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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So knowing, / what is known?
Last Line: In one life.
Subject(s): Life; Memory; Women & Religion


FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem 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


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


GOSPEL, by RITA DOVE    Poem 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


KOPIS'TAYA (A GATHERING OF SPIRITS), by PAULA GUNN ALLEN    Poem 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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is / not with us enough
Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology


SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem 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


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


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


STANDOFF, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Assail god's hearing with gull-screech knifeblades
Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion


THE TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem 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


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