING DEATH MAKES ALL UNBOLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O mors mordens aspere, yn gyle thou haste noo pere Subject(s): Religion DIALOGUE BETWEEN NATURA HOMINIS AND BONITAS DEI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Saluator mundi domine Subject(s): Religion DIALOGUES BETWEEN THE BLESSED VIRGIN AND CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I walked under the green wood bow Subject(s): Religion DIASPORA, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How he survived them they could never understand Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): 'the Jew Wrecked In The German Cell Subject(s): Jews; Religion DIDN'T KNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I said, %when hardly five, %where do we live Last Line: And found me afraid. %he didn't know %didn't know Subject(s): God; Religion DIES IRAE, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On that great, that awful day Last Line: Oh, who shall look on thee and live? Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology DIES IRAE, by THOMAS OF CELANO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of vengeance, without morrow! Last Line: Save him, god! From condemnation! Variant Title(s): The Day Of Judgment Subject(s): Consolation; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DIES IRAE, by THOMAS OF CELANO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dies irae, dies illa! Subject(s): Religion DIES IRAE - DIES PACIS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Only through me!'...The clear, high call comes pealing Last Line: "christ by his own was crucified again?" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology DIFFICULT BODY, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A story: there was a cow in the road, struck by a semi Last Line: I will leave less than this behind me Subject(s): Homosexuality; Religion; Spirituality DIFFICULTY OF RETURN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: When I first got back, %I thought people would Last Line: I carry on my tongue Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DIPLOMATS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each was honest after his way Subject(s): Religion DIRECT THIS DAY, by THOMAS KEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I my vows to thee renew Last Line: That all thy powers, with all their might, %in thy sole glory may unite Subject(s): Religion DIRECTIONS FOR SPRING, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watch the daffodils. Though they are not up yet Last Line: You will lose your last method of knowing sorrow: %you will recognize only love Subject(s): Daffodils; Love; Religion DISAPPOINTMENT, by EDITH LILLIAN YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Disappointment - his appointment' Last Line: Let me answer, unrepining - %father, 'not my will, but thine' Subject(s): Predestination; Religion DISCIPLINARIAN TREATISES: 10. A RECUPERATION OF SIN, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I suppose we might do away with words like sin Last Line: Once more the spectacle of the innocent's blood Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DISCOVERY, by CATHERINE PARMENTER NEWELL Poem Text First Line: I am tired of city sounds Last Line: In streets of questing faces! Subject(s): Religion; Theology DISGUISES, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High stretched upon the swinging yard Last Line: I looked, and it was he! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Religion; Theology DISILLUSIONMENT, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Source First Line: Yet while in disillusionment I sit Subject(s): Religion DITTY, by TED ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: The time was long and long ago Subject(s): Religion DIVINA COMMEDIA, SELS., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Christmas; Italy; Religion DIVINE CARE, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion DIVINE COMPASSION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, a dream of heaven I had Last Line: A heart that still can feel, and eyes that still can weep. Subject(s): Compassion; Pity; Religion; Theology DIVINE EPIGRAMS, SELS., by RICHARD CRASHAW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holy Innocents; Miracles; Religion DIVINE IMAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus said, 'wouldst thou love one who never died' Last Line: Jesus will appear; and so he who wishes to see a vision, a perfect whole, %must see it in its minute Variant Title(s): Written 181 Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mythology; Religion DIVINE LOVE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion DIVINE LOVE, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's something disturbing me Last Line: Whatever may be my lot, %from love I'll not retreat Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion DIVINE LOVE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Love divine, all love excelling Last Line: Lost in wonder, love, and praise! Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology DIVINE LOVE; THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Religion's meaning when I would recal Last Line: A heav'n within, in other words, above. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools DIVINE OFFICE OF THE KITCHEN, SELS., by CECILY HALLACK Poem Source First Line: Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time Last Line: Accept this service that I do, I do it unto thee Subject(s): Housewives; Religion DIVINE POEMS: A DITHYRAMB, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still creeping, still degenerous soul Last Line: And make hosannas of the former crucify! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology DIVINE POEMS: AN EPITAPH, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that my days are spent, nor do I know Last Line: Cannot from ashes flowers renew. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Epitaphs; Religion; Theology DIVINE POEMS: ANTEROS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frown on me, shades! And let not day Last Line: In my celestial diadem. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology DIVINE POEMS: ON AN HOUR-GLASS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is measur'd by this glass, this glass Last Line: How art thou nothing, when th' art most of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Hourglasses; Love; Religion; Time; Theology DIVINE POEMS: SELF, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Traitor self, why do I try Last Line: As its own ruin shows? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Religion; Self; Theology DIVINE POEMS: THE ERMINE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ermine rather chose to die Last Line: By a secure contemning it. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology DIVINE POEMS: THE LORD COMETH WITH TEN THOUSAND OF HIS SAINTS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear and tremble! Lord, what shall I do Last Line: Come, come, my lambs, to joy! Come, come away! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology DIVINE POEMS: WHAT PROFITETH A MAN OF ALL HIS LABOUR ..., by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the wandering traveller doth stray Last Line: Of sceptets, till that waking undeceive. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology DIVINE RHYTHM, by HENRY MEADE BLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, then glory of sunset Subject(s): Religion DIVINE WILL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seven hours: late afternoon here, lightning Last Line: Hand-painted for the orthodox easter Subject(s): Love; Religion; Romance; Spirituality DIVISION OF PARTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, my mary gray Last Line: To make me your inheritor Subject(s): God; Religion DIVORCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have killed our lives together Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DIVORCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have killed our lives together Last Line: But there is no one to cover me -- %not even god Subject(s): God; Religion DIVORCE PAPERS, SELS., by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Religion DIXIT INSIPIENS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first, it was only a trickle Last Line: If only disbelief was more like faith. Subject(s): Atheism; Religion; Science; Spirituality; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Scientists; Feminism DO NOT TRUST IN THESE DECEPTIVE WORDS, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the temple of the lord Last Line: And yet again, again, we park our cars %and move inside to speak our faith Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality DO PEOPLE MOULDER EQUALLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He told me, death was dead Variant Title(s): Poem: 390; Poem: 43 Subject(s): Bible; Corpses; Death; Religion DO WE NOT HEAR THY FOOTFALL, O BELOVED, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Last Line: In hush of adoration see thee there Subject(s): Religion DOCTOR OF THE HEART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take away your knowledge, doktor Last Line: To spite you, you wallowing %seasick grounded man Subject(s): God; Religion DOCTORS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They work with herbs Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DOCTORS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They work with herbs Last Line: But god returns them on foot Subject(s): God; Religion DOES A BLIND MAN KNOW THE WIND, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Has no color? That red is the color of Last Line: Beyond range of our physical sensing Subject(s): Religion DOES SUFFERING SCARE ME? O MOTHER, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: I brag about my suffering Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion DOG, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Until the rain takes over my life I'll never change Last Line: I often sleep in his bed Subject(s): Religion DOLOURS OF OUR LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Quhat dollour persit our lady hert Subject(s): Religion DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands Last Line: This story to the coroner. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Doctors; Theology DOMESDAY BOOK: LILLI ALM, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lola schaefer's studio in the tower Last Line: Is lodged in father whimsett's heart or words. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Confessions; Religion; Soul; Theology DOMESDAY BOOK: WILL PAGET ON DEMOS AND HOGOS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To coroner merival, greetings, but a voice Last Line: To entertain his jury, in these words: Subject(s): Life; Nations; Religion; Soul; Theology DON'T GRIEVE. ANYTHING YOU LOSE COMES ROUND, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Religion DON'T MAKE LISTS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Every day a new flower rises Last Line: Forget everything you know %and open Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DON'T TROUBLE TROUBLE, by MARK GUY PEARSE Poem Source First Line: Don't you trouble trouble till trouble troubles you Subject(s): Religion DON'T TURN AWAY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Don't turn away %I know, I am no longer the young dancer Last Line: Tell me you are there Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 1. OLD MAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, it's four flights up and for what Last Line: With no new land to make for and no new stories to swap Subject(s): God; Religion DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 2. SEAMSTRESS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm at pains to know what else I could have done Last Line: But pack up and move in here, him being my son Subject(s): God; Religion DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 3. YOUNG GIRL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear love, as simple as some distant call Last Line: Tell them I remake and smooth your bed and am your wife Subject(s): God; Religion DOST THOU DENY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dost thou deny the virgin birth? Last Line: When thou shalt face christ's judgment seat. Subject(s): Devil; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DOST THOU REMEMBER ME?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Savior, I've no one else to tell Last Line: Is it too large for you? Variant Title(s): Poem: 21 Subject(s): Religion DOT HEAD, by VANDANA KHANNA Poem Source First Line: They caught us once between Last Line: More than a pundit's thumbprint, more than a holy mark, %glittering Subject(s): Children; Religion DOUBLE GLAZING, by NATANIA ROSENFELD Poem Source First Line: The garden dwarves Last Line: We all are fleas %on the arm of god Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Religion DOUBLE IMAGE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am thirty this november Last Line: Not soothe it. I made you to find me Subject(s): God; Religion DOUBTS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our doubts are traitors Subject(s): Religion DOVE THAT VENTURED OUTSIDE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DOWN TO GOD'S, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: On sundays, we never said Last Line: And headed to the honeybee for breakfast %down the wide streets from god's Subject(s): God; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath DOXOLOGY FOR PEACE, by ROBERT BALGARNIE YOUNG SCOTT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over switzerland broods the Last Line: Love who moves the sun and other stars Subject(s): Dragons; Religion; Unicorns DREAM, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had I slept my wonted round Last Line: Make this my dream prove true I'th' latter day Subject(s): Bible; Religion DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of dream Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology DREAM OF DAKIKI, by FIRDAUSI Poem Source First Line: My heart was fired, as from his sight it turned Alternate Author Name(s): Firdosi; Abul Kasim Mansur; Firdusa; Abu Ol-qase Subject(s): Religion DREAM SONGS CONCLUDED, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Henry was sick of winter, john dying of Last Line: At last I am free. %I am free Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DREAM SONGS: 234. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child stood in the shed. The child went mad Last Line: This great man sought his retire Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion DREAM SONGS: 47. APRIL FOOL'S DAY, OR, ST MARY OF EGYPT, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thass a funny title, mr bones Last Line: Whom god has not visited Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion DREAM SONGS: 64, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Religion DREAMING THE BREASTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, / strange goddess face Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology DREAMING THE BREASTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, %strange goddess face Last Line: Can go galloping, galloping, %wherever you are Subject(s): God; Religion DREAMING THE BREASTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother %strange goddess face Subject(s): God; Religion DREAMS AND DEEDS, by JOHN HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Dear master, in whose life I see Last Line: O thou whose deeds and dreams were on Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion DREAMS OLD AND NASCENT: NASCENT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My world is a painted memory, where coloured shapes Last Line: Then to fall back exhausted into the unconscious, molten life! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Religion; Theology DRIVING INTO LARAMIE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out here sheer force of sky bearing down Last Line: That god is impressed above all by defiance Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Oregon; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DROWNING IN GOD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everything in. %nothing held back Last Line: I'm looking for a world %sky deep in water Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DRYAD SONG, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am immortal! I know it! I feel it! Last Line: Me from the spirit of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Religion; Theology DUBIOUS NIGHT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bell diphthonging in an atmosphere Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DUCKS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HARVEY Poem Source First Line: From troubles of the world Last Line: And he's probably laughing still at the sound that came out of its bill! Subject(s): Birds; Religion DUINO ELEGIES: 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not wooing, no longer shall wooing, voice that has outgrown Last Line: And warning, inapprehensible Subject(s): Longing; Religion DUM VIVIMUS, VIVAMUS, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live while you live!' the epicure would say Last Line: I live in pleasure while I live to thee. Variant Title(s): The Christian Life Subject(s): Religion; Theology DUMB OXEN, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: Mary, pray for paris Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Religion DURER'S APOLLO, by DARRELL BOURQUE Poem Source First Line: When durer drew apollo, he placed him in a light- Last Line: Bees. Radiant prayer, world where morning never dies Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality DUST ANGELS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Roaring back into town after all night desert Last Line: Upon her spirit of pauseless %offerings Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Dust; Haiti; Holidays; New Year; Poverty; Race Awareness; Religion DUTY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest lives are those to duty wed Last Line: Of service which thou renderest. Variant Title(s): Reward Of Service Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology DUTY, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept and dreamed that life was beauty Last Line: A noonday light and truth to thee. Variant Title(s): Beauty And Duty Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology DYING, by JOHN STIGALL Poem Source First Line: Is like a way Subject(s): Religion DYING DAY, by MARY ARTEMISIA LATHBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day is dying in the west Last Line: Heaven and earth are full of thee Alternate Author Name(s): Mary, Aunt; L., M. A. Subject(s): Religion DYING ROUND THE HOLY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I am not forgiven, %nor will be Last Line: To spill %toward vastness? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life E TENEBRIS [FROM THE SHADOWS], by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come down, o christ, and help me! Reach thy hand Last Line: The wounded hands, the weary human face. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology EACH DAY, by MAURA Poem Source First Line: Her face thins almost Subject(s): Religion EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE, by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fire-mist and a planet Last Line: And others call it god. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology EAGLE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the world the bronze-winged eagle flew Subject(s): Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 3, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hear the ancients say that man is issue Last Line: Each part will be too hard at work to hear it. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 4, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And - spirit? Is it some ethereal spark Last Line: Shall follow where the striving heart has gone. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 5, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of the dust am I Last Line: To let new heavens ripple out of dust. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 6, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are parts of a vaster thing than we Last Line: Inexorably one with all that is. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 8, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faith is the dream that things known false are true Last Line: Yet we shall find no truer guide than he. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EARLIEST CHRISTIAN HYMN, by TITUS FLAVIUS CLEMENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Curb for stubborn steed Alternate Author Name(s): Clement Of Alexandria Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion EARLY DEATH, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pass'd away like morning dew Last Line: But holy death is kinder? Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology EARLY EASTER, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: If it sleets at easter, all the symbols fail Last Line: The stones my daughter rolls, on this cold lawn Subject(s): Religion EARTH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God loafs around heaven Last Line: And come down %and give it a bath %now and then Subject(s): God; Religion EARTH AND THE PEOPLE, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: The earth was here before the people Last Line: But we know our land is not the whole world Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion EARTH FALLS DOWN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could blame it all on the weather Last Line: That no one can reach, %even for a wedding. %perhaps for a death Subject(s): God; Religion EARTH IS ENOUGH, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We men of earth have here the stuff Last Line: To build eternity in time! Subject(s): Religion; Theology EARTH IS FULL OF GOD'S GOODNESS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Religion EARTH'S ANSWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth rais'd up her head / from the darkness dread and drear Last Line: "that free love with bondage bound." Subject(s): Bible; Earth; Mythology; Religion; World; Theology EARTH'S BATTLE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fight well, encased in christ's armor Last Line: No matter what else betide. Subject(s): Bible; Fights; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Victory; Theology; Religious Conflict EARTH'S COMMON THINGS, by MINOT JUDSON SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: Seek not afar for beauty. Lo! It glows Last Line: While grass and flowers and stars spell out his name. Variant Title(s): In Common Things Subject(s): Beauty; Religion; Theology EARTH'S NIGHT IS WHERE SHE ROLLS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And even thus the soul's %dark hours are made Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Religion EARTH'S TRIBUTE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First the grain, and then the blade Last Line: To render god the things of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Earth; Religion; World; Theology EARTH-BOUND, by THEODORE MAYNARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, if I dare not sing of seraphs flaming wings Subject(s): Religion EARTHWORM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology EARTHWORM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep Last Line: Be severed and rise from the dead like a gargoyle %with two heads Subject(s): God; Religion EAST AUSTIN, by PETER LASALLE Poem Source First Line: Palm sunday, and look at how Last Line: Returns to sleep a sleep as serious as holy week: redemption is near Subject(s): Redemption; Religion; Texas EASTER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there not one, when in the upper room Last Line: Even as around them fell the greeting, 'peace'? Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Easter; Holidays; Peace; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER 1984, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we saw human dignity / healing humans in the middle of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER 1984, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we saw human dignity %healing humans in the middle of the day Last Line: Free never to torture man again, %free to believe him risen Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Religion EASTER DAY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Christ the lord is risen today Last Line: Hail him lord this easter day! Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Resurrection, The; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER EUCHARIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord, where thou art our holy dead must be Subject(s): Religion EASTER EVE, by JAMES BRANCH CABELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion EASTER GLADNESS, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O day of light and gladness Subject(s): Religion EASTER HYMN, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Make no mistake; there will be no forgiveness Last Line: Being polite to your official guests Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bible; Religion EASTER HYMN, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death and darkness, get you packing Last Line: From this, unto the last of days. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Consolation; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ the lord is risen to-day Last Line: Thus to sing, and thus to love! Variant Title(s): Easter Day;he Is Risen;the Lord Is Risen;for Easter-day Subject(s): Easter; Faith; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; Theology EASTER ISLAND, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Eyes of stone stare Last Line: Only mouths of stone can tell Subject(s): Religion EASTER MORNING, by PHILLIPS BROOKS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion EASTER MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun arises from the sea Last Line: For ever and for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Morning; Nature; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER MUST BE RECLAIMED, by GEORGE W. WISEMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion EASTER POEM [FOR ALL THE YEAR], by HERBERT EDWARD PALMER Poem Source First Line: Hush harlequin brain, wild brain! A tale I'd tell Subject(s): Religion EASTER REVEILLE, by JOHN ROTHWELL SLATER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion 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 EASTER SUNDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was in the middle of the night Last Line: And lift men up Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER SUNDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was in the middle of the night Last Line: I must slide down like a great dipper of stars %and lift men up Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The EASTER WINGS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store Last Line: Affliction shall advance the flight in me. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; God; Holidays; Religion; Wings; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER, 1922, by JOHN A. BELLOWS Poem Source First Line: From all these things, let us arise and go Subject(s): Religion EASTERTIDE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Come wrap the crocus in his winding-sheet Last Line: Hosanna in the heights!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EATING THE LEFTOVERS: DIVORCE, THY NAME IS WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am divorcing daddy - dybbuk! Dybbuk Subject(s): Divorce; God; Religion; Theology EATING THE LEFTOVERS: DIVORCE, THY NAME IS WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am divorcing daddy - dybbuk! Dybbuk Last Line: That I turn invisible, but married, at last Subject(s): Divorce; God; Religion EATING THE LEFTOVERS: THE CONSECRATING MOTHER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand before the sea Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology EATING THE LEFTOVERS: THE CONSECRATING MOTHER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand before the sea Last Line: Like the song of solomon Subject(s): God; Religion ECCE HOMO, by JOHN ACKERSON Poem Source First Line: I bent to lift a comrade from the water Subject(s): Religion ECCE HOMO, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the man alive in me Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Religion ECCE HOMO, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ bends, protects his groin. Thorns gouge Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ECCE HOMO, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Christ bends, protects his groin. Thorns gouge Last Line: O crucify; we sing. O crucify him Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ECCE! ANCILLA DOMINI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ECCLESIASTES, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days Last Line: Return unto god who gave it. Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Theology ECCLESIASTES, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We came from church, she from the down Last Line: The way into my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ECCLESIASTES, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, you could grow to love it, god-fearing, god Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ECCLESIASTES, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, you could grow to love it, god-fearing, god Last Line: With rhetoric, promising nothing under the sun Subject(s): Bible; Religion ECCLESIASTES: ALL IS VANITY, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun Last Line: So that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: %for all is vanity Subject(s): Religion; Vanity ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS (COMPLETE), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 37. ENGLISH REFORMERS EXILE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scattering, like birds escaped the fowler's net Last Line: The peace of god within his single breast! Subject(s): Religion; Theology ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 10. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ungrateful country, if thou e'er forget Last Line: And, if dissevered thence, its course is short. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ECCLESIASTICUS: ON DEATH - A SONNET, by APOCRYPHA BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O death %how bitter is the remembrance of thee Subject(s): Religion ECCO IL SANTO, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven centuries are counted Subject(s): Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Religion; Saints ECHOES: 35. MARGARITAE SORORI, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A late lark twitters from the quiet skies Last Line: The sundown splendid and serene, death. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): The Happy Passing;i. M. Margaritae Sororis;so Be My Passing;some Late Lark Singing;in Memoriam Margaritae Sororis;margaritae Sorori Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology ECLIPSE, by TOD MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: The variations %aria %refuse cruelty Last Line: Hear steady bells %an eloquent chant %that swells Subject(s): Eclipses; God; Religion ECLOGUE AND ELEGY, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Before the ants Subject(s): Christianity; Religion EDEN, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A learned and a happy ignorance Last Line: The glorious wonders of the deity. Subject(s): Bible; God; Religion; Simplicity; Theology EDEN'S COURTESY, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Such natural love twixt beast and man we find Last Line: Are archetypal of the brutes without Subject(s): Religion EDUCATION, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mark hopkins sat on one end of a log Subject(s): Religion EDUCATION, by VIRGINIA WOODS MACKALL Poem Text First Line: God is good, and teaches me Last Line: For not trusting him too much. Subject(s): Education; God; Religion; Theology EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU, SELS., by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we kissed good-bye Last Line: And we will take a supper together and that will be that Subject(s): God; Religion EINSTEIN SAID, GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: He believed the universe is orderly and never Last Line: To comprehend this Subject(s): Religion EL MAHDI TO THE TRIBES OF THE SOUDAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the voice of the lord Last Line: Shall rule in the earth alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): God; Islam; Muhammad Ahmad (1844-1885); Religion; Sudan; War; Al-mahdi; Muhammad Ahmad Ibn As-sayyid 'abd Allah; Theology ELEGY FOR MYSELF, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ashes and dust are laughing, swaddled Last Line: The text, not scripture, begins, I am laughing Subject(s): Religion ELEGY IN THE CLASSROOM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the thin classroom, where your face Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ELEGY IN THE CLASSROOM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the thin classroom, where your face Last Line: Who was wise, wise, wise Subject(s): God; Religion ELEGY IS PREPARING ITSELF, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are pines that are tall enough Subject(s): Religion ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR. CHANNING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not come to weep above thy pall Last Line: For us weep rather thou in calm divine! Subject(s): Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842); Religion; Theology ELEGY ON THYRZA, SELS., by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ELIZABETH GONE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lay in the nest of your real death Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ELIZABETH GONE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lay in the nest of your real death Last Line: Elizabeth, until you were gone Subject(s): God; Religion EMBLEM: 3, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ev'n like two little bank-dividing brooks Last Line: To thr gates of hell; triumphed, and fetched a crown. Variant Title(s): Canticle;the Loved And The Beloved;a Mystical Ecstasy;my Beloved Is Mine And I Am His Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After she said it, %the crowd grabbed her roughly Last Line: But men were putting neon signs around it Subject(s): Christianity; Religion EMPTY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, little house of pleasant dreams Last Line: Whose dreams are flown. Subject(s): Religion; Theology EMPTY SOUL, by WALTER RUSSELL BOWIE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion EMPTY YOUR MIND OF ALL THOUGHTS, by LAO TZU Poem Source Subject(s): Religion EN-SOF, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I number up my jewels, spread them all before your / gaze Last Line: God alone gives understanding—his love alone is light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Freedom; God; Religion; Wisdom; Liberty; Theology ENCOURAGED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you love me I have much achieved Last Line: I could not disappoint you and so prevailed. Subject(s): Religion; Theology END IS WHATEVER HAPPENED LAST, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What if I told you that the boy Last Line: Is straight from the hand of god. She watches, %learning how to feed herself with love Subject(s): Religion END OF A COURSE, by IVOR ARMSTRONG RICHARDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He and I Subject(s): Religion END OF BEING, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The end of being is to find out god Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Religion END OF BEING, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Religion END OF KOMACHI: 1. COURT ROMANCE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Her unnamed lover Last Line: Standing outside the door, waiting Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life END OF KOMACHI: 2. NIGHT ECHOES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Plum blossoms, mottled silver Last Line: Moon woman blushing Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life END OF KOMACHI: 3. OFFERING INCENSE AT THE TEMPLE DOOR, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Fragrance of pinecone and spice Last Line: Will the gods attend? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life END OF KOMACHI: 4. CRANE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Old skin-and-bones in clay hut Last Line: Crane dancing in moonlight Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life END, MIDDLE, BEGINNING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an unwanted child Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology END, MIDDLE, BEGINNING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an unwanted child Last Line: Let him drill you into no one Subject(s): God; Religion ENDURING WORD, by AUDREY WURDEMANN Poem Source First Line: What, then: if the roses wither? Subject(s): Religion ENIGMA OF THE STIGMA, OR VICE VERSA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drawn to the ineffable, yet cathedrals leave me empty Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Spirituality; Male-female Relations; Theology ENIGMA OF THE STIGMA, OR VICE VERSA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drawn to the ineffable, yet cathedrals leave me empty Last Line: Mysteries inviting both penetration and erasure Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Spirituality ENOCH ARDEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm Last Line: Had seldom seen a costlier funeral. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Religion; Theology ENOCH TELLS THE SECRETS OF THE SIXTH DAY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The fifth day of course was busy, the sea Last Line: A miserable dominion over the earth Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Religion ENOUGH, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grass creeps everywhere Last Line: Is in our cup. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ENOUGH, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a restless night, dreams Last Line: Van gogh found solace in sunflowers Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality ENOUGH NOT ONE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: The poor have little Last Line: The rich too much, %enough not one Subject(s): Religion ENQUIRING SOUL, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ENTRY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Not from saying names Last Line: Bleeds darkness %before its final flare Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ENVOI, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, seek me not within a tomb Last Line: Is prayer! Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology ENVOY, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: All the songs here sung Subject(s): Religion ENVOY, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The god who made denial Subject(s): Religion EPIGRAM, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, on this scaffold thomas more lies dead Last Line: Who would not cut the body from the head Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535); Religion EPILOGUE TO DRAMATIS PERSONAE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first of the feast of feasts Last Line: Become my universe that feels and knows! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology EPIPHANY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reason, have done Last Line: Is prelude to the perfect light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology EPISTEMOLOGY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kick at the rock, sam johnson, break your bones Subject(s): Religion; Theology EPISTEMOLOGY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kick at the rock, sam johnson, break your bones Last Line: We whisper in her ear, 'you are not true' Subject(s): Religion EPISTLE, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Christian, be up before the end of day Subject(s): Religion EPISTLE TO JAMES MOMTAGUE, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although you have out of your proper store Last Line: Than when they are esteemed and loved best? Subject(s): Hearts; Mankind; Montague, James (1568-1618); Religion; Sickness; Human Race; Theology; Illness EPITAPH, by JOHN ALEXANDER BOUQUET Poem Source First Line: When from this good world I depart Subject(s): Religion EPITAPH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Write on my grave when I am dead Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Religion EPITAPH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young then Last Line: Tongue; these painted eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology EPITAPH FOR A BEATNIK POET, by GARY OWEN Poem Source First Line: Here lies bogus, beatnik bard Subject(s): Religion EPITAPH FOR A MEAT-PACKER, by GARY OWEN Poem Source First Line: Here my meat is, clean and dressed Subject(s): Religion EPITAPH ON A FRIEND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An honest man here lies at rest Last Line: If there is none, he made the best of this. Variant Title(s): On A Friend;epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father's Friend, William M. Subject(s): Religion; Theology EPITAPH ON A LADY, WHO HAD LABOURED UNDER A CANCER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, these dear remains contain'd a mind Last Line: His debt to worth, to excellence, and you! Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; God; Religion; Women; Dead, The; Theology EPITAPH ON A WORTHY CLERGYMAN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: Still like his master, known by breaking bread Last Line: And learn each grace his pulpit taught before Subject(s): Religion EPITAPH ON MY FATHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains Last Line: For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers; Life Change Events; Religion; Theology EPITAPH, FOUND SOMEWHERE IN SPACE, by HUGH WILGUS RAMSAUR Poem Source First Line: In desolation, here a lost world lies Last Line: And fathomed every mystery but man Subject(s): Religion EPITAPH: FOR A LADY I KNOW, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thinks that even up in heaven Last Line: To do celestial chores. Subject(s): African Americans; Religion; Social Classes; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology; Caste EPITAPH: FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God and the devil still are wrangling Last Line: Satan has enough in hell Variant Title(s): For A Mouthy Woman Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology EPITAPH: FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God and the devil still are wrangling Last Line: Satan has enough in hell Variant Title(s): For A Mouthy Woma Subject(s): Bible; Religion EPITAPH: THE BODY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: (like the cover of an old book) Last Line: Revised and corrected %by the author Subject(s): Religion EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers Last Line: We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours. Subject(s): Courage; Hinduism; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Theology; First World War ERRAND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been going right on, page by page Last Line: Like moth wings for a short while in a small place Subject(s): God; Religion ESCAPE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The daily work in narrow space is bound Subject(s): Religion ESSAY ON MAN: EPISTLE 3, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Force first made conquest, and the conquest, law Last Line: Draw to one point, and to one centre bring %beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king Subject(s): Freedom; Religion ESSAY: SEVEN ASPECTS OF MILKING TIME, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had it in my mind to move Last Line: & end up in the gutter Subject(s): Essays; Religion; Theology ESTEEMING THE BIBLE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This holy book I'd rather own Last Line: Their tears shall cease to flow. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology ETERNAL CHRISTMAS, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the pure sould, although it sing or pray Last Line: And keep eternal christmas in the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray Subject(s): Christmas; Religion ETERNAL DICE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I'm crying over the life I live Last Line: The void of an immense grave Subject(s): Death; God; Religion ETERNAL GOD WHOSE SEARCHING EYE DOTH SCAN, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ETERNAL HOPE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ETERNAL LIGHT!, by THOMAS BINNEY Poem Source First Line: Eternal light! Eternal light! Last Line: May dwell in the eternal light, %through the eternal love Subject(s): Religion ETERNAL SPIRIT, EVERMORE CREATING, by HENRY BURKE ROBINS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ETERNAL SPIRIT, SELS., by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that weavest sun and stars Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Religion ETERNITY AND THE TRUTH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In regard to eternity (said the old mandarin) Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Religion EUTYCHUS, by ROSEMARY DOBSON Poem Source First Line: The first day of the week he spoke to them Last Line: And spring to life again, like eutychus Subject(s): Bible; Religion EVANGEL, by CLARENCE MONTEITH WORKMAN Poem Text First Line: To me the meanest flower that breaks Last Line: That makes him mine. Subject(s): Religion; Theology EVE, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, with her basket, was Last Line: "eva!"" again." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no more shopping days to christmas Subject(s): Religion EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I sit at the door, / sick to gaze within Last Line: His tongue out with its fork. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVEN AT PRAYER, OUR EYES LOOK INWARD, by MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB Poem Source Last Line: A wise man tastes the entire tigris in every sip Subject(s): Religion EVEN THE ROCKS SHALL PRAISE HIM', by MARJORIE MADDOX Poem Source First Line: Their cold, mole-grey faces just here, there Last Line: Peak beyond all constellations, %vibrate every planet Subject(s): Religion EVEN THIS SHALL PASS AWAY, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in persia reigned a king Last Line: "even this shall pass away." Variant Title(s): All Things Shall Pass Away;the King's Ring Subject(s): Religion; Theology EVENING, by GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly now the light of day Last Line: Jesus, look with pitying eye. Variant Title(s): Evening Hymn;evening Contemplation Subject(s): Evening; Religion; Sunset; Twilight; Theology EVENING HYMN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of the evening hours Last Line: O give us now repose! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Religion; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology EVENING PRAYER: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Upon my ryght syde y me leye Subject(s): Religion EVENING PRAYER: 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu lord, well of all godnes Subject(s): Religion EVENING STAR, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Lord, art thou wrapped in cloud Last Line: And see in clearness the evening star Subject(s): Religion EVENSONG, by GEORGE TANKERVIL Poem Source First Line: Though the day be never so long Last Line: At last it ringeth to evensong Subject(s): Religion EVENTIDE, by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON Poem Source First Line: At cool of day, with god I walk Alternate Author Name(s): Caro Subject(s): Religion EVERLASTING LOVE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more Last Line: "sings on: -- ""god's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?" Subject(s): God; Kindness; Love; Religion; Theology EVERLASTING MERCY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From '41 to '51 Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING, SELS., by NAMDEV Poem Source First Line: Before all time, before all worlds Subject(s): Religion EVERY BEING IN THE UNIVERSE, by LAO TZU Poem Source Subject(s): Religion EVERY ONE FINDS HIS MATCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is non so wise a man %but he may wisdam leere Subject(s): Religion EVERY-MAN; A MORALITY, by THOMAS HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: I perceive here in my majesty Last Line: Amen, say ye, for saint charity. Subject(s): Religion; Theology EVERYMAN, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Preacher or lecher, saint or sot Subject(s): Religion EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 4, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: God blesses Last Line: And amazed. The whole world is in love with me Subject(s): Angels; Love; Religion EVERYWOMAN HER OWN THEOLOGY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am nailing them up to the cathedral door Last Line: My paper will tell this being where to find me Subject(s): Religion; Women; Theology EVERYWOMAN HER OWN THEOLOGY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am nailing them up to the cathedral door Last Line: In a kitchen, and bump its chest against mine, %my paper will tell this being where to find me Subject(s): Religion; Women EVIDENCE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Where is god!' inquired the mind Subject(s): Religion EVIL EYE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It comes oozing %out of flowers at night Last Line: Giving up one life %for one life Subject(s): God; Religion EVIL SEEKERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are born with luck Last Line: And then tear it from its roots %and bury it, %bury it Subject(s): God; Religion EX NIHILO, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of nothing we are made Last Line: The incarnation that we live. Subject(s): Life; Religion; Tears; Theology EXCESSES OF GOD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not by his superflousness we know Subject(s): Religion EXCHANGE OF GIFTS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me jerusalem marble Last Line: Some tomatoes and onions, my love Subject(s): Religion EXCHANGE OF HATS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will my collection of hats Last Line: And smoking ideals forever Subject(s): Religion EXCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul selects her own society Last Line: Like stone. Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Loneliness EXCLUSIVE BLUE, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her flowers were exclusive blue Subject(s): Religion EXILE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sorrow and in nakedness of soul Last Line: "but has a heavenly birth." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Religion; Theology EXILE, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Here exactly -- a little elbow room. Here, in this margin of poor Last Line: Demands of heathen kings and their last, conclusive embrace Subject(s): Christianity; Religion EXILE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The dalai lama, exiled, fondles the beards Last Line: There's a smile on every face %and on the face of god. Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom; Religion; Tibet EXODUS, by JARRET KEENE Poem Source First Line: Pillar of cloud by day Last Line: Pillar of fire by night Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Subject(s): Bible; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Theology EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Last Line: Of their brilliance miracle %of Subject(s): Bible; Fathers And Daughters; Religion EXPANSION OF SALVE REGINA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hayl! Our patron & lady of erthe Subject(s): Religion EXPATRIATES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, it was a moment Last Line: Mouths calling mine, mine, mine Subject(s): God; Religion EXPECTANS EXPECTAVI, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn to midnight, all day through Last Line: To thy great service dedicate. Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War EXPERIENCE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Religion EXTREMES, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: I was attracted to the extremes Last Line: Or the old gnostic statement: 'split the stick and there is jesus' Subject(s): Religion EZEKIEL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Source First Line: He thunders from the cherubs' glowing wheels Subject(s): Ezekiel; Religion FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain and the squirrel / had a quarrel Last Line: Neither can you crack a nut.' Subject(s): Mountains; Religion; Squirrels; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology FACE TO FACE WITH REALITY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: What did you see out there, my lad Last Line: And we thank him for his grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Reality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology FACES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: There are two pictures hanging on my wall Last Line: And mary maiden gray the mother of me! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Inspiration; Creativity; Virgin Mary; Theology FACETS, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: All the way from the nickel-back cafe Last Line: Over books, and drop by drop the ice %redefines itself in the dark Subject(s): Religion FACING IT, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Who could declare your death, standing Last Line: Risen? We have not turned that page Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FAERIE QUEENE, SELS., by EDMUND SPENSER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Religion FAILURES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bear no laurels on their sunless brows Last Line: Wound his one signal, and went on his way. Subject(s): Religion; Theology FAITH, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no unbelief Last Line: God knowth why. Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Religion; Theology FAITH, by EMMA CARLETON Poem Source First Line: The road winds up the hill to meet the height Subject(s): Religion FAITH, by PRESTON CLARK Poem Source First Line: When the night kneels down by your bed Subject(s): Religion FAITH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, give me faith! - to live from day to day Last Line: The veil thy love has hung 'twixt it and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Source First Line: Men buy and sell by faith; the forges burn Subject(s): Religion FAITH, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, sound forever, ye clarions of thought Last Line: Monologue later used by joyce in ulysses. Variant Title(s): The Trumpets Of The Mind Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Prayer; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be like the little bird Last Line: All conscious of his wings. Variant Title(s): The Trumpets Of The Mind Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Prayer; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH, by MAUD FRAZER JACKSON Poem Source First Line: What if I say Subject(s): Religion FAITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea was breaking at my feet Last Line: "there is! There is!"" replied." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Sea; Belief; Creed; Theology; Ocean FAITH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the loves of others close Last Line: Shine jewelled like the seraphim. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Sin; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God knows, not I, the reason why Last Line: My days and ways, so I am free Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion FAITH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O world, thou choosest not the better part Last Line: Unto the thinking of the thought divine. Variant Title(s): The Light Of Faith;sonnet: 3 Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Soldiers; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How do I know that god is good? I don't Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion FAITH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In every seed to breathe the flower Last Line: Of loveliness unseen. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mom told me how she 'worked on' hers Last Line: God have mercy on me!' and there is none Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality FAITH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing before, nothing behind Last Line: Fall on the seeming void, and find %the rock beneath Subject(s): Religion FAITH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not doubt, though all my ships at sea Last Line: With my last breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH AND HOPE, by ROBERT GRANT (1785-1838) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gathering clouds around I view Last Line: And wipe the latest tear away. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FAITH AND SCIENCE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Faith has no quarrel with science: she foreknows Last Line: Through perfect law seeks perfect beauty's goal. Subject(s): Faith; Religion & Science; Belief; Creed FAITH AND SIGHT, by MARY GARDNER BRAINARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion FAITH CAME FIRST, by SYDNEY CARTER Poem Source Last Line: But this to %build upon Subject(s): Religion FAITH HEALING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the women file to where he stands Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology FAITH HEALING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the women file to where he stands Last Line: Spreads slowly through them - that, and the voice above %saying dear child, and all time has disprov Subject(s): Bible; Religion FAITH IN FLORIDA, by MARTHA SERPAS Poem Source First Line: First month in florida I couldn't get used Last Line: The signs we know have been there all along Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality FAITH IS ABOVE REASON, by REGINALD PECOCK Poem Source First Line: Witte hath wondir that resoun ne telle kan Last Line: For feith is aboven and reason is undir Subject(s): Religion FAITH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I believe the will of god prevails Last Line: And that it may be so I give thanks to the almighty %and seek his aid Subject(s): Religion FAITH OF OUR MOTHERS, by ARTHUR B. PATTEN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion FAITH ON TRIAL, SELS., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream is the thought in the ghost Subject(s): Religion FAITH SHALL BUILD A FAIRER THRONE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion FAITH' IS A FINE INVENTION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In an emergency! Subject(s): Religion; Faith FAITH'S PRAYER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Great jehovah, jesus, saviour Last Line: Thou wilt keep until that day. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FALL OF THE DOLL'S HOUSE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The family figurines sat round a fire Last Line: In houses built for everlasting fire %where man and woman burn like seraphim Subject(s): Religion FALLEN ANGELS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They come on to my clean Last Line: Before you pinch me %into the grave Subject(s): God; Religion FALLING DOLLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dolls, %by the thousands Last Line: Born but never fed Subject(s): God; Religion FALLING FROM GRACE, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: The house of god is locked Last Line: And charges in pursuit of winged temptation Subject(s): Grace; Religion FAMILIAR STORY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everyone speaks in affirmations Last Line: To the dust scattering below Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life FAR DISTANCES, by HENRY WILLIAM CLARK Poem Text First Line: O wide and shining, miles on miles Last Line: With his own greatness blended? Subject(s): Religion; Theology FAR LAND, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are sighing for you, far land Subject(s): Religion FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My knees recall the pockets Last Line: And certainly attended. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 2. SOMEONE INSIDE ME REMEMBERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That my knees must be hidden away Last Line: Than myself Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Prayer; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who did I fail, who Last Line: Of rescue, rescue. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Life; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 5. SINNERMAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizontal one evening Last Line: And my own whispered / hosanna? Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 6. KARMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The habit is heavy Last Line: No whole abiding / sister Subject(s): Habits; Sisters; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 7. GLORIA MUNDI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So knowing, / what is known? Last Line: In one life. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Women & Religion FAR TRUMPETS BLOWING, by LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON Poem Source First Line: A king might miss the guiding star Last Line: May catch far trumpets blowing Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Last Line: Better, my lover, dead Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; God; Marriage; Religion FATHER, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Never had the old man made such a journey Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FATHER, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of father - if thou wouldst indeed Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Doubt; Religion FATHER'S BUSINESS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who pust back into place a fallen bar Last Line: His name is whispered in the god's abode Subject(s): Religion FATHER, HOW WIDE THY GLORIES SHINE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As I remain thy single care Subject(s): Religion FATHER, THY WILL BE DONE, by SARAH FLOWER ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower Last Line: Father, thy will, not mine, be done! Alternate Author Name(s): Adams, Sarah Fuller Variant Title(s): Thy Will Be Done! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FATHER, WE THANK THEE, by REBECCA J. WESTON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion FATHER, WHOSE WILL IS LIFE AND GOOD, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion FATHERHOOD, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: He wore his fatherhood with awe Last Line: The fatherhood of god. Subject(s): Fathers; God; Religion; Theology FATHERS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My children can't wait to leave Last Line: Three times each day I hear the silence Subject(s): Fathers; Religion FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wavering shapes, again ye do me enfold Last Line: Ground.) Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun his ancient music makes Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUSTUS AND I, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the opera and god was not there Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FAUSTUS AND I, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the opera and god was not there Last Line: I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 11TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is favorable for real-estate affairs Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FEBRUARY 11TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is favorable for real-estate affairs Last Line: Part swiss watch, part indian head Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 17TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take nothing for granted Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FEBRUARY 17TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take nothing for granted Last Line: That all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 1: IGNATUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even now at the end Last Line: Make of me one good meal Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FEBRUARY 20TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concentration should be easier Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FEBRUARY 20TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concentration should be easier Last Line: Hurry up somebody's dead we're still alive Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 21ST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is favorable for teamwork Last Line: As we dance the karate, the mad burlesque Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 3RD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your own ideas may be too fanciful to be practical Last Line: Useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 4TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is good for attempts to advance a secret hope or dream Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FEBRUARY 4TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is good for attempts to advance a secret hope or dream Last Line: All from the room I pray to when I am dreaming and devout Subject(s): God; Religion FEBRUARY 5: AGATHA, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was born of wealthy parents, but her only wealth, and Last Line: We can accept with certainty nothing of her story, but what will our doubt cost us Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FEBRUARY DAY, COLD WIND BLOWING, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I sit on the college bleachers and watch you scrum Last Line: Leave my room alone Subject(s): Religion FESTAL SONG, by WILLIAM PIERSON MERRILL Poem Source First Line: Rise up, o men go god! Subject(s): Religion FIDELIA ARGUING WITH HER SELF ON THE DIFFICULTY FINDING TRUE RELIGION, by JANE BARKER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Oh wretched world, but wretched above all Last Line: In pennance my baptismal vows renew. Subject(s): Churches; Life; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology FIERCENESS OF FEMALE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am spinning, %I am spinning on the lips Last Line: Flowers smash through the long winter Subject(s): God; Religion FIFTH GOSPEL: THE SEEKER, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Dory!' my best friend says to me, only faith Last Line: Break your faith, lose your life! %count on it! Subject(s): Faith; Religion FILL AND ILLUMINED, by JOSEPH CERAVOLO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God created his image Last Line: Yet there is no joy Subject(s): Bible; Religion FINAL PRAYER, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the censer the coals are high Last Line: Because your husband is captive, %your rage increases, your heart is never calm Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion FINGERS OF GOD, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: At sunset, the lord of the sky Last Line: I had been touched by god's fingers. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Religion; Shintoism; Sky; Paradise; Theology FINISHED COURSE, by JOSEPH OF THE STADIUM Poem Source First Line: Safe home, safe home in port Subject(s): Religion FINISHING TOUCH, by MARTHA SERPAS Poem Source First Line: Ever since the painter depicted Last Line: Hand - hers alone - that will close these eyes Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality FIRE, by FAZIL HUSNU DAGLARCA Poem Source First Line: When %water forgets Subject(s): Religion FIRE AND ST. FRANCIS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As he sat eating by the fire one night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology FIRE AND ST. FRANCIS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As he sat eating by the fire one night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FIRE POEM, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source First Line: Note that the fire Subject(s): Religion FIRE THIEF, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began with begging Last Line: Its mother, %to forgive, %to forgive Subject(s): God; Religion FIREBOMBERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are america Last Line: America, %where are your credentials Subject(s): God; Religion FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore Last Line: O come quickly, glorious lord, and raise my sprite to thee! Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Theology FIRST BROTHER LESSON OF THE WORLD, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: In the room without heat the desk's cherry wood Last Line: Half of the secret of how to live a righteous life on earth? Subject(s): Learning; Life; Religion FIRST CORINTHIANS, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Religion FIRST PRELUDE, by FRANCIS J. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I want to go on Subject(s): Religion FIRST TIME I NURSED MY DAUGHTER, I KNEW, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: How helpless I was to safeguard my child Last Line: Like a great river Subject(s): Religion FIRST TIME I SAW, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Ronggeng couples move as one Last Line: Rasa sayang - the feel of love Subject(s): Religion FIRST, YOU HAVE IT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source Last Line: You never saw a face Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life FISH THAT WALKED, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from oysters %and the confused weeds Last Line: What you can only visit Subject(s): God; Religion FISHERMAN HAS CAST HIS NET, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: She can handle death Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion FISHERS OF MEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boats are out, and the storm is high Last Line: Till the nets, o'ercharged, shall break. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Galilee, Palestine; Religion; Sea; Stars; Theology; Ocean FIVE GROUPS OF VERSE (9), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow that does not leave my feet Last Line: I seem to walk but I dance about, %you think me wilent but I shout Variant Title(s): Davi Subject(s): Bible; Religion FIVE JOYS OF OUR LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Heyl! Gloryous virgyne, ground of all our grace Subject(s): Religion FIVE JOYS OF OUR LADY, WITH ACROSTIC, by RICHARD SPALDYNG Poem Source First Line: Myldyste of moode & mekyst of maydyns alle Subject(s): Religion FIVE STEPS IN PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The norway maple waves wildly Last Line: The last thing I saw before %the light erased it all Subject(s): God; Religion FLASHCARDS: 20. JACOB, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Years and scars later Last Line: All angels travel %under assumed names Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): Religion FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was no other place Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was no other place Last Line: Those I loved best died of it - %the fool's disease Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, / it is I who am absent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, %it is I who am absent Last Line: The sapphire I know is there? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion FLIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking that I would find you Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FLIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking that I would find you Last Line: Had nowhere else to go Subject(s): God; Religion FLIGHT IN THE DESERT, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last settlement scraggled out with a barbwire fence Last Line: Knuckles the generous breast, and feeds Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): Bible; Religion FLIGHTING WINGS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The mother eagle wrecks the nest Last Line: To bear our souls all ills above. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology FLOWER FADETH, by ROBERT C. JONES Poem Source First Line: Seasons come Last Line: The words of god remain Subject(s): Evolution; God; Religion; Time FLOWER-STREWN GRAVES, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion FLOWERS AND MUSIC IN A ROOM OF SICKNESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Lightly tread! Still tranquilly she sleeps Last Line: Conqueror! Thou son of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Sickness; Theology; Illness FLOWERS OF AMSTERDAM, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: For the sake of the gospel Last Line: Glistening petals, opening a secret passage %in the deep and watery place Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Flowers; Persecution; Religion FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prune thou my words, the thoughts control Last Line: Which bloom their hour, and fade. Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology FLOWING LIGHT OF THE GODHEAD: GOD ASKS THE SOUL WHAT IT BRINGS, by MECHTHILD VON MAGDEBURG Poem Source First Line: Thou huntest sore for thy love Last Line: There will I remain %and circle evermore Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion FLUCTUATIONS, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though the sun had left my sky Last Line: Restore my fainting heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Religion; Theology FLYING OUT FROM THE GREAT BUDDHA'S NOSE, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Religion FLYING TO THE BODY OF CHRIST, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: On, we are lifted for a little while Last Line: And, when paradise comes, we will %not be able to stand it Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion FLYING WHEEL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young the days were long Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Old Age; Religion FOE WITHIN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion FOLLIES OF ADAM, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read me euripides Last Line: He laughed, once more Subject(s): Bible; Religion FOLLOW ME, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And him evermore I beheld Last Line: From the centuries that are gone, %to the centuries that shall be Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion FOLLOW ME!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, I would follow, but Last Line: He must be christ's and christ's alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology FOLLOW THE GLEAM, by BERTHA TEN EYCK JAMES Poem Source First Line: He lived, a slow and stupid round of life Subject(s): Religion FOLLOWING THE SAINTS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the rock of my heart a horse rose Last Line: From a distance, its reins bitten through Subject(s): Religion FOOL, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first days of march Last Line: Then filled his mouth, gargled, swallowed, and grinned Subject(s): Fools; March (month); Religion FOOL HATH SAID IN HIS HEART, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion FOOLING GOD, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must become small and hide where he cannot reach Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology FOOLING GOD, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must become small and hide where he cannot reach Last Line: With their own tongues %and taste the everlasting life Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FOOT REFLEXOLOGIST, FARMERS AND CHRISTMAS, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: For twenty bucks an hour, the old and lame Last Line: A hundred-acre farm in oklahoma Subject(s): Farm Life; Religion FOOT-WASHING, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now you have come Last Line: Forgive me wakened now Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Bible; Feet; Religion FOR A MATERIALIST, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE Poem Text First Line: I know your barren belief - that a rose will grow Last Line: Envisage a sweet-scented waft as its trivial goal? Subject(s): Materialism; Religion; Theology FOR A MODERNIST SERMON, by KENNETH BURKE Poem Source First Line: You'll have an eight-cylinder car in heaven Subject(s): Religion FOR A POET, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By art a poet is not made Last Line: My soul in peace departs away Subject(s): Bible; Religion FOR ALL IN PAIN, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Dear lord, for all in pain %we pray to thee Last Line: Come near, that even so %they may have peace Subject(s): Pain; Religion FOR ALL WHO NEED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For all who watch tonight - by land or sea or air Subject(s): Religion FOR AN AUTOGRAPH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though old the thought and oft exprest Last Line: And scrawl, as I do here, a name. Subject(s): Autographs; Life; Religion; Theology FOR AN HOUR, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not keep the heights I gain Last Line: I gained the heights I could not keep. Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology FOR ANNE AT PASSOVER, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold easter week and the hard buds, forming, shake Last Line: We are all babes who suck at love together Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Critics And Criticism; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jews; Passover; Religion - Reformers FOR BROTHER, WHAT ARE WE, by THOMAS CLAYTON WOLFE Poem Source Last Line: And we shall follow the print of his foot forever Variant Title(s): What Are We Subject(s): Mankind; Men; Religion FOR DAUGHTERS OF MAGDALEN, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is the ancient story Last Line: That would not toil or spin Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology FOR DAUGHTERS OF MAGDALEN, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is the ancient story Last Line: That would not toil or spin Subject(s): Bible; Religion FOR EACH INCH GOD WILL REQUITE THEE A SPAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sen trew vertew encressis dignytee Subject(s): Religion FOR ELEANOR AND BILL MONAHAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god! Our lady Last Line: And love them for it Subject(s): Religion; Theology FOR ELEANOR AND BILL MONAHAN, SELS., by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god! Our lady Subject(s): Religion FOR ELEANOR BOYLAN TALKING WITH GOD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God has a brown voice Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FOR ELEANOR BOYLAN TALKING WITH GOD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God has a brown voice Last Line: Oh eleanor, eleanor, %tell him before death uses you up her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion FOR GOD WHILE SLEEPING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping in fever, I am unfit Last Line: On your own breathing, poor old convict her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hell's asleep now Last Line: Like a tourist in monet's garden Subject(s): Religion FOR JOHN, WHO BEGS ME NOT TO ENQUIRE FURTHER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that it was beautiful Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FOR JOHN, WHO BEGS ME NOT TO ENQUIRE FURTHER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that it was beautiful Last Line: My kitchen, your kitchen, %my face, your face Subject(s): God; Religion FOR JOHNNY POLE ON THE FORGOTTEN BEACH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his tenth july some instinct Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FOR JOHNNY POLE ON THE FORGOTTEN BEACH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his tenth july some instinct Last Line: Johnny, each summer that moves inside my mind Subject(s): God; Religion FOR JUDE THE OBSCURE, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I am brought so low Last Line: Pitiless, rolling over us Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality FOR MARGARET, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother near her death Last Line: How can I lift them one by one in my arms? Subject(s): Religion FOR MR. DEATH WHO STANDS WITH HIS DOOR OPEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time grows dim. Time that was so long Last Line: So that I may sqat at the edge trying on %my black necessary trousseau Subject(s): God; Religion FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: This red Subject(s): Religion FOR MY LOVER, RETURNING TO HIS WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is all there Last Line: As for me, I am a watercolor. %I wash off Subject(s): God; Religion; Unfaithfulness FOR SOPHIE, BALD IN CHURCH, by JILL PELAEZ BAUMGAERTNER Poem Source First Line: The other on whom cancer Last Line: Head - naked as an infant %still curling into its mother Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Religion FOR STARTERS, by VICTORIA MCCABE Poem Source First Line: Be good Subject(s): Divorce; Religion FOR THE 'MOUCHE', by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream. It was a summer's night Last Line: And I awoke at last in desperation. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Mythology; Religion; Statues; Nightmares; Theology FOR THE BAPTIST, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last and greatest herald of heaven's king Last Line: Repent!' Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Saint John Baptist;sonnet: Repent, Repent!;the Baptist's Sonnet Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology FOR THE LORD OF CAVES (1), by ALLAMA PRABHU Poem Source First Line: I saw an ape tied up Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion FOR THE LORD OF CAVES (2), by ALLAMA PRABHU Poem Source First Line: Looking for your light Last Line: There can be no metaphor Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion FOR THE MAGDALENE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These eyes, dear lord, once brandons of desire Last Line: Thus sighed to jesus the bethanian fair, %his tear-wet feet still drying with her hair Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord god of hosts, whose mighty hand Last Line: Thy peace on earth till time shall end! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; War; Theology FOR THE OLD GNOSTICS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The fathers put their trust in the end of the world Subject(s): Religion; Theology FOR THE OPENING OF THE WILLIAM DINSMORE BRIGGS ROOM, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because our being grows in mind Last Line: Which hell itself cannot unlock Subject(s): Religion; Theology FOR THE OPENING OF THE WILLIAM DINSMORE BRIGGS ROOM, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because our being grows in mind Subject(s): Religion FOR THE YEAR OF THE INSANE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary, fragile mother Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FOR THE YEAR OF THE INSANE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary, fragile mother Last Line: I am locked in the wrong house Subject(s): God; Religion FOR THIS WORLD, by WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, we thank thee for this universe, our great Last Line: Glory of god. Variant Title(s): Fellowship With All;for This Universe Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology FOR THY SAKE LET THE WORLD CALL ME FOOL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu, lett me neuer forgett thy byttur passion Subject(s): Religion FOREBEARANCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion FORGIVENESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Must I forgive till seven times seven?' Last Line: And mightier is his quest! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion; Clemency; Theology FORTRESS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the pink quilted covers Last Line: I promise you love. Time will not take that away her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion FORTUNE HAS CAST ME FROM WEAL TO WOE, by ROBERT HARMAN Poem Source First Line: My-self walkyng all allone Subject(s): Religion FORTUNE RULES BOTH HIGH AND LOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There schapeth nought from her entent Subject(s): Religion FORTUNE WILL HAVE HER WAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O ihu, mercy! What world is thys Subject(s): Religion FORTUNE, BE MY FRIEND AGAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A! Mercy, fortune, have pitee on me Subject(s): Religion FOSSIL, by JR. BOYNTON MERRILL Poem Source First Line: I am content Subject(s): Fossils; Religion FOSSIL, 1975, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Changed and not changed. Three million years Last Line: Changed and not changed. The spirit hears %in drifting fern the morning air Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Fossils; Religion FOUND WANTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belshazzar had a letter Last Line: On revelation's wall. Subject(s): Bible; Conscience; Religion; Theology FOUNDATIONS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now again the world is shaken Last Line: He abideth who confideth, %god is god forevermore Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion FOUNDING OF COVENANT, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: The spot commands a western view Last Line: The borders of the signifying stars Subject(s): Religion FOUNTAIN FROM WILDERNESS STONE, by DAVID ROSENBERG Poem Source First Line: When israel came out of egypt Subject(s): Israel; Religion FOUR CORNERS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: North is here, %the wind's teeth and belly Last Line: The arrow and its prey Subject(s): Religion FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our folks gone a visiting, reverend sir Last Line: Was all by one language,—as clear as the sun. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Language; Miracles; Religion; Spiritual Life; Holy Spirit; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many thanks have been order'd this day to attend Last Line: Excuse the presumption.—dear vicar, adieu! Subject(s): Apostles; Baptism; Bible; Language; Prayer; Religion; Spiritual Life; Disciples, Twelve; Christenings; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 3, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope that the vicar will pardon the haste Last Line: How to clear up the matter.—what can a man say? Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Hebrew Literature; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have with attention, dear vicar, repass'd Last Line: And, speaking or silent, am yours to command, Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Literature; Language Poetry; Religion; Theology FOUR THINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Four things on any land must dwell Last Line: And one an altar kept alight Subject(s): Religion FOUR THINGS [TO DO], by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four things a man must learn to do Last Line: To trust in god and heaven securely. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology FRAGMENT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is poetry? It is a mosaic Last Line: With storied meaning for religion's sake. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology FRAGMENT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk with thy fellow-creatures: note the hush Last Line: And thou art sure to prosper all the day Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Religion FRAGMENT OF A RELIGIOUS POEM, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May he whose presence fills Last Line: Our savior, god. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Religion; Theology FRAME FOR THE ANGELS, SELS., by PAUL SMYTH Poem Source First Line: The spring that I was six I found in the woods Subject(s): Religion FRANCIS HELPS A BROTHER WHO IS IN SIN, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Francis walked in silence Last Line: The sound echoed through the trees in the twilight Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FRANCIS MEETS A LEPER, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He heard the bell toll, erratic Subject(s): Christianity; Religion FRATERNITY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, I saw an unknown woman stand Last Line: You think me pity ... Justice is my name. Subject(s): Angels; Justice; Mankind; Women & Religion; Worship; Human Race FREE MEN OF GOD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Free men of god, the new day breaks Last Line: We shall, we must, we will be -- free! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology FREE NATION, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this freedom will be the freedom of all Last Line: Except as he finds it %in the security of all Subject(s): Religion FREEMEN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Let no man stand between my god and me! Last Line: "our sons and liberty!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology FRENZY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not lazy Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology FRENZY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not lazy Last Line: Wide as an english bathtub Subject(s): God; Religion FRESH FLOWER OF WOMANHOOD, by H. BOWESPWER Poem Source First Line: Ryht godely, fressh flour of womanhode Subject(s): Religion FRIAR LAURENCE O'FARRELL: LONGFORD, 1651, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The van of ireton's troops at morning broke Last Line: By ireton gave it formal burial Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Clergy; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology FRIEND'S DAUGHTER DIES, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: And we look at our empty hands Last Line: Her ancestors, too, had been immigrants Subject(s): Religion FRIENDLY OBSTACLES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For every hill I've had to climb Subject(s): Religion FRIENDS BEYOND, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think of them as dead Last Line: For god hath given to love to keep %its own eternally Variant Title(s): My Dead; Their Silent Ministr Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Religion FROG, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hold this living coldness Last Line: Once in the dry countries he was a god Subject(s): Religion FROG PRINCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frau doktor %mama brundig Last Line: That blind poppy, that innocent globe, %that madonna womb up Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion FROGS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Master, shall I begin with the usual jokes Subject(s): Religion FROM ALL THAT DWELL BELOW THE SKIES, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In cheerful sounds all voices raise %and fill the world with loudest praise Subject(s): Religion FROM AN AFTERNOON CALLER, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: I called at your Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Religion FROM GOD TO GOD', by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then since from god these lesser lives began Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Religion FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST: YA-IHL'S SONG TO THE NORTH WIND, by ALICE HENSON ERNST Poem Text First Line: Ah-hi-yoo ... Last Line: Cha-it-sc'l, little-brown-partridge, she whom I loved, is dead. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion FROM WAR, 1919, by ARTHUR FIELD Poem Text First Line: Honour is the bondage of a fool Last Line: Its virtue is, it must go underground. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Night; Religion; Bedtime; Theology FRYING PAN'S THEOLOGY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scene: on monaro Last Line: Tumble down snow!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Religion; Theology FULFILLMENT, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, cease, my wandering soul Subject(s): Religion FULFILLMENT, by CHARLOTTE NEWTON Poem Text First Line: If we should find unfinished, incomplete Last Line: In our own lives, perchance, might go amiss. Subject(s): Religion; Theology FULLNESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That light, that sight, that thought Last Line: An oracle of his eternal love. Subject(s): Religion; Theology FULLNESS OF THE BIBLE, by H. J. BETTS Poem Text First Line: There is a lamp whose steady light Last Line: These healing leaves, this heavenly tree. Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Jews; Religion; Paradise; Judaism; Theology FUNNEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The family story tells, and it was told true Subject(s): Family Life; Ancestors & Ancestry; Religion; Theology FUNNEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The family story tells, and it was told true Last Line: Of childen their careful slice of suburban cake Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF BEAUTIFUL BONES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me a thrush, bone Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF COCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they are Subject(s): God; Religion; Sex FURY OF COOKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herbs, garlic Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF FLOWERS AND WORMS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the flowers make a journey Last Line: They slide into the ear of a corpse %and listen to his great sigh Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF GUITARS ..., by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This singing Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF HATING EYES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to bury Last Line: Mice are watching you %from behind the kind bars Subject(s): God; Hate; Religion FURY OF OVERSHOES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sit in a row %outside the kindergarten Last Line: And thinking %nothing of it? Subject(s): Children; God; Kindergarten; Religion; Shoes FURY OF SUNRISES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness %as black as your eyelid Subject(s): God; Religion FURY OF SUNSETS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something %cold is in the air Subject(s): God; Religion GABRIEL CAME DOWN WITH LIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Swete lady, now ye wys Subject(s): Religion GADARA, A.D. 31, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Rabbi, begone thy powers Last Line: Until the latch be lifted from within. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology GAELIC LONG TUNES, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On sabbath days, on circuit days Last Line: Music impelled the, singing, like solar wind Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GALILEE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose another time while walking on water Last Line: Over his head, was drifting even then %toward the nakedness of eternity? Subject(s): Moses; Religion GALILEE SHORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the blue-dark dome old-starred at night, green boat-lights Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GALILEE SHORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the blue-dark dome old-starred at night, green boat-lights Last Line: Just think how amazing! Someone getting up and walking on the water Subject(s): Bible; Religion GANGA, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: We come more numerous than the gulls Last Line: The waters make us pure Subject(s): Religion GARDEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O painter of the fruits and flowers Last Line: The beautiful is good. Variant Title(s): Hymn;laborers Together With God Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology GARDEN, SELS., by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is far to assisi Subject(s): Religion GARGOYLE, by ROBERT B. SHAW Poem Source First Line: An ornamental bung Subject(s): Religion GASCOIGNE'S DE PROFUNDIS, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From depth of dole wherein my soul doth dwell Last Line: Since abraham's heirs did first his laws reject. %ever or never Subject(s): Bible; Religion GATE OF THE YEAR, SELS., by M. LOUISE HASKINS Poem Source First Line: And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year Last Line: And he led me toward the hills and the breaking of day in the lone east Subject(s): Religion GAUDEAMUS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful earth of stars and streams Subject(s): Religion GENEROUS CREED, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Saying 'there is no hope,' he stepped Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray Subject(s): Religion GENESIS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the burly air I strode Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GENESIS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the burly air I strode Last Line: Though earth has rolled beneath her weight %the bones that cannot bear the light Subject(s): Bible; Religion GENESIS: A RETROSPECTIVE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began with division Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Spirituality; Theology GENESIS: A RETROSPECTIVE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began with division Last Line: But there'd always be incarnations, innuendos Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Spirituality GENIUS, by EDWARD LUCAS WHITE Poem Text First Line: He cried aloud to god: 'the men below' Last Line: "yet, till it is burned out, you must remain." Subject(s): Religion; Theology GEOGRAPHER, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before the geography of flowers and fruit Last Line: These are the forbidden fruit Subject(s): Religion GEORGES DE LA TOUR: THE PENITENT MAGDALENE, CIRCA 1640, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Folded to mark a page never returned to Last Line: In a cloud of squandered ointment %our from these penitential rooms and over Subject(s): La Tour, Georges De (1593-1652); Religion GERMAN AND FRENCH GOSPELS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How do these eloquent lecturers of france Last Line: With atmospheres of philosophic breath! Subject(s): Religion; Theology GERMAN PRISONERS, by JOSEPH LEE Poem Text First Line: When first I saw you in the curious street Last Line: "and could have grasped your hand and cried, ""my brother!" Subject(s): Brotherhood; Prisoners Of War; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War GETHSEMANE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a hill backlit by twilight Last Line: Feathers burn in his father's fist, %plucked by god before by judas kissed Subject(s): Gethsemane; Religion GETHSEMANE, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Damp wind, the innocent Last Line: Of the avon lady, her heels up the walk Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GETHSEMANE'S GIFT, by KATHERINE MARIE CORNELIA BREGY Poem Source First Line: When is he is nearest to all of us Last Line: But I would not forget what the olive-trees heard - %his one unanswered prayer! Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion GETHSEMANI ABBEY, KENTUCKY (REMEMBERING), by J. T. LEDBETTER Poem Source First Line: From merton's hermitage I watched Last Line: Like my aunt's fiery cherubim with their wings %covering their feet Subject(s): Religion GHAZEL, by QURRAT AL-'AYN Poem Source First Line: The thralls of yearning love constrain in the bands of pain and calamity Last Line: Since fearing not this step to take, thou shalt gain the highest felicity Subject(s): Islam; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GHAZEL, by SIDQI Poem Source First Line: He who union with the lord gains, more delight desireth not! Last Line: Thou atr soul enow, and sidqi other plight desireth not Subject(s): Public Worship; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GHETTO THEATER, VILNIUS, 1941, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the players chose to wear something Last Line: Cutting their knees, and the rush of tears Subject(s): Religion GHOSS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some ghosts are women Last Line: Showing their innocent bottoms, wailing for lucifer Subject(s): God; Religion GIANT BEAR, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: There once was a giant bear Last Line: Monster one minute, food the next Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion GIANT CIRCUMSTANCE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Though every nerve be strained Last Line: Do call it -- providence! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology GIANT KILLER, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard the case for clarity. I know Last Line: I like that disproportion. They were well thrown Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): Religion GIFT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They hung the lambs and cut t heir white throats. Blood Last Line: Almost eager now that you had no choice Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GIFT, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Creature to creature Last Line: Of the world... He translates into all tongues Variant Title(s): Song For Stanley Kunit Subject(s): Religion GIFT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wise men of old brought gifts Last Line: And bowed down %to worship %this perfection Subject(s): Bible; Religion GIFT OF TONGUES, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Once, we knew words were magic Last Line: With a perfect pandemonium of words Subject(s): Christianity; God; Language; Prayer; Religion GIFTS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The divine lover, says hafiz Last Line: Like hungry ghosts grieving %their lost worlds Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GIFTS WITHOUT SEASON, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion GILEAD, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP Poem Text First Line: The heart is cold that has not chilled Last Line: Have never seen the need to pray. Subject(s): Religion; Theology GITANJALI: 10, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest Subject(s): Religion GIVE US MEN!, by EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GIVE WAY!, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we not open the human heart Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Religion GIVEN FLESH RETURNS NOTHING BUT BREAD, by AILEEN KELLY Poem Source Last Line: And after all what's said is barely said Subject(s): Bible; Religion GIVER OF ALL, by CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion GIVING, by WILLIAM FREDERICK KIRK Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GIVING BLOOD, by JUDITH ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: I wonder about the theology Last Line: From the essence of the host Subject(s): Blood; Religion GLACIER'S DAUGHTERS, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Mother plasma. Father fire Last Line: God howls and we suck him down Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GLAD & BLITHE MOTE YE BE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GLASS MAN, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: This is where he washed to shore Last Line: Confusion which brought him here Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GLORY GLORY/PSALM 19, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The heavens bespeak the glory of god Last Line: No creature, no least being but catches fire from him Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GLORY OF THE GARDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our england is a garden that is full of stately views Last Line: And the glory of the garden it shall never pass away! Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion GLOUCESTER MOORS, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mile behind is gloucester town Last Line: And nothing to say or do? Subject(s): Freedom; Gloucester, Massachusetts; Religion; Liberty; Theology GLOZE UPON THIS TEXT, DOMINUS IIS OPUS HABET, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My reckless race is run, green youth and pride be past Last Line: We need no text to answer them, but this, the lord hath need %ever or never Subject(s): Bible; Religion GO DOWN DEATH; A FUNERAL SERMON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, weep not Last Line: She's resting in the bosom of jesus. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology GO ON WITH THE DECEPTION, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Why add buttermilk? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion GO ON-I KNOW YOU, MOTHER, I KNOW YOU, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: At the feet of the dark devi Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion GO ON-YOU'RE ONLY DEATH'S FLUNKY, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: And beaten, who's going to save you? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion GO, LET ME WEEP, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, let me weep! There's bliss in tears Last Line: But left no trace of sweets behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOAL, by FRANK WAKELEY GUNSAULUS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: Day and night I wander widely through the wilderness of thought Last Line: Is a keen, enormous, haunting, never-sated thirst for god Subject(s): God; Religion GOD, by DUDLEY BROOKS Poem Text First Line: I know not my religion; do not care Last Line: My own god of the mountains and the sun. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God is in the high notes' Last Line: Tiny stars becoming galleons, %becoming moods Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality GOD, by GABRIEL ROMANOVITCH DERZHAVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou eternal one! Whose presence bright Last Line: The soul shall speak in tears of gratitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich; Dershavin, Gavriil Romanovich Variant Title(s): Ode To The Deity Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Numbers from one to ten, however, are called Last Line: Basso finality, thus: god Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GOD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten thousand worlds his face behold Last Line: And as the father, so the child. Subject(s): Fathers; God; Religion; Theology GOD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: God is spirit Last Line: God is spirit ... Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To church! I heard a sermon once in spring Subject(s): Religion GOD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see thee in the distant blue Last Line: Behold, I breathe and touch thee too. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD AND MAN, by S. A. NAGEL Poem Source First Line: Whenever I am prone to doubt and wonder Subject(s): Religion GOD AND MAN AND FLOWER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, my dear lord, now that it's in your hand Last Line: O find yourself in the hands of the living god Subject(s): Flowers; God; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology GOD AND MAN AND FLOWER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, my dear lord, now that it's in your hand Last Line: To fall out of [or, to find yourself in] the hands of the living god Subject(s): Flowers; God; Mankind; Religion GOD BID US USE REASON AND EVIDENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whane no-thing whas but god alone Subject(s): Religion GOD BLESS OUR NATIVE LAND, by SIEGFRIED A. MAHLMANN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD DOES DO SUCH WONDERFUL THINGS!, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD GIVE ME JOY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: God give me joy in the common things Last Line: God give me joy in the common things! Subject(s): Religion; Simplicity; Theology GOD GOVERNS FOR THE BEST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A blessid god, soueryn goodnesse Subject(s): Religion GOD GUIDES ALL THINGS, by WILLIAM HAMMER Poem Source First Line: God is a substance foreuer dureable Subject(s): Religion GOD IN HIS WISDOM GAVE US DISPOSABLE BODIES, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Creating openings, arteries, glands and organs Last Line: To where earth touches morning sky Subject(s): Religion GOD IN THE NATION'S LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Putting god in the nation's life Last Line: And putting it there in a style to stay Subject(s): Religion;worship; Theology GOD IN TRINITY, GIVE ME GRACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lorde, that art mystis moost Subject(s): Religion GOD IS, by ROLAND MATHIAS Poem Source First Line: God is who questions me Subject(s): Religion GOD IS AT THE ANVIL, BEATING OUT THE SUN, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For the shimmering silver beauty of the evening stars Subject(s): God; Religion GOD IS AT THE ORGAN, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Religion GOD IS GOOD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: I faced a future all unknown Last Line: Yes, truly! God is good. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD IS MY STRONG SALVATION, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Religion GOD IS NIGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Day is done, gone the sun Last Line: Safely rest, all is well! God is nigh Subject(s): Religion GOD KEEP THEE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dark was the day when I left her alone Last Line: Protect by night and by day! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD KEEP YOU, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: God keep you, dearest, all this lonely night Last Line: God keep you every time and everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD LOVINGLY COUNTERATTACKS, by JARRET KEENE Poem Source First Line: Happy-go-lucky and lazy. We took things Last Line: Our souls? %scraped clean Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality GOD MOTHER: 1. THE NURTURER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: She is a breast Last Line: Roll down your throat Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD MOTHER: 2. OUR LADY OF THE PLANTS AND ANIMALS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everything blooms %from her body Last Line: Are leaving %in eddies of sound Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD MOTHER: 3. KALI, GODDESS OF DEATH, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: She wears her corded %necklace of skulls Last Line: To darkness, %to before Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD OF A UNIVERSE WITHIN WHOSE BOUNDS, by KATHARINE L. ALLER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD OF GRACE AND GOD OF GLORY, by HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD OF OUR FATHERS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Lord in whose hand the mountains hide Last Line: God save our country and our king. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology GOD OF THE EARTH, THE SKY, THE SEA, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The in-dwelling god, proclaimed of old Subject(s): Religion GOD OF THE HUMAN HEART, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: God of the open air!' god of the human heart! Last Line: "thy footsteps make our dawn, ""god of the open air." Subject(s): God; Religion; Van Dyke, Henry (1852-1933); Theology GOD OF THE NATIONS, by WALTER RUSSELL BOWIE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD OF THE NATIONS, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion GOD OF THE OPEN AIR: 7, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the gifts I ask Last Line: On all the brightness of the common day. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD OF THE PROPHETS, by DENIS WORTMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD OF THE STRONG, GOD OF THE WEAK, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion GOD OUR REFUGE, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If there had anywhere appeared in space Last Line: That we could not flee from thee anywhere, %we fled to thee Subject(s): Religion GOD POEM, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Especially he loves %his space and the parpchial darkness Last Line: Comes to nothing: absence, a world Subject(s): Religion GOD PRAYS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I tossed and could not sleep Last Line: I know at last 'tis god who prays. Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology GOD SEND EASTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we will lace the Last Line: Glory in our skin Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology GOD SEND EASTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we will lace the Last Line: And apple as we %glory in our skin Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion GOD SEND US MEN, SELS., by FREDERICK JOHN GILLMAN Poem Source First Line: God send us men with hearts ablaze Last Line: These are the bulwarks of the state Subject(s): Religion GOD SEND US PATIENCE IN OUR OLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the tyme that we were bore Subject(s): Religion GOD SHED HIS GRACE, by PHILIP STEPHENS Poem Source First Line: I struggled to read homer in translation Last Line: But faintly, I could hear a woman humming Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Religion GOD SUFFERS, by GEORGIA HARKNESS Poem Source First Line: I cannot think that god could be content Subject(s): Religion GOD THE ARCHITECT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who thou art I know not Last Line: In the heart of man! Variant Title(s): God, The Architect Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; God; Religion; Theology GOD THE LIFE OF NATURE, by MORDECAI KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: God is the oneness Subject(s): God; Religion GOD'S ABODE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Some say the god lies coiled Last Line: We are her translucent vessel, %container and contained Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD'S ACRE, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: God's acre wakes anew to poignant splendor Last Line: Triumphant proof of immortality. Subject(s): God; Religion; Worship; Theology GOD'S ALTAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in all the sons of men Last Line: Thyself dost give forevermore Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD'S BACKSIDE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold / like grandfather's icehouse Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD'S BACKSIDE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold %like grandfather's icehouse Last Line: And plan their wedding Subject(s): God; Religion GOD'S CUT-OFF TV SCREEN'S VANISHING MIRROR SEEMS AN UNSHARED POINT, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Unlike talk, like prayer, this mist unravels Last Line: Prayer to flesh, %this mortal form Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality GOD'S DARK, by JOHN+(2) MARTIN Poem Source First Line: The dark is kind and cozy Subject(s): Religion GOD'S DREAMS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Dreams are they - but they are god's dreams Last Line: God's dreams! Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD'S FRIENDLY HAND, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: One way there is - one only way Last Line: His strength will help you win your fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD'S FUNERAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a slowly-stepping train Last Line: Mechanically I followed with the rest. Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD'S GARDEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years are flowers and bloom within Last Line: And make them rose-like in his name. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; God; Religion; Theology GOD'S GARDEN, by DOROTHY FRANCES BLOMFIELD GURNEY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology GOD'S HANDWRITING, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: He writes in characters too grand Last Line: We shall see this -- his way was right. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD'S HEART, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: We don't know god's heart Last Line: Roads everywhere and sings in our hearts, %paths of quiet light Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Religion GOD'S LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: God is love: perfect love Last Line: And manna like dew. Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology GOD'S MISTRESS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The other bears %his ring and name Last Line: The sidewalks empty, %and all curtains close Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD'S PITY, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God pity all the brave who go Subject(s): Pity; Religion GOD'S RESIDENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not found the heaven below Last Line: His furniture is love. Variant Title(s): Poem: 1544;poem: 1609 Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD'S SAINTS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's saints are shining lights; who stays Last Line: They are that city's shining spires %we travel to Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Religion GOD'S SINGPOST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: See there! - god's signpost, standing at the ways Last Line: Who follows fears not where the end will be. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD'S TO-MORROW, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The night is very black and grim Last Line: In search of god's to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD'S TWO DWELLINGS, SELS., by THOMAS WASHBOURNE Subject(s): Religion GOD'S WAY, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy way, not mine, o lord! Last Line: My wisdom, and my all. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology GOD'S WAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our way had been to smooth her upward / road Last Line: God's way is best, and praise our god to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOD'S WAY, by DOROTHY CLARKE WILSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD'S WAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I asked for grace to lift me high Subject(s): Religion GOD'S WILL, by GRACE AVERILL HERRON Poem Text First Line: God came and took him away Last Line: Till the day comes when we must meet our god. Subject(s): Angels; God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Holy Spirit; Theology GOD'S WORD, by JOHN CLIFFORD Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOD'S WORLD AND MAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Beneath god's ever present sky Last Line: Marks life's beginning and its end. Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Life; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology GOD, THE OMNIPOTENT, by HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion GOD-MONGER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all my questions Last Line: Who am I to reject the naming of foods %in a time of famine Subject(s): God; Religion GOD-SEEKING THOU HAST JOURNEYED FAR AND NIGH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Religion GODFATHER DEATH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurry, godfather death Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GODFATHER DEATH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurry, godfather death Last Line: Put a finger on his back %for the big blackout, %the big no Subject(s): God; Religion GODS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Sexxton went out looking for the gods Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GODS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Sexxton went out looking for the gods Last Line: At last! %she cried out, %and locked the door Subject(s): God; Religion GODS UNCHOSEN NEITHER SULK NOR GRIEVE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I think they have been watching us Last Line: Or hanging mountain lakes, %aspen fired in gold Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOING GONE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over stone walls and barns Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOING GONE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over stone walls and barns Last Line: Them to this one for she too %is making a trip Subject(s): God; Religion GOING OVER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: This poem of kabir, %the one beginning Last Line: Into that waiting, rolling sea? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOLD KEY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The speaker on this case Last Line: As if an enlarged paper clip %could be a piece of sculpture. %(and it could.) Subject(s): God; Religion GOLDEN CALF, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the answer's to be the sinai sort Last Line: Takes one long slow step nearer Subject(s): Bible; Religion GOLDEN DELICIOUS, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: After the first killing frost had uncolored Last Line: As a dead bouquet, rose %the sweet smell of perishing Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Religion GOLDEN GOD, THE SELF, THE IMMORTAL SWAN, by UPANISHADS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOLDEN HAZE OR HALO, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I know you are there, waiting to find me Last Line: Now you are pacing again Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOLDEN WEDDING, by WILLIAM W. PRATT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOMER, by EDWARD HAYES PLUMPTRE Poem Source First Line: Through all the mystery of my years Subject(s): Religion GOOD BISHOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Before st. Anno Subject(s): Religion GOOD COMPANY, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees Last Line: Lord, who am I that they should stoop -- these holy folk of thine? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Trees; Theology GOOD FRIDAY, by MARTHA PROVINE LEACH TURNER Poem Text First Line: There was no glory on the hills that day Last Line: Against a vacant sky. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Religion; Theology GOOD FRIDAY -- 1917, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: The die is cast for war! Last Line: Amen! Amen! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Reconciliation; Religion; War; Theology GOOD FRIDAY, 1613. RIDING WESTWARD, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this Last Line: That thou mayest know me, and I'll turn my face. Subject(s): Bible; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Religion; Theology GOOD RULE IS OUT OF REMEMBERANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord, what is thys world wele Subject(s): Religion GOOD TRAVELER HAS NO FIXED PLANS, by LAO TZU Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GOOD-BYE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home Last Line: When man in the bush with god may meet? Variant Title(s): Goodbye Subject(s): God; Home; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness GOOD-NIGHT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night. Good-night. Ah, good the night Last Line: Good-night. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Night; Religion; Parting; Bedtime; Theology GOODBYE CHRIST, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, christ %you did alright in your day, I reckon -- Last Line: To a king, or a general, %or a millionaire Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Communism; Racism; Religion GOPI TURNED SOLEMN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Krishna is at the forest edge, %waiting Last Line: His eyes closing %for another deep eternity Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOSHEN, by EDGAR FRANK Poem Text First Line: How can you live in goshen Last Line: For my companions. Subject(s): Goshen (bible); Religion; Theology GOSPEL, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing low so I / can step inside Last Line: Heavenward, warbling Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion GOSPEL, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing low so I %can step inside Last Line: Through god's net and swims %heavenward, warbling Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GOSPEL POEM #1, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Jesus %loaded jowl cakes mother of seismic dreams Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GOSPEL POEM #2, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Jesus %good friday blood on the teeth night a Last Line: Along our beetled bones Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GOSPEL POEM #3, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Jesus %risen %past the amphibial claws Last Line: Furnished ash we wait Subject(s): Christianity; Religion GOSPEL VILLANELLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus will always be there. He's waiting. It's true.' Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology GOURD DIPPER, by RICK (DIDACUS) WILSON Poem Source First Line: Walk the fallow rows of the south Last Line: Nestled in the dirt mattress somewhere, %somewhere out along the twenty Subject(s): Bible; Religion GRACE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stock lies dead, and no increase Last Line: Drop from above. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GRACE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, bless my bread and meat Last Line: For guarding little boys. Amen. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Prayer; Religion; Childhood; Theology GRACE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Growing older, I have tottered into the lists Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Religion; Aging; Theology GRACE AT EVENING, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: Be with us, lord, at eventide Last Line: Thyself, for thy dear sake Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Thanksgiving GRACE CHIMES, by MEREDITH NICHOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lead, kindly light,' I heard the glad bells ring Last Line: And thought how god existeth everywhere. Subject(s): God; Grace Church, New York City; Religion; Theology GRACE FOR GRACE, by MARK GUY PEARSE Poem Text First Line: Thy gifts without thy grace are lacking still Last Line: The grace to share with him in poorer plight. Subject(s): Grace; Religion; Theology GRAN'FAITHER AT CAM'SLANG; AT THE TIME OF THE GREAT REVIVAL WORK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He donn'd his bannet braid an' blue Last Line: Had leev'd an' gane as saints shou'd gang. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Grandparents; Religion; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Theology GRANARY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I know, %you want to speak Last Line: Rushing to return %their gold to the sun Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GRAND IS THE SEEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grand is the seen, the light, to me - grand are the sky and stars Last Line: More multiform far -- more lasting thou than they. Subject(s): Religion; Theology GRANDFATHER, YOUR WOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wound is open Last Line: Blinking its dry wings over us all, %over my wound %and yours Subject(s): God; Religion GRANT PEACE TO THY TRUE LOVERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O ihu, to all thy true louers Subject(s): Religion GRASS WIDOWS, by ROBERT B. SHAW Poem Source First Line: Your dandelions dotting half Subject(s): Religion GRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I upon the first creation / clapped my wings with loud applause Last Line: Weaned from earth, and led to god. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Religion; Theology GRATITUDE FOR AMERICA, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Bless this america who believes Last Line: Humans from hate, nations from war Subject(s): Religion GRATITUDE FOR CHILDREN, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: A couple who did not believe in children Last Line: In their own galaxies, their expanding universes Subject(s): Religion GRATITUDE FOR JOE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: When memory fails, it invents Last Line: Hallmark cards and advertised roses Subject(s): Religion GRATITUDE FOR POEMS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The pink molded plastic train that was Last Line: I make a new poem and let it go Subject(s): Religion GRATITUDE FOR THE BODY, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The poet says, the hand I placed on you, what if it Last Line: To touch and be touched Subject(s): Religion GRATITUDE FOR THE CREATOR, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Thank you, maker of worlds, for making us Last Line: Toward the light Subject(s): Religion GRATITUDE FOR THE PRESENT, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Some days I grow fearful Last Line: Around the next bend in time Subject(s): Religion GRATITUDE TO THE UNKOWN INSTRUCTIONS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What they undertook to do Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Religion; Theology GRATITUDE TO THE UNKOWN INSTRUCTIONS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What they undertook to do Last Line: All things hang like a drop of dew %upon a blade of grass Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Religion GRAVES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both of us had been close Last Line: All the time. ... Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; God; Graves; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology GREAT ART THOU, O LORD, by AUGUSTINE Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Aurelius Augustinus Subject(s): Religion GREAT JEHOVAH EVER PRESENT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the eastern sky is burning Last Line: Grant me wisdom, grant me sight. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Wisdom; The Resurrection; Theology GREAT MINIMUN, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is something to have wept as we have wept Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Religion GREAT PHYSICIAN, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion GREAT REFUSAL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Source First Line: Not only once, when to his feet there came Subject(s): Religion GREAT SEA HAS SET ME IN MOTION, by UVAVNUK Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion GREAT WAY HAS NO GATE, by WU-MEN HUI-K'AI Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GREAT WHEEL, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tuileries we came upon the great wheel Last Line: As now the evening air took mastery, it & the great wheel Subject(s): Religion; Tuileries Gardens, Paris GREATER GLORY, by MYRA BROOKS WELCH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GREATEST, by MARION BROWN SHELTON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GREATEST LOSS, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion GREATNESS PASSING BY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the high heart we magnify Subject(s): Religion GREEN BRANCHES, by LOUISE WILSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion GRIEF AND GOD, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unshunnable is grief; we should not fear Subject(s): Religion GRIEF: 3, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance some day when we shall see the whole Subject(s): Religion GROWING (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord of all growing things Subject(s): Religion GUARD THY HEART!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Guard thy heart! As tho' thy ladye Last Line: Cheerly up the starry sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love; Old Age; Passion; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Theology GUEST, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed into the doorway Last Line: To permit me to forget him- %knowing I won't. He's the guest%of my knowing, though not asked Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Religion GUEST IN JERUSALEM, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the grapes and oranges you gave me on a white plate: worry Last Line: That comes when there is nothing to worry about anymore Subject(s): Religion GUESTS, by HARRY HUMES Poem Source First Line: My mother raises her eyes to heaven Last Line: Instead of stirring things up Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Mothers; Religion; Uncles GUIDE TO THE OTHER GALLERY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hall of broken limbs Subject(s): Religion; Theology GUIDE TO THE OTHER GALLERY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hall of broken limbs Last Line: Without a label. It's for you Subject(s): Religion GUIDE US, by MRS. T. B. EPTING Poem Text First Line: Great jehovah, king of glory Last Line: May we ever faithful be. Subject(s): Fidelity; God; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Theology GUILTY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never cut my neighbor's throat Last Line: O costly valor never won! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion; Clemency; Theology GULL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You with your wings like spatulas Last Line: Is crooked and vain and has been cut from a book Subject(s): God; Religion H. BAPTISME (2), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since, lord, to thee Last Line: Childhood is health. Variant Title(s): Holy Baptisme;holy Baptism (2) Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology H. SCRIPTURES, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome dear book, soul's joy and food! The feast Last Line: Will tell thee so; sweet saviour thou didst die! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HAIL MAN!, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: This flesh is but the symbol and the shrine Subject(s): Religion HAIL! - AND FAREWELL!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: They died that we might live Last Line: That we might live! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Courage; Religion; War; Valor; Bravery; Theology HAIL, MOTHER AND VIRGIN IMMACULATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All haile! Lady, mother & virgyn immaculate Subject(s): Religion HAIL, STAR OF THE SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hayle! Se sterne, godss modyr holy Subject(s): Religion HALLOWED GROUND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Last Line: All hallowed ground. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology HALLOWEEN ON HENNEPIN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: It's halloween going on midnight. Boo Last Line: Hey. Happy halloween.' Subject(s): Halloween; Religion; Streets HAMMERS AND ANVIL, by JOHN CLIFFORD Poem Source First Line: I paused last eve beside the blacksmith's door Last Line: The anvil is unchanged; the hammer's gone Subject(s): Religion HAND THAT HELD IT, by W. G. ELMSLIE Poem Source First Line: He held the lamp of truth that day Last Line: The hand that held it scarce was seen Subject(s): Religion HANDS OF GOD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god Last Line: Let me never know myself apart from the living god! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion HANG ME AMONG YOUR WINDS, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion HANGMAN'S LOVE SONG, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the house of the hangman Last Line: And the hangman sings Subject(s): Religion HANNIBAL CROSSING THE ALPS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He urged his starving elephants upward into the snows Last Line: His elephants Subject(s): Religion HANSEL AND GRETEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little plum, said the mother to her son Last Line: And fine white linen %like something religious up Subject(s): God; Religion HAPPY MAN, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To teach the grey earth like a child Last Line: Three persons and one god Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Religion HARDER TASK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Teach me to live! 'tis easier far to die Subject(s): Religion HARKEN TO THE HAMMERS!, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion HARP OF SORROW, by ETHEL CLIFFORD Poem Source First Line: Sorrow has a harp of seven strings Subject(s): Religion HARVEST, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the long seasons seem to separate Last Line: And all men's god in every human soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology HARVEST THANKSGIVING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, o god, amidst our flowers Subject(s): Religion HATH THE RAIN A FATHER?, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say, 'it rains.' an unbelieving age! Last Line: And sendeth showers upon the springing grain Subject(s): Bible; Religion HAVE ALL MY HART AND BE IN PEACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Trewloue trew, on you I truste Subject(s): Religion HAVE WE NOT SEEN THY SHINING GARMENT'S HEM, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Last Line: O christ, our king, our lord whom we adore Subject(s): Religion HAWK, THE SERPENTS AND THE CLOUD, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In writing, he moved from the word I Last Line: Each is bird and sky to the other, soil and flower Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Religion; Writing And Writers HAYDN'S CREATION: ARDMORE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1978, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark we gather to try to make Last Line: Dawns on the angels' wooden cheeks. Is gone Subject(s): Churches; Religion HE CARES, by KABIR Poem Source First Line: Why so impatient, my heart? Subject(s): Religion HE CARES, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, wonderful story of deathless love Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Religion HE DOETH ALL THINGS WELL, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hoped that with the brave and strong Last Line: But, lord, whatever be my fate, %o let me serve thee now Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Religion HE GIVETH MORE, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Source First Line: He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater Last Line: He giveth and giveth and giveth again Subject(s): Religion HE HAD HIS DREAM, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He had his dream, and all through life Last Line: He had his dream. Subject(s): Religion; Theology HE IS NOT RISEN, by W. S. HANDLEY JONES Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HE IS RISEN, SELS., by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is not dead Subject(s): Religion HE IS THE WAY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Religion HE LEADETH ME, by JOSEPH HENRY GILMORE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HE LEADS, by ELISABETH SCOLLARD Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HE LIVES AT LAST, by LUCILE LIPPITT Poem Source First Line: I would not that immortal soul reclaim Subject(s): Religion HE SAID BA-BAY, SHE SAID LULLAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This endres nyght a-bout mydnyght Subject(s): Religion HE SEES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: God sees beauty Last Line: On the gazelle's expectant throat Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HE THAT IS NEAR ME IS NEAR THE FIRE, by ADAMANTIUS ORIGEN Poem Source First Line: The saviour himself says Last Line: He that is near me is near the fire Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion HE WALKS AT PEACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: But there is none, they say Last Line: Because he walks at peace with life %and death Subject(s): Religion HE-THEY-WE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: They hailed him king as he passed by Last Line: And him betray. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology HEAL MY HANDS!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Lord, near thy cross, as men count nearness Last Line: Heal my hands. Subject(s): Christianity; Cross, The; God; Religion; Theology HEALTH OF BODY DEPENDENT ON SOUL, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the earth or skies Subject(s): Religion HEARING TONGUES, by BHARGAVI C. MANDAVA Poem Source First Line: Listen for the chandelier Last Line: Before me, it is I, trembling Subject(s): Religion HEARTS COURAGEOUS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion HEAT LIGHTNING IN A TIME OF DROUGHT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor drunk, stood on his lawn and yellled Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HEAT LIGHTNING IN A TIME OF DROUGHT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor drunk, stood on his lawn and yellled Last Line: I wish my soul were larger than it is Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HEAVEN, by EDWIN HATCH Poem Source First Line: Some seek a heaven for rest Subject(s): Religion HEAVEN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This world is all a fleeting show Last Line: There's nothing calm but heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Religion; Theology HEAVEN, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of pure delight Last Line: Should fright us from the shore. Variant Title(s): The Heavenly Canaan;the Heavenly Land;a Prospect Of Heaven Makes Death Easy Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Theology HEAVEN AND HELL, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: And when we die at last Last Line: But these are the stories that our people tell Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speed not afar, thou wandering wraith Last Line: "for evermore." Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hell; Religion; World; Paradise; Theology HEAVENLY, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are potted at night, pink, and packed with Last Line: From michigan quarterly review Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Spirituality; Theology HEIL, HEILIGE NACHT, SELS., by OGDEN NASH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion HELEN, SELS., by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of the deceased, although it live Subject(s): Religion HELIADES: ZEUS, BRAZEN THUNDER-HURLER, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus is the air, zeus earth, and zeus the sky Last Line: Zeus is everything, and all that's more than these. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Religion; Zeus; Theology HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Last Line: The least weird guy you know Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality HELP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream not, o soul, that easy is the task Last Line: To guilt the wrath of the eumenides. Subject(s): Religion; Theology HELP-GIVERS, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion HELPLESSNESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inpatience as in labour must thou be Last Line: Were nailed unto a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology HEM AND HAW, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hem and haw were the sons of sin Last Line: Is the droning voice of haw. Subject(s): Religion; Theology HER BODY REVEALED AT LAST: 1. ICE PLANTS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I can say nothing Last Line: To be swallowed whole Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HER BODY REVEALED AT LAST: 2. RAINBOWS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: As if the storm were not enough Last Line: Or if we were meant to see Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HER BODY REVEALED AT LAST: 3. BEFORE THE PLEATED WINGS OF SUMMER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Nothing is wild here, %but they push through Last Line: Her spriggy green gavot Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HER KIND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out, a possessed witch Last Line: A woman like that is not ashamed to die. %I have been her kind Subject(s): God; Religion; Women HER SEVENTEENTH WINTER, by JOHN LEAX Poem Source First Line: The old cat whose calm Subject(s): Religion HER SON RECOVERS US FROM ADAM'S, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whereas adam cawsed be synne Subject(s): Religion HERE AND AT EVERY DOOR, by T. H. S. WALLACE Poem Source First Line: A god we can lay on hands on Last Line: A shrug. The bread on our table %hardens to stone Subject(s): Religion HERE AND NOW, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is heaven, is it not / just a friendly garden spot Last Line: In the sunlit apple tree. Subject(s): Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology HERESY INDEED, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a piteous thing to be Subject(s): Religion HERETIC, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ond day as I sat and suffered Subject(s): Religion HERMIT MONK, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Because I was nothing Last Line: And flowers burnt in my eyes Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HESTER PRYNNE RECALLS A SUNDAY IN JUNE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our affair had just begun Last Line: If you are my friends Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HEWN HANDS, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Little mary %she's a buried cargo Last Line: Every straggler every all-night pilgrim Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HEX, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I get happy Last Line: But book my double Subject(s): God; Religion HIDE AND SEEK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You hid your little self, dear lord Last Line: Who sought three days for you! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology HIGH EMPRESS AND QUEEN CELESTIAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O hie emperice and quene celestiall Subject(s): Religion HIGH FLIGHT, by JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth Last Line: Put out my hand and touched the face of god. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Religion; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Theology; Second World War HIGH HILL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I went up to a high hill Subject(s): Religion HIGH STUDIO AT YADDO, by BENJAMIN W. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Too many feet have climbed these wooden steps Last Line: And all he would discover were his own Subject(s): Reason; Religion HIGHER CATECHISM, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let us ask ourselves some questions; for that man is truly wise Subject(s): Religion HIGHER LOYALTY, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition Subject(s): Religion HIGHER TOWERS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wielding the tools of being great Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Religion HIGHWAY, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the night is still and far Subject(s): Religion HILL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is some time since I have been Last Line: Which is in me %like a hill Subject(s): Men; Religion HILL, by HORACE HOLLEY Poem Source First Line: Be not too certain, life! Subject(s): Religion HILLS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lift up mine eyes unto the hills Last Line: And ceasing to see %strength comes Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion HILLS KEEP HOLY GROUND, by HELLENE SEAMAN Poem Source First Line: When morning moves in slow processional Subject(s): Religion HILLTOP HOUSE INN, by LISA HURWITZ Poem Source First Line: The cackles of women chosen by god Last Line: Wives without men, and women chosen %by god to keep me awake Subject(s): Hotels; Religion; Women HINDOO FUNERAL SONG, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call on rama! Call to rama? Last Line: Ram! Ram!—oh, call to rama. Subject(s): Funerals; Hinduism; Religion; Burials; Theology HINDU ILLUMINATION, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: T loping down the stairs at mellifont Last Line: The mahout's gaze, upon me all this while Subject(s): Elephant-drivers; Hinduism; Religion HIS CLERIC'S EYE, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A young priest, dead suddenly Last Line: New eyes, new heart, the runner's burning start Variant Title(s): In Memoriam (ii Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Our feet have wandered, wandered far and wide Last Line: And his mercy endureth for ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology HIS PEACE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love to think of them at dawn Last Line: The marvellous peace of god Subject(s): Religion HIS SIMPLE CREED, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: He taught them his new simple law Last Line: And shall while life endures. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology HISTORY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Two men unto the temple went Last Line: And went home justified. Subject(s): History; Religion; Historians; Theology HISTORY, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Burst of passion skims Last Line: Waited to steal their gold Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality HISTORY OF RELIGION, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: In the shadow of the pines Last Line: Sun worship Subject(s): Animals; Cats; History; Religion; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy HO, EVERYONE THAT THIRSTETH, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The lad that hopes for heaven %shall fill his mouth with mould Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Religion HOARDER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something there Last Line: I am not an idler %am I Subject(s): God; Religion HOG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh you brown bacon machine Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology HOG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh you brown bacon machine Last Line: For its own little death Subject(s): God; Religion HOLD HIGH THE TORCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HOLES IN THE SKY, SELS., by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And man is a spirit Last Line: Let the bells ring Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Religion HOLIDAY, SELS, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: Mother, two days ago he left Last Line: For any hope of pollen Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality HOLLOW, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: For years we scavenged among the dark sands Last Line: No one has adored language more than we did then Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality HOLLOW ECHO, by FAZIL HUSNU DAGLARCA Poem Source First Line: The shepherd plays his flute Subject(s): Religion HOLLOW THROAT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Jalalludin, what have you done to me? Last Line: As a current moved through my body %like god Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HOLOCAUST, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: Could you register birds Subject(s): Religion HOLY CITY, by WALTER RUSSELL BOWIE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HOLY EUCHARIST, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Honey in the lion's mouth Last Line: Life and sacrament to me Subject(s): Eucharist; Religion HOLY GROUND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pause where apart the fallen sparrow lies Last Line: Enshrines the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Religion; Theology HOLY HOUSE OF NAZARETH, 1635 - 1640, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: The window above mary is mundane Last Line: A sunny swarm of love above his head Subject(s): Home; Religion; Spiritual Life HOLY INNOCENTS, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Some horror routed them from their homes Last Line: For their children who were no more Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HOLY INNOCENTS, by DOROTHY MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: Madonna and child Last Line: The image and likeness of god? Subject(s): Religion HOLY MATRIMONY, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice that breath'd o'er eden Last Line: With christ's own bride they rise. Amen. Variant Title(s): Epithalamium Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology HOLY OF HOLIES, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elder father, through thine eyes Last Line: Filling all eternity %adonia elohim! Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Religion HOLY PLACES, by HERBERT DRAPER GALLAUDET Poem Source First Line: Wherever souls of men have worshipped, there Subject(s): Religion HOLY POEMS: 1, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am saint john on patmos of my heart Last Line: Moaning for its apocalyptic home. Subject(s): Religion; Theology HOLY POEMS: 2, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bleed sebastian's brother on the ground Last Line: Crossed on my pain and crucified in my eye. Subject(s): Religion; Theology HOLY POEMS: 3, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The monarch who wears a shrieking crown Last Line: Cruel to be kind to all his kind is he. Subject(s): Religion; Theology HOLY RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard how holy russia Last Line: Shall holy russia be! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Religion; Russia; Theology; Soviet Union; Russians HOLY SATURDAY (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, who daily kissed his feet Last Line: "and made a temple of the tomb." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology HOLY SONNET: 10, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Last Line: And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. Variant Title(s): "sonnet On Death;elegie;death Rebuked;""death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee""; Subject(s): Catholics; Death; Freedom; Immortality; Religion; Social Protest; Victory; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology HOLY SONNET: 5, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a little world made cunningly Last Line: Of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heal. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnets: 15;microcosm;""i Am A Little World Made Cunningly""; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; Theology HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HOLY SONNET: ANNUNCIATION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salvation to all that will is nigh Last Line: Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 2. Annunciation Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology HOLY SONNET: ASCENTION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salute the last and everlasting day Last Line: Deigne at my hands this crowne of prayer and praise. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 7. Ascension;ascension Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: CRUCIFYING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By miracles exceeding power of man Last Line: Moyst, with one drop of thy blood, my dry soule. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 5. Crucifying;crucifying Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: LA CORONA, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise Last Line: Salvation to all that will is nigh. Variant Title(s): "la Corona: 1;the Crown;""deign At My Hands This Crown Of Prayer And Praise""; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: NATIVITIE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Immensitie cloysterd in thy deare wombe Last Line: With his kinde mother, who partakes thy woe. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 3. Nativity;sonnet On The Nativity;nativity Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology HOLY SONNET: RESURRECTION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moist with one drop of thy blood, my dry soul Last Line: Salute the last, and everlasting day. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 6. Resurrection Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: TEMPLE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his kind mother who partakes thy woe Last Line: By miracles exceeding power of man. Variant Title(s): Jesus In The Temple;la Corona: 4. Temple;temple Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology HOLY SPIRIT, by HARRIET AUBER Poem Source First Line: Our blest redeemer, ere he breathed Subject(s): Religion HOLY SPIRIT GIVING LIFE TO ALL LIFE, by HILDEGARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): Religion HOLY SPIRIT, DWELL WITH ME, by THOMAS TOKE LYNCH Poem Source First Line: Gracious spirit, dwell with me Subject(s): Religion HOLY THURSDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he climbed to the wolf's lair Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HOLY THURSDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he climbed to the wolf's lair Last Line: Who was my constant myth and terror Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HOLYROOD ABBEY, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: No guidebook description prepares for this Last Line: Like a fragment of the cross Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Churches; Clergy; Death; Monasteries; Religion; Skeletons HOME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home is the place where, when you have to go there %they have to take you in Last Line: I should have called it %something you somehow haven't to deserve Subject(s): Religion HOME IS A PLACE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: With a name Last Line: I longed to step into a freer world, a larger future Subject(s): Religion HOME IS WHERE THERE'S ONE TO LOVE US, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home's not merely four square walls Last Line: Where there's one we love to meet us! Subject(s): Home; Religion; Theology HOME THOUGHTS FROM EUROPE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis fine to see the old world, and travel up and down Last Line: Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): America For Me' Subject(s): Patriotism; Religion; United States; Theology; America HOMILY, by JOHN E. HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: I must have missed %the readings done.... Last Line: You do such a good job.' Subject(s): Religion HONEST DOUBT, by ROBERT WESTON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HONOUR TO HIM WHO DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That was ihu, oure, saueour Subject(s): Religion HOPE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, oh! There lives within my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Religion HOPE, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Great god of hope, how green thy trees Last Line: The power that kindlews green in trees, %and light in star? Subject(s): Religion HOPE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope evermore and believe, o man, for e'en as thy thought Last Line: Nevertheless it is good, though there is better than it. Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Theology HOPE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, like a gleaming taper's light Subject(s): Religion HOPE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave to hope a watch of mine: but he Last Line: I did expect a ring. Subject(s): Bible; Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology HOPE, by ANNA BLAKE MEZQUIDA Poem Source First Line: I shall wear laughter on my lips Last Line: One never knows the beauty round the bend Variant Title(s): I Shall Go Singin Subject(s): Religion HOPE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Hannah, why shouldst thou despair Last Line: And claim the prize, or er'er I start Subject(s): Bible; Religion HOPE IN HIM WHILE THOU LIVEST, by KABIR Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HOPI SNAKE DANCE, by J. MORRIS RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Waiting, uncomfortably waiting Last Line: Some lonely butte or hill. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion HORAW CANONICAE, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New every morning is the love Last Line: You are my own, you are? My own! My own? Variant Title(s): Prim Subject(s): Religion HORSE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hore, you flame thrower Last Line: Into its own body Subject(s): God; Religion HOSPITAL'S RECREATION PROGRAM, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Even if my father loved music Last Line: And would occur within three months Subject(s): Family Life; Old Age; Religion HOST, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: My father's body is the narrow grave Last Line: Pressed to the sternum of the world Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality HOST AND GUEST, by HENRY WILLIAM CLARK Poem Text First Line: I may not claim Last Line: "the glorious garment of my righteousness." Subject(s): Religion; Theology HOSTIS HERODES IMPIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Enmy herowde, thou wokkyd kyng Subject(s): Religion HOT PLATES, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Earl came from a long line of men Last Line: If he'd had a one-armed man Subject(s): Mankind; Religion HOUNDS OF GOD, by FRANK CRANE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HOURS, by PAUL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The book of hours Subject(s): Religion HOURS OF THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I hard a maydyn wepe Subject(s): Religion HOUSE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams %the same bad dream goes on Last Line: Those people who stand at the open windows like objects waiting to topple Subject(s): God; Religion HOUSE, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Home; Religion HOUSE AND HOME, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Home; Religion HOUSE OF CALVIN, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John calvin was a man of god Subject(s): Calvin, John (1509-1564); Religion HOUSE OF PRAYER, by FREDA HAMMERSLOUGH Poem Text First Line: What is a house of prayer? Last Line: We lived with god a day. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology HOUSE OF SAGES, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: I paused before the house of sages Last Line: Which filled the room, our only world Subject(s): Religion HOUSEWIFE, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Jesus, teach me how to be Last Line: Grant me wisdom mary had %when she taught her little lad Subject(s): Housekeeping; Jesus Christ; Religion HOUSEWIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some women marry houses Last Line: A woman is her mother. %that's the main thing Subject(s): God; Housewives; Religion; Women HOUSEWIFE'S PARADISE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the scene dance dromedaries Last Line: And pit the blessed order of a kitchen shelf %against the barbarism of the kill Subject(s): Hicks, Edward (1780-1849); Religion HOW - WHEN - WHERE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: It is not so much where you live Last Line: That you are truly fit to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology HOW ARE YOU GOING TO ESCAPE ME?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: I'm going to get shiva to spank you Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?, SELS., by ROBERT LOWTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What though my joys and comforts die? Last Line: Since christ is lord of heaven and earth, %how can I keep from singing? Alternate Author Name(s): Louth, Robert Subject(s): Religion HOW CAN I SING?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I want to sing lyrics, lyrics Subject(s): Religion HOW COULD I HAVE DOUBTED?, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: It was second grade, a parochial Last Line: And god handed me %a quarter Subject(s): Faith; Religion HOW DOES THE SOUL GROW?, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Religion HOW EVIL ALL PRIESTHOODS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Soaked with extra blood Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clergy; Nature; Religion HOW FAR IS IT CALLED TO THE GRAVE?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How far is it called to the grave? Last Line: And we're almost there Subject(s): Religion; Theology HOW FAR TO BETHLEHEM?, by MADELEINE SWEENY MILLER Poem Text First Line: How far is it to bethlehem town? Last Line: "the homes of folks like me and you." Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology HOW GENTLE GOD'S COMMANDS, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'll drop my burden at his feet, %and bear a song away Subject(s): Religion HOW GOD ANSWERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He prayed for strength that he might achieve Last Line: His prayer was answered - he was most blessed Variant Title(s): Blessed Subject(s): Prayer;religion; Theology HOW LONG DO ZEN MASTERS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Live, I asked Last Line: From madness. Leave it alone Subject(s): Religion HOW LONG?, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, it is not fretfulness Last Line: Of error and of wrong. Subject(s): Faith; Mortality; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology HOW MANY TIMES, MOTHER, ARE YOU GOING, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: He will be safe at your feet Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion HOW METAPHOR CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: You are drowning Subject(s): Religion HOW MY DAUGHTER SHOSHANA CRIED, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The first time she lost a friend Last Line: Echoing in their emptied chambers Subject(s): Religion HOW SHALL WE RISE TO GREET THE DAWN?, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Religion HOW SHALL WE SING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND?, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crept up, watched a black Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HOW SHALL WE SING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND?, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We crept up, watched a black Last Line: But it will never feel like home Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HOW THE ALL-AMERICAN DREAMWALKED COMES HOME TO CITY OF GOD, by T. H. S. WALLACE Poem Source First Line: You meet a man like john, black Last Line: On these dark streets. It covers %nothing, deceives no one Subject(s): Religion HOW THE GREAT GUEST CAME, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the cathedral in grandeur rose Last Line: "I was the child on the homeless street!" Variant Title(s): The Great Guest Comes Subject(s): Charity; Faith; Religion; Philanthropy; Belief; Creed; Theology HOW THE LAWYERS GOT A PATRON SAINT; A LEGEND OF BRETAGNE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lawyer of brittany, once on a time Last Line: Was touching the form of the devil! Subject(s): Clergy; Legends; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Religion; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology HOW TO HIDE JESUS, by STEVE TURNER Poem Source First Line: There are people after jesus Last Line: Quick, let's hide him Subject(s): Religion HOW TO LIVE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He liveth long who liveth well! Variant Title(s): Length Of Days; Who Liveth Wel Subject(s): Religion HOW TO THE SINGER COMES THE SONG?, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion HOW WE KNOW ABOUT ANIMALS, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: There was once a wise man Last Line: And taught us all we know about them Subject(s): Animals; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion HUB, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The lights along the shore at night Subject(s): Religion HUMAN DEBASEMENT; A FRAGMENT, by EDWARD RUSHTON Poem Text First Line: In early days / if kings were made by men Last Line: All, all these works are thine! Subject(s): Freedom; Humanity; Men; Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Theology HUMAN FANTASY, SELS., by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The vastitude of space comes down to your own door Subject(s): Religion HUMAN OUTLOOK, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These things shall be! A loftier race Last Line: For man shall be at one with god %in bonds of firm necessity Variant Title(s): The Coming Day; A Loftier Rac Subject(s): Freedom; Future; Life Change Events; Religion HUMANIST, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The venice portrait: he Last Line: Dryly against the robes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HUMILITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The bird that soars on highest wing Last Line: The footstool of humility Subject(s): Humility;religion; Theology HURDWAR, A PLACE OF HINDOO PILGRIMAGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the feeling which, in former days Last Line: And owns the true god in the false god's shrine Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hinduism; India; Religion HURRAHING IN HARVEST, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Last Line: And hurls for him, o half hurls earth for him off under his feet. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology HURRY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Mortals! Why this fierce haste Last Line: Enter its lord! Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Religion; Sin; Paradise; Theology HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is death, I ask Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is death, I ask Last Line: Until the kingdom, %however queer, %will come Subject(s): God; Religion HUSH, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source Last Line: This place is a sacred place. %hush Subject(s): Religion 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 HUSWIFERY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheele compleate Last Line: That I am cloathd in holy robes for glory. Variant Title(s): Housewifery Subject(s): Housekeeping; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Sewing; Work; Workers; Theology HYMN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When storms arise Last Line: O god of my salvation. Subject(s): Religion; Theology HYMN, by GEORGE EDWARD HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: O world of love and beauty Subject(s): Religion 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 AFTER GABRIELE ROSSETTI (SECOND VERSION), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, my love! In pleasant pain Last Line: Hath not encompassed thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Religion; Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale (1783-1854); Theology HYMN FOR CATHOLIC LOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Lord jesu, son of grace Last Line: May find thee here below! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Theology HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty framer of the skies Subject(s): Religion HYMN FOR GRIEF, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lumino! Is what you take Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Religion HYMN FOR THE DAY, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HYMN FOR THE HOLY DECONSECRATION, by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The church's own detergent Last Line: By now would really rather %move further up the road Subject(s): Religion HYMN IN CONTEMPLATION OF SUDDEN DEATH, by DOROTHY LEIGH SAYERS Poem Source First Line: Lord, if this night my journey end Subject(s): Religion HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE GODDESS ISHTAR OF BABYLONIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I pray unto thee, lady of ladies, goddess of goddesses! Last Line: O exalted ishtar, that givest light unto the (four) quarters of the world! Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Spiritual Life; Women And Religion HYMN OF AT-ONE-MENT, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou god of all, whose spirit moves Subject(s): Religion HYMN OF JOY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion HYMN OF JOY; TO THE MUSIC OF BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joyful, joyful, we adore thee Last Line: In the triumph song of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology HYMN OF MAN, SELS., by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou and I and he are not gods made men for a span Subject(s): Religion HYMN OF PEACE, by ERNEST BOURNER ALLEN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion 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 OF SIVAITE PURITANS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When once I knew the lord Subject(s): Religion HYMN OF THE CURETES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail to thee, boy, mighty one!" Last Line: Gladdened by our dance and song Subject(s): Religion;rites & Ceremonies; Theology HYMN OF THE STAR-FOLK TO GOD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no need for thy mercy, for mercy / is ours, not thine Last Line: With thy more-than-love above us, about us, we never need fear! Subject(s): God; Hymns (as Literary Form); Religion; Theology HYMN OF THE STAR-SOULED, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord! Who art perfection's splendour Last Line: That emanates from thee!—the one divine! Subject(s): Religion; Soul; Theology HYMN OF THE UNEMPLOYED, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HYMN ON STOICISM, by CLEANTHES Poem Source First Line: O god most glorious, called by many a name %nature's great king Last Line: E'en to the gods than justly to adore %the universal law fo r evermore Variant Title(s): Hymn To Zeus; The Hymn Of Cleanthe Subject(s): Religion; Stoicism HYMN TO AMEN RA, THE SUN GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Praise of amen ra! Subject(s): Religion HYMN TO GOD, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father of energy Subject(s): Religion HYMN TO GOD IN TIME OF STRESS, by MAX EASTMAN Poem Source First Line: Lift, o dark, and glorious wonder Subject(s): Religion HYMN TO LABOR, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion HYMN TO MARDUK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O mighty, powerful, strong one of ashur Subject(s): Religion HYMN TO MONT BLANC [IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star Last Line: Earth with her thousand voices, praises god. Variant Title(s): Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni;chamouny;mont Blanc Before Sunrise;hymn Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni Subject(s): Alps; Blanc, Mont; Chamonix, France; God; Mountains; Religion; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology HYMN: 13. ST. PHILIP AND ST. JAMES, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the winds are all composure Last Line: His inestimable death. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jesus Christ; Religion; Saints; Theology HYMN: 2, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise to god, immortal praise Last Line: Love thee -- for thyself alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology HYMN: BEFORE THE SACRAMENT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bread of the world, in mercy broken Last Line: That by thy grace our souls are fed! Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HYMN: ST. STEPHEN'S DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The son of god goes forth to war Last Line: To follow in their train! Variant Title(s): Who Follows In His Train? Subject(s): Religion; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.); Theology HYMN: THE ALMIGHTY LOVE, by THEODORE PARKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In darker [or, darkest] days and nights of storm Subject(s): Religion HYMNS FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF CHILDREN: 15. TASTE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O guide my judgement and my taste Last Line: And polish'd by the master's hand Subject(s): Bible; Religion HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: THE MARSHES OF GLYNN, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven Last Line: On the length and the breadth of the marvellous marshes of glynn. Variant Title(s): The Marshes Of Glynn Subject(s): Religion; Swamps; Theology; Bogs; Fens; Marshes HYPERBOLE, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Praise the lord Last Line: Losing our way Subject(s): Christianity; Religion I AM NOT AN AMAZON-A WARRIOR, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source First Line: Nor am I a mother Last Line: I am a starry child, a woman in love Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality I AM THE WAY', by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the way Last Line: Art thou, time, way, and wayfarer. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology I ASK ALL BLESSINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion I ASK MY TEACHERS, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: Why do you wrap your wisdom in a multitude of words Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Religion I BELIEVE IN RELIGION NOT MAGIC OR SCIENCE I BELIEVE IN SOCIETY, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As religious both man and society as religious Subject(s): Religion; Society I BELIEVE IN RELIGION NOT MAGIC OR SCIENCE I BELIEVE IN SOCIETY, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As religious both man and society as religious Subject(s): Religion I BIND MY HEART THIS TIDE, by LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT Poem Source Last Line: God! Knit thou sure the cord %of my thralldom to my lord Subject(s): Religion I CALLED HIM COMFORT, FR. LETTERS TO DR. Y, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Religion I CAN'T TELL YOU, BUT YOU FEEL IT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are prepared to go! Subject(s): Religion I CANNOT MARRY A NON-JEW, JOE SAID, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Troubled %by the duty laid on him by the holocaust Last Line: I owe it to the memory of the six million Subject(s): Religion I DID NOT FEEL JEWISH THOSE FIRST YEARS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: After my conversion. I felt I was wearing Last Line: Fills it with memory, floods it with rain Subject(s): Religion I DID THIS FOR THEE! WHAT HAST THOU DONE FOR ME?, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my life for thee Last Line: Give thou thyself to me! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology I DIE DAILY', by PHILIP JOHN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Since who'd begin must make an end Subject(s): Religion I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in possibility Last Line: The spreading wide my narrow hands %to gather paradise Variant Title(s): Poem: 466; Poem: 65 Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion I FIND MY GOD, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Religion I FOUND GOD, by MARY AFTON THACKER Poem Source First Line: Sophisticated, worldly-wise Last Line: I found him in my baby's eyes Subject(s): Religion I GREW UP BELIEVING SILENCE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Was safest, that talk provoked attacks Last Line: Unheard and unseen Subject(s): Religion I HAVE A LIFE WITH CHRIST TO LIVE, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion I HAVE COME TO JERUSALEM, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to jerusalem Last Line: And they called me only by my secret name Variant Title(s): I Have Come To Jerusale Subject(s): Religion I HAVE LIVED AFTER MY LUST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mt thoght ys full hevy Subject(s): Religion I HAVE LIVED ON THE LIP, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Religion I HAVE NOW SET MY HEARTE SO HIGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion I HAVE SEEN HOW A POTTER USES ALL, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The things that are in the earth, seen Last Line: Drawn to fire, wanting light Subject(s): Religion I HAVE TALKED TO YOU, TALKED, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Through life after life, %a virginal harvest for you to reap Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Krishna (god); Spiritual Life; Transcendentalism; Women And Religion I HEARD CHRIST SING, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard christ sing quhile roond him dar Last Line: But I wot he did god's will wha made %siccar o' calvary Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Bible; Religion I KNOW A NAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know a soul that is steeped in sin Last Line: That will set those lands on fire Subject(s): Religion; Theology I LEARNED THAT HER NAME WAS PROVERB', by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the secret names / of all we meet who lead us deeper Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology I LEARNED THAT HER NAME WAS PROVERB', by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the secret names %of all we meet who lead us deeper Last Line: Where we shall know %what it is to arrive Subject(s): Christianity; Religion I LIFT MY GAZE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion I LOOK AT MY MOTHER AND SEE MY FUTURE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I see how time has marked its passage. I see Last Line: To merge my cells with yours Subject(s): Religion I MUST TO PRAYER, by FRANK BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: The street below if dull and cold Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion I NEED THEE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I need thee every hour Last Line: "I need, oh, I need thee." Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology I OFTEN FEEL THE NEED TO HIDE BEHIND SILENCES, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: To keep hidden, and unnamed, denizens of my heart Last Line: Smoke of a jet plane to mark its passage Subject(s): Religion I PASSED THURGH A GARDYN GRENE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Verbum caro factum est Subject(s): Religion I REMEMBER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the first of august Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology I REMEMBER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the first of august Last Line: The door to your room was %the door to mine her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion I SAW A STABLE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a stable, low and very bare Last Line: And the world's danger. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Variant Title(s): Salus Mundi Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology I SAW THEE, by RAY PALMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee when, as twilight fell Last Line: And read the secrets of thy heart! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology I SEEK THEE IN THE HEART ALONE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fountain of fire whom all divide Last Line: She comes to me. Subject(s): Religion; Theology I SHALL BE GOD, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: God is spirit Last Line: And god is all. Subject(s): Angels; God; Religion; Soul; Spirituality; Theology I SHALL NOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN, by EVA ROSE YORK Poem Source Last Line: I shall not pass this way again Subject(s): Religion I SING THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And everywhere that man can be, %thou, god, art present there Subject(s): Religion I SOUGHT MY SOUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I sought my brother, and I found all three Subject(s): Religion I SOUGHT THE LORD, AND AFTERWARD I KNEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: For thou wert long beforehand with my soul, %always thou lovedst me Subject(s): Religion I SPENT MY DAYS IN FUN, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: And dig in to their supper Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I THANK THEE, LORD, FOR STRENGTH OF ARM, by ROBERT+(1) DAVIS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion I THOUGHT THAT NATURE WAS ENOUGH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And you will lodge a giant %and not a smaller man Variant Title(s): Poem: 1286; Poem: 126 Subject(s): Religion I WAS YOUR FEAR OF BEING FORBIDDEN FROM THE LORD'S BANQUET, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: Unafraid now, birds Last Line: Words, and I am violently %alone Subject(s): Heaven; Religion I WENT DOWN INTO THE DESERT TO MEET ELIJAH, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Religion I WILL HAVE NO OTHER SPOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Upon a lady my love ys lente Subject(s): Religion I WILL NOT HURRY, by RALPH SPAULDING CUSHMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion I WILL SERVE MY LADY UNTIL DEATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Euery man delytyth hyly in hijs degree Subject(s): Religion I WILL TRUST, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion I YIELD THEE PRAISE, by PHILIP JEROME CLEVELAND Poem Source First Line: For thoughts that curve like winging birds Last Line: With kindliness and honest will - %I yield thee praise Subject(s): Religion I'LL FLY AWAY, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: There's a snag in the oak Last Line: The salt of the body Subject(s): Religion I'M DAZED THINKING ABOUT IT, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: But shake me loose from this fear of death Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I'M DREAMING THE MY LAI SOLDIER..., FR. LETTERS TO DR. Y, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Religion I'M NOT CALLING YOU, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Full of goods, then sunk it Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I'M NOT CALLING YOU MOTHER ANYMORE, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: The pain, life after life Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I'M SICK OF LIVING, MOTHER, SICK, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: You've broken me in this life Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I'M SWEATING LIKE THE SLAVE OF AN EVIL SPIRIT, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Out of my head like a rocket Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I'VE GIVEN MY HEART, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: My journey calling on the name %of durga Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU, MOTHER, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Every evil every foot of the way Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I'VE GOT YOU FIGURED, HARA, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Those feet trample fear Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion I'VE TRAVELLED FAR IN MANY LANDS, by HINTON WHITE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion; Travel ICARIUM MARE, by VINICIUS DE MORAES Poem Source First Line: We have heard of the undimmed air Last Line: To gather tokens of the light %not in the bullion, but in the loose change Subject(s): Christianity; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Religion ICHTHYOLOGY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Rib of carp, I will tell your strange story Last Line: Long before the dreary portraits of bread and wine Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Religion ICI REPOSE', by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Source First Line: A little cross of weather-silvered wood Subject(s): Religion ICON, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Our lady of sorrows Last Line: The blackened windows glowed %like stained glass Subject(s): Religion ICONOCLASTS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There are those who would silence the thrush Last Line: Comes the luminous face of christ! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Theology IDEAL, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: Something I may not win attracts me ever Subject(s): Religion IDENTIFYING THE FIRE, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes at night it blooms Last Line: Kindling the next breath, %and at its far end, branches, gesturing Subject(s): Religion IDENTIFYING WITH THE BUDDHA, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We forget, praising his lotus feet, that he named his son rahula Last Line: From michigan quarterly review Subject(s): Buddhism; Religion; Spirituality; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology IF A MAN DIE, by FLORENCE HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: When I am dead, ah, shall I then remember Variant Title(s): Conjectur Subject(s): Religion IF ANY GOD COMES ANY MORE, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion IF CHRIST WERE HERE TO-NIGHT, AND SAW ME TIRED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And heaven will be of thy rich life a part Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion IF MY BARK SINK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mortality's ground floor %is immortality Variant Title(s): Poem: 1234; Poem: 125 Subject(s): Religion IF ONE ONLY KNEW WHOM TO TRUST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wel were hymn that wyst Subject(s): Religion IF ONLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only I might love my god and die Last Line: Yea, they shall sing for love when christ shall come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IF THE CHRIST YOU MEAN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, no! If the christ you mean Subject(s): Religion IF THE LORD WOULD MAKE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN', by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She who had eyes but had not wherewithal Last Line: Might one day not be seen from anywhere Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Religion; Saints; Paradise; Theology IF THE LORD WOULD MAKE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN', by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She who had eyes but had not wherewithal Last Line: Might one day not be seen from anywhere Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Religion; Saints IF THE LORD, THY LOVE FOR ME IS STRONG, by THERESA OF AVILA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Love on, and turn to love again? Alternate Author Name(s): Teresa Of Avila; Teresa Of Jesus; Teresa De Avila Subject(s): God; Love; Nuns; Religion IF WE BREAK FAITH, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they write an end to war, when they blot away the battle Last Line: Judge thou us then, o judge of men, if we deny them trice Subject(s): Religion IF WE KNEW; OR, BLESSINGS OF TO-DAY, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: If we knew the woe and heartache Last Line: All the briers from the way. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Home; Religion; Theology IF WINTER COMES', by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Source First Line: Eternal question with its answering aye Subject(s): Religion IF YOU LOOK FOR THE TRUTH OUTSIDE YOURSELF, by TUNG-SHAN LIANG-CHIEH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ILLUMINATION, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As if some monk bored Last Line: Brother, come %with us, come home Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality ILLUSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God and I in space alone Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion IMAGE O' GOD, by JOE CORRIE Poem Source First Line: Crawlin' aboot like a snail in the mud Last Line: Jings! But it's laughable, tae Subject(s): Bible; Religion IMAGES FOR THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, by PAUL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: If one revolves a vine-enamored thumb Subject(s): Religion IMAGIST AT CONEY ISLAND, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: One decade into the 20th century Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IMITATIONS OF DROWNING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear / of drowning / fear of being that alone Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IMITATIONS OF DROWNING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear %of drowning %fear of being that alone Last Line: But in the end it's fear %that drowns you Subject(s): God; Religion IMMANENCE, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Could my heart but see creation as god sees it - from within Variant Title(s): Nirvan Subject(s): Religion IMMANENCE, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enthroned above the world althought he sit Last Line: That kindled in the words of holy writ. Subject(s): Religion; Theology IMMANENCE, by THOMAS DURLEY LANDELS Poem Source First Line: Earth is instinct with spirit everywhere Subject(s): Religion IMMANENT GOD, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever fresh the broad creation Subject(s): Religion IMMORTAL, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: How living are the dead! Subject(s): Religion IMMORTAL, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beckoner of hotheads, brag-tester, lord of the demi-suicides Last Line: His speed, his streetlights pointing every way, his unblief in joking Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IMMORTAL, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So soon my body will have gone Last Line: A wave that never finds the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology IMMORTAL LIVING, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is immortal living here and now Subject(s): Religion IMMORTAL RESIDUE, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look Subject(s): Religion IMPENITENCE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rejoice that I have sinned Last Line: Who has suffered, who has seen. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion; Sin; Clemency; Theology IMPERATIVE, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: The thing to remember Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IMPERIAL ADAM, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial adam, naked in the dew / felt his brown flanks & found the rib was gone Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology IMPERIAL ADAM, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial adam, naked in the dew %felt his brown flanks & found the rib was gone Last Line: Between her legs a pigmy face appear, %and the first murderer lay upon the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion IMPLICIT FAITH, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of all great nature's tones that sweep Last Line: Of god's divine simplicity. Subject(s): Religion; Theology IMPRESSIONS OF DIVINITY, by BENJAMIN SIMMONS Poem Text First Line: But your conception Last Line: "be with you always. Amen." Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology IMPROMPTU LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS COUSIN, MRS. CREED, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much religion in your name doth dwell Last Line: And practice is with endless glory crown'd. Subject(s): Names; Religion; Soul; Theology IMPROVISATION BEFORE THE INTROIT, by JAMES MARTIN HOGGARD Poem Source First Line: This time, I am certain, I should begin directly Last Line: Where voices insist %on justice and mercy and honor Subject(s): Religion IN A BLIND GARDEN, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The whale %is a room Last Line: Of the truncated future Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN A BUILDING NAMED FOR A GOVERNOR, by CHRISTOPHER L. DORNIN Poem Source First Line: I changed a grown man's clothes on a stripped ward Subject(s): Religion IN A CHURCHYARD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That flower unseen, that gem of purest ray Last Line: These unseen gravestones, and the darker dead Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology IN A CHURCHYARD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That flower unseen, that gem of purest ray Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN A DRY SEASON, by MARGARET D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I took a walk through a silver-green Last Line: And breaking, the oil on my hands an incense %for arrangements in a dry season Subject(s): Religion IN A HUNDRED YEARS, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: It will be all the same in a hundred years Last Line: For 'tis not the same in a hundred years! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Future; Religion; Theology IN A MYRTLE SHADE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When should I be bound to thee Last Line: And grey hairs are on my head. Subject(s): Aging; Bible; Myrtle Trees; Mythology; Religion; Theology IN A NORMAN CHURCH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As over incense-laden air Last Line: Who bore the son of god. Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Theology IN ACCEPTANCE LIETH PEACE, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion IN ADVENT, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Tonight I will suffer one star Last Line: Suffer the myth to continue you %after I and my kind are gone Subject(s): Religion IN AETERNUM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If life and death be things that seem Last Line: The dream of life eternal keep? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: The little world of olden days is gone Last Line: Who hides no more behind dumb seraphim. Subject(s): Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists IN AN ALMSHOUSE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the dear summer evening! How the air Last Line: You'll know that some day, maybe. Now begins.... Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology IN APRIL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the listening landscape heeds Last Line: The gospel of saint leaf! Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, by E. W. OLDENBURG Poem Source First Line: On a day sweet with april showers Last Line: Two words %turned sightseers into pilgrims Subject(s): Religion IN CELEBRATION OF MY UTERUS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone in me is a bird Last Line: Let me sing %for the supper, %for the kissing, %for the correct %yes Subject(s): God; Religion; Women IN CHILDHOOD, WE DREAM IT INTO BEING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: At the end of my journey %there was a threshold Last Line: The gift that wants to be found Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life IN EARTHEN VESSELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dear lord's best interpreters Last Line: The blessed master none can doubt, %revealed in holy lives Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN ECCLESIASTES I READ, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source Last Line: Flickering on and off like a rain-drenched fire in the woods? Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN EVERY MAN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In every soul of all mankind Last Line: In christ -- and thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN EXCELSIS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is half winter, half spring Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IN EXCELSIS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is half winter, half spring Last Line: To suck at my scars Subject(s): God; Religion IN EXTREMIS, by VERA LARMINIE Poem Source First Line: Lift me higher. Fools! Can nurses Subject(s): Religion IN FLANDERS NOW, by EDNA JAQUES Poem Source First Line: We have kept faith, ye flanders' dead Subject(s): Religion IN FRONT OF A POSTER OF GARIBALDI, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my italian son Last Line: But whatever it is, I know it can humble itself Subject(s): Religion IN GETHSEMANE, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eden was the arbor of delight Last Line: And christ, from bitter venom, would again %extract life out of death, and pleasure out of pain Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion IN HEAVENLY LOVE ABIDING, by ANNA LAETITIA WARING Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion IN HIGH SCHOOL, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: My friend susan opened for me books Last Line: I would never do anything like that Subject(s): Religion IN HIM, by JAMES VILA BLAKE Poem Source First Line: Though the bee Subject(s): Religion IN HIM, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Source First Line: We dwell in him,' - oh, everlasting home Last Line: Eternal in the heavens this dwelling stands Subject(s): Religion IN HIM WE LIVE, by HENRY MORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion IN HIS ARMS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If when thy children, o my friend Last Line: So sweet, as thou hast gained unsought! Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN HOC SIGNO, by GODFREY FOX BRADBY Poem Source First Line: The kingdoms of earth go by Last Line: Its king a servant, and its sign %a gibbet on a hill Subject(s): Religion IN LENTEN GARB, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In lenten garb - unlovely gray Last Line: In lenten garb. Subject(s): Catholics; Lent; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 106, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky Last Line: Ring in the christ that is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The New Year;the Old Year And The New Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 124, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which we dare invoke to bless Last Line: That reach thro' nature, moulding men. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 129, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, far off, my lost desire Last Line: And mingle all the world with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Known And Unknown Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 130, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is on the rolling air Last Line: I shall not lose thee tho' I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): All Is Well Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 28, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time draws near the birth of christ Last Line: The merry, merry bells of yule. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve;christmas Bells;the Birth Of Christ;rise, Happy Morn Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 54, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh yet we trust that somehow good Last Line: And with no language but a cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Trust Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Religion; Worship; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 55, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wish, that of the living whole Last Line: And faintly trust the larger hope. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Strife Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 78, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again at christmas did we weave Last Line: But with long use her tears are dry. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 96, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say, but with no touch of scorn Last Line: Although the trumpet blew so loud. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Doubt;doubt And Faith Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: EPILOGUE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O true and tried, so well and long Last Line: To which the whole creation moves. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Wedding-day Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: PROEM, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong son of god, immortal love Last Line: And in thy wisdom make me wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Prologue Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IN MEMORY OF JANE FRASER; AN ATTEMPTED REPARATION, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When snow like sheep lay in the fold Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology IN MEMORY OF JANE FRASER; AN ATTEMPTED REPARATION, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When snow like sheep lay in the fold Last Line: Dead comes upon the alder shook Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Religion IN MEMORY OF W.B. YEATS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He disappeared in the dead of winter Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Theology IN MEMORY OF W.B. YEATS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He disappeared in the dead of winter Last Line: Pardons him for writing well Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Religion; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by LINDA CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Like a mime palming walls Last Line: Is left up there %with each new fall Subject(s): Religion IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD', by IRENE PETTIT MCKEEHAN Poem Source First Line: I have been vain of heaven; all my soul Subject(s): Religion IN NARROW WAYS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Some lives are set in narrow ways Last Line: For every ill a cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN NEW YORK: 1. ON SUNDAY MORNING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far from here the church bells ring Last Line: As she prays for her child. Subject(s): Bells; New York City; Religion; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Theology IN ONE IS ALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thurgh grace growand, in god almyght Subject(s): Religion IN ONE OF ITALY'S CATHEDRALS, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: In one of italy's cathedrals, vast-domed Last Line: Seems beating out a prayer. Subject(s): Churches; Humanity; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology IN OUR OWN IMAGE, by THEODORE OLSON Poem Text First Line: There are no gods. Apollo-ashtoreth Last Line: Died of our unbelief! Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted Subject(s): Atheism; Faith; Lies; Mythology; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology IN OUR SOULS EVERYTHING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: Or the sound of the water when it is flowing Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Religion IN OUR TIME, by HUW MENAI Poem Source First Line: No holy pointer, no unchanging light Subject(s): Religion IN PALESTINE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone is the land of a thousand wars, the home of a solemn peace Last Line: While the jackal has his haunt in the tomb of hiram, king of tyre. Subject(s): Palestine; Religion; Theology IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Here, behind this attic door is borges Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN PRAISE OF KRISHNA, by RUSKHAN Poem Source First Line: Beautiful his peacock crown Last Line: When krishna's form %dwells within? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion IN PRISON, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: God pity the wretched prisoners Last Line: May wipe their guilt away. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Pity; Prisons & Prisoners; Religion; Theology IN QUEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have I not voyaged, friend beloved, with thee Last Line: "all that I feel when I am nearest thee!" Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN SPITE OF SORROW, LOSS, AND PAIN, by ADONIRAM JUDSON Poem Source Last Line: We reap on zion's hill Subject(s): Religion IN SWEET COMMUNION, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May the grace of christ our saviour Last Line: And possess in sweet communion joys which earth cannot afford Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion IN TEL AVIV, REBBITZIN SIEGEL, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Taught me jewish prayers, how to keep a home Last Line: We laughed so hard we did not finish our lesson that day Subject(s): Religion IN TENEBRIS: 2, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the clouds' swollen bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong Last Line: Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he disturbs the order here. Variant Title(s): De Profundis 2 Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology IN THE BEACH HOUSE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doors open Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IN THE BEACH HOUSE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doors open Last Line: Over and over, %in their room dog's neck Subject(s): God; Religion IN THE BEGINNING, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the three-pointed star Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology IN THE BEGINNING, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the three-pointed star Last Line: The ribbed original of love Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN THE CHERRY BLOSSOM'S SHADE, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Religion IN THE CITY, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sudden amid the slush and rain Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion IN THE COMMON ROOM, by PAM BERNARD Poem Source First Line: White coat flapping, dr. Howland Last Line: Touch, says, he doesn't even know you're alive Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Religion IN THE DAWN, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! The perfect word is sounding, like a universal hymn Subject(s): Religion IN THE DEEP MUSEUM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, my god, what queer corner am I in Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IN THE DEEP MUSEUM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, my god, what queer corner am I in Last Line: Far below the cross, I correct its flaws. %we have kept the miracle. I will not be here Subject(s): God; Religion IN THE FOREST, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Was a path %which led on Last Line: Became a soundless vortex %moving through stillness Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life IN THE GALLERY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here neither nymph nor naiad ever bathed Last Line: Please smile on us, who made this place your grove Subject(s): Religion; Retail Trade IN THE GARDEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Men go their gardens for pleasure Subject(s): Religion IN THE GARDEN BY THE SEA: EASTER, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These giant grape hyacinths Last Line: Whom nothing touches %and something can't Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Religion IN THE GARDEN OF THE LORD, by HELEN KELLER Poem Text First Line: The word of god came unto me Last Line: I have strayed into the holy temple of the lord. Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN THE HEART, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Source First Line: O little lark, you need not fly Variant Title(s): A Basque Peasant Returning From Churc Subject(s): Religion IN THE KNOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dead faces, voices come and go Last Line: Why jesus wept Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Jesus Christ - Legends; Religion IN THE MANTLE OF GOD, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O pray to a god with a woman's face Subject(s): Religion IN THE MEANTIME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of loaves and fishes Last Line: I am become death -- the destroyer of worlds Subject(s): Bible; Death; Nuclear War; Religion; Social Protest IN THE PIARISTENKIRCHE, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: First one must lift one's body up the road Last Line: Of the mortal self into a splendid hymn Subject(s): Religion IN THE SILENCE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where didst thou tarry, lord, lord Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Religion IN THE TENT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everyone wants to gaze on Last Line: Staring into the purple cleft, %waiting Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life IN THE THEATRE, by PAULETTE ROESKE Poem Source First Line: By degree the lights go down Last Line: Resurrects the world again Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality IN THE TIME OF THE PERSECUTION, by LEONARD AARONSON Poem Source First Line: Down in the river the fishes are rising Last Line: For the sake of our morrow, of europe's to-morrow Subject(s): Jews; Religion; World War Ii IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by JAMES PHILIP MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: Christ, you walked on the sea Last Line: That flesh once understood Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First spirit Last Line: Drove each his fate-determined way. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN THE VET'S WAITING ROOM, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The men and women stand and wait Last Line: Your nail parings in the path of witches Subject(s): Religion IN THE WILDERNESS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In sore distress Last Line: Found god. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN THE WILDERNESS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ of his gentleness Last Line: Tears like a lover wept. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IN THINE ARMS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our families in thine arms enfold Last Line: As thou didst keep thy folks of old Subject(s): Religion IN THINE IMAGE, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Source First Line: What color is thy face, lord Subject(s): Religion IN THINE OWN HEART, by JOHANNES SCHEFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though christ a thousand times Last Line: Alone can make thee whole Alternate Author Name(s): Silesius, Angelus Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion IN THIS MIDDLE REALM, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Flawlessness of %ultimate being Last Line: Will take us to light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life IN THIS STERN HOUR, by JOSEPHINE JOHNSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a man harrowing clods / in a slow silent walk Last Line: Ere their story die. Subject(s): Bible; Country Life; Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War IN TIME OF MISTRUST: 13, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light of this world, whom the world tries to darken Subject(s): Religion IN TIME OF NEED, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Better than I Last Line: All my necessity. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion IN WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, by EDITH HICKMAN DIVALL Poem Text First Line: God will not change; the restless years may bring Last Line: Thy refuge in the love that can not die. Variant Title(s): Changeless Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IN WHOM WE LIVE AND HAVE OUR BEING, by JAMES RHOADES Poem Source First Line: Lo! In the vigils of the night, ere sped Subject(s): Religion INANNA AND AN, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Like a dragon hou have filled the land Last Line: You are in all our great rites. %who can understand you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND EBIH, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the mountain whree you are unworshipped Last Line: The dancing city is filled with storm, %driving young men toyou, captive Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND EBIH, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the mountains where you are not worshiped Last Line: Driving young men to you as your captives Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ENLIL, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Storms lend you wings, destroyer of the lands Last Line: And walk toward you along a path %from the house of enormous sighs Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ENLIL, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Storms lend you wings, destroyer of the lands Last Line: From the house of enormous sighs Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ISHKUR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You strike everything down in battle Last Line: On your harp of sighs %I hear your dirge Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE ANUNNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: O my lady, the anunna, the great gods Last Line: Who has ever denied you homage, %lady, supreme over the land? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE CITY OF URUK, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You have spoken your holy command over the city Last Line: Impetuous wild cow, supreme lady commanding an, %who dares not worship you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE DIVINE ESSENCES, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Lady of all the essences, full light Last Line: You have gathered the holy essences and worn them %tightly on your breasts Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE HOLY LIGHT, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You with your voices of light Last Line: Tightly on your breasts Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INASMUCH, by DOROTHY SPROULE Poem Text First Line: You asked not whence we came, nor where we went Last Line: Name us your god that we may worship him. Subject(s): Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips INCENSE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not that incense-smoke has had its day Last Line: Where all faiths kneel, as brothers, in one place. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Religion; Theology INCIDENT IN A ROSE GARDEN (2), by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gardener came running Subject(s): Religion; Theology INCIDENT IN A ROSE GARDEN (2), by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gardener came running Last Line: I take it you are he? Subject(s): Religion INCONVENIENCE, by JOHN RAVEN Poem Source First Line: Mama %papa Subject(s): Religion INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between painting a roof yesterday and the hay Last Line: Whistle opens in the air, broad and pointed like a leaf Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Religion; Theology INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between painting a roof yesterday and the hay Last Line: In the light like a curling vine and the bobwhite's %whistleopens in the air, broad and pointed as a Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Religion INDIA, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: A land of lights and shadows intervolved Last Line: Shall win for christ this stronghold of the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): India; Religion; Theology INDIAN PRAYER, by JOSEPH STRONGWOLF Poem Source First Line: Oh! Thou great mystery Last Line: But faith in each other. %o thou kitchi manito, hear us! Subject(s): Religion INDIAN THINGS, by MARK TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: How come you don't write more about eagles Last Line: Me and other indian things Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality INDIRECTION, by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair are the flowers and the children Last Line: And the essence of life is divine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Thought; Theology; Thinking INEFFABLE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: I am dying strangely...It is not life Last Line: To hold between your two hands the head of god Subject(s): Death; God; Religion INFIRMITIES, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Some mornings, you know you've seen Last Line: Makes you laugh with him some mornings. %some mornings it hurts to see Subject(s): Religion INFLUENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A persian fable says; one day Subject(s): Religion INHERITANCE, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In canada, on a dark afternoon Last Line: I never thought I'd dig your grave with laughter Subject(s): Religion INHERITANCE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the house are all her years Last Line: It opens its mouth as if to speak Subject(s): Christianity; Religion INNER LIFE: 3. SEEKING GOD, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I will find god,' and forth I went Last Line: And it sufficed that I was found of thee Variant Title(s): Finding Go Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion INNER LIGHT, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus with the year Subject(s): Religion INNOCENCE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that which most I wonder at, which most Last Line: I must become a child again. Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Religion; Theology INORDINATE LOVED DEFINED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye shall say what ynordynat love ys Subject(s): Religion INSCRIPTION FOR A GRAVEYARD, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When men are laid away Subject(s): Religion INSCRIPTIONS: 1944 - 1956 (22), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not because of victories Last Line: Not for a seat upon the dais %but at the common table Variant Title(s): Te Deu Subject(s): Bible; Religion INSPIRATION, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the outermost far-flung ridge of ice and snow Subject(s): Religion INSPIRATION, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1822-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life of ages, richly poured Last Line: And the people's liberty! Subject(s): Religion; Theology INSPIRATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No hint upon the hilltop shows Last Line: To strew the surf-forsaken strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology INSPIRATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the hand moves over the hapr, and the strings speak Subject(s): Religion INSPIRATION (1), by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If with light head erect I sing Last Line: Which wooed me young, and woos me old, %and to this evening hath me brought Subject(s): Religion INSPIRATIONS, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, I know not why, nor how, nor whence Subject(s): Religion INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELIJAH, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: If you mean to keep this appointment Subject(s): Religion INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AFTERNOON, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leave the museums, the comfortable rooms Last Line: Dazzling the eye, the stubborn heart unchanged Subject(s): Religion INTERLUDE, FOR A SOLITARY FLUTE, SELS., by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Little I knew, when morning white Subject(s): Despair; Religion INTERROGATION OF THE MAN OF MANY HEARTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who's she, %that one in your arms Last Line: Not by morality or law, %but by time Subject(s): God; Religion INTIMATE GOD, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Yesterday he seemed quite distant Last Line: Sing their measured melody. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology INTO THE SUNSET, by SAMUEL HALL YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Let me die, working Last Line: Let me die, laughing! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, S. Hall Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology INTOLERANCE, by MOLLY WHITFORD ANDERSON HALEY Poem Source First Line: Across the way my neighbor's windows shine Subject(s): Religion INTOLERANCE, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when religious sects run wild Subject(s): Religion INTRODUCTION TO THE PSALM OF DE PROFUNDIS, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies gan scowl, o'ercast with misty clouds Last Line: To write some verse in honor of his name? Subject(s): Bible; Religion INTROVERSION, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What do you seek within, o soul, my brother? Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion INVALID OF PARK STREET, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Like stitches in a gown, holding sleeve to bodice Last Line: To past on your window when the fire goes out Subject(s): Christianity; Religion INVENTORY OF GOODBYE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a pack of letters Last Line: Making it dangerous with its red Subject(s): God; Religion INVISIBLE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such pictures of the heavens were never seen Subject(s): Religion INVOCATION, by JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM Poem Source First Line: Moses come down from that peak Last Line: Hands like a matador, come, come to me Subject(s): Moses; Religion INVOCATION, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, creator from original chaos Last Line: And man in man's free service thy new creature Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Religion; World War Ii INVOCATION, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To god, the everlasting, who abides Subject(s): Religion INVOCATION - CHRISTMAS, 1923, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O star of bethlehem! Subject(s): Religion INVOCATION: NAVAJO PRAYER, by GRACE BOYNE Poem Source First Line: Talking god, speaking god Last Line: Above me, there will be beauty Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion INWARD LIGHT, by HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little inward light, which still Subject(s): Religion IO VICTIS, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the battle of life Last Line: Pilate or christ? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IRON COIN, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before us is the iron coin. Now let us ask Last Line: Within the other's mirror, our reciprocal mirror Subject(s): Mirrors; Religion; Self IRON HANS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a lunatic Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IRON HANS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a lunatic Last Line: From the awful babble %of that calling Subject(s): God; Religion IS IT A DREAM?, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a dream, and nothing more - this faith Last Line: In open comradeship to all the world? Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology IS IT TRUE?, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more %the sun roaming on the carpenter's back Last Line: The wings go on flapping %despite it all, %despite it all Subject(s): God; Religion IS IT TRUE?, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Is it true, o christ in heaven Last Line: We should just see god and die? Subject(s): Religion; Theology IS LIFE WORTH LIVING, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is life worth living? Yes, so long Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Seasons IS THERE YET, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Hurrah for kali,' I'll just dance off Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion IS THIS THE END?, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion IS THIS THE TIME TO HALT?, by CHARLES SUMNER HOYT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ISAAC, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: There are mountains, ask any believer Last Line: One wakeful star above us like a blade Subject(s): Isaac (bible); Religion ISAAC'S MARRIAGE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praying! And to be married? It was rare Last Line: First, a young patriarch, then a married saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ISAIAH 5: 11-12. INTEMPERANCE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ISAIAH 66:11, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, never filled? Be thy lips screwed so fast Last Line: And being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper Subject(s): Bible; Religion ISAIAH BY KEROSENE LANTERN LIGHT, by ROBERT+(1) HARRIS Poem Source First Line: This voice an older friend has kept Last Line: Everything this generation has told me Subject(s): Bible; Religion ISAIAH: 33. 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes shall see! Yes, thine, who, bind erewhile Last Line: Thine eyes shall see! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ISAIAH: FIFTY-SECOND CHAPTER, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Wauken, o wauken; on wi' yer might, o zioun! Cleed yo wi' Last Line: Israel's god, he's ahint yo! Subject(s): Religion; Scottish Translations; Theology ISAIAH: PERFECT PEACE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace Last Line: Because he trusteth in thee. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology ISAIAH: THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Hast thou not known? Last Line: And they shall walk, %and not faint Subject(s): Religion ISAIAH: VISION OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Who is this that cometh from edom Subject(s): Religion ISHWARKE EVE (EVE SPEAKS TO GOD), by KABITA SINHA Poem Source First Line: I was first Last Line: I was first %to know Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ISOTTA (DETTA LA DIVINA), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Divae, isottae sacrum,' true Last Line: In rimini, beside her? Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Saints; Theology ISRAEL, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Singer of hymns, by sinai who adored Subject(s): Jews; Religion ISRAEL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the voice / of david and bathsheba Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ISRAEL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the voice %of david and bathsheba Last Line: At the voice %of my people Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion ISRAEL (2), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since potiphar made you his overseer Last Line: I will establish my people like a pyramid, %no longer to be blown along like sand Subject(s): Bible; Religion ISRAEL AND HIS BOOK, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An age-worn wanderer, pale with thought and tears Last Line: The wondrous promise grief could not conceal! Subject(s): Bible; God; Israel; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology IT IS A SPRING AFTERNOON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything here is yellow and green Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology IT IS A SPRING AFTERNOON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything here is yellow and green Last Line: And the blind men can also see Subject(s): God; Religion IT IS BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE THAN TO CURSE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The darkness, says an old chinese proverb Last Line: When the doing is done Subject(s): Religion IT IS ENOUGH, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Source First Line: I know the little earth on which I go Subject(s): Religion IT IS MY FATHER'S WILL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How suld I now, thou fayre may, fall apone a slepe Subject(s): Religion IT IS TIME TO BUILD, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion IT KINDLES ALL MY SOUL, by CASIMIR III Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It kindles my soul / my country's loveliness! Alternate Author Name(s): Casimir The Great Subject(s): Nature; Religion IT WILL NOT BE CONTEMNED, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion IT'S MUSIC YOU'VE NEVER HEARD, FR. LETTERS TO DR. Y, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Religion IT'S NOT A PERFECT WORLD, BUT, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Let us praise the creator for delighting in gardens Last Line: And the egyptians and their horses drowned Subject(s): Religion IT'S THIS HOPE IN HOPE, THIS HAPPENING AGAIN, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: In your arms and go home Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion ITSUKUSHIMA: HIGH TIDE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: The little waves lap the pillars Last Line: We will show them our great fear Subject(s): Religion ITSUKUSHIMA: LOW TIDE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: The mud path through the pillars Last Line: As springs feeding into the widening sea? Subject(s): Religion JACK IN THE BOX, by KO WON Poem Source First Line: Jack at jack in the box Last Line: And the I, etc. In the box Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality JACK RHYMER, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Who am I? A tramp, I guess Last Line: Hosannas for my own defeat Subject(s): Christianity; Religion JACOB, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All was as it is, before the beginning began, before Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JACOB, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All was as it is, before the beginning began, before Last Line: Love is unjust: justice is loveless Subject(s): Bible; Religion JACOB'S LADDER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stairway is not %a thing of gleaming strands Last Line: The poem ascends Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion JANE'S GRANDMOTHER, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light as a sparrow Last Line: Her daughters' faces and their daughters' Subject(s): Religion JANUARY 19TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your home can be helpful to your health through rest Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JANUARY 19TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your home can be helpful to your health through rest Last Line: The sweet cereal, the sweet thumb Subject(s): God; Religion JANUARY 1ST, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is favorable for joint financial affairs but do not Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JANUARY 1ST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy played the market Last Line: I will not speculate today %with poems that think they're money Subject(s): God; Religion JANUARY 1ST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is favorable for joint financial affairs but do not Last Line: With poems that think they're money Subject(s): God; Religion JANUARY 24TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Originality is important Last Line: Bewginning, she of the riddle, she keeps me here, %toiling and toiling Subject(s): God; Religion JEHOVAH, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the uplift and the up-welling Subject(s): Religion JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since our country, our god- oh, my sire! Last Line: And forget not I smiled as I died! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Jephthah's Daughter Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN (77), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hebrews are too snug in ur Last Line: Citizens of the great cities, %talking hebrew in every language under the sun Variant Title(s): Joshua At Scheche Subject(s): Bible; Religion JERUSALEM, EASTER, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first days of april in the fields Last Line: God, why not keep us? Make me useful Variant Title(s): Jerusalem, Easter 198 Subject(s): Religion JESU, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name Last Line: And to my whole is jesu. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology JESU, MERCY FOR MY MISDEEDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu, ihu, mercy I cry Subject(s): Religion JESUS AND I, by DAN CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: I can not do it alone Last Line: But he never gives in, so we two shall win - jesus and I Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion JESUS CALLS US O'ER THE TUMULT, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Religion JESUS IN THE STORM, by ALEXANDER WALLACE Poem Text First Line: What bitter thoughts and weary Last Line: The darken'd soul to light. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JESUS OF NAZARETH, HAVE MERCY ON ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu crist of nazareth Subject(s): Religion JESUS PAPERS, SELS., by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Religion JESUS PRAYING, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sought the mountain and the loneliest height Last Line: Nor ceases yet for sinful man to plead, %nor will, till heaven and earth shall pass away Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion JESUS RETURN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Return, dear lord, to those who look Last Line: Today, to all who need thee most, %in silent ways, return Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion JESUS THE CARPENTER, by CHARLES M. SHELDON Poem Text First Line: If I could hold within my hand Last Line: But brotherhood was builded there. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology JESUS THE COMFORTER, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion JESUS THEY MADE FOR US, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy who drank his mother's milk Last Line: He swallowed the sea like a hungry whale Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion JESUS WALKING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus walked into the wilderness Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JESUS WALKING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus walked into the wilderness Last Line: Is to be a man carrying a man Subject(s): God; Religion JESUS' KINGSHIP, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Twere well the soldiers stripped the finery Last Line: And own thee king in thy great sacrifice. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology JESUS, MY LORD AND PROTECTOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I hu almygty, and mary, maydyn fre Subject(s): Religion JESUS, REFUGE OF THE WEARY, by GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion JESUS, THE ACTOR, PLAYS THE HOLY GHOST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mother, / virgin mother Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology JESUS, THE ACTOR, PLAYS THE HOLY GHOST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mother, %virgin mother Last Line: But let me be born again %into something true Subject(s): God; Religion JESUS, THOU DIVINE COMPANION, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bless us in our daily labor, %lead us to our sabbath rest Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion JESUS, THOU JOY OF LOVING HEARTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion JEWISH HYMN IN BABYLON, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the thunder! From whose cloudy seat Last Line: Where o'er the cherub-seated god full blazed the irradiate dome. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology 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 JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair dawn'd the morning, and the early sun Last Line: "we ratify thy mission. Go in peace." Subject(s): Duty; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 7, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong were the english forts, by daily toil Last Line: Betaking them, for now the night drew on. Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Historians; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now was the noon of night; and all was still Last Line: The shattered fragments of the midnight wreck. Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology JOB, by ELIZABETH SEWELL Poem Source First Line: They did not know this face Last Line: What next what next what next what next what next Subject(s): Bible; Religion JOB I, by JOHN+(1) HALL Poem Source First Line: Out of my mother's womb Last Line: And shall evermore Subject(s): Bible; Job (bible); Religion JOB REVILES, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God is grown ancient. He no longer hears Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Religion JOB THAT'S CRYING TO BE DONE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's not a pair of legs so thin, there's not a head so thick Last Line: For the glory of the garde glorifieth every one Subject(s): Religion JOB, TOO, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: What if your best is mediocrity Last Line: And milk have been strained from dandelions, %perennial rye,and yesterday's dew Subject(s): Job (bible); Religion JOB. THE INSCRUTABLE MYSTERY, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Last Line: Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. Variant Title(s): Voice Out Of The Whirlwind;then The Lord Answered Subject(s): Religion; Theology JOB: THE ETERNAL QUEST, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Canst thou by searching find out god? Variant Title(s): Job's Comforter Subject(s): Religion JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody coming in darkness Subject(s): Religion; Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers; Theology JOHN, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What went ye out to see? A shaken reed? Last Line: Repent! And see, while yet its light is given Subject(s): Bible; Religion JOHN CHRISTIAN, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: John christian knew the bible page by page Last Line: By killing christ and spilling human blood. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Theology JOHN SAYS MASS ON ALL SOULS' DAY, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: John lifts the bread Last Line: Across a sooty %opened countenance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion JOHN THE BAPTIST, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is he in hairy raiment Last Line: Saviour lowly led! Subject(s): Baptists; Religion; Theology JOHN THE PILGRIM, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Religion JOHNNA AT THE WINDMILL, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Hollis laughed Subject(s): Religion JONAH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie here in the sun Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JONAH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie here in the sun Last Line: And also much cattle?' Subject(s): Bible; Religion JONAH'S SONG, FR. MOBY DICK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ribs and terrors in the whale Last Line: His all the mercy and the power. Variant Title(s): Father Mapple's Hymn Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Whales; Theology JOSEPH, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams Last Line: The virgin mary by the fire? Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion JOSEPH'S COAT, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wounded I sing, tormented I indite Last Line: My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JOSES, THE BROTHER OF JESUS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But never to catch the vision which glorified his clay. Variant Title(s): Joses, Brother Of Jesus Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology JOSHUA, by RICK CANNON Poem Source First Line: It was a grand finish you put on what moses had begun Last Line: If pain were water this whole world %would be drowned Subject(s): God; Religion JOSHUA, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth stopped. The holy city hit a mountain Last Line: Rose in confusion and resumed its course Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Bible; Religion JOSHUA TREE, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Squatting mornings beside his crib Last Line: Sh.Sh.Sh.Sh.Sh. I tell myself. %when he wakes up he will begin to leave you Subject(s): Religion JOURNEY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: When death, the angel of our higher dreams Subject(s): Religion JOURNEY OF THE THREE KINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu whas borne in bedlem iude Subject(s): Religion JOURNEY'S END, by EVELYN H. HEALEY Poem Source First Line: We go from god to god - then through Subject(s): Religion JOY OF LIVING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am the voice of the great musician Subject(s): Religion JUBILATE AGNO, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I prophesy that we shall have our horns again Last Line: For I pray god be gracious to the bees and the beeves this day Variant Title(s): Jubliate Agno, Sels Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Cats; Depression, Mental; Religion JUBILATE AGNO: GARDNER'S TALENT, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardeners talent Last Line: For the poor man's nosegay is an introduction to a prince. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Virtue; Theology JUDAH'S HALLOWED BARDS, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Let those who will hang rapturously o'er Last Line: Simply, pathetic, eloquently plain. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jews; Judah (bible); Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Judaism; Theology JUDAS, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always I lay upon the brink of love Last Line: I hang, huge teardrop on the cheek of night Subject(s): Bible; Religion JUDAS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Judas, patron saint of bankers Last Line: Chains, necklaces and rings of illumination Subject(s): Religion JUDGE NOT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Judge not; the workings of his brain Last Line: This soul to god in after days! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Religion; Theology JUDGE NOT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faces greying faster than loam-crumbs on a harrow Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JUDGE NOT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faces greying faster than loam-crumbs on a harrow Last Line: I said: on all these, death, with gentleness, come down Subject(s): Bible; Religion JUDGMENT, by FERNAND MAZADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night the true god lists your every crime Last Line: And the true god—I see it all—will pardon you. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Every day is judgment day Last Line: Sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, that's how I was Last Line: The knot of life %that was tied there Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Religion JUDITH: JUDITH'S PRAYER, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Lord, god of my father simeon Last Line: And that the race of israel %has you for sole protector Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion JUGGLER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A ball will bounce, but less and less Subject(s): Christianity; Jugglers; Religion; Theology JUGGLER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ball will bounce, but less and less Last Line: For him we batter our hands %who has won for once over the world's weight Subject(s): Christianity; Jugglers; Religion JULIAN THE APOSTATE, by ERNEST DENNY Poem Source First Line: So, christ, I bought thee with a roman throne Subject(s): Julian The Apostate (331-363); Religion JULIUS CAESAR, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courage; Death; Religion JUMPING JACK, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Four fury colors the jumping jack chose Last Line: Jack in the bramble - fox in the rose Subject(s): Religion JUNE 4 (2), by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Death, our little pal with the big teeth Last Line: Grab a net, feel the rock in the boat Subject(s): Religion JUNE BUG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June bug came on the first of june Last Line: Like shoes after a wedding car Subject(s): God; Religion JUST ONCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just once I knew what life was for Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology JUST ONCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just once I knew what life was for Last Line: And hoarded these constants into morning %only to find them gone Subject(s): God; Love; Religion JUST THINK OF IT, MIND, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Then what can he do? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion JUSTICE, by CHARLES FRANCIS RICHARDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred noble wishes fill my heart Subject(s): Religion KABBALAH SAYS THE LIGHT WE STRIVE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: To reach is not god, we dare not presume Last Line: We yearn for light, the passages of prophets Subject(s): Religion KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kali %queen of fatality Last Line: Kali. %who is black Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Hinduism; Religion KALI, WHY ARE YOU NAKED AGAIN?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: When you're like this Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion KANGAROO, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My soul climbs up my legs Last Line: A big jew, the law under my arm like bread Subject(s): Religion KAPIOLANI, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs Last Line: "from this day, thou, lord jehovah, be our one and only god!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Hawaii; Religion; Volcanoes; Theology KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs Last Line: The madman saith he said so: it is strange. Variant Title(s): An Epistle; Containing The Strange Medical Evidence Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experiments Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Concerning The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish ... Subject(s): Arabs; Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Physicians; Religion; Doctors; Theology KE 6-8018, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black lady, / two eyes Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KE 6-8018, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black lady, %two eyes Last Line: Although I will wait, %unleashed and unheard Subject(s): God; Religion KEATS WAS AN UNBELIEVER, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keats was an unbeliever,' - so they read Last Line: "he made ""believing"" possible for us." Subject(s): Agnosticism; Beauty; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology KEEP ME TODAY FROM SHAME AND SIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu crist, I the be-seche Subject(s): Religion KEEP US A PLACE IN PARADISE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Quene of parage, %paradyse reprayed I-wysse Subject(s): Religion KEEPER, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Source First Line: Wide is the world and wide its open seas Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Religion KEEPING THE CITY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, %in august %head on your chest Last Line: Who knows what he keepeth Subject(s): God; Religion KILLING THE LOVE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the love killer Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KILLING THE LOVE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the love killer Last Line: Dancing alone %as the cars go by Subject(s): God; Religion KILLING THE SPRING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring had been bulldozed under Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KILLING THE SPRING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring had been bulldozed under Last Line: Once upon a time a young person %died for no reason. %I was the same Subject(s): God; Religion KIND OF BLUE, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: Not delft or %delphinium, not wedgewood Last Line: What else in the world to do but weep Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Gardens And Gardening; Religion; Women In The Bible KIND SIR: THESE WOODS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind sir: this is an old game Last Line: Still, I search in these woods and find nothing worse %than myself, caught between the grapes and th Subject(s): God; Religion KINDERGARTEN AGE SHOSHANA SAID, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I've been thinking about god Last Line: Than your sisters Subject(s): Religion KINDLY SCREEN, by BELLE CHAPMAN MORRILL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion KING DAVID DANCES, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aware to the dry throat of the wide hell in the world Last Line: All the black same I dance my blue head off! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology KING DAVID DANCES, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aware to the dry throat of the wide hell in the world Last Line: Of all the black same I dance my blue head off! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion KING ETERNAL, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Religion KING HENRY VI, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Courage; Faith; History; Religion KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from jerusalem Last Line: "than flatteries of the great." Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology KING'S HIGHWAY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wonderful way is the king's highway Last Line: To the still more wonderful is to be %- runs the king's highway Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Religion KINGDOM WITHIN, by PERCY CLOUGH AINSWORTH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion KINSHIP, by EDWARD H. S. TERRY Poem Text First Line: I am part of the sea and stars Last Line: And the ages sent me forth! Subject(s): Religion; Theology KINSMAN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion KINSMAN! - CANST THOU FORGET?, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: I love to think upon thy human need Last Line: Feel thee my brother, father, mother, -- god. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology KISS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth blooms like a cut Last Line: Pure genius at work. Darling, the composer has stepped into fire Subject(s): God; Religion KITE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in front of the summer hotel Last Line: Maybe, after all, he knew something more and was right Subject(s): God; Religion KNEE SONG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being kissed on the back Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KNEE SONG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being kissed on the back Last Line: Striking yes yes yes small %and me maker Subject(s): God; Religion KNELL, by GEORGE+(2) CHAPMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion KNOCKING, EVER KNOCKING, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knocking, knocking, ever knocking? Last Line: Still a god is waiting, there. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology KNOWEST THOU JEHOVAH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With the dawn of morning Last Line: Knowest thou the three? Subject(s): Creation; God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Trinity, The; Holy Spirit; Theology KNOWLEDGE, by JOYCE ANSTRUTHER PLACZEK Poem Source First Line: They are wrong. It is not the knowing Subject(s): Religion KNOWLEDGE THROUGH SUFFERING, by GEORGE WALLACE BRIGGS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion KOHELETH, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I waited and worked Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Religion; Theology KOPIS'TAYA (A GATHERING OF SPIRITS), by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we live in the browning season Last Line: The dance of feathers, the dance of birds. Subject(s): Nature; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion KRILL, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red fisherman Last Line: With its if and then, if and then, if and then Subject(s): Religion KYRIE ELEISON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In joy, in pain, in sorrow Last Line: Kyrie eleison! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Theology L'ENVOI, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried Last Line: Shall draw the thing as he sees it for the god of things as they are! Subject(s): History; Religion; Historians; Theology LA CATHEDRALE ENGLOUTIE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient place. The roofs are high and grey Last Line: The schools are good,' he sighs. 'the streets are safe the disorder in the dress Subject(s): Churches; Religion LA PUCELLE DE VERCHERES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Name of heaven! 'no woman, 'you say, 'may be Last Line: But to test our own was madeleine's soul lent us from heaven an hour. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Religion; United States - Colonial Period; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Theology LABOR, THE PROPHET, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: I am grim labor, I who boldly stand Last Line: Which kings and priests in terror will cast down Subject(s): Angels; Labor & Laborers; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Work; Workers; Theology LABORARE EST ORARE, by FRANCIS ALBERT ROLLO RUSSELL Poem Source Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Religion LACE MAKERS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Their last pages are transparent Last Line: They are unworthy of undoing the laces of their own shoes Subject(s): Religion LACEDEMONIAN INSTRUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there Last Line: A fool tangled in a religious snare Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology LACHRIMAE: 7. LACHRIMAE AMANTIS, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is there in my heart that you should sue Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LACHRIMAE: 7. LACHRIMAE AMANTIS, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is there in my heart that you should sue Last Line: Tomorrow I shall wake to welcome him Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LAMENT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone is dead Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LAMENT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone is dead Last Line: Unaccustomed to anything else %goes all the way down Subject(s): God; Religion LAMENT OF THE SOUL OF EDWARD IV, by EDWARD IV Poem Source First Line: Misermini mei, ye that ben my ffryndys Subject(s): Religion LAMENTATIONS: ALEPH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: It is I who have seen Last Line: But we feel our shepherd's blow Variant Title(s): To Put Your Mouth To Dust, Sels Subject(s): Religion LAMPS ARE BROUGHT IN, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: Mother kali, the destroyer, is the giver Last Line: Twice about before seasoning the lamb Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality LAND, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the country of immortal love Subject(s): Religion LAND OF OUR BIRTH, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion LAND OF THE EVENING MIRAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a beautiful island away in the west Subject(s): Religion LANDSCAPE IN WINTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow, out over the elephant's rump Last Line: As the night waits for its breakfast Subject(s): God; Religion LANGUAGE OF STONES, SELS: 1. THE STONE WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I came here from a far place Last Line: A swollen unmoving grief Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LANGUAGE OF STONES: SELS: 2. THE STONE WHO KNEW EVERYTHING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I've got it here, inside Last Line: They will take my silence %for wisdom Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision; Historians; Fancy; Theology LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say Last Line: Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, %their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision LARGEST LIFE, SELS., by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion LAST DEFILE, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Make us thy mountaineers Last Line: Is all alight, and in the light we see %our leader and our lord, what will it be? Subject(s): Religion LAST ENIGMA, by HENRY FRANK Poem Source First Line: I was and have been and shall be Subject(s): Religion LAST JUDGMENT, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LAST LINES: 3. ON A WRESTLER, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full-nelsoned in earth's arms the crusher sleeps Last Line: Whom no man living could pin down for keeps Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Religion; Wrestling And Wrestlers LAST RITES, by DAVID CITINO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When death dances in Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LAST RITES, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When death dances in Last Line: Let the darkness race across your body Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LAST SUPPERS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loneliest when hung in a church annex Last Line: Would call down on their heads. When their eyes open, %they eat and drink and talk, at ease, in peac Subject(s): Last Supper, The; Religion LATE PASSENGER, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The sky was low, the sounding rain was falling dense and dark Last Line: Because of you the ark must sail without the unicorn Subject(s): Religion LATIMER'S LIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In oxford town the faggots they piled Last Line: Till the trump of a coming judgment day Subject(s): Religion LAUGHTER AND TEARS, by TERTIUS VAN DYKE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LAURELS AND IMMORTELLES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He has solved it -- life's wonderful problem Last Line: And crowned him with death's immortelles Subject(s): Religion; Theology LAW GIVEN AT SINAI, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arm thee with thunder, heavenly muse Last Line: Nor let thy wishes loose upon his large estate.' Subject(s): Bible; Religion LAW OF KIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Learn, thou unkind man, to be kind Subject(s): Religion LAW THAT MARRIES ALL THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud is free only Last Line: The redbird sings, %here here here here Subject(s): Religion LEAD ON, O KING ETERNAL, by ERNEST WARBURTON SHURTLEFF Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LEADING, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forrests are made for weary men Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Religion LEANERS OR LIFTERS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people on earth today Last Line: Your portion of labor, and worry and care? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Two Kinds Of People;which Are You?;lifting And Leaning Subject(s): Religion; Theology LEARNING HOW TO PRAY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When I die, I will practice the humble submission Last Line: All creatures tumbling under the canopy of clouds Subject(s): Angels; Knees; Prayer; Religion; Soul LEARNING OUR PLACES IN THE HIERARCHY OF ANGELS, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jon dumas wanted to be a throne, %a fiery wheel Last Line: Sister angelica kept pointing to, %insisting that, that was god Subject(s): God; Heaven; Life; Religion LEAVES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, like leaves from a tree Last Line: Stars above and earth below. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Theology LEAVES THAT TALK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes. %it's may 20th and the leaves Last Line: And faithless to the summer Subject(s): God; Religion LEAVING MALAYSIA, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: After our wedding, I Last Line: So many tears when you left Subject(s): Religion LEGEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Christ, when a child, a garden made Subject(s): Religion LEGEND GLORIFIED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though awful tempests thunder overhead Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Religion LEGEND OF THE ONE-EYED MAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like oedipus I am losing my sight Subject(s): God; Religion LEGION STREET, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the common sounds of legion street Last Line: To be reborn in every son of man. Subject(s): Religion; Theology LEND A HAND, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am only one Last Line: I will not refuse to do something that I can do Subject(s): Religion LENIN, GORKY AND I, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That winter when lenin, gorky and I Last Line: Of women from those islands in the harbor of naples Subject(s): Religion LENT, by JANE MCKAY LANNING Poem Source First Line: To search our souls Last Line: These are things %god meant Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion LENTEN MUSINGS, by IDA WALDEN THOMAS Poem Text First Line: I am; my maker made me Last Line: But I will trust and pray. Subject(s): God; Lent; Obedience; Religion; Theology LENTEN THOUGHTS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yet many were offended in him Last Line: Must jesus be crucified anew? Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology LEONARD COMMITS REDDEEMING ADULTERIES ..., by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I take off my glasses, these eyes are dark magnets Last Line: Break for me, destroying the ring's raised signature, %the cracked edges melting to mine Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LEONARD REFUSES TO ATONE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon comes up, a white cow Last Line: And become the dark thing %that walks among you, %pure, deaf, and full %of my own ingenious sins Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LES MAINS DU DIEU (AFTER A LINE IN DAIGREPONT'S CAJUN SPIRITUAL), by JACK B. BEDELL Poem Source First Line: The last word I can picture you saying to me Last Line: Mettez votre vie dans les mains du bon dieu Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality LESSON, by ROBIN COOPER-STONE Poem Source First Line: A little girl asks her mother Last Line: Who climbed the rope %to reach the living Subject(s): Bridges; Girls; Religion LESSON OF THE BIRDS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The birds of aristophanes taught me Last Line: Had stirred the universe into being Subject(s): Religion LESSONS IN HUNGER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you like me?' Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LESSONS IN HUNGER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you like me?' Last Line: Riddled with what his silence said Subject(s): God; Religion LEST THOU FORGET IN THE YEARS BETWEEN, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hearing the infinite whisper there Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Life; Religion LET GO THE WHORE OF BABYLON, by MILES (MYLES) COVERDALE Poem Source Last Line: And thank god of his grace Subject(s): Bible; Religion LET HIM WITH KISSES OF HIS MOUTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The virgins love thee well Subject(s): Bible; Religion LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HAPPINESS', by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Quick, let me have it, I need the word Last Line: And so began another sunday in our funny kingdom Subject(s): Religion LET MY PEOPLE GO, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: Napthalene sublimes at room temperature Last Line: Will be like the dust of the road, %will rise up Subject(s): Religion LET NOT THE FIEND OVERCOME ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu cryste, that dyed on tre Subject(s): Religion LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When over the fair fame of Last Line: Let something good be said! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Religion; Theology LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Religion LET THE ASCETICS SING OF THE GARDEN OF PARADISE, by MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB Poem Source Last Line: The only line stitching this world's scattered parts Subject(s): Religion LET THERE BE LIGHT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever there was a beginning Last Line: And becoming light Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion LET US BLESS, NOT CURSE, EVE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: For eating that apple. Let us bless adam Last Line: And nights of her life Subject(s): Religion LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As we understand it Subject(s): Religion LET US HAVE PEACE, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is weary of our foolish wars Last Line: Let us have peace! Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology LET US KEEP CHRISTMAS, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Source First Line: Whatever else be lost among the years Last Line: Let us get back our childlike faith again Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion LET US SEE JESUS, by ANNA BARTLETT WARNER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LETHARGY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It smiles to see me Last Line: To put it down Subject(s): Lethargy; Religion; Theology LETHARGY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It smiles to see me Subject(s): Religion; Theology LETHARGY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It smiles to see me Last Line: Since first I lifted my hand %to set it down Subject(s): Religion LETTER FROM SANTA CRUZ, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: I do not know the date Last Line: My hands open to receive whoever comes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LETTER FROM SHAMAN: THE TRIBE WITH NO MYTH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their territory there lived Last Line: Drifting, missing but not quite lost Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LETTER OF SAINT ANDREW THE DANCER, by HOWARD LAWRENCE MCCORD Poem Source First Line: Grape, ivy, pine Last Line: Of the sea, the open gates %the dance Subject(s): Religion LETTER TO GOD, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs were tired and bewildered Last Line: It’s still possible a reply might reach them Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology LETTER TO NOAH, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Greetings, I hope you will not be disappointed to learn I survived Last Line: Noah, I think I am as grateful for the rainbow as you Subject(s): Religion LETTER TO THE BUTTERFLIES, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear monarchs, fellow americans Last Line: What is this nothingness they have done to me? Subject(s): Religion LETTER TO THE COUNTESS OF DENBIGH (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What heaven-entreated heart is this Last Line: This fort of your fair selfe, if't be not won, %he is repulst indeed; but you are undone Variant Title(s): To The Noblest And Best Of Ladies, The Countess Of Denbig Subject(s): Religion LETTER TO THE COUNTESS OF DENBIGH (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What heaven-besieged heart is this Last Line: He is repuls'd indeed, but you'r undone. Variant Title(s): Against Irresolution [and Delay In Matters Of Religion] Subject(s): Religion; Theology LETTER TO THE GOVERNORS, JUNE 8, 1783, SELS., by GEORGE WASHINGTON Poem Source First Line: I now make it my earnest prayer Last Line: We can never hope to be a happy nation Subject(s): Religion LETTER WRITTEN DURING A JANUARY NORTHEASTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monday / dearest, / it is snowing, grotesquely snowing Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LETTER WRITTEN DURING A JANUARY NORTHEASTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monday %dearest, %it is snowing, grotesquely snowing Last Line: But he belongs to me like lost baggage Subject(s): God; Religion LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see / that the ocean is still going on Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion; Theology LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see %that the ocean is still going on Last Line: They call back to us %from the gauzy edge of paradise, %good news, good news Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion LETTERS TO DR. Y., by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dr. Y. %I need a thin hot wire Last Line: So this is happiness, %that journeyman Subject(s): God; Religion LIAR'S PSALM: REPENTANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I repent the actual. It has never got me anywhere Last Line: A word to say. Forgive me now my finger in the wound, and knuckle deep Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: O god, within whose sight Last Line: God, send us peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology LIFE, by CLONDESLEY BRERETON Poem Source First Line: Life is eternal becoming that down the cascade of the ages Subject(s): Religion LIFE, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: By one great heart, the universe is stirred Last Line: Men's hungry souls have named the great heart, god! Subject(s): Religion; Theology LIFE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forenoon and afternoon and night - forenoon Last Line: And time is conquered, and thy crown is won. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Religion; Theology LIFE, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not life upon thy gifts to live Last Line: The more to us doth of his bounty send. Subject(s): Religion; Worship; Theology LIFE, by WILLIAM MERRILL VORIES Poem Text First Line: Life is too brief Last Line: Or soar on wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Vories, W. M. Subject(s): Mortality; Religion; Theology LIFE ABOVE, THE LIFE ON HIGH, by THERESA OF AVILA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Teresa Of Avila; Teresa Of Jesus; Teresa De Avila Subject(s): Religion LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Death preys on life Last Line: That we might live. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology LIFE AND DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is life, father? Last Line: "and god is over all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology LIFE EVERLASTING, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: At the foot of the wall Last Line: Sickened me after the methodists' %easter services Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality LIFE OF OUR LIFE, by HENRY BURKE ROBINS Poem Source First Line: Not in the cosmic vast alone Subject(s): Religion LIFE TO LOVE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four winds and seven seas have called me friend Last Line: That love is king and creed and persian law Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology LIFE TO LOVE, SELS., by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four winds and seven seas have called me friend Last Line: That love is king and creed and persian law Subject(s): Bible; Religion LIFE UP YOUR HEADS, REJOICE!, by THOMAS TOKE LYNCH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LIFE [AND DEATH], by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life! I know not what thou art Last Line: Bid me good morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology 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 CHEQUER-BOARD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A chequer-board of mingled light and shade? Last Line: Fans it to heaven, or smothers it in shame Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion LIFE'S EVENING, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Text First Line: Three score and ten! The tumult of the world Last Line: While o'er my soul god spreads his mantle—peace. Subject(s): Religion; Theology LIFE'S FINEST THINGS, by BANGS BURGESS Poem Text First Line: Life's finest things, the things that last Last Line: Are only grappled by the soul. Subject(s): Religion; Theology LIFT UP THE CURTAIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, what a web Subject(s): Religion LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS!' WE LIFT THEM, LORD, TO THEE, by HENRY MONTAGUE BUTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LIGHT, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: The morning when I first notice Last Line: I am in again, and swimming Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality LIGHT, by GRACE WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: We cannot look beyond Last Line: Thou, o my soul! Subject(s): Religion; Theology LIGHT AND LIFE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: We use one word often for the other Last Line: And kindly light Subject(s): Religion LIGHT BENEATH THE SKIN (OR PRONOUN 2), by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: I am holy yours, sweet christ Last Line: Over the waiting shingles. The hard boards of my heart Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion LIGHT FROM WITHIN, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw on earth another light Subject(s): Religion LIGHT OF THE WORLD, HOW LONG THE QUEST, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LIGHT'S GLITTERING MORN BEDECKS THE SKY, by JOHN MASON NEALE Poem Source Last Line: An angel robed in light hath said, %'the lord is risen from the dead' Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The LIGHTNING ROD SALESMAN, by MARTIN LUTHER HESTER Poem Source First Line: Say what you want about doctors or priests Last Line: A brother thought and wished long dead Subject(s): Religion LIGHTWORKS: CHAPTER 66, by DAVID ROSENBERG Poem Source First Line: The lord speaks %this way Last Line: Open to the others %to my words Subject(s): Bible; Religion LINCOLN, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A martyred saint, he lies upon his bier Subject(s): Religion LINCOLN PORTRAIT, SELS., by AARON COPLAND Poem Source First Line: Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history' Subject(s): Religion LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the norn mother saw the whirlwind hour Last Line: And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Religion; United States - History; Theology LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. BUCHANAN, OF DRUMPELLIER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Gentle lady, with the bounteous hand Last Line: Long after thou art laid in hallowed rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; God; Learning; Religion; Sabbath; Childhood; Theology; Sunday LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Last Line: More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! Variant Title(s): Tintern Abbey;on Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye Subject(s): England; Holidays; Immortality; Nature; Religion; Trees; English; Theology LINES FOR A STAMMERING TURKISH POET, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he was a child, he thought of sea birds as moslem Last Line: To know, a word is the sacrificial goat %and the goat sent into the wilderness Subject(s): Religion LINES FOR THE DORMITION OF THE VIRGIN, by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Mother of love who felt in none's full moon Last Line: You, who woke in us a love you were denied %and rose above the flesh you glorified Subject(s): Religion LINES ON SEEING THE SABBATH SCHOOL PROCESSION OF 3RD JULY, 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were thousand angels sinless, bright Last Line: Like him who took your nature on. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; God; Religion; Sabbath; Youth; Childhood; Theology; Sunday LINES TO A PUMPING ENGINE FOR A RELIGIOUS HOUSE: 1. OLD STYLE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: This is sister water's cell Last Line: Sing laus deo! Subject(s): Religion; Water Supply; Wellesley College; Theology; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains LINES TO A PUMPING ENGINE FOR A RELIGIOUS HOUSE: 2. NEW STYLE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: The little grassy hollow is sunny Last Line: So-called. Subject(s): Religion; Water Supply; Wellesley College; Theology; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains LINES WRITTEN AFTER THE DISCOVERY...OF GERM OF YELLOW FEVER, by RONALD ROSS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a thousand blended notes Last Line: What man has made of man? Variant Title(s): What Man Has Made Of Man;written In Early Spring Subject(s): Religion; Theology LINES WRITTEN IN HER BREVIARY, by THERESA OF AVILA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let nothing disturb thee Last Line: Alone god sufficeth Alternate Author Name(s): Teresa Of Avila; Teresa Of Jesus; Teresa De Avila Subject(s): God; Religion LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this lone open glade I lie Last Line: Before I have begun to live. Subject(s): Kensington Gardens; Parks; Religion; Theology LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For aye be hynce ye vayne delyghts Last Line: Forlettying erthlie loste. Subject(s): England; Mexico; Poetry & Poets; Religion; English; Theology LINES WRITTEN ON WINDOWS OF THE GLOBE INN, DUMFRIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou greybeard, old wisdom, may boast of thy treasures Last Line: But folly has raptures to give. Subject(s): Religion; Wit & Humor LINGUA FRANCA, by CHRIS STROFFOLINO Poem Source First Line: If only now you were to emerge from Last Line: For the same reason a net doesn't Subject(s): Faith; Religion LINKS, by MATT ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Dead turtle why? Last Line: Birdie %putts Subject(s): Golf; Religion; Sports LINOLEUM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are the few we hear of Last Line: "and begin where I stand, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Religion; Theology LISTEN TO THIS STORY, MOTHER TARA, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Beaten by the six tenants Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion LISTENING AT LITTLE LAKE ELKHART, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What signal brought us, following the faintest of trails? Last Line: The world has this voice; it wanders; it is lost %in the night and the stars. It cannot find where t Subject(s): Religion LISTENING TO THE WIND, by EGBERT SANDFORD Poem Text First Line: God is at the organ! Last Line: Far and near. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LITANY, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Mother of sorrow Last Line: In protest, crying out %to be loved Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LITANY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a litany of lost things Last Line: Even as it vanishes - were not our life Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality LITANY, by ROBERT GRANT (1785-1838) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saviour, when in dust to thee Last Line: Of our solemn litany! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LITANY FOR LATTER-DAY MYSTICS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the vastness that is god Subject(s): Religion LITANY FOR THE LIVING, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Hildegard of bingen Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LITTLE CHILDREN, by MICHAEL GOLD Poem Source First Line: Sadly through the factory doors Subject(s): Communism; Labor And Laborers; Religion LITTLE GIRL, MY STRING BEAN, MY LOVELY WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter, at eleven (almost twelve), is like a garden Last Line: You will strike fire, %that new thing Subject(s): Daughters; God; Religion LITTLE PEASANT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh how the women Last Line: In his deep pants pocket. %krr. Krr Subject(s): God; Religion LITTLE POEM OF LIFE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We; - %they - %small words but mighty Last Line: Till younger lives come all their love to prove Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many are the deceivers Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many are the deceivers Last Line: That little birth, %from their going down %and their lifting up Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion LITTLE ROUND, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My fool asks: do the years spell a path to later Last Line: What have I done with my god? Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality LITTLE UNCOMPLICATED HYMN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is what I wanted to write Last Line: I look for uncomplicated hymns %but love has none Subject(s): God; Religion LITTLE WORDS, by EDITH DALEY Poem Source First Line: We are weary of little words Subject(s): Religion LITURGICAL SONG. ANTIPHON 16: LOVE OVERFLOWS, by HILDEGARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love overflows into all things Last Line: Because she has given to the highest king %the kiss of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion LIVE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, death's been here Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LIVE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, death's been here Last Line: I say live, live because of the sun, %the dream, the excitable gift Subject(s): God; Religion LIVE AND HELP LIVE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live and let live!' was the call of the old Last Line: The cry of the christ for a comrade-like earth. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LIVE CHRIST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Live christ! - and though thy way may be Last Line: That fruit through all eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LIVE TODAY, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion LIVE, EVIL VEIL, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The church of heaven's triumphal car Last Line: In whose dead embrace %dead %man hangs Subject(s): Bible; Religion LIVING UNTO THEE, by JOHN ELLERTON Poem Source First Line: God of the living, in whose eyes Subject(s): Religion LIVINGSTONE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: To lift the somber fringes of the night Last Line: And died right mightily. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Livingstone, David (1813-1873); Religion; Theology LOBSTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shoe with legs Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOBSTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shoe with legs Last Line: And paint it red Subject(s): God; Religion LOCATING THE INVISIBLE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I have nothing to go on Last Line: This constant infusion of 'the other'? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LOCKED DOORS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the angels who inhabit this town Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOCKED DOORS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the angels who inhabit this town Last Line: I can only sit here on earth %at my place at the table Subject(s): God; Religion LOCKSLEY HALL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology LOCKSMITH, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: On time nearly to the minute, he drives up Last Line: His sweet fields whispering jesus, jesus Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion LOCUST SONGS: SHILOH CHURCH, 1862: TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stamping-ground of the shod word! So hard Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LOCUST SONGS: SHILOH CHURCH, 1862: TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stamping-ground of the shod word! So hard Last Line: But with what blood, and to what end, shiloh? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LOGIC, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: A walt disney white rabbit Last Line: Still they bend the sun's rays, %even this deep, and under snow Subject(s): Religion LONDON IN SPRING WAS FREEZING COLD, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: We huddled under heavy blankets, slept Last Line: Of the red double - decker buses Subject(s): Religion LONDON-LEICESTER SQUARE, PICCADILLY, MAYFAIR, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I had played monopoly with these names Last Line: The poem in my heart, and I cried Subject(s): Religion LONELY BROTHER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Art thou lonely, o my brother? Last Line: Shall come two's great happiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness LONG DID I TOIL, by JOHN QUARLES Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LONG LAST MILE, by LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LONGING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not sorry for my soul Last Line: Without the joy it longed to know. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Mortality; Religion; Theology LOOK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Religion LOOK BEYOND!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Unnumbered sorrows, woes beyond belief Last Line: "look beyond!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology LOOMS OF OUR MOTHERS, by ROBERT COOPER Poem Source First Line: The strands I find tangle in my fingers Last Line: We pick what dear fine dust we can recover Subject(s): Religion LORD AND MASTER, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: You need have no worry about love Last Line: Have the porter say you're out Subject(s): God; Love; Religion LORD IS RISEN FROM DEATH TO LIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thou that in paryeris hes bene lent Subject(s): Religion LORD OF THE FAR HORIZONS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion LORD OF US ALL, by DONALD HANKEY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LORD THAT LAY IN ASSES' STALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That lord that lay in asse stal-le Subject(s): Religion LORD! IT IS NOT LIFE TO LIVE, by AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion LORD, HEAR MY PRAYER; A PARAPHRASE OF THE 102ND PSALM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, hear my prayer when trouble glooms Last Line: But still regard the destitute Subject(s): Bible; Prayer; Religion; Theology LORD, HOW I RISE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Let me be your supreme law all the way to the end ed their heads Subject(s): Angels; God; Religion LORD, I LONG AFTER THEE, by ROBERT HARMAN Poem Source First Line: Ihu, for thee mourne I may Subject(s): Religion LORD, SAVE US, WE PERISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, seek us, o lord, find us Last Line: Round us, everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Religion; Theology LORD, TEACH US HOW TO PLAY!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid clashing creeds and civic strife Last Line: And teach us how to pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools LORD, THOU HAST SUFFERED, THOU DOST KNOW, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Last Line: Of wind and wave, say, peace, be still, %eternal comforter Subject(s): Religion LORD, WHO ART MERCIFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LOSING GOD, by SHANNON BORG Poem Source First Line: The vision begins like this: as I stand Last Line: This is not a metaphor, but a prayer I've prayed Subject(s): God; Religion LOSS OF FRIENDSHIP, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: To time and distance is an enduring regret Last Line: I did not mail the letter Subject(s): Religion LOST AND FOUND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I missed him when the sun began to bend Last Line: A light I knew not till my soul was dark. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LOST DAUGHTER, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have protected the flame of a match Last Line: No love, no prayer, no flame Subject(s): Religion LOST GOD, SELS., by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, happy who have seen him, whom the world Subject(s): Religion LOST INGREDIENT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost yesterday, those gentle ladies stole Last Line: Would keep us calm and prove us whole at last Subject(s): God; Religion LOST LIE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is rust in my mouth Last Line: That your dear curly head %was, was, was, was Subject(s): God; Religion LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS: 1, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ruddy fire-glow, like her sister's eyes Last Line: And drove his javelin through her tawny hide Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bible; Religion LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS: 2, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun above the hills raged in the height Last Line: In that best wisdom, which is not to know Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bible; Religion LOT'S SON, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three in his arms we sleep, lot lies awake Last Line: Lot who tied us together is undone Subject(s): Religion LOVE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the attention it pays to each detail Last Line: Through these autumnal woods Subject(s): Religion LOVE, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love you %not only for what you are Last Line: Not a reproach %but a song Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Religion LOVE, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My god is love Last Line: The beggar baby %lying in my arms asleep Subject(s): Religion LOVE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I Last Line: The world seen once for all! Subject(s): Religion; Theology LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love you %not only for what you are Last Line: Perhaps that is what %love means Subject(s): Love; Religion LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back Last Line: So I did sit and eat. Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology LOVE AND LAW, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True love is founded in rocks of remembrance Last Line: With patience its watchword, and law for its throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Religion; Theology LOVE BREATHING THANKS AND PRAISE, SELS., by RICHARD BAXTER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry & Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul; Bereavement; Theology LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Last Line: Of dark habits, %keeping their difficult balance Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry And Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul LOVE FLINGS US FORWARD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Yes, of course Last Line: This riot of love %across the weathering stone Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LOVE FOUND ME, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion LOVE IS OF GOD, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, let us love: love is of god Last Line: Beloved, let us love: for only thus %shall we behold that god who loveth us Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion LOVE IS SAVED, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What you most loved but could not save Last Line: God had already saved. Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology LOVE IS STRONG AS [OR STRONGER THAN] DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not sought thee, I have not found thee Last Line: And clasp thee to me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LOVE LETTER WRITTEN IN A BURNING BUILDING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest foxy, / I am in a crate Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOVE LETTER WRITTEN IN A BURNING BUILDING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest foxy, %I am in a crate Last Line: Straight from united fruit, inc Subject(s): God; Religion LOVE MESSAGE TO MY LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Goe, lytyl byll, & doe me recommende Subject(s): Religion LOVE PLANT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A freak moist flower Last Line: A pink doll with her frantic green stuffing Subject(s): God; Religion LOVE SONG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was / the girl of the chain letter Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOVE SONG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was %the girl of the chain letter Last Line: That music, %that theater, %that field of ponies Subject(s): God; Religion LOVE SONG, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Distance nor death shall part us, dear Subject(s): Religion LOVE SONG FOR K. OWYNE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I washed lobster and stale gin Last Line: Like pale acrobats or gently drunken flowers Subject(s): God; Religion LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my neighbor %but Last Line: All I can say then is nay! Nay! Nay! Nay! Nay! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion LOVE'S ARGUMENT, by FATHER ANDREW Poem Source Subject(s): Religion LOVE'S MIRACLE, by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Upon the marsh mud, dank and foul Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Ewan, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion LOVE'S VIGIL, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love will outwatch the stars, and light the skies Last Line: That in the cosmic council he is god. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOVE, NOT LOGIC (A FRAGMENT), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god! What am I but a hungry cry Last Line: All strong to labour for the good of each. Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology LOVE, TO BE LOVE, MUST WALK THY WAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But all is good? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Conduct Of Life; Religion LOVELY, ANGEL KEEP ME DAY AND NIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I praye the, spirit, that angell arte Subject(s): Religion LOVERS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: If the gods are ourselves, extended Last Line: From afar, this landscape glistened, %like crystal turning to light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LOVES OF THE PUPPETS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meeting when all the world was in the bud Last Line: Anc made the birds explode for miles around Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LOVES OF THE PUPPETS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meeting when all the world was in the bud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LOVING IS THE WORST OF CHRISTIAN WEATHER, by WILLIAM JOLLIFF Poem Source First Line: Today good sister esther slipped Last Line: Sake and a bruised heel, the sorrow of christian weather Subject(s): Religion LOVING THE KILLER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is the day they shipped Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LOVING THE KILLER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is the day they shipped Last Line: Even though the killer in you %has gotten out Subject(s): God; Religion LOW SPIRITS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fever and fret and aimless stir Last Line: And for all things that make me feel. Subject(s): Religion; Theology LOWELL, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He needed to be held, so his country Last Line: A few bring real honey to the hive Subject(s): Religion LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a starred night prince lucifer uprose Last Line: The army of unalterable law. Subject(s): Bible; Devil; Religion; Stars; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Theology LUCIFER'S EPISTLE TO THE FALLEN, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Lucifer, son of the morning, pretty boy Last Line: Anything, and it will be added to your %account. Nothing will be beyond us; nothing %dares touch my Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LUKE 14: A COMMENTARY (1), by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is there, like clouseau Last Line: I'm a jew. %and I'm a comedian Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LUKE, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible LULLA, MY SWEET LITTLE BABY, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lulla, la lulla, lulla lullaby Last Line: Oh joy, and joyful happy day, when wretches want their will! Subject(s): Bible; Religion LULLABY, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lullee, lullay %I could not love thee more Last Line: But loved him just the same. %lullee, lullee, lullay Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion LULLABY, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a te deum of... Who are you to think Last Line: The truth is, now in death we hold hands Subject(s): Religion LULLABY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a summer evening Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology LULLABY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a summer evening Last Line: While the goat calls hush-a-bye Subject(s): God; Religion LULLABY FOR TWINS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep now little son, little daughter Last Line: The laughter Subject(s): Religion LUPE SINGING IN THE KITCHEN, by JOSE KOZER Poem Source Last Line: There she is again, dipping bread in the essential wine of my %grandparents Subject(s): Religion LURID LIVES: RASPUTIN (TO HIS BAND OF COURT LADIES & OTHER SATELLITES), by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Build an altar in my chamber Last Line: With a holy pleasure. Subject(s): God; Rasputin, Grigory (1872-1916); Religion; Russia; Theology; Soviet Union; Russians LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology MABEL WOO, by BELLE RANDALL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MACBETH, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Murder; Religion; Supernatural MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: With farmers and their brides sowing %and reaping. When they died %they became two spirits of the wo Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion MADAME ARRIVES IN THE MAIL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madame, I have a confusion Last Line: With the awful black words pushing me around Subject(s): God; Religion MADANA, by DORA GREENWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Summer! Summer! Soft around Last Line: Therefore all the haunted air %trembles -- madana is there! Alternate Author Name(s): Dorothy, Greenwell Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MADNESS, by HARRY LEE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MADONNA NATURA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love and worship thee in that thy ways Last Line: And guide me onward to thy promised land! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology MADONNA OF THE KIMONO, by ETHEL POCHOCKI Poem Source First Line: The holy card Last Line: This gentle foreigner, %this madonna of the kimono Subject(s): Japan; Kimonos; Religion MADRIGAL, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: It is always the same poem Last Line: Missing thereby the still essential harmony and dissonance %which was his answer when I began to spe Subject(s): Religion MAGIC WORDS (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: Nobody could explain this: / that's the way it was Subject(s): Cosmology;creation;eskimos;mythology - Native American;native Americans;religion; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America;theology MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 11, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Third defendant speaks %I have always acted for the best Last Line: The crust crumbles, the veins run vinegar Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Religion MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 21, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Third enemy speaks %god is a proposition Last Line: The clinic trinity Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Religion MAHABHARATA: BOOK 17. THE GREAT JOURNEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to narayen, lord of lords, be glory given" Last Line: "where they have gone, there will I surely go" Subject(s): Death;heaven;hinduism;india;religion; "dead, The;paradise;theology; MAHABHARATA: BOOK 18. THE ENTRY INTO HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to narayen, lord of lords, be glory given" Last Line: "waiting to greet him, gladdening and glad" Subject(s): Heaven;hinduism;india;religion; Paradise;theology MAHABHARATA: NIGHT OF SLAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to narayen, best of lords, be glory given" Last Line: Kripa and kritavarman Subject(s): Hinduism;india;religion; Theology MAHABHARATA: THE MORNING PRAYER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our lord the prophet (peace to him!) doth write Last Line: Read fatihah forth beneath the mehrab-board Subject(s): Hinduism;india;prayer;religion; Theology MAHOMET, by VOLTAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thinkest thou thy friend will ever bend the knee Last Line: And to be worshipped never must be known. Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Religion; Mahomet; Mohammed; Theology MAID HATH BORNE THE KING OF KINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Regem regum a mayde hath borne Subject(s): Religion MAIDEN WITHOUT HANDS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it possible %he marries a cripple Last Line: A kind of purple heart, %a talisman, %a yellow star Subject(s): God; Religion MAINE LAKE AT NIGHT, by HARRY MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Crossing this lake at night in a shell canoe Subject(s): Religion MAKATOOB, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When to the last assault our bugles blow Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings MAKE FRIENDS, by ALI IBN ABU TALIB Poem Text First Line: He who has a thousand friends Last Line: Shall meet him everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Ali Ben Abu Taleb; Ali Ibn Abi; Ali Variant Title(s): Friends And Enemies Subject(s): Friendship; Religion; Theology MAKE ME LOATHE EARTHLY LIKINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good god, make me for thy love and thy desyre Subject(s): Religion MAKE ROOM FOR LIFE, by ?+(2) TAYLOR Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MAKE THEM FORGET, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the prince of darkness, with his staff Subject(s): Religion MAKE YE MERRY FOR HIM THAT IS COME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Saluator mundi, domine Subject(s): Religion MAKING A LIVING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonah made his living Last Line: My death the same Subject(s): God; Religion MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May every soul that touches yours Last Line: And heaven a surer heritage. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Religion; Theology MAMA'S CROSS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Mama was nailed to the cross Last Line: On every moment we put in our mouths Subject(s): Mothers; Religion MAMMON, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell Subject(s): Religion MAN, by MARVIN STEVENS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MAN AND GOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whoso draws near to god one step through doubtings dim Last Line: God will advance a mile in blazing light to him Subject(s): Religion; Theology MAN AND WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are not lovers Last Line: If they could only fly the distance her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion MAN FRAIL AND GOD ETERNAL, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our god, our help in ages past Last Line: And our eternal home. Variant Title(s): Hymn;our Dwelling Place;psalm 90: 1-5 Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Vanity; Belief; Creed; Theology MAN OF SCIENCE SPEAKS, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throw your little dreams away Subject(s): Religion MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chill november's surly blast Last Line: "that weary-laden mourn!" Subject(s): Mankind; Mourning; Religion; Human Race; Bereavement; Theology MAN WEARING BIRD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could be stone Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MAN WEARING BIRD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could be stone Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAN WHO COULDN'T BELIEVE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was the sort who entertained Last Line: And alone. He didn't have a prayer Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAN WHO WISHES TO FEED ON MAHOGANY, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Not the man who wishes to feed on mahogany Last Line: And one loved something here; and here; and here Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAN WITH THE HOE, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking about air conditioning's willis carrier Last Line: Whom I understand, but not before they speak Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAN-MAKING, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are all blind, until we see Last Line: The builder also grows. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MAN-TEST, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the dim beginning of the years Last Line: "with all in life to win or all to lose." Variant Title(s): The Testing Subject(s): Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology MANDAN PRIEST, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON Poem Source First Line: They call me now the indian priest Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion MANHATTAN, by PAUL MARIANI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years, and the six-inch scar still there Subject(s): New York City; Religion; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Theology MANHATTAN, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years, and the six-inch scar still there Last Line: I come up with for questions 2 & 3 & 4 Subject(s): New York City; Religion MANTREYA UPANISHAD, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am I, but also the other Last Line: I am he! Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MANUFACTURED GODS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They put up big wooden gods Subject(s): Religion; Theology MANUFACTURED GODS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They put up big wooden gods Subject(s): Religion MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And nature, the old nurse, took Last Line: And read what is still unread %in the manuscripts of god Subject(s): Religion MANY MANSIONS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her silver lamp half-filled with oil Last Line: I wake, I shall be satisfied. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MARBLE FLOOR, by KAROL WOJTYLA Poem Source First Line: Our feet meet the earth in this place Subject(s): Religion MARCH 4TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The high ones, berryman said, die, die, die Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MARCH 4TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The high ones, berryman said, die, die, die Last Line: And the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust Subject(s): God; Religion MARCH 7TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is favorable for creative work Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MARCH 7TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is favorable for creative work Last Line: A fat asthmatic asia, a mother-in-law Subject(s): God; Religion MARCHING SONG, by ERNST TOLLER Poem Source First Line: We, wandering to death Subject(s): Religion MARGERY DAW (A CORNISH SAINT), by RUTH MANNING-SANDERS Poem Source First Line: See-saw, margery daw %this is the tale of saint margery daw Subject(s): Religion MARGIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the city of caricature and mocking distortion Last Line: Mortal and venial sin Subject(s): Cities; Homeless; Religion MARINA, by JR. OSBORNE BENNETT HARDISON Poem Source First Line: I think of the sea changing and changing Subject(s): Religion MARKSMANSHIP, by RON HOUCHIN Poem Source First Line: On the way to the 7-11 Last Line: To be with buddha. Whatever %they hit is the bull's eye Subject(s): Religion MARLBOROUGH, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched where the open upland billows down Subject(s): Religion MARRIAGE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going my way of old Last Line: Night after night. Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology MARTHA, by DANA LITTLEPAGE SMITH Poem Source First Line: They think I give a fig Last Line: I'd rather sweat & eat pig's feet Subject(s): Family Life; Religion MARTYR, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Set to flame, his eyes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MARTYR'S HYMN, by FRANCIS HOWARD ROSE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MARTYRDOM OF ST. THOMAS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Herkenud lordyngus, grete & smale Subject(s): Religion MARY, by ROSE TRUMBULL Poem Source First Line: Mary, when that little child Subject(s): Religion MARY AND GABRIEL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young mary, loitering once her garden way Last Line: The air was colder, and grey. She stood alone. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MARY KROGER, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I had such fury I would choose Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MARY MAGDALENE, by KASSIA Poem Source First Line: Lord, this woman who fell into many sins Last Line: Do not overlook me, your slave, %in your measureless mercy Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion MARY MAGDALENE'S LEFT FOOT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the picture in newsweek or time Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MARY MAGDALENE'S LEFT FOOT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the picture in newsweek or time Last Line: Will ever know of where we place our lips Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MARY'S SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunday lamb cracks in its fat Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MARY'S SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunday lamb cracks in its fat Last Line: O golden child the world will kill and eat Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Religion MARY'S SONG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of egypt %with its pearls and honey Last Line: And each will wave good-bye Subject(s): God; Religion MARY, BE OUR SUCCOUR AND HELP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Marye, goddis modir dere Subject(s): Religion MARY, BRIGHT STAR OF HEAVEN AND HOLY CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O sterne so brycht, that gyfys lycht Subject(s): Religion MARY, PRAY THY SON FOR US, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alle se mouwen of ioye synge Subject(s): Religion MARY, REMEMBER ME AT MY LAST DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blessed mary, mother virginal Last Line: Succour it from mine enemies' rage Variant Title(s): Blessed Mar Subject(s): Religion MARY, TAKE IN YOUR HAND THIS DREAD VOYAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mercyful quene, as ye best kan and may Subject(s): Religion MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would invoke that man Last Line: The ass will learn to sing Subject(s): Religion; Theology MATINS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers rejoice when night is done Last Line: As a flower adores the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Theology MATTHEW 11: 28-30, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Come unto me Subject(s): Religion MATTHEW VIII, 28 FF, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbi, we gadarenes Last Line: We had rather you shoved off Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MATTHEW VIII, 28 FF, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbi, we gadarenes Last Line: We had rather you shoved off Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MATTHEW, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Religion MAY 20: VERY EARLY MORNING, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: All the field praises him %all Last Line: Now %make of our hearts a field %to raise your praise Subject(s): Religion MAY 21-26, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: The muffled silence. A procession Last Line: We had many short friends and were happy Subject(s): Religion MAY 30TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't look now, god, we're all right Last Line: Don’t send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone Subject(s): God; Religion; Death; Theology MAY 30TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't look now, god, we're all right Last Line: Don't send io his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone Subject(s): God; Religion MAYA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Again and again we make our world Last Line: In the descending light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MEASURE IS BEAST OF ALL THINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a semely someres tyde Subject(s): Religion MEASURING LIFE, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measure thy life by loss instead of gain Last Line: And whoso suffers most hath most to give. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Variant Title(s): Love's Strength Subject(s): Defeat; Religion; Sacrifices; Theology MECCA, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Stories within stories Last Line: To the litany of the years Subject(s): Religion MEDIATION IN MIDWINTER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Each day I become less %of a presence Last Line: Playing silent scales at dusk Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MEDICINES TO CURE THE DEADLY SINS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I walkyd uppone a day Subject(s): Religion MEDITATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring the winter doth succeed Last Line: And at the most a simple mite. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Worship; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness MEDITATION, by DONALD COX Poem Source First Line: Here is a quiet room! Subject(s): Religion MEDITATION, by ANTOINETTE GOETSCHIUS Poem Source First Line: When I am sore beset I seek some quiet place Subject(s): Religion MEDITATION, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Holding a beggar's child Last Line: So god loves me Subject(s): Religion MEDITATION IN THE SPRING RAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the april rain I climbed up to drink Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MEDITATION IN THE SPRING RAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the april rain I climbed up to drink Last Line: For a time I was lost and free, speechless %in the multitudinous assembling of his word Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MEDITATION ON JESUS CHRIST, by JOHANNA RACHEL BRANIGAN Poem Source First Line: He enters my mind and laughs. We talk thought-talk Subject(s): Religion MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: FRIDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With hearts deep rooted in love's holy ground Last Line: To god's good pleasure, with a christ-like mind. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: SATURDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus is crucified - the previous scene Last Line: Salvation is the life of christ in us. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Salvation; Supernatural; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: THURSDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead as men are, in trespasses and sins Last Line: The gate of life, and paradise regain'd. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: TUESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour died, according to our faith Last Line: Pain is its cure, and it exists no more. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; Healing; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Belief; Creed; Cures; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: WEDNESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justice demandeth satisfaction' - yes Last Line: Itself restor'd,—not any thing in lieu. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Justice; Religion; Theology MEDITATIONS OF A HINDU [OR, HINDOO] PRINCE [AND SKEPTIC], by ALFRED COMYNS LYALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the world over, I wonder, in lands that I never had trod Last Line: Who weep. Variant Title(s): A Hindoo's Search For Truth Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: ADAM AND EVE, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Of all the trees that in the garden grew Last Line: And both must dye and turned be to dust. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Eden; Religion; Snakes; Theology; Serpents; Vipers MEDITATIONS ON THE FALL AND WINTER HOLIDAYS: 2. DAY OF ATONEMENT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great giver has ended his disposing Last Line: "not by might not by power Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MEDITATIONS ON THE FALL AND WINTER HOLIDAYS: 2. DAY OF ATONEMENT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great giver has ended his disposing Last Line: A spark in your seeing Subject(s): Bible; Religion MEETING, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It took me some seconds as I drove toward Last Line: A beauty lying helpless? Subject(s): Religion MEMORIAL DAY, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: From out our crowded calendar Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): Religion MEN TOLD ME, LORD, by DAVID STARR JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men told me, lord, it was a vale of tears Last Line: I could no more through all eternity! Subject(s): Religion; Theology MEN WHO DENIED THE GODDESS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: How she arrived Last Line: As they turned %against the shining air Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MEN WHO TURN FROM GOD, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O weariness of men who turn from god Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Religion MENNONITE HILLS IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA, by LEONARD KRESS Poem Source First Line: The fat sheep drift across the ridge Last Line: Open up in front of you, %as close in right behind Subject(s): Amish; Religion MENSTRUATION AT FORTY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was thinking of a son Subject(s): God; Menstruation; Middle Age; Religion; Theology MENSTRUATION AT FORTY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was thinking of a son Last Line: I would have possessed you before all women, %calling your name, %calling you mine Subject(s): God; Menstruation; Middle Age; Religion MERCY, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small flames afloat in a blue duskfall, beneath trees Last Line: Death after death, around the far, awakening bend Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology MERCY, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small flames afloat in a blue duskfall, beneath trees Last Line: Death after death, around the far, awakening bend Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality MEROPE'S PRAYER TO ISIS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: My call is to isis, %she of the shining spirit Last Line: Unwind the dance %in its slow spiral Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MESSAGE FROM INLAND, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: I am clothed %in the seamless Last Line: I have lashed %a riding %light %to my heart Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MESSIAH; A SACRED ECLOGUE IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S POLLIO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye nymphs of solyma! Begin the song Last Line: Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own messiah reigns! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology META-A AND THE A OF ABSOLUTES, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write my god in blue. Subject(s): Religion; Theology METHODIST DANCER, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: They said the dance was all the devil's own Last Line: In beauty's clean, white flame. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Methodism; Religion; Theology MICAH 4: 1-14. NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: But in the last days it shall come to pass Last Line: For the mouth of the lord of hosts hath spoken it Variant Title(s): The Last Day Subject(s): Religion; Time; War MICAH: WHAT DOTH THE LORD REQUIRE?, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wherewith shall I come before the lord Last Line: And to walk humbly with god? Subject(s): Religion MIDDLE-TIME, by LONA M. FOWLER Poem Source First Line: Between the exhilaration of beginning Last Line: Experimenters, enablers, encouragers, %and associates in accomplishment Subject(s): Religion MIDNIGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God help the homeless ones who lack this night Last Line: God of our fathers, we thy children lie Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion MIDNIGHT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to my eyes / whilst deep sleep others catches) Last Line: Which thy spirit blows! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MIDNIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the still Subject(s): Religion MIDNIGHT GLADNESS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pleated lampshade, slightly askew Last Line: At my lips before darkness. Gift after gift Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MIDNIGHT GLADNESS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pleated lampshade, slightly askew Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MIDRASHIM: PROVERBS 6:6, by DAVID CURZON Poem Source First Line: Go to the ant, you sluggard Last Line: Consider her ways - and be content Subject(s): Bible; Religion MIDWAY, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: January Last Line: As darkness deepens, they look like trees Subject(s): Religion MIDWIVES, by CELIA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Low huts, groans muffled Last Line: Every one redeemer Subject(s): Bible; Religion MILTON'S PRAYER [OF PATIENCE, OR, IN BLINDNESS], by ELIZABETH LLOYD HOWELL Poem Text First Line: I am old and blind! Last Line: Lit by no skill of mine. Variant Title(s): Old And Blind Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Theology MIND GOES WHERE WORDS CAN, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Take us Last Line: It has passed beyond what it knows Subject(s): Religion MIND OF ABSOLUTE TRUST, by SENG-TS'AN Poem Source First Line: The great way isn't difficult Subject(s): Buddhism; Love - Marital; Religion MIND, WHY DO YOU FRET SO MUCH, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Though he's the son of the sun? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MIND, YOU GAMBLED, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: In my back row Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MIND, YOU JUST STAY AWAKE CRYING, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Who are out to steal your goods Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MIND-READER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some things are truly lost. Think of a sun-hat Last Line: One more, perhaps - %a mezzo-litro. Grazie, professore Subject(s): Religion MINDING THE DARKNESS: IV. I, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Eclogue on the federal reserve board Last Line: Most of us without thinking %carry round in our billfolds Subject(s): Government; Money; Religion MIRACLE DREAMS, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Source First Line: That night when in judean skies Subject(s): Religion MIRACLES, by ROY ADDISON HELTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On these electric branches Subject(s): Religion MIRACLES, by JULIA RANDALL Poem Source First Line: I said to the stream, be still, and it was still Last Line: I said, accept my tears Subject(s): Religion MIRROR FOR YOUNG LADIES AT THEIR TOILET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Maist thou now be glade, with all thi fresshe aray Subject(s): Religion MIRROR OF MORTALITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O deth, hough better ys the mynde of the Subject(s): Religion MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS: PROLOGUE, by MARGUERITE PORETE Poem Source First Line: Theologians and other clerks Last Line: And then you'll understand this book, %which by love makes the soul live Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion MISCARRIAGE, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You had almost no time, you were something Last Line: Wept in his mother's belly Subject(s): Religion MISERY CORD (IN MEMORY OF F.S. MURRAY), by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Misericord. The misery cord Last Line: Christ grand us the other half Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MISSING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that didst leave the ninety and the nine Last Line: Fold close my little one! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology MITE, by JR. BOYNTON MERRILL Poem Source First Line: I am the least Subject(s): Mites; Religion MIZPAH, by JULIA A. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Go thou thy way, and I go mine Last Line: And we are near. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MOB CONTRA MOB, OR, THE RABBLERS RABBLED, SELS., by WILLIAM MESTON Poem Source First Line: Now of all wars the ecclesiastick Last Line: Backward in haste unto their lodging Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Great Britain - Religion MOMENT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: And not once, %but many times over Last Line: Each point admitting an untrammeled flood Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MON PERE, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After his death, her blood was glass Last Line: Why lose the rest of spring, mon pere? Subject(s): Religion MONASTERY AT VRSAC, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've walked the grounds Last Line: Mercy upon us %we who have learned how to preach but not to pray Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Monasteries; Religion MONASTERY ORCHARD IN EARLY SPRING, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God's cows are in the fields Last Line: And blossom, and bear each fruit to glory %letting it fall Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 13, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could trust mine own self with your fate Last Line: Whose love your love's capacity can fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Trust Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Women - Heroes; Theology MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness MONTH BEFORE THE WEDDING, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I found a lump Last Line: Did not have to turn away from our future Subject(s): Religion MOON, by MARGARET D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: It is colder here than on the moon. At least Last Line: At least the winter moon goes with me Subject(s): Religion MOON AND CLOUDS ARE THE SAME, by WU-MEN HUI-K'AI Poem Source Subject(s): Blessings; Religion MOON GODDESS INANNA AND AN, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Like a dragon you fill the land with venom Last Line: Who can understand you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion MOOSE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: American archangel you are going Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MOOSE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: American archangel you are going Last Line: And keep your proud body past your mystery and mine Subject(s): God; Religion MORALITY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot kindle when we will Last Line: And lay upon the breast of god.' Subject(s): Religion; Theology MORE LIGHT SHALL BREAK FROM OUT THY WORD, by ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MORE SONGS FROM LALLA: 1. THE PRANKSTER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Let the breath come in, %and if a god, too Last Line: She is yourself, returning Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MORE SONGS FROM LALLA: 2. THE FOLLOWER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Shiva is the god who dances Last Line: Child clamoring in the street, %the cries of birds, even Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MORE THAN THE TAO, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: When some put on roles Last Line: At a certain hour, %nothing is happening Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MORE TRUTH AND LIGHT (TO THE PILGRIMS), by JOHN+(1) ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: I am confident %the lord hath more truth Last Line: Yet to break forth %out of his word Subject(s): Religion MORNING, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why does she pick only the smallest wild flowers? Last Line: While she chooses to sleep or wake Subject(s): Religion MORNING AT BRODICK, by WILLIAM THOMSON MCAUSLANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair brodick castle by the sea Last Line: Pardon is found and rest is sweet. Subject(s): Castles; Morning; Religion; Theology MORNING HYMN, by GREGORY I Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, fainter now lie spread the shades of night Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Gregory The Great Subject(s): Religion MORNING HYMN, by THOMAS KEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my soul, and with the sun Last Line: In thy sole glory may unite. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MORNING HYMN, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now the golden morning shines Last Line: Hope and love are never-failing! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology MORNING PRAYER, by RATE Poem Source First Line: Ihu, lord, blyssed thou be Subject(s): Religion MORNING SERVICE, by DAVID LARZELERE Poem Source First Line: You would never guess to look at him Last Line: In this, the holy communion of loss Subject(s): Religion MORNING SHIFT IN BANARAS, by STEPHEN AJAY Poem Source First Line: They say this is the fast track for hindus; here the river is more full of Last Line: Tomorrow Subject(s): Death; Hinduism; Rebirth; Religion MORNING'S NEWS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To moralize the state, they drag out a man Last Line: And the summer's garden continues its descent %through me, toward the ground Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MORNING: A POLISHED KNIFEBLADE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Religion MOSES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe in the god of the hebrews Subject(s): Moses; Religion; Theology MOSES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe in the god of the hebrews Last Line: Streetlights with each whack Subject(s): Moses; Religion MOSES AND JESUS, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought on two jews meeting I did chance Last Line: With bitter tears of agonized despair. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology MOSS OF HIS SKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was only important Last Line: How I hold my daddy %like an old stone tree Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; God; Religion MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE STARS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You bring the child back to her mother Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Venus (planet); Women And Religion MOSTLY MY NIGHTMARES ARE DULL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly my nightmares are dull. On autumn nights Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MOSTLY MY NIGHTMARES ARE DULL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly my nightmares are dull. On autumn nights Last Line: As if I'll only -- fat chance -- live it once Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Linda, you are leaving Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Linda, you are leaving Last Line: Fruit and pass the time of day Subject(s): God; Religion MOTHER AND JACK AND THE RAIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a room of my own Last Line: Up my daily bread, to endure, %somehow to endure Subject(s): God; Religion MOTHER NATURE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, the gentlest mother / impatient of no child Last Line: Wills silence everywhere. Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology MOTHER OF GOD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Last Line: Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones %and bids my hair stand up? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion MOTHER'S PRAYER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: Father in heaven, make me wise Variant Title(s): A Mother Speak Subject(s): Religion MOTHER'S REWARD, by ONA FREEMAN LATHROP Poem Source First Line: I do not ask that you repay Subject(s): Religion MOTHER, HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Let me see you once and for all Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MOTHER, INCOMPARABLY ARRAYED, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: An impossible beauty? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MOTHER, TELL ME WHERE I SHOULD STAND, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: With a beggar's bowl and a cast-off rug Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MOTHER, THIS BEAT-UP SHACK, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: A prisoner in his own house Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MOTHERHOOD: 1, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The angels sang above the bed Last Line: There mary wept most bitterly. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Theology MOTHERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother / here in your lap Subject(s): Family Life; God; Religion; Relatives; Theology MOTHERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother %here in your lap Last Line: When someone else %is as empty as a shoe Subject(s): Family Life; God; Religion MOTIVES, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Motives are seeds Last Line: He'll judge you justly ere the record close. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology MOUNT AGIOCHOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray searcher of the upper air Last Line: Dwell the strange gods of heathendom! Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion; White Mountains, New Hampshire MOURNERS AT THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There stood besyde the crosse of ihu Subject(s): Religion MOVABLE FEASTS, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: It is not the form. It is the motion in the form. The want of an object Last Line: Way generations of footsteps on the dusty path faintly echo the name. Athos Subject(s): Religion MR MACANDREW WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I have put aside all thoughts of helping these people Last Line: Servant, reverend george macandrew of dumblane Subject(s): Child Molesting; Clergy; Irish Language; Prayer; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland) MR. ELIOT'S SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Polyphiloprogenitive / the sapient sutlers of the lord Last Line: Are controversial, polymath. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MR. MINE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Notice how he has numbered the blue veins Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MR. MINE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Notice how he has numbered the blue veins Last Line: Yet in my heart I am go children slow gone Subject(s): God; Religion MULE, by JR. BOYNTON MERRILL Poem Source First Line: Row after row Subject(s): Asses And Mules; Religion MULTIPLE STARS, by HENRY MEADE BLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When twilight comes and with it my fair star Subject(s): Religion MURMUR, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: What is this familiar pulse beginning Last Line: The limits become what we cannot bear Subject(s): Religion MURMURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou make bright music Last Line: That bids the world rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Peace; Religion; Wind; World; Theology MUSE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No angel speaks to me Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology MUSE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No angel speaks to me Last Line: Of space, angels could be hiding Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality MUSE IN LATE NOVEMBER, by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I greet you, son, with joy and winter rue Last Line: The dream that battles me, may you fulfill. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MUSIC, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go where'er I will, / I hear a sky-born music still Last Line: There alway, alway something sings. Variant Title(s): Something Sings;there Alway, Alway Something Sings;the Sky-born Music Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Religion; Theology MUSIC, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How many of us ever stop to think Subject(s): Religion MUSIC, by W. C. A. WALLAR Poem Text First Line: The instruments remind us. Then the heart Last Line: Shall rise, and find the stars, and sin no more. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Religion; Theology MUSIC SWIMS BACK TO ME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wait mister. Which way is home? Last Line: The night I came I danced a circle %and was not afraid. %mister Subject(s): God; Music And Musicians; Religion MUST CHRIST STILL WANDER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Must christ still wander on unknown Last Line: Despised -- outcast? Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY AIN COUNTRIE, by MARY LEE DEMAREST Poem Text First Line: I'm far frae my hame, an' I'm weary aftenwhiles Last Line: That we a' may gang in gladness to our ain countree. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology MY ALTAR, by JR. JOHN H. STYLES Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MY BAPTISMAL BIRTH-DAY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's child in christ adopted, - christ my all Last Line: Yes! But not his -- 'tis death itself there dies. Subject(s): Birthdays; Religion; Theology MY BIRTH, by MINOT JUDSON SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: I had my birth where stars were born Last Line: Ragnarok, twilight of the gods. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY BOOKS AND I, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My books and I are good old pals Last Line: I'm stronger than before. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Books; Religion; Reading; Theology MY BROTHER'S ANGELS, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I carved my brother an angel Last Line: Before we rise into the light, whole and clean %and finally free Subject(s): Religion MY CHARGE, by LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MY CHURCH, by E. O. G. Poem Text First Line: My church has but one temple Last Line: The love of the illimitable god. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY CREED, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To live as gently as I can Last Line: This, I believe, is all I need %for my philosophy and creed Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Religion MY CREED, by HOWARD ARNOLD WALTER Poem Text First Line: I would be true, for there are those who trust me Last Line: I would look up, and love, and laugh and lift. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY DAILY AFFAIRS ARE QUITE ORDINARY, by P'ANG YUN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MY DAILY CREED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let me be a little kinder, let me be a little blinder Last Line: Let me think more of my neighbor %and a little less of me Subject(s): Religion MY EVENING PRAYER, by CHARLES H. GABRIEL Poem Text First Line: If I have wounded any soul to-day Last Line: Help me to live. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY FAITH, by ANANDA ACHARYA Poem Source First Line: All this is one Subject(s): Religion MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man of song and man of science Variant Title(s): The Pries Subject(s): Religion MY FOE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gurr! You cochon! Stand and fight! Last Line: Blood-guilty in sight of god. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Murder; Religion; War; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Theology; First World War MY FRIEND, MY FRIEND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who will forgive me for the things I do? Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MY FRIEND, MY FRIEND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who will forgive me for the things I do? Last Line: With no special legend or god to refer to, %I think it would be better to be a jew Subject(s): God; Religion MY GALILEES, by BELLE CHAPMAN MORRILL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MY GARDEN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A garden is a lovesome thing, god wot! Last Line: Tis very sure god walks in mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology MY GOD, by SUSAN ROLSTON Poem Source First Line: Protestants pray for grace Last Line: Cause my god's better than yours Subject(s): God; Protestantism; Religion MY GRANDMOTHER HATED THE NEIGHBORS, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Every saturday morning, in 3-inch heels Last Line: Down to their knees and her %- an american - with them Subject(s): Family Life; Religion MY GUEST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Within my holy place Last Line: To look upon thy face. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY GUIDE, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion MY HEART WAS SPLIT, FR. THE ODES OF SOLOMON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MY KEEPER SO SWEET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail! Holy spirit, & joy be unto thee Subject(s): Religion MY KINGDOM, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not ask for any crown Subject(s): Religion 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 LIFE'S LORD, GIRI, MY HUSBAND, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: At dawn-starved for moonbeams Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MY LIGHT! MY WAY!, by NICOLAUS LUDWIG VON ZINZENDORF Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MY LORD HIDES HIMSELF, by KABIR Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MY MASTER, by HARRY LEE Poem Source First Line: My master was so very poor Last Line: So very rich my master was, %he gave his all and knew no loss Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion MY MASTER'S FACE, by WILLIAM HURD HILLYER Poem Source First Line: No pictured likeness of my lord have I Subject(s): Religion MY MIND DREAMS UP THIS IMAGE, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: And show herself to ramprasad Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion MY MORNING SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of life, thy quickening voice awakes my morning song Last Line: Therefore I stir my inmost heart to worship fervently Subject(s): Religion MY MOTHER INSISTED ON CHINESE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Ceremonies after the civil wedding Last Line: A husband who can save money Subject(s): Religion MY MOTHER LOVED THE BAMBOO, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Tree %bamboo has a thousand uses, she said Last Line: With the rain and the wind, we do not break Subject(s): Religion MY MOTHER WOULD NOT LET ME LOVE HER CAT, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Said % an over - petted, over - fed cat will catch no mice Last Line: I say, oh dear, poor bird. Good cat, good cat Subject(s): Religion MY NAME IS LEGION, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion MY NEIGHBOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor as myself to love Last Line: That thou thyself art he. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Neighbors; Religion; Theology MY OFFERING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He asked me bread, the bread whereby alone Last Line: "a serpent, see!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY OWN HEREAFTER, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where angel trumpets hail a brighter sun Subject(s): Religion MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU', by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed are the eyes that see Last Line: And find the path that, piercing it, %leads through to peace again Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For lack of knowledge do my people die! Last Line: War wastes our fields and doth the people slay! Subject(s): Bible; Religion MY PRAYER, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: May it ever be said of the one that was I Last Line: She gallantly reached for her star. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Spirituality; Theology MY PRAYER, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I pray my soul may be a vital one Last Line: And straight, as crowded pines in forests do. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology MY PURPOSE, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Source First Line: To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face Subject(s): Religion MY RECOVERY, by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Recovery, daughter of creation too Last Line: Sent thee from heaven to me! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MY RELIGION, by LEO (LEV) NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY Poem Source First Line: What is the law of nature? Is it to know Subject(s): Justice; Religion MY SAVIOR IN THE FORM OF A BUS, by BETH GYLYS Poem Source First Line: Do you believe in jesus christ our lord? Last Line: Rescuing me from questions I'd ignored Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Religion MY SERVANT (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, wheresoe'er I am, thou art Last Line: Than saint or angel unto me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY SON, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Religion MY SONS ASK WHERE GOD LIVES, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: When I was eight I asked miss reese Last Line: A dripping wound that never healed Subject(s): Religion; Religious Education MY SOUL AND I, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Soul MY TASK, by MARY LOUISE RAY Poem Source First Line: To love someone more dearly every day Subject(s): Religion MY TASK, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Religion MY TREASURE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Treasure I sought Last Line: He gave me more than all I had sought. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY UNINVITED GUEST, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: One day there entered at my chamber door Last Line: To every door, o pain, thou hast a key! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Religion; Theology MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trusty, dusky, vivid, true Last Line: Gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): To My Wife Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology MY WORK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord, let me not die until I've done for thee Subject(s): Religion MY WORLD, by CHAUNCEY ROSCOE PIETY Poem Text First Line: God gave my world to me Last Line: And lo, my world is great! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology MYRRH-BEARERS, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three women crept at break of day Last Line: Their spices had been bruised for christ! Subject(s): Incense-trees; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MYSELF, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to live with myself, and so Last Line: Self-respecting and conscience free. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Self; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology MYSELF AM HELL, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion MYSTERIES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The murmur of a bee / a witchcraft yieldeth me Last Line: Must tell! Subject(s): Religion; Theology MYSTERIES OF THE INCARNATION: 1. SHE SAID YEAH, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The land lies open: summer fallow, hayfield, pasture Last Line: Refectory window. She said yeah. And then the angel left her Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MYSTERIES OF THE INCARNATION: 4. THE THRONE OF GRACE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First their car broke down, then darlene and kaylee drank up Last Line: Then he shook his head and went back to eating Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MYSTERIES OF THE INCARNATION: 5. TRUE LOVE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds all wounds Last Line: We are god's chosen now Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MYSTERY, by JEROME B. BELL Poem Source First Line: What is this mystery that men call death? Subject(s): Religion MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Conceyved man, how many that be by reason broght Subject(s): Religion MYSTIC BOUNCE, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even if you love the racket of ascension, Last Line: "a hillside."" that's why I'm not a christian" Subject(s): Religion; Theology MYSTIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out for a walk the other day Subject(s): Religion MYSTIC'S PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If my feeble prayer can reach thee Subject(s): Religion MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset Last Line: This is also admitted: introit turba Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; English History NAAMAN'S SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, wash thyself in jordan - go, wash thee and be clean! Last Line: And, if they cannot cure my woes, a leper will I die! Subject(s): Bible; Religion NAIL-TORN GOD, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion NAKED MAN, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a body, I believe Last Line: Everyone suffering - how %shall I choose? Subject(s): Faith; Religion NAM SEMEN EST VERBUM DEI, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Springtide of spirits, at the altar rail Subject(s): Religion NAMED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: As I marched out one day in spring Last Line: And I have answered — 'here!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): God; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology NAMING THE ANIMALS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having commanded adam to bestow Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Names; Religion; Theology NAMING THE ANIMALS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having commanded adam to bestow Last Line: And shyly ventured, 'thou shalt be called 'fred'' Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Names; Religion NAMING THE LIVING GOD, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The special theory came to me,' einstein said Last Line: The name of the living god Subject(s): Christianity; Religion NANAK AND THE SIKHS, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How shall I address thee, o god? Subject(s): Religion NATIVITY, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark, a child might ask, what is the world? Last Line: Before so strange and wild a guest %as god approaches Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality NATIVITY, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Among the oxen (like an ox I'm slow) Last Line: Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence %some wooly innocence! Subject(s): Bible; Religion NATIVITY, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angels, from the realms of glory Last Line: Come and worship, worship christ, the new-born king Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Christmas; Religion NATURE AND ART, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once loved nature so that man was nought Last Line: Who moulds the wills of men, and grasps the bars of fate Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Religion; Theology NATURE'S HYMN TO THE DIETY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All nature owns with one accord Last Line: The first link in the mighty plan %is still - and all upbraideth man Subject(s): Religion NATURE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a fond mother, when the day is o'er Last Line: How far the unknown transcends the what we know. Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology NEAR DAMASCUS, by W. S. DI PIERO Poem Source First Line: The antlered scarab rolled a dungball Last Line: Rousted, found out, blasted, saved %down in the road's pearly filth Subject(s): Bible; Damascus, Syria; Religion NEAR MACHPELAH/HEBRON, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was not a dream: a poet Last Line: It is for the sea to come back again Subject(s): Religion NEAR THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion NEARING THE END OF A CENTURY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night of the comet, space without angels Last Line: The philistines gloated over blinded samson %straining, and heard the marble columns crack Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Religion NEBUCHADNEZZAR, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology NEBUCHADNEZZAR, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain Last Line: And the dandelion is gall in a thin green pipe, %but the clover is honey and sun and the smell of sl Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM; SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before he went to feed [or, live] with owls and bats Last Line: "by belching out ""ye are that head of gold." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S KINGDOM-COME, by DAVID ROWBOTHAM Poem Source First Line: Daniel in the lion's den Last Line: Confounding deities, not men Subject(s): Bible; Religion NECESSITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: We'd best be ecumenical Last Line: The cross is too big for the hill Subject(s): Religion NEED OF LOVING, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Folk need a lot of loving in the morning Last Line: Folks need a lot of loving all the while. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology NEGERO SPIRITUAL: GO TELL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: When I was a learner Last Line: Our jesus christ is born Subject(s): Religion NEITHER TOO HUMBLE NOR TOO PROUD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If y halde the lowe a-syse Subject(s): Religion NEO-HOODOO MANIFESTO, SELS., by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neo-hoodoo is a 'lost american church' updated Last Line: You can't keep a good church down Subject(s): African Americans; Religion NEVERMORE ALONE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion NEW CHALLENGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion NEW CHURCH, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: When grass beckons %and soil and water shout Last Line: Am I dreaming? Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Prisons And Prisoners; Religion NEW DREAMS FOR OLD, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: God, who through ages past Last Line: Give us new dreams for old! Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Religion; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Theology NEW ENGLAND CHURCH, by WILTON AGNEW BARRETT Poem Source First Line: The white church on the hill Subject(s): Religion NEW ENGLAND GOTHIC, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because a thin-lipped ancestor Subject(s): Churches; Religion NEW ENGLAND STEEPLE, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tall on the village hill the church stood lonely Subject(s): Churches; Religion NEW HEART, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alas, my heart is black Subject(s): Religion NEW JERUSALEM (DIFFERENT VERSION), by F. B. P. Poem Source First Line: O mother dear, jerusalem Subject(s): Religion NEW JERUSALEM (SHORTER VERSION), by F. B. P. Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem, my happy home Subject(s): Jerusalem; Religion NEW MOON, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full of the city and accounting, I stepped out of my car Last Line: It is not revelation but the mystery itself I praise Subject(s): Religion NEW SONG, by RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know not the song of thy praises Subject(s): Religion NEW WORDS, SELS., by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: So it is Subject(s): Religion NEW WORLD BISTRES, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkest is near dawn, we are almost butter Last Line: Armoured resentience their lead fathom line Subject(s): Bourne, Francis Alphonsus (1861-1935); Religion NEW WORLD: SAMUEL SEWALL, by GEOFF SCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: God is teaching me a new lesson Last Line: ... To be sought by prayer ... Subject(s): Religion; Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730) NEW YEAR, by JOHN J. MOMENT Poem Source First Line: How burn the stars unchanging in the midnight skies Subject(s): Religion NEW YEAR, by THOMAS WEARING Poem Source First Line: Upon the threshold of another year Subject(s): Religion NEW YEAR SONG OF THE NATIVITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A new year, a new year a chyld was I-born Subject(s): Religion NEW YEAR'S DAY - AND EVERY DAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Each man is captain of his soul Last Line: And he will bring us through. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology NEW YEAR'S EVE IN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flying in %before snow closed the airport Last Line: He says, loosening his loincloth, %'than the beginning thereof' Subject(s): Christianity; Religion NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER, SELS., by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O sprawling city! Worlds in a world! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion NEW YORK SONG, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child, before I knew the word Last Line: Of the unjustly dead Variant Title(s): The Seagul Subject(s): Religion NEWS, by UNKNOWN+180 Poem Source First Line: Companion fear is at my side Last Line: For we are bound in common dread %of what we do not know Subject(s): Religion NICKY, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She danced into the moonless winter Last Line: Without a master Subject(s): Religion 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 NIGHT PRAYER OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN, by EDOUARD RODITI Poem Source First Line: Lord, thou who art like the sea Subject(s): Religion NIGHT THOUGHTS, SELS., by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Courage; Death; Friendship; Religion NIGHT, SELS., by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Machinery is enough for a scientist, %and beauty enough for a poet Last Line: Blessed be his works, and his angels, and his sons %crowned with his glory Subject(s): Religion NIGHTFALL, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Fold up the tent! / the sun is in the west Last Line: And rest is best! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology NINE ELEGIES FOR AMY MCCLELLAND: 8., by HUGH STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: There is an angel who does nothing but wait for you Last Line: There is a god somewhere in all of this, he is hard to see sometimes Subject(s): Death; God; Religion NINETEEN TWENTY-SIX, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we keep it Last Line: Holding there a crucifix. Subject(s): Religion; Theology NINTH OF AV, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: These are the days whose fingers Subject(s): Religion NO COACHING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the theatre Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Religion NO COMING TO GOD WITHOUT CHRIST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good and great god! How sho'd I feare Last Line: Wo'd see thy face, and he not by. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology NO ENEMIES, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion NO FUNERAL GLOOM, by ELLEN TERRY Poem Text Last Line: And so to where I wait come gently on. Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology NO NATION LIVETH UNTO ITSELF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion NO SECT [OR SECTS] IN HEAVEN, by ELIZABETH H. JOCELYN CLEAVELAND Poem Text First Line: Talking of sects quite late one eve Last Line: "for all had put on ""christ's righteousness." Alternate Author Name(s): Cleveland, Elizabeth H. Jocely Subject(s): Religion; Sects; Theology NO SEX FOR PRIESTS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse in harness suffers Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Theology NO STAR IS EVER LOST WE ONCE HAVE SEEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Religion NOAH, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: You have begun to wonder, a glass world Last Line: Can feel like a straitjacket Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality NOAH'S ARK, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It was one of my oldest toys, the ark my father made Last Line: Like birds eager to lift Subject(s): Floods; Noah (bible); Religion; Rivers NOAH'S RAVEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I have returned? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology NOAH'S RAVEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I have returned? Last Line: Hoarse with fulfillment, I never made promises Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bible; Religion NOBLER ORDER, SELS., by STANTON COIT Poem Source First Line: A nobler order yet shall be than any other that the world hath known Subject(s): Religion NOBODY CAN SAY DADDY WASN'T SAVED, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: We were presbyterian Last Line: For nothing more than trying Subject(s): Fathers; Religion NOCTURNE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night of mid-june, in heavy vapours dying Last Line: Except its cross of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Crosses; Nature; Religion; Vision; Theology NOCTURNE AT BETHESDA, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I saw an angel flying low Subject(s): African Americans; Bible; Religion; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology NOCTURNE AT BETHESDA, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I saw an angel flying low Last Line: You are sad. It is the same with me Subject(s): African Americans; Bible; Religion NODES, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Source First Line: The endless, foolish merriment of stars Subject(s): Religion NOEL, by LEONARD FEENEY Poem Source First Line: A stupid horse and cow, they say Subject(s): Religion NOLI ME TANGERE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see the angels have come to sit on the delay for a while Subject(s): Religion; Theology NOLI ME TANGERE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see the angels have come to sit on the delay for a while Last Line: Until you have to leave her be if all you have to touch her with is form Subject(s): Religion NOMADS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Here, where we have traced Last Line: To swim through tossing sand Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life NON NOBIS DIMINE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Not unto us the praise! Subject(s): Religion NOON WALK ON THE ASYLUM LAWN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun ray Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology NOON WALK ON THE ASYLUM LAWN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun ray Last Line: There is no safe place Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion NOT 'REVELATION' - 'TIS - THAT WAITS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But our unfurnished eyes Variant Title(s): Poem: 685; Poem: 50 Subject(s): Religion NOT AS I WILL, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blindfolded and alone I stand Last Line: "not as we will." Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Religion; Theology NOT BY BREAD ALONE, by JAMES TERRY WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou of fortune be bereft Last Line: Can satisfy the soul's desire. Subject(s): Religion; Theology NOT ENDLESS LIFE, BUT ENDLESS LOVE, by WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion NOT SO IN HASTE, MY HEART, by BRADFORD TORREY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion NOT SO. NOT SO, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot walk an inch Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology NOT SO. NOT SO, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot walk an inch Last Line: You have a thousand prayers %but god has one Subject(s): God; Religion NOT THINE OWN, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thyself and thy belongings Subject(s): Religion NOT UNDERSTOOD, by THOMAS BRACKEN Poem Text First Line: Not understood. We move along asunder Last Line: And understood. Subject(s): Friendship; Religion; Theology NOTHING AT ALL, by IVOR ARMSTRONG RICHARDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Nothing at all can I guess Subject(s): Religion NOTHING BUT LEAVES, by LUCY EVELINA AKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but leaves; the spirit grieves Last Line: "nothing but leaves?" Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology NOTRE DAME DE ROUEN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, as the vesper chant Last Line: Victor and king! Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology NOW AND THEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were hours when life was bitter Last Line: And the lord can make them anywhere, %his 'desert place apatr' Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion NOW BAR THE DOOR OF YOUR MIND TO DOUBT, by EVA BYSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion NOW CRY KALI AND TAKE THE PLUNGE!, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: And you're going to come up with a fortune Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion NOW I SEE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see!' but not the parting Last Line: Now I see' that god is love. Subject(s): Bible; Faith; God; Love; Religion; Vision; Belief; Creed; Theology NOW THE LABOURER'S TASK IS O'ER, by JOHN ELLERTON Poem Text First Line: Now the laborer's task is o'er Last Line: Leave we now thy servant sleeping. Subject(s): Religion; Theology NOW, LORD, UPON THY SEA OF AIR, by MARY LOUISA ANDERSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion NUDE SWIM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the southwest side of capri Last Line: Shut down as if they were %suddenly ashamed Subject(s): God; Religion; Sports NUNC DIMITTIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Subject(s): Religion NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 2, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, my darling nuns Last Line: Who rustles dryly inside my gown? Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Convents; Nuns; Religion NUNS OF VORKUTA PRISON, by MARK ROZEMA Poem Source First Line: In vorkuta, there are nuns who lie face down Last Line: To lie face down in the shape of the cross, %weeping and praying for the world Subject(s): Nuns; Prisons And Prisoners; Religion; Siberia NURSING HOME, 3RD SHIFT, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: This one guy who had recently been brought in Last Line: Getting a little closer to where I want to be Subject(s): Christianity; Religion O / HOLY, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Religion O CHRIST, THE WAY, by GEORGE L. SQUIER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O CHRIST, THOU ART WITHIN ME LIKE A SEA, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O CHURCH OF GOD, by ROLLAND W. SCHLOERB Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O CORPOREAL, by ELIZABETH MCBRIDE Poem Source First Line: We cleared the house and built a wall inside Last Line: We hope we will not have to choose between water and silence, %water and fire ... Between water and Subject(s): Prayer; Religion O FAIR!-O PUREST!; SAINT AUGUSTINE TO HIS SISTER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fair! O purest! Be thou the dove Last Line: O fair! O purest! Be like the dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Religion; Saints; Solitude; Augustine Of Hippo; Theology; Loneliness O FATHER, THOU WHO GIVEST ALL, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion O FIRE OF GOD, THE COMFORTER, by HILDEGARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fire of god, the comforter, o life of all that live Last Line: Who givest us the prize of light, who art thyself all praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): God; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion O GIRI, I CAN'T COMFORT, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: In her small bed, fast asleep Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion O GOD OF LIGHT, by ROBERT BALGARNIE YOUNG SCOTT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O GOD OF LOVE, TO THEE WE BOW, by WILLIAM VAUGHAN JENKINS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O GOD, HEAR THOU THE NATION'S PRAYER, by IRVING MAURER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O GOD, IN RESTLESS LIVING, by HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O GOD, WHOSE LOVE IS OVER ALL, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion O GOD, WHOSE SMILE IS IN THE SKY, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion O HAPPY SOUL, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion O HEAVENLY STAR, MOST COMFORTABLE OF LIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O hevenly sterre, most comfortable of lyght Subject(s): Religion O LORD OF LIFE, THY KINGDOM IS AT HAND, by MARION FRANKLIN HAM Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O LOVE THAT TRIUMPHS OVER LOSS, by WALTER RUSSELL BOWIE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O LOVE, THAT DOST WITH GOODNESS CROWN, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion O MASTER WORKMAN OF THE RACE, by JAY THOMAS STOCKING Poem Source Last Line: That it may be our highest joy, %our father's work to do Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion O MIND, DO YOU STILL CHERISH THIS FANTASY OF YOURS?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: In clay and then offers it up prayers? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion O MIND, YOU THINK IT'S ALL IN FUN, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: And count the cost of beauty? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion O MOTHER, WHO REALLY, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: To be kind, this misery will pass Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion O PERFECT LOVE, by DOROTHY FRANCES BLOMFIELD GURNEY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O POWER, WHOSE VISION BLINDED, by ALFRED CLOAKE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O REDEEMER, PURGE ME OF MY VICES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O glorious god, redeemer of mankind Subject(s): Religion O SON OF MAN, by FRANK FLETCHER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O SWEET ANGEL, BRING ME TO BLISS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O swete angell, to me soo deere Subject(s): Religion O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is / not with us enough Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is %not with us enough Last Line: Hungry, and plucking %the fruit Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion O THOU WHOSE FEET HAVE CLIMBED LIFE'S HILL, by LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O THOU, GOD OF ALL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings O THOU, WITH HEART OF STONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thou synfull man of resoun that walkest here up & downe Subject(s): Religion O TO BE A DRAGON, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I, like solomon Subject(s): Wishes; Dragons; Bible; Dragons; Religion; Theology O TO BE A DRAGON, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I, like solomon Subject(s): Bible; Dragons; Religion; Theology O TO BE A DRAGON, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I, like solomon Last Line: A symbol of the power of heaven-of silkworm %size or immense; at times invisible. %felicitous phenom Subject(s): Bible; Dragons; Religion O TO BE UP AND DOING, O, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Spin the great wheel of earth about Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Religion O VOICE THAT CALLS TO ME, by ROBERT BALGARNIE YOUNG SCOTT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion O WORSHIP THE LORD, by JOHN SAMUEL BEWLEY MONSELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O worship the lord in the beauty of holiness Subject(s): Religion O YE TONGUES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be a god as large as a sunlamp to laugh his heat at you Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology O YE TONGUES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be a god as large as a sunlamp to laugh his heat at you Last Line: For god was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us %and therefore we did not cringe at the Subject(s): God; Religion O YOUNG AND FEARLESS PROPHET OF ANCIENT GALILEE, by S. RALPH HARLOW Poem Source Last Line: Triumphantly to lead us along god's holy way Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion O, MY HEART IS WOE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When that my sweet son was thirty winter old Last Line: Then came longeus with a spear and cleft his heart in sunder.' Subject(s): Bible; Religion OAKS AND SQUIRRELS, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: I speak to my lord though I am dust and ashes Last Line: Our home is warring disobedient history Subject(s): Bible; Religion OARSMEN, SELS., by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have known sins and evils every day day and death we have known Subject(s): Religion OBERAMMERGAU, 1890, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trembling vow breathed in a night of fears Last Line: Show forth his passion till the saviour come. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Oberammergau Passion-play; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology OBLIQUE, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O often have I prayed, and thought Last Line: We only knolw they shall arrive Subject(s): Religion OBSERVATION (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin-mother stood at distance (there) Last Line: And then to weep they both were licensed. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Observations are usually Last Line: Less and less about more and more Subject(s): Christianity; Religion OBSESSIVE COMBINATION OF ONTOLOGICAL INSCAPE ..., by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Busy, with an idea for a code, I write Last Line: I touched and a miracle I really wrote Subject(s): God; Religion OCTAVES: 19, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lack the courage to be where we are Last Line: On anvils, in the gleaming of god's forge. Subject(s): Religion; Theology OCTOBER, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: It's nuthatch on the box elder outside the window Last Line: Laughing, scrounging. He stays and dies, %or stays, and stays Subject(s): Christianity; Religion OCTOBER, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves fall from my fingers Last Line: Its wafer a burn on my tongue, %its wine deep forgetfulness Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): October; Religion OCTOBER MAPLES, PORTLAND, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves, though little time they have to live Last Line: They could not choose but to return in blue Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology OCTOBER MAPLES, PORTLAND, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves, though little time they have to live Last Line: They could not choose but to return in blue Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ODE, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spacious firmament on high Last Line: "the hand that made us is divine!" Variant Title(s): Hymn To The Creation;ode To The Creation;psalm 19;hymn;creation Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Religion; Sky; Theology ODE (MUSIC-MAKERS), by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the music makers, / and we are the dreamers of dreams Last Line: Or one that is coming to birth. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Variant Title(s): The Music-makers;ode Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Liberty; Theology ODE TO DUTY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stern daughter of the voice of god Last Line: And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! Variant Title(s): To Duty Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean ODE WRITTEN DURING THE BATTLE OF DUNKIRK, MAY 1940, SELS., by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are those who can relieve Subject(s): Religion ODE, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. OSWALD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dweller in yon dungeon dark Last Line: Expires in rags, unknown, and goes to heaven. Subject(s): War; Death; Religion ODE: 2, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot thank you, lord - because Subject(s): Religion ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 17. ON A SERMON AGAINST GLORY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, tell me, sage divine Last Line: And tully's curule chair, and milton's golden lyre. Subject(s): Religion; Theology OEDIPUS REX [TYRANNUS] [OR, OEDIPUS THE KING]: CHORUS. GOD AND MAN, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O may my constant feet not fail Last Line: And faith is sapped, and heaven defied. Subject(s): Religion; Theology OF A CONTENTED MIND [OR, SPIRIT], by THOMAS VAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all is done and said, in the end thus shall you find Last Line: The sweetest time of all my life to deem in thinking spent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrowden, 2d Baron Vaux Of Variant Title(s): The Pleasures Of Thinking;content Subject(s): Contentment; Religion; Thought; Theology; Thinking OF AN OLD SONG, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little snatch of an ancient song Subject(s): Religion OF GREATNESS IN TEACHING, by LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OF ONE BLOOD HATH GOD CREATED, by HENRY BURKE ROBINS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM, by FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY Poem Source First Line: My darling boy, so early snatched away Subject(s): Religion OF THE INCOMPARABLE TREASURE OF THE SCRIPTURES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Read not this book, in any case Last Line: Read not, but first desire god's grace %to understand thereby Subject(s): Religion OF THIS GRACE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I did nothing to deserve this Last Line: Petal by petal, %a hidden sun Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life OFFERING, by OLIVE CECILIA JACKS Poem Source First Line: How have we fallen from our high estate Subject(s): Religion OFFERING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A black hat in a sunday pew Last Line: And something thrives upon our thirst Subject(s): Prayer; Religion OH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is snowing and death bugs me Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is snowing and death bugs me Last Line: Oh, my dear, not why Subject(s): God; Religion OH ABSOLAM MY SON MY SON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as I turned myself from you Last Line: What does the lord require Subject(s): Absalom; God; Religion; Theology OH ABSOLAM MY SON MY SON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as I turned myself from you Last Line: What does the lord require Subject(s): Absalom; God; Religion OH, GOD, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: When I am dead Last Line: Locked in sacred solitude. Subject(s): God; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness OH, HAUNTING SPIRIT OF THE EVER TRUE, by ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion OH, YES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: That's it. %dust and ashes Last Line: Where a somebody, a something, once was Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life OLD, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The turtles are out Last Line: I offer my hand, a strange other element Subject(s): Religion OLD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm afraid of needles Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OLD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm afraid of needles Last Line: In a dream you are never eighty her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion OLD DWARF HEART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I lie down to love Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OLD DWARF HEART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I lie down to love Last Line: Even if I put on seventy coats I could not cover you... %mother, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion OLD FISHERMAN, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In late september on a school day Last Line: I have already become his ghost Subject(s): Religion OLD IRISH BLESSING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May the blessing of light be on you Last Line: And up and off and on its way to god Subject(s): Religion OLD JOHN HENRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old john's jes' made o' the commonest stuff Last Line: Old john henry! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Religion; Nightmares; Theology OLD MAN'S FLOWERS, by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: At evening we'd glimpse him through trees Last Line: This patch of starry bloom and blossomed star %by some old man who tells us what we are Subject(s): Old Age; Religion OLD MEDICINE SONG; AFTER A WINNEBAGO STORY, by DOLORES STEWART Poem Source First Line: Once a young man blackened his face Last Line: We no longer understand Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion OLD SARUM; LINES ON THE CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH AT SALISBURY, by ALICE COLBURN BEAL Poem Text First Line: Old sarum sleeps Last Line: And mostly we take tea. Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Superficiality; Tradition; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology OLD TIME RELIGION, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: On a piece of land Last Line: My stomach played the postlude Subject(s): Religion OLD WOMAN'S NIGHT SONG, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Now I am old %my bones go rattling through me Last Line: Circling, %under the bone-white moon Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life OLD WOMEN FISHING FROM BRIDGES, by DARRELL BOURQUE Poem Source First Line: There is something about dropping a line into the unseen Last Line: But old women fishing from bridges fish mostly just %for fish Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality OLD-TIME RELIGION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Give me that old-time religion Last Line: It's good enough for me Subject(s): Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 1. WALKING WITH GOD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a closer walk with god Last Line: That leads me to the lamb. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 10. THE FUTURE PEACE AND GLORY OF THE CHURCH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what god the lord hath spoken Last Line: "god your everlasting light." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 19. CONTENTMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce passions discompose the mind Last Line: Have learned to be content. Subject(s): Bible; Contentment; Religion; Mind, The; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 21. SARDIS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Write to sardis,' saith the lord Last Line: "and woe be to the rest!" Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 30. THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY OF THE WORD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit breathes upon the word Last Line: In brighter worlds above. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 35. LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God moves in a mysterious way, / his wonders to perform Last Line: And he will make it plain. Variant Title(s): Providence;hymn: In A Mysterious Way;mysteries Of Providence Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology OM; A MEMORY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Faint grew the yellow buds of light Last Line: And brahm looked from his shining eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Hinduism; Religion; Childhood; Theology OMNIPRESENCE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: The heavens are the mind of god, the systems are his word Subject(s): Religion OMNIPRESENCE, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand sounds, and each a joyful Last Line: In english accents say, 'it is the lord' Subject(s): Religion ON A FEAST, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of heaven and earth has made a feast Last Line: Theve to much pepper, and too little salt Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON A FELLUCA ONE EVENING IN THE AEGEAN, A FELICIFIC RITE IS PERFORMED, by MARK WHITE Poem Source First Line: He claimed to be a simple fellah from syria Last Line: With the frenetic f#s of a flock of bacchanalian fringillids Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Religion; Syria ON A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FLEMISH ANGEL, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: The toe sticking out from under the hem Subject(s): Religion ON A NEW CHURCH, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shallow chancel, scarce six feet by ten Last Line: The world's devotion by the chancel span. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, SELS., by NORMAN CORWIN Poem Source First Line: Lord god of trajectory and blast Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion ON A ROCOCO CRUCIFIX, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guarded by bursts of glory, golden rays Last Line: While god groaned in the dark night of his soul? Subject(s): Betrayal; Cavalry; Crucifixion; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology ON A STEAMSHIP, by UPTON BEALL SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: All night, without the gates of slumber lying Subject(s): Religion ON A THEME BY THOMAS MERTON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, where are you?' Subject(s): God; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Religion; Theology ON A THEME BY THOMAS MERTON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, where are you?' Last Line: He is not present to himself. God %suffers the void that is his absence Subject(s): God; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Religion ON A THEME FROM JULIAN'S CHAPTER 20, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six hours outstretched in the sun, yes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ON A THEME FROM JULIAN'S CHAPTER 20, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six hours outstretched in the sun, yes Last Line: He saw, and sorrowed in kinship Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ON ANOTHER'S SORROW, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I see another's woe Last Line: He doth sit by us and moan. Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Mythology; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology ON ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT THE JEWS TO CHRISTIANITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou canst wash the ethiopian white Last Line: Each one to answer for himself alone Subject(s): Bible;catholics;jews;religion - Reformers; Roman Catholics;catholicism;judaism ON CHATTERING IN CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tutiuillus, the deuyl of hell Subject(s): Religion ON CHURCH COMMUNION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Religion, church communion, or the way Last Line: A disposition so divinely right? Subject(s): Eucharist; Religion; Communion; Theology ON DEATH, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the death to come? Last Line: And make the parting less and less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mortality; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology ON EAGLES' WINGS (A VERSE FOR A PILOT), by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Supremely in his hand are you Last Line: And know you're not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Religion; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Theology ON ENTERING A CHAPEL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love built this shrine; these hallowed walls uprose Last Line: Faith, hope, and love are thine, for thou hast prayed. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ON FALLING ASLEEP BY FIRELIGHT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the fireplace, pointing at the fire Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ON FALLING ASLEEP BY FIRELIGHT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the fireplace, pointing at the fire Last Line: Turns softly on the hearth into that dust %isaiah said would be the serpent's meat Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON GIVING, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Religion ON HIMSELF, UPON HEARING WHAT WAS HIS SENTENCE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let them bestow on every airth a limb Last Line: And confident thou'lt raise me with the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): His Metrical Prayer;verses Composed On The Eve Of His Execution Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl & 1st Marquis Of; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Graham, James (1612-165); Theology ON JESUS, TAKING HIS WORD ON IMMORTALITY, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: Not a question of belief Last Line: It is what we pray to find at the end of poems Subject(s): Immortality; Religion ON LAZARUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, by HENRY COLMAN Poem Source First Line: Where am I, or how came I here, hath death Last Line: Prepare, and fit me 'gainst the reckoning day Subject(s): Bible; Lazarus; Religion ON LOOKING BACKWARD, by ERNESTINE MERCER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ON NON-DEPENDENCE OF MIND, by DOGEN Poem Source First Line: Coming, going, the waterbirds Subject(s): Religion ON OUR WEDDING DAY, THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Was blue, kuantan's beach sands were white Last Line: See a universe filled with light Subject(s): Religion ON READING THE POETRY OF A MYSTIC, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a sound of waters; --not the combing Last Line: Dips in the liquid dusk a flaming wing. Subject(s): Mysticism; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Water; Theology ON RISING FROM THE DEAD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday noon: the morning of the mind Last Line: With dionysus, singing from the cross! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Morning; Religion; Resurrection, The; Waking; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Feminism ON S. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the youthful morning's light Last Line: And the sun appearing, dies Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON SEA AND LAND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One sobbing wave, above her fellows blest Last Line: Her god confessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology ON SEEING A THOUSAND SABBATH SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PROCESSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What went ye out to see? Last Line: And reap thy full reward above! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Religion; Sabbath; Childhood; Theology; Sunday ON SEEING AN X-RAY OF MY HEAD, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This face without race or religion Last Line: That never meet Subject(s): Religion ON SLOW LEARNING, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: If you've ever owned Last Line: Or, looking up with tiny, wet eyes, might offer %an honest shrug. Forgive him Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Turtles ON SOME TREES NEEDLESSLY SLAIN, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: The woods shall not decry the murderous stroke Last Line: Deserts hold court on earth's last judgment day Subject(s): Religion ON SUNDAY MORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: On sunday morn, down sacred aisle Last Line: On sunday morn! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath; Male-female Relations; Church Attendance; Theology; Sunday ON THE BIBLE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou dost take this sacred book into they han Last Line: Where reverence alone stands open, and sense stands by Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON THE BOAT LEAVING GREECE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The purser asked, you are married, please? Last Line: Our bodies became keyed to each other's touch Subject(s): Religion ON THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In paul's conversion we discern the case Last Line: Not in man's reason but god's revelation. Subject(s): Conversion; Religion; Saints; Worship; Theology ON THE CRUCIFIXION, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was but now their sounding clamours sung Last Line: And, as they open stand, call to embrace thee, %why stay'st thou then my soul; o, fly, fly, thither Subject(s): Religion ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death never came so nigh to me before Last Line: Doth waken thy beloved with a kiss. Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Death - Babies; Theology ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED FRIEND, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not dead -- life has but set you free Last Line: You merely smiled to greet another friend! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Future Life; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Condemned to hope's delusive mine, / as we toil from day to day Last Line: And freed his soul the nearest way. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): Lines On The Death Of Mr. Levett;dr. Levett;the Quiet Life Subject(s): Bible; Death; Levet, Robert; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Doctors; Theology ON THE FEAST OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: The solstice moon rides within a ring of ice Last Line: In the dream she road out to tell it to the frozen moon Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ON THE FORMING SUBSTANCE OF ORISHAS, by WILL ALEXANDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like spectra glass Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology ON THE FORMING SUBSTANCE OF ORISHAS, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like spectra glass Last Line: Beyond the trait of canonic barrier as reversion Subject(s): Faith; Religion ON THE GROUND OF TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Explain religion by a thousand schemes Last Line: From earth to heav'n, where god is all in all. Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Belief; Creed; Theology; Religious Conflict ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did our blessed savior please to break Last Line: An elephant shall swim; a lamb may wade Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON THE INEFFABLE INSPIRIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, by CATHARINA REGINA VON GREIFFENBERG Poem Source First Line: You unseen lightning flash, you darkly radiant light Last Line: The moon; then turns about, and earthward, too, is clear Subject(s): Religion ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the month, and this the happy morn Last Line: From out his secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology ON THE QUAY AT RHODES, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: To see the future, you can look backwards Last Line: To show you did not understand Subject(s): Religion ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 2. CRUX MUNDI, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not thee, ourselves on thee for cross, o lord Last Line: But o what blossoming beauty in the dry! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 3. AT COMMUNION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still must the implacable road lie dark and bare Last Line: Though still thy hid communion serves me best. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Churches; Eucharist; Religion; Catholic Priests; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 4. AT A PROCESSION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the now redeem us into now! Last Line: Yet time that is not now were but a dream. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology ON THE SECULARISTS' NOTION OF MAKING CHURCHES INTO MUSEUMS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What noble work our seculars can do! Last Line: When pack'd and pinn'd to overlay the cross! Subject(s): Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists ON THE SETTING SUN (PRESERVED BY HIS SCHOOLMASTER), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those evening clouds, that setting ray Last Line: Who tinged these clouds with gold! Subject(s): Evening; Religion; Sunset; Twilight; Theology ON THE THRONE OF MANY HUES, IMMORTAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To have fulfilled, fulfill, and you %be my ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ON THE TREASURY OF THE TRUE DHARMA EYE, by DOGEN Poem Source First Line: Midnignt. No waves Subject(s): Religion ON THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In pastures green? Not always; sometimes he Last Line: "why, in his wisdom, he hath led me so" Variant Title(s): He Leadeth Me Subject(s): Bible;religion; Theology ON THE TWO GREAT FLOODS, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two floods I read of; water, and of wine Last Line: When shall we see a rainbow after wine? Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF A FAIR LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ha! Cruell death, contrarious may aduertise Subject(s): Religion ON THE WORDS 'BROTHER PROTESTANTS AND FELLOW CHRISTIANS', by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An inundation, says the fable Last Line: To nourish vermin, may be bit Subject(s): Religion ON THIS ISLAND, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, stranger, on this island now Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "in This Island;seascape;""look, Stranger, At This Island Now""; Subject(s): Harbors; Islands; Religion; War; Theology ON THIS ISLAND, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, stranger, on this island now Last Line: That pass the harbour %and all the summer through the water saunter Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): In This Island; Seascape; "look, Stranger, At This Island Now Subject(s): Harbors; Islands; Religion; War ON TIME, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly, envious time, till thou run out thy race Last Line: Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee o time. Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology ON TRINITY SUNDAY (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One god the father - certainly this term Last Line: Will find in their true, single hearts a place. Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Faith; Holy Ghost; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Holy Spirit; Theology ON TRYING TO REMEMBER TWO CHINESE POEMS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've forgotten the book, the poet Last Line: Woman is half the sky Subject(s): Religion ON WHITSUNDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, ascended into heav'n again Last Line: Who hear this inward teacher and obey. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology ON WOMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May god be praised for woman / that gives up all her mind Last Line: That sheba led a dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Theology ON WORDS AND CONCEPTS AND THINGS, by PAUL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: Scissors cut you? What tender ears Subject(s): Religion ON WORKS OF MERCY AND COMPASSION; PROOFS OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of true religion works of mercy seem Last Line: His love is heav'n; and want of it is hell. Subject(s): Mercy; Religion; Truth; Theology ON ZION I WAS BORN AND BRED, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ONE, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Source First Line: I knew his face the moment that he passed Subject(s): Religion ONE CROWDED HOUR, FR. OLD MORTALITY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Last Line: Is worth an age without a name. Variant Title(s): Song;clarion;answer Subject(s): Religion; Theology ONE CROWN NOT ANY SEEK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ONE CROWN THAT NO ONE SEEKS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That coronation pierces him %he recollects it well Variant Title(s): Poem: 1735; Poem: 175 Subject(s): Bible; Pilate, Pontius; Religion ONE GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God is one and alone, and there is none other than him Subject(s): Religion ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIRST PSALM, by HENRY BURKE ROBINS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ONE IN CHRIST, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No form of human framing Last Line: O master of our many lives, %in thee our life is one Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion ONE INSTANT IS ETERNITY, by WU-MEN HUI-K'AI Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ONE LOVE, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ONE MORNING, by TIMOTHY REID STEELE Poem Source First Line: One morning, rubbing clear the windowpane Subject(s): Religion ONE SHORT HOUR, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what a change within us one short hour Last Line: And joy and strength and courage are with thee? Variant Title(s): Prayer;an Hour With Thee;the Power Of Prayer;in Thy Presence Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology ONE SUMMER, JOE TOOK ME SAILING, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: It was an ordinary day, sunny on the lake Last Line: Another truth: I am afraid of drowning Subject(s): Religion ONE THOUSANDTH PSALM, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O god, we thank thee for everything Last Line: And to use all things for the good of thy children Subject(s): Religion ONE WORLD', by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Source First Line: The war lords perish with the millions slain Subject(s): Religion ONE-EYE, TWO-EYES, THREE-EYES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in the pink crib Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ONE-EYE, TWO-EYES, THREE-EYES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in the pink crib Last Line: So they took root in her heart %with their religious hunger t into her mouth Subject(s): God; Religion ONE-LEGGED MAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was blood Last Line: I wanted only to watch her quietly %as she worked Subject(s): God; Religion ONE: 28, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man who had fallen among thieves Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Good Samaritan; Religion; Theology ONE: 28, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man who had fallen among thieves Last Line: A million billion trillion stars Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Good Samaritan; Religion ONENESS WITH HIM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take a comfort from my very badness Subject(s): Religion ONLY A FLOWER, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that the spring has come Subject(s): Religion ONLY HEAVEN IS GIVEN AWAY, by ROSE DARROUGH Poem Source First Line: I bought a gay-roofed house upon a sunny hill Subject(s): Religion ONLY ONE LOVE, by VIOLET D. KNOWLES Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ONLY RULE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: How could this happen again? Last Line: This secret baptism of pain? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ONLY WAITING, by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE Poem Text First Line: Only waiting till the shadows Last Line: Tread its pathway to the skies. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology ONWARD AND UPWARD, by JOHN CHARLES EARLE Poem Source First Line: I pass the vale. I breast the steep Subject(s): Religion OPEN DOOR, by GRACE COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: You, my son, %have shown me god Last Line: Nor fail to show the way %which leads us home Subject(s): Religion OPERATION, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the sweet promise Last Line: My stomach laced up like a football %for the game her, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Religion ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Know who you are Last Line: The sign will be a soft stirring of wings, %a gold shimmer of air Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ORIENT TO OCCIDENT, 1906, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep Last Line: For you the ship's machinery, for me the guiding helm! Subject(s): Asia; Explorers; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology ORIGINAL SEQUENCE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was the apple adam ate Last Line: Stopped feet. He reached and wound the clock Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ORIGINAL SEQUENCE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was the apple adam ate Last Line: Stopped feet. He reached, and wound the clock Subject(s): Bible; Religion ORIGINAL SIN AND REDEMPTION, by TIM ROSS Poem Source First Line: At st. Francis de sales elementary the nuns Last Line: When I might actually enter those first %true gates of paradise Subject(s): Religion; Schools ORISON OF THE SAACRAMENT AQND CREED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu, my lord, welcome thou be Subject(s): Religion ORISON TO OUR LADY BY THE SEVEN JOYS, by RICHARD SPALDYNG Poem Source First Line: Most glorious quene, reynyng yn hevene Subject(s): Religion ORISON TO ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Seynt iohn, for grace thou craue Subject(s): Religion ORISONS, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Text First Line: He placed a prayer wheel where the wild winds dance Last Line: But god stopped stars in flight an hour, and listened. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ORMULUM: DEDICATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now, brother walter, brother mine" Last Line: To heavenly bliss be brought!' amen Subject(s): Religion; Theology ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN; A CANTATA: PART 1. DAYBREAK, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye interstellar spaces, serene and still clear Last Line: Cease questioning. Have faith. Love reigns supreme Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Mankind; Plays And Playwrights; Religion; Soul ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN; A CANTATA: PART 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the shuddering spaces of the north Last Line: Lift us and love us, though drowned in the surges of darkness and death Subject(s): Evil; Philosophy And Philosophers; Plays And Playwrights; Religion; Singing And Singers ORTHODOX, by MARK GUY PEARSE Poem Source First Line: They questioned my theology Subject(s): Religion OSCAR ROMERO, by MURRAY BODO Poem Source First Line: When they sing the funeral mass for oscar romero Last Line: In the walls, as usual, and - filled like %rows of witnesses- the empty shoes Subject(s): Religion OTHER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under my bowels, yellow with smoke, it waits Last Line: Then I can sleep. %maybe Subject(s): God; Religion OTHERS, by CHARLES D. MEIGS Poem Text First Line: Lord, help me live from day to day Last Line: That I may live like thee. Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology OUR BROTHER CHRIST, by OZORA STEARNS DAVIS Poem Source First Line: We bear the strain of earthly care Last Line: And over the centuries still we hear %the master's winsome call Subject(s): Religion OUR BUDGET HONEYMOON ACROSS EUROPE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Brought discoveries of bathroom etiquette Last Line: Had a price Subject(s): Religion OUR BURDEN BEARER, by PHILLIPS BROOKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little sharp vexations Last Line: Forget that we bore the burden %and carry away the song Subject(s): Prayer; Religion OUR CHRIST, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In christ I feel the heart of god Last Line: Now are we his, and all is well. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology OUR COUNTRY, by ANNA LOUISE STRONG Poem Text First Line: To all who hope for freedom's gleam Last Line: The gray world's golden dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Anise Subject(s): Religion; United States; Theology; America OUR DAILY BREAD, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back of the loaf is the snowy flour Last Line: And the sun, and the father's will. Variant Title(s): Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread' Subject(s): Religion; Theology OUR FATHER, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Glory to the father Last Line: Who to bring him mirrors Subject(s): Christianity; Religion OUR FATHER JACOB, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father jacob on the beaten track Last Line: For all that we know, he is still climbing there Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion; Theology OUR FATHER JACOB, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father jacob on the beaten track Last Line: For all that we know he's still climbing there Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion OUR FATHER WHO ART, by VIRGINIA L. FRENCH Poem Source First Line: We will return, o lord, before the snows Subject(s): Religion OUR FATHER'S CARE, by IVA TEMPLE CARTWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I wandered in a woodland Last Line: Safe, safe to the other side. Subject(s): Children; Forests; God; Religion; Childhood; Woods; Theology OUR FATHER'S WORLD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion OUR FATHER, HAVE PITY ON ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pater noster, most of myt Subject(s): God; Religion OUR GOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our god is the god of the infinite Last Line: The god of eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Holy Spirit; Theology OUR LADY AND ALL THE ANGELS PRAY FOR ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I pray the, lady, the moder of crist Subject(s): Religion OUR LADY'S IMPRECATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Listyns, lordyngus, to my tale Subject(s): Religion OUR LOST ANGELS, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Ages ago, clouds brought them near Last Line: We must now be wrapped Subject(s): Christianity; Religion OUR MASTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal love, forever full Last Line: And its obedience praise! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology OUR ONLY HOPE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: And will thy feet once more be set Last Line: Our only hope. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology OUR PATTERN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A weaver sat one day at his loom Last Line: "at our pattern up above!" Subject(s): Religion; Weaving & Weavers; Theology OUR PRAYER, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that hast given so much to me Last Line: Thy praise. Variant Title(s): Gratefulness;a Heart To Praise Thee Subject(s): Gratitude; Prayer; Religion; Theology OUR PRAYER OF THANKS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening Last Line: Our prayer of thanks. Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology OUR THREE FOES MAKE US MIS-PEAK, MIS-THINK, MIS-DO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God, that madist al thing of nought Subject(s): Religion OUR WEDDING DAY, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The registrar of marriages in the fishing town Last Line: I do. % I do Subject(s): Religion OURS IS A FAITH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "taught by no priest, but by our beating hearts" Last Line: That makes the many one Variant Title(s): Faith To Each Other Subject(s): Brotherhood;religion; Theology OURSELVES WE DO INTER WITH SWEET DERISION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That doubts as fervently as it believes Variant Title(s): Poem: 1144; Poem: 144 Subject(s): Religion OUT BEYOND IDEAS OF WRONGDOING AND RIGHTDOING, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Religion OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD], by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Out in the fields with god. Variant Title(s): Cares Subject(s): Fields; Religion; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Theology OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD], by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Out in the fields with god. Variant Title(s): A Song From Sylvan Subject(s): Fields; Religion; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Theology OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD], by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Where ill thoughts die and good are born - %out in the fields with god! Subject(s): Fields; Religion OUT OF BOUNDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy of heavenly birth Last Line: Join in to get him back his ball! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology OUT OF DARKNESS, LIGHT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: From this dread sowing, grant us harvest, lord Last Line: And out of darkness, light. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology OUT OF SIN MY SOUL INBIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Almygti god, maker of heuene Subject(s): Religion OUT OF THE SHADOW, by MARGARET FAIRLESS BARBER Poem Text First Line: Out of the shadow of the night Last Line: The centre of all mystery! Alternate Author Name(s): Fairless, Michael Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The; Theology OUT OF THE VAST, by AUGUSTUS WRIGHT BAMBERGER Poem Text First Line: There's a part of the sun in the apple Last Line: To every living thing. Variant Title(s): Each Part Of All Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OVER-PAYMENT, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took a little good seed in my hand Last Line: Encompassed me with love on every side! Subject(s): Religion OVERHEARD IN AN ORCHARD, by ELIZABETH CHENEY (1859-) Poem Source First Line: Said the robin to the sparrow Last Line: Such as cares for you and me Subject(s): Religion OVERSOUL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The east was crowned with snow-cold bloom Last Line: To adoration silently? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Variant Title(s): Krishna Subject(s): Religion; Theology OYSTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oysters we are Subject(s): God; Religion PAGAN PRAYER, by ALICE BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You that uphold the world Subject(s): Religion PAGEANT OF MAN, SELS., by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Patient is time, and gradual are its ways Subject(s): Religion PAGODA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I descend from my carriage Last Line: I do not know its name Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Asia; Begging And Beggars; Buddhism; China; Religion; Shrines; Temples PAIN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: We bury our pain in a secret crypt Last Line: So that we do not speak or whisper Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Last Line: And I saw her, at that moment, %in her own death and I knew that she knew Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Mothers And Daughters; Religion PAIN THE INTERPRETER, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion PALM SUNDAY, by JOHN J. MOMENT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PANCAKES FOR THE QUEEN OF BABYLON, SELS., by PETER CHAD TIGAR LEVI Poem Source First Line: A city built in darkness and cold air Subject(s): Religion PANGE LINGUA GLORIOSA, by THOMAS AQUINAS Poem Source First Line: Sing my tongue, the saviour's glory Subject(s): Religion PAPA AND MAMA DANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking into consideration all your loveliness Last Line: Papa and mama did so. Can we do less gone Subject(s): God; Religion PARACELSUS: 1. PARACEI SUS ASPIRES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come close to me, dear friends; still closer; thus! Last Line: Fest. We wait you when you rise! Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology PARACELSUS: 2. PARACELSUS ATTAINS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the waters in the varporous west Last Line: I have attained, and now I may depart. Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology PARACELSUS: 3. PARACELSUS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heap logs and let the blaze laugh out! Last Line: Will you not call me to your side, dear aureole? Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology PARADISE AS A GARDEN, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One of the great tautologies: self-regarding Last Line: Whatever persists within, forever fresh, %is the indelible border of imagination Subject(s): Religion PARADISE RE-ENTERED, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the strait gate of passion Last Line: On our primal loam Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion PARADOX, by HUW MENAI Poem Source First Line: If the good god were suddenly Subject(s): Religion PARADOX, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our death implicit in our birth Last Line: Nor wonder overmuch Subject(s): Immortality; Religion PARAPHRASE OF PROVERBS, CHAP. IV, VERSES 6-11, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn on the prudent ant thy heedless eyes Last Line: Shall spring to seize thee, like an ambushed foe Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion PARAPHRASE UPON PART OF THE 139 PSALM, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great monarch, whose feared hands the thunder fling Last Line: Turn to that nothing, from whence raised by thee Subject(s): Bible; Religion PARCE MIHI, DOMINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fadyr & sone & holy gost Subject(s): Religion PARISH GUTT'LERS, OR THE HUMOURS OF A SELECT VESTRY, SELS., by EDWARD WARD Poem Source First Line: An nations oft by cunning knaves Last Line: To ease the wants of the dejected Subject(s): Poverty; Religion PARLEY OF BEASTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld noah was at hame wi' them a' Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Love; Religion; Theology PARLEY OF BEASTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld noah was at hame wi' them a' Last Line: At hame it's hard to feel Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Love; Religion PARSON GRAY, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet home had parson gray Last Line: His breath he could not draw! Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology PASCHAL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Easter was the old north Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology PASS IT ON, by HENRY BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you had a kindness shown? Last Line: Pass it on! Subject(s): Religion PASSING CHRIST, SELS., by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion PASSING OVER: EASTER DAWN, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: Near the end we're scared. So swift the rose Last Line: The colors flare once more, %the risen rose Subject(s): Religion PASSION OF MAN: 1918-1938, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night, in the night, as I turned upon my bed Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Religion PASSION OF THE MAD RABBIT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the carrots sang arias into the holy earth Last Line: I whispered, %a fool has risen Subject(s): God; Religion PASSION PLAY, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Easter rises from the plains of days Last Line: I must run to tell the others Subject(s): Religion PASSOVER EVE, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Source First Line: Beside his wife at passover in spring Subject(s): Passover; Religion PAST AND PRESENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, I remember, / the house where I was born Last Line: Than when I was a boy. Variant Title(s): The Old House At Home;i Remember;stanzas Subject(s): Aging; Children; Memory; Religion; Time; Childhood; Theology PAST THINKING OF SOLOMON, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wise - unto - hell ecclesiast Last Line: Now we say: they please me not. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Theology PASTOR PRAISES THE CREATOR, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dearly beloved, I mean today Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PASTOR'S CREED, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Michelangelo's dead wrong. Adam had no navel Last Line: There are more extinct than living species. %more corpses than lovers Subject(s): Religion PATER NOSTER (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Almychty god, our fader of hewyne abuf Subject(s): Religion PATIENCE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She hath no beauty in her face Last Line: Talk with the angels unaware! Subject(s): Patience; Religion; Theology PATIENCE TAUGHT BY NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dreary life,' we cry, 'o dreary life!' Last Line: Grows by, contented through the heat and cold. Subject(s): Nature; Patience; Religion; Theology PATRIARCH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As honest jacob on a night Last Line: And up and till 't like fire!!! Subject(s): Bible; Religion PATRONAGE, by THOMAS THORNELY Poem Source First Line: Till late our atheists turned agressive eyes Subject(s): Religion PAUL, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Bond-slave to christ, and in my bonds rejoicing Last Line: Unsealed his eyes to that he had not known. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Saul Of Tarsus; Theology PAWNS, by FRANK BETTS Poem Source First Line: Purple robed, with crowned hair Subject(s): Religion PAX, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that matters is to be at one with the living god Last Line: In the house of life Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Religion PAX, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our father who, in clay Last Line: August almighty god! Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology PEACE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Peace in our time, o lord Last Line: Of all men everywhere! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Peace; Prayer; Religion; Theology PEACE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When will you ever, peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut Last Line: He comes to brood and sit. Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They all shall pass: the radiant days Last Line: O god, our home, our peace in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PEACE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My peace,' the peace of the lord most high Last Line: Be this our joy if we go or stay Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion PEACE, by AAGOT UELAND Poem Text First Line: My cottonwoods silver leaves whispering against the light blue sky Last Line: Clouds in the west, peace -- god's peace. Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eager heart and will on fire Last Line: And in that moment peace was won. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE AFTER SORROW, by JESSIE ROSE GATES Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PEACE IN THE WORLD, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God send us wit to banish far Last Line: And feel the wafting of her wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE ON EARTH, by ROBERT FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men of the earth said: 'we must war' Last Line: "the saviour of men, he answered, ""why?" Variant Title(s): Why Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology PEACE THROUGH PRAYER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion PEACEFUL SHEPHERD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If heaven were to do again Last Line: The cross, the crown, the scales may all %as well have been the sword Subject(s): Religion PEACEMAKER, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon his will he binds a radiant chain Last Line: Smiles from the cross upon a conquered world Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Freedom; Religion PECCAVI, DOMINE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O power to whom this earthly clime Subject(s): Religion PELAGIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall praise him and the shores bear part Last Line: In every likeness of a little child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Religion; Sea; Soul; Human Race; Theology; Ocean PENANCE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: It was always good friday Last Line: Trying to imagine %the terrible sins of old women Subject(s): Confessions; Penance; Religion PENANCE AND THE WORK WEEK, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: By woundsday when a tongue-pierced asian Last Line: Best is they too pass as a dream Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality PENITENTIAL PSALM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I, thy servant, full of sighs, cry unto thee Subject(s): Religion PENITENTIAL PSALM, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love to give law unto his subject hearts Last Line: With tender heart, lo, thus to god he sings: Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PENNILESS, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion PENTECOST, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So free, so bright, so beautiful and fair Last Line: It brings the glory that all men may share Subject(s): Religion PENTECOST, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: What is this holy spirit? Last Line: And what is it doing in the eggplant Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PENTECOST, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither the sorrows of afternoon, waiting in the silent house Last Line: I offer you this scarred and guilty hand %until others mix our ashes Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality PEOPLE'S THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM PIERSON MERRILL Poem Source First Line: Not alone for mighty empire Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving PEOPLE, YES, SELS., by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Social Protest PER ARDUA AD ASTRA, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lift me, o god, above myself Last Line: And climb thy loftier way. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology PER PACEM AD LUCEM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not ask, o lord, that life may be Last Line: Through peace to light. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Variant Title(s): Through Peace To Light Subject(s): Religion; Theology PEREGRINUS, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much bruit have I about the world, and fame Last Line: Death of peregrinus. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PERJURED, by ALBERT E. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Let pilate and let judas holy be Subject(s): Religion PERSEPHONE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: You may think this is a story Last Line: She left abandoned all below Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life PERVERSITIES OF THE AGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wise men bene but scorned Subject(s): Religion PETIT MAL, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: This is how, perhaps Last Line: We're stunned each time to wear Subject(s): God; Reason; Religion; Spirituality PETITION, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: O grant me this Last Line: So shall the work be blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology PETITION TO FATHER AND SON AND HOLY GHOST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Almyghty god, fadir of heuene Subject(s): Religion PETRA, by JOHN WILLIAM BURGON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems no work of man's creative hand Last Line: A rose-red city half as old as time. Variant Title(s): Pedra Subject(s): Religion PHARAO'S DAUGHTER, by MICHAEL MORAN Poem Source First Line: In agypt's land contaygious to the nile Last Line: Tare-an-ages, girls, which o'yees own the child? Subject(s): Bible; Exodus From Egypt; Religion PHAROAH QUEEN HATSHEPSUT'S APOLOGIA, by QUEEN HATSHEPSUT Poem Source First Line: I sat in my palace, thinking of my maker Last Line: Without joining the other Subject(s): Religion PHILOSOPHER'S GARDEN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: See this my garden Last Line: Thoughts that aspire. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology PHOTOGRAPHY ISN'T ART, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I gave up the camera Last Line: We eat the omelette while it's still hot Subject(s): Religion PICTURE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Calmly, she looks over her shoulder again Last Line: Towards the bombed-out town. Subject(s): Future; Religion PICTURE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: In the foreground, something Last Line: Waiting to see what the water will bear Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life PICTURE OF A NATIVITY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology PICTURE OF A NATIVITY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils Last Line: Freeze into an attitude %recalling the dead Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology 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 PIETA, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: A mother and her son tug Last Line: Shoved, for heaven's sake, into the ovens Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality PILATE REMEMBERS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Source First Line: I wonder why that scene comes back tonight Last Line: Remembering it was spring and he was young Subject(s): Bible; Religion PILATE REMEMBERS, by THOMAS DURLEY LANDELS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PILGRIM, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man becomes a pilgrim of the universe Subject(s): Religion PILGRIM, by RICHARD WIGHTMAN Poem Source First Line: I am my ancient self Subject(s): Religion PILGRIMAGE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drooping and down at heal, I see them pass Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Religion PINDARIC ODE: THE RESURRECTION, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not winds to voyagers at sea Last Line: But flings writer and reader too that sits not sure. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PINE CREEK PARISH HALL, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: If what we remember is what we are Last Line: The old rugged cross and rock of ages Subject(s): Life; Memory; Religion PIONEERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For the first man to climb the hill Subject(s): Religion PIPPA PASSES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day! / faster and more fast Last Line: [she sleeps. Variant Title(s): Asolo;day!;good Morning;sunrise Subject(s): Love; Religion; Spring; Theology PISGAH, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By every ebb of the river-side Subject(s): Religion PISGAH SIGHTS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the ball of it Last Line: Star that now sparklest! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: On the subject of god briefly Last Line: No hiding place even in the mountains Subject(s): God; Religion PITY MOTHER, DO I WORSHIP YOU, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Who else has that strength? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion PLAIN WEDDING, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: I try to imagine my grandparents Last Line: Blemished, but with touch %upon touch, to be filled Subject(s): Grandparents; Marriage; Religion PLAINT OF FLOWERS, by ERNEST SANDEEN Poem Source First Line: Although, those years, we squandered Last Line: Should, like strong young men, stand weeping Subject(s): Religion PLAN OF SALVATION, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou in heaven and earth the only peace Subject(s): Religion PLANXTY IRWIN, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the music's in the room Last Line: So did they all Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PLAY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the only actor Last Line: Will make an interesting play. %don't you agree Subject(s): God; Religion PLAYING AT CARDS, by BELLE RANDALL Poem Source First Line: It's not as if we never played at cards Subject(s): Religion PLEASURE AND SORROW, by ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: I walked a mile with pleasure Last Line: When sorrow walked with me! Variant Title(s): Along The Road Subject(s): Religion; Theology PLEASURE PRINCIPLE, by RAYMOND OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Who are you? Why do you not let me live Last Line: But you would give me radical delight, %gouging my itches till I have no more Subject(s): Pleasure; Religion POEM BEFORE MARRIAGE, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am part man, part seagull, part turtle Last Line: Fish for me Subject(s): Religion POEM FOR COMBATANTS, by ALAN WHITE Poem Source First Line: It is not death so much we dread Subject(s): Religion POEM IN THE MIND OF THE POET, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Is nothingness Last Line: Following their tracks, we scratch our heads, we say %oooom? Subject(s): Religion POEM IS NEVER FINISHED, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Only abandoned, poets say Last Line: Butterflies in the creator's mind Subject(s): Religion POEM ROCKET, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science; Religion; Scientists; Theology POEM: 12, by YUNUS EMRE Poem Source First Line: If you ask about religion and religious community, what need is religion Last Line: Yunus, may you and your lovers never see doomsday Subject(s): Religion POEM: 7, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Men may rede in romance right Last Line: With his men bifor calays toune. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Religion; War; Theology POEMS OF SUN LION: 1, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring at last! The amuyas flare Last Line: Until grief comes for you Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 10, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your flute plays the exact notes of my pain Last Line: Warming herself at the weak embers of the past Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 11, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High in the blossoming canopy Last Line: Cooling yamuna, quenching moon- %this is my pain, too Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 12, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know who visits your dream, dark one Last Line: As when dawn crowds the last hours Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 13, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not only is it dark, but clouds roar Last Line: Builds like the thunder. Don't go Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 14, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we're together, nights like this delight me Last Line: Each being shall burn its own small flame Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 15, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't talk about love to me, madhava Last Line: An ocean of love all by herself! Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 16, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When pitiless madhava left for mathura city Last Line: If there were no love, there would be no grief Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 17, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So many times, lord, I have implored you Last Line: Nothing of the real syama's love Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 18, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How long must I go on waiting Last Line: Its trembling raptures and its tears Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 19, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You resemble my dark lord syama Last Line: You'll learn for yourself Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 2, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You innocent, %so careless with your lapful of red flowers Last Line: Be quiet now. I'll sing to you Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 20, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you, who keeps my heart awake? Last Line: She'll weep at your lotus feet until she knows Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 21, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who wants to hear the long, miserable Last Line: Flames still flare up, in both body and mind Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 22, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've fallen from my life, friend Last Line: Into the river of human tears Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 3, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He never came to me Last Line: Whets itself on absence if it's true Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 4, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That jewel-dark blue becomes you, lord Last Line: That girl is suffering Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 5, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shake off that sadness, radha! Last Line: Practicing his song of their reunion Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 6, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me with a mouth full of words Last Line: Let's honor their sacred commingling Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 7, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, can you hear it? Last Line: Let's go. I'll walk with you Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 8, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's there among the scented trees Last Line: The deep blue flowers of his feet Subject(s): Religion POEMS OF SUN LION: 9, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A warm breeze frets through the woods Last Line: She thirsts for the pure nectar of your love. %let her drink Subject(s): Religion POET, by JOEL BENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's words are winged with fire Subject(s): Religion POET, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His home is on the heights; to him Subject(s): Religion POET, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Why hast thou breathed, o god, upon my thoughts Subject(s): Religion POET, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He stared at a word and saw his face Last Line: That never came to vowel or consonant Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Religion POET CONSIDERS PERFECTION, by ELIZABETH VIRGINIA RAPLEE Poem Source First Line: I sat, and held the book upon my knees Subject(s): Religion POET IS LIKE A CHURCH, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: The poet is like a church, an abandoned one Last Line: His conference paper wearing wraparound shades Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality POET OF IGNORANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the earth is floating Last Line: But who am I to believe in dreams Subject(s): God; Religion POET'S CALL, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: By day the fields and meadows cry Subject(s): Religion POET'S PROVERB, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Proverbs; Religion POET-PREACHER'S PRAYER, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit, that dost prefer Subject(s): Religion POETE MANQUE, by ERNEST SANDEEN Poem Source First Line: I have beaten him often, head and heel Last Line: He is good for nothing now but heaven or hell Subject(s): Religion POETRY AND RELIGION, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Religions are poems. The concert Last Line: Who fly with wings shut, then beating, and again shut Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion POLTROON, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His country cowered under the mailed fist Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion POMP'S DEFENSE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stole dem breeches, I 'knowledge de corn Last Line: Ter steal dem breeches ter be baptize' in. Subject(s): African Americans; Baptism; Religion; Negroes; American Blacks; Christenings; Theology PONTORMO: 'ENTOMBMENT,' CAPPONI CHAPEL, FLORENCE, 1525-28, by DEVON MILLER-DUGGAN Poem Source First Line: These hunched, uncringing souls Last Line: The grief they have to hold Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Religion POOR IN CHURCH, by PRESTON MERCHANT Poem Source First Line: Between corner pews warmed by their breath Last Line: Dip yellow fingers into holy water Subject(s): Homeless; Religion POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP, by ETHEL M. C. BRAZELTON Poem Text First Line: Poor lil' brack sheep dat stray'd away Last Line: An' de lil' brack sheep -- is me! Subject(s): Religion; Sheep; Theology POOR OF VENICE, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poor of venice know the gold mosaic Last Line: Years of illusion, backache, sewerage, and clouds Subject(s): Religion PORCUPINE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spine hog, %how do you grow Last Line: And why not, old %spine hog u.S.A Subject(s): God; Religion PORTRAIT OF AN OLD CATHEDRAL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What vigor raised those spires; what joyful hand Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Religion; Theology PORTRAIT OF AN OLD CATHEDRAL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What vigor raised those spires; what joyful hand Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Religion PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN ON THE COLLEGE TAVERN WALL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh down at the tavern Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN ON THE COLLEGE TAVERN WALL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh down at the tavern Last Line: Around their round table %until they are still Subject(s): God; Religion PORTRAIT OF THE TOWN LEONARD, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I saw him look my way and crossed Last Line: Till windowed hulks, forgotten death cars reared %where dark fish leapt, and gaped, and snatched the Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion POSSESSION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Heaven above is softer blue Last Line: I am his and he is mine Subject(s): Religion POSTCARD TO WALT WHITMAN FROM SIENA, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I walked along the vaulted hall Last Line: I try to listen Subject(s): Religion POSTERN GATE, SELS., by WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Religion POTATO SONG, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness, sunlight and a little holy spit Last Line: No one so lordly not to envy that Subject(s): Religion POTTER'S FIELD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas purchased with his blood, this holy ground Last Line: In all the world whereon to lay his head. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Cemeteries; Religion; Graveyards; Theology POWER AND THE GLORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be life, said god. And what he wrought Last Line: Dare mock my glorious angel where he stands %to fill my dark with fire, my heart with faith? Subject(s): Religion PRAGUE: OLD WOMAN IN THE STREET, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the country saying, she was only Last Line: You neared. Unbearably, the quick dead cried out Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRAIRIE PRAYER, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time rolls out like a prairie Last Line: Such contact would be prayer, %an endlessness inside there Subject(s): Prayer; Religion PRAISE, by EDITH DALEY Poem Source First Line: What do they know of penitence Last Line: That god bends low to hear Subject(s): Religion PRAISE IN SUMMER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurely yet most surely called to praise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Summer; Theology PRAISE IN SUMMER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurely yet most surely called to praise Last Line: That trees grow green, and moles can course in clay, %and sparrows sweep the ceiling of our day? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Summer PRASAD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In the train station in calcutta, gold flecks sifted Last Line: Bound for the cremation grounds Subject(s): Devotion; Religion PRAYER, by MARGARET EMERSON BAILEY Poem Source First Line: God, give me sympathy and sense Last Line: And - please - a twinkle in my eye. Amen Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who seekest me Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by NADEJDA DE BRAGANCA Poem Source First Line: O god, I love thee in the stars at night Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by JOHN BURTON Poem Source First Line: I often say my prayers Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by PAUL CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: I'm out there somewhere, wandering around Last Line: Touch your tongue, to ride the nerves %out of your own darkness into love Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lighten up %why is your hand Last Line: Had to come by %this Subject(s): Faith; God; Prayer; Religion PRAYER, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: October, the air filmed as if with tears, and time Last Line: Perhaps stone by stone rolled away, we raise our dead Subject(s): Death; Grief; Religion PRAYER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Tis not the length of time we stay Last Line: To the heart of him who bears us. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Great jehovah, loving father Last Line: We shall see thee face to face. Subject(s): Fathers; Holy Ghost; Religion; Trinity, The; Holy Spirit; Theology PRAYER, by THOMAS ELLWOOD Poem Source First Line: Oh! That mine eye might closed be Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by WILBUR HUMPHREY FOWLER Poem Source First Line: Purge me, o god Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I kneel not now to pray that thou Last Line: For what I have not been. Variant Title(s): Thanks;a Prayer Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: White heart of snowlight Last Line: Sluggish with pregnancy and winter %yessing the sun Subject(s): Birth; God; Prayer; Religion PRAYER, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a death like buddha's. Let me fall Last Line: To see the green, that old anarchy Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by FRANCIS SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: You may be right, divinity Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by MARY DIXON THAYER Poem Source First Line: I pray for you, and yet I do not frame Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, the newness of this day Last Line: I will travel through with thee Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Prayer; Religion PRAYER, by THOMAS WASHBOURNE Poem Source First Line: What a commanding power Subject(s): Religion PRAYER (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prayer, the church's banquet, angels' age Last Line: The land of spices, something understood. Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYER AT EVENTIDE, by ROBERT BALGARNIE YOUNG SCOTT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PRAYER AT SUNRISE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun Last Line: Great father of the sun, I ask this much. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PRAYER BEFORE EXECUTION, by MARY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O merciful father, my hope is in thee! Last Line: O jesu, my saviour, I languish for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Stuart, Mary; Mary, Queen Of Scots Subject(s): Religion PRAYER BY THE WOUNDS AGAINST THE DEADLY SINS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu, for thu blode thou bleddest Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR A HOPE TO SHARE, by ED ZAHNISER Poem Source First Line: Forced so long to hope alone Last Line: The curious comforts of a true believer Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Religion PRAYER FOR A NEW MOTHER, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things she knew, let her forget again Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Religion; Theology PRAYER FOR A NEW MOTHER, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things she knew, let her forget again Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR BROTHERHOOD, by JOHN S. HOYLAND Poem Source Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion PRAYER FOR COURAGE, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Courage; Religion PRAYER FOR FAMILY LOVE, by JOHN S. HOYLAND Poem Source First Line: Father, %grant unto us true family love Last Line: One eternal glory of divine self-sharing Variant Title(s): For Family Lov Subject(s): Family Life; Religion PRAYER FOR OUR HOME, by JOHN S. HOYLAND Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR PEACE, by WILLIAM ADAMS BROWN Poem Source First Line: Keep me quiet, master Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR PEACE, by ROLLAND W. SCHLOERB Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR PRAYER, by ED ZAHNISER Poem Source First Line: Solitude so perfect it's not lonely Last Line: I feel like a monkey creeping into camp %to worry embers from your fire Subject(s): Prayer; Religion PRAYER FOR SINGLENESS OF VISION, by SHERARD VINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God save us all from creeds, and keep Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR STRENGTH, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: Though I should be maligned by those Last Line: All bitterness. This is my prayer. Subject(s): Religion; Vengeance; Theology PRAYER FOR STRENGTH, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1822-1882) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in thy mysterious presence kneeling Last Line: Of trust and strength and calmness from above Variant Title(s): For Divine Strengt Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR STRENGTH, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR STRENGTH; EVENTIDE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through visions of the night and toils of day Last Line: Le me forevermore abide with thee. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Strength; Theology PRAYER FOR THE HEALING OF THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the work done? Nay, for still the scars Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR THE HOME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, unto this house, I pray Last Line: Let thy love and let thy grace %shine upon our dwelling place Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR THE HOUSEHOLD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, behold our family here assembled Last Line: We beseech of thee this help and mercy for christ's sake Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR THE LITTLE CITY; JANUARY 6, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed plane, the pond. Ice-fishers' lights. Still little city Last Line: Embrace the year Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source First Line: Reveal thy presence now, o lord Last Line: And keep our hearts from growing cold Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion PRAYER FOR THIS HOUSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A house is built of logs and stone Last Line: That stands a thousand years Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR THIS HOUSE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May nothing evil cross this door Last Line: And hold love in. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Religion; Theology PRAYER FOR THIS OUR TIME, by THOMAS MOULT Poem Source First Line: When men betray the cause they smiled upon Subject(s): Religion PRAYER FOR ZERO MOSTEL, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Senor, already someone else Last Line: Playing yourself as a crowd Subject(s): Religion PRAYER IN AFFLICTION, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Source First Line: Keep me from bitterness. It is so easy Subject(s): Religion PRAYER IN APRIL, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God grant that I may never be Last Line: Can I distrust eternity? Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYER OF AN UNBELIEVER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Draw closer to me, god, than were I one Subject(s): Doubt; Religion PRAYER OF AN UNEMPLOYED MAN, by W. C. ACKERLY Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Here in the quiet of my room Last Line: Abide with me and be my friend. Subject(s): Religion; Unemployment; Theology PRAYER OF BUSY HANDS, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god, thou knowst how many tasks Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Religion PRAYER OF COLUMBUS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A batter'd, wreck'd old man Last Line: And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Religion; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology PRAYER OF SERVICE, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: Grant me the grace to feel Last Line: Their bitter night to day. Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology PRAYER OF THE HOLY NAME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O cryste ihu, mekely I pray to the Subject(s): Religion PRAYER OF THE NAVAJOS, by LAURA ADAMS ARMER Poem Source First Line: You who dwell in the house of dawn Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion PRAYER OF THE QUEST, by ELEANOR B. STOCK Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PRAYER OF THE UNEMPLOYED, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I do not ask for houses of steel Last Line: Work for these hands to do. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Unemployment; Theology PRAYER THAT AN INFANT MAY NOT DIE, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, spare to them this very little child Last Line: You live forever at your mother's side. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYER TO EVE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of fictions %and of irony Last Line: Come with us, muse of exile, %mother of the road Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRAYER TO GOD, by GABRIEL DE LA CONCEPCION VALDES Poem Source First Line: O god of love unbounded! Lord supreme! Last Line: Lord of my life, work thou thy perfect will Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion PRAYER TO MARY AND ALL SAINTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary, moder of mercy & pyte Subject(s): Religion PRAYER TO THE CRUCIFIX, by MOSSEN JUAN TALLANTE Poem Source First Line: Almighty god, unchangeable Last Line: Salvation in this grief's confession: %memento mei Subject(s): Cavalry; Prayer; Religion; Salvation PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by ANONYMOUS - NATIVE AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "young man, chieftain / reared within the mountain" Last Line: Spirit of the mountains Subject(s): Mountains;native Americans - Religion;prayer; Hills;downs (great Britain) PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord of the mountains Subject(s): Religion PRAYER TO THE THREE PERSONS ON THE TRINITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O radiant luminary of light interminable Subject(s): Religion PRAYER, SELS., by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Source First Line: O god, thy ways are dark Subject(s): Religion PRAYERS, by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God who created me Last Line: Take my spirit to thee. Variant Title(s): A Boy's Prayer Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYERS, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: I used to try to bring god near Last Line: I thought I had laid by. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYERS OF A REPENTANT GENTLEMAN: 2 WHEN THE DEVIL IS EXORCISED, COMMU, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: Lord, I feel your blood Last Line: Cannot escape %from his soul Subject(s): Clergy; Eucharist; Prayer; Religion PRAYING DRUNK, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our father who art in heaven, I am praying drunk Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology PRAYING DRUNK, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father who art in heaven, I am praying drunk Last Line: He goes. As I fall past, remember me Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRAYING ON A 707, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, / each time I talk to god Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology PRAYING ON A 707, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, %each time I talk to god Last Line: Mother, %you and god %float with the same belly %up Subject(s): God; Religion PRAYING TO BIG JACK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, jack of all trades Last Line: And you banish all the world Subject(s): God; Religion; Prayer; Theology PRAYING TO BIG JACK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, jack of all trades Last Line: And you banish all the world Subject(s): God; Religion PRAYING WITH GEORGE HERBERT IN LATE WINTER, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fits and starts, lord Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYING WITH GEORGE HERBERT IN LATE WINTER, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In fits and starts, lord Last Line: But what a racket I make in telling you Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Prayer; Religion PREACHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He called on god to smite the foe Subject(s): Religion PREACHER'S MISTAKE, by BREWER MATTOCKS Poem Source First Line: The parish priest Subject(s): Religion PREACHER'S PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wouldst have me speak, lord, give me speech Last Line: And men will hear, or when I sing or preach Subject(s): Religion PREACHING, by FEDERICO ODUBER Poem Source First Line: Oh! Last Line: No more than I do of this earth Subject(s): Life; Religion PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 7, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy human frame, my glorious lord, I spy Last Line: Thy bottle make my soule, lord, it to hold. Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 8, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kenning through astronomy divine Last Line: Eate, eate me, soul, and thou shalt never dy. Variant Title(s): I Am The Living Bread;sacramental Meditations: 8 Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 3, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the marigold, I blushing close Last Line: Shall be the psalms sung forth in gracious layes. Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 77, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A state, a state, oh! Dungeon state indeed Last Line: Whose strings toucht by this grace, will twang thy praise. Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 79, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I promethius' filching ferula Last Line: My well belov'de is mine: I'm his become. Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Religion; Sherlock, William (1641-1707); Theology PRESAGE, by THOMAS THORNELY Poem Source First Line: If, knowing all that now is known Subject(s): Atoms; Religion PRESENCE, by MARY E. MCCULLOUGH Poem Source First Line: God is very near to me Subject(s): Religion PRESENCE OF GOD, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: He spoke in a thimble Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRESENCE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE NATURAL WORLD: MOLLUSC, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By its nobship sailing upside down Last Line: Underleaf may this and every snail sense %itself ornament the weave of presence Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRESENT AGE, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion PRESENTIMENT OF BETTER THINGS, SELS., by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We rest in faith that man's perfection is the crowning flower Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Religion PRETENSE, by LOUISE MOSS MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: There is no atheism. Men avow Last Line: And love itself is partially a prayer. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PRIEST OF CHRIST, by THOMAS KEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the priest these graces shall possess Last Line: And wisely fair restoratives supply Subject(s): Religion PRIMROSE BY THE WAYSIDE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Source First Line: Close to the road's impurity Subject(s): Religion PRINCE OF PEACE, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, the glad sound! The saviour comes Subject(s): Religion PRINCE OF PEACE, by HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PRINCIPLES OF SCARCITY, DOCTRINES OF GROWTH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Research shows that for each discovery Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PRISONER'S SONG, by JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTTE GUYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird am I Alternate Author Name(s): Guion, De La Mothe; Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvieres De La Mothe; Guyon Du Chesnoy Subject(s): Faith; Religion PRIVATE AND PROFANE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From loss of the old and lack of the new Subject(s): Religion; Philosophy & Philosophers; Art & Artists; Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life; Theology PRIVATE ENTERPRISE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet is what what we need. By telephone Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Religion PROBLEM AND ANSWER, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: To conjure life into a lonely waste Last Line: And solve the subtle trick with more than sleep. Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Religion; Dead, The; Theology PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And know what I did well and what I did not fo. Amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And what I did well and what I didn't amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion PROBLEM IN HISTORY, by ROBERT WALLACE Poem Source First Line: At morning light the ark lay grounded fast Subject(s): Religion PROCESSION, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: A ragged block of rockets breaks up Last Line: In the humble sincerity of a craftsman Subject(s): Religion; Tradition; Worship PRODIGAL, by ELLEN GILBERT Poem Text First Line: Like a bird that trails a broken wing Last Line: And hide me from the past. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PRODIGAL, by ELLEN GILBERT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PRODIGAL SON, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prodigal son is kneeling in the husks Last Line: Under the water there's a door the pigs have gone through Subject(s): Bible; Religion PROFIT AND LOSS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Profit? - loss? / who shall declare this good - that ill? Last Line: And calls them one. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology PROGRESS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master stood upon the mount, and taught Last Line: The friend of man desires' Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology PROGRESSION, by INEZ CLARK THORSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PROLOGUE OF FAUST, SELS., by JOHN ANSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lose this day loitering, 'twill be the same story Last Line: Begin, and then the work will be completed Subject(s): Religion PROLOGUE TO MORNING, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, what of the night? Subject(s): Religion PROMISES: 3. GOLD GLADE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering, in autumn, the woods of boyhood Subject(s): Religion; Theology PROMISES: 3. GOLD GLADE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering, in autumn, the woods of boyhood Last Line: I shall set my foot, and go there Subject(s): Religion PROMOTION, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great heart is dead, they say Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion PROOF, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If radio's slim fingers can pluck a melody Last Line: Why should mortals wonder if god hears prayer? Variant Title(s): God Hears Prayer Subject(s): Prayer; Radio; Religion; Theology PROOF, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It comes down to this: I saw the room a little tilted Last Line: The other shall hold a kind of grudge Subject(s): Religion PROOF, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I love god for causing me to be Last Line: Crossed out delete and wrote his patient stet Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PROOFS OF BUDDHA'S EXISTENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As men who see a city fitly planned Subject(s): Buddhism; Religion PROPHECY, by LON WOODRUM Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the voice in the darkness Subject(s): Religion PROPHET, by SHERARD VINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the glory of the lord comes, it's like a mighty wind Subject(s): Religion PROPS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Earthly props are useless Last Line: O, give me all! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology PROSPECT OF THE INTERIOR, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: A little daunting, these periodic Last Line: Coracle, the allocated oar Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PROSPICE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat Last Line: And with god be the rest! Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology PROTESTANT EASTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was a little boy Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology PROTESTANT EASTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was a little boy Last Line: Those are the people that sing %when they aren't quite %sure Subject(s): God; Religion PROVERBS 23: 29-35. WINE AND WOE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PROVERBS 31, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: What a rare find is a capable wife! Last Line: Extol her for the fruit of her hand, %and let her works praise her in the gates Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion PROVERBS 31. AN UPDATED VERSION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Who can find a wise woman? Last Line: Many women have done wisely %but she excels them all Subject(s): Shalvi, Alice; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion PROVERBS, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Anger; Religion PROVERBS. A SOWER OF DISCORD, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PROVERBS: THE JOYS OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Blessed are those who have discovered wisdom Last Line: Glory is the portion of the wise, %all that fools inherit is contempt Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: THE SUPREME INVITATION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And now, my children, listen to me Last Line: All who hate me are in love with death Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM AS CREATOR, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his fashioning Last Line: At play everywhere on his earth, %delighting to be with the children of men Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM AS HOSTESS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom has built herself a house Last Line: Leave foolishness behind you and you will live, %go forwards in the ways of perception Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM SPEAKS, A WARNING TO THE HEEDLESS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom calls aloud in the streets Last Line: But whoever listens to me may live secure, %will have quiet, fearing no mischance Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVIDE, PROVIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience; Reputation; Theology; Impermanence PROVIDE, PROVIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Last Line: With boughten friendship at your side %than none at all. Pr0vide, provide! Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience PSALM, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God of paper and writing, god of first and last drafts Last Line: My shepherd, I want, I want, I want Subject(s): God; Religion; Writing And Writers PSALM 1, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Blessed are the man and the woman Subject(s): Marriage; Religion PSALM 100, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Make a joyful noise unto the lord Last Line: And his truth endureth to all generations Variant Title(s): A Psalm Of Praise; Be Thankful Unto Hi Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Singing And Singers PSALM 103, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Bless the lord, o my soul Last Line: More. Bless thou the lord, o my soul. Praise ye the lord. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PSALM 103, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My soul with all thy powers thy maker praise Subject(s): Religion PSALM 104, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Unnamable god, you are fathomless Subject(s): Religion; Sea PSALM 104: THE MAJESTY AND MERCY OF GOD, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Oh, worship the king all glorious above Last Line: With true adoration shall lisp to thy praise. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Religion; Theology PSALM 107, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Religion PSALM 122, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I was glad when they said unto me Last Line: Because of the house of the lord our god %I will seek thy good Subject(s): Religion PSALM 127, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: The house jehova builds not Last Line: Shall unto him be dreadfull. Subject(s): Religion; Sleep; Theology PSALM 127, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Except the lord build the house Last Line: But they shall speak with the enemies in the gate Subject(s): Religion; Sleep PSALM 128, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Blessed is every one that feared the lord Last Line: Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children: %and peace upon israel Subject(s): Religion PSALM 13, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: How long o lord! Shall I forgotten bee? Subject(s): Religion PSALM 130, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Out of the depths of woe Subject(s): Religion PSALM 131, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Lord, my mind is not noisy with desires Subject(s): Religion PSALM 134, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Behold, bless ye lord Last Line: Bless thee out of zion Subject(s): Religion PSALM 136, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Let us with a gladsome mind Last Line: Ever faithful, ever sure. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology PSALM 139, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O lord in me there lieth nought Subject(s): Religion PSALM 145:9, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The lord is good to all Last Line: And his tender mercies are over all his works Subject(s): Religion PSALM 151, by ALTER BRODY Poem Source First Line: Praise ye the lord, o nations! Subject(s): Religion PSALM 19, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The workmanship of heaven soe bright and faire Subject(s): Religion PSALM 19, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The heavens declare thy glory, lord! Subject(s): Religion PSALM 23, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The lord's my shepherd, I'll not want Subject(s): Religion PSALM 23. THE SHEPHERD'S PSALM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: The lord is my shepherd; I shall not want Last Line: Will dwell in the house of the lord for ever. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PSALM 248, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Religion PSALM 27, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The lord is my light and my salvation Subject(s): Religion PSALM 27, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: God is my light, salvation, strength and aid Subject(s): Religion PSALM 46, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: God is our hope and strength, which never failes Subject(s): Religion PSALM 46. GOD IS THE ETERNAL REFUGE OF HIS PEOPLE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble Last Line: The lord of hosts is with us; the god of job is our refuge Variant Title(s): The Refug Subject(s): Religion PSALM 62, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My spirit looks to god alone Subject(s): Religion PSALM 62:9, by CATHERINE MEANEY Poem Source First Line: My heart - a pitcher Last Line: Loving lord and god Subject(s): God; Religion PSALM 8. MAN'S PLACE IN CREATION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: O lord our lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth Last Line: O lord our lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Variant Title(s): A Psalm Of Praise;the Psalm Of David;the Praise Of God Subject(s): Religion; Theology PSALM 84, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: How amiable are thy tabernacles, o lord of hosts! Last Line: O lord of hosts: %blessed is the man that trusteth in thee Subject(s): Religion PSALM AGAINST THE DARKNESS, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M. Subject(s): Religion PSALM BEFORE SLEEP, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Except for my body, who accompanies me Last Line: This is the poem my words never bring back Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality PSALM OF CONFIDENCE, by HORACE WESTWOOD Poem Source Subject(s): Religion PSALM OF THE EARLY BUDDHIST SISTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now here, now there, lightheaded, crazed with grief Subject(s): Religion PSALM XLII, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fierce desire the hunted hart Last Line: My health, my life, my god! Subject(s): God; Religion; Salvation; Theology PSALM: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath not walkt astray Last Line: Runs to decay. Subject(s): God; Religion; Sin; Trees; Theology PSALM: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the gentils tumults make Last Line: That do on him their trust repose. Subject(s): Fear; Gentility; God; Nations; Religion; Theology PSALM: 3, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To god: to illuminate all men. Beginning with skid road Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PSALM: 3, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To god: to illuminate all men. Beginning with skid road Last Line: I feed on your name like a cockroach on a crumb - this cockroach is Subject(s): Bible; Religion PSALM: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou witness of my truth sincere Last Line: From dangers all securely keep. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Hope; Peace; Religion; Soul; Truth; Optimism; Theology PSALM: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bow downe thine eare Last Line: As with a shield him guard. Subject(s): Evil; God; Israel; Religion; Sin; Theology PSALM: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thee, o lord my god, relyes Last Line: And tell of all his righteousnesse. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fear; God; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology PSALMS OF THE SEA: THE CONVERT, by EVERETT BOSTON Poem Text First Line: The lord is my shepherd on the meadows of the sea Last Line: In the short leisure and simple words of the sea. Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean PSALMS, SELS, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The oil that spins our bones Last Line: Tries us as silver's tried Subject(s): Bible; God; Religion PSALTER OF AVRAM HAKTANI, SELS., by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Religion PSYCHE AND THE GOD, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is with me? Last Line: And at the centre, love revealed. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Religion; Theology PURIFICATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At start of spring I open a trench Last Line: The deathless earth. Beneath that seal %the old escapes into the new Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PURIFICATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From flame to snow Last Line: Wherever he may go. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology PURITAN WAY OF DEATH, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How hard this life is hallowed by the body Last Line: Which is redundant, awful, endless, and ours Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality PURPOSE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deeply and long the sap must flow Last Line: Reach the stars before they are done! Subject(s): Religion; Theology PYRAMIDS, by LLOYD FRANK MERRELL Poem Text First Line: We build our pyramids of human stone Last Line: In building christ's own pyramid of sharing? Subject(s): Pyramids; Religion; Theology QUARTET, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: The cello never made it, lost Last Line: In the absence of another Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality QUERELA DIVINA: RESPONSIO HUMANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O man unkind %half in mind Subject(s): Religion QUEST ETERNAL, by ALICE M. PULLEN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion QUESTION, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the lovely mystery of trees Last Line: Or barren wintry limbs ask alms of god? Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology QUESTIONS OF LIFE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bending staff I would not break Last Line: The eternal beauty new and old! Subject(s): Life; Religion; Theology QUIET FROM GOD! IT COMETH NOT TO STILL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: She may speak peace to them Subject(s): Religion; Theology QUIET INCARNATION, by PATRICIA G. ROURKE Poem Source First Line: Softly falls the snow Last Line: Int the night of our lives Subject(s): Religion; Winter QUIET THINGS, by I. W. Poem Text First Line: I thank the lord for quiet things Last Line: Of lonely pools and streams. Subject(s): Religion; Serenity; Theology QUO VADIS?, by MYLES E. CONNOLLY Poem Source First Line: Fare not abroad, o soul, to win Last Line: And even as he goes his friend %is knocking at his heart Subject(s): Religion QUO VADIS?, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Peter, outworn, / and menaced by the sword Last Line: On christ, the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology RABBI BEN EZRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grow old along with me! Last Line: Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same! Subject(s): Aging; Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology RABBI ZUBER, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Was a smiling kindness of a man, taking Last Line: My statutes, you shall be my people and I will be your god Subject(s): Religion RABBIS IN THE SANHEDRIN SAID, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: In their time, parents did not fear Last Line: Be makers or we are unmade Subject(s): Religion RACCOON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coon, why did you come to this dance Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RACCOON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coon, why did you come to this dance Last Line: Clanging the garbage pail like great silver bells Subject(s): God; Religion RACE AND BATTLE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The race is not to the swift Last Line: To save the streaked pansy of the heart from being trampled to mud Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion RADIANCE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Always that forgiving paranoia Last Line: Tracery of ordinary branches Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality RAHAB, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Gollihar %burned the winter grass from his fields Subject(s): Religion RAHMEL ROAD, by CHITRA GAJADIN Poem Source First Line: My mother said %we must still go to rahmel road Last Line: Intuitively she avoided the question: %when are you getting married? Subject(s): Parents; Religion RAIN: SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: It is palm Last Line: A lesson about jesus %into his palm Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Sabbath; Youth RAINBOWS AND CIRCUMCISION, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He might have made some other sign Last Line: Watching hector mounted on andromache. O rainbows! Subject(s): Religion RANCOUR OF THIS WICKED WORLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In full grett hevenesse myn hert ys pwyght Subject(s): Religion RAPHAEL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not soon forget that sight Last Line: Man's works shall follow him! Subject(s): Raphael (1483-1520); Religion; Theology RAPUNZEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman / who loves a woman Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology RAPUNZEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman %who loves a woman Last Line: And only as she dreamt of the yellow hair %did moonlight sift into her mouth Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After adam broke his rib in two Last Line: Like a watermelon Subject(s): God; Religion; Rats; Theology RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After adam broke his rib in two Last Line: Deserve to smile in eternity %like a watermelon Subject(s): God; Religion RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a golden snake Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes; Nightmares; Theology; Serpents; Vipers RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a golden snake Last Line: Which was the unbroken surrender of god Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes RE-ROOTING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were trying to put the roots back Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology RE-ROOTING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were trying to put the roots back Last Line: Even this digging, better than nothing, %has not yet begun Subject(s): Christianity; Religion REACH, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: When we heard the tree hum Last Line: Of high flung music and earthliness Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality READER, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lord, when the clock strikes Subject(s): Monasteries; Religion READING BIBLES IN TENNESSEE, by ROSS MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Because there is faith they will be replaced Last Line: Stories are read and forgotten like %the ones before Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Tennessee READING RESPONSIVELY, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: I sat in church. I heard Last Line: I wear a hat against a light %hot and strong as irons Subject(s): Public Worship; Religion; Revolutions; Unfaithfulness READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (1911-2004)); Religion; Women's Rights; Reading; Male-female Relations; Theology; Feminism READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Last Line: The color blue was full of darkness, dreaming %in the wind and trees. I was reading you Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (b. 1911); Religion; Women's Rights REAL PRESENCE, by IVAN ADAIR Poem Text First Line: Not on an altar shall mine eyes behold thee Last Line: My god ... My brother-man. Subject(s): Religion; Theology REALITY, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed a dream last night, when all was still Subject(s): Religion REALIZATION, by ANANDA ACHARYA Poem Source First Line: I will keep the fire of hope ever burning on the altar of my soul Subject(s): Religion REALIZING THE FUTILITY OF LIFE; WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF A PRIEST'S CELL, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since the time when I was a lusty boy Last Line: That very striving will make one's error more. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Religion; Zen Buddhism; Theology REBECCA'S HYMN, FR. IVANHOE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When israel, of the lord beloved Last Line: "are mine accepted sacrifice ." Variant Title(s): Hebrew Hymn;hymn Of The Hebrew Maid Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology REBEL, by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I %die Last Line: Or just %trying to make %trouble Subject(s): Religion REBEL, SELS., by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the murk that swallows me Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion RECEIVING THE BLESSING OF ST. BLAISE, by ELIZABETH ANTALEK Poem Source First Line: I remember the x those wax Last Line: Rebuilt from the foundations %of two different fires Subject(s): Religion RECESSIONAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, known of old Last Line: Thy mercy on thy people, lord! Variant Title(s): Lest We Forget! Subject(s): Faith; God; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humanity; Imperialism; Patriotism; Prayer; Religion; Soldiers; Wealth; Belief; Creed; British Empire; England - Empire; Theology; Riches; Fortunes RECOGNITION OF EVE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it was she had so fiercely fought Last Line: She was already turning beautiful Subject(s): Bible; Religion RECONCILIATION, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur leonce miranda, then, ... But stay! Last Line: Meanwhile, no separation of the pair! Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so slipt pleasantly away five years Last Line: Look at it for a moment while I breathe. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ready to hear the rest? How good you are! Last Line: And stand all ready for morn's joy a-blush? Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED DANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a girl Last Line: Going down with god's first creature %dancing all the way Subject(s): God; Religion RED IS THE COLOR OF ACTION, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: White %is passive, the acted upon Last Line: Meaning escapes like water Subject(s): Religion RED ROSES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tommy is three and when he's bad Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RED ROSES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tommy is three and when he's bad Last Line: Of red red roses he gives her Subject(s): God; Religion RED SHOES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the ring Last Line: What they did would do them in Subject(s): God; Religion REDEMPTION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: All the world is lit with god's light Last Line: Bellows the one unknown word Subject(s): Eucharist; God; Religion REFLECTIONS, by CYRUS E. ALBERTSON Poem Source First Line: In a puddle by the roadside Subject(s): Religion REFLECTIONS, by EDNA BECKER Poem Text First Line: Stars lie broken on a lake Last Line: I must be still. Subject(s): Religion; Theology REFLECTIONS, by CECILIA SWATTON Poem Source First Line: Lowly puddle Last Line: I %can %reflect %god Subject(s): Religion REFLECTIONS ON MIRRORS, by ELDER JAMES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A mirror copies everything it sees Subject(s): Religion REFORMERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pure reformers! Not in vain Subject(s): Religion REFRACTED LIGHTS, by CELIA PARKER WOOLEY Poem Source First Line: The evening star that softly sheds Subject(s): Religion REFUGE, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When stars ride in on the wings of dusk Subject(s): Religion REFUSING HEAVEN, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old women in black at early mass in winter Subject(s): Religion; Theology REGARDING THE MONUMENT, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Of course it is made of would, and want, Last Line: If more powerfully, and more horribly Subject(s): Christianity; Religion REGENERATION, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ward, and still in bonds, one day Last Line: "and let me die before my death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Redemption; Religion; Theology REGINA COELI LETARE, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Gabriel, that angel bright Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Religion REJECTED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: The world denies her prophets with rash breath Subject(s): Religion REJOICE AND BE MERRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rejoice and be merry in songs and in mirth Last Line: So blessed for ever be jesus our king, %who brought us salvation - his praises we'll sing Subject(s): Religion RELIANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Not to the swift, the race Subject(s): Religion RELIANCE ON GOD, by ? CASKET Poem Source First Line: If thou hast ever felt that all on earth Subject(s): Religion RELIC, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: Wrapped in muslin, a ruby in each nostril Last Line: Or after they scoured out the heart Subject(s): Death; Religion RELICS, by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: Not fountains, grottoes, or statuary, but pieces Last Line: Us to sleep with when we were your baby girls Subject(s): Death; Inanimate Objects; Religion RELIGIO LAICI; OR, A LAYMAN'S FAITH, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars Last Line: Tom sternhold's, or tom sha--ll's rhymes will serve. Variant Title(s): Finite Reason;reason And Revelation;reason And The Soul;religio Laici, Or, A Layman's Faith: A Poem Subject(s): Anglican Church; Faith; Protestantism; Religion; Translating & Interpreting; Belief; Creed; Theology RELIGION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no priest of crooks nor creeds Last Line: Help them to rise -- and heaven is found. Subject(s): Religion; Theology RELIGION, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First, it was more about mystery than about trying to get us to Last Line: Portobellos, but I was listening with that other, my neediest ear Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality RELIGION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To learn the secret of the silent grass Last Line: The life that lasts, tho' I and all men die. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Love; Religion; Secrets; World; Theology RELIGION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My heart is dead to love,' I said Last Line: I knelt in fervent love of god. Subject(s): God; Introspection; Love; Religion; Theology RELIGION; AN ESSAY IN COUPLETS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What blesses yet is difficult Last Line: This -- goodness: worship -- the result. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Religion; Worship; Theology RELIGIOUS CONSOLATION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One size fits all. The shape or coloration Subject(s): Religion; Theology RELIGIOUS ISOLATION, TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children (as such forgive them) have I known Last Line: Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers. Subject(s): Religion; Theology RELIGIOUS MUSINGS; A DESULTORY POEM, WRITTEN ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time, when most divine to hear Last Line: Flows to the ray and warbles as it flows. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology RELIGIOUS UNITY, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Religion REMARKS ON DR. MIDDLETON'S EXAMINATION ... USE AND INTENT OF PROPHECY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This passage, sir, which has engag'd of late Last Line: If granted, find him in a better state! Subject(s): Middleton, Conyers (1683-1750); Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Theology REMEMBERING, by SANDRA LEE CHURCHILL Poem Source First Line: Sunlight spills like liquid gold Last Line: My early days with him %so long ago Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion REMINDER, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each star to rise and shine and fade Last Line: Within me -- of one flame are made! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology RENASCENCE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All I could see from where I stood Last Line: Will cave in on him by and by. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RENUNCIATION, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: No man hath gain'd soul-mastery, without Last Line: Widens life's whole horizon to his sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Religion; Theology REPLY, by JANET NORRIS BANGS Poem Text First Line: Man prayed his way up from the beast Last Line: Unto the way! Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology REPOSE OF A HOLY FAMILY; FROM AN OLD ITALIAN PICTURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a palm-tree, by the green, old nile Last Line: Before the suffering and the lowly, down. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Religion; Theology REQUESTS, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I asked for peace Last Line: Within thy heart to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Redemption; Religion; Theology REQUIEM FOR A CROESUS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the moon was a silver dollar spun Last Line: With pennies on his eyes. Subject(s): Moon; Religion; Stars; Sun; Theology REQUIREMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live by faith; but faith is not the slave Last Line: Firm-rooted in the faith that god is good. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology RESIGNATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no flock, however watched and tendered Last Line: The grief that must have way. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology RESIGNATION (1), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who dry'st the mourner's tear Last Line: We never saw by day! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): God The True Source Of Consolation;prayer Subject(s): Religion; Theology RESONANCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When protestants march down the catholic road Last Line: When a housefly makes its last confession. Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Ireland; Marching And Marches; Protest, Social; Religion REST AND WORK, by ANNE WHITNEY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion RESTLESS HEART, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As on the bank the poor fish lies Subject(s): Religion RESTORATION OF ENHEDUANNA TO HER FORMER STATION, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: The first lady of the throne room Last Line: From the doorsill of heaven comes the word: %'welcome!' Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion RESTORATION OF ENHEDUANNA TO HER FORMER STATION, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: The first lady of the throne room Last Line: From the doorwill of heaven came the word: %'welcome!' -- heart is never calm Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion RESURGAM, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We doubted our god in secret Last Line: The living truth shall rise! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Theology RESURGENCE, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Source First Line: All truth is crucified,' we said Subject(s): Religion RESURRECTION, by JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI Poem Source Subject(s): Religion RESURRECTION, by NICOLE COOLEY Poem Source First Line: In my story the sisters forecast bad weather Last Line: You cast before you disappeared forever-your punishment, %life everlasting Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality RESURRECTION, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring comes with the silent rush of leaf Subject(s): Religion RESURRECTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If it all be for naught, for nothingness Subject(s): Religion RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Source Subject(s): Religion RESURRECTION EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He resteth: weep not Last Line: That he inherits. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology RESURRECTION, IMPERFECT, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep old sun, thou canst not have repast Last Line: Desunt coetera. Variant Title(s): Resurrection Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology RETALIATION, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: A foolish hermit closed his doors and said Last Line: Shuts out much more of god than he shuts in. Subject(s): God; Religion; Sin; Theology RETREAT, by ROBERT LIETZ Poem Source First Line: I taste the fish soup, feel the cold again Last Line: Negotiated the details of a conduct %out of that cold yard Subject(s): Religion RETURN, by PAUL BRESLIN Poem Source First Line: Children never catch up: I will always move Last Line: Become each other and nothing, end without world Subject(s): Children; Religion RETURN, by PORTIA MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I heard god singing Last Line: Singing in the dusk. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RETURN, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was justice to see her nude haunches Last Line: Not stone and serpent Subject(s): Religion RETURN!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: We pray / lord christ, come down again Last Line: Return! Return! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology REVAMPING THE VIRGIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How green the grass looks on the other side Last Line: To get it right this time and have a girl. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology REVELATION, by ALICE BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the meadow, sprent with dew Subject(s): Religion REVELATION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We make ourselves a place apart Last Line: Must speak and tell us where they are. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology REVELATION, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a pilgrimage to find the god Last Line: Saw his bright hand send signals from the suns. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology REWARD, by GRACE G. BOSTWICK Poem Source First Line: If I can lead a man who has been blind Subject(s): Religion RHAPSODY, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: This light reflecting light within a child's face Last Line: Each instant knocking on the next one to let me in Subject(s): Religion RHAPSODY OF THE WAVES, by JOHN D. WALSHE Poem Source First Line: O, haste with me Subject(s): Religion RHEIMS, by ALFRED E. LONGWEIL Poem Text First Line: Under the thresh of an iron rain Last Line: Oh, the cardinal prays! Subject(s): Clergy; God; Prayer; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology RHYME FOR HOLY SATURDAY, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning father blake / will bless us all Last Line: Will bless us all. Subject(s): Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Religion; Worship; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; The Resurrection; Theology RICH MAN'S FAREWELL TO THE WORLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Worldys blys, have good day Subject(s): Religion RICHARD DE CAISTRE'S HYMN, by ROBERT HARMAN Poem Source First Line: Ihu lorde, that madest me Subject(s): Religion RIDDLE OF THE WORLD IS UNDERSTOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With a child's trust leans on a father's breast Subject(s): Religion RIDING THE ELEVATOR INTO THE SKY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the fireman said Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology RIDING THE ELEVATOR INTO THE SKY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the fireman said Last Line: Some useful door -- %somewhere -- %up there Subject(s): God; Religion RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 7, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This hermit good lives in that wood Last Line: A sadder and wiser man, %he rose the morrow morn Subject(s): Religion; Sea RINGING THE BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the way they ring Last Line: They tell you to go. And you do Subject(s): Bells; Depression, Mental; God; Insanity; Religion RISK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a daughter tries suicide Last Line: And the mother lies down on her marriage bed %and eats up her heart like two eggs Subject(s): God; Religion RITE, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vodu green clinching his waist, Subject(s): Religion; Theology RITUAL NOT RELIGION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Will seeing concan make a dog a lion? Subject(s): Religion RIVER BRIDGED AND FORGOT, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bridged and forgot, the river Last Line: Past holding or beholding, %in whose flexing signature %all the dooms assemble %and become the lives Subject(s): Religion RIVER ROAD, by ROBERT LIETZ Poem Source First Line: Small, too remote, not stars Last Line: Clouding the mirrors %of his changed state? Subject(s): Religion ROAD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For all we sought and missed, or left unclaimed Subject(s): Religion ROAD AGENT, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't seem so cursed in summer Last Line: This is the one I fight to get clear. %the hardest one, in the cold of the year Subject(s): Religion ROAD BACK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car is heavy with children Last Line: Like a persistent rumor %that will get us yet Subject(s): God; Religion; Vacation ROAD MAKERS, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ROAD TO BETHLEHEM, by WATSON KIRKCONNELL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ROAD TO THE TRENCHES, by HENRY LUSHINGTON Poem Source First Line: Leave me, comrades, here I drop Subject(s): Religion ROAD-HYMN FOR THE START, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave the early bells at chime Last Line: But upon our lifted foreheads pours the boon of endless quest. Subject(s): Religion; Wandering & Wanderers; Theology ROAD-MATES, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: From deepest depth, o lord, I cry to thee Last Line: "for this I came -- to bear you company." Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology ROAD-SONG OF THE RACE, by IRENE PETTIT MCKEEHAN Poem Source First Line: I have lived in the garden with adam Subject(s): Religion ROADSIDE POEMS: THE SHADOWS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little boy, with smooth, fair cheeks Last Line: Those shadows, lord, for thee! Subject(s): Children; God; Religion; Shadows; Childhood; Theology ROARING WATERFALL, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Religion ROCHESTER EXTEMPORE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And after singing psalm the twelfth Last Line: "I am a rascal, that thou know'st!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ROCK OF AGES, by J. TARWOOD Poem Source First Line: In his rock, god broods Last Line: And there's never a wall that talks back Subject(s): God; Religion ROCK OF AGES', by EDWARD H. RICE Poem Text First Line: Rock of ages, cleft for me,' / thoughtlessly the maiden sang Last Line: "let me hide myself in thee." Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology ROCK, SELS., by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Religion ROCK: CHORUS 1, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eagle soars in the summit of heaven Last Line: In country or suburb, and in the town %only for important weddings Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Knowledge Without Wisdo Subject(s): Religion ROCK: CHORUS 10, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have seen the house built, you have seen it adorned Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Religion ROCK: CHORUS 6, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is hard for those who have never known persecution Last Line: And if the temple is to be cast down %we must first build the temple Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Religion ROMANCE OF A CHRISTMAS CARD, by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KING DAVID, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Despots smiling yield their breath Last Line: "that said joab's brains to scatter." Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Death; Religion; Slavery; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Theology; Serfs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE NUNS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who at night the convent walls Last Line: O'er the keys are wildly straying. Subject(s): Churches; Faces; Love; Nuns; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology ROMANS, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Religion RONDEAU, by RENE ANDRES DE ROOY Poem Source First Line: Black madonna with eyes of sadness Last Line: Black madonna with eyes of sadness? Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Religion ROOM OF MY LIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, %in the room of my life Last Line: And the sea that bangs in my throat Subject(s): God; Religion ROSE, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a world of wonder in this rose Last Line: I am my rose %are one Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion ROSE, OH PURE CONTRADICTION, JOY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of being no-one's sleep under so many lids Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Roses ROSES IN DECEMBER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God gave his children memory Last Line: Forgive, when I remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion; Theology ROWING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A story, a story! Last Line: This story ends with me still rowing Subject(s): God; Religion ROWING ENDETH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm mooring my rowboat Last Line: That untamable, eternal, gut-driven ha-ha %and lucky love Subject(s): God; Religion ROYAL PRESENTS, by NATHANIEL WANLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 46, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For in and out, above, below Last Line: Round which we phantom figures come and go Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Religion RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 47, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And if the wine you drink, the lip you press Last Line: Thou shalt be - nothing - thou shalt not be less Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Religion RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 48, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While the rose blows along the river brink Last Line: Draws up to thee - take that, and do not shrink Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Religion RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 49, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days Last Line: And one by one back in the closet lays Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Religion RUBAIYAT, SELS., by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Religion RUGBY CHAPEL, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coldly, sadly descends Last Line: On, to the city of god. Subject(s): Religion; Theology RUINS REBUILT, by ADOLPH BOCK Poem Text First Line: God said, 'let there be light!' and lo! Last Line: Behold, humanity come forth to pray. Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Heaven; Humanity; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology RULE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The oil for extreme unction must be blessed Last Line: Things must be done in one way or another Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Rites And Ceremonies RULES AND LESSONS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first thy eyes [eies] unveil, give thy soul leave Last Line: For chains of darkness and eternal nights? Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Religion; Theology RUMPELSTILTSKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside many of us Subject(s): Doppelgangers; Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology RUMPELSTILTSKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside many of us Last Line: One part a barbed hook, %one part papa, %one part doppelganger Subject(s): Doppelgangers; Fairy Tales; God; Religion RUNAWAY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The poet tells you Last Line: Carving labyrinths for your escape? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life RUPTURE, by EDWIN WAIYAKI Poem Source First Line: I dropped religion at the age of twelve Subject(s): Religion RURAL COLLOQUY WITH A PAINTER, by TIMOTHY REID STEELE Poem Source First Line: By noon, as I recall, the sky was clear Subject(s): Religion RUSE, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A gift of a greek horse to my enemy Last Line: Eros, perhaps tomorrow I shall envy them Subject(s): Religion RUSH HOUR, by JOACHIM SMET Poem Source First Line: Aboard this trolley I become again Subject(s): Religion RUTH: RUTH TO NAOMI, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Entreat me not to leave thee Last Line: If aught but death part thee and me Subject(s): Naomi (bible); Religion; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible SABBATH OF THE SOUL, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Source First Line: Work is not all, however much we need Subject(s): Religion SABBATHS: 1985 I, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not again in this flesh will I see Last Line: Is here, shaping the seasons of his wild will Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SABBATHS: 1985 I, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not again in this flesh will I see Last Line: Is here, shaping the seasons of his wild will Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SABBATHS: 1985 III, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awaked from the persistent dream Last Line: We are all praising, praying to the light we are, but cannot know Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SABBATHS: 1985 III, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awaked from the persistent dream Last Line: The lights we are, but cannot know Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SACRAMENT, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: One sunday morning %after a spring rain Last Line: Occasionally a grain or two of sand %still crunched in our mouths Subject(s): Churches; Mormons; Religion - Reformers; Sacraments SACRAMENTS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the sun dancers, in their helmets of sage Last Line: Then the systole, the blackness of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SACRED SONG, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The turf shall be my fragrant shrine Last Line: Thy touch shall turn all bright again! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology SACRIFICE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though love repine, and reason chafe Last Line: When for the truth he ought to die.' Variant Title(s): The Safest Way Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Theology SACRIFICE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There are no heights we may not reach Last Line: It came and joined me on the height! Subject(s): Desire; Religion; Theology SACRILEGIOUS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Above the white linen altar cloth the figure of jesus Last Line: On my tongue and let it melt there like the host Subject(s): Altars; Israel; Jesus Christ; Religion SAFE AND SANE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My theology, briefly Last Line: But not signed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Religion; Universe; Theology SAID THE INNKEEPER, by MYLES E. CONNOLLY Poem Source First Line: I cannot take these poor Last Line: A man must make his living while he may Subject(s): Religion SAID THE POET TO THE ANALYST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My business is words. Words are like labels Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SAID THE POET TO THE ANALYST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My business is words. Words are like labels Last Line: And ridiculous and crowded with all %the believing money Subject(s): God; Religion SAILING FROM THE UNITED STATES, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this country I planted not one seed Last Line: As a mine, subject to explosions and cave - in Subject(s): Religion SAINT BERNARD'S HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin mother, daughter of your son Last Line: All the good of all created things Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): Saint Bernard's Hymn Of Praise To Virgin Mary (paradiso -- Canto 33 Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible SAINT CHRISTOPHER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carry me across' Last Line: To carry thee across. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Religion; Theology SAINT CLARE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First I heard the voice throbbing across the river Last Line: Except by reaching the gate Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Variant Title(s): The Cal Subject(s): Christianity; Clare, Saint (1194-1253); Religion SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, by LOUISE WILSON Poem Source First Line: You saved the golden seeds of holy mirth Subject(s): Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Religion; Saints SAINT FRANCIS TO THE BIRDS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Birds, - birds of the air Last Line: Forgetful of the little worm and mole! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); God; Religion; Saints; Theology SAINT HUBERT OF GAMBAISEUIL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Of school I'd need an overplus, more lore than is assumed ad lib by a Last Line: Ambrosia may the gods deny to him who finds his art a task. Subject(s): Churches; Love; Religion; Schools; Cathedrals; Theology; Students SAINT MARY MAGDALENE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What great apostle, / when the christ rose Last Line: And himself appears. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Religion; Saints; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology SAINT MERDE, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've been taught my daily lesson Last Line: Who makes us clean Subject(s): Religion SAINT MICHAEL, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a motion within deity Last Line: The twelve huge ships of the moving zodiac. Subject(s): Michael, The Archangel; Religion; Saints; Michael, Saint; Theology SAINT NAZAIRE, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: The church at carcassone is filled with ghosts Last Line: With the dust of stars forever and forever. Subject(s): Churches; Ghosts; Prayer; Religion; Saints; Supernatural; Cathedrals; Theology SAINT PAUL: 1, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ! I am christ's! And let the name suffice you Last Line: Less than the love wherewith I ache for souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Saul Of Tarsus; Theology SAINT PETER TALKS ABOUT GOODNESS, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Saint peter %sitting at heaven's door Last Line: Talks %talks %talks Subject(s): God; Heaven; Native Americans - Wars; Religion; Saints; Soldiers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) SAINT TERESA'S BOOK-MARK, by THERESA OF AVILA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let nothing disturb thee Last Line: Alone god sufficeth. Alternate Author Name(s): Teresa Of Avila; Teresa Of Jesus; Teresa De Avila Variant Title(s): Lines Written In Her Breviary;who God Possesseth;santa Teresa's Book-mark Subject(s): Consolation; God; Religion; Theology SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The lord of all the lore that man had found Last Line: Unveil the hidden beauty of his face. Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology SAINT THOMAS IN INDIA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ risen, commanded thomas, saying 'begone! Last Line: "take this!"" he said, ""I yield my crown to christ." Subject(s): Death; India; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Slavery; Dead, The; Theology; Songs; Serfs SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 1. AT THE PIANO, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night two hunters, drunk, came in the tent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 1. AT THE PIANO, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night two hunters, drunk, came in the tent Last Line: Which was rouged crimson with red clay and blood Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 4. LOOSE CHANGE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'd sip our water and wait till supper came Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SAINTS AND STRANGERS: 4. LOOSE CHANGE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We'd sip our water and wait till supper came Last Line: Take this, you slut, I've stolen it for you Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SAINTS COME MARCHING IN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saints come, %as human as a mouth Last Line: Onto the surgical andiron %of god Subject(s): God; Religion SAINTS: 9. CASH OR TURTLE OR HEAVEN, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: Just beyond that big sign for ebenezer church? Last Line: Goddamned bastards out of there, I say and believe Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality SALSETTE AND ELEPHANTA, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis eve -- and o'er the face of parting day Last Line: And seeks redemption from the incarnate god. Subject(s): Elephanta Caves, India; Hinduism; Religion; Salsette (island), India; Sculpture & Sculptors; Theology SALUTATION BY THE HEAVENLY JOYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hayll be thou, qwen of gret honour Subject(s): Religion SALUTATION TO JESUS CHRIST, by JOHN CALVIN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SALUTATION TO THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Haile be thou! Hende heven qwene Subject(s): Religion SALVATION, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Granted, the choir %is an embarrassment. Those faces Last Line: Of salvation, it is what we all expect Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SALVATOR MUNDI: VIA CRUCIS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe he looked indeed / much as rembrandt envisioned him Subject(s): Christianity; God; Religion; Theology SALVATOR MUNDI: VIA CRUCIS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe he looked indeed %much as rembrandt envisioned him Last Line: Up from those depths where purpose %drifted for mortal moments Subject(s): Christianity; God; Religion SALVE REGINA (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Heyl! Comely creature curteous of kind Subject(s): Religion SALVUM ME FAC, DOMINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fadyr & sone & holy gost Subject(s): Religion SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little onward lend thy guiding hand Last Line: And calm of mind all passion spent. Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Religion; Samson; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Theology SAMSON TO HIS DALILAH, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could not once blinding me, cruel, suffice? Last Line: When first I look'd on thee, I lost mine eyes. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SAN BORONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Saint brandan, a scotch abbot, long ago Last Line: Whose boundless deep we name eternity. Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Death; Future Life; Religion; Soul; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology SAN MICHELE DI PAGANA, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Why light your candles on a day like this Last Line: His sins all unforgiven! Subject(s): Religion; Saints; Theology SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Mid all the traffic of the ways Last Line: Than any is aware. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology SANDALWOOD COMES TO MY MIND, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the song shall go on Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion SANTOS: NEW MEXICO, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Return to the deep sources, nothing less Last Line: The torn mind to accept the whole of its duress %and, pierced with anguish, at last act for love Subject(s): Religion; World War Ii SAON OF ACANTHUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here lapped in hallowed slumber saon lies Last Line: Asleep, not dead; a good man never dies Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Religion SAPIENCIA SENT TO REDEEM MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A mervelus thyng I hafe musyd in my mynde Subject(s): Religion SARAH, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel said to me:'why are you laughing?' Last Line: The joke's on me!' Subject(s): Bible; Religion SATAN ABSOLVED; A VICTORIAN MYSTERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Satan. To-day is the lord's 'day.' once more on his / good pleasure Last Line: Michael (aside). The anti-christ! Subject(s): Angels; Antichrist; Christianity; Devil; Evil; Heaven; Mystery; Religion & Science; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise SATAN ON WAR, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Subject(s): Religion SATAN'S PRIDE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no place %left for repentance, none for pardon left? Subject(s): Religion SAUL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said abner, 'at last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak Last Line: "e'en so, it is so!" Subject(s): Religion; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Theology SAVING LOVE, by WHITLEY STOKES Poem Text First Line: Methought I stood before the face of god Last Line: Our sister makes us dearer than we were' (59). Subject(s): Angels; Religion; Theology SAVIOR, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the rain began to fall, he rolled back Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SAVIOR, by ROBERT DONALD SPECTOR Poem Source First Line: In the desert of my deep depression Last Line: Delivered up my soul, my love, %to you for all eternity Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion SAY NOT, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not the struggle nought availeth Last Line: But westward, look, the land is bright. Variant Title(s): Courage;despondency Rebuked;the Incoming Tide;keeping On;hope Subject(s): Consolation; Courage; Freedom; Hope; Perseverance; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Optimism; Theology SAY YES QUICKLY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget your life. Say god is great. Get up Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men; Religion; Theology SAY YES QUICKLY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forget your life. Say god is great. Get up Last Line: From before the beginning of the universe Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men; Religion SAY-BUT-THE-WORD CENTURION ATTEMPTS A SUMMARY, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That numinous healer who preached saturnalia and paradox Last Line: And live the impossible. As each time we have, with mixed cries Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SCAPEGOATS, by ELEANOR BREED Poem Source First Line: The young men die in battle Subject(s): Religion SCARS OF RAPTURE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Shams, I have done everything I know Last Line: And the camels will cry out %in their sleep Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SCENES WITH HARLEQUINS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Distance is on edge Last Line: "it is parched mars, Subject(s): Religion SCHOOL DAYS, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me make this rule Subject(s): Religion SCORN NOT THE LEAST, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When [or, where] words are weak, and foes encountering strong Last Line: Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SCORPIO, BAD SPIDER, DIE:, SELS., by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Religion SCOTCH DRINK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other poets raise a fracas Last Line: Directs thee best. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bible; Religion; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Theology SCOTCH TE DEUM, by WILLIAM KETHE Poem Source First Line: All people that on earth do dwell Variant Title(s): Old Hundreth (psalm 100 Subject(s): Religion SCRIPTURE LESSON, by RAYMOND OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Judas, one of the chosen Last Line: Madmen, the sick, the blind, %discerned him every time Subject(s): Faith; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Religion SCULPTOR OF THE SOUL, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone Last Line: And made a molten cast of god's portrait on his own flesh. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sculpture & Sculptors; Theology SCULPTURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I took a piece of plastic clay Last Line: "he still that early impress bore, / and I could change it, nevermore" Subject(s): Clay;mankind;religion; Human Race;theology SEA CORPSE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beach was crowded Last Line: It must be necessary Subject(s): God; Religion SEA OF KANSAS, OHIO TUNDRA, TIME STILL RUNNING OUT, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kansas one million centuries ago, a tropical sea Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SEA OF PEACE, by RUTH MCENERY STUART Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SEA-HORIZONS, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sorrowful expanse from heaven to heaven Subject(s): Religion SEAL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt of a seal Last Line: As he lets out his blood Subject(s): God; Religion SEARCH, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: I sought his love in sun and stars Subject(s): Religion SEARCH, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sought him where my logic led Subject(s): Religion SEARCH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shew me that world of stars, and whence Subject(s): Religion SEARCH, by ANNE MARRIOTT Poem Source First Line: I sought him in a great cathedral, dim Last Line: I sought - and found him there Subject(s): Religion SECOND BEST, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the dark, o heart Last Line: O heart, in the great dawn! Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Theology SECOND CORINTHIANS, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Religion SECOND SEEING, by LOUIS GOLDING Poem Source First Line: If he be truly christ Subject(s): Religion SECRET, by RALPH SPAULDING CUSHMAN Poem Source First Line: I met god in the morning Last Line: You must seek him in the morning %if you want him through the day! Subject(s): Prayer; Religion SECRET, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I carry it around %like a flower Last Line: Let someone else bear this cargo of love Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SEE MUCH, SAY LITTLE, AND LEARN TO SUFFER IN TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: See much, sey lytill, and lerne to suffre in tyme Subject(s): Religion SEEKER, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have achieved. That which the lonely man Subject(s): Religion SEEKERS, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gates are open on the road Subject(s): Religion SEEKERS, by VICTOR STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: One asked a sign from god; and day by day Subject(s): Religion SEEKERS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Each of us is searching for Last Line: What will we do if we are brushed %by this lion's mane? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SEEKING AND FINDING GOD, by JOHN CHARLES EARLE Poem Source First Line: I will arise and to my father go Variant Title(s): Found Of Them That Sought Him No Subject(s): Religion SEERS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Suddenly it springs forth Last Line: The space where a crow once hunched and waited Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SEGOVIA, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: The shadow in the shiny pilot's jacket Last Line: Paradox must have no vagaries Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality SELF IN 1958, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is reality Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SELF IN 1958, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is reality Last Line: If I could remember how %and if I had the tears Subject(s): God; Religion SELF-INQUIRY, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let not soft slumber close my eyes Last Line: That leads to virtue and to god. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SELF-MASTERY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Religion SELF-RIGHTOUSNESS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Self-righteousness SELF-SURRENDER, by GEORGE MATHESON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O love that wilt not let me go Last Line: Disclose the wisdom of the way %in blessings yet to be Subject(s): Religion SEND FORTH, O GOD, THY LIGHT AND TRUTH, by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion SEND ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use me, god, in thy great harvest field Last Line: So that the work it holds be only done Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Religion SEND ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O thou best gift from heaven Subject(s): Religion SENSE AND SPIRIT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The senses loving earth or well or ill Last Line: To read her own and trust her down to death. Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life; Theology SENSE OF INFINITE PASSAGE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I have always been struck Last Line: The endless field of cobalt %which lies ahead Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SEQUEL TO FINALITY, by PATRICK F. KIRBY Poem Text First Line: They drove the hammered nails into his hands Last Line: Unseen one rode, who had been crucified. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SERAPHIM IN WINTER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: It was winter Last Line: Of what is rooted, %what pauses and flees Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SERIES OF TRIADS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ther ben iij poyntis of myscheff Subject(s): Religion SERMON OF THE TWELVE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January? %the month is dumb Last Line: But he never dies, never dies Subject(s): God; Religion SERMON WITHOUT WORDS, by ELIZABETH PATTON MOSS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SERMONS WE SEE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Religion SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNETH', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three things make earth unquiet Last Line: Is more than ever slave! Subject(s): Bible; Religion SERVANTS, by RICHARD WIGHTMAN Poem Source First Line: Singers, sing! The hoary world Subject(s): Religion SERVANTS OF THE GREAT ADVENTURE, by PERCY DEARMER Poem Source Subject(s): Clergy; Religion SERVICE, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O master let me walk with thee Last Line: With thee, o master, let me live! Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology SERVICES, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man in the land of ur Last Line: For those who felt deeply Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SERVICES, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man in the land of ur Last Line: For those who feel deeply Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: For here and for the afterlife Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion; Plains - Texas; Theology SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For here and for the afterlife Last Line: Would live, if it was god's will %and the wind blew Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion SEVEN JOYS OF THE VIRGIN IN HEAVEN: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Be glad, of al maydens flourre Subject(s): Religion SEVEN JOYS OF THE VIRGIN IN HEAVEN: 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Gaude, of uirgins the freshest floure Subject(s): Religion SEVEN JOYS OF THE VIRGIN IN HEAVEN: 3, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Guade flore virginali Subject(s): Religion SEVEN MARIA: 7. MARE INCOGNITO, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon makes my son go silent Last Line: He is totally filled with god Subject(s): Absence; Children; Moon; Religion SEVEN O'S OF CHRIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O sapiencia of the ffader, surmountyng all thyng Subject(s): Religion SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make no mistake if he rose at all Last Line: And crushed by remonstrance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make no mistake if he rose at all Last Line: And crushed by remonstance Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SEVEN WORDS FROM THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O lord god, o crist ihu Subject(s): Religion SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY GRAVESTONE FOR A CHILD, by RAYMOND OLIVER Poem Source First Line: The resurrection must take place Last Line: But she is in her father's mansion Subject(s): Graves; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The SEX IN HISTORY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the pope partook, the cardinals, priests, monks Last Line: Was hitting what he made Subject(s): History; Religion; Sex; Historians; Theology SEX IN HISTORY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the pope partook, the cardinals, priests, monks Last Line: Watching what he had made Subject(s): History; Religion; Sex SHADOWS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: I am here, the other elsewhere, the silence seems to live Last Line: I must pray, for it is the hour of the sovereign of the world. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Religion; Shadows; Silence; Bedtime; Theology SHALL I BE SILENT?, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds sing; and shall I be silent? Last Line: The pasture is thy word; the streams thy grace, %enriching all the place Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion SHAMAN AHGUTINGMARIK'S MAGIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What moves what Last Line: Keep your eyes shut Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion SHAMAN AHGUTINGMARIK'S MAGIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Earth everywhere earth Last Line: Say whatever comes Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion SHAMBHALA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: This is a place that has no place Last Line: Who goes there cannot tell the way Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SHAPE GOD WEARS, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So questioning, I was bold to dare Subject(s): God; Religion SHARING EVE'S APPLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blush not so! O blush not so Last Line: O cut the sweet apple and share it! Variant Title(s): Eve's Sweet Pipin Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Religion; Eve; Theology SHE SANG, DEAR SON, LULLAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thys mayden hath mary, she was full mylde Subject(s): Religion SHE'S NO ORDINARY GIRL, MY UMA, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Whom even the holy can't approach? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion SHE'S PLAYING IN MY HEART, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: At your feet Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion SHEBUOTH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: From dim, dark ages of the past Last Line: The law, to them, was sent from heaven. Subject(s): God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology SHED NOT TOO MANY TEARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SHEEP, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little oily fuzzbear Last Line: Choking on its green alphabet Subject(s): God; Religion SHEER JOY, by RALPH SPAULDING CUSHMAN Poem Source First Line: Oh the sheer joy of it! Last Line: Lord of tomorrow, %lover of me Subject(s): Religion SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While this america settles in the mould of its vulgarity Last Line: God, when he walked on earth Subject(s): United States; Social Commentary; Religion; United States; America; Theology; America SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While this america settles in the mould of its vulgarity Last Line: There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught - %they say - god, when he walked on ear Subject(s): Religion; United States SHINING MONEY OF LOVE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: We wear small white handkerchiefs Last Line: Seeing the shining money %of love inside, begins to sing Subject(s): God; Love; Money; Public Worship; Religion SHINY ALUMINUM GOD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the pilgrimage Last Line: An angel flapping in the cage Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality SHORELESS BATH A FABULOUS BOAST, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source First Line: Like a dowry like a razzle-dazzle Last Line: In matter press out their shore Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality SHORT HISTORY OF JUDAIC THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbis wrote Last Line: But aren't all our houses %burning? Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality SHORT LIFE OF THE HERMIT, SELS., by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: He told the crowd 'the devils Subject(s): Religion SHORTENED LIVES, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: To us it seemed his life was too soon done Last Line: The steadfast gaze he fixes on the goal. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology SHOSHANA, YOU STILL RUN TESTS TO PROVE LOVE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: You still test limits: of friends, love Last Line: Goes with you Subject(s): Religion SHOTPUTTERS AND DISCUS THROWERS, by LEONARD KRESS Poem Source First Line: Cut down to size by distance, always consigned Last Line: Swift grace is a proper stance for heaving that weight %without weight, above all things that can be Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Religion; Saints; Track Athletics SHOUT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you in eden again, america Last Line: Only that it was hungry Subject(s): God; Religion SHOUT HER NAME: KALI, KALI!, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Of a world heartsick, dazed Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion SHUT WINDOWS (FOR THE BRAILLE MAGAZINE), by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: When the outer eye grows dim Last Line: And every room is free to you and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Blindness; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology SIBYL, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everything on this journey %is fortuitous, unplanned Last Line: The not being able to tell Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SICKNESS UNTO DEATH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God went out of me Last Line: To the crazy woman in the next bed Subject(s): God; Religion SIGN OF YOUR FATHER, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: (the grain of wheat) Last Line: You say to them: 'it is a movement %and a rest' Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SIGN ON THE ROAD, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The atlantic a mile away is flat Last Line: I shall fall down like myself in a prison of anger Subject(s): Religion SIGNATURE FOR TEMPO, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think that this world against the wind of time Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Religion; Theology SIGNATURE FOR TEMPO, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think that this world against the wind of time Last Line: Out of the deep time have shelved this shallow ledge %where the waves break Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Religion SILENCE, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: God must have loved a silence for he laid Last Line: And silent, old, unconquerable love? Subject(s): Religion; Silence; Wellesley College; Theology SILENCE, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past parentage or gender Last Line: (george fox %was one) %great openings Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion SILENCE, by SAMUEL MILLER HAGEMAN Poem Source First Line: Let thy soul walk slowly in thee Last Line: For to be alone with silence %is to be alone with god Subject(s): Religion SILENCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My room is whitewashed Last Line: And the vibrating red muscle %of my mouth Subject(s): God; Religion SILENCE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Last Line: The hills are mute: yet how they speak of god! Subject(s): Religion; Theology SILENCE OF CATS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Before their feeding bowls Last Line: Waits for our waking Subject(s): Religion SILENT POEM, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Backroad - leafmold - stonewall - chipmunk Last Line: Weathercock - snowfall - starlight - cockcrow Subject(s): Religion SILENT STARS, by ERIC H. DANIELL Poem Source First Line: The bark and boom of guns and shrieking flight Subject(s): Religion SILENT STARS GO BY, by HARRIET HARTRIDGE TOMPKINS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SILEX SCINTIALLANS: THEY ARE ALL GONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are all gone into the world of light! Last Line: Where I shall need no glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Ascension Hymn;beyond The Veil;departed Friends;beauteous Death;the World Of Light;friends Gone Subject(s): Ascension Day; Christianity; Consolation; Death; Heaven; Immortality; Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement; Theology SIMEON MEDITATING, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: So long, o lord, I've waited for this day Last Line: I'm waiting, lord, to hear thy last clear call! Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He never spoke a word to me Last Line: With bruise of lash or stone. Variant Title(s): Shadowed Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Simon Of Cyrene; Theology SIMPLE GIFTS,' A SHAKER HYMN, by ANN+(2) LEE Poem Source First Line: Tis the gift to be simple Last Line: Twill be in the valley of love and desire Subject(s): Shaker Hymn; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion SIMPLIFICATION, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those great rough ranters, branns Last Line: Voiced people lack eloquence to blow a sick %maggot off a dead beetle Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Religion; Speech SIMPSON MEETS MONK, by RICHARD SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: 1 %on public radio, thelonious Last Line: And shining eyes, is, like you, %my beloved earth father Subject(s): Fathers; Monks; Religion SIN (12), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, with what glorie wast thou served of old Last Line: The note is sad, yet musick for a king. Variant Title(s): Sion Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SINCE GOD IS THERE, by JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTTE GUYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, how full of sweet content Last Line: Secure of finding god in all. Alternate Author Name(s): Guion, De La Mothe; Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvieres De La Mothe; Guyon Du Chesnoy Subject(s): Religion; Theology SING KALI'S GLORY, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Can just get out Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 90, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen the wind? Last Line: The wind is passing by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Who Has Seen The Wind;the Wind Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Wind; Theology SINGING IMAGE OF FIRE, by KUKAI Poem Source First Line: A hand moves, and the fire's whirling takes different shapes Subject(s): Religion SINGLE TREE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Not so much time itself Last Line: Of all that continues %unabated in this world Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SISTER BEATRICE, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity me, lady: me about to fall Last Line: [the nuns fall on their knees around the bed of beatrice. Subject(s): Legends - Dutch; Religion; Spirituality; Theology SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA DELIVERS AN IMPROMPTU SPEECH LOCAL PONDEROSA, by DAVID CITINO Poet's Biography First Line: Go right ahead. Gorge beasts Subject(s): Food & Eating; Religion; Theology SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA DELIVERS AN IMPROMPTU SPEECH LOCAL PONDEROSA, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go right ahead. Gorge beasts Last Line: Even the merest life, %the way to light, o love! Subject(s): Food And Eating; Religion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: ON NATURE OF THE CANDLE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It stands to reason. Wax crafted by bees Last Line: Of our brief wisdom lingering in the room Subject(s): Candles; Christianity; Religion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES BIBLE STUDY CLASS: HOMAGE TO ONAN, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Resurrection man, father Last Line: Didn't fail, to move to death Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES FOLKLORE CLASS: DOCTRINES STRAWBERRY, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, full of the mercy only Last Line: Waiting for him to come again Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Strawberries SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES HOME EC CLASS: THE FEAST, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On time for every meal Last Line: Unappeased, our need, the feast Subject(s): Christianity; Food And Eating; Religion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA PROVES TO ENTOMOLOGY CLASS ... FROM CRICKET, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Our mothers and fathers, %sojourners in bogs, architects Last Line: Chanting the history of the world Subject(s): Christianity; Religion 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 VAPOR, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Vapor is the soul of the water, my brother, as the dew Last Line: Brother vapor, let us praise god!' Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Soul SISTER WATER: THE WATER OF MANY FORMS, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Water always takes the shape of the vessels that contain Last Line: The apostle, 'lord, what wilt thou have me to do?' Subject(s): Emotions; God; Religion 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: TO THE READER, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: A thread of water falling from an imperfect faucet Last Line: And this will be my reward in the task, so long as my life %shall last Subject(s): God; Poetry And Poets; Religion; Worship SIT BACK, RELAX, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, lord. No rest Last Line: Just plain grieves Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Religion; Theology SIT BACK, RELAX, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, lord. No rest Last Line: Stand by me in this, my hour Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Religion SITTING BY A BUSH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I spread out my hand here today Last Line: The other persists as our faith Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SITTING BY A BUSH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I spread out my hand here today Last Line: The other persists as our faith Subject(s): Bible; Religion SITUATION NO. 13: CITY HALL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tall in a top hat %the mayor, who minutes before Last Line: What's your next move? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SITUATION NO. 33: THE FEAST, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're told the ingredients Last Line: Do you accept? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SITUATION NO. 7: THE POISON LOVER, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night %deep in middle age Last Line: Scapular, mojo, prayer %what do you do? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SITUATION NO. 9: THE CORPOSANT, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You wake at the end of the night %young again, all things new Last Line: Tell me, what's the difference now %between what's left of you %and dawn? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SIXTH PSALM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For america is a lady rocking on a porch in an unpainted house Last Line: For america only your dolls are cheerful Subject(s): God; Religion SKETCH OF SLAVES, JEWS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND UNHAPPY LOVERS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The survivors have something in common - Last Line: For my hidden life Subject(s): Religion SKY, by WILLIAM STONEKING Poem Source First Line: The guardians of the circumcision ceremony Last Line: Saw jesus in the clouds Subject(s): Religion; Sky SLEEP SWEET, by ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON GATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep sweet within this quiet room Last Line: Sleep sweet! Good night! Good night! Variant Title(s): Good Night Subject(s): Religion; Theology SLIP, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river takes the land, and leaves nothing Last Line: On what remains. Seed will sprout in the scar. %though death is in the healing, it will heal Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SMALL BEGINNINGS, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller through a dusty road strewed with acorns on the lea Last Line: Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at the last. Variant Title(s): Little And [or, But] Great;song Of Life Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Service; Optimism; Theology SMALL FIG TREE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am dead, to be sure Last Line: I will the devil kiss Subject(s): Bible; Curses; Religion SMALL SONG, by DANIEL WHITEHEAD HICKY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion SMALL SONG, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: God of the sky Last Line: I know you'll see %the love that wings %to you from me Subject(s): Religion SMALL TALK IN A GARDEN, by JR. OSBORNE BENNETT HARDISON Poem Source First Line: I will admit freely that it hurt Subject(s): Religion SMALL WIRE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My faith / is a great weight Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SMALL WIRE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My faith %is a great weight Last Line: As easily as ten cents used to %bring forth a coke Subject(s): God; Religion SMECTYMNUUS, OR THE CLUB-DIVERS, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smectymnuus! The goblin makes me start! Last Line: And stretch her patent to your leather ears! Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Theology SMOKE CLAD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: All of us have been stunned enough Last Line: Bodies clothed only in ashes and tint Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SNAIL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail in his museum Last Line: They swallow the rest Subject(s): God; Religion SNAKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made of old rags of tongues Last Line: And allow all our body hair to turn green with envy Subject(s): Animals; God; Religion; Snakes SNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow, / blessed snow, / comes out of the sky Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow%blessed snow Subject(s): God; Religion SNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow, %blessed snow, %comes out of the sky Last Line: Today god gives milk %and I have the pail Subject(s): God; Religion SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No matter what life you lead Last Line: And sometimes referring to her mirror %as women do Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion SNOWBOUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that brief december day / rose cheerless over hills of gray Last Line: The benediction of the air. Variant Title(s): New England In Winter;a Winter Idyl;snow-bound;snow-bound: A Winter Idyll Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Massachusetts; Memory; Religion; Snow; Winter; Relatives; Theology SNOWDROP, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Source First Line: Close to the sod Subject(s): Religion; Snowdrops (plants) SNOWFALL, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The classic landscapes of dreams are not Subject(s): Religion SO FAR FROM JOY THE MOTHS CLAMOR TO GET OUT OF MY ARTERIES, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: Like the death Last Line: Lord, I breathe %angels Subject(s): Religion SO FAR, SO NEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, so far, we grope to grasp thee Last Line: Silence only may adore thee! Subject(s): God; Life; Religion; Soul; Theology SO I SAY: MIND, DON'T YOU SLEEP, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: So unsalvageable a rogue? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion SO LONG AS THERE ARE HOMES, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SO WE WERE BORN TO DREAD, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SOLDIER - HIS PRAYER, by GERALD KERSH Poem Source First Line: Stay with me, god. The night is dark Subject(s): Religion SOLVITE TEMPLUM HOC, by JOHN R. HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Your parable struck lightning in the eyes Last Line: He sees in you the church you will rebuild Subject(s): Churches; Religion SOME BLESSED, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Blessed are they that have eyes to see Last Line: They foretaste the joy of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology SOME FAITH AT ANY COST, by HARRIET DU AUTERMONT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SOME FLOWERS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a world where you are asleep with your fathers Last Line: I thought it was a bill Subject(s): Religion SOME FOREIGN LETTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew you forever and you were always old Subject(s): God; Religion; Spinsters; Theology; Old Maids SOME FOREIGN LETTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew you forever and you were always old Last Line: To mumble your guilty love while your ears die Subject(s): God; Religion; Spinsters SOME SAY THAT MY TEACHING IS NONSENSE, by LAO TZU Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SOMEHOW THE TIME WILL PASS, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Your greatness, into the sea of this world Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion SOMETHING ELSE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Whatever it is hangs over us Last Line: And something else we can't fully recall Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SOMETIME, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: Sometime, when all life's lessons have been learned Last Line: "I think that we will say, ""god knew the best!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Religion; Theology SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE, by OPHELIA G. BROWNING Poem Text First Line: Unanswered yet? The prayer your lips have pleaded Last Line: "and cries, ""it shall be done sometime, somewhere." Variant Title(s): Pray Without Ceasing Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology SOMETIMES, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Across the fields of yesterday Last Line: The man I might have been. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SOMETIMES COMES TO SOUL AND SENSE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion SOMETIMES I THINK THE METAPHYSICAL, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: World %a bamboo raft on which we stand Last Line: Are dark with crows Subject(s): Religion SOMETIMES WHILE I AM CHANTING', by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: There is no I only you only %light burning and unburnt Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must you leave, john holmes, with the prayers and psalms Subject(s): Holmes, John (1904-1962); Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must you leave, john holmes, with the prayers and psalms Last Line: And go down that river with the ivory, the copra and the golher, father, I'm made of Subject(s): God; Holmes, John (1904-1962); Poetry And Poets; Religion SONG, by KABIR Poem Source First Line: The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it Subject(s): Religion SONG, by KABIR Poem Source First Line: Tell me, o swan, your ancient tale Subject(s): Religion SONG, by HAROLD CORNELIUS SANDALL Poem Text First Line: Love that is hoarded, moulds at last Last Line: Are what we give away. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONG ABOUT THE SECOND CREATION, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a stone, sound drops Last Line: Love - the sung word flung into the world by god's loud hand Subject(s): Religion SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers,/this big woman Last Line: If you do not? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Spiritual Life; United States - Race Relations; Women & Religion SONG FOR A LADY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of breasts and small hips Subject(s): Love - Erotic; God; Religion; Theology SONG FOR A LADY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of breasts and small hips Last Line: As you knead me and I rise like bread Subject(s): Erotic Love; God; Religion SONG FOR A RED NIGHTGOWN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No. Not really red Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SONG FOR A RED NIGHTGOWN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No. Not really red Last Line: How the moon floats through her %and in between Subject(s): God; Religion SONG FOR FINE WEATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O good sun Last Line: "hear us, hear us, o good sun!" Subject(s): God;peace;religion; Theology SONG FOR SIMEON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, the roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and Last Line: Let thy servant depart, %having seen thy salvation Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONG FOR THE CLATTER-BONES, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Full Text First Line: God rest that jewy woman Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology SONG FOR THE CLATTER-BONES, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: God rest that jewy woman Last Line: There's music in the old bones yet Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry And Poets; Religion SONG FOR THE EPIPHANY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now ys cum owre saue-owre Subject(s): Religion SONG IN PASSING, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where am I now? And what Subject(s): Religion SONG MAKING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart cries like a beaten child Last Line: But no one thought it true! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONG OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: April 4. Wind hums Last Line: I would believe it all Subject(s): Clergy; Religion SONG OF ALPHABETS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I see arabic headlines Last Line: That held alpha or omega in his beak Subject(s): Religion SONG OF BEKOTSIDI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now bekotsidi, that am I. For them I make Last Line: To form them fair, for them I labor. For them I make Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion SONG OF DOUBT, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day is quenched, and the sun is fled Subject(s): Religion SONG OF GOODS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While thou hast gode & getest gode Subject(s): Religion SONG OF HIAWATHA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should you ask me, whence these stories? Last Line: To the land of the hereafter Subject(s): Animals; Canoes And Canoeing; Native Americans; Religion SONG OF HONOR, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the universal prayer Subject(s): Religion SONG OF HOPE, by MARY ARTEMISIA LATHBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children of yesterday Last Line: Room! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary, Aunt; L., M. A. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONG OF IMAGINARY ARABS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is written man was created Last Line: The stateless angel of astronomy Variant Title(s): Songs Of Imaginary Arab Subject(s): Religion SONG OF IMPERFECTION, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whom can I tell? Who cares? Last Line: That beats upon it and tells it to grow Subject(s): Religion SONG OF INTRODUCTION, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient of days Last Line: The state may tremble Subject(s): Religion SONG OF JOY, by HENRY MEADE BLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joy! Joy! Infinite joy! Subject(s): Religion SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you. Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warriors and chiefs! Should the shaft or the sword Last Line: Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Judaism; Theology SONG OF SINS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Man, sigh & sorw for thi synnes Subject(s): Religion SONG OF SOLOMON, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Variant Title(s): The Song Of Songs; The Song Of Solomon, Sels Subject(s): Love; Religion SONG OF SURRENDER, by SALEEM PEERADINA Poem Source First Line: Hold me close Last Line: History has already written us Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality SONG OF THE BRIGHTNESS OF WATER, by KAROL WOJTYLA Poem Source First Line: From this depth - I came only to draw water Subject(s): Religion SONG OF THE CHILD, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Receive me again, father god Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion SONG OF THE HEBREW SEER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh would that the darkness would cover the face of the land Last Line: The myriad, myriad sounds of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): God; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Judaism; Theology SONG OF THE HINDOO WOMEN, WHILE ACCOMPANYING A WIDOW TO FUNERAL PILE, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not in grief to the pile we go Last Line: Thy last bright thread of life is spun! Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Funerals; Hinduism; Religion SONG OF THE MOTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night into the universe Subject(s): Religion SONG OF THE OLD DAYS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Source First Line: Givenchy village lies a wreck, givenchy church is bare Subject(s): Religion SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come said the muse Last Line: And all the world a dream. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONG OF TODAY, by MARY ARTEMISIA LATHBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing paeans over the past! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary, Aunt; L., M. A. Subject(s): Religion SONG OF WOMEN, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When kings knelt to a maid and a child Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion SONGLINE OF DAWN, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are ascending through the dawn Subject(s): Air Travel; Religion; Ancestors & Ancestry; Theology SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 5. NOEL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To awake at dawn and remember new-dropt lambs Last Line: "o lamb which takest away the sin of the world." Subject(s): Christmas; Fear; Life; Religion; Sleep; Nativity, The; Theology SONGS FROM SAPPHO AND PHAON, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god's spirit moved upon Last Line: From pure, soft gold of old? Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Religion SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA:L'ENVOI, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have little care that life is brief Last Line: Where my dust with dust confers. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONGS OF EXPERIENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the voice of the bard! / who present, past, & future sees Last Line: "is giv'n thee till the break of day." Variant Title(s): The Poet's Voice;the Voice Of The Bard;the Bard;the Ancient Trees;introduction Subject(s): Bards; Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology SONGS OF JESUS, by LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SONGS OF THE BIRDS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rocks flow and the mountain shapes flow Subject(s): Religion SONGS OF TRAVEL: 46. EVENSONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The embers of the day are red Last Line: Comes. I will eat and sleep and will not question more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONGS OUT OF SORROW: REFUGE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my spirit's gray defeat Last Line: My fragile immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Variant Title(s): Spirit's House Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONGS OUT OF SORROW: SPIRIT'S HOUSE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From naked stones of agony Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology SONGS TO HOLY MARY, by HILDEGARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O splendid jewel, serenely infused with the sun! Last Line: And his inner power appear like a face from his heart Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion SONGS WE NEED, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SONNET, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art indeed just, lord, if I contend Last Line: Mine, o thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Variant Title(s): "justus Quidem Tu Es, Domine;""thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend""; Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; God; Religion; Theology SONNET, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1822-) Poem Text First Line: Could I have known before I was created Last Line: "and at thy risk, will I such burden take." Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONNET, by FRANCIS LYMAN WINDOLPH Poem Source First Line: Upon our fullness smiles the dawning day Subject(s): Religion SONNET FOR CHRISTMAS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are the things our christmas day should leave Subject(s): Religion SONNET: 11, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: These are the chosen people, he has set Subject(s): Religion SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology SONNET: 12, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an ugly beast come from the sea Last Line: The beast, in setting of her image up Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONNET: 12. SUB PONDERE CRESCIT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hope of truth grows stronger, day by day Last Line: Of inward strife for truth and liberty. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONNET: 13, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: God of pity and love, return to this earth Subject(s): Religion SONNET: 13, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a woman sitting on a beast Last Line: Now for a truth great babylon is fallen. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Prostitution; Religion; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Theology SONNET: 14, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then might I see upon a white horse set Last Line: Is pitiless thrown down in pit of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SONNET: 14. ON THE RELIGIOUS MEMORY OF CATHERINE THOMASON, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When faith and love, which parted from thee never Last Line: And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. Variant Title(s): On The Religious Memory Of Mrs Catherine Thomason, My Friend;sonnet 14 Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Thomason, Catherine (d. 1646); Theology SONNET: 15, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw new earth, new heaven, said saint john Last Line: There grows life's fruit unto the churches good. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SONNET: 17. TO SIR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGER, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old Last Line: In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son. Variant Title(s): To Sir Henry Vane The Younger Subject(s): Puritans; Religion; Vane, The Younger, Sir Henry (1613-62); Theology SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider how my light is spent Last Line: "they also serve who only stand and wait." Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 16;sonnet On His Blindness;sonnet: 17 Subject(s): Bible; Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Time; Visually Handicapped; Theology SONNET: 21. THE POOR OF LONDON, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god, whose justice like a sun Last Line: Ring down the abyss of twice ten thousand years Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONNET: 21. THE POOR OF LONDON, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god, whose justice like a sun Last Line: Ring down the abyss of twice ten thousand years Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Religion SONNET: 29, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Last Line: That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Variant Title(s): "amor Omnia Vincit;a Consolation;fortune And Men's Eyes;""when, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes""; Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Jealousy; Love; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology SONNET: 4, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the garden: colours come and go Last Line: Some silver-fingered fountain steals the world Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONNET: 49, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though not a hill be holy, and no spring Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Religion SONNET: 6. A WINTER TIDE, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Now from the world the light [or dream] of god is gone Variant Title(s): And Till The Hear Subject(s): Religion SONNET: 68. TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this your mother sweated in the cold Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology SONNET: 68. TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this your mother sweated in the cold Last Line: The stone the angel rolled away with tears %is back upon your mouth these thousand years Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion SONNET: 9. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, that in the prime of earliest youth Last Line: Hast gained thy entrance, virgin wise and pure. Variant Title(s): "lady, That In The Prime Of Earliest Youth"";sonnet 9; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SONNET: THE AGNOSTIC'S PSALM, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou who art the life of heaven and earth Last Line: With dim perceptions of unknown delight. Subject(s): Agnosticism; Religion; Theology SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 1, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the day his hour of life draws near Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 1, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the day his hour of life draws near Last Line: Ring out the silence I am nourished by Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Christmas; Religion SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 2, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, christ, I love you rings to the wild sky Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Variant Title(s): "ah Christ, I Love You Rings To The Wild Sky""; Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 2, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, christ, I love you rings to the wild sky Last Line: In late december before the fire's daze %punished by crimes of which I would be quit Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Variant Title(s): Ah Christ, I Love You Rings To The Wild Sk Subject(s): Christmas; Religion SONNETS FROM CHINA: 2, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wondered why the fruit had been forbidden Last Line: And the way back by angels was defended %against the poet and the legislator Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): In Time Of War: Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 20, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, my beloved, when I think Last Line: Who cannot guess god's presence out of sight. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 21, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say over again, and yet once over again Last Line: To love me also in silence with thy soul. Variant Title(s): Assurance Subject(s): Love - Marital; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 22, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our two souls stand up erect and strong Last Line: With darkness and the death-hour rounding it. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 26, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived with visions for my company Last Line: Because god's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 27, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My own beloved, who hast lifted me Last Line: That love, as strong as death, retrieves as well. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 43, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Last Line: I shall but love thee better after death. Variant Title(s): Sonnets From The Portguese: 42;the Ways Of Love;perfect Love Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the driving ones Last Line: Darkness and morning light, %flower and book Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me to the one among your moments Last Line: And sweet danger, ripening from within Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 29, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent friend of many distances, feel Last Line: To the flashing water say: I am Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 75, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were Last Line: Joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion SONS OF FAILURE, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SONS OF MARTHA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that Subject(s): Religion SORROW, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who never broke with tears, his bread Subject(s): Religion SORROW SHALL MAKE US KIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The cark of care has bitten in Last Line: -- sorrow hath made us kin. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology SORROW TURNED INTO JOY, by JOHN ALEXANDER BOUQUET Poem Source First Line: Sometimes at night when human-kind Subject(s): Religion SORROW VANQUISHED, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Sorrow, since you cannot make me Last Line: I keep loving him Subject(s): God; Religion SORROWS HUMANIZE OUR RACE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion SOUL AS A BODY, by CHARD DENIORD Poem Source First Line: There's a body inside the body Last Line: In all things. That cannot live without you Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality SOUL ETERNAL, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion SOUL'S BITTER CRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In right I have no power to live Subject(s): Religion SOUND OVER ALL WATERS, by STANTON COIT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL; MIRIAM'S SONG, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the loud timbrel o'er egypt's dark sea Last Line: Jehovah has triumph'd, his people are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Religion; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Theology SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.., by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't say it or write it or sign it or give it a name Last Line: His small star would someday pass close to him but not yet. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Religion; Spirituality; Nativity, The; Theology SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night. Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology SOVEREIGN POETS, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They who create rob death of half its stings Last Line: When kings are dust beside forgotten thrones. Variant Title(s): The Sovereigns Subject(s): Religion; Theology SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 25, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: His lordship the bishop orders Last Line: To bishops and cardinals Subject(s): Clergy; Religion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 27, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the water runs about Last Line: Over your face Subject(s): God; Religion SPARE TIRE, by IVAN URQUIZA-VICENTE Poem Source First Line: I've intended to be harder, to refuse your body in the %storms Last Line: I still hate you in the contemporary, freudian way Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality SPEAKING BITTERNESS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born like a dwarf Last Line: For when I die there'll be no one to say: oh no! %oh dear Subject(s): God; Religion SPECULA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he appoints to meet thee, go thou forth Last Line: He hath been with thee all the time. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SPEECH WARTS, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: Fetch me a red flower from that meadow Subject(s): Religion SPEED OUR KING ON HIS JOURNEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Kyryeleyson, kpeleysone Subject(s): Religion SPINNING, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a blind spinner in the sun Last Line: "thou poor blind spinner, work is done." Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Religion; Spinning; Theology SPIRIT OF MAN, SELS., by STANTON COIT Subject(s): Peace; Religion SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Spirit in the sky Last Line: So it can't see us Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion SPIRITUAL VISION, by SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Cohen, Solomon Solis Subject(s): Religion SPLINTER, by MIMI MORIARTY Poem Source First Line: A splinter in his finger %a subtle warning Last Line: A splinter in his finger %a subtle warning Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SPOIL, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Fair spoil I thought him as I reached the well Last Line: "peace! . . . And two hours ago I thought him spoil!" Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 8. ANGEL DUST, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: I met monsignor in the vestibule Last Line: Letting them divvy the body and soul Subject(s): Angels; Churches; Death; Religion SPORTSMAN'S PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SPRING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is so beautiful as spring Last Line: Most, o maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning. Subject(s): Eden; Jesus Christ; Religion; Spring; Time; Theology SPRING, by ANNE ELIZABETH MADDOCK Poem Text First Line: The sun lies light on a jade-green hill Last Line: And the note of a bird links earth with god! Subject(s): Religion; Spring; Theology SQUALL, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not used my darkness well Last Line: Building dead coral Subject(s): Religion ST. CECILIA'S HYMN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Born of a virgin, most lowly and meek Last Line: To live, like a virgin baptiz'd in thy name. Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Saints; Women & Religion ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When if ever life is sweet Last Line: For her light, her love, her king. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hungary; Life; Religion; Saints; Theology ST. ETIENNE-DU-GRES, by GEORGIA SHREVE Poem Source First Line: Here, in the complacency Last Line: Batters the cypress, and, finally, %makes the spirit snap Subject(s): Religion; Summer ST. FRANCIS' PRAYER, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace Last Line: And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Religion; Theology ST. FRIDESWIDE'S CHAPEL CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: In this ancient place Last Line: Like a glass window, %like an eye moving behind clouds Subject(s): Churches; Oxford University; Religion ST. JACOB'S CHURCH OF THE HANGING HAND, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: He believed that touch Last Line: Should the statue move, all tombs will open Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality ST. JEROME, by WILLIAM R. MILLER Poem Source First Line: He kept a lion in his cell Last Line: Without maps or ancient stories %across the desert floor Subject(s): Faith; Religion ST. LUKE'S SUNDAY, by JIM BODEEN Poem Source First Line: There has been an itch in my ear all week Last Line: There is a ringing in my ear a moment %where we all turn in to colorful birds Subject(s): Creative Ability; Prayer; Religion ST. MARTIN, by BRENDA MARIE OSBEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O little slave saint with your broom of pampas and your cross Last Line: Dos santos %amen Subject(s): African Americans; Prayer; Religion ST. MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, by ROBERT A. AYRES Poem Source First Line: Sure, I recognize the boyish patron el greco painted Last Line: Enough to fashion a cloak; enough to dress a wound Subject(s): Art And Artists; Religion ST. PATRICK, SELS., by PHYLLIS L. GARLICK Poem Source First Line: Christ with me, christ before me, christ behind me Last Line: Christ in every ear that hears me Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion ST. PAUL, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When I was saul, and sat among the cloaks Last Line: Waits for your word to take his keys and come Subject(s): Bible; Religion ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it matters not to know Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night. Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips STABAT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, o my god, hast thou forsaken me Last Line: That she abides when thou forsakest me? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the afflicted mother weeping Last Line: Glories bright of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the afflicted mother weeping Last Line: Glories bright of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the cross her station keeping Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Helye! Goddes moder dolorous Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible STAND FORTH!, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Stand forth, my soul, and grip thy woe Last Line: Grasp with thy hand my royal hand- %stand forth! Subject(s): Religion STAND-INS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream %the swastika is neon Last Line: And went back to sleep %and another start Subject(s): God; Religion STANDING IN THE DARK, SEEING ORION'S BELT, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Listening to american frogs say rabbit, bud - weiser Last Line: Clock that makes us run, trying to beat the dark Subject(s): Religion STANDOFF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assail god's hearing with gull-screech knifeblades Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion STANDOFF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assail god's hearing with gull-screech knifeblades Last Line: When shall we %dare to fly? Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion STANZAS ON THE PSALMS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not the songs that nobly tell Last Line: As jove by great jehovah is excell'd. Subject(s): Bible; Prayer; Religion; Theology STARLIGHT LIKE INTUITION PIERCED THE TWELVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The starlight's intuitions pierced the twelve Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology STARLIGHT LIKE INTUITION PIERCED THE TWELVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The starlight's intuitions pierced the twelve Last Line: And we shall never be as once we were, %this life will never be what once it was! Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion STARRY NIGHT, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are such little men when the stars come out Subject(s): Religion STARRY NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town does not exist Last Line: From my life with no flag, %no belly, %no cry Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) STARS ARE TRUE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We do not know the ports from which we sail Subject(s): Religion STARTING FROM PAUMANOK, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Starting from fish-shape paumanok where I was born Last Line: O to haste firm holding -- to haste, haste on with me. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Religion; Theology STATE OF THE UNION: 7. OF SECTS AND FELLOWSHIPS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tide across the land Last Line: Even read from cover to cover? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Religion; Sects STATIC, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: It was a shocking winter when the deacons Last Line: His holy feet, ready to shock the hell out of everybody Subject(s): Churches; Electricity; Religion STATIONS OF THE CROSS: HE IS CONDEMNED, by WILLIAM A. DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: Pilate must heed the public pulse and poll Subject(s): Religion STAYING AT GRANDMA'S, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes they left me for the day Last Line: And leave the other there alone? Subject(s): Grandparents; Holy Ghost; Religion; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Holy Spirit; Theology STAYING AT GRANDMA'S, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes they left me for the day Last Line: And leave the other there alone Subject(s): Grandparents; Holy Ghost; Religion STEED BIT HIS MASTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Cry, 'all flesh is grass.' Subject(s): Bible; Religion STELLA CELI EXTIRPAVIT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thow hevenly quene, of grace owre loode sterre Subject(s): Religion STELLA MARIS, by JR. OSBORNE BENNETT HARDISON Poem Source First Line: Star of the sea, surest point of brightness Subject(s): Religion STEP OVER THE LINE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Heaven's morning is breaking, step out in the light Last Line: "then hear his words spoken, ""good servant, well done." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Theology STEPHEN TO LAZARUS, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS Poem Source First Line: But was I the first martyr, who Last Line: Died once) must all be died again? Subject(s): Bible; Religion STICK OF INCENSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence did all that fury come? Last Line: But liked the way his fingers smelt Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Religion STIGMATA, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: He cannot heal who has not suffered much Subject(s): Religion STILL DARK WHEN WE FILE LIKE CHILDREN OUT ON THE TURF, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yet our hymn is for the beauty of the earth Last Line: We end with this our hymn of grateful praise Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality STILL FALLS THE RAIN; THE RAIDS, 1940. NIGHT AND DAWN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Still falls the rain - / dark as the world of man, black as our loss Last Line: "still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my blood, for thee." Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Crucifixion; Religion; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology; Second World War STILL LIFE, by FRANCIS SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: White and red Subject(s): Religion STILL LIFE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: A hidden blossoming Last Line: From this fountain %of dark silence Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life STILL THE CROSS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calvary is a continent Last Line: Recrucified? Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Crucifixion; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology STILL WET MUD TABLETS OF THE LAW 3, by AMY ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: God said I am the lord that brought you out of bondage; you will worship no Last Line: People had passed out on the floor, and I was sick all over brad's shoes, for which he did not %than Variant Title(s): The Still Wet Mud Tablets Of The Law Ii Subject(s): Relationships; Religion STILL, STILL WITH THEE, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, still with thee, when purple morning breaketh Last Line: Shall rise the glorious thought -- I am with thee. Variant Title(s): When I Awake I Am Still With Thee Subject(s): Christianity; Dawn; Prayer; Reformation; Religion; Sunrise; Theology STONE WORSHIP, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I could have spent an entire lifetime laughing in despair Last Line: Able to pick up signals from anywhere in the universe but here Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Worship STONEHENGE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: The roving people counted moons Last Line: That rain and mist and sun anoint Subject(s): Religion STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep. Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness STORY FOR ROSE ON THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT TO BOSTON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Until tonight they were separate specialties Last Line: I am almost someone going home. The story has ended Subject(s): God; Religion STORY OF JOSHUA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reach the promised land Last Line: To destroy jericho Subject(s): Bible; Religion STRADIVARIUS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul was lifted by the wings to-day Last Line: "without antonio. Get thee to thy easel." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Religion; Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737); Violins; Theology STRANGER AT THE PEACE TABLE, by ESTHER BALDWIN YORK Poem Source First Line: There is a stranger in the council hall Subject(s): Religion STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion STRENGTH, LOVE, LIGHT, by ROBERT II Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou almighty will Alternate Author Name(s): Robert The Pious; Robert Ii Of France Subject(s): Religion STROPHE, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Priest and priestess Last Line: Eternal. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology STUDENT, DO THE SIMPLE PURIFICATION, by KABIR Poem Source Last Line: And he is the one who has made it all Variant Title(s): The Pitche Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion STUDIES OF THE VIRGIN: ICONS IN SERIES: OUR LADY OF THE BELT BUCKLE, by BECKY GOULD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: The assumption by di giovanni Last Line: The angels are wearing socks! Subject(s): Angels; Clothing And Dress; Religion STUDIES OF THE VIRGIN: ICONS IN SERIES: OUR LADY OF THE FIRE SCREEN, by BECKY GOULD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Haughty madonna in oil and egg tempera Last Line: Perhaps a servant will soon take the child Subject(s): Bible; Religion STUDIES OF THE VIRGIN: ICONS IN SERIES: OUR LADY OF THE HOODED CLOAK, by BECKY GOULD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Entombment, limestone Last Line: Whatever his promises of the next Subject(s): Death; Religion STUDIES OF THE VIRGIN: ICONS IN SERIES: OUR LADY OF THE RED DRESS, by BECKY GOULD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Head of the madonna, a fragment Last Line: Prone more to wonder than faith Subject(s): Religion STUDIES OF THE VIRGIN: ICONS IN SERIES: OUR LADY OF THE SPIRAL, by BECKY GOULD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: A rapt, keen-eyed mary listens Last Line: About to be given %the spin of her life Subject(s): Religion SUBDUED, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: I have hoped, I have planned, I have striven Last Line: Tomorrow again, I begin. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SUBSTITUTION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some beloved voice that was to you Last Line: Speak thou, availing christ! -- and fill this pause. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SUCCESSFUL SUMMER, by DAVID SCHUBERT Poem Source First Line: The still small voice unto Last Line: July's contour of green Subject(s): Bible; Religion SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD, AND BURIED, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a green hill far away Last Line: Of heaven and let us in. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology SUFFERING GOD, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If he could speak, that victim torn and bleeding Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion SUICIDE NOTE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better, / despite the worms talking to Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology SUICIDE NOTE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better, %despite the worms talking to Last Line: Seeing what they sensed all day Subject(s): God; Religion SUMMER, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Fills the white enamel bucket, overflows Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SUMMER DAYS ARE COME AGAIN, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For summer joy in field and wood %we lift our song to him Subject(s): Religion SUMMER MORNING, by JAMES THOMPSON MCKAY Poem Source First Line: Oh! The earth and the air! Subject(s): Religion SUMMER: IN JUNE, by BERTHA TEN EYCK JAMES Poem Source First Line: I think today in like that seventh day Subject(s): Religion SUMMUM BONUM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The law of god be to the thy rest Subject(s): Religion SUN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard of fish Last Line: Until I am laid away forever, %a thin gray banner Subject(s): God; Religion SUN AND MOON, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: A brother and sister had been very wicked Last Line: Because his torch no longer burns Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion SUNDAY HYMN; IN IMITATION OF DR. WATTS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the day the lord of life Last Line: And death shall call me hence. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology SUNDAY MORNING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Complacencies of the peignoir, and late / coffee and oranges in a sunny chair Last Line: Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; God; Life; Nature; Religion; Dead, The; Theology SUNDAY PAPERS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The butchery of the innocent Subject(s): War; Sabbath; Religion; Innocence; Sunday; Theology SUNRISE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though the midnight found us weary Last Line: In the circuit of the year Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion SUNRISE IN THE CITY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrise over the houses! Last Line: And the christ-light shining in ' Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Religion; Urban Life; Sunrise; Theology SUPERMAN, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He will come Subject(s): Religion SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 10. CONJUNCTIONS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jupiter and saturn meet, Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 12. MERU, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Civilisation is hooped together, brought Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Civilization; Religion; Theology SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 2. RIBB DENOUNCES PATRICK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An abstract greek absurdity has crazed the man -- Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Supernatural; Religion; Theology SUPERSENSUAL, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When first the busy, clumsy tongue is stilled Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion SUPPLIANTS: CHORUS ON ZEUS (1), by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Secure it falls upon its feet, not upon its back Last Line: From the holy throne where he is firmly seated %somehow he carries his thought into deed Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Religion SUPPLICATION, by JOSEPHINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Here where no increase is Subject(s): Religion SUPPLICATION, SELS., by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou not see about our feet Subject(s): Religion SURE, by TED ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Father of the bare boughs, and the leaves that die Subject(s): Religion SURFEIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I am betrayed by multiplicity Last Line: Had for horizon his own straining knees. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Self; Eve; Theology SURGEON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack, oh big jack Last Line: The memory of my bones flying %up into your hands Subject(s): God; Religion SURPRISE, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: A voice calling from the trees Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SURSUM CORDA, by ANNIE LAKE TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: After the comfortable words come there Last Line: Lift up your hearts. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SURVIVAL, by MARGARET MOORE MEUTTMAN Poem Text First Line: A thousand years from this tonight Last Line: Will last a thousand years. Subject(s): Religion; Survival; Theology SWEENEY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweeney, mr. Eliot, %is that australian who came Last Line: Surely the words will continue, for that's what's let that's true Subject(s): God; Religion SWIMMER, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember her first as a swimmer Last Line: Sometimes fresh from the joy of the swim Subject(s): Religion SWIMMERS, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: Even at night the ducks are at work Last Line: Once to walk proud upon our home Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SWINGING TOWARD THE LIGHT, by GEORGIA HARKNESS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion SYCAMORE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the place that is my own place, whose earth Last Line: I see that it stands in its place, and feeds upon it, %and is fed upon, and is native, and maker Subject(s): Christianity; Religion SYLVIA'S DEATH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sylvia, sylvia %with a dead box of stones and spoons Last Line: O funny duchess! %o blond thing Subject(s): God; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Religion SYMPATHY, by EDITH DALEY Poem Source First Line: When a cry is caught on a heart beat Subject(s): Religion SYMPATHY, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Ask god to give thee skill Last Line: Of christlike touch. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Religion; Sympathy; Theology; Empathy TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I draw a window %and a man sitting inside it Last Line: Light and moment in a wilderness %of who? Where? Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality TAHIRASSAWICHI IN WASHINGTON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: In 1898 tahirassawichi went to washington Last Line: Tahirassawchi's words, I suppose, did not mean anything to the state department Subject(s): Religion; Washington, D.c. TAHIRASSAWICHI IN WASHINGTON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: In 1898 tahirassawichi went to washington Last Line: Tahirassawachi, I suppose, has said nothing to the department of %state Subject(s): Religion; Washington, D.c. TAKE MY HEART! FOR I CANNOT GIVE IT THEE, by AUGUSTINE Poem Source Last Line: Keep it! For I cannot keep it for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Aurelius Augustinus Subject(s): Prayer; Religion TAKE UP THY CROSS, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion TAKER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the house was away Last Line: As best she could, %limb to limb Subject(s): God; Religion TAKING DOWN, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or finding in the air's subtractive touch %that each was thirsty and completely recognized Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Religion TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN (COMPLETE), by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One autumn night, in sudbury town Last Line: Look up upon them from below Subject(s): Religion TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: ROBERT OF SICILY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robert of sicily, brother of pope urbane Last Line: Kneeling upon the floor, absorbed in silent prayer. Variant Title(s): The Sicilian's Tale Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology TALISMANIC CEREMONY FOR LUCIAN MARCH 9, 1971, INTERSECTION CHURCH..., by ANDREI CODRESCU Poem Source First Line: Since he's not jewish Last Line: To make him the first Subject(s): Children; Religion TALKING TO SHEEP, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life %has appeared unclothed in court Last Line: To the black sheep I am. %baa. Baa. Baa Subject(s): God; Religion TANGMALANGALOO, by P. J. HARTIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime Last Line: "it's the day before the races out at tangmalangaloo." Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2) Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology TANTUM ERGO, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: What here redeems us? Surely Last Line: Miserere lapping [or, laps] like the tide Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality TAO TEH KING, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow Last Line: A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite Subject(s): Religion TAO TEH KING, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Religion TAO THAT CAN BE TOLD, by LAO TZU Poem Source Last Line: Darkness within darkness. %the gateway to all understanding Subject(s): Religion TAOISM AND BUDDHISM, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller came from across the seas Last Line: To the heaven of bliss fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Buddhism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Religion; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology TAP, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: I love to find a door. Like the spinal tap Last Line: How it comes, the brain's clear bath Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Religion; Spirituality TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Last Line: The weaver at rest Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weavers And Weaving; Women And Religion TASK, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: This is like a lover Last Line: Before you reach the ice Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life TASKMASTER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: You said, 'write verses' Last Line: Or the darkness seeping into my mouth Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life TASTE OF CHOCOLATE, LIKE FAITH, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: How can you describe the taste Last Line: The water in our hands leaks away, colorless Subject(s): Religion TE DEUM LAUDAMUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "we praise thee, o god; we acknowledge thee to be the lord" Last Line: "o lord, in thee have I trusted; let me never be confounded" Subject(s): God;religion; Theology TE DEUM OF RENEWALS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: For thy sweet sunshine after nights of rain Last Line: We thank thee, lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology TE DEUM OF THE YEARS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: For the life given, and for the life preserved Last Line: We thank thee, lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology TEACH US TO SERVE THEE, LORD, by IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Poem Source First Line: Teach us, good lord, to serve thee as thou deservest Last Line: Save that of knowing that we do thy will. Amen Subject(s): Religion TEACHER'S PRAYER, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Lord, thou who didst teach, forgive me for teaching Subject(s): Religion TEACHING THE CHILDREN, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: Children %today we offer you Subject(s): Religion TELEPHONE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a red book called telephone Last Line: As I knife out your name and all your dead kind Subject(s): God; Religion TELL HIM SO, by JAMES ARTHUR EGERTON Poem Source First Line: If you have a word of cheer Subject(s): Religion TELL ME THE STORIES OF JESUS, by WILLIAM HENRY PARKER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion TELL ME, BROTHER, WHAT HAPPENS AFTER DEATH?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Finally one with water Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion TELLING THE GOSPEL TRUTH, by BETH ANN FENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who placed this here, bible Last Line: Whither. %whither Subject(s): Bible; Catholic Church - Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Women - Bible; Women And Religion; Writing And Writers TEN LEPERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not white and shining like an ardent flame Last Line: Before I shall forget thee, keep me, lord, %a sick man at thy gate Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Leprosy; Religion TEN THOUSAND FLOWERS IN SPRING, THE MOON IN AUTUMN, by WU-MEN HUI-K'AI Poem Source Subject(s): Religion TENT REVIVAL, by JEFF DANIEL MARION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Almost a carnival, canvas Last Line: Here on this side of paradise Subject(s): Preaching And Preachers; Religion; Sin TERESA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I too happy? Have I lost Last Line: Bertrand and I and angelo! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Mothers; Religion; Paradise; Theology TERESA, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Say darkness, say light. The eagle Last Line: Scripture falling across the snow Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality TERESA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the sun's eclipse Last Line: The tempered consonants of discipline Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Theology; Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint TERESA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the sun's eclipse Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582) TERESA OF AVILA, by MURRAY BODO Poem Source First Line: The road from toledo to avila Last Line: Cool adobe tunnels into a crystal %cave, an interior castle Subject(s): Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582) TERESA'S ENIGMA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: How can I explain this? Last Line: In my mouth the taste of honey and flame Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life TEST OF MANHOOD, SELS., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fellowship religion has its founts Subject(s): Religion TESTAMENT, by SALEEM PEERADINA Poem Source First Line: Consider my state: what I am Last Line: Second flood its chambers %with blinding sight Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality TESTAMENT OF A CHRISTIAN, by ROBERT PEET Poem Source First Line: Ffour poyntis, my will of I hence departe Subject(s): Religion TESTAMENT OF BEAUTY: BOOK 4. ETHICK, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, the eternal spouse of the wisdom of god Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Religion TESTIFY, by MICHAEL BURNS Poem Source First Line: I don't want no -- angry -- god Last Line: Cough me up from the belly of the whale, god Subject(s): God; Religion TESTIMONY, by EVA MOAD TURNER Poem Text First Line: My garden bears testimony to divinity Last Line: Autumn's arabesques of flame and gold. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology TEXT, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I heard his ways were just Subject(s): Religion THANATOPSIS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To him who in the love of nature holds Last Line: About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Nature; Religion; Trees; Dead, The; Theology THANKFUL FOR ALL, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An easy thing, o power divine Variant Title(s): The Things I Mis Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving THANKS BE TO GOD, by JANIE ALFORD Poem Text First Line: I do not thank thee, lord Last Line: Unspeakable! His gift! Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology THANKSGIVING, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For summer rain, and winter's sun Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Religion THANKSGIVING, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Source First Line: Lord, I give thanks Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roar of the world is in my ears Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Religion THANKSGIVING, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Thank thee, o giver of life, o god! Last Line: Thank thee for life, for life, for life, %o giver of lofe, ogod! Subject(s): Religion THANKSGIVING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the latest flower hath bloomed Last Line: "and end it with, ""thy will be done." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THANKSGIVING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For all true words that have been spoken Last Line: We give thee praise for all, for all Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion THANKSGIVING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our father, whose unchanging love Last Line: Awaits us at the end. Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology THANKSGIVING, by AMOS NIVEN WILDER Poem Source First Line: Be our daily bread withheld, be it given Subject(s): Religion THANKSGIVING DAY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We give thee thanks, o lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Religion THANKSGIVING SONG, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: I brought my gifts to the altar Last Line: Reach upward toward the sun. Subject(s): Altars; Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Theology THAT DARK OTHER MOUNTAIN, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father could go down a mountain faster than I Subject(s): Religion THAT DAY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the desk I sit at Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology THAT DAY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the desk I sit at Last Line: But this is the typewriter that sits before me %and love is where yesterday is at Subject(s): God; Love; Religion THAT GOD MADE, by WILL HERFORD Poem Source First Line: This is the earth that god made Subject(s): Injustice; Religion THAT HOLY THING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They all were looking for a king Last Line: Yea, every bygone prayer. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THAT NATURE IS A HERACLITEAN FIRE & OF THE COMFORT OF THE RESURRECTION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows Last Line: Is immortal diamond. Variant Title(s): That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrecti Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nature; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology THAT WE MAY BE MADE, by MARGARET AHO Poem Source First Line: Worthy %fills me with dread. Without Last Line: Pray for me, tower %of ivory, gate %of heaven Subject(s): Religion THAT'S IT, MOTHER!, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Into the saving waters Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion THE ABIDING LOVE, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It singeth low in every heart Last Line: Our god, for evermore. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE ADDICT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepmonger / deathmonger Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; God; Religion; Suicide; Theology THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A boy -- okay,it's me -- wears a fringed Last Line: One hand pressed hard into this crotch Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE AERONAUT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Paean, sing paean! / for I have made me wings Last Line: "thy courier I!'?" Subject(s): Flight; Love; Religion; Flying; Theology THE AGNOSTIC'S PRAYER, by DEMPS ALEXANDER ODEN Poem Text First Line: Awed by thy firmament above / confused by Last Line: Wondering, trusting, unafraid. Subject(s): Agnosticism; Religion; Worship; Theology THE AGONY [AGONIE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philosophers have measur'd mountains Last Line: Which my god feels as bloud, but I as wine. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE AIM, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who lovest not alone Last Line: I bless thy goad of discontent. Subject(s): Ambition; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE ALTAR, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, remote, nor witting where I went Last Line: That burns, and must burn somehow for the best. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE AMBITION BIRD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it has come to this Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE ANCIENT SAGE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand summers ere the time of christ Last Line: So, farewell.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE ANGEL'S BIDDING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sound is heard in the convent Last Line: "at the deed you have done to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE ANGEL'S SONG; CAROL, by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came upon the midnight clear Last Line: Which now the angels sing Variant Title(s): Peace On Earth Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE ANGELUS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the lilac sky the angelus bell Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE ANIMALS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do not live in the world Subject(s): Bible; Memory; Religion; Theology THE ANNUNCIATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel and the girl are met Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Religion; Theology THE ANVIL - GOD'S WORD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith's door Last Line: "yet, although the noise of falling blows was heard, / the anvil is unharmed - the hammers gone" Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE ANVIL OF GOD'S MERCY, by ANNA HAMILTON WOOD Poem Text First Line: I wonder that the metal stands the test Last Line: And man bends on it, steadily and slow! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE APPLE SHRINE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week you gathered armfuls of apple blossoms Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology THE ARCTIC INDIAN'S FAITH, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We worship the spirit that walks unseen Last Line: But his presence and power we know. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion THE ARGUMENT, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way to the village store Last Line: And the wish to forestall the argument Subject(s): Religion; Death; Theology; Dead, The THE ARMY OF THE LORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To fight the battle of the cross, christ's Last Line: "o grave, where is thy victory! O death, where is thy sting!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Religion; Sin; Soul; War; Dead, The; Theology THE ASS SPEAKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the little ass of christ Last Line: The whip, for jesus christ his sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Christmas; Duty; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary; Theology THE ASSASSIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The correct death is written in Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence THE BABY, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did you come from, baby dear? Last Line: God thought of you, and so I am here. Variant Title(s): "where Did You Come From, Baby Dear?""; Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE BACK OF GOD, by J. R. PERKINS Poem Text First Line: I prayed to see the face of god Last Line: Carrying a double load upon his back. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BAD-LANDS OF DAKOTA, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I think that when god made the bright, fair land Last Line: God thought of us, and shaped that beauty rare. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): God; Religion; South Dakota; Theology THE BALANCE WHEEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I waved at the sky Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BALINESE WITCH DOCTOR, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sits in the circle of his simmering Last Line: Baby chicken stirs in moonlight's shadows. Subject(s): Indonesia; Religion; Dutch East Indies; Theology THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the border side Last Line: When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the border side Last Line: When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BALLAD OF JOKING JESUS, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: - I'm the queerest young fellow that you ever heard Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He did not wear his scarlet coat Last Line: The brave man with a sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Freedom; Love; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Religion; Sleep; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Convicts; Theology THE BALLAD OF THE LONELY MASTURBATOR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the affair is always death Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology THE BARGAIN, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I counted blisses, tortures, shames Last Line: It was not fair.' god bowed his head. Subject(s): Aging; Bargains; Religion; Theology THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a summer evening Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory." Variant Title(s): After Blenheim Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology THE BATTLE OF DRUMLIEMOOR, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bar the door! Put out the light, for it gleams across the night Last Line: And I hid myself all day, and -- I am here! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BATTLE WITHIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God strengthen me to bear myself Last Line: Break off the yoke and set me free. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Who Shall Deliver Me? Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BATTLE-FIELD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands Last Line: The blast of triumph o'er thy grave Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Social Protest; Theology THE BEACON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea Last Line: Assembles all the sea Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE BEELAH VIADUCT, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: O wondrous age! A wondrous age we live in Last Line: When we have bid farewell to earthly things. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Faith; Religion; World; Belief; Creed; Theology THE BEGINNINGS OF FAITH, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All travail of high thought Last Line: To some clear, firm assurance of a satisfying creed. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE BELLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the circus poster Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BIBLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this book-this holy book, on every line" Last Line: "and earnest sighs, to read, believe and live" Subject(s): Bible;books;jews;religion; Reading;judaism;theology THE BIBLE, by RICHARD BARTON Poem Text First Line: Lamp of my feet, whereby we trace Last Line: Our anchor and our stay! Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLE, by DAVID LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to an ancient temple Last Line: Lift purified to heaven! Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLE, by PHOEBE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Blessed bible! How I love it! Last Line: Sweeter still thy truths shall be! Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLIOGRAPHERS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucifer blazing in superb effigies Last Line: The shadow-god envisioned is no cloud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE BIG BOOTS OF PAIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There can be certain potions Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BIG HEART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big heart, / wide as a watermelon Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BIGOT, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The foolish roman fondly thought Last Line: To fit your own contracted heart. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Pantheism; Racism; Religion; Rome, Italy; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Theology THE BIRD LET LOOSE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bird, let loose in eastern skies Last Line: Thy freedom in her wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Pigeons; Religion; Theology THE BLACK ART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman who writes feels too much Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BLACK HERALDS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Last Line: There are blows in life, so powerful…I don't know! Subject(s): Life; Religion THE BLACK HILLS OF DAKOTA, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: They say the good great spirit Last Line: Is to have walked with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): God; Religion; Spiritual Healing; Theology; Faith-cure THE BLACK MESSENGERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are in life such hard blows . . . I don't know! Subject(s): Life; Religion THE BLACK VIRGINITY, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby priests/ on green sward Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Women; Religion; Theology THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was six men of indostan Last Line: Not one of them has seen! Subject(s): Elephants; Religion; Theology THE BLUDY SERK, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This hinder yeir I hard be tald Last Line: Think on the bludy serk! Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Fables; Religion; Allegories; Theology THE BOOK, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly I closed the book as in a dream Last Line: I shall work better all my other days. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BOOK OF BOOKS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within this ample volume lies Last Line: That read to doubt or read to scorn. Variant Title(s): The Bible Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE BOOK OF GOD, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy thoughts are here, my god Last Line: The church's heritage. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man hears thunder, he thinks someone is speaking Last Line: The dead man speaks god's language. Subject(s): Death; God; Language; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man counts the seconds between lightning and thunder to Last Line: Smell of solder at the junction of earth and sky. Subject(s): Death; God; Lightning; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE MAKETH HIMSELF ONE WITH THE ONLY GOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O everlasting kingdom of the scepter Last Line: Shall drag me back from my immortal path! Subject(s): Egypt;religion; Theology THE BOOK OF WISDOM, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I go on loving anyone at fifty Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of this fair volume which we world do name Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): The Book Of Nature;the Lessons Of Nature;the World Subject(s): Bible; Books; Earth; Religion; Reading; World; Theology THE BOROUGH: LETTER 4. SECTS AND PROFESSIONS IN RELIGION, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sects in religion?' - yes of every race Last Line: Through scenes of horror, terror, and dismay.' Subject(s): Religion; Sects; Theology THE BRAVE CHILD, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, on a dare, he would dive where the stream Last Line: Fall through the dust-filled air. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE BRAVEST BATTLE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bravest battle that ever was fought! Last Line: Then, silent, unseen--goes down. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): The Greatest Battle That Ever Was Fought Subject(s): Religion; War; Theology THE BREAK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was also my violent heart that broke Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BREAK AWAY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your daisies have come Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BREAST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the key to it Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE BREWING OF SOMA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke Last Line: O still, small voice of calm! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Religion; Theology THE BRIDGE BUILDER, by WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old man, going [or, traveling] a lone highway Last Line: "good friend, I am building the bridge for him." Variant Title(s): Building The Bridge [for Him] Subject(s): Bridges; Religion; Theology THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America THE BROTHER THIEF, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four men steal the bronze Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Religion; Robbery; Ceylon THE BUILDER, by HATTIE VOSE HALL Poem Text First Line: A builder builded a temple Last Line: Was a child's immortal soul. Variant Title(s): Two Temples Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BUILDERS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The city of god is within you Last Line: To build his city of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BUNCH OF GRAPES, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man Last Line: Ev'n god himself being pressed for my sake. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE BURTHEN OF THE ASS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On christmas night at bethlehem Last Line: My shoulders were his throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Theology THE CALF, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right, sir! Your text I'll prove it true Last Line: "here lies a famous bullock!" Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CALL, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my way, my truth, my life Last Line: Such a heart as joys in love. Subject(s): Faith; Love; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE CALL, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: And god said 'come'; and all Last Line: Turning all my gloom to light. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Religion; Soul; Paradise; Theology THE CALL OF THE DEAD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Do you hear a deep voice calling? Last Line: "and, having done all, -- stand!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CALL TO EVENING PRAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Allah ho akbar! Allah ho akbar! Last Line: Naray'yana! Naray'yana! Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Virgin Mary; Theology THE CANDLE INDOORS, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by Last Line: And, cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt? Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE CANTICLE OF THE CREATURES [OR, SUN], by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: O most high, almighty, good lord god to thee belong praise, glory, honour Last Line: Humility. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CAPTAINS OF THE YEARS, by ARTHUR RAYMOND MACDOUGALL JR. Poem Text First Line: I watched the captains Last Line: While christ rode on ahead. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE CARRYING OF A GHOST, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Let the ghost of the brave be carried away Last Line: The ghost goes on the long ghost-road. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Native Americans - Religion; Rites & Ceremonies; Supernatural; Bereavement THE CATHEDRAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the memory shines a happy day Last Line: Missed in the commonplace of miracle. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE CATHEDRAL OF SWALLOWS, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if god love these not more Last Line: A huddle of houses, old, and brown. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Swallows; Cathedrals; Theology THE CATTLE OF HIS HAND, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long through the starlit air and the stillness Last Line: Onward we strain with a mighty resounding of hoof-beats. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CAUSE OF THE EARTHQUAKE AT NISHAPUR, by FASIHI KHVAFI Poem Text First Line: Through the shakes and the knocks of the earthquake Last Line: His eyes did pray? Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Religion; Theology THE CEMETERY BY THE SEA, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tranquil roof, with walking pigeons, loom Last Line: This tranquil roof where jib-sails peck in flocks! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Life Choices; Religion; Passion THE CESTELLO ANNUNCIATION, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The angel has already said, 'be not afraid' Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign Last Line: Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Subject(s): Mollusks; Nautilus (shell); Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy is he born and taught Last Line: And, having nothing, yet hath all. Variant Title(s): The Happy Life;a Good Man;lord Of Himself;of A Happy Life Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Life; Religion; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Theology THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me Last Line: Were toward eternity-- Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology THE CHEMISTRY OF CHARACTER, by ELIZABETH DORNEY Poem Text First Line: John and peter and robert and paul Last Line: God in his wisdom created them all. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CHEWING THE CUD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When well we speak, & nothing do that's good Last Line: We then both chew the cud, and cleave the hoof. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE CHILD BEARERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jean, death comes close to us all Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE CHILD IN THE GARDEN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When to the garden of untroubled thought Last Line: "I am the little child you used to be." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE CHILD ON THE JUDGMENT SEAT, by ELIZABETH RUNDELL CHARLES Poem Text First Line: Where hast been toiling all day, sweetheart Last Line: In a look of his own for thee. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CHILD'S APPEAL, by MAMIE GENE COLE Poem Text First Line: I am the child Last Line: Train me, I beg you, that I may be a blessing to the world. Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE CHILD'S PRAYER, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teach the child to pray to the blue waves Last Line: Chaplet of perfumes on the rosary of love. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Rosary; Theology THE CHILDREN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The children, lord, the children! Last Line: Will answer every call. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE CHILDREN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The childen are all crying in their pens Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those that never know the light Last Line: And tell the ages what we are! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Last Line: Whose music is the gladness of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Ambition; Creative Ability; Life Change Events; Music & Musicians; Religion; Worship; Inspiration; Creativity; Theology THE CHRIST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The good intent of god became the christ Last Line: Since christ in all the ways of man hath trod. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology THE CHRIST, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He might have reared a palace at a word Last Line: For needs of others, never for its own! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE CHRISTENING, by ALEXANDER WATT Poem Text First Line: Twas foorsday, an' the blinding drift Last Line: To imitate the barefit laird. Subject(s): Baptism; Religion; Christenings; Theology THE CHRISTIAN'S GOOD-NIGHT, by SARAH DOUDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, beloved, sleep, and take thy rest Last Line: Good-night! Good-night! Good-night! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CHURCH OF THE HEART, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the dales of the human heart Last Line: Tho' it hath no priests and it hath no bells! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Religion; Temples; Theology; Mosques THE CHURCH TODAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outwardly splendid as of old Last Line: Like the dead moon, she still shines on. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Churches; Moon; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology THE CHURCH-PORCH, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance Last Line: If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CHURCHES, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Two, in the darkness, sought the cross Last Line: Christ's wounds broke in fresh agony. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CHURCHMAN'S THREE WISHES IN FAVOUR OF THE BURIAL BILL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A churchman, three things in this christian land Last Line: Not solemnized in lent. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Christianity; Funerals; Religion; Wishes; Burials; Theology THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get ye up from the wrath of god's Last Line: And death brooded over the pride of the plain! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Theology THE CITY OF GOD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Where shall the city of god be found? Last Line: There the city of god is. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CITY OF GOD, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1822-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: City of god, how broad and far Last Line: The eternal city stands. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CITY'S CROWN, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Text First Line: What makes a city great? Huge piles of stone Last Line: Till every stone shall be articulate. Subject(s): Cities; Religion; Wealth; Urban Life; Theology; Riches; Fortunes THE CIVIL WAR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am torn in two Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE CLIMB OF LIFE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a feel of all things flowing Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE COMING OF HIS FEET, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the crimson of the morning, in the whiteness of the noon Last Line: I listen for the coming of his feet. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE COMING OF THE LORD, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come suddenly, o lord, or slowly come Last Line: Thou wilt to us thy word of promise keep. Variant Title(s): Take Ye Heed, Watch And Pray Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September was when it began. Last Line: And heard the sound of rushing wind Subject(s): Locusts; Bible; Religion; Theology THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: September was when it began Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, they who fear the lord will often speak Last Line: An earthly father's thy paternal love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Saints; Belief; Creed; Theology THE CONQUEROR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He cloistered here a virgin thought Last Line: Within her walls to lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The midday sun, with fiercest glare Last Line: "make much of your dear lord!" Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Saul Of Tarsus; Theology THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! Last Line: In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard! Subject(s): Home; Love; Religion; Theology THE COUNTRY FAITH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the country's heart Last Line: And the best of all! Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Religion; Theology THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP, by EMMA HART WILLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rocked in the cradle of the deep Last Line: Rocked in the cradle of the deep. Variant Title(s): In The Cradle Of The Deep Subject(s): God; Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean THE CREATION (A NEGRO SERMON), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And god stepped out on space Last Line: Amen. Amen. Subject(s): African Americans; Religion; Time; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology THE CROSS WAS HIS OWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They borrowed a bed to lay his head Last Line: The cross was his own Subject(s): Jesus Christ;religion; Theology THE CROSS; TO THE MOTHERS OF THE MARTYRED DEAD UPON FIELD OF BATTLE, by JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER Poem Text First Line: My flesh cries out for its own flesh! Last Line: And share with thee the tortures of the cross. Subject(s): Martyrs; Mothers & Sons; Religion; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Theology THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then pilate, the roman governor, took jesus and scourged him Last Line: Therefore, believe in the saviour, and heaven you shall enter in! Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Death; Heaven; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology THE CRY OF THE AGE, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do to be just? Last Line: My heart is aflame to be right. Subject(s): Justice; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE CRY OF THE HUMAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no god,' the foolish saith Last Line: Be pitiful, o god. Variant Title(s): Convinced By Sorrow Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CRYSTAL, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time Last Line: Baltimore, 1880. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vain, sinful art! Who first did fit Last Line: She tempts to incest, thou to blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DAY - THE WAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Not for one single day Last Line: So I securely go. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: With a whirl of thought oppressed Last Line: I damn such fools! -- go, go, you're bit.' Variant Title(s): On The Day Of Judgement Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE DAY OF RESURRECTION, by JOHN OF DAMASCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day of resurrection, / earth, tell it out abroad Last Line: Our joy that hath no end. Alternate Author Name(s): John Damascene; Chrysorrhoas Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology THE DAY-DREAM: PROLOGUE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady flora, let me speak Last Line: And order'd words asunder fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DEACON'S PRAYER, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The hymn had slowly died away Last Line: "as by one impulse, cried, ""amen!" Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE DEAD HEART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not a turtle Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 23, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Unhappy merchant, thus t'expose thy lord Last Line: Of him, who came, this sicke worlde to redeeme. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 24, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Oh blessed virgin, hadst thowe present bene Last Line: That juryes wealth, on hayre should never buy. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 25, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: But thowe true patterne of pure pyety Last Line: Goe buy thyne owne from those preistes murth'ring handes. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 26, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: And judas o yf greedy hope of gayne Last Line: Then scornefull foes, whose spight and pyde abhorre him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 27, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Oh what would lazarus new brought to live Last Line: Who lov'd him more then all ye world can doe. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 28, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Yea leave the earth, and ask the angels bright Last Line: Thy guilt had bene the lesse, thy gayne the more. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 29, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: But sin, with self conceit it self doth blind Last Line: Weare in his pow'r, to use him, as he please. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH BABY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was an ice baby. / I turned to sky blue Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DEATH KING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hired a carpenter Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DEATH OF MOSES, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, who spake with god as with his friend Last Line: "he dwells not with you dead, but lives as law." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Law & Lawyers; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Attorneys; Theology THE DEATH OF SAUL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleeping armies of the living god Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DEATH OF STEPHEN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O power invincible of faith and love Last Line: Thus, martyr'd stephen, thus wert thou avenged. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Christianity; God; Martyrs; Religion; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.); Theology THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 4. SANTA, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, / the santa claus suit Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DEBT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the debt I pay Last Line: God! But the interest! Subject(s): Debt; Guilt; Religion; Theology THE DECISION, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shakes the eye but the invisible Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DEPARTED FRIEND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though he that ever kind and true Last Line: Waits on a stile. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Verses Written In 1872;resurgence Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Religion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology THE DEPTHS OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: From depths untold of tender love Last Line: The depths untold of love below. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology THE DESPONDING SOUL'S WISH, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit longeth for thee Last Line: And send it from above! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, Last Line: Hath melted like snow in the glance of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sennacherib Subject(s): Assyria; Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; War; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE DISCIPLES AFTER THE ASCENSION, by ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is gone! Beyond the skies Last Line: Thitherward let us ascend. Subject(s): Apostles; Ascension Day; Bible; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology THE DIVAN, SELECTION, by NASIR-I KHUSRAU Poem Text First Line: God's gracious word in truth is an ocean of speech Last Line: Strive to hide. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To mercy pity peace and love Last Line: There god is dwelling too. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE DIVINE PARADOX, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A god and yet a man Last Line: By reason's power to reach it. / believe and leave to wonder! Variant Title(s): Wit Wonders Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DIVINE PRESENCE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All but unutterable name! Last Line: From thee, o god, we fly -- to thee. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DIVISION OF PARTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, my mary gray Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DOCTOR OF THE HEART, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take away your knowledge, doktor Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DONKEY, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fishes flew and forests walked Last Line: And palms before my feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Bible; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Mules; Theology THE DOOMED MAN, by JOSEPH ADDISON ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: There is a time, we know not when Last Line: "and harden not your heart." Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DOUBLE IMAGE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am thirty this november Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over switzerland broods the Subject(s): Dragons; Religion; Unicorns; Theology THE DREAM SONGS: 234. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child stood in the shed. The child went mad Last Line: The great man sought his retire Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DREAM SONGS: 47. APRIL FOOL'S DAY, OR, ST MARY OF EGYPT, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thass a funny title, mr bones Last Line: Whom god has not visited Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DREAM SONGS: 64, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need Last Line: Is blinds. Them blinds on fire Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DREAMER, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of doubting Last Line: And rides god's battlefield in a flashing and golden car. Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus Subject(s): Dreams; Religion; Nightmares; Theology THE DRUMS OF GOD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seed you sowed of death and hate Last Line: For them who come to do god's wrath. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are welcome to your country, dear antonio Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Freedom; Love; Religion; Tragedy; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vital spark of heavenly flame! / quit, o quit this mortal frame! Last Line: O death! Where is thy sting? Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Variant Title(s): Ode: The Dying Christian To His Soul Subject(s): Bible; Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN HYMN, by TITUS FLAVIUS CLEMENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd of tender youth, / guiding in love and truth Last Line: To christ the king! Alternate Author Name(s): Clement Of Alexandria Variant Title(s): Shepherd Of Eager Youth Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE EARTH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God loafs around heaven Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EARTH FALLS DOWN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could blame it all on the weather Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE END, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the blast of lightning from the east Last Line: "nor my titanic tears the seas be dried." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE ENGLISH MARTYRS; A SCENE OF THE DAYS OF QUEEN MARY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morn once again! Morn in the lone, dim cell Last Line: Tis o'er! -- the bitterness of death is past! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE ENTHUSIAST, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall hearts that beat no base retreat Last Line: From fealty to light. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE ERRAND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been going right on, page by page Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE ETERNAL CHRIST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Our god is an eternal christ Last Line: And that right instantly. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE ETERNAL GOODNESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friends! With whom my feet have trod Last Line: My human heart on thee! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EVERLASTING GOD, by EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH Poem Text First Line: O god, the rock of ages Last Line: An ocean without shore. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EVIL EYE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It comes oozing / out of flowers at night Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EVIL SEEKERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are born with luck Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE EXCESSES OF GOD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not by his superflousness we know Last Line: If power and desire were perch-mates Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE EXCURSION: BOOK 4. DESPONDENCY CORRECTED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here closed the tenant of that lonely vale Last Line: Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE EXPATRIATES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, it was a moment Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FALL, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How blest was the created state Last Line: You love me for the frailer part. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Bible; Love; Religion; Theology THE FALLEN ANGELS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They come on to my clean Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FALLING DOLLS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dolls, / by the thousands Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FARING OF FA-HIEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through gobiland's sea of sand Last Line: I, fa-hien.' Subject(s): Buddhism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Monks; Religion; Travel; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology; Journeys; Trips THE FARMER'S SOLILOQUY, by ROBERT CHARLES O'HARA BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a thousand tongues to sing Last Line: Whilst few ask for religion. Subject(s): Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE FATHER'S BUSINESS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who puts back into place a fallen bar Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE FEAST OF AGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: See where the light streams over connla's Last Line: Led by the king. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FEILIRE OF ADAMNAN, by ADAMNAN Poem Text First Line: Saints of four seasons! Last Line: Saints of the year! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE FIERCENESS OF FEMALE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am spinning, / I am spinning on the lips Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FIRST CAUSE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doubtless the linnet, shut within its cage Last Line: And all may not be good -- that all is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE FLIGHT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wild heart, track the land's perfume Last Line: "one with the wild heart yearning." Subject(s): History; Mankind; Religion; Historians; Human Race; Theology THE FLIGHT IN THE DESERT, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last settlement scraggled out with a barbwire fence Last Line: Knuckles the generous beast, and feeds Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT; A BALLAD, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a legend that's told of a gypsy who dwelt Last Line: With her host on the bank of the nile. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Holy Family; Religion; Theology THE FOLLIES OF ADAM, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read me euripides Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE FORCE OF PRAYER; OR, THE FOUNDING OF BOLTON PRIORY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is good for a bootless bene? Last Line: Of him to be our friend! Variant Title(s): The Boy Of Egremond Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE FORGOTTEN COUNTERSIGN, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life met me on the threshold - young, divine Last Line: And love be more than a delusive dream! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE FORTRESS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the pink quilted covers Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FORTUNATE ISLES, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sail and you seek for the fortunate isles Last Line: And these, o friend, are the fortunate isles. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE FOUNTS OF SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the song I am singing?' Last Line: "in these dumb solitudes." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology THE FRIEND'S BURIAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are all in yonder town Last Line: Revealed in holy lives. Subject(s): Friendship; Funerals; Religion; Burials; Theology THE FROG PRINCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frau doktor / mama brundig Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit divine! Eternal, holy dove! Last Line: Creating light, and beauty, fruit, and flower! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Happiness; Holy Ghost; Love; Peace; Religion; Joy; Delight; Holy Spirit; Theology THE FURY OF BEAUTIFUL BONES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me a thrush, bone Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF COCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they are Subject(s): God; Religion; Sex; Theology THE FURY OF COOKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herbs, garlic Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF FLOWERS AND WORMS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the flowers make a journey Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF HATING EYES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to bury Subject(s): God; Hate; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF OVERSHOES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sit in a row / outside the kindergarten Subject(s): Children; God; Kindergarten; Religion; Shoes; Childhood; Theology; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE FURY OF SUNRISES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness / as black as your eyelid Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FURY OF SUNSETS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something / cold is in the air Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE FUTURE OF TERROR / 5, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there were gamebirds in our gables, Last Line: While we spun ever-so-slowly below Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE GARDEN, by ROSE PARKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Two of thy children one summer day worked in their garden, lord Last Line: Two of thy children, all the days of their life will work in thy garden, lord! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Worship; Theology THE GARDEN OF GOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a vineyard where grape-laden boughs Last Line: The bible, the garden of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; God; Religion; Theology THE GARDEN OF GOD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the iron cities Last Line: To sweeten the dead air. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Theology THE GARDEN OF LOVE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the garden of love Last Line: And binding with briars my joys & desires. Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE GATE OF PRAYER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I seemed to stand Last Line: "I bear, come thou to me." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fourscore and seven years ago Last Line: Shall not perish from the earth. Variant Title(s): At Gettysburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Religion; United States - History; United States; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Theology; America THE GIFT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They hung the lambs and cut t heir white throats. Blood Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE GIFT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Because I cannot speak the word Last Line: Deaf ears accursed and blinded eyes! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE GIFT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wise men of old brought gifts Last Line: To worship / this perfection Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE GLORY OF RUINS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lizard rested on the rock while I sat among the ruins Last Line: God hath given eternity to the thought of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE GOAL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All roads that lead to god are good Last Line: All roads that lead to god are good. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE GOAL AND THE WAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The future lies / with those whose eyes Last Line: Who falters now shames god, and dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Religion; Veterans Day; Theology THE GOD OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When christ, suffused in glory light Last Line: To heights beyond, above. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Theology THE GOD-MAKER, MAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore / shall the shepherds of arcady follow Last Line: Humble, but open eyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Future Life; God; Immortality; Mythology; Religion; Truth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE GOD-MONGER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all my questions Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE GOLD KEY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The speaker on this case Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE GOLDEN CORD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Through every minute of this day Last Line: Be with thee, lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology THE GOOD SEED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magi came to bethlehem Last Line: A victim for the sons of men! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save Last Line: And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a kid. Subject(s): Goats; God; Religion; Sheep; Theology THE GOODLY COMPANY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Thou with us, and we with thee Last Line: And with him is close allied. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE GRACE OF GOD, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The lord's cross, so runs the old norse tale Last Line: From lips an hungered for its succulence? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Heaven; Religion; Eve; Paradise; Theology THE GREAT WHEEL, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tuileries we came upon the great wheel Subject(s): Religion; Tuileries Gardens, Paris; Theology THE GREATEST SIN, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: My friend would guard my treasures as his own Last Line: He robbed me of my faith in god today. Variant Title(s): The Greater Sin Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; Friendship; God; Religion; Sin; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Theology THE GREENWOOD SHRIFT; GEORGE III AND A DYING WOMAN IN WINDSOR FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outstretched beneath the leafy shade Last Line: Knelt their anointed king. Subject(s): England; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Religion; Windsor Forest, England; English; Theology THE GUEST, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed into the doorway Last Line: Of my knowing, but not asked Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Religion; Visiting; Theology THE HA' BIBLE, by ROBERT NICOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I could worship thee! Last Line: A sunbeam sent from god,—an everlasting bow! Subject(s): Bible; Books; God; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE HABIT OF PERFECTION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elected silence, sing to me Last Line: Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun. Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL, by KNOWLES SHAW Poem Text First Line: At the feast of belshazzar and a thousand of his lords Last Line: While the hand is writing on the wall? Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE HEARTS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The legendary muscle that wants and grieves, Subject(s): Hearts; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Muic & Musicians; Religion; Love - Unrequited; Theology THE HEN-ROOST MAN, by RUTH MCENERY STUART Poem Text First Line: De hen-roost man he'll preach about paul Last Line: An' he ain't by 'isself in dat. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE HIDDEN WEAVER, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There where he sits, in the cold, in the gloom Last Line: Wrought in the web of eternity. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE HIGH THINGS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The greatest day that ever dawned Last Line: Was the heart by man's sins torn. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE HIGHER GOOD, by THEODORE PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, I will not ask for wealth or fame Last Line: And lead still further on such as thy kingdom seek. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology THE HIGHER PANTHEISM, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains Last Line: But if we could see and hear, this vision -- were it not he? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Pantheism; Religion; Theology THE HILL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is some time since I have been Subject(s): Men; Religion; Theology THE HILL-BORN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who are born of the hills Last Line: In the hills you will find your god again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Religion; Theology THE HILLS OF THE LORD, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God ploughed one day with an earthquake Last Line: And his peace everlasting to me. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE HINDOO SCEPTIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I think till I weary with thinking Last Line: And your god be no reflex of you Subject(s): Doubt;god;hinduism;religion; Skepticism;theology THE HINDOO'S DEATH, by GEORGE BIRDSEYE Poem Text First Line: A hindoo died; a happy thing to do Last Line: "begone! We'll have no fools in paradise!" Variant Title(s): Paradise; A Hindoo Legend Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion; Women; Theology THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's there Last Line: The driest thing there is. Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh book! Infinite sweetness! Let my heart Last Line: Subject to ev'ry mounters bended knee. Variant Title(s): The H. Scriptures (i) Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE HOMELESS POOR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm the city lay in midnight silence Last Line: In thy homeless ones to succor thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Homeless; Poverty; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE HOPE OF THE WORLD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Higher than heaven they sit Last Line: Who know not whence I am sped, nor to what port I sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE HOUND OF HEAVEN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I fled him, down the nights and down the days Last Line: "thou dravest love from thee, who dravest me." Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; God; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE HOUSE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams / the same bad dream goes on Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are hermit souls that live withdrawn Last Line: And be a friend to man. Subject(s): Humility; Religion; Theology THE HOUSE OF GOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "prone upon the earth, in prayer, the weary nanac fell" Last Line: "where, crowned with deathless praise, his holy house is not!'" Subject(s): Clergy;god;religion; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;theology THE HOUSE OF GOD, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We love the venerable house Last Line: Thou heart that lovest all. Variant Title(s): Hymn Sung At The Second Church, Boston ... Ordination Of Rev. Chandler Robbins Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 71. THE CHOICE (1), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die Last Line: And round their narrow lips the mould falls close. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 90. 'RETRO ME, SATHANA!', by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get thee behind me. Even as, heavy-curled Last Line: For certain years, for certain months and days. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE HOUSE OF PAIN, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Unto the prison house of pain none willingly repair Last Line: For to no earthly dwelling-place seems god so strangely near! Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Suffering; Misery; Theology THE HOUSE OF PRIDE, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON Poem Text First Line: I lived with pride; the house was hung Last Line: And made our life a sacrament. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE HUMAN TOUCH, by SPENCER MICHAEL FREE Poem Text First Line: Tis the human touch in this world that counts Last Line: Sing on in the soul alway. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE HUMANIST, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The venice portrait: he Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS, by MOSTYN T. PIGOTT Poem Text First Line: First there's the bible Last Line: And -- some verses of mine. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Reading; Theology THE HUNGRY, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whom does he love the most Last Line: "who die unsatisfied." Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE IMPERCIPIENT (AT A CATHEDRAL SERVICE), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That with this bright believing band Last Line: About us. Rest shall we. Subject(s): Agnosticism; Religion; Theology THE INDIAN UPON GOD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees Last Line: His languid tail above us, lit wth myriad spots of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): God; Hinduism; Religion; Theology THE INEVITABLE, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the man who faces what he must Last Line: Who by a life heroic conquers fate. Variant Title(s): Conquering Fate Subject(s): Courage; Fate; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Destiny; Theology THE INN OF LIFE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: No room! No room! Last Line: Save as chiefest guest. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE INTERLUDE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much of transfiguration that we hear Subject(s): Insects; Death; Religion; Transfiguration; Bugs; Dead, The; Theology THE INTERROGATION OF THE MAN OF MANY HEARTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who's she, / that one in your arms Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE INVENTORY OF GOODBYE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a pack of letters Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE INVISIBLE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is naught but what we see Last Line: I know he lives and cares for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE INVITATION, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come ye hither all, whose taste Last Line: Where is all, there all should be. Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Religion; Theology THE JACOB'S LADDER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stairway is not / a thing of gleaming strands Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion; Theology THE JEW, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, from whose loins I sprung Last Line: Then why do they sneer at me? Subject(s): Bible; Freedom; Jews; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Liberty; Judaism; Theology THE JEW IS TRUE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth among this homeless race Last Line: The better christian is the jew. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Israel; Jews; Religion - Reformers; Judaism THE JEW TO JESUS, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O man of my own people, I alone Last Line: A thousand times have we been crucified. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it seems! These hebrews in their graves Last Line: And the dead nations never rise again. Subject(s): Bible; Cemeteries; Jews; Newport, Rhode Island; Religion; Social Protest; Graveyards; Judaism; Theology THE JOVIAL PRIEST'S CONFESSION; TRANSLATED FROM LATIN WALTER DE MAPES, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I devise to end my days - in a tavern drinking Last Line: And phoebus rushes into me, and beggareth all relation. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Clergy; Confessions; Religion; Translating & Interpreting; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE JUBILEE OF 1850, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bless god, ye happy lands Last Line: She was our lady's dower. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Churches; England; Ireland; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; English; Irish; Theology THE KEY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The cross of calvary Last Line: Of life reborn of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Jesus Christ; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE KINDLY NEIGHBOR, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a kindly neighbor, one who stands Last Line: When man has made the man next door his friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Neighbors; Peace; Religion; Theology THE KING, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How plain soe'er the house or poor the guests Last Line: No longer poor the place where god takes part. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE KINGDOM OF GOD, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: O world invisible, we view thee Last Line: Not of gennesareth, but thames! Variant Title(s): In No Strange Land Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the lord god, 'build a house' Last Line: That we darkly build today. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE KINGS, by HENRY WILLIAM HOYNE Poem Text First Line: Three kings riding forth of old Last Line: You have wandered from your star! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Social Protest; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology THE KIRK'S ALARM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orthodox, orthodox, who believe in john knox Last Line: She could ca'us nae waur than we are. Subject(s): Knox, John (1513-1572); Religion; Theology THE KISS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth blooms like a cut Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE KNEELING CAMEL, by ANNA TEMPLE WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: The camel at the close of day Last Line: Will make thee bear. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LABORER, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up, erect! Thou hast the form Last Line: Of life may be well trod. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint augustine! Well hast thou said Last Line: To something nobler we attain. Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Religion; Saints; Augustine Of Hippo; Theology THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little lamb, who made thee: / dost thou know who made thee? Last Line: Little lamb god bless thee. Variant Title(s): The Lamb Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Lambs; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE LAMP OF LIFE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always we are following a light Last Line: Upon our way unknowing, in a dream. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LAMP [LAMPE], by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis dead night round about: horror doth creep Last Line: And where thou mad'st an end, there I'll begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Immortality; Religion; Theology THE LAMPS ARE BURNING, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Anti-semitism; Judaism; Theology THE LAST HOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Lord, in the gloom of my distress Last Line: "and ""death"" were life's supreme appeal." Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Despair; God; Hope; Religion; Dead, The; Optimism; Theology THE LAST INVOCATION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the last, tenderly Last Line: Strong is your hold o love.) Variant Title(s): The Imprisoned Soul Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology THE LAST REVIEW, by EMILY J. BUGBEE Poem Text First Line: Twenty-one miles of boys in blue Last Line: His spirit would thrill at a scene like this. Subject(s): American Civil War; Religion; United States - History; Theology THE LATEST DECALOGUE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt have one god only; who Last Line: More than thyself to love thy neighbour. Subject(s): Bible; Calvinists; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Ten Commandments; Theology THE LAW THAT MARRIES ALL THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud is free only Last Line: Here here here here Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way was long, the wind was cold Last Line: Twas thus the latest minstrel sung. Variant Title(s): The Minstrel Subject(s): Love; Religion; Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers; Theology THE LEADEN-EYED, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let not young souls be smothered out before Last Line: Not that they die, but that they die like sheep. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Poverty; Religion; Social Protest; Theology THE LEGEND GLORIFIED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I deem that god is not disquieted' Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LEGEND OF THE ONE-EYED MAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like oedipus I am losing my sight Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE LIAR'S PSALM: REPENTANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I repent the actual. It has never got me anywhere Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE LIFE-GIVER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth to us her bread Last Line: Upon the ground. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Earth's stars of love and friendship fade Last Line: Reveals the god of love. Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers! When the saviour's calm benignant eye Last Line: Than yours, ye lilies! Chosen thus and graced! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Religion; Theology THE LIP AND THE HEART, by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day between the lip and the heart Last Line: The silence of the heart. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LISTENERS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there anbody there?' said the traveller Last Line: When the plunging hoofs were gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Ghosts; Religion; Supernatural; Theology THE LITANY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a litany of lost things Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our flesh that was a battle-ground Last Line: Are merged in paradise. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE LITTLE CALVES OF LES HAIZETTES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Here in my little hamlet, three most marvelos animals there be, three Last Line: Follow me the sweet, dark eyes of the little calves of les haizettes. Subject(s): Calves; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology THE LITTLE ONES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The little ones are put in bed Last Line: We must have sinned,' sobbed emily. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE LITTLE PEASANT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh how the women Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE LOOK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour looked on peter. Ay, no word Last Line: And filled the silence, weeping bitterly. Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Religion; Theology THE LOOM OF TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Man's life is laid in the loom of time Last Line: For the pattern which he planned Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LOOM OF YEARS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the light of the silent stars that shine on the struggling sea Last Line: We come from the loom of the weaver that weaves the web of years. Variant Title(s): The Song Of Re-birth Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology THE LORD SPEAKS, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God said to the puritan Last Line: "for those who rest from the river." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE LOST INGREDIENT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost yesterday, those gentle ladies stole Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE LOST KEY, by PRISCILLA LEONARD Poem Text First Line: The key of yesterday Last Line: Unlocks tomorrow. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LOST SHEEP, by ELIZABETH CECILIA CLEPHANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were ninety and nine that safely lay Last Line: "rejoice, for the lord brings back his own!" Variant Title(s): Ninety And Nine Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE LOVE OF GOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The love of god is limitless Last Line: Eternal life to man. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE LOVE OF GOD, by ELIZA SCUDDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou grace divine, encircling all Last Line: O love of god, to thee! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: Practice resurrection Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE MAGI, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye Last Line: The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 11, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Third defendant speaks / I have always acted for the best Last Line: The crust crumbles, the veins run vinegar Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 21, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Third enemy speaks / god is a proposition Last Line: The clinic trinity Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE MAIDEN VIOLAINE, SELECTION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: The angel of god bears tidings of peace Last Line: The vine. Subject(s): Angels; God; Religion; Theology THE MAIDEN WITHOUT HANDS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it possible / he marries a cripple Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE MAN CHRIST, by THERESE (KARPER) LINDSEY Poem Text First Line: He built no temple, yet the farthest sea Last Line: The kingdom of the truth. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology THE MAN OF SORROWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise Last Line: "in every man that suffers, he, the man of sorrows, stands" Subject(s): Jesus Christ;religion; Theology THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, the sun hath risen Last Line: Satisfied with hopeful rest, and replete with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Martyrs; Religion; Sin; Tears; Paradise; Theology THE MARTYRS' HYMN, by MARTIN LUTHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flung to the heedless winds Last Line: The one availing name. Subject(s): Martyrs; Religion; Theology THE MASKED BALL, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heralds of dawn are blowing at the last star Last Line: And the dancers will lean homeward on their weariness. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE MASTER SINGS, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They move on tracks of never-ending light Last Line: God in his heaven bidding light arise. Variant Title(s): The Master-singers Subject(s): Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology; Songs THE MASTER'S TOUCH, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still air the music lies unheard Last Line: Thy perfect image, thou our god and lord! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE MASTER-PLAYER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old, worn harp that had been played Last Line: And brought forth music sweet and strong. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Religion; Lyres; Theology THE MATER PIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Softly the fading moon dies in the sky Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby, god is with thee. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Messiah; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE MEANING OF THE LOOK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that look of christ might seem to say Last Line: Because I know this man, let him be clear.' Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Religion; Theology THE MEANING OF THE WORD 'WRATH', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God so loved the world! - by how tender a phrase Last Line: From the father and son, a life-spirit in man. Subject(s): Bible; God; Love; Religion; Saints; Theology THE MENORAH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: In the temple, softly, clearly burning Last Line: Is the blessed law of israel! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Israel; Jews; Religion; Temples; Judaism; Theology; Mosques THE MENTAL HOSPITAL GARDEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is far to assisi Last Line: The full meaning / of it / all Subject(s): Religion; Psychiatric Hospitals; Gardens & Gardening; Theology THE MENTAL TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I travel'd thro' a land of men Last Line: And all is done as I have told. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Fancy; Theology THE MILLENNIUM, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The animals, as once in eden, lived Last Line: And earth kept jubilee a thousand years. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology THE MIND-READER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some things are truly lost. Think of a sun-hat Subject(s): Religion; Mind, The; Theology THE MISER, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: I have wasted nothing. O lord, I have saved Last Line: Time, and the talent thou gavest me. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE MIXED ASSEMBLY, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flea-bitten synod, an assembly brewed Last Line: Is clergy-lay, party-per-pale compounded. Subject(s): Burges, Cornelius (1589-1665); Conventions; Kimbolton, Edward, Lord (1602-1671); Politics & Government; Religion; Twisse, William (1578-1646); Wharton, Philip, 4th Lord (1613-1696); Assemblies; Meetings; Theology THE MODERN MADONNA, by ALICE MAUDE SPOKES Poem Text First Line: In paintings of the madonna and her child Last Line: "a gas-mask on his ""madonna and her saint." Subject(s): Christianity; Paintings And Painters; Religion; Theology THE MOHEGAN CHURCH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid those hills, with verdure spread Last Line: Your god -- your hope -- your heaven the same Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion THE MONASTERY ORCHARD IN EARLY SPRING, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's cows are in the fields Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE MONK IN THE KITCHEN, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Order is a lovely thing Last Line: What are we? I know not. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE MORNING'S NEWS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To moralize the state, they drag out a man Last Line: Through me, toward the ground Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE MOTHER OF GOD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE MOURNFUL LUTE OR THE PRECEPTOR'S FAREWELL, by DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father and mother, authors of my birth Last Line: Is all I ask, let weal or woe abound. Subject(s): Farewell; Religion; Parting; Theology THE MYSTIC, by GERTRUDE BONE Poem Text First Line: In the still light Last Line: And on the bitter lips of the unkind. Subject(s): Mysticism; Religion; Theology THE MYSTIC'S PRAYER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me to sleep in sheltering flame Last Line: My soul's desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Mysticism; Prayer; Religion; Sleep; Theology THE MYSTIC'S VISION, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! I shall kill myself with dreams Last Line: Your love within my bosom glows. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE NAME OF JESUS, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet the name of jesus sounds / in a believer's ear! Last Line: Refresh my soul in death. Variant Title(s): The Precious Name Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE NAMES OF OUR LADY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wide world thy children raise Last Line: The first we breathe in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Mary And Martha (bible); Names; Prayer; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Theology THE NATIVITY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the birth was born tonight Last Line: Can man forget this story? Variant Title(s): A Hymn On The Nativity Of My Saviour;a Hymn For The The Nativity Of My Savior Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the father is his daughter's son Last Line: Whose taste, doth us from beasts to men renew. Variant Title(s): Parem Parit Filia Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE NEED FOR MEN, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, give us men! A time like this demands Last Line: Wrong rules the land and waiting justice sleeps. Variant Title(s): Wanted Subject(s): God; Leadership; Patriotism; Religion; Theology THE NEGRO MEETS TO PRAY, by DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS Poem Text First Line: In days of old, when our fond mother earth Last Line: For war-scarred veterans, god's sweet welcome home. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE NEW AGE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When navies are forgotten Last Line: In the victory which is peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Variant Title(s): The Victory Which Is Peace Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology THE NEW APOCRYPHA: BUSINESS REVERSES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything! Counter and scales Last Line: In the land of galilee. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America THE NEW LEAF, by HELEN FIELD FISCHER Poem Text First Line: He came to my desk with a quivering lip Last Line: "do better now, my child!" Subject(s): Errors; Religion; Mistakes; Fallacies; Theology THE NEW MIRACLE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of old men wrought strange gods for mystery Last Line: Unfathomable thought. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE NEW SINAI, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, here is god, and there is god! Last Line: And thou shalt do, o man! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE NIGHT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the pure virgin-shrine Last Line: Might live invisible and dim! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Jesus Christ; Night; Religion; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Theology THE NOBLE LIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True worth is in being, not seeming Last Line: Whatever his fortunes or birth. Variant Title(s): Nobility Subject(s): Honesty; Religion; Theology THE NUDE SWIM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the southwest side of capri Subject(s): God; Religion; Sports; Theology THE NUN: A CANTATA, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of constance holy legends tell Last Line: The righteous find comfort in death.' Subject(s): Chastity; Clergy; Lust; Nuns; Religion; Sin; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE OLD BOOK, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O book of books, and friend of friends alone Last Line: Thy radiant light is ever shining there Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE OLD ENEMY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebellion against death, the old rebellion Last Line: Under the planet at the evening's end. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology THE OLD LUTHERAN BELLS AT HOME, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the voices of the pastors calling Subject(s): Bells; Religion; Theology THE OPERATION, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After the sweet promise Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE OTHER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under my bowels, yellow with smoke, it waits Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE OVER-HEART, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above, below, in sky and sod Last Line: And trust the unknown for the known. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE PACT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no pact to sign - our peaceful dead Last Line: Our dead will rise again. Subject(s): Death; Religion; War; Dead, The; Theology THE PAPA AND MAMA DANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking into consideration all your loveliness Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So abram rose, and clave the wood, and went Last Line: And half the seed of europe, one by one. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE PASSION OF THE MAD RABBIT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the carrots sang arias into the holy earth Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE PASSIONATE MAN'S PILGRIMAGE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Give me my scallop shell of quiet Last Line: To tread those blest paths which before I writ Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): His Pilgrimage;faith;the Pilgrim;the Pilgrimage;the Soul's Pilgrimage Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Religion; Theology THE PASTOR'S REVERIE, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pastor sits in his easy-chair Last Line: And brighten the homeward road. Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE PATH IN THE SKY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods were dark, and the night was black Last Line: And walk on earth by the path in the sky. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PATHWAY OF RIVERS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of god are full of water Last Line: Let me run in blessing to my rest in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PATIENT SCIENTISTS, by BERTHA GERNEAUX WOODS Poem Text First Line: How they have learned the secrets of the ether! Last Line: "and ""it is good,"" he murmurs once again." Subject(s): Religion And Science THE PEACEFUL SHEPHERD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If heaven were to do again Last Line: As well have been the sword Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PEARL, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the ways of learning; both the head Last Line: To climb to thee. Variant Title(s): The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE PEASANT POET, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He loved the brook's soft sound Last Line: A poet in his joy. Subject(s): Peasantry; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology THE PHARISEE, by EBENEZER SMITH Poem Text First Line: The incarnation of all evil! Last Line: To find a man so pious there. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Theology THE PHRASE OF THINE ACTIONS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I know of the sacred is a gloss Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by LEONARD BACON (1802-1881) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, beneath thy guiding hand Last Line: And spring adorns the earth no more. Variant Title(s): Forefathers' Hymn Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; Religion; Theology THE PILGRIM WAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: But once I pass this way Last Line: To day. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PILLAR OF THE CLOUD, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom Last Line: Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile. Variant Title(s): Faith - Heavenly Leadings;guidance Subject(s): Bible; Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE PILLOW, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The head that oft this pillow press'd Last Line: To heaven his gentle spirit rose. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Pillows; Religion; Theology THE PLACE OF PEACE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky Last Line: In the hollow of god's palm. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PLACE OF REST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the deep the deep heart goes Last Line: The mother takes her child again. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE PLACE OF THE DAMNED, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All folks who pretend to religion and grace Last Line: How happy for us, that it is not at home! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE PLAY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the only actor Last Line: Don’t you agree? Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE POEM I SHOULD LIKE TO WRITE, by MARGARET A. WINDES Poem Text First Line: The poem I should like to write was written long ago Last Line: The master poet wrote it—each burning word and line. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology THE POET, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His home is on the heights; to him Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE POET OF IGNORANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the earth is floating Last Line: But who am I to believe in dreams? Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE POET'S PRAYER, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Text First Line: Thy semblant beauty creeping through the world Last Line: And she who beauty is, I'll not forget! Subject(s): Faith; Prayer; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE POET'S SIMPLE FAITH, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say, 'where goest thou?' I cannot tell Last Line: My future is not one of my concerns. Variant Title(s): The Faith Of The Poet Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE POLTERGEIST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A weak, diaphanous spirit wavered in Last Line: "after this life know like futility?" Subject(s): Ghosts; Religion; Supernatural; Theology THE POWER HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I go past Last Line: Or the walt whitman flywheel! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PRAEEXISTENCY OF THE SOUL, by HENRY MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise then aristo's son! Assist my muse Last Line: Full freedome, joy and peace she lively doth possesse. Subject(s): Religion; Soul; Theology THE PRAYER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Of them that sit within the gate Last Line: To know it pinchbeck at the last! Subject(s): Churches; Faith; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed; Theology THE PRAYER, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou not visit me? Last Line: My spirit loves with thine in peace to dwell. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PREACHER'S WIFE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God bless his wife, the preacher's wife Last Line: The rising of the just. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology THE PRESENT CRISIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Last Line: Blood-rusted key. Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Religion; United States; Liberty; Theology; America THE PRIEST, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were an excellent divine Last Line: And grace to all, that all may be amended. Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE PRINCE OF LIFE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: O, prince of life, thy life hath tuned Last Line: By thought or deed, thy love again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PRINCESS; A MEDLEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir walter vivian all a summer's day Last Line: From those rich silks, and home well-pleased we went. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Echoes; Mothers; Religion; Sea; Supernatural; Women's Rights; Theology; Ocean; Feminism THE PRODIGAL SON, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prodigal son is kneeling in the husks Last Line: Under the water there's a door the pigs have gone through Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Old Age; Theology THE PROOF, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I love god for causing me to be Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE PRUNER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: God is a zealous pruner Last Line: But spoils the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PULLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god at first made man Last Line: May toss him to my breast. Variant Title(s): The Gifts Of God;rest Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Melancholy; Redemption; Religion; Human Race; Dejection; Theology THE PURITAN WAY OF DEATH, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How hard this life is hallowed by the body Last Line: She reminds us always of this death, this life, which is redundant, awful, endless, and ours Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology THE QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the corn-rows from our barracks stood Last Line: With windows burning like the fires of home. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Houses; Religion; War; World War I; Quakers; Theology; First World War THE QUARREL OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once faith, hope, and charity traversed the land Last Line: "when I choose for my temple an innocent heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charity; Faith; God; Hope; Love; Religion; Philanthropy; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology THE QUARRY, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea Last Line: They settled to the slot and disappeared. Subject(s): Eden; Elephants; Love; Philippines; Religion; Theology THE QUEST, by CHESTER B. EMERSON Poem Text First Line: I asked for bread Last Line: To bear and lift and to be hanged upon. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE QUEST, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For years I sought the many in the one Last Line: The dream that many a twilight hour enfolds. Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE QUEST, by ELIZA SCUDDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot find thee! Still on restless pinion Last Line: And I must rest at last in thee, my home. Variant Title(s): "who By Searching Can Find Out God?;'whither Shall I Go?""; Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE RABBI'S SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thought ever reach to heaven Last Line: Be not expelled from him. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE RAINBOW, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If things were worse, this cursed rain Subject(s): Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730); Religion; Weather; Theology THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My heart leaps up when I behold Last Line: Bound each to each by natural piety. Variant Title(s): "my Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"";my Heart Leaps Up; Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Nature; Rainbows; Religion; Work; Workers; Theology THE RAINBOW: OR CURIOUS COVENANT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eyes, like clouds, were drizling raine Last Line: No more wo'd drown mine eyes, or me. Subject(s): Bible; Rainbows; Religion; Theology THE RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that was dead rose up and spoke - he spoke Last Line: Put on submissive strength, to meet, not question, death! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE REAL CHRIST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should jesus christ once more to earth return Last Line: The son of mary will return again. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion - Disestablishment THE REAPER'S DREAM, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The road was lone; the grass was dank Last Line: The look as of an answered prayer. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE REBEL, by MARI E. EVANS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I / die Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE REDEEMER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that my redeemer liveth - but out of the depths of time Last Line: "shout ""thy redeemer liveth, o human soul, and crieth for thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE RESCUE ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the lord almighty Last Line: We lift our hearts in praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Boundaries; God; Religion; Borders; Theology THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER, ON 'THE HIGHER CRITICISM', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since reverend doctors now declare Last Line: And read that moderate man voltaire. Subject(s): Bible; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology THE RETURN, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sought the old scenes with eager feet Last Line: He cannot go back to his youth. Subject(s): Aging; Homecoming; Religion; Theology THE REWARD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, looking backward from his manhood's prime Last Line: Can henceforth part. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER?, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In may, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes Last Line: The self-same power that brought me there brought you. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Religion; Rhodora; Theology THE RIGHT MUST WIN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, it is hard to work for god Last Line: To falter would be sin! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE RIGHT WAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, is it still the right way, though I cannot see thy face Last Line: Where faith melts into vision as the starlight into day. Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE RISE OF MAN, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou for whose birth the whole creation yearned Last Line: Of those perfections which are yet to be. Subject(s): Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology THE RIVALS, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Freedom and faith went wooing for a soul Last Line: "upon the track that runs from goal to goal." Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Religion; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Theology THE RIVER BRIDGED AND FORGOT, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bridged and forgot, the river Last Line: Is this memory or promise? Subject(s): Religion; Rivers; Theology THE ROAD BACK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car is heavy with children Subject(s): God; Religion; Vacation; Theology THE ROAD TO CHURCH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rutted by wheels and scarred by hoofs Last Line: Which they shall walk no more. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Roads; Cathedrals; Theology; Paths; Trails THE ROAD TO REST, by MARIANNE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: You long for rest Last Line: Rest, faith, strength, peace. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1620-1920: 2. STRUGGLE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is my strength; of whom shall I be afraid Last Line: Of a greater hope than men have known! Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; Religion; Theology THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1620-1920: 3. ACHIEVEMENT, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have felled the forest and pierced the hill Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Religion; Success; Liberty; Theology THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1629-1920: 1. VISION, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god of hosts, defender of the weak Last Line: Should through the ages ring! Subject(s): Freedom; Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers; Prayer; Religion; Liberty; Theology THE ROCK: CHORUS 1, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eagle soars in the summit of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Knowledge Without Wisdom Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE ROOM OF MY LIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, / in the room of my life Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE ROSE OF SHARON AND THE LILY OF THE VALLEYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou hearken to thy saviour Last Line: That the souls redeeméd know! Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology THE ROWING ENDETH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm mooring my rowboat Last Line: That untamable, eternal, gut-driven ha-ha and lucky love Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 46, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For in and out, above, below Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 16, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Last Line: Lighting a little hour or two -- is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Time; Liberty; Theology THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 68, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are no other than a moving row Last Line: In midnight by the master of the show; Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Variant Title(s): Fatalism Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology THE RUG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O siva! / beat my soul like a rug Last Line: O siva! Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF FIRE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Kneel always when you light a fire! Last Line: To god for his unfailing charity! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Fire; Religion; Sacraments; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF FOOD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Each meal should be a sacramental feast Last Line: And pass, -- to live more worthily again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Food & Eating; Religion; Sacraments; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Life is god's sacramental gift Last Line: From all earth's sorrows with god's gift of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Sacraments; Dead, The; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF LIGHT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In that far off dim dawn Last Line: And see thou use it right! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Light; Religion; Sacraments; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF LOVE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Love is the sacrament of sacraments Last Line: Thank god for love, -- his first, -- then yours! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Love; Religion; Sacraments; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF PAIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Pain is god's husbandman that turns the clods Last Line: He made of death the opener of life's door. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Sacraments; Suffering; Misery; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF SLEEP, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Thank god for sleep! Last Line: To feel the comfort of his soft embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Sacraments; Sleep; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF WATER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Crystal clear from the throne of god Last Line: For all fair, fresh, running water! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Sacraments; Water; Theology THE SACRAMENT OF WORK, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Upon thy bended knees thank god for work Last Line: We thank thee, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Religion; Sacraments; Work; Workers; Theology THE SACRED BIRD, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: The sacred bird picks golden corn Last Line: Golden corn where the stars are thick. Subject(s): Clergy; Prayer; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB WAS HE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Christ lived, and died, and rose that we Last Line: Who died that day for you and me. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE SAINT, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And one there was whose face was softly set Last Line: To thee, my god, to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SCAPEGOAT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bore me away from the happy flock Last Line: God only knows, not I! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Goats; Guilt; Jesus Christ; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE SEARCH, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now clear day: I see a rose Last Line: Travels in clouds, seeks manna, where none is. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE SEARCH (1), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to seek for christ Last Line: His throne is with the outcast and the weak. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SECOND COMING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour came. With trembling lips Last Line: "so much for calvary!"" he said." Subject(s): Europe; Religion; Second Advent; Theology; Second Coming Of Christ THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SECRET PLACE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Each soul has its own secret place Last Line: Of all good company. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this world's friends might see but once Last Line: Till the white-winged reapers come! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SEEKER AFTER GOD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a dreamer once, whose spirit trod Last Line: God, on that instant, visited his heart! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SEMAPHORE, by ARDEN MURDOCK ROCKWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell us that in ancient times, a rod Last Line: Men win their way by joining hands with god. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SERMON OF THE TWELVE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January? / the month is dumb Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six young men of caesar's household Last Line: Led them unto paradise. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Religion; Sleep; Theology THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MAY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not thilke the mery moneth of may Last Line: I hold it best for us home to hye. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): The Old Shepherd's May Song Subject(s): Country Life; May (month); Religion; Theology THE SHEPHERD'S SABBATH SONG, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, the sabbath of the lord Last Line: Sheds its holy beams abroad! Subject(s): God; Religion; Sabbath; Theology; Sunday THE SHEPHERDS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure Last Line: Their day was dark and dim. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God went out of me Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE SIFTING OF PETER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In saint luke's gospel we are told Last Line: No longer. Subject(s): Devil; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Theology THE SILENCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My room is whitewashed Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE SILENT PLACES, by HAROLD M. HILDRETH Poem Text First Line: I have come back from the mountains Last Line: And speak once more with my god. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SIN, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, I will not crawl away Last Line: That broke the sod. Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology THE SIN OF OMISSION, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the thing you do, dear Last Line: At the setting of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Variant Title(s): At Sunset Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology THE SISTER AT A MATERNITY HOSPITAL, by R. ALEXANDER BATE Poem Text First Line: When sister through the doorway peeps Last Line: Madonna and the child asleep. Subject(s): Birth; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Sisters; Women In The Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Theology THE SISTERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waves forever move Last Line: A mary's cloistered prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Sisters; Theology THE SLAVE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They set the slave free, striking off his chains Last Line: Free men set themselves free. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Slavery; Liberty; Theology; Serfs THE SLEEP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the thoughts of god that are / borne inward unto souls afar Last Line: "he giveth his beloved sleep." Variant Title(s): He Giveth His Beloved Sleep;to Sleep Subject(s): Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE SLEEPING CITY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A princess in the eastern tale Last Line: Its latest life beyond recall. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Sin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SLIP, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river takes the land, and leaves nothing Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE SNOW MAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One must have a mind of winter Last Line: Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. Subject(s): God; Nature; Perception; Religion; Theology THE SNOWFALL, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The classic landscapes of dreams are not Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the funeral march. I did not think Last Line: A mere machine of murder. Subject(s): Fate; Funerals; God; Mortality; Murder; Religion; Soldiers; Destiny; Burials; Theology THE SONG OF A CHRISTIAN SOJOURNER IN AMERICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: If christ be god, I him adore Last Line: Nor sin nor hell shall come between. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SONG OF A HEATHEN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus christ is a man Last Line: The earth, the sea, and the air! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SONG OF DAVID, by CHRISTOPHER SHARP Poem Text First Line: He sang of god, the mighty source Last Line: "replied, ""o lord thou art." Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE SONG OF ISRAFEL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet-seraph israfel, chief player on / the lyre Last Line: The song that soars, the song that leaps, beyond the written word! Subject(s): Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology; Songs THE SONG OF JOSEPH, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: None shall make a yoke or plow Last Line: In the light of god. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SONG OF MUEZZIN ABOU, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake at dawn and fling sleep from my eyes Last Line: Allahu akbar! 'llah il allah! Allah! Subject(s): India; Religion; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Theology THE SONG OF THE MAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woman gave, and I did eat Last Line: "so dieth death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With fingers weary and worn Last Line: "she sang this ""song of the shirt!" Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Social Protest; Liberty; Work; Workers; Theology THE SOUL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The soul has its own Last Line: White image of god. Subject(s): God; Love; Religion; Theology THE SOUL'S CRY, by RAY PALMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, ever from the deeps Last Line: Where the sweet streams of peace and safety flow. Subject(s): Religion; Soul; Theology THE SOUL'S DEFIANCE, by LAVINIA STONE STODDARD Poem Text First Line: I said to sorrow's awful storm Last Line: Shall pass away. Subject(s): Religion; Soul; Theology THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With stammering lips and insufficient sound Last Line: Before that dread apocalypse of soul. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SOUL'S PRAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In childhood's pride I said to thee Last Line: "and death the shadow of my face." Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SOVEREIGN POET, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits above the clang and dust of time Last Line: This hath a relish of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology THE SPELL OF THE YUKON, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted the gold and I sought it Last Line: It's the stillness that fills me with peace. Variant Title(s): The Land God Forgot Subject(s): Gold; Religion; Yukon Territory; Theology THE SPIRIT OF NATURE, by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Thou hast not any wind that blows Last Line: The fringes of the sunsets and the hills. Variant Title(s): The Word;symbolisms: Sonnet 3;the Ever-present Spirit Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Theology THE SPIRITUAL BODY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a heavenly home Last Line: Upon my naked and unsheltered soul! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology THE SPLEEN; AN EPISTLE TO MR. CUTHBERT JACKSON, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This motley piece to you I send Last Line: Life's voyage to the world unknown. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Religion; Social Problems; Spleen (organ); Theology THE SPREAD TABLE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Where'er I be, lord, spread for me Last Line: To other men. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE STAND-INS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream / the swastika is neon Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When, marshaled on the nightly plain Last Line: The star! -- the star of bethlehem! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE STAR OF GOD'S MALISON, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging leprous and white in the wide / universe Last Line: Along the dread hush of a desolate land. Subject(s): Desolation; Leprosy; Religion; Lepers; Theology THE STARRY NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town does not exist Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890); Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology THE STONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have it now Last Line: As one than dust more vile and vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE STORY OF JOSHUA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reach the promised land Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE STREAM OF FAITH, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From heart to heart, from creed to creed Last Line: That ever-deepening roll! Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE STRENGTH OF FIELDS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moth-force a small town always has, Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE STUPID OLD BODY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not pay too much attention to the stupid old body Last Line: Which alone after all is death. Subject(s): Bodies; Religion; Theology THE SUN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard of fish Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE SUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Long before the postman comes Last Line: We thank thee for the sun's good light. Subject(s): Children; God; Gratitude; Prayer; Religion; Summer; Childhood; Theology THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology THE SUNBEAM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ladder from the land of light Last Line: Climb back again to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Religion; Bedtime; Theology THE SUNDAY RAIL: 2. A SCOTTISH SUMMER SABBATH MORNING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The still repose, the holy calm Last Line: By idle pleasure, sin, and folly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Railroads; Religion; Sabbath; Scotland; Railways; Trains; Theology; Sunday THE SURVIVOR, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the last day is ended Last Line: While the worlds lie dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SWEEPER OF THE FLOOR, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought that in a solemn church I stood Last Line: It is the lord! I cried, and saw no more. Subject(s): Churches; Cleanliness; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Theology THE SYCAMORE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the place that is my own place, whose earth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE SYMBOL LOVE CHOSE; A RED CROSS POEM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Love:--that sweet goddess of mercy Last Line: He gave her this symbol of red. Subject(s): Calvary; Cross, The; Crucifixion; Love; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE TABLES TURNED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks Last Line: That watches and receives. Subject(s): Country Life; Environment; Nature; Religion; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Theology THE TAKER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the house was away Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE TAKING DOWN, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since the seriously ill were sent away, Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Religion; Theology THE TAPESTRY WEAVERS, by ANSON G. CHESTER Poem Text First Line: Let us take to our heart a lesson, no braver lesson can be Last Line: And god shall give him gold for his hire -- not coin, but a crown! Subject(s): Religion; Tapestries; Weaving & Weavers; Theology THE TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weaving & Weavers; Women & Religion THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 4. THE BROTHER OF MERCY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piero luca, known of all the town Last Line: He saw the shining of an angel's face! Subject(s): Monks; Religion; Theology THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness THE TESTS OF PEACE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: No less than war peace has its acid tests Last Line: And the welfare of mankind! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology 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 THREAD OF TRUTH, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there Last Line: Pass by so many marks, so little heeding? Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Theology THE THREE BEST THING: 1. WORK, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me but do my work from day to day Last Line: Because I know for me my work is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): The Blessing Of Work Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Religion; Work; Workers; Theology THE THREE ENEMIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, thou art pale Last Line: "answer thou for me, wise and just." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE THREE KINGS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three kings came riding from far away, / melchior and gaspar and baltasar Last Line: And returned to their homes by another way. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE TIDE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the giver to whom my gratitude Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE TIME OF WAITING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is fleeting, joy is fleeting Last Line: For meek patience, let us pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Religion; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Theology THE TIMES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are not degenerate. Man's faith Last Line: And man stood never half so near to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TOILING OF FELIX: 1. PRELUDE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear a word that jesus spake Last Line: "raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): A Lost Word On Jesus Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE TOILING OF FELIX: 3. ENVOY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The legend of felix is ended, the toiling of felix is done Last Line: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of earth is toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TOUCH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months my hand had been sealed off Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE TOUCH OF THE MASTER'S HAND, by MYRA BROOKS WELCH Poem Text First Line: Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Last Line: By the touch of the master's hand. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TRANSFIGURER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: O sweet to hear thy name on friendly tongue Last Line: For thou art love, and loved, and lover all. Subject(s): Faith; Love; Metamorphosis; Religion; Transfiguration; Belief; Creed; Theology THE TRAVELLER'S EVENING SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Guide me! Day declines Last Line: Save -- oh, save! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TREASURE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountains, a moment's earth-waves rising and hollowing Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TREES ARE DOWN, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens Subject(s): Bible; Nature; Religion; Trees; Theology THE TRIBE OF HELPERS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ways of the world are full of haste and turmoil Last Line: The companions of the christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH: THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE, CHASTITY, DEATH. ARGUMENT, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glorious maid, whose soule to heaven is gone Last Line: Death seem'd in her exceeding faire to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE TRUE NEED, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: But this: to know thy life, without a stain Last Line: But flood me with thy beams, thou perfect light! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TRUE WITNESS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I heard thee say to me Last Line: I know he is! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; World; Theology THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: MY RELIGION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My religion makes no sense Last Line: With its rifle butt. Subject(s): Religion THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, I say and walk from church Subject(s): Death; God; Parents; Religion; Dead, The; Parenthood; Theology THE TWA BULLS, by WILLIAM D. LATTO Poem Text First Line: The parlance ended, monk confounded Last Line: An honour to their fatherland. Subject(s): Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Monks; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Religion; Theology THE TWA HERDS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O a' ye pious godly flocks Last Line: May a' pack aff. Subject(s): Fools; Religion; Sheep; Idiots; Theology THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: The god of love my shepherd is Last Line: So neither shall my praise. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TWO GREETINGS: 1. SALVE!, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce from the void of shadows taken Last Line: Become more beautiful, as man! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Greetings; Life; Love; Religion; Theology THE TWO GREETINGS: 2. VALE!, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fold thy rich experience round thee Last Line: As salve! In a sweeter tongue! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Greetings; Religion; Theology THE TWO MEN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Two men in me I find Last Line: And leave it all to you understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TWO RABBIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi nathan two score years and ten Last Line: "save thou a soul, and it shall save thy own!" Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Theology THE TWO RED TOWERS; A SATIRE AGAINST CLERICALISM, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two red towers / north and south rise facing each other Last Line: I begin to fear that the whole world will become a vast convent. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Religion; Theology THE TWO SAYINGS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two sayings of the holy scriptures beat Last Line: On him who could reject but not sustain! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE TWO SHIPS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I stand by the cross on the lone mountain's crest Last Line: To the ship that is waiting for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TWO VIEWS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: To man, it seemed that evil had prevailed Last Line: But god sees otherwise! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TYRANT, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the festival; we will inter hope Last Line: Will cover you with dust and ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Theology THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father of all! In every age Last Line: All nature incense rise! Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE UNKNOWN GOD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, overarched by gorgeous night Last Line: The unknown god, the unknown god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE UNPARDONABLE SIN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sin against the holy ghost Last Line: To set the face and make the heart a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; War; Theology THE UNRETURNING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If our dead could come back to us Last Line: Gainst all returning. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology THE UNSEEN ALTAR, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man the maker of cities is also a builder of altars Last Line: And the priest who stands beside it is the christ, the son of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE UNVEILING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that spring week of sacred memories Last Line: Unveils the crucified. Subject(s): God; Grief; Mankind; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Theology THE VENUSBERG, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have burned my garments of gold, and my violin Last Line: There'll be no one to sing in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Religion; Repentance; Sin; Theology; Penitence THE VICAR OF BRAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In good king charles's golden days Last Line: "except the times should alter. / and this is law, etc" Subject(s): "aleyn, Simon (16th Century);bray, England;conversion;religion;" Theology THE VICTORY OF FAITH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: What did the sobbing night wind say Last Line: "heaven is true, be brave, be brave." Subject(s): Faith; God; Native Americans - Religion; Belief; Creed THE VILLAGE ORACLE, by JOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Old dan'l hanks he says this town Last Line: "I'm right because I be!" Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Sermons; Villages; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE VIOLINIST, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But that one air for all that throng! And yet Last Line: Margaret steele anderson. Subject(s): Religion; Violins; Theology THE VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We met, a hundred of us met Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE VISION OF FRA ANGELICO, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The glint of seraph wings had stirred all day Last Line: And as they looked all hailed the work divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Art & Artists; Paintings And Painters; Religion; Guido Di Pietro; Theology THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over his keys the musing organist Last Line: But is lord of the earldom as much as he. Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology THE VISION ON THE MOUNT, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, if this living soul, that many a time Last Line: The shadow of the lord has passed us by. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE VISION SPLENDID, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Here - or hereafter - you shall see it ended Last Line: Than with his life to purchase life's high gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE VOICE OF CHRISTMAS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot put the presence by, of him, the crucified Last Line: The master of the centuries who will not be denied! Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Crucifixion; Religion; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE VOICE OF GOD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bent again unto the ground Last Line: -- we are the voice of god! -- I cried. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE VOICE OF THE LAWS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This from that soul incorrupt whom athens had doomed to the death Last Line: Behold! He, too, hears but the voice of the laws, the flutes of the god. Variant Title(s): Reply Of Socrates Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE VOYAGE, by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON Poem Text First Line: Whichever way the wind doth blow Last Line: The wind that blows, that wind is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Caro Variant Title(s): En Voyage';that Wind Is Best;god Knows Best Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WAITING NOTE; DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT SUSAN MILLS OF MILLS COLLEGE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the full celestial chorus Last Line: Lay their worship at his feet. Subject(s): God; Mills College, California; Religion; Worship; Theology THE WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking; Bedtime; Theology THE WALL, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wall surrounding them they never saw Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WALL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Nature is full of teeth Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WANDERING JEW, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Go quicker, jesus!' Last Line: Lives on and on and makes for hell or heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology THE WAR FILMS, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O living pictures of the dead Last Line: To take their death for mine. Subject(s): Death; Religion; World War I; Dead, The; Theology; First World War THE WAR IN EUROPE: 1915; ABDALLAH OF CAIRO SPEAKS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the prophet! If these be christians, where shall / we find the heathen? Last Line: I will repeat the fátiha and leave them to their doom! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Muslims; Prayer; Religion; World War I; Moslems; Theology; First World War THE WARNING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware! The israelite of old, who tore Last Line: A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Samson; Theology THE WATER MILL, by SARAH DOUDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to the water mill Last Line: "with the water that has passed." Variant Title(s): The Lesson Of The Water Mill Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Religion; Theology THE WATERED LILIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The master stood in his garden Last Line: To water his flowers again Subject(s): Flowers;lilies;religion; Theology THE WAY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who seeks for heaven alone to save his Last Line: But god will bring him where the blessed are. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WAY OF THE GODS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: In ancient times the hungry gods Last Line: Is offered as before. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WAY TO BETHLEHEM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long was the way to bethlehem Last Line: The guerdon of his peace! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE WAYS OF GOD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: A lad once dreamed he would be king Last Line: And it exalted him. Subject(s): Cavalry; Crucifixion; Galilee, Palestine; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE WEAVER, by WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ceaselessly the weaver, time Last Line: As he weaves our web of doom. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WEAVER, by FANNY FORRESTER Poem Text First Line: A weaver sat by the side of his loom Last Line: "that I bear with me to heaven." Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WEDDING FEAST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the chief of the marriage feast to the groom Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE WEDDING NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was this time in boston Last Line: And before it was time Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WEEPER (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, sister springs Last Line: A worthier object -- our lord's feet. Variant Title(s): Saint Mary Magdalene Or The Weeper Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology THE WHALES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: In the days when still one went to look for whales, cruising so far Last Line: No more whales. Subject(s): Religion; Whales; Theology THE WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels; Theology THE WHEELING GOSPEL TABERNACLE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homer rhodeheaver, who was the evangelist billy sunday's psalmodist Last Line: Homer had times between hymns to make some lonely widow happy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Evangelists; God; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology THE WIFE OF MANOAH TO HER HUSBAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the sunset's glowing wall Last Line: "o god,"" I said, ""thy will be done!" Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WILD ROSE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes hidden from me Last Line: Again what I chose before Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE WILL OF GOD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I worship thee, sweet will of god! Last Line: If it be his sweet will. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WINDHOVER: TO CHRIST OUR LORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught this morning morning's minion, king Last Line: Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. Variant Title(s): The Windhover Subject(s): Birds; Christianity; Falcons; Hawks; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE WINDS OF FATE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One ship drives east and another drives west Last Line: And not the calm or the strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Ships East And West Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Theology THE WITCH'S LIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WOMAN AND THE ANGEL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street Last Line: "the ancient, outworn, puritanic traditions of right and wrong." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE WONDERFUL MUSICIAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters, / do you remember the fiddlers Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE WORD OF GOD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Thy word is light - thy saving grace Last Line: We thank thee, thank thee, thank thee, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WORLD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is wise, for the world is old Last Line: But the love of god would do all for thee. Subject(s): Earth; God; Religion; World; Theology THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THE WORLD IS ONE; DEDICATED TO WOODROW WILSON, by HINTON WHITE Poem Text First Line: The world is one; we cannot live apart Last Line: The travail and the triumph of the years. Subject(s): League Of Nations; Religion; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Theology THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At philae, in the temple of isis Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WORLD-MAN, by HENRY VICTOR MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Make room for the world-man Last Line: He liveth in you! Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology THE WORLD-PURPOSE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men sadly say that love's high dream is vain Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WRITTEN WORD, by ROBERT GRANT (1785-1838) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starry firmament on high Last Line: When heaven and earth have passed away. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE YOUNG PRIEST TO HIS HANDS, by EDWARD FRANCIS GARESCHE Poem Text First Line: Time was when ye were powerless, / to shrive and sign, anoint and bless Last Line: That clasp the lord of majesty! Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THEIR EASTER AND OURS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Ere the master came to claim his own Last Line: Who knew him not when he came to his own! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology THEIR WEIGHED MUSES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: How can I believe in %something Last Line: Hung with segments of the real Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life THEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was my first landscape Last Line: Of birds. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion THEODORA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: She went through %the many stages Last Line: Together, they %transformed a world Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life THEOLOGY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heaven, for ever, day by day Last Line: If there were not, where would my neighbours go? Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THEOLOGY, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: I don't believe in god but gravity' Last Line: A kiss against the endless blue sky Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality THEOLOGY OF DEER, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: The jazz-bows of earth Last Line: And you say dude of dudes and deer of deers Subject(s): Deer; Religion THEOLOGY OF DELIGHT, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Imagine a world, this ridiculous Last Line: Through a gathering of flowers, parting %that grip of flowers with its face Subject(s): Religion THEOLOGY OF DOUBT, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I have come to believe this fickleness Subject(s): Christianity; Religion THEOLOGY, POETRY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is deepest and most deeply felt in life, the Last Line: Which may or may not be used by theology Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Religion THEOPHANY, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Deep cradled in fringed mow to lie Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion THERE IS A LOVE THAT TUMBLES LIKE A STREAM', by PHILIP JEROME CLEVELAND Poem Source Last Line: Serving and blessing till the close of day Subject(s): Religion THERE IS A MAN ON THE CROSS, by ELIZABETH CHENEY (1859-) Poem Text First Line: Whenever there is silence around me Last Line: "there is a man on the cross." Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THERE IS A PATHWAY, by ROBERT WOOD Poem Text First Line: There is a pathway glorious / to the angels' happy home Last Line: When the jewell'd crown appears. Subject(s): Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology THERE IS A RIVER THE STREAMS WHEREOF, by JANE ADDAMS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THERE IS BUT ONE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have sung of blood and battle Last Line: Have I made my lesson plain? Subject(s): Clergy; Good; Religion; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology; First World War THERE IS NO DEATH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a plan far greater than the plan you know Last Line: There is no death -- there's immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology THERE IS NO LAND YET, by LAURA RIDING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long sea, how short-lasting Last Line: In water where no land is Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Bible; Religion THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (B), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception Last Line: Is Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists THERE IS ONE CREED, AND ONLY ONE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion THERE SHALL ALWAYS BE THE CHURCH, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the gates of hell shall not prevail Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Religion THERE WAS A SAVIOUR, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Unclenched, armless, silk and rough love that breaks all rocks Subject(s): Bible; Religion THERE YOU WERE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who admire my ocean view Subject(s): God; Religion THERE'S A LIGHT UPON THE MOUNTAINS, by HENRY BURTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All thy sweetest and thy dearest %for the triumph of our king Subject(s): Religion THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. METTIKA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though I am weak and tired now Last Line: The breath %of liberty Subject(s): Buddhism; Freedom; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. MUTTA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So free am I, so gloriously free Last Line: And all that has held me down %is hurled away Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. SUMANGALAMATA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A woman well set free! How free I am Last Line: And contemplate my happiness Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Women's Rights THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. UBBIRI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O ubbiri, who wails in the wood Last Line: I turn, my heart now healed Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THESE TIMES, by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Our motors pierce the clouds. They penetrate Last Line: We act the prologue of a masterpiece. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THEY ARE WICKED, by ERNEST SANDEEN Poem Source First Line: They are wicked. I'm sure of that Last Line: Don't get up. And they walk away Subject(s): Religion THEY DO NOT LIVE, by IRWIN EDMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THEY HAVE BLOWN THE TRUMPET, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Source First Line: It happened in new mexico Subject(s): Atoms; Religion THEY SOFTLY WALK, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Text First Line: They are not gone who pass Last Line: And stars and god. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology THEY WHO TREAD THE PATH OF LABOR, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; %cleave the wood, and I am there Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion THEY', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bishop tells us: 'when the boys come back' Last Line: And the bishop said: 'the ways of god are strange!' Subject(s): Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THINGS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hen flings a single pebble aside Subject(s): Religion; Theology THINGS, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hen flings a single pebble aside Last Line: Must fall, glad at last to have fallen Subject(s): Religion THINGS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man stood in the laurel tree Subject(s): Religion; Materialism; Theology THINGS IN THE SKY, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: The weather with its storms and snows Last Line: Of the lovely colored light in the sky Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion THINGS OF THE SPIRIT, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion THINGS THAT NEVER DIE, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pure, the bright, the beautiful Subject(s): Religion THINGS, SELECTION, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard, but you can polish it Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Theology; Granite; Rocks THINGS, SELS., by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard, but you can polish it Subject(s): Religion; Stones THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Almyty godde, conserue us fram care Subject(s): Religion THINK IT NOT STRANGE, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THINK ON GOD, by R. E. S. Poem Text First Line: Forget thee, oh my god! And can this be? Last Line: Your maker is your life, your soul's delight. Subject(s): God; Jews; Nature - Religious Aspects; Religion; Judaism; Theology THIRD POSSIBILITY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fired the brush pile by the creek Last Line: Between the two, and liked them both Subject(s): Christianity; Religion THIS BREAD I BREAK WAS ONCE THE OAT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My wine you drink, my bread you snap Subject(s): Bible; Religion THIS DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry wafer / sour wine Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THIS DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry wafer %sour wine Last Line: A sorrel grass, %a crust, %water, %salt Subject(s): Christianity; Religion THIS IS MY FATHER'S WORLD, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: God reigns; let the eatrh be glad Subject(s): God; Religion THIS IS NOT GOD!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THIS IS THE BOOK OF PSALMS THAT MADE MY MOTHER DANCE, by JOSE KOZER Poem Source Last Line: And my feet are like a loud bellowing of four generations of the dead Subject(s): Mothers; Religion THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: I'll have no truck with angels' Last Line: A cross hangs on a thermal, a hawk %hauling its keen hunger into heaven Subject(s): Religion THIS IS THE MAKING OF MAN, by PRISCILLA LEONARD Poem Text First Line: Flame of the spirit and dust of the earth Last Line: This is the making of man. Subject(s): Creation; Religion; Theology THIS IS THE TROUBLE WITH US ALL, by JOSEPHINE JOHNSON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THIS SIDE OF CALVIN, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The reverend dr. Harcourt, folk agree Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THIS SIDE OF CALVIN, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The reverend dr. Harcourt, folk agree Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Clergy; Religion THIS TOO WILL PASS, by GERTRUDE WOODCOCK SEIBERT Poem Text First Line: Poor heart, break not, though cruel be thy wound Last Line: His heart of love thine every sorrow shares! Subject(s): Religion; Wellesley College; Theology THIS WERE TO PRAY, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion THOSE TIMES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At six %I lived in a graveyard full of dolls Last Line: So that I might hear %the unsaid more clearly Subject(s): God; Religion THOSE WHO REALIZE TRU WISDOM, by BHAGAVAD GITA Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THOU ART COMING TO A KING, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: None can ever ask too much Subject(s): Religion THOU ART, O GOD, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art, o god! The life and light Last Line: And all things fair and bright are thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Religion; Theology THOU HAST MADE US FOR THYSELF, by AUGUSTINE Poem Source Last Line: And our hearts are restless until they rest in thee Alternate Author Name(s): Aurelius Augustinus Subject(s): Religion THOU KNOWEST, LORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THOU LIFE WITHIN MY LIFE, by ELIZA SCUDDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion THOU LIGHT OF LIFE, by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts Last Line: Shed o'er the world thy holy light! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THOU SHALT BEAR THE FRUIT OF LIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Al hayle, mary ful of grace Subject(s): Religion THOU SHALT PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP AND I SHALL BE CLEAN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Source First Line: With whom shall I find perfect ease Subject(s): Religion THOU SINFUL MAN THAT BY ME GOES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now herkynnis wordis wunder gude Subject(s): Religion THOU WHO TAUGHT THE THRONGING PEOPLE, by HENRY S. MINDE Poem Source Last Line: May overcome the bent to evil %by thy purity Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion THOUGH I HAVE BEEN A WRETCH, I HOPE OF MERCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O blissed god, that art al-miti Subject(s): Religion THOUGHT, by FAZIL HUSNU DAGLARCA Poem Source First Line: I think in fours Subject(s): Religion THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He who died on calvary Last Line: Ever since, over all our loss %shines the glory of the cross Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion THOUGHT (1), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing Last Line: Is only matter triumphant? Subject(s): Religion; Theology THOUGHT FOR EASTER, by MARY E. MCCULLOUGH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THOUGHT FOR THE DAY, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark the circling sphere Subject(s): Religion THOUSAND WAYS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The beloved knows a thousand ways %to enter your body Last Line: Turn gently, and follow your breath %to the center of your being Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life THREADING THE NEEDLE, by MARJORIE MADDOX Poem Source First Line: I could have done it easily but for the Last Line: If you'd given me a bit more time, %allowed me another second Subject(s): Religion THREADS, by MARTIN H. WEYRAUCH Poem Source First Line: Through the fantastic tapestry called existence Subject(s): Religion THREE DARKS COME DOWN TOGETHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion THREE DAYS, by WILLIAM BOYD CARPENTER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THREE DOORS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Religion THREE EPIGRAMS, SELS., by PAUL RAMSEY Subject(s): Religion THREE FLOORS: GOD, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At st. Michael's on tuesdays Last Line: I wore knee pads, %eventually converted Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion THREE GREEN WINDOWS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half awake in my sunday nap Last Line: It is a time of water, a time of trees Subject(s): God; Religion THREE KINGS AND HEROD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Qwan crist was borne in bedlam Subject(s): Religion THREE LESSONS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Religion THREE LESSONS TO MAKE READY FOR DEATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wake man, slepe not, rise up and thynk that erth Subject(s): Religion THREE MARYS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I took a yellow cab up jew mountain Last Line: I was saying the wrong thing Variant Title(s): Travel Subject(s): Religion THREE SONGS OF MARY, SELS., by MADELEINE L'ENGLE CAMP FRANKLIN Subject(s): Christmas; Religion THREE THINGS AGAINST NATURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God a-geynst nature iij thyngys hath wrought Subject(s): Religion THREE THINGS COME NOT BACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THREE WISDOM POEMS: 1. LAVONNE'S MANTLEPIECE, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Did you know,' lavonne says Last Line: "oh, don't you think, the true church is in the heart?" Subject(s): Religion; Theology THRENODIA ON SAMUEL STONE, by EDWARD BULKLEY Poem Source First Line: Last spring this summer may be autumn styl'd Last Line: For hooker, shepard, and hayne's company Subject(s): Churches; Death; Heaven; Religion THROUGH A FOG OF STARS, by JR. JOHN NIXON Poem Source First Line: Once in a simple quest Subject(s): Religion THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: It was a lovely paperweight, that bible Last Line: Is less than this. A big red s. A text %we read too lightly Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Superman THROUGH DEATH TO LIFE, by HENRY HARBAUGH Poem Text First Line: Have you heard the tale of the aloe plant Last Line: The joy for the tear -- the peace for the pain. Variant Title(s): The Aloe Plant Subject(s): Religion; Theology THROUGH SORROW TO SERVICE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Because of one small low-laid head all crowned Subject(s): Religion THROUGH THE YEAR, by JULIAN S. CUTLER Poem Text First Line: God be with you in the springtime Last Line: Just to guide you into rest. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: Once in a time of hunger Last Line: That thunder and lightning could be %very dangerous indeed Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion THY BLOOD THOU SHED FOR ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihu, that alle this worlde hast wroughte Subject(s): Religion THY BROTHER, by THEODORE CHICKERING WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: When thy heart, with overflowing Last Line: When thy heart enfolds a brother, %god is there Subject(s): Brotherhood; God; Religion THY GIFTS I HAVE EXPENDED UNPROFITABLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O lord allmygjty, blissid thou be Subject(s): Religion THY KINGDOM COME, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the east the morning dies Subject(s): Religion THY KINGDOM COME! O LORD, by HENRY WARBURTON HAWKES Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THY KINGDOM COME, O LORD, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion THY SEA SO GREAT, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion THY WILL BE DONE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With quivering heart and trembling will Last Line: In thee and for thee, all his will. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology THY WILL BE DONE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not in dumb resignation Subject(s): Religion THY WILL BE DONE, by HUGH THOMSON KERR Poem Source Subject(s): Religion THY WILL BE DONE, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion THY WILL BE DONE IN ME, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY Poem Source Poet Analysis Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny Subject(s): Religion TIBETAN COMFORTER, SELS., by ROBERT K. EKVALL Subject(s): Religion TIDE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the giver to whom my gratitude Last Line: Is a cup, and holds the ocean Subject(s): God; Religion TIDE WILL WIN, by PRISCILLA LEONARD Poem Source First Line: On the far reef the breakers Last Line: The wave may be defeated, %but the tide is sure to win Subject(s): Religion TIMES GO BY TURNS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lopped tree in time may grow again Last Line: Who least hath some, who most hath never all. Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Fortune; Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER HAVE I PRAY'D, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion TIS BUT THE NIGHT, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men change, flags change, and border lines Subject(s): Religion TITHES, by HARRIET SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: One tenth of what their acreage had grown Last Line: Would buy a mansion in the heavenly state. Subject(s): Money; Religion; Theology TO -, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir / yours this moment I unseal Last Line: Robert burns. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Religion; Wit & Humor TO A BLUEBELL, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Is that a drop of the ethereal blue Last Line: I know that that is well. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness TO A CHILD IN DEATH, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have scoffed if we had told you yesterday Subject(s): Religion TO A DOG, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, back again? And is your errand done Last Line: Your fallen gods? Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Unfailing One Subject(s): Religion; Theology TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Last Line: See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down %while his sensible daddy goes straight into town Subject(s): God; Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Religion; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (b. 1926); Women's Rights TO A FRIEND WITH A RELIGIOUS VOCATION, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Thinking of your vocation, I am filled Last Line: Vocations, visions fail, the will grows slack %and I am stunned by silence everywhere Subject(s): Religion TO A JAPANESE GIRL; GRIEVED OVER THE WAR ON CHINA, by BELLE CHAPMAN MORRILL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion TO A PRIEST, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: I have listened to your profession of faith Last Line: What manner of god is this that you have made in your own image? Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Religion; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology TO A PRINCE OF THE CHURCH, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion TO A SACRED COW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What a fine cow your predecessor was! Subject(s): Religion TO A SCEPTIC, by MARY CROSS Poem Text First Line: In the silence and calm of the night-time Last Line: And know not in vain did he bleed. Subject(s): Doubt; Religion; Skepticism; Theology TO A SKYLARK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, blithe spirit Last Line: The world should listen then -- as I am listening now. Variant Title(s): Ode To A Skylark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Religion; Skylarks; Theology TO A SNOWFLAKE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What heart could have thought you? Last Line: And his graver of frost.' Subject(s): Religion; Snow; Theology TO A WATERFOWL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, midst falling dew Last Line: Will lead my steps aright. Variant Title(s): The Waterfowl Subject(s): Birds; Faith; God; Migration; Nature; Religion; Soldiers; Waterfowl; Belief; Creed; Theology TO A YOUNG PRIEST, by ANNE BLACKWELL PAYNE Poem Source Subject(s): Clergy; Religion TO AN ANGRY GOD, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lend me cruel light Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Religion TO AN ANTHEIST IN A SPIRITUAL CRISIS, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: You pace wrench gray office carpet Last Line: I will listen for your voice Subject(s): Atheism; Religion TO AN ENEMY, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Religion TO AN OLD PHILOSOPHER IN ROME, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the threshold of heaven, the figures in the street Last Line: And frame from thinking and is realized Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Religion; Theology TO AN OLD PHILOSOPHER IN ROME, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the threshold of heaven, the figures in the street Last Line: And frame from thinking and is realized Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers; Religion TO AN OLD SERMON, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Old sermon, ere I relegate Last Line: To seek, but not to force results. Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Sermons; Theology TO AND FRO ABOUT THE CITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare is dust, and will not come Last Line: May you not meet, in spite of death, %a traveler from nazareth? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion TO BE TRUE, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am not bound to win Last Line: And part with him when he goes wrong Subject(s): Religion TO DEATH, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But for your terror Subject(s): Religion TO DIVES, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dives, when you and I go down to hell Last Line: They order things so damnably in hell Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Bible; Charon; Religion; Styx (river); Theology TO DIVES, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dives, when you and I go down to hell Last Line: They order things so damnably in hell Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Bible; Charon; Religion TO FRANCIS OF ASSISI, by MURRAY BODO Poem Source First Line: I feel you floating down Last Line: We soar in lepers' skins, we praise %from wolves' and beggars' mouths Subject(s): Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Religion; Saints TO FREEDOM, by AGNES NEMES NAGY Poem Source First Line: You, cathedral, a miracle Last Line: Because it has no soul Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion TO GOD, by GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, the one supreme o'er all! Last Line: Beyond the range of thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Gregory Of Nazianzen; Nanzianzen, Gregory; Gregory The Theologian Subject(s): God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology TO GOD (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I am like to mistletoe Last Line: Tumble shall heav'n, and down will I. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology TO GOD (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do with me, god! As thou didst deal with john Last Line: My sackcloth here; but there my stole of white. Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology TO HEAVEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open thy gates Last Line: Come in, or force the gate. Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology TO HEAVEN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good and great god! Can I not think of thee Last Line: For weariness of life, not love of thee. Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit to yours, dear brother Last Line: Races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology TO HIS CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I not sin, but thou wilt be Last Line: So I'll not fear the judge or thee. Subject(s): Bible; Conscience; Religion; Theology TO HIS SAVIOUR. THE NEW YEERS GIFT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That little prettie bleeding part / of foreskin sent to me Last Line: Because I send thee all. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology TO HIS SKELETON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why will you vex me with Last Line: And do not colonize Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO HIS SKELETON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why will you vex me with Last Line: And do not colonize Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO IMRAN IN BOMBAY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salaam aleikhem, imran, once more Last Line: The eyes of planes, the lights of travelers Subject(s): Bombay, India; Hinduism; Religion TO JESUS, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thyself from love thy heart didst not defend Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Religion TO JESUS, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, o my soul, with thy desires to heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Religion TO JESUS THE NAZARENE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Closest to men, thou pitying son of man Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Religion TO LIKE, TO LOVE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aphrodite, %my cape town lady Last Line: As I love america, you might mutter, %before you fall asleep Subject(s): God; Religion TO LOSE THE EARTH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wreckage of europe or the birth of africa Last Line: You were fed -- %and then you knew Subject(s): God; Religion TO MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Source First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one Last Line: Forever, to the skies Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women - Bible; Women And Religion TO MOTHER, by THOMAS WHITTEMORE FESSENDEN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion TO MURPHY OR THE FIRST DAY OF A NEW RELIGION, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: When I was saving for a respirator Last Line: The very first in a brand new alphabet Subject(s): Religion TO MY GOD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh how oft I wake and find Last Line: Thou it is that wakest me Subject(s): Religion TO NATURE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may indeed be phantasy, when I Last Line: Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TO ONE WHO DENIES THE POSSIBILITY OF A PERMANENT PEACE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I greet you! You are still the same Last Line: Grey shadows overhead; still you are late. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology TO POETS ALL, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: We shall not wholly die Subject(s): Religion TO PULPIT AND TRIBUNE, by AMOS NIVEN WILDER Poem Source Subject(s): Religion TO REV. W. H. MILBURN, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, we guide thee to the altar Last Line: There all shall know as they are known. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Religion; Theology TO RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in dream, / the boat Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in dream, %the boat Last Line: Your silence was just such a song Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (4), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For few nights solace in delitious bed Last Line: What high rewards by little pain is won Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible TO TANYA AT CHRISTMAS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, my delight Last Line: That rises on all I know Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO TANYA AT CHRISTMAS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, my delight Last Line: And song. The song will tell %how old love sweetens the fields Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO THE BRAVE SOUL, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strong in a dream of perfect bloom Subject(s): Religion TO THE CHRISTIANS, by FRANCIS WILLIAM LAUDERDALE ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Take, then, your paltry christ Last Line: It's your 'good taste' that prefers %a bastard god! Subject(s): Bible; Religion TO THE FATHER OF THE UNIVERSE, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Source First Line: Tell me, thou common father, tell me Last Line: Is earth a spot for heaven-born souls to %love?' Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion TO THE GARDEN THE WORLD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the garden the world anew ascending Last Line: Or in front, and I following her just the same. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology TO THE HARBORMASTER, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to be sure to reach you Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean TO THE HARBORMASTER, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to be sure to reach you Last Line: Waves which have kept me from reaching you Subject(s): Religion; Sea TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who could outbalance poised Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters? Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); English History TO THE INFANT MARTYRS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go smiling souls, your new built cages break Last Line: Milk all the way Subject(s): Bible; Religion TO THE MADONNA OF FORT MASON AND HER FOUR-EYED SON, by C. E. CHAFFIN Poem Source First Line: Concrete mother of us all Last Line: This was beautiful and ugly, evil and good. %jeffers would have understood Subject(s): Religion TO THE PREACHER, SELS., by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Preach about the old sins, preacher! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Religion TO THE PREACHERS ON ARMISTICE DAY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye who preach about god's love to man Last Line: This armistice day? Subject(s): God; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Theology TO THE UNKNOWN GOD, by FERNAND GREGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God! Whatever the being or the thing we call Last Line: The tender and grave approval of a mortal. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology TO THE UNSEEABLE ANIMAL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being, whose flesh dissolves Last Line: Keeps us near you Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO THE UNSEEABLE ANIMAL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being, whose flesh dissolves Last Line: That we do not know you %is your perfection %and our hope. The darkness %keeps us near you Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO THOMAS HARDY, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Poetry And Poets; Religion TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men Last Line: And love, and man's unconquerable mind. Variant Title(s): To Toussaint L'ouverture, Leader Of African Slaves Subject(s): Religion; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Theology TO WHAT LISTENS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come to it again Last Line: I sing– to what listens– again Subject(s): Religion; Theology TO WHAT LISTENS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come to it again Last Line: I sing - to what listens - again Subject(s): Religion TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh Last Line: Light to the unmoved miraculous / pool of siloam Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Law, William (1686-1761); English History TO WIN THE WORLD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion TOAST FROM CANA, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light, his father once had said Last Line: Like the best vintage - deeper, richer, stronger Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Toasts TODAY, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Build a little fence of trust Last Line: Of joy or sorrow. Variant Title(s): Build A Fence Of Trust;trust Subject(s): Religion; Theology TODAY, by OZORA STEARNS DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Today, new-born from all my yesterdays Last Line: Then in faith I release it and wait the will of god. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TODAY, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text First Line: To be alive in such an age! Last Line: To be alive in such an age! Variant Title(s): In Such An Age Subject(s): Religion; Theology TODAY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere Last Line: Has passed through town, widening streets, touching %the ground, shouldering away the stars Subject(s): Religion TODAY, by LYDIA AVERY COONLEY WARD Poem Source First Line: Why fear to-morrow, timid heart? Subject(s): Religion TODAY AND TOMORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Withhold all eulogies when I am dead Last Line: My mother gave me. Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Religion; Dead, The; Clemency; Theology TOKEN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: They call it the formless absolute Last Line: Leaves only a small foot mark when it goes Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life TOMORROW, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing care Last Line: "and when the morrow came, I answered sill, ""to-morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology TOMORROW'S NEWS, by GEORGE KRINGLE Poem Text First Line: There will be news tomorrow Last Line: Will be as god shall choose. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TONIGHT, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight? Last Line: God sobs in my arms. Call me ishmael tonight Subject(s): Religion; Theology TOO BUSY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord has a job for me, but I had so much to do Last Line: Nobody else can do the work that god's marked out for you. Variant Title(s): Get Somebody Else Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TORMENTA DE MUERTE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gabriel's trumpet didn't announce Last Line: On the banks of the why of it all Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Death; God; Religion TORN DOWN FROM GLORY DAILY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day we watched the gulls Last Line: They cushion their fishy bellies %with a brother's crumb Subject(s): God; Religion TOTALLY CONSCIOUS, AND APROPOS OF NOTHING, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Religion TOUCH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months my hand had been sealed off Last Line: Nothing will stop it, for this is the kingdom %and the kingdom come Subject(s): God; Religion TOUCHING SHOULDERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's a comforting thought at the close of the day Last Line: When once I rubbed shoulders with you Subject(s): Religion; Theology TOWARD JERUSALEM, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. HAVE FAITH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not hurry: have faith Last Line: Behold! You shall be lord and sovereign of all things. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALL NIGHT LONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long in love, in the darkness, passing through your lips, my love Last Line: Eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Religion; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ARENZANO, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great church over the little fishing-village Last Line: And join the ave maria, ave, ave. Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Religion; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. LOVE'S VISION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in each other's arms Last Line: He the eternal appeared. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O TENDER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender heart of our humanity Last Line: All suffering for thy dear sake is holy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hearts; Humanity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Religion; Women In The Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. OVER THE GREAT CITY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the great city Last Line: And other love is pain, but this is joy eternal. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE COMING OF THE LORD, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice saying Last Line: I the lord demos have spoken it: and the mountains are my throne. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Worship; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BODY WITHIN THE BODY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When life like a ghastly panorama stretches before the eye of the spirit Last Line: And the source of all the light in the universe. Subject(s): Bodies; Religion; Soul; Spirituality; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years are nothing Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness. Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE WANDERING LUNATIC MIND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not pay too much attention to the wandering lunatic mind Last Line: For this were to give up your kingdom, and bow down your neck to death. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TOWER OF BABEL, by LAURANCE WIEDER Poem Source First Line: Nimrod gazed across the plain Last Line: Stern, an absence, or a bubble Subject(s): Bible; Religion TRADITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When home our blessed lord was gone Last Line: That love had taught them both by heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology TRAFFIC BETWEEN, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Like a priest in the shadowed confidence Last Line: Then fumbled with the fare and struggled out Subject(s): Religion; Taxis; Traffic TRAMP'S PRAYER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great spirit, when I soar away Subject(s): Religion TRANSCENDENCE, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though one with all that sense or soul Last Line: The sun doth not contain him nor the sea. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TRANSFIGURATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud unto its parent stream Last Line: In every tide of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Religion; Theology TRANSFORMATION BAND, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Behind an old care on the road Last Line: Yez jesus showed how much luv %there is in death Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion TRANSLATION, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anima quodammodo omnia %how lovely and exact the fit between Subject(s): Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY AMUSING DESPAIR, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I confess that I am not Last Line: But not a strong interest Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY FAREWELL, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Things are happening. Daily Last Line: Suffer the children. Finished. Keep Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY GOOD LUCK, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Fortunately, there are mitigating circumstances Last Line: And which returns unbidden, undeserved, mercifully Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY IMITATION, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: I sold my possessions, even the colorful pencils Last Line: I rose again, bloodless and feeling pretty good. %I forgave everything Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSLATION OF RAIMUNDO LUZ: MY INCREDULITY, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: Lazarus, of course, %is another story Last Line: Bury lazarus as often as it takes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TRANSPARENCIES, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: On a stone disk palette from ancient america Last Line: Remains to light them on their solitary journey Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality TRANSPORT OF THE DEAD, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: The only official method, of course Last Line: Of secrets, of camels and angels and earth's molten core Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality TRAVELLER'S BULLETIN, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Over the tiled roof of the world Last Line: I discovered man. Then %I understood my calling Subject(s): Religion TREASURE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountains, a moment's earth-waves rising and hollowing Last Line: Before the man spoke it was there, and after he has spoken he gathers it, inexhaustible treasure Subject(s): Religion TREE, by FRANK X. GASPAR Poem Source First Line: Then god said to me, stop Last Line: Light bouncing from shadow to shadow, %and I saw their terror. Subject(s): God; Religion TREE-BUILDING, by FRANKLIN CABLE Poem Text First Line: A tree is built of many things Last Line: The music of intangible things. Subject(s): Religion; Trees; Theology TREE-TOP ROAD, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Country Life; Religion TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TREES ARE DOWN, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens Last Line: But I, all day, I heard an angel crying: %'hurt not the trees Subject(s): Bible; Nature; Religion; Trees TREES OF KNOWLEDGE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It's all about the trees, then Last Line: It's all about the trees now Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; God; Knowledge; Religion; Trees TRIBUNAL, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE Poem Source First Line: After death, suppose we were judged by animals Last Line: Which came to this in the end Subject(s): Bible; Religion TRINITY BRETHREN ATTEND, by IVOR ARMSTRONG RICHARDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There was a young fellow went by Subject(s): Religion TRIUMPH OF THE DEFEATED, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They never fail who die Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Religion TRUE GIFT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I gave a beggar from my scanty store Subject(s): Religion TRUE GREATNESS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Religion TRUE KNOWLEDGE, by PANATATTU Poem Source First Line: My god is not a chiselled stone Subject(s): Religion TRUE REST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rest is not quitting Last Line: And this is true rest. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TRUE RICHES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all the prizes Subject(s): Religion TRUST, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better trust all and be deceived Last Line: Than lose the blessed hope of truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Variant Title(s): Faith Subject(s): Disappointment; Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology TRUST GOD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Trust nothing but the starlight's silv'ry beaming Last Line: But in the sight of mankind never bow. Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Trust; Belief; Creed; Theology TRUST IN GOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus god hath said: unblessed is he Last Line: Is planted where the waters flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology TRUTH, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether conditioned by god, or their neutral structure, still Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Religion TRUTH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man with his burning soul %has but an hour of breath Last Line: The ship my striving made %may see night fade Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion TRUTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The truth is large Subject(s): Religion TRUTH IS EVER BEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whoso would him well advise Last Line: He who chooseth truth doth best Subject(s): Religion;truth; Theology TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, I say and walk from church Last Line: To be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone Subject(s): Death; God; Parents; Religion TRYING TO BE HUMAN, by ALBERTA TURNER Poem Source First Line: In the night a voice mutters and repeats Last Line: Because wheels of snow hesitate %and follow me down Subject(s): Religion TRYSTE NOEL, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ox, he openeth wide the doore Last Line: Between her bosom and his hayre! Subject(s): Religion; Theology TUNE THOU MY HARP, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Last Line: O spirit, breathe thy thought through me, %as pleaseth thee Subject(s): Religion TURN AGAIN TO LIFE, by MARY LEE HALL Poem Source First Line: If I should die and leave you here awhile Last Line: And I perchance may therein comfort you! Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion TURN BACK, O MAN, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn back, o man, forswear thy foolish ways Subject(s): Religion; Theology TURN BACK, O MAN, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turn back, o man, forswear thy foolish ways Last Line: Earth shall be fair, and all he folk be one Subject(s): Religion TWANG: PSALM 84, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: How amiable are thy tabernacles, o lord of hosts!... Last Line: Hints: how largely largeness almost fills the small! Subject(s): Religion TWANG: PSALM 88, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth... Last Line: Be damned, and see who cares Subject(s): God; Religion TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you danced from midnight Last Line: To let them climb in after %with their lucifer kicking Subject(s): God; Religion TWELVE-THOUSAND-DAY HONEYMOON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twelve-thousand-day honeymoon is over Last Line: In the little highways %where you remain Subject(s): God; Religion TWILIGHT: AFTER HAYING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, long shadows go out Last Line: Grows wet with dew Subject(s): Hay & Haymaking; Religion; Theology TWILIGHT: AFTER HAYING, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, long shadows go out Last Line: The ravaged field %grows wet with dew Subject(s): Hay And Haymaking; Religion TWO AT A FIRESIDE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I built a chimney for a comrade old Last Line: Yet all the way I glowed before the fire. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TWO BIRDS, ONE OF THEM MORTAL, THE OTHER IMMORTAL, by UPANISHADS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion TWO FATHERLANDS, by CECIL SPRING-RICE Poem Source First Line: I vow to thee, my country - all earthly things above Variant Title(s): The Homelan Subject(s): Religion TWO FISHERMEN, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father made a synagogue of a boat Subject(s): Religion; Theology TWO FISHERMEN, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father made a synagogue of a boat Last Line: Death hooks the corner of his lips %the wrong angel takes over the lesson Subject(s): Religion TWO GHAZALS, by MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB Poem Source First Line: For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river Last Line: Let me be clear: however the world's goblet turns, %those who know are always drunk on the wine of t Subject(s): Religion TWO GODS, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A boy was born 'mid little things Subject(s): Religion TWO HANDS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the sea came a hand Last Line: And applaud, world, %applaud Subject(s): God; Religion TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, by MRS. JOHN GRAY Poem Text First Line: Two hundred years, two hundred years, our bark o'er billowy / seas Last Line: Just as the left old westminster, two hundred years ago! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewers, Miss Subject(s): Religion; Theology TWO INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion TWO OPTIMISTS, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To send fit thanks, I would I had the art Last Line: And heaven sent both this troubled world to bless. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Religion; Optimism; Theology TWO POEMS ON THE CATHOLIC BAVARIANS, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fierce and brooding holocaust of faith Last Line: And her faint tears are red upon his face Subject(s): Religion TWO PRAYERS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only for these I pray Last Line: Let me have power to do. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology TWO PURSUITS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice said, 'follow, follow'; and I rose Last Line: And will not leave me till I shall go hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Religion; Voices; Theology TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO RIDDLES FROM ALDHELM, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was water, full of scaly fish Last Line: What's my name? Subject(s): Religion; Riddles; Theology TWO RIDDLES FROM ALDHELM, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was water, full of scaly fish Last Line: What's my name? Subject(s): Religion; Riddles TWO SONNETS: 1, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Last Line: The scattered features of dead friends again. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TWO SONNETS: 2, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until our souls are strong enough Last Line: The mead of thought's prophetic endlessness. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TWO SONS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where and to whom Last Line: Like cut flowers and ask how you are and where you've been Subject(s): God; Religion TWO VOICES IN A MEADOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anonymous as cherubs Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Theology; Granite; Rocks TWO VOICES IN A MEADOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anonymous as cherubs Last Line: Did such as I aspire Subject(s): Religion; Stones TWO WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two went to pray? O rather say Last Line: The other to the altar's god. Subject(s): Bible; Prayer; Religion; Theology TYRANT, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the festival; we will inter hope Last Line: Every gate of prayer throughout heaven %is slammed shut today Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Religion TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii; Theology; Second World War TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Last Line: And what to say of him, god knows %such violence. And such repose Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii ULTIMA VERITAS, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bitter waves of woe Last Line: I shall see him, and I will wait. Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Worship; Theology ULTIMATE HARVEST, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Great palaces they fill, the shapes that, myriad page on page Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler Subject(s): Religion ULTIMATUM, by PEGGY POND CHURCH Poem Source First Line: Now the frontiers are all closed Last Line: There is no man on earth who must not face this task now Subject(s): Religion ULURU, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Here in the red center Last Line: And again the day after Subject(s): Religion ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes UNATTRIBUTED FRAGMENT (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Sister mary cairnith lit the lamps Last Line: None needing suck, my daughter's (heart?) stops Subject(s): Churches; Convents; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters UNBELIEF, by ELIZABETH YORK CASE Poem Text First Line: There is no unbelief Last Line: God knoweth why. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology UNBELIEVER, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion UNCLE JAKE AND THE LEVEE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De lord holps dem dat hopls deyselves Last Line: "he ain't de man what I tuck him fur!" Subject(s): African Americans; Doubt; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Negroes; American Blacks; Skepticism; Work; Workers; Theology UNDER THE DRUMLIN, by DAVID BRENDAN HOPES Poem Source First Line: I will tell you what lies under this hill Last Line: They are the suns that called us in the common night Subject(s): Christianity; Religion UNDER THE LEAVES, by ALBERT LAIGHTON Poem Source First Line: Oft I have walked these woodland paths Subject(s): Religion UNDERSTANDING, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I knew you and you knew me Last Line: If I knew you and you knew me. Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Variant Title(s): To Know All Is To Forgive All Subject(s): Religion; Theology UNDERSTANDING HEART, by GEORGIA HARKNESS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion UNDERWATER SACRAMENT, COHUTTA WILDERNESS, by DEREK ECONOMY Poem Source First Line: I held my breath as we went down Last Line: Trailing away in double procession Subject(s): Baptism; Religion UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 22. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have faltered more or less Last Line: And to my dead heart run them in! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Apathy; Religion; Theology UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 23. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sun, out of the blast Last Line: With careless looks may pass you by. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Monasteries; Religion; Abbeys; Theology UNDISCOURAGED GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The grass grows slowly up the hill Subject(s): Religion UNEXAMINED LIFE IS A LOST RIVER, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: It does not know its shape or Last Line: The furniture changed Subject(s): Religion UNFAITH, by TED ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: There is no sun!' the blind man said Subject(s): Religion UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the praying, after the hymn-singing Last Line: Intact. There is still murder in your heart Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Religion; Theology UNHOLY SONNET 11, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half asleep in prayer I said the right thing Last Line: Once was enough to be dissatisfied Subject(s): Religion; Prayer; Theology UNITY OF GOD, by PANATATTU Poem Source First Line: Into the bosom of the one great sea Subject(s): Religion UNKIND MAN, TAKE HEED OF ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion UNKNOWN ANGEL: 1. ON THE INVISIBLE ONE WHO COMES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: What is it %keeps coming Last Line: Now I understand the difficulty %of mating with invisibles Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNKNOWN ANGEL: 2. CONFRONTING THE ANGEL, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Who is this %that's always wanting to be me Last Line: Forgetting all else %while the worlds turned over Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNKNOWN ANGEL: 3. THE OTHER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I can stand it %that you arrive with no name Last Line: When you are not here, %with me? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNKNOWN ANGEL: 4. THE UNKNOWN ANGEL, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I think you are Last Line: A subtle shifting %of the dancer's pose Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNKNOWN DEAD, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the numberless unknown Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Religion UNKNOWN GIRL IN THE MATERNITY WARD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child, the current of your breath is six days long Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology UNKNOWN GIRL IN THE MATERNITY WARD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child, the current of your breath is six days long Last Line: Go child, who is my sin and nothing more Subject(s): God; Religion UNKNOWN GOD, by HENRY FRANCIS LYTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lord hath buildeth for himself Last Line: Grandeur has nothing so sublime, %nor beauty half so fair Subject(s): Religion UNKNOWN SCULPTOR, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source Subject(s): Religion UNLESS! UNLESS!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: See now, my brothers, - / one and all Last Line: Come back to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology UNLIT LAMP, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: You're doing it again Last Line: Through the corridors %with an unlit lamp Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNMANIFEST DESTINY, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what new fates, my country, far Last Line: July, 1'98. Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; Liberty; Theology UNREASONABLE REASON, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: All christian soules beware; hell never went Last Line: Is in thy blessed bosome to expire. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; God; Religion; Temptation; Belief; Creed; Theology UNREST, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fierce unrest seethes at the core Last Line: That leaps from star to star! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology UNSEEN BUDS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well Last Line: And waiting ever more, forever more behind. Subject(s): Religion; Theology UNSETTLED SOUL, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the arctic needle, that doth guide Last Line: Twas over-bought: 'twas sold at second hand Variant Title(s): Emblem: Subject(s): Religion UNTIL THE SHADOWS LENGTHEN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, support us all the day long Last Line: And peace at the last: %through jesus christ our lord. Amen Subject(s): Religion UNTO THE HILLS (ADP. FR. PSALM 121), by JOHN D. S. CAMPBELL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion 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 UPON CHRIST HIS BIRTH, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange news! A city full? Will none give way Last Line: Their hearts, as well as inns, are made of clay. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology UPON DISCOVERING ONE'S OWN INTOLERANCE, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion UPON OUR SAVIOR'S TOMB WHEREIN NEVER MAN WAS LAID, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How life and death in thee agree Last Line: A joseph did betroth them both Subject(s): Bible; Religion UPON THE CIRCUMCISION, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flaming powers, and winged warriors bright Last Line: Will pierce neer his heart. Subject(s): Bible; Circumcision; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology UPWARD ROAD, SELS., by MARY S. EDGAR Subject(s): Religion US, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was wrapped in black Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology US, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was wrapped in black Last Line: And we harvested, %we harvested gone Subject(s): God; Religion UTOPIA, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: A day will come, in not undreamed of years Variant Title(s): New Vista Subject(s): Religion; Utopia UTTERANCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But what avail inadequate words to reach Last Line: Of goodness dropped in fallow-grounds of need. Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Theology VAGARIES VINDICATED; OR, HYPOCRITICK HYPERCRITICKS, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Source First Line: Monstrous!' quoth mrs. Foresight. 'sister frail Last Line: Contrition makes that candid man my friend Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Poetry And Poets; Religion VALLEY, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was jealous of lovers. Now I am Last Line: I am not sure that the hand of god %and the hand of man evertouch, even by chance Subject(s): Mortality; Religion VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, I am travelling out to death's sea Last Line: Peace o'er the valleys and cold hills for ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Religion; World War I - Casualties; Theology VANITAS VANITATUM, by RATE Poem Source First Line: O vanyte off vanytes & all is vanite Subject(s): Religion VANITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sun comes up and the sun goes down Last Line: "the net of the fisher the burden breaks, / and alway the dreaming the dreamer wakes" Subject(s): Religion; Theology VANITY OF VANITIES, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Naked to earth I was brought Last Line: Why should I labor for naught, seeing how naked the end? Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Religion; Theology VARIATION AND REFLECTION ON A THEME BY RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If just for once the swing of cause and effect Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology VARIATION AND REFLECTION ON A THEME BY RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If just for once the swing of cause and effect Last Line: God's flight circles us Subject(s): Christianity; Religion VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, by HAROLD VERNON WITT Poem Source First Line: I took my book and wandered in the woods Last Line: There still was music, too; I had my player %and put on brahms and beethoven, like prayer Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Religion VENI CREATOR, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of my heart's elation Last Line: Thou breath of things unseen! Subject(s): Religion; Theology VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS, by GREGORY I Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Creator spirit, by whose aid Last Line: Eternal paraclete, to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Gregory The Great Subject(s): Faith; God; Prayer; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology VENI SANCTE SPIRITUS, by ROBERT II Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, holy ghost! Thou fire divine! Last Line: And dwell with thee in lasting bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Robert The Pious; Robert Ii Of France Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology VENTURE OF FAITH, by FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion VENUS - AGHIA SOPHIA, by CATHERINE DE VINCK Poem Source First Line: Above the waves Last Line: To the universal heart of the fire Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion VENUS AND THE ARK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The missile to launch a missile Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology VENUS AND THE ARK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The missile to launch a missle Last Line: And from the planet park %they heard the new fruit drop Subject(s): God; Religion VERSE-FRAGMENTS FROM THE PROSE WORKS, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balsame, pure wax, and chrismas-liquor clear Last Line: But who shall helpe them to a hempen string? Subject(s): Hearts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology VERSES ON TEXTS: STILLNESS, ISA. 7, 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou layest thine hand on the fluttering heart Last Line: I fear no ill. Variant Title(s): Be Quiet: Fear Not';thy Presence Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology VERSES WRITTEN IN A GARDEN, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how that pair of billing doves Last Line: The pedant priest, and giddy rake. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Government; Nature; Pleasure; Religion; Virtue; Theology VESPERS, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Now it is evening, the light rushes to fall Last Line: Like even one, without it gone Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality VESPERS, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: Night is dark ink and the weight of stillness Last Line: Gold side of your face in the candleglow and shadow Subject(s): Religion VESPERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the city behind me Last Line: And the thrushes sing their hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Cathedrals; Theology VIA CRUCIS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark we come, nor know Last Line: End in the lonely figure of a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Life; Religion; Theology VIA LUCIS, by HOWARD CHANDLER ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: And have the bright immensities Last Line: There heavenly splendors shine. Subject(s): Religion; Theology VIA, ET VERITAS, ET VITA, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You never attained to him, if to attain Last Line: "the way was he!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Religion; Theology VICTORIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thy victory is in the heart Last Line: To follow thee, to fight for thee, %knights of the holy ghost Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Religion VICTORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the strife is o'er, the battle done" Last Line: Alleluia! Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;religion; English Navy;theology VICTORY, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion VICTORY, by ARTHUR B. RHINOW Poem Source First Line: I - what a fine statue! Subject(s): Religion VILLA DE MATEL, HOUSTON, by SYBIL ESTESS Poem Source First Line: At twilight an old nun paddles towards me Last Line: In palms; black evening; change; children; her peace Subject(s): Nuns; Religion VIOLENCE OF BEING DIVINE WITHOUT YOU, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: I tap the vein gently Last Line: With god's voice %for petals Subject(s): God; Religion VIRGIN, by LAURA RIDING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My flesh is at a distance from me Last Line: A forgotten passion, %before I learn of it Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Bible; Religion VIRTUES EXILED - VICES ENTHRONED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lex is layde and lethyryl lukys Subject(s): Religion VISION OF MOSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, to whom by a peculiar grace Last Line: "murder'd the father of that very child." Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Religion; Theology VISION OF SALT & WATER, by J. J. BLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: He dreamt that his ear was a small africa Last Line: The angel his dresser, the water the gossip in the natural %pitch Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality VISION OF SUNDAY IN HEAVEN, by VICTOR JAMES DALEY Poem Source First Line: Methought, one night, I saw, in trance sublime Last Line: He said, and sadly to the earth descended Subject(s): Bible; Religion VISIONS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Thank god for vision of the brighter day Last Line: Press on and claim its high supremacies! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Patriotism; Religion; Theology VISIONS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are hills too steep for our feet to climb Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Religion VISIONS OF JESUS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In bethlehem a babe I see Last Line: Before that throne on judgment day. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology VISIONS OF NEVER BEING HEARD FROM AGAIN, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stopped by to see you but you were not home Subject(s): Absence; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Theology VISIT, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: This is how the monsignor entered Last Line: Into the cracked, effaced mortar of the sill Subject(s): Religion; Schools VISIT TO KAUNAS, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I put on my mosaic horns, a pointed beard Last Line: Ist murder, murder, murder Subject(s): Religion VISITATION, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE Poem Source First Line: The preacher mounts the pulpit and begins to speak as the metal folds Last Line: Self in the snow Subject(s): Bible; Preaching And Preachers; Religion VISTAS OF LABOR: 4. FACTORY CHILDREN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here toil the striplings, who should be a-swarm Last Line: "my kingdom is made up of such as these." Subject(s): Child Labor; Factories; Life; Religion; Youth; Theology VOICE OF GOD IS CALLING, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion VOLUNTARIES, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low and mournful be the strain Last Line: All are ghosts beside. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Liberty; Theology VOLUPTE, by PIERRE CAMO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of endless charm, whose youth is green Last Line: And goodly death. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Religion; Saints; Women; Theology VOMIT, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stomach and the heart can be torn Last Line: Till the heart is hooked and pulled out Subject(s): Religion VOTIVE FOR WHEN EVERY EYE WILL WEEP AND EVERY KNEE SHALL BEND, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: Lord Last Line: May the candle left growing there beget thou Subject(s): God; Religion VOTIVE TABLETS: MY BELIEF, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What thy religion? Those thou namest -- none Last Line: None! Why? — because I have religion! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Religion; Theology VOYAGER'S PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O great spirit! Last Line: Until we have safely passed over Subject(s): Religion VOYAGERS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O maker of the mighty deep Last Line: Thy sea is great, our boats are small. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): The Sea Is Great, Our Boats Are Small Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean WAGES, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Religion WAILING WALL, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: On the eve of the ninth day Last Line: And the rending of fine cloth Subject(s): Religion WAIT ON, by DNYANODAYA Poem Source First Line: To talk with god Subject(s): Religion WAITING, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, I fold my hands and wait Last Line: Can keep my own away from me. Variant Title(s): My Own Shall Come To Me Subject(s): Consolation; Patience; Religion; Theology WAITING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The jeweled cloud sways overhead Last Line: Finer and finer arrangements of light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WAITING HEAD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I am really walking with ordinary habit Last Line: But no one came no one came Subject(s): God; Religion WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Last Line: I learn by going where I have to go Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking WAKING ALONE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skull, %museum object Last Line: I hold up my hand and see %only nails Subject(s): God; Religion WAKING HERE, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: This night, one of those clouded Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WAKING WORLD, by FRANK MASON NORTH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WALK ON THE MOON, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extend, there where you venture and come back Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Religion WALKING, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His stride is part delusion Last Line: And the tulips fallen Subject(s): Religion WALKING IN PARIS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come back to your youth, my nana Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WALKING IN PARIS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come back to your youth, my nana Last Line: Our lives once more perfected %and unused Subject(s): God; Religion WALKING ON WATER, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feeling it with me Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WALKING ON WATER, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feeling it with me Last Line: Shall pass, as if led by the nose into heaven Subject(s): Bible; Religion WALKING TOWARD THE VILLAGE, by GREG RAPPLEYE Poem Source First Line: It is the best part, he decides Last Line: Oremus,' as the snow goes on with its task, %all ornament and silence Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Religion WALKING WITH MATRON, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: In the nilgiris, a platoon of christ's cadets Last Line: A small brown snake to death, her spectacles glowing Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Marching And Marches; Religion WALL, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wall surrounding them they never saw Last Line: As they advanced, the giant wings unfurled Subject(s): Religion WALL, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Source First Line: My friend and I have built a wall Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Religion WALL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature is full of teeth Last Line: That separates you from god Subject(s): God; Religion WALL, CAVE, AND PILLAR STATEMENTS, AFTER ASôKA, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In order to perfect all readers Subject(s): Religion; Theology WALLFLOWER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come friend, / I have an old story to tell you Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WALLFLOWER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come friend, %I have an old story to tell you Last Line: The blissful pastimes of the parlor -- %I'll never know Subject(s): God; Religion WANDERER'S LITANY, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Source First Line: When my life has enough of love, and my spirit enough Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Variant Title(s): The Lure O' Lif Subject(s): Religion WANTED - A MAN!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: What we lack and sorely need Last Line: Men whose souls have wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Men; Religion; Theology WANTING SO THE FACE DIVINE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Religion WANTING TO DIE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you ask, most days I cannot remember Last Line: And the love, whatever it was, an infection Subject(s): God; Religion; Suicide WAR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War / I abhor Last Line: And show the monster as she is. Variant Title(s): The Illusion Of War Subject(s): Pacifism; Religion; Peace Movements; Theology WAR BALLAD, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The piano has crawled into the quarry. Hauled Last Line: I'll be a song for russia, I'll be %an etude, warmth and bread for everybody Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Religion; War WAR MEMENTO, by ROGER HECHT Poem Source First Line: A boy with yellow hair, his clothes in place Subject(s): Religion WAR POEM, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Don't stand at night by the gate, love Subject(s): Religion WAR-TIME PRAYER, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Source First Line: Though the hands be raised to kil;l Subject(s): Religion WARNING, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WASHING DISHES LATE AT NIGHT, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The room tips %where we have rearranged it Last Line: The pale light %in which we live, both of us afraid Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WASHING THE ELEPHANT, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Circus; Confession; Religion; Family Life; Elephants; Theology; Relatives WASHINGTON; INSCRIPTION AT MOUNT VERNON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "washington, the brave, the wise, the good" Last Line: "and in the hope of religion, immortality" Subject(s): "presidents, United States;religion;washington, George (1732-1799);" Theology WASTE, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waste of muscle, waste of brain Last Line: Waste of glory, waste of god, - %war! Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion WATCHERS, by HENRY MEADE BLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the red sun goes down their day begins Subject(s): Religion WATCHING 'DARK CIRCLE', by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men are willing to observe Last Line: And ruth landy of the independent documentary group. Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing; Christianity; Motion Pictures, Documentary; Religion; Theology WATCHWORDS, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are living - we are dwelling Last Line: Tell on ages -- tell for god. Variant Title(s): The Present Age Subject(s): Religion; Theology WATER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are fishermen in a flat scene Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WATER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are fishermen in a flat scene Last Line: Holding a lady's wornout shoe Subject(s): God; Religion WATERBIRD MEDICINE, by ANA CASTILLO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Peyote is in my blood Last Line: Bring my lover to me soon. %ho! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion WATERBURY CROSS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fall. You're driving 84 southwest Last Line: Who bides time in a cloud? Choking, my car %walks over water, across to danbury Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Cross, The; Religion; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) WATERS OF BABYLON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What presses about us here in the evening Last Line: Let the night be. Close the window, beloved. . . . Come here. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology WAY DOWN, by ERNEST SANDEEN Poem Source First Line: She was able to kill herself Last Line: We may never get it done Subject(s): Religion WAY O CHRIST THOU ART, by ERNEST DE WITT BURTON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WE ALL HAVE MANY CHANCES, by BARBARA JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Forgiveness: a simple bandage Last Line: Watching shadows cross the lawn %and black spoons lifting among the leaves %in the evening Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion WE ARE ALL KIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: We are all kin - oh, make us kin indeed! Last Line: Heal every wound and end the fruitless strife! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology WE ARE ALL ONE, by MARY ANN HENN Poem Source First Line: Here -- on the ocean shore Last Line: We are all -- one in him Subject(s): God; Religion WE ARE GOD'S CHOSEN FEW, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We can't have heaven crammed! Subject(s): Religion WE ARE NOT CAST AWAY, by PLOTINUS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WE AWAKEN IN CHRIST'S BODY, by SYMEON Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WE BEGIN WITH RAIN, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: We begin with rain and go looking Last Line: Holding on to watery ice, shifting ground Subject(s): Religion WE BELIEVE THE PAST, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Is safe, the past is known Last Line: Politely play dead to please a friend Subject(s): Religion WE COME INTO THE WORLD WITH A CRY, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: We protest Last Line: With donations to the temple Subject(s): Religion WE DANCED THE BAMBOO DANCE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: As children Last Line: With crushed and swollen ankles Subject(s): Religion WE FAIL OUR CHILDREN IN MANY WAYS, IN STRANGE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Ways. Shoshana, at fifteen you asked me Last Line: You cannot see love; you can only feel it Subject(s): Religion WE FLEW TO LONDON AND I LEARNED I HAD NEVER, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Known cold. I had grown up sweating Last Line: Warmth, the comfort of familiar things Subject(s): Religion WE GIVE THEE BUT THINE OWN, by WILLIAM WALSHAM HOW Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WE HAVE DEVALUED LOVE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: These days, we use the word love like dollar bills Last Line: I will not mourn you before I must Subject(s): Religion WE JUDGE GODS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: By their followers. What they do Last Line: Can the heart sing with such praise? Subject(s): Religion WE MAY NOT KNOW, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We may not know, we cannot tell what pains he had to bear Last Line: But we believe it was for us he hung and suffered there Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion WE MET THEM ON THE COMMON WAY, by ELIZABETH C. CARDOZO Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WE PLOW THE FIELDS, by MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Asmus Subject(s): Religion WE SEE ERODED FLESH, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: And say %we do not want to die. We cry Last Line: There is no filling of holes in the heart Subject(s): Religion WE WILL NOW HEAR THE WORD OF GOD FROM EACH OF OUR BELOVED, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Rev stump is believe it or not for real Last Line: One cold christian curse %bestowal, blessing Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WE WOULD SEE JESUS; LO! HIS STAR IS SHINING, by JOHN EDGAR PARK Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WEDDING FEAST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the chief of the marriage feast to the groom Last Line: Can come out of galilee! Subject(s): Bible; Religion WEDDING HYMN, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WEDDING NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was this time in boston Last Line: And before it was time Subject(s): God; Religion WEDDING RING DANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dance in circles holding Last Line: Waiting for a magnet Subject(s): God; Religion WEDDING TOAST, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. John tells how, at cana's wedding-feast Last Line: And may that water smack of cana's wine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion WEDLOCK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My breast waited Last Line: Like two frozen paintings in a field of poppies Subject(s): God; Religion WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, 1940, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the east window a storm Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, 1940, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the east window a storm Last Line: And a gale with it Subject(s): Bible; Religion WEEKNIGHTS AT THE CATHEDRAL, by MARJORIE MADDOX Poem Source First Line: Weekday evenings, I watch you Last Line: I think you are praying for me Subject(s): Religion WEEP NOT FOR THOSE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb Last Line: Looks radiantly down on the tears of this world. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Religion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology WELCOME MORNING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is joy / in all Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WELCOME MORNING, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is joy %in all Last Line: The joy that isn't shared, I've heard, %dies young Subject(s): God; Religion WELL DONE, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Servant of god, well done! Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Religion WHALE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whale is the greatest beast in all the ocean waste Subject(s): Religion WHAT AM I-A RICKETY THING, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Unless you take me lovingly to you Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHAT CHILD IS THIS WHO LAID TO REST, by WILLIAM CHATTERTON DIX Poem Source Last Line: Haste, haste to bring him laud, the babe, the son of mary Subject(s): Religion WHAT DID I DO WRONG?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Of your world in a black mood Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHAT DOES IT MEAN?, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source Last Line: The secret cunning %of this silent earth Subject(s): Buddhism; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Life; Religion WHAT DOTH THE LORD REQUIRE OF THEE, by ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS Poem Source Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion WHAT GOD HATH PROMISED, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Source First Line: God hath not promised %skies always blue Last Line: Unfailing sympathy, %undying love Subject(s): Religion WHAT GOOD IS A TRIP TO KASHI?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Day and night, in kashi Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHAT HAS IT COME TO, DR. Y, FR. LETTERS TO DR. Y, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Religion WHAT HE IS MISSING, by PETER LASALLE Poem Source First Line: St. Francis xavier %on display in old goa; to this day Last Line: Visit ir now at the castle of the family xavier, in spain Subject(s): Religion; Xavier, Francis. Saint WHAT I LIVE FOR, by GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live for those who love me, / whose hearts are kind and true Last Line: And the good that I can do. Variant Title(s): Why Do I Live;my Aim Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology WHAT IS A JEWISH POEM?, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: Does it wear a yarmulka? Last Line: Little jewish poem %come sing to me Subject(s): Religion WHAT IS HAPPENING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Moment to moment %we ask, what is happening? Last Line: The final break-up of ice? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHAT IS HE, THIS LORDLING, by WILLIAM+(3) HERBERT Poem Source First Line: What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight Last Line: Adreint all with shenness, y-drawn down with shame Subject(s): Bible; Religion WHAT IS NATURE'S SELF?, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, what is nature's Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Religion WHAT IS THE CHURCH?, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church is man when his awed soul goes out Last Line: There is the universal church—the church of god is there. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHAT LIGHT DESTROYS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm thinking of st. Paul -- st. Paul Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Troy; Theology WHAT LIGHT DESTROYS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm thinking of st. Paul -- st. Paul Last Line: That if the moon were my blue coin, I'd never spend it Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Troy WHAT MAKES A CITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WHAT MAKES A NATION GREAT?, by ALEXANDER BLACKBURN Poem Text First Line: Not serried ranks with flags unfurled Last Line: Be god's delight—man's best estate. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHAT MAN BUT GOD?, by P. J. CAZELLO Poem Text First Line: Tis sure no man could ever seat Last Line: No man but god—then, now, or ever. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHAT MAN MAY CHOOSE, by PRISCILLA LEONARD Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WHAT MORE COULD CHRIST HAVE DONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cryste made mane yn this maner of wyse Subject(s): Religion WHAT MY TEACHERS TAUGHT ME I TRY TO TEACH MY STUDENTS, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: A bird in the hand Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WHAT PROFITETH THIS WORLD'S LABOUR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Long, wilbe, water in a welle to keche Subject(s): Religion WHAT STAR IS THIS, WITH BEAMS SO BRIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WHAT THE BIRD WITH THE HUMAN HEAD KNEW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the bird Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHAT THE BIRD WITH THE HUMAN HEAD KNEW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the bird Last Line: Yet abundance reamins. %then I knew Subject(s): God; Religion WHAT THE PROPHETS SAID, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: They said that the planet would vibrate Last Line: Merely the terror of the real Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHAT THE VOICE SAID, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maddened by earth's wrong and evil Last Line: Temper all with love. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHAT WE BELIEVE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus was not the son of god. He was a yogi Last Line: Everything worked better in the golden age Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality WHAT'S MORE TO FEAR, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Can be had for the picking Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHAT'S SO GOOD IN YOU, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Why isn't there food in your father's house? Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHAT'S THAT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before it came inside / I had watched it from my kitchen window Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHAT'S THAT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before it came inside %I had watched it from my kitchen window Last Line: What else is this, this intricate shape of air? %calling me , calling you Subject(s): God; Religion WHEAT, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: The combines crossed the wheat field Subject(s): Religion; Wheat WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Last Line: And turn with them in the dance %in the sweet enclosure %of the song, and timeless %is the wheel tha Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing And Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels WHEELING GOSPEL TABERNACLE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homer rhodeheaver, who was the evangelist billy sunday's psalmodist Last Line: Little I know. I can pitch a pretty fair tune myself, for all I know Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Evangelists; God; Public Worship; Religion WHEN ABRAHAM WENT OUT OF UR, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men go out from the places where they dwelled Subject(s): Religion WHEN ADAM WALKED IN EDEN YOUNG, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the soul fevers in my breast %and aches to be away Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion WHEN ALL IS DONE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all is done, and my last word is said Last Line: When all is done. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHEN GRAPES TURN TO WINE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The body, cell by cell we made it Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Religion WHEN HE COMES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A vision fair - of clouds and sky Last Line: To do him honor there. Subject(s): Earth; Holy Ghost; Lightning; Religion; Soul; World; Holy Spirit; Lightning Rods; Theology WHEN HE TRIES THE HEARTS OF MEN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: As gold is tried in the furnace Last Line: When he tries the hearts of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHEN I AM HAPPY WITH YOU, I FORGET ZEN, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I take sunlight and safety for granted Last Line: But memory answers with a zen nothingness Subject(s): Religion WHEN I SAIL AWAY, by ELIZABETH CLARK HARDY Poem Source First Line: Sometime at eve when the tide is low Subject(s): Friendship; Religion WHEN I THINK OF THE HUNGRY PEOPLE', by O-SHI-O Poem Source First Line: I have a suit of new clothes in this happy new year Last Line: I am ashamed of my fortune in the presence of god Subject(s): Religion WHEN LIFE'S DAY CLOSES, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WHEN MAN ENTERS WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When man / enters woman / like the surf biting the shore Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHEN MAN ENTERS WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When man %enters woman %like the surf biting the shore Last Line: Though god %in his perversity %unties the knot Subject(s): God; Religion WHEN MOSES CAME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: With the ten commandments, his face shone Last Line: Being without equals Subject(s): Religion WHEN MY HUSBAND JOE IS IN BEIJING, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: I know he is eating dinner as I read my morning news Last Line: At her first grandchild in a hospital not yet built Subject(s): Religion WHEN OUR DEAREST LOVES GO, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: We sit on low stools Last Line: Etched red as blood escapes Subject(s): Religion WHEN SOULS AWAKE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When souls awake then eyes behold Last Line: Into eternity. Subject(s): God; Religion; Soul; Theology WHEN THE BISHOP CAME, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These angels were messengers Last Line: To see sacred streaks of light flash %before he bowed his head and kissed Subject(s): Religion WHEN THE CHILD IS KING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babe, so long ago enshrined Last Line: So to-day a child shall reign. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Religion; Childhood; Theology WHEN THE CHURCH IS NO LONGER REGARDED, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But is seems that something has happened that has never happened before Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Religion WHEN THE DAYLIGHT WANES, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source First Line: O risen saviour, when the daylight wanes Subject(s): Religion WHEN THE GLASS OF MY BODY BROKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother of sex, / lady of the staggering cuddle Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHEN THE GLASS OF MY BODY BROKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother of sex, %lady of the staggering cuddle Last Line: And I sink softly into %the heartland Subject(s): God; Religion WHEN THE HEART IS FULL OF LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is beauty in the forest Subject(s): Religion WHEN THE MIND IS AT PEACE, by P'ANG YUN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WHEN THROUGH THE WHIRL OF WHEELS, AND ENGINES HUMMING, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sweeping the shavings from his work-shop floor Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion WHEN WE STUMBLE AND FIND IT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: We all have our favorite themes Last Line: Which will spring open %and reveal the undefined Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHEN YOU COME TO SLEEP WITH ME LIKE GOD, by YONA WALLACH Poem Source First Line: Come sleep with me like god Last Line: Like all those of yours %always on the way Subject(s): God; Religion; Sleep WHENCE COMETH MY HELP, by P. L. MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: Here, on these hills, no sense of loneliness Last Line: My troubles fall, so close to me seems god. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHERE CHRIST IS BORN AGAIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Wherever one repenting soul Last Line: And christ is born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology WHERE GOEST THOU?', by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WHERE I LIVE IN THIS HONORABLE HOUSE OF THE LAUREL TREE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live in my wooden legs and o Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WHERE I LIVE IN THIS HONORABLE HOUSE OF THE LAUREL TREE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live in my wooden legs and o Last Line: My green green hands Subject(s): God; Religion WHERE IS THY BROTHER?, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not, 'it matters not to me' Subject(s): Religion WHERE IS THY GOD, MY SOUL?, by THOMAS TOKE LYNCH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WHERE IS THY GOD?, by JAMES LEWIS MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: Like as the hart, athirst in desert dreary Subject(s): Religion WHERE LIE ALL THE SLAIN, by HARRY MORRIS Poem Source First Line: I saw a trash-pit, filled and topped with earth Subject(s): Religion WHERE RUNS THE RIVER? WHO CAN SAY, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Rivers WHEREFORE HIDEST THOU THY FACE, AND HOLDEST ME FOR THY ENEMY, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? Last Line: O thou, that art my light, my life, my way. Variant Title(s): The God Who Hides Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHEREVER THROUGH THE AGES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WHILE ANGELS WEEP, by ED ZAHNISER Poem Source First Line: Sanctus by benoit: the organ prelude Last Line: While angels weep, hopes to bolster us %another week while angels weep Subject(s): Angels; Religion WHILE WE WERE ARGUING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first snow fell - or should I say Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHILE WE WERE ARGUING, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first snow fell - or should I say Last Line: Between disintegrating clouds. I said %aloud. 'you see, we have done harm' Subject(s): Religion WHIRING WHEELS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, when on my bed I lie Last Line: I will turn to sleep again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): Whirring Wheels Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology WHITE BIRCHES, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Pale birches always make me think Last Line: Or can it not be told? Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Theology WHITE CLIFFS, SELS., by ALICE DUER MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young and in love - how magical the phrase Subject(s): Religion WHITE DAY OF PEACE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Heard ye the golden bells of peace that angels softly / sway Last Line: Tis toleration's jubilee—her white-robed festal day! Subject(s): Peace; Religion; Theology WHITE EASTER LILIES, by BLANCHE MALLERY PAYNE Poem Text First Line: Rows of stately easter lilies stood shining and purely white Last Line: Was first an easter lily pure, and grew in god's own care. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology WHITE IS THE COLOR OF REGRET, NOT BLACK, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Don't tell a blind woman that Last Line: Like the death of a cat Subject(s): Religion WHITE SNAKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a day Last Line: A kind of blue funk. %is it not Subject(s): God; Religion WHO ARE THE DEAD?, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if in the world beneath the ground Subject(s): Religion WHO CAN EXPLAIN YOUR PLAY, MOTHER?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: He can see right through those old ploys Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHO CAN TELL?, by JOHN D. WALSHE Poem Source First Line: Great nature, with what wonders fraught Subject(s): Religion WHO CANNOT WEEP COME LEARN OF ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With fauoure in hir face ferr passyng my reason Subject(s): Religion WHO DOES NOT LOVE TRUE POETRY, by HENRY CLAY HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: He has not known his god Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion WHO GOETH HENCE, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: When death shall come to summon us at last Last Line: Like children hasting to a glad surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology WHO HAS KNOWN HEIGHTS, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text Last Line: Who once has trodden stars seeks peace no more. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHO IS SO LOW, by S. RALPH HARLOW Poem Source Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion WHO IS THE MAID?, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the maid my spirit seeks Last Line: In holy lustre wastes away! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Religion; Theology WHO LOVES WATER, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Who loves water should kneel at noon beside Last Line: To allah, the merciful and compassionate. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology WHO NEVER ATE WITH TEARS HIS BREAD, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WHO SEEKS TO PLEASE ALL MEN, by HENRY RICH Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WHO TRUSTETH FORTUNE WILL HAVE A FALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What is this worlde but oonly vanyte Subject(s): Religion WHO'S WITH YOU, MIND, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: And take you amidship Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHOEVER WENT IN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source Last Line: Hold rock turning to light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHOLE YEAR CHRISTMAS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Oh, could we keep the christmas thrill Last Line: To make us children the whole year round Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion WHY, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WHY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Something inside me %constantly bleeds towards god Last Line: Thats why I keep writing, %slipping messages under the door Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHY ART THOU, MAN, UNKIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Late as I wente one myne pleynge Subject(s): Religion WHY GO LIVE BY THE GANGES?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Who calls a stepmother %mother Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHY SHOULD I GO TO KASH?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: And all good things are yours Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHY TELL ME WHAT TO DO?, by CHANDIDAS Poem Source Last Line: His black skin is always with me Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WHY?, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: With what intent Last Line: Nor healeth any of his sins. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology WIFE OF MANIBOZHO SINGS, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He comes and goes; %there is no rest Last Line: Lie still %under the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion WIFEBEATER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will be mud on the carpet tonight Last Line: And the wife and daughter knit into each other until they are killed Subject(s): God; Religion WILD KNIGHT, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wasting thistle whitens on my crest Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Religion WILD ROSE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes hidden from me Last Line: Again what I chose before Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WILD ROSES AND MYRRH, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prairie ocean rolled away Last Line: To line the manger bed. Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Women; Theology WILD WOMAN OF THE FORESTS, by KABIR Poem Source Last Line: Herding cows by his side Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion WILDEBEEST THEOLOGY, by CHRIS ARTHUR Poem Source First Line: Stands oblivious as abstract seconds tick away Last Line: The dog pack's frantic noises Subject(s): Animals; Religion WILL HE GIVE HIM A STONE?', by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Source First Line: I pick it up, I turn it over, I scoff Subject(s): Religion WILL SHAKESPEARE, SELS., by WILLIAM ASHTON Subject(s): Crucifixion; Religion WIND AND LYRE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the wind and I the lyre Subject(s): Religion; Theology WIND AND LYRE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the wind and I the lyre Last Line: Light my soul to the mother-sea Subject(s): Religion WIND IN THE PINE, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I can hear you, god, above the cry Last Line: Wash over me, god, with your wind and night, %and leave me clean and cool Subject(s): Religion WINDS, by REGINALD JOHN CLEMO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There is a tree grows upside down Last Line: The dead leaves scatter and are lost; %the christ renews his vows Subject(s): Religion WINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be like the bird, that, halting in her flight Subject(s): Religion; Theology WINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fancy flies, and sweetly sings Last Line: Wings as of love. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let us be like a bird for a moment perched Last Line: Knowing that he has wings Subject(s): Religion WINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be like the bird, that, halting in her flight Last Line: Knowing he has wings Subject(s): Birds; Religion WINTER PRAYER, by KAREN PICONI Poem Source First Line: Help us to embrace winter, lord Last Line: Awesome promise of spring you offer Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Winter WISDOM: EULOGY OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy Last Line: And she governs the whole world for its good Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion WISDOM: SOLOMON'S LOVE FOR WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom I loved and searched for from my youth Last Line: What is more wealthy than wisdom whose work is everywhere? Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion WISE MEN SEEKING JESUS, by JAMES THOMAS EAST Poem Source Subject(s): Magi; Religion WITCH, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I was always a nice girl Last Line: It is themselves they taste? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WITCH'S LIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Last Line: Then sitting there %holding a basket of fire Subject(s): God; Religion WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask Last Line: The world's pottage, the rat's star Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING', by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It fortifies my soul to know Last Line: That, if I slip, thou dost not fall. Variant Title(s): The Changeless;the Unchanging;steadfast Subject(s): Religion; Theology WITHIN AND WITHOUT, SELS., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of thyself and me, through the sore grief Last Line: Will come with thee, and will abide with me Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion WITHIN OUR LIVES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the calmly gathered thought Subject(s): Religion WITHIN THE GATES, by DAVID W. FOLEY Poem Source First Line: I love to step inside a church Subject(s): Religion WITHOUT AND WITHIN, by NORMAN AULT Poem Source First Line: If I ascend to heaven, thou art there Last Line: Where I so long had thought thou hadst may part, - %I found thee hiding with me in my heart Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion WITHOUT CAREFULNESS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master! How shall I bless thy name Last Line: All, all their care on thee! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WITHOUT WORDS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: So deep is my desire to have him strong Last Line: I think god will interpret it as prayer. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology WOEFULLY ARRAYED, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For mankind, whom I have bought dear Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion WOFULLY ARAIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WOMAN IS WAITING FOR A BUS, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: In the rain, in baltimore Last Line: Warmth, she waits -- black %ancient beautiful eve Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WOMAN WHO FED GOD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: It sounds so simple Last Line: And of her scent, which I did not know Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A CAVE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: It was cold there. %at night Last Line: And unfolds, %moonlight, darkness Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WHO LOVED THE GOD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: They are a curious lot, %their odd names Last Line: To the lover, %his body of moist cloud Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WHO LOVED THE GODDESS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: At the end %nothing could save her Last Line: To the band of jeering boys %who trailed her, half-afraid Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WHO SLEPT WITH SHIVA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I called him down, %and when he came Last Line: In the violet clouds %that gather at dusk Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WITH GIRDLE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your midriff sags toward your knees Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WOMAN WITH GIRDLE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your midriff sags toward your knees Last Line: Into your redeeming skin Subject(s): God; Religion WOMANLY SONG OF GOD, by CATHERINE DE VINCK Poem Source First Line: I am the woman dancing the world alive Last Line: Why cannot one of them be %woman singing? Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion WOMEN OF JERICHO, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though seven times, or seventy times seven Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WOMEN OF JERICHO, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though seven times, or seventy times seven Last Line: These armoured walls, and raze the citadel Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Religion WOMEN'S TIME, FR. CASSANDRA, by FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Poem Source First Line: Yet I would spare no pang Last Line: The earlier it will bless Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Women's Rights WONDER, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If god is thrilled by a battle cry Last Line: Merciless god, good-bye! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Religion; War; Theology WONDERFUL MUSICIAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters, %do you remember the fiddlers Last Line: Little eichm;anns, %little mothers -- %I'd say Subject(s): God; Religion WOODLAND SINGER, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Source First Line: There runs a rhythm thro' the woods and seas Subject(s): Religion WORD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A word came forth in galilee, a word like a star Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Religion WORD MADE FLESH, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word whose breath is the world-circling atmosphere Last Line: A spirit clothed in world, a world made man? Subject(s): Language; Religion; Words; Vocabulary; Theology WORD MADE FLESH IS SELDOM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like this consent of language, %this loved philology Variant Title(s): Poem: 1651; Poem: 171 Subject(s): Bible; Language; Religion WORD TO A DICTATOR, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE Poem Source First Line: So by your edict christ once more lies slain Subject(s): Religion WORDS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be careful of words Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology WORDS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be careful of words Last Line: Once broken they are impossible %things to repair Subject(s): God; Religion WORDS FOR GOLGOTHA, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: I harboured salt and shekels and this, too Last Line: I pirouette on sticks between a murderer and a thief Subject(s): Religion WORDSWORTH NOTEBOOK: MOODS OF MY OWN MIND, by JEFFREY ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: In 1802 william wordsworth, living with his sister dorothy and Last Line: Coarsens my hand, and mary %makes the angel more terrible Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets; Religion; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORK, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WORK, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: All labour gained new dignity Last Line: "but -- thine employ!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology WORK, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the careless worker's side Last Line: Take me, and brand me with thy cross, %thy slave's proud sign Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Religion WORK SONG, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As full of christianity Last Line: Ecstasy, blood, a button left undone Subject(s): Religion WORLD, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: My ears echo too loudly Last Line: It doesn't take much %to make music Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality WORLD CONQUEROR, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source Subject(s): Religion WORLD IN NO MORE THAN THE BELOVED'S SINGLE FACE, by MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB Poem Source Last Line: That the sky bends down unceasingly down, to greet its own light Subject(s): Religion WORLD IS A HARD PLACE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: It began with stone Last Line: Only by their absence. Water. Wind Subject(s): Religion WORLD VOICES, by CHARLES RUSSELL WAKELEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the shadows of forgotten years Subject(s): Religion WORLD WE MAKE, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Is the place we live Last Line: Meigs' river is not our river Subject(s): Religion WORLD WITHOUT OBJECTS IS A SENSIBLE EMPTINESS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tall camels of the spirit Last Line: Lampshine blurred in the steam of beasts, the spirit's right oasis, light incarnate Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WORLD-BROTHERHOOD, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: My country is the world; I count Last Line: Shall yield to worldwide love of man. Variant Title(s): My Country Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology WORLD-NATION, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion WORLD-PURPOSE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men sadly say that love's high dream is vain Subject(s): Religion WORLDLY JOY IS ONLY FANTASY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This wardly ioy is onely fantasy Subject(s): Religion WORLDS, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I lived within a world of bloom Last Line: Flowers at the thought of god. Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Theology WORRY, by CHARLES FORCE DEEMS Poem Text First Line: The world is wide Last Line: Then do not worry. Variant Title(s): On Life's Way Subject(s): Religion; Theology WORSHIP, by RUTH FURBEE Poem Source First Line: God made my cathedral Subject(s): Religion WOUNDED ANGEL, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: It fell like a stone from the sky Last Line: We hoped to god it might be so Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality WOUNDS, AS WELLS OF LIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ihesus woundes so wide Subject(s): Religion WRESTLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sky, cloud, seagull, sparrow, men in blue Last Line: Immaculate won, hands down. Bob scaled a rusty gate Subject(s): Cities; Religion; Spring; Wrestling And Wrestlers WRESTLING JACOB, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o thou traveller unknown, / whom still I hold, but cannot see Last Line: Thy nature and thy name is love. Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion; Theology WRITTEN FOR THE ZEN MAN TE-JUN AT GREAT ASSEMBLT AT FO-YEN, by HSU YUN Poem Source First Line: Days long ago do you remember Last Line: Upholding the dharma-king Subject(s): Religion; Zen Buddhism WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky. Variant Title(s): His Last Verses Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness WRITTEN ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou and seek the house of prayer! Last Line: And ponders on the world to come. Subject(s): Churches; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology WRITTEN ON THE WALL AT CHANG'S HERMITAGE, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is spring in the mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Religion YE WHO FEAR DEATH REMEMBER APRIL, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source Subject(s): Religion YEAR'S END, SELS., by JOSEPHINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Now as the year closes and turns Subject(s): Religion YEARS ARE COMING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "years are coming, years are going, creeds may change and pass away" Last Line: "songs of joy proclaim the story of a fair, transfigured earth" Subject(s): Brotherhood;religion; Theology YELLOW, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: The town is much larger than you recall Last Line: The store has lilacs in it. Her hand finds %a yellow dress. I think she should try it on Subject(s): Religion YELLOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they turn the sun Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology YELLOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they turn the sun Last Line: Never die, not one of us, we'll go on won't we Subject(s): God; Religion YES AND NO, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh would I were a politician Last Line: Then wonder which is really mine; %tolerance, or a rubber spine? Subject(s): Religion YET LISTEN NOW, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Last Line: The crushing agony, and hold us still Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion YOGI INSIDE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: What she wants %is not words nor fastenings Last Line: She becomes a spreading tree of silence %that knows only itself Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life YOM KIPPUR SONNET, WITH A LINE FROM LAMENTATIONS, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Can a person atone for pure bewilderment? Last Line: Return us, lord, to you, and we'll return Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Yom Kippur YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY OF THE OTHER WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a little walden Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY OF THE OTHER WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a little walden Last Line: Headquarters of an area, %house of a dream gone Subject(s): God; Religion YOU AND I, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are jehovah, and I am a wanderer Last Line: On what follows if not the end? Subject(s): God; Religion YOU AND TODAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With every rising of the sun Last Line: With god himself to bind the twain! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Theology YOU ARE THE FUTURE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the future, the great sunrise red Subject(s): Religion YOU ARE THE NOTES, AND WE ARE THE FLUTE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Religion YOU ASK WHY I MAKE MY HOME IN THE MOUNTAIN FROST, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Religion YOU CAN DEPEND ON GOD, YOUR FRIEND!, by BERNICE CONEY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: When the world seems to be crashing all around you Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Railroads; Religion YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN, SELS., by THOMAS CLAYTON WOLFE Subject(s): Death; Religion YOU KEEP COMING UPON YOUR BREATH AT THE ALTAR, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: Has he walked away from the temple? Has he taken Last Line: Two rupees should be enough to tell you you're still alive Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality YOU SLEEP ON IN THAT SLEEP OF DESIRE, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Though called and called Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion YOU THINK MOTHERHOOD IS CHILD'S PLAY?, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Stone-don't call yourself %the mother Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion YOU'D BETTER NOT TOUCH ME, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: Let death not come too near Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion YOU'LL FIND MOTHER, by RAMPRASAD SEN Poem Source Last Line: You work the rest out from these hints Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion YOU, DOCTOR MARTIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, doctor martin, walk Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology YOU, DOCTOR MARTIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, doctor martin, walk Last Line: Waiting on the silent shelf Subject(s): God; Insanity; Religion YOUNG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand doors ago Last Line: Elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight Subject(s): God; Religion YOUNG DESIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When young desire first shakes his lustrous wings Last Line: The sanctity of one true woman's kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Passion; Religion; Theology YOUNG MONK, by DAVID CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Wine, water %like the red patch, yellow body of a peach Last Line: This life for life %and a walk through the trees Subject(s): Christianity; Religion YOUNG MOSES, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world was at his feet Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Religion YOUNGER SISTER, DEATH, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Stalked you Last Line: Reaching the thirst of trees and grass Subject(s): Religion YOUR CHURCH AND MINE, by PHILLIPS H. LORD Poem Text First Line: You go to your church, and I'll go to mine Last Line: But let's walk along together. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Seth Subject(s): Religion; Theology YOUR CHURCH AND MINE, by PHILLIPS H. LORD Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Seth Subject(s): Religion YOUR FACE ON THE DOG'S NECK, by ANNE SEXTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is early afternoon Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology YOUR FACE ON THE DOG'S NECK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is early afternoon Last Line: Letting my face rest in an assembled tenderness %on the old dog's neck Subject(s): God; Religion YOUR HOUSE OF HAPPINESS, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Religion YOUR OWN VERSION, by PAUL GILBERT Poem Source Subject(s): Religion YOUR PLACE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Is your place a small place? Last Line: Who set you there. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology YOUR SANCTUARY, by WALTER LYMAN FRENCH Poem Source First Line: I stand serene beside the struggling marts Subject(s): Religion YOUTH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Not theirs to question or to hesitate Last Line: Gird thou our sinews and our souls to go! Subject(s): Churches; God; Religion; Youth; Cathedrals; Theology ZAZEN ON THE MOUNTAIN, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The birds have vanished down the sky Last Line: We sit together, the mountain and me, %until only the mountain remains Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Religion; Zen Buddhism ZEN TEACHERS SAY, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: The stillness of moonlight after rain Last Line: After the light and bewails the world still here Subject(s): Religion ZENITH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now in my breast the sole and sovereign power Subject(s): Religion ZION HILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those anguished salesmen of the scriptures Last Line: Smiling over his inheritance. Subject(s): Redemption; Religion; Revivals; Salvation; Theology; Religious Revivals ZION, OR THE CITY OF GOD, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious things of thee are spoken Last Line: None but zion's children know. Variant Title(s): Psalm 87 Subject(s): Religion; Theology ZORASTER DEVOUTLY QUESTIONS ORMAZD, by ZORASTER Poem Source First Line: This I ask thee - tell it to me truly, lord Subject(s): Religion |
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