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Subject: SANCTUARIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEDICATION OF A MUNICIPAL ROSE GARDEN, by MARTHA ENGLAND MURPHEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man moved a fugitive from paradise
Last Line: May still find god in every breeze that blows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yost, Charles Chester, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Sanctuaries


FAIR HAVEN (1), by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When little hills like lambs did skip
Last Line: Than thy warm turf fair haven.
Subject(s): Sanctuaries


FAIR HAVEN (2), by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When winter fringes every bough
Last Line: Along the forest path.
Subject(s): Sanctuaries; Winter


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE HOUSE OF MESSER SCONFORTO, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the solarium can be found
Last Line: Facing it is his masterpiece: the shrug
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Castles; Courts And Courtiers; Death; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Sanctuaries


HERE IN THIS PASTURE, by MABEL WARD RUDD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in this pasture where wandering sheep
Last Line: Of a tender god.
Subject(s): Fields; God; Sanctuaries; Sheep; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


I HAVE COME REMEMBERING, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are the paths we loved
Last Line: Have you come back tonight—remembering?
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Romance; Sanctuaries


IN HIDING, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once, in hiding, we went open
Last Line: A lonely sleigh
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Sanctuaries


IN SANCTUARY, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the lone floor of the rayless night
Last Line: And lo! The clear east all climbing rose.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sanctuaries; Cathedrals


IN THE SANCTUARY AT SARONNO, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Has not luini writ in fire
Last Line: Upon the sanctuary wall.
Subject(s): Italy; Sanctuaries; Italians


INTERLUDE, by MAE V. COWDERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like this quiet place
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Sanctuaries


INVOCATION, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O god of the measureless spaces
Last Line: As autumn passeth by.
Subject(s): Charity; Clergy; Sanctuaries; Philanthropy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


JOHN COLTRANE, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coltrane's home is the oldest home there is
Last Line: There. There. There, now. There. There
Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Sanctuaries


LONGING, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the sadness of my days
Last Line: Reach the comfort of your breast?
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Sanctuaries; Solitude; Loneliness


MOUNTAIN SANCTUARIES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A child midst ancient mountains I have stood
Last Line: He sought high mountains, there apart to pray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Prayer; Sanctuaries


MY SUMMER SANCTUARY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An arching roof of blue, and gothic aisles
Last Line: While all the feathered forest choir sings!
Subject(s): Sanctuaries


POACHER, by GREGORY ORFALEA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stole us out of our lives
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Sanctuaries


RESPITE - 1942, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Indeed, where shall you hide from claws
Last Line: And rest here – for a little while
Subject(s): Sanctuaries


SANCTUARIES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou givest me greenest sanctuaries
Last Line: With me and talk.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Forests; Gardens & Gardening; God; Hearts; Sanctuaries; Woods


SANCTUARY, by JEAN BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the quiet of the convent garden close
Last Line: To make her quiet day complete by prayer.
Subject(s): Convents; Sanctuaries


SANCTUARY, by JOSIE CRAIG BERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: An eagle soared the blue immensity
Last Line: Will eagles find their rock in alien land?
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Sanctuaries


SANCTUARY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High above hate I dwell
Last Line: Float less than april fog below our hermitage.
Subject(s): Sanctuaries; Singing & Singers; Songs


SANCTUARY, by VELMA HITCHCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is an island
Subject(s): Sanctuaries


SANCTUARY, by JEANNE SHOWERS KNOOP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me take once more the trail that leads through forest pines and fen
Last Line: From the worries of the world!
Subject(s): Sanctuaries


SANCTUARY, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There you are and here %I am, closing the road
Last Line: Gleaming soundlessly in this low light
Subject(s): Sanctuaries


SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweep over me, o lovely winds
Last Line: Face down, and calls on you.
Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Rain; Sanctuaries; Wind; Suffering; Misery


SANCTUARY, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the bricklayer; hear the thud
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Sanctuaries


SANCTUARY, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the bricklayer; hear the thud
Last Line: Stop, old man! You must leave a chink; %how can I breathe? You can't, you fool!
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Sanctuaries


SOLEMN SANCTITY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some pious men are on this earth, who think
Last Line: Aisle and through the large cathedral door.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Praise; Prayer; Sanctuaries; Cathedrals


SPARE THE NESTS, by LUIS G. URBINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is it a nest? It is a nest! See, 'mid the branches hidden
Last Line: Than dry and withered blossoms, or shattered, ruined nests?
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Forests; Sanctuaries; Spring


STORM LULLABY, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Held in the refuge of your arms
Last Line: Deep is the breast of love to me.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sanctuaries; Storms; Nightmares


THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART ONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The voices of my home! - I hear them still!
Last Line: Earth in her holy pomp, decked for her god alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods


THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART TWO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me the sounding of the torrent-water
Last Line: But for his presence felt, whom here my soul hath sought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods


THE SANCTUARY, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It stands 'mid sacramental hills, unseen
Last Line: The heart of his dear country beat and beat.
Subject(s): Sanctuaries; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE SANCTUARY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In israel was many a refuge city
Last Line: His own calm breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Israel (state); Sanctuaries; Paradise