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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SPIRITUAL LIFE Matches Found: 230 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 11/10 AGAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the radiance around the body Last Line: Encasing your human heart. Subject(s): Humanity; Spiritual Life A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have Last Line: Where I am going. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood 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 SPIRITUAL LEGEND, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were who spiritual legends feigned Last Line: Thus he, the legend spiritual who feigned. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Paradise; Holy Spirit 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 AD ASTRA: 160, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: God gave us of his own immortal soul Last Line: And born to live for ever in his sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Spiritual Life 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 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 ANOTHER SPIRIT ADVANCES, by LOUIS HENRI JEAN FARIGOULE Poem Text First Line: What is it so transforms the boulevard? Last Line: Space in communion binds us in one thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Romains, Jules Subject(s): Spiritual Life 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 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 ASCENDANCY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Journey up the faraway river where ferns bend Last Line: Fleshy finned bodies, the filament of gills Subject(s): Soul; Spiritual Life; Travel 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 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 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 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 MAGNESIA, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: When the door between the worlds opened Last Line: It was joy, I was living in it, %I bled, I cried Subject(s): Death; Spiritual Life 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 CREATION, by EUNICE ODIO Poem Source First Line: High propositions of barrenness Last Line: And then restored Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Heaven; Rebirth; Spiritual Life 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 CRUX VIA CAELORUM: 4, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark cave below Last Line: Tempt me, these thoughts will then my mind uphold. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Spiritual Life DEATH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Look not so fierce; thy hands are ty'd, I know Last Line: Borne in a surer birth of immortalitie. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Devil; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Eve; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DEATH OF CAMELS, by CARRIE ST. GEORGE COMER Poem Source First Line: The clouds have gypsy blood in them today Last Line: Fear stands like a white statue in my chest Subject(s): Memory; Spiritual Life DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not till from fretful clamor rude we cease Last Line: Forevermore. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Peace; Spiritual Life; Holy Spirit 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 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 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 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 DOXOLOGIA, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: What came before was something given up, an exchange of one for Last Line: Patches from the god who prays to us Subject(s): God; Spiritual Life DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow Last Line: Beneath those silent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery 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 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 EIGHTY YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is left behind him quite Last Line: Else we had lost him utterly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Old Age; Spiritual Life; Dead, The 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 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 EPISTLE TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, upon casting an attentive look Last Line: The bishop, and us all! I am, sir,—yours. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Gentlemen; Heaven; Life; Spiritual Life; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Paradise 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 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 FIRST, YOU HAVE IT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source Last Line: You never saw a face Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life 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 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 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 FROM THE LEGEND OF HARTFORD, by ELEANOR O'ROURKE KOENIG Poem Text First Line: Three hundred years... They come back spirit-wise Last Line: The strong bent of our spirits move us thither. Subject(s): Constellations; Spiritual Life 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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 VERSES, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man, free thinker! Do you believe you alone can reason Last Line: The spirit grows under the surface of stones! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals 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 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 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 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 HEMISPHERES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the body you draw near Last Line: Only your mortality. Subject(s): Bodies; Relationships; Spiritual Life 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 INSTANT KARMA, by BRAD DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Like a wool-capped and baggy cadre Last Line: Of forces logic deems prudent to elude Subject(s): Change; Children; Memory; Spiritual Life INTO THIN AIR, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: The expense of spirit is, in fact, what Last Line: (beating mind!) of how it will be to fade %into thin air! What expense of spirit! Subject(s): Bodies; Spiritual Life IRON HEAVEN, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Today I saw a place no one has seen Last Line: Of the earth %and feel its wings of weakness Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life 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 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 JOURNEY OF LOVE, by GLENN D. WOOLUM Poem Source First Line: There is a spot, unspoiled, where love is found throughout Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life 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 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 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 LATE VISIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The words were lost and then the voices failed Last Line: And grateful draw the sod about the shoulder. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Dead, The LEDA 3: A PERSONAL NOTE (RE: VISITATIONS), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always pyrotechnics; / stars spinning into phalluses Last Line: Or don't come. Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical; Solitude; Spiritual Life; Loneliness LIFE AND TIMES OF SKIN-GIRL, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: She decided to follow the gods home Last Line: The god being %one who never turns around Subject(s): God; Loss; Love; Spiritual Life LIFE EFFECTUAL, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Slender lily smooth and white Last Line: Calmly silvering to its goal. Subject(s): Spiritual Life 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 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 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 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 LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lennavan-mo Last Line: Lennavan-mo. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs 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 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 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 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 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 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 MO-LENNAV-A-CHREE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh, eilidh, dear to me, dear and sweet Last Line: Mo-lennav-a-chree! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Closing Doors Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Loss; Memory; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 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 MOTHER, MOTHER WHERE ARE YOU?, by KENNETH M. DAVIS Poem Source Subject(s): Spiritual Life 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 PAINTER IN THE LION CAGE, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: On the ground are my sketches of the contours Last Line: Yet never will be saved from the majestic brute %I drew myself Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life 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 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 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: 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 PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A beaker of yeast Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beaker of yeast Last Line: At the pitch of the transmuted ozone body Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow below the hill vaults Last Line: Bury the truth these angels stand on: born and died. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; Death; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Spiritual Life; Graveyards; Confederacy; Dead, The; South (u.s.) RELIQUARY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The golden lock from my son's first haircut Last Line: Of the holy bones of my black dog who could fly Subject(s): Baptism; Christianity; Spiritual Life RUNAWAY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The poet tells you Last Line: Carving labyrinths for your escape? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 OF THE ARAUCANS DURING A THUNDER STORM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm cloud grows deeper above Last Line: Waft thither the song of your praise. Subject(s): Chile; Messengers; Reunions; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Storms 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 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 SPIRIT QUICKENED, by GRACE HERSEY THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Boldly enter into your own house of silence Last Line: To be met and solved by craftsmanship of mind. Subject(s): Silence; Spiritual Life; Towns SPIRIT-RAPPING; TO THE NEW PROFESSOR SPIRITUAL RAPOLOGY, GLASGOW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou abjured the worship of old mammon Last Line: The secret soon you'll know you may not tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Teaching & Teachers; Spiritualists; Educators; Professors SPIRITS AT HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was father, and mother. And emmy, and jane Last Line: "for we live in the ghost of the old house now!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Home; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Relatives SPIRITUAL BEAUTY, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That pale and shadowy beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Beauty 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 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 TAILOR CALLED SORROW, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Yesterday in drizzling rain Last Line: Hang, %and mingled white basting thread %in their hair Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life 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 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 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 DINING ROOM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rather dull cupboard here Last Line: "good morning, mr. Jammes, how are you today?" Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Memory; Spiritual Life; Voices; Visiting THE EARTH CRY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blue the sky is and how sweet the air! Last Line: That god is good and you have quite forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Spiritual Life; World THE EVERLASTINGS; FOR L.P. SNYDER AND KARMA WANGMO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the village it must be a clear night with the light of a red Last Line: It is the thunder at dawn! Subject(s): Death; Rumors; Sea; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE FEBRUARY SPRITE, by EDITH EARNSHAW Poem Text First Line: The february sprite is here, for see! Last Line: Wrote daffodils! Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Winter THE GANGES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sorry but we can't go to the immersions tonight Last Line: Children watering their charges, the black lulled elephants. Subject(s): Funerals; Ganges River, India; Memory; Spiritual Life; Burials THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below Last Line: They slide to us and air. Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs THE NEW PLANET, by EDWARD GRUSE Poem Text First Line: Twas there before man learned to watch the skies Last Line: And our new neighbor's staggering distance span. Subject(s): Cosmology; Planets; Soul; Spiritual Life THE RED-MAN'S ALTAR, by INA SIZER CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: Son of nature, copper-skinned and stalwart Last Line: Distill incense for your devotions. Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Spiritual Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America 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 SPIRIT; FOUNDED ON FACT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now which is the road across the common Last Line: "tis only old gaffer's grey mare!" Subject(s): Animals; Facades; Fear; Ghosts; Horses; Night; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Appearances; Bedtime 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 VEILED AVENGER; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am he Last Line: His own bitter infinite cry we hear him cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Dreams; Pity; Redemption; Spiritual Life; Nightmares 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 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 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 TIME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a happy spirit Last Line: Time smote me on the brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Life; Spiritual Life; Time; Dead, The TITANS, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Don't suppose that the weightless phantom Last Line: Yet some blazing hand will remake the chaos %of earth, people, and death Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life 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 TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe Variant Title(s): Win Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind 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 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 VALUES, by EVERARD ROY MOON Poem Text First Line: A dew - drenched morning Last Line: When wrought in soul, is everlasting. Subject(s): Spiritual Life 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 VIEW FROM A HIGH LEDGE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: My spiritual idiocies for want a better word Last Line: The islands bodies drinking in the waves Subject(s): Spiritual Life 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 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 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 WE HAVE LOVED, by DARLENE FERN MATHIS-EDDY Poem Source First Line: Near the steep banks by the flowing river Last Line: School is out %teacher has gone home Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Teaching And Teachers; Time 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 WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life; Death - Babies WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Last Line: Of our mortal goddess on the indifferent wind Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life WHITE STAR OF TIME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each love-thought in thy mind doth rise Last Line: In thee, white star of time! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Heaven; Longing; Spiritual Life; Paradise WHOEVER WENT IN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source Last Line: Hold rock turning to light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 |
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