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Subject: TERESA, SAINT (1515-1582)
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A HYMN [TO THE NAME AND] IN HONOR OF SAINT TERESA, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, thou art absolute sole lord
Last Line: Must learn in life to die like thee.
Variant Title(s): In Memory Of The Vertuous And Learned ... Early Martyrdom
Subject(s): Nuns; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint


APOLOGIE FOR THE HYMNE IN MEMORY OF LADY MADRE DE TERESA (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus have I back again to thy bright name
Last Line: May drink it self up, and forget to dy.
Variant Title(s): An Apologie For The Fore-goving Hymne
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint


BREAKDANCING, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem 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)


CONTEMPLATING TERESA OF AVILA, by DAWN DIEZ WILLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Learning agape %you wonder
Last Line: With whatever it is
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)


DIOS NO SE MUDA, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Doves call in the orchard where
Last Line: What presence embraces me now %in the still sunshine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)


METAMORPHOSES: 14. TIRESIAS (SAINT TERESA), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I tripped on the phone cord. We want our
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint


METAMORPHOSES: 14. TIRESIAS (SAINT TERESA), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I tripped on the phone cord. We want our
Last Line: Skyline and the eggshell house dispensing lully airs ...
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)


MOULD OF CASTILE (TO ST. THERESA), by REGINALD JOHN CLEMO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A streak of sappho, it is said
Last Line: And the dried voluptuary veins
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)


SAINTE CHAPELLE, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sainte chapelle holds a garden within its walls
Last Line: Only the windows remain divinely splendid.
Subject(s): Saints; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint


SANTA TERESA DE AVILA, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had not been so wicked
Last Line: Forever, ever and ever
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THEOLOGY CLASS: ST. TERESA, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She's become a journey
Last Line: At the instant of death love tore her to pieces
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO WOMEN'S STUDIES CLASS: ... ST. TERESA, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born outside the garden on the border
Last Line: Eternal echo, utter nothing of love
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)


ST. THERESA AND THE CHILD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who art thou, son?' the little stranger smiled
Last Line: "he -- radiant -- ""jesus of theresa I."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint


TERESA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem 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)


THE FLAMING HEART, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well meaning readers, you that come as friends
Last Line: Unto all life of mine may dy.
Subject(s): Nuns; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint


TO-AND-FRO OF SAINT THERESA, by ALFONSO REYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: She weaves away at the bower
Last Line: In scrolls of leaves she moves %and moves not, wheels and wheels not
Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)