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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SALVATION Matches Found: 93 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 SONG OF SALVATION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: He has buried my burden of failures so deep they will Last Line: Heaven. Subject(s): Salvation A TIME, by ETHEL CORNELL CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: There is a time when longing fills the soul Last Line: And hasten onward with me to the goal. Subject(s): Salvation ACTS AND GRACE, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undoubtedly, the hope of salvation has paled and Last Line: This when he made salvation dependent not upon %acts but upon grace Subject(s): Salvation AD ASTRA: 77, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We rate our little lives beyond their worth Last Line: For none are justified in god's clear sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Salvation ADVENT THOUGHTS: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Advent shadows gather deep Last Line: Full salvation bringeth. Subject(s): Salvation AN ARGUMENT FOR DAVID'S BELIEF OF A FUTURE STATE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If david knew not of a future life Last Line: Now give as plain an answer thereupon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Future Life; Salvation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AT THE DEATH OF A MONGOLIAN PEASANT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The trees turned around as if to quarrel with him Last Line: And some simple wretchedness unto bliss. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Mongols And Mongolia; Peasantry; Salvation; Dead, The AT THE SALVATION ARMY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My life. My life. Subject(s): Salvation Army; Conduct Of Life BALLAD OF THE SALVATION ARMY, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On fourteenth street the bugles blow, Subject(s): Salvation Army CHRISTMAS EVE IN MEDFORD, by PATRICK TODD Poem Source First Line: Down from the medford depot %neon over the salvation army hums Last Line: Mexican lace and blood red poinsettias %a small miracle Subject(s): Christmas; Salvation Army 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 DARK HOURS; THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark hours of tearless, sleepless grief Last Line: That legion fiends might not withstand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; God; Mothers & Sons; Salvation; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Prohibition DAY AND NIGHT THE ACCUSER MAKES NO PAUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the worm that gnaws Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Salvation DE PROFUNDIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O savior of the world, who by Last Line: Save us and help us! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Salvation; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion DELIVERED, by A. ANDERS GRAFSTROM Poem Text First Line: The night was chilly -- home gunnar sped Last Line: The deliverer came—it was death! Subject(s): Death; Family Life; God; Hunger; Poverty; Salvation; Dead, The; Relatives DIRE: 13. THE SAVIOR OF SOCIETY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O son of man, but of what man who knows? Last Line: December, 1869. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Nations; Salvation; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The DRIVING, CHRISTMAS EVE, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Past the salvation army rehabilitation center Last Line: My life is in someone else's hands Subject(s): Christmas; Salvation Army EASTER COLLECT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god! Whose blessed will was one Last Line: Who liv'd and died, and rose again for all. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Salvation; The Resurrection EXPECTING THE LORD, by ANN GRIFFITHS Poem Source First Line: Being myself so corrupted Subject(s): Salvation FALLEN BY THE WAY, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall man surely save his soul? Last Line: That grows, and rows, as grows the fruitful seed Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soul; Salvation FINDING THE LANDSCAPE, by JONATHAN AARON Poem Source First Line: Last night you questioned the number of stars Last Line: Into laminated darkness like fish, and the horizon %sweepingyour eyes with its little white flag Subject(s): Human Rights; Landscape; Salvation FREE GRACE AT ROSE HILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle found it in a crater on bloody ridge Last Line: It touches us. Subject(s): Conversion; Faith; Salvation; Belief; Creed FULL SURRENDER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dear saviour, there is naught between Last Line: When morning breaks for me. Subject(s): Prayer; Salvation GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH ENTERS INTO HEAVEN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Booth led boldly with his big bass drum Last Line: Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Booth, William (1829-1912); Clergy; Salvation Army; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops HARK! THE ALLELUIAS OF THE GREAT SALVATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Having kept the truth, may enter in Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Salvation HOLY SONNET: 14, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Batter my heart, three-personed god; for, you Last Line: Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnet: 171;to E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 10;the Soul To Her Rescuer;""batter My Heart, Three-personed God; For, You""; Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Freedom; Salvation; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Liberty 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 HORIZON, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And yet there must exist Last Line: Toward another outlet, even greater Subject(s): Human Rights; Salvation; Water HYMN: TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From foes that would the land devour Last Line: A flock to welcome thee! Subject(s): God; Salvation I NEVER KNEW, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I never knew how much the love you gave me Last Line: "I never knew,—I never knew." Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Salvation ILLUMINATIN, by J. WILLIS HERBER Poem Text First Line: God of all power and might Last Line: The light and I are one. Subject(s): Salvation JEREMIAH PUCKETT, by BILLY C. CLARK Poem Source First Line: We carried him to the highland of no-time Last Line: Tucked on the mountain to a wind-made prayer Subject(s): Prayer; Salvation; Solitude KARMA, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas was in the air and all was well Last Line: A dime for jesus who had died for men. Subject(s): Charity; Christmas; Salvation Army; Philanthropy; Nativity, The LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LIGHT OF THE SACRED HARP, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small fire of hymnals in a trash can Last Line: And ashes. Subject(s): Bible; Revivals; Salvation; Sermons; Religious Revivals LIKE ANY OTHER MAN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born with a knife Last Line: Unlocked my body. Subject(s): Change; Happiness; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Salvation; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations LORD I AM HERE. - BUT, CHILD, I LOOK FOR THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I bring thee to the haven where thou wouldst be Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; God; Seeking; Salvation 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: 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 OF TRIBULATION THESE ARE THEY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "and all we said — was ""saved""!" Subject(s): Salvation OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eager youthful voice I hear Last Line: We ask, we hope we will receive. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Humanity; Hunger; Salvation OWEN OF LANARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, welcome, mighty stranger Last Line: Welcome, owen of lanark! Subject(s): Doubt; Fear; Salvation; Skepticism PALINODIA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though it leave me ashes, I will thrust Last Line: Through the dim vale of night. Subject(s): Love; Salvation PARS DE HAT EROUN', by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ef yer wants ter gain de kingdom,' Last Line: The end. Subject(s): African Americans; Clergy; Deception; Money; Public Worship; Salvation; Negroes; American Blacks; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love and honour a poor humble state Last Line: I'm nothing else but misery and woe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Salvation; Self-pity; Sin; Human Race PASSING IT ON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our son's shirts attend kindergarten Last Line: As original skin. Subject(s): Charity; Clothing & Dress; Salvation Army; Philanthropy POEM FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read your lines Last Line: Is still beautiful. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Loss; Salvation; War; Wright, James (1927-1980); Inspiration; Creativity PRAYER FOR A WORLD HURT SORE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, we lift to thee Last Line: Made whole again! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Pain; Salvation; War; World; Suffering; Misery 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 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 ROADSIDE POEMS: ZACCHAEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom the heavy burden clings Last Line: And saved the lost whom he had won. Subject(s): Bible; Guests; Jesus Christ; Salvation; Truth; Zacchaeus; Visiting; Zaccheus ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD TO KING HENRY III, AFTER SHE HAD TAKEN THE VEIL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry, 'its past! Each painful effort o'er Last Line: That even death was weak to end our love. Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Farewell; Henry Iii, King Of England (1207-1272); Love; Nuns; Redemption; Regret; Salvation; Parting SECOND HAND DEALER, by SUE BRANNAN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Like the salvation army %death deals in second-hand Last Line: Aging toward the moment %my turn comes to wear his shoes Subject(s): Salvation Army; Secondhand Trade SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wrack is lapping in the pools, the sea's lip feels the sand Last Line: Or with dull thunders plunge from shore to shore.) Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Prayer; Salvation; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Ocean ST. CHRISTOPHER OF THE GAEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the wattle-woven house Last Line: The peace of perfect peace he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Christianity; Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Druids; Faith; Legends; Monks; Peace; Salvation; Druidism; Belief; Creed 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 TEMPEST-TOST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In a flash the rain roars down Last Line: There's a whispering promise-refrain. Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Rain; Salvation; Storms TENEBRAE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the chill high tide of the night Last Line: "spirit, and saviour, and life." Subject(s): Life; Night; Salvation; Soul; Bedtime THE BIRD OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy, holy, holy Last Line: All the birds together. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Rewards; Salvation; Self-immolation; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary THE CALL TO ARMS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Text First Line: Drums of doom are marching to the battle Last Line: God! Save young laughter from the lust of guns! Subject(s): Death; God; Military; Salvation; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE COMING MAN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Not for the great departed Last Line: In the men that are to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Men; Salvation THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: FREDERIC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I turn me? Whither shall I bend Last Line: Shall heal my soul, and my last days be peace. Subject(s): Fear; New South Wales, Australia; Pain; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Salvation; Suffering; Misery THE CRIMSON MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the legions of the sun, the star battalions of the night Last Line: When the hidden people shall march out beneath the crimson moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Moon; Mortality; Redemption; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CROSS OF THE DUMB; A CHRISTMAS ON IONA, LONG, LONG AGO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One eve, when st. Columba strode Last Line: Who on that day was glad and proud! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Columba, Saint (521-597); Generosity; Guests; Iona, Scotland; Miracles; Salvation; Strangers; Nativity, The; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Visiting THE DESERT DEPORTATION OF 1915, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our dead fathers came down to us in the river Last Line: From the dead. Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918; Death; Funerals; Girls; Graves; Salvation; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FISH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pale woman is cradling a large red fish Last Line: Swims toward the bottom to sleep in the mud. Subject(s): Despair; Fish & Fishing; Hope; Salvation; Anglers; Optimism THE MEDITATION OF COLUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise be to god, and a blessing too at that, and a blessing Last Line: And hath no thought of my sons in the deeps of the air and the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; Meditation; Salvation THE MERCY SEAT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in an enamel tub with a black Last Line: While he was content to settle on the facts... Subject(s): Angels; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Salvation; Vision; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MYSTERY OF THE INNOCENT SAINTS, SELECTION, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am, saith the lord, master of the three virtues. Last Line: That spring has come. Subject(s): Saints; Salvation THE ORPHAN'S COMPLAINT, by ANNABEL HANNA BANES Poem Text First Line: Way up along salvation's river Last Line: And I'll be safe at home. Subject(s): Foster, Stephen Collins (1826-1864); Salvation THE PRAYER OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit, that broods upon the hills Last Line: Cry, cry to thee, o compassionate! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Children; Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Salvation; Women; Childhood; Male-female Relations THE ROSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, edith! Spare the rose; it lives, it lives Last Line: And fill with eden odours all the air. Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; God; Grace; Innocence; Prayer; Punishment; Roses; Salvation THE ROSE OF FLAME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Last Line: O fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Peace; Roses; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: 1, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Of him who walked a thousand years ago Last Line: Why dream I, mad? All dreams for man are vain. Subject(s): Death; God; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Salvation; Soul; Truth; Dead, The THE VALLEY OF PALE BLUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a hidden valley a pale blue flower grows Last Line: My soul slowly, slowly, slowly, will sink to its ultimate hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Nothingness; Salvation; Youth; Nightmares; Nihilism; Voids THE VALLEY OF WHITE POPPIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the grey pastures and the dark wood Last Line: I am alone now among the silent grasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Poppies; Salvation; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE WATCHER AT THE GATE, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS Poem Text First Line: Hark - from yonder east there come Last Line: Love alone can save the world. Subject(s): Love; Nations; Salvation; Social Protest; War THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snow fell Last Line: God had released her. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cold; Death; God; Salvation; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The TO GENERAL BOOTH; ON HIS VISIT TO AMERICA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The generals of lesser breed Last Line: In god's name seize the sword and wield it! Subject(s): Booth, William (1829-1912); Clergy; Salvation Army; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops TO LAURE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Laure, when I look on thee Last Line: And still its sovran art. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Redemption; Salvation; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. GRACIOUS MOTHER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gracious mother, in thy vast eternal sunlight Last Line: In ash-heaps for salvation. Subject(s): Healing; Salvation; Sin; Cures UBI SUNT QUI ANTE NOS FUERUNT?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where [were] beth they [that] biforen us weren Last Line: Thennes ne cometh they nevere Subject(s): Salvation WHAT HEART WITH WAITING BROKEN , by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Shall follow thro' the world Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Salvation WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WOLVERINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes sir, it's quite a story though you won'r bwlieve it's true Last Line: "I peered into the face—my god! 'twas poor old wolverine." Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Prejudice; Salvation; Trapping & Trappers; Wolves; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bias; Intolerance; Traps; Snares; Trappers WRONG TIME, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Abingdon square. Two o'clock in the morning Last Line: What must I do to be saved Subject(s): Poverty; Preaching And Preachers; Salvation YULETIDE, by EMMA F. COFFIN Poem Text First Line: O glowing east! O wondrous sparkling star Last Line: Our coming bridegroom, glorious king. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas Carols; Salvation; Child Birth; Midwifery 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'S SONS AND DAUGHTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: See the fountain opened wide Last Line: He drank and fled to glory Subject(s): Salvation |
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