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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORSHIP Matches Found: 464 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "CONDUCT, FR. THE MAHABHARATA", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Heed how thou livest. Do no act by day Last Line: Another and a happier life for thee Subject(s): Human Behavior;worship; Conduct Of Life;human Nature A CONCLUSORIE HUMNE TO THE SAME WEEK; & FOR MY FRIEND, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Thus, thus my soule perceiveth now Last Line: Thy sweetnes fir'st, that it must love, or dy. Subject(s): Gratitude; Worship A CRY OF THE HEART, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a mind more clear to see Last Line: The least of all thy saints! Subject(s): Worship; Faith A DIALOGUE INTITLED THE KIND MASTER AND THE DUTIFUL SERVANT, by JUPITER HAMMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come my servant, follow me Last Line: And seek the joy of heav'n. Finis. Subject(s): American Revolution; Worship A DRAMA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This deep yet unfilled night Last Line: They, the sparkling rays Subject(s): Worship A FIGURATIVE DESCRIPTION OF ... PROCEDURE OF DIVINE LOVE, by JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTTE GUYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas my purpose, on a day Last Line: Twixt the bridegroom and his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Guion, De La Mothe; Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvieres De La Mothe; Guyon Du Chesnoy Subject(s): Worship A FRIEND, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Dear name, & dearer thing! To thee Last Line: Inseparably linked are to thee. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Worship A GOOD DAY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth seems as peaceful and as bright Last Line: The darkness of my day of storm. Subject(s): Worship A HYMN IN TIME OF IDOLS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though they may crowd Last Line: From whom their lord and king is far. Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance A LANCASHIRE DOXOLOGY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise god from whom all blessings flown' Last Line: For he who loveth knoweth god. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Cotton; Worship A LOVE BARGAINE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O love, how faine my heart would dye Last Line: Musik jesus is. Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Temptation; Worship A MORNING HYMN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What's this morns bright eye to me Last Line: By any light, but by thine own. Subject(s): Morning; Worship A PICTURE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No bell and steeple - let there be for me Last Line: The blackbird calling from his lilac tree. Subject(s): Courtship; Public Worship; Church Attendance A PRAYER, by JOHN D. LONG Poem Text First Line: I would, dear jesus, I could break Last Line: And feel thy heart make mine divine. Subject(s): Worship A REBUKE TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "yes, southey, yes, I to the house of prayer" Last Line: "to meet, with kindred man, the parent god" Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): "churches;public Worship;southey, Robert (1774-1843);" Cathedrals;church Attendance A SAINT, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: She made a sacrifice of love Last Line: Both day and night. Subject(s): Worship A SILENCE AND A SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am alone, dear master Last Line: My glorious lord and king. Subject(s): Worship A SONG OF THE BURDEN BEARER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the narrow footpath Last Line: To breathe to his will, amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer; Worship A SONG TO DAVID, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that sitt'st upon a throne Last Line: Determined, dared, and done. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Religion; Strength; Worship; Theology A SOUL THAT OUT OF NATURE'S DEEP, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: As well as where it is Subject(s): Worship; Children; Nature A SPIRITUAL AND WELL-ORDERED MIND, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on the front / of some cathedral pile Last Line: Through every broad receptacle of sense. Subject(s): Worship; Christianity A STEEPLE ON THE HOUSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if it should turn out eternity Last Line: Means that a soul is coming on the flesh Subject(s): Worship A SUPPLICATION FOR LOVE, HYMN 1, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, named love, whose fount thou art Last Line: Give thine -- that we may love like thee! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou hast given me a cell Last Line: My christ, by thee. Variant Title(s): A Thankful Heart;my Home. A Thanksgiving To God For A House .. Devonshire Subject(s): Holidays; Home; Thanksgiving; Worship A TRUE HYMN [HYMNE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My joy, my life, my crown Last Line: O, could I love! And stops; god writeth, loved. Subject(s): Worship A VALENTINE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: I hold no viol or ancient lute Last Line: With garlanded incense? Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Worship A VIGNETTE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the meadows / lightly going Last Line: My heart o'erflowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Worship ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart lies open to thy sun Last Line: When I with thee abide! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship AD ASTRA: 172, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our passionate conflicts have their day and die Last Line: Who fervently the selfsame christ profess? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Worship; Theology AD ASTRA: 175, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Lo, too, that city of god in the crimson east! Last Line: The cheerful offerings that god loveth best. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Worship ADORATION, by DAVID LEVY Poem Text First Line: To israel the charge belongs Last Line: And one thy name shall be. Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Love; Worship; Judaism ADVENT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Once to this troubled world Last Line: To weary eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Hope; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Worship; Infants; Nativity, The; Optimism ADVENT HYMN, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another mile - a year Last Line: Our crown of glory bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Worship ALONE LORD GOD, IN WHOM OUR TRUST AND PEACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Love offering love on love's self-feeding fire Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Worship AN ANTHEM OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Two hands are we to serve thee, o our mother Last Line: Towards a great, divinely-destined goal. Subject(s): Love; Worship AN EVENING HYMN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Never yet could careless sleep Last Line: Whilst thou deignst to watch for me. Subject(s): Evening; Worship; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING THOUGHT, by JUPITER HAMMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salvation comes by christ alone Last Line: Let us with angels share. Finis. Subject(s): Worship AN ODE TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to the empress of india, great britain's queen! Last Line: God save the queen. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Prayer; Worship ANNIVERS: BAPTISMT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Courage my soule! What though thy foes combine Last Line: Wilt but endure a conquerour to grow. Subject(s): Baptism; Worship; Christenings ANNIVERSARIUM BAPTISMI (2), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Love, I am thine: for yf I be Last Line: O may I but be thine, I care not how! Subject(s): Baptism; Worship; Christenings ANNIVERSARIUM BAPTISMI (5), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Woe is me, but even now Last Line: Sooner we to heavn shall rise. Subject(s): Baptism; Worship; Christenings ANODYNE: EASE, by THOMAS KEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In pity my most tender god Last Line: Loves all day long, and will not be confined. Subject(s): Worship ANSWER TO PRAYER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Der ain't no use in sayin' de lawd won't answer / prah Last Line: Night. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Nativity, The; Theology AS A FLOWER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Open your heart as a flower to the light! Last Line: Child of the morning, and heir of the day! Subject(s): Worship AS THY DAYS SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God broke our years to hours and days Last Line: We only bear the burden by the hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Variant Title(s): Hour By Hour Subject(s): Religion; Time; Worship; Theology 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 ASCETIC DYES HIS ROBES, by KABIR Poem Source Last Line: You are entering the gates of death, %shackled Subject(s): Worship AT CHURCH, by S. T. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: Two idle eyes, 'neath lashes fine Last Line: To idolize. Subject(s): Flirtation; Worship AT COCKCROW, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are gone out spark by spark Last Line: The road that runs to thee. Subject(s): Dawn; Worship; Sunrise AT MASS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt to-morrow I will hide Last Line: Has laid temptation low. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Worship AT THE FEAST, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is not only bread and wine Last Line: Would drink with thee, dear lord! Subject(s): Worship AT THY FEET, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I would offer thee Last Line: Because I know thy love. Subject(s): Worship AT WORSHIP, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: We offer here no craven prayer Last Line: To doubt, to trust, to dare! Subject(s): God; Worship ATTAINMENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss Last Line: Material things must answer and obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Materialism; Religion; Worship; Theology AWAKE! (TO MOHAMED ALI JINNAH), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, o mother! Thy children implore thee Last Line: Hearken! O queen and o goddess, we hail thee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Worship; Dead, The BABY IN CHURCH, by MINNIE M. GOW Poem Text First Line: Aunt nellie had fashioned a dainty thing Last Line: Ere our baby re-enter the family pew. Subject(s): Babies; Public Worship; Infants; Church Attendance BANGLE-SELLERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bangle-sellers are we who bear Last Line: And worships the gods at her husband's side. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love - Marital; Worship; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BECAUSE THY LOVE HATH SOUGHT ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And shall not mine crave back for thine? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Worship BEETHOVEN AND ANGELO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One made the surging sea of tone Last Line: Raised children unto god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Music & Musicians; Worship BELLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the bells ring every day Last Line: Is glad to have them there. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday BELLS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark, my soul! The bells do ring Last Line: Would yield or feel, or any excellence. Subject(s): Bells; Public Worship; Church Attendance BETHEL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rugged stone Last Line: A stepping-stone to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Variant Title(s): Beth-el Subject(s): Worship BLISS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All bliss / consists in this Last Line: With greedier eyes, more boys tho men. Subject(s): Happiness; Worship; Joy; Delight BRAVE BEN HALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all australian sons with me Last Line: "the widow's friend in poverty - / bold ben hall, good-bye" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;grief;hero-worship;heroism;murder; Sorrow;sadness;heroes;heroines BUILDING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the wreckage of thy yesterday Last Line: All thou hast hoped for thou shalt yet achieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed BURIAL HILL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone with their beautiful faith Last Line: If the dream of their worship came true? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Memory; Praise; Worship; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones BY THEIR WORKS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call him not heretic whose works attest Last Line: But who shall say which loved the master best? Subject(s): Worship CALL TO GOD'S SERVICE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Consecrate yourselves to god, all ye youths and maidens Last Line: Sighing over your own unworthiness, yet certain of almighty love Subject(s): Worship CANTICLE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Source First Line: Thine be the praise, good lord Last Line: Bless my lord and humbly serve him Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): God; Praise; Religion; Worship CARPE DIEM, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time for all things, sweet! Last Line: And mourn lost blisses. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Roses; Worship; Cathedrals; Dead, The CELEBRATION, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Summer days disrupted by trickster's Last Line: Dies in full view, while they celebrate Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Churches; Worship CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children Last Line: Perform your office! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the summit-wall and bridge for two races Last Line: And here below, peace to the men of good will Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sinai, Mount; Worship CHRIST'S STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How many stars so high and white Last Line: Till we shall find the promised king! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS, TODAY AND YESTERDAY, by GUSTAV A. KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: The christmas days of long ago Last Line: Sufficient for worship divine. Subject(s): Worship CHURCH, by BRUCE EARLY Poem Text First Line: My church is one Last Line: To corner the devil. Subject(s): Worship CLIMBING TO REST, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still must I climb, if I would rest Last Line: I climb to thee, my god, for rest! Subject(s): Worship CLOISTERED, by ALICE BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seal thou the window! Yea, shut out the light Last Line: Shall beat on in the dark. Subject(s): Solitude; Worship; Loneliness COME BEFORE HIS COUNTENANCE WITH A JOYFUL LEAPING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swivelling flat-soled on the dirt but ready to bound in arches Subject(s): Worship COMMUNION, by DOROTHEA MERLE PEAK Poem Text First Line: When just a little miss of ten Last Line: With golden minutes spent with him. Subject(s): Worship COMPANIONSHIP, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No distant lord have I Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship CONCEPT OF GOD, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Years later, nothing inside the church Last Line: At how old, how much like a woman %it makes her look Subject(s): Churches; God; Public Worship; Religion CONTENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Divine content! / o could the world resent Last Line: Wherever I am whirld about, be blest. Subject(s): Happiness; Worship; Joy; Delight DARKNESS AND LIGHT ARE BOTH ALIKE TO THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then I would flee away to rest with thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worship; Heaven DAY BREAKS, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What dost thou see, lone watcher on the tower Last Line: "the plain is yet in shade, but day is near." Subject(s): Dawn; Faith; Worship; Sunrise; Belief; Creed DEAR ANGELS AND DEAR DISEMBODIED SAINTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To rise and run and rest in paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints; Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Worship DECADENT, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to worship the moon Last Line: With the pallor of the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Moon; Sun; Worship DEDICATION, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: My fount of beauty this year, oh god Last Line: Of thy teachings. Subject(s): Churches; God; Religious Education; Worship; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools DEDICATION, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Madre dolorosa / o madre mia! Last Line: Madre dolorosa mia! .... Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary DENIAL [OR, DENIALL], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my devotions could not pierce Last Line: And men my rhyme. Subject(s): Christianity; Worship DEO GRATIAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in a church this chance befell, / bells to morning mass did ring" Last Line: "with his saints to sing sans end / blissful, deo gratias" Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance DEVOTION, by PHILIP MASSINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The immortal gods Last Line: Offered in ostentation. Subject(s): Worship DEVOTION MAKES THE DIETY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who formes a godhead out of gold or stone Last Line: Makes not a god; but he that prayes to one. Subject(s): Worship DEVOTIONAL, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Sandalwood incense in the street again Last Line: Or not, loosens its grip, slips away Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Worship DEVOTIONAL VERSES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, o god, in rivers of my tears Last Line: To live with thee; sweet jesus, say amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Worship DIES IRAE, DIES ILLA, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A day full of horror, must Last Line: Gainst then, mercy! My soul cries. Subject(s): Prayer; Worship DIRIGE VIAS MEAS DOMINE!, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Open thyself, and then look in Last Line: Yet happy who these rules observe. Subject(s): Sin; Worship; Faith DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS: 21. LAMENT FOR PRINCE HENRY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All looks be pale, hearts cold as stone Last Line: Since more him none shall see. Variant Title(s): A Lamentation Subject(s): Consolation; Henry Frederick, Prince (1729-1751); Mourning; Worship; Henry Frederick, Prince Of Wales; Bereavement DOWN TO GOD'S, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: On sundays, we never said Last Line: And headed to the honeybee for breakfast %down the wide streets from god's Subject(s): God; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath DREAMS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I will not change my path with you Last Line: For all your dreams of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Dreams; Materialism; Worship; Nightmares EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise! Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 30. FORMS OF PRAYER AT SEA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To kneeling worshippers no earthly floor Last Line: Will listen, and ye know that he is just. Subject(s): Prayer; Sea; Worship; Ocean ECHOES, by HELEN M. FRANCIS Poem Text First Line: High up among the cobwebs of the roof Last Line: Save little answering voices all around. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Voices; Worship; Songs ECHOES FROM THE PAINTED PORCH, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fathers built a grisly hell Last Line: Than I who coldly mock their error. Subject(s): Worship EFFECT OVER DISTANCE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The six-foot indigo plumes of the 'sacred necropolis bird Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Public Worship; Jews; Church Attendance; Judaism EPIPHANIE CAROL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Our starr its pious task has done Last Line: Receiving, whilst we give to thee. Subject(s): Epiphany; Worship; Twelfth Night EPIPHANY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord babe, if thou art he Last Line: Come, worship christ together. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worship EVERY ONE THAT IS PERFECT SHALL BE AS HIS MASTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can one man, how can all men Last Line: Love makes great the great and small. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Worship EXCLUSIONS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I would talk with god, my hasty tongue Last Line: To reach thy hand, thy bosom, and thy face! Subject(s): Worship FAME - FAME - FAME, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED Poem Text First Line: It's a fad of my own, that I'd like to be known Last Line: On the strength of his health and his mirth. Subject(s): Fame; Public Worship; Reputation; Church Attendance FATHER'S TALE, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come near, my children! Till the hour of prayer Last Line: The wonder and opprobrium of a world Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): Fathers; Worship FIELD PREACHING', by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been out today in field and wood Subject(s): Worship; Nature FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore Last Line: O come quickly, glorious lord, and raise my sprite to thee! Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Theology FIRST-DAY THOUGHTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In calm and cool and silence, once again Last Line: Yet trusting not in mine, but in his strength alone! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Worship; Quakers FOLLOW ME, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The master's voice was sweet Last Line: So let me cling to thee. Subject(s): Worship FOOD, by RUBY WEYBURN TOBIAS Poem Text First Line: When all is written and sung Last Line: It is only love that is bread! Subject(s): Worship FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For it was the first day of rosh ha'shanah, new year's day, day of remembrance, of ancient sacrifice Subject(s): Rosh Hashanah; Jews; Worship; Dogs; Judaism FORTITUDE, by GERTRUDE BROWN SMITH Poem Text First Line: The fearfulness of life fills all my heart Last Line: Fear's grip is gone, my joy it cannot mar. Subject(s): Worship 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 FRESH SPRINGS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the father's ancient promise Last Line: Till the spirit be outpoured! Subject(s): Worship GASCOIGNE'S GOOD MORROW, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that have spent the silent night Last Line: Haud ictus sapio Subject(s): Consolation; Worship GATHER US IN, by GEORGE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gather us in: we worship only thee Last Line: Gather us in! Subject(s): Worship GESTURE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: My arms were always quiet Last Line: Like arms upon a cross. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Worship 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 MARY EDGAR COMSTOCK Poem Text First Line: Dear god, I stand with empty hands Last Line: To ecstasy. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Worship GIRLS GOING TO CHURCH, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning is easter on the lawns Subject(s): Public Worship; Girls; Church Attendance GIVE ME THY HEART, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With echoing steps the worshippers / departed one by one Last Line: The sacred presence there! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed GOD IN THE NATION'S LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Putting god in the nation's life Last Line: And putting it there in a style to stay Subject(s): Religion;worship; Theology GOD'S ACRE, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: God's acre wakes anew to poignant splendor Last Line: Triumphant proof of immortality. Subject(s): God; Religion; Worship; Theology GOD'S SURE HELP IN SORROW, by ANTON ULRICH Poem Text First Line: Leave all to god Last Line: If thou love god Alternate Author Name(s): Brunswick, Duke Of Subject(s): Consolation; God; Worship GOD-APPOINTED WORK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am glad to think Last Line: With cheerful heart the work that god appoints. Subject(s): Worship GOOD IN EVERYTHING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white shafts of the dawn dispel Last Line: Nor shall his hand forsake us long. Subject(s): Worship GOSPEL VILLANELLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus will always be there. He's waiting. It's true.' Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology HAGIOS PANAGHIOTES: THE CHURCH IN TOLON, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feeling nervous, out of place and halfway through Last Line: On the dead. Light the candle one more time. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance HARK, TEN THOUSAND HARPS AND VOICES!, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, strong and sweet these tones that seek the sky! Last Line: Till unto god who hears his whole world sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Worship HAVE YOU NOT A WORD FOR JESUS?, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not a word for jesus? Not a word to say to him? Last Line: And confess them in thy glory, when we see thee on thy throne. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: AT THE CHAPEL CARDINAL FINALE, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a painting on wood Last Line: Such is the miraculous power of art Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Worship HER BONNET, by MARY ELEANOR WILKINS FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When meeting-bells began to toll Last Line: Only that her pretty bonnet kept away the aureole. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkins, Mary E. Subject(s): Hats; Public Worship; Vanity; Church Attendance HER CREED, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood before a chosen few Last Line: "to her who ""strove to follow him." Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed HERO-WORSHIP, by JULINE W. COMSTOCK Poem Source First Line: When mother tucked me into bed Subject(s): Hero-worship; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) HERO-WORSHIP, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How would the centuries long asunder Last Line: Peering among environing men, we might be free. Subject(s): Hero-worship HERO-WORSHIP, by ELVA SMITH Poem Text First Line: My star is brighter now than when my eyes Last Line: But, oh, my star is beautiful tonight! Subject(s): Hero-worship; Stars HERO-WORSHIP; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A face seen passing in a crowded street Last Line: Burns on, and it is much to have believed. Subject(s): Hero-worship HIS CHURCH, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Witness to his eternal pity Last Line: The door forever open stands. Subject(s): Worship HIS EXCELLENCY THE MASQUERADER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He serves %to ford between swamp and sand Last Line: What wind! What straw! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Household Employees; Storms; Worship HOLLY AND PINE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas comes with mirth and cheer Last Line: When again the christmas angels come. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Public Worship; Childhood; Church Attendance HOUNDS OF MY SOUL, by GRACE STILLMAN MINCK Poem Text First Line: I have sent the hounds of my soul Last Line: Through the heavy, close-drawn night. Subject(s): Worship HOW LONG, O LORD?, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Text First Line: In the weary night they come to me Last Line: But whyjehovah knows. Subject(s): Faith; Jews; Worship; Belief; Creed; Judaism HYMN, by SARAH FLOWER ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower Alternate Author Name(s): Adams, Sarah Fuller Subject(s): God; Worship HYMN, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Sluggard soul! Awake and raise Last Line: Hosanna in the highest! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship HYMN, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, thy paternal care Subject(s): Worship HYMN, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when the wise men came from far Last Line: Then, though we do not know, we love. Variant Title(s): Wise Men And Shepherds Subject(s): Worship HYMN, by GEORGE WHITEFIELD Poem Text First Line: Shall I, for fear of feeble man Last Line: Tis fix'd! I can do all through thee! Subject(s): Worship HYMN FOR THE RE-DEDICATION OF A MEETING-ROOM REPAIRED, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy temple stands, oh god of grace! Last Line: And find their god, their saviour here! Subject(s): God; Public Worship; Church Attendance HYMN OF GLORY, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet hymns and songs will I indite Last Line: For thou art all my soul's delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Worship; Judaism HYMN TO AMEN RA: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail to thee, amen ra! Lord of the thrones of the two lands" Last Line: "thou who dost upraise the sky, and press down the ground!" Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO AMEN RA: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "wake in health, min-amen!" Last Line: Their hearts live when they behold him Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO AMEN RA: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ra, exalted in karnak!" Last Line: Ani in he sanctuary Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO AMEN RA: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sole king is he, even in the midst of the gods" Last Line: His city loveth his rising Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN TO INDRA, LORD OF RAIN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who rousest the voice of the thunder Last Line: Hearken, o lord of rain! Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Pride; Singing & Singers; Worship; Self-esteem; Self-respect HYMN TO THE ATEN, by AKHENATEN Poem Text First Line: Beautiful is thy resplendent appearing on the horizon of heaven Last Line: At thy rising all live, at thy setting they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhnaten; Akhenaton Subject(s): Sun Worship HYMN: SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! Not, oh mother! Sounds of lamentation! Last Line: Strong was the word of god to succour thee! Variant Title(s): The Widow Of Nain Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship; Death - Babies HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 4, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we worship thee, o lord? Last Line: In loyal deeds and patient days. Subject(s): Children; Praise; Worship; Childhood I DIDN'T GO TO CHURCH TODAY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We'll have a plenty time together Subject(s): Public Worship I FOLLOWED THEE, MY GOD, I FOLLOWED THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Me also bear thy cross Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Crucifixion; Worship I WOULD BE GREAT, by HATTIE B. MCCRACKEN Poem Text First Line: O lord Last Line: I will be great. Subject(s): Worship I WOULD NEVER KNEEL, by SARAH LOUISA P. SMITH Poem Text First Line: I would never kneel at a gilded shrine Last Line: That should free-will homage find. Subject(s): Worship ICH DIEN, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Text First Line: I serve Last Line: If in mine own allotted sphere, I serve. Subject(s): Worship IDOL CONSTRUCTION, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Take any one of the things you believe in Last Line: Sucks you like ripe fruit off the rotten pit of self Subject(s): Faith; Idols; Worship IF I'M IN CHURCH EVERY DAY, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source Last Line: Fools: call me fool as you please %if I'm in church every day Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Public Worship IN A COUNTRY CHURCH, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The organ peals, the people stand Last Line: Though truth seem far, we know her face! Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance IN BONDAGE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Better than I thou, lord dost know Last Line: And which in wishing, still is wrought. Subject(s): Worship IN CHURCH, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The priest, in thoughtless daily use Last Line: That proud tired yielding to the sun's. Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 54, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh yet we trust that somehow good Last Line: And with no language but a cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Trust Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Religion; Worship; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology IN PRAISE OF COMMON THINGS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For stock and stone Last Line: Is it but a step to run to thee. Subject(s): Worship IN THE FIRST CAVE / THEY BENT IN WORSHIP, by SEYMOUR MAYNE Poem Source Last Line: Towards the sun and rising winds Subject(s): Worship INEXTINQUISHABLE BLAZE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who camest from above Last Line: And make my sacrifice compleat. Variant Title(s): For Holiness, And For Earnestness In Work Subject(s): Worship INTERLUDE, by MARJORIE EASTWOOD DUDLEY Poem Text First Line: Bread of the world,' the choir sang Last Line: Crept 'round the sculptured virgin's feet. Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Clergy; Eucharist; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Communion; Church Attendance IS IT, IS IT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Whistle it said. Just whistle Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Hate; Worship IT IS NOT DEATH, O CHRIST, TO DIE FOR THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of myrrh a bundle, and a little balm Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Worship IT ISN'T THE CHURCH - IT'S YOU, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you want to have the kind of a church Last Line: It isn't the church -- it's you Subject(s): Churches;public Worship; Cathedrals;church Attendance JOHANNES MILTON, SENEX, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I believe in god the father almighty Last Line: Confiding always on his excellent greatness. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Worship JORDAN (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who says that fictions only and false hair Last Line: Who plainly say, my god, my king. Subject(s): Jordan River; Truth; Worship KALI THE MOTHER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All voices: o terrible and tender and divine! Last Line: Kali! Maheshwari! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Worship; Dead, The KINSHIP, by ETHEL M. DAMMRICH Poem Text First Line: With these my soul claims kinship Last Line: While it's scorched with inner strife. Subject(s): Worship KNOW THYSELF, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know thyself - and is this the prime Last Line: Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy god! Variant Title(s): True Self-knowledge Subject(s): Self; Worship LAKE KAMPESKA, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: God, you have walked with us here! Last Line: That for you is the earnest of onset. Subject(s): God; Prayer; Worship LAST NIGHT, BELOVED!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Last night, beloved, I saw thee in a dream Last Line: Through space afarnot time's, but love's sublime. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Worship LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship; Cathedrals; Relatives; Clemency LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do Last Line: We had no time, of course, we have no time %to do all the forgiving that we must do Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE, by LUCY A. K. ADEE Poem Text First Line: How lovely is the silence of green, growing things Last Line: All praise him in their beautykeeping still. Subject(s): Nature; Silence; Worship LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can man rejoice who lives in hourly fear Last Line: Perfect his patience in the love of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Patience; Worship LIFE, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not life upon thy gifts to live Last Line: The more to us doth of his bounty send. Subject(s): Religion; Worship; Theology LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 1, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With cassock black, baret and book Last Line: With tears upon its cheek. Subject(s): Worship LITTLE WHITE CHURCH, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us free will baptists walked a thin tightwire Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Worship; Christianity; Free Will & Determinism LIVING WATERS, by CAROLINE S. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: There are some hearts like wells, green-mossed Last Line: Whereby all love doth live. Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed LONGING, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O foolish wisdom sought in books! Last Line: And hear his voice and answer him. Subject(s): Worship LORD GOD OF HOSTS, MOST HOLY AND MOST HIGH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My love of thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Worship LORD, WE ARE RIVERS RUNNING TO THY SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sweetness to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Rivers; Worship; God LOVE, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: Love's an headstrong wild desire / to possess what we admire Last Line: Or else worship and adore it. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion; Pleasure; Worship LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: When love / had strove Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Worship; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Say what is love Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Worship; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion LOVE, by CHARLES RUSSELL WAKELEY Poem Text First Line: As far as human need exists Last Line: Forevermore. Subject(s): Worship LOVE LOVETH THEE, AND WISDOM LOVETH THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wisdom, rest, love—and lo! The whole is love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Wisdom; God; Love; Worship LOVE TRIUMPHANT, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Triumphant love! Now comes apace Last Line: Triumphant love! Subject(s): Worship LOVES MONARCHIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mighty love / thou universall life & soule Last Line: Poore soule should not obey love's monarchie. Subject(s): Christianity; Worship MAN MAY CRY CHURCH! CHURCH! AT EVERY WORD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Public Worship MANY HAPPY RETURNS, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: There is nothing,' you said, 'to return to Last Line: The act of faith unto death Subject(s): Death, Return From; Eucharist; Worship MASS AT DAWN, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Long ago, in times departed Last Line: And the marvel does not follow! Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mass; Temples; Worship MATE (1), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our separate winding ways we trod Last Line: Whose souls were welded with the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Worship MAY SUNDAY, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bells would be good if they could keep their place Last Line: That break the deep enchantment of this hour! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Prayer; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday MEDITATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring the winter doth succeed Last Line: And at the most a simple mite. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Worship; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness MEN WORSHIP ME, by VELONA PILCHER Poem Text First Line: I am the stark and silent pine Last Line: Men worship me. Subject(s): Solitude; Strength; Worship; Loneliness MODERN TERMINI, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again we see the obstructive rites decreed Last Line: No memnon-chords have they in all their sorry grain!' Subject(s): Worship MOONFLOWER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I do not want to be like the moonflower worshipped Last Line: That kind of closure after a night-long bloom Subject(s): Moon; Night; Women; Worship MY CREED, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold that christian grace abounds Last Line: Is dry as dust. Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed MY LADY GOES TO CHURCH, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: When sabbath comes, and holy calms Last Line: My lady goes to church! Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday MY PERIOD HAD COME FOR PRAYER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I worshipped -- did not 'pray' Variant Title(s): Poem: 564; Poem: 52 Subject(s): Prayer; Worship MY PROMISE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have promised, I am more than one Last Line: May I with him be honored, kissed, and crowned! Subject(s): Worship MY SAINT, by ANNE DEVOORE Poem Text First Line: My arms are empty, and my eyes Last Line: And whisper masses for the dead. Subject(s): Clergy; Memory; Prayer; Saints; Worship; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops NATURE AND LOVE, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I gave him all my love Last Line: "thou hast not forgotten!--no, nor I." Subject(s): Nature; Worship NECESSARY ANGELS; POEMS IN THEIR YOUTH, by STEPHEN KUUSISTO Poem Text First Line: We stopped beside the road Last Line: And chewed the cemetery grass. Variant Title(s): Breton-esque Subject(s): Blindness; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Worship; Youth; Visually Handicapped NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 1ST PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First worship god; he that forgets to pray Last Line: And serve him first whence all things did begin. Variant Title(s): Precepts Subject(s): Worship NEUTRALITY LOATHSOME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God will have all, or none; serve him, or fall Last Line: Abhor, and spew out all neutralities. Variant Title(s): Ye Cannot Serve God And Mannon' Subject(s): Freedom; Worship; Liberty NEW CHURCHES, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think god loves new churches [or, temples] built to him Last Line: He kneels and holds the first communion there. Variant Title(s): New Temples Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Church Attendance NEW SONGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How weary must jehovah be Last Line: You sing for aye the new new song! Subject(s): Worship NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Last Line: He refused to pitch on yom kippur Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts And Feasts; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur NORTHERN LIGHTS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of dead rainbows dancing through the sky Last Line: Worshipful father, thy great self I see. Subject(s): Aurora Borealis; Worship; Northern Lights NOT READY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of our pain and struggle Last Line: The goodness which brims the days! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religious Education; Worship; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools NOT TO BE MINISTERED TO, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, I pray / that for this day Last Line: Not to be loved, but to love. Variant Title(s): Today, O Lord Subject(s): Prayer; Worship NUMPHOLEPTOS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still you stand, still you listen, still you smile! Last Line: To that cold sad sweet smile? -- which I obey. Subject(s): Worship O GOD, NO PROPER PLACE I SEE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Unhonoured and unknown Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Worship ODI ET AMO, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wreathed altar was this pagan heart Last Line: Art thou a poison or a sacrament? Subject(s): Worship OF BEHAVIOR IN CHURCH, by JOHN MIRK Poem Text First Line: Yet thou moste teach them mare Last Line: "grant me the bliss withouten end. Amen." Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance OF HYM THAT TOGYDER WYLL SERVE TWO MAYSTERS, by SEBASTIAN BRANT Poem Text First Line: A fole he is and voyde of reason Last Line: And than after gyve the, the joyes of paradyse. Alternate Author Name(s): Brandt, Sebastian+(1) Subject(s): Worship OLD DR. GOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure everybody laughs at Last Line: For good old dr. God! Subject(s): Worship OLD-FASHIONED CHOIR, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: I have fancied sometimes, the old bethelbent Last Line: Oh be lifted, ye gates! Let me hear them again - %blessed song, blessed singers! Forever, amen! Variant Title(s): The Old Village Choi Subject(s): Worship ON A HYMN-BOOK, by WILLIAM J. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Old hymn-book, sure I thought I'd lost you Last Line: Mrs. Samuel jones. Subject(s): Courtship; Hymns (as Literary Form); Irony; Public Worship; Church Attendance ON A MODERN PAINTED WINDOW, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was they lifted thee so high Last Line: But the more human, more divine. Subject(s): Worship ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be, rather than be called, a child of god' Last Line: Possessor, not inheritor. Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies ON SUNDAY MORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: On sunday morn, down sacred aisle Last Line: On sunday morn! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath; Male-female Relations; Church Attendance; Theology; Sunday ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Due praise be his whose skill to strasburg gave Last Line: To ponder on eternity how few! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clocks; Public Worship; Strasbourg, France; Time; Church Attendance ON THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In paul's conversion we discern the case Last Line: Not in man's reason but god's revelation. Subject(s): Conversion; Religion; Saints; Worship; Theology ON THE MARIEN CAPELLE, CARLSBAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One silver star with evening's twilight strove Last Line: Bows down in worship to the virgin-born. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary ON THE RESURRECTION: THE LORD IS KING, by EDWARD PERRONET Poem Text First Line: All hail the power of jesus' name Last Line: The crowned lord of all! Variant Title(s): Coronation Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Worship ONE DAY'S SERVICE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to serve god for a day! Last Line: I think I could perfectly serve him forever -- forever and aye. Subject(s): Worship ONE PERSON: 16, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hereby swear that to uphold your house Last Line: I bear a little more than I can bear. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Worship OUR FELLOW-WORSHIPPERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not that thou and I Last Line: With harmonies too fine for mortal ear. Subject(s): Worship OUR OLD CENTER-TOWN VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around our center meetinghouse Last Line: As our poor meetinghouse. Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Public Worship; Social Problems; Vermont; Cathedrals; Church Attendance OUTSIDE THE CHURCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The blind woman at the churchdoor Last Line: Counts coins dropping from god knows where. Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Prayer; Public Worship OVERNIGHT, A ROSE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text First Line: That overnight a rose could come Last Line: It took my life to grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time; Worship 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 PARSON PRITCHETT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was at protracted meetin', an' the country / church was jammed Last Line: But ole parson pritchett nailed 'em an' I guess they'll stay away. Subject(s): Clergy; Public Worship; Sin; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance PEACE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave Last Line: "is only there." Subject(s): Faith; Jerusalem; Worship; Belief; Creed PEACE (1), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the peace of god, this strange sweet calm Last Line: And feel that thou art near, and know that I am blest. Subject(s): Faith; Peace; Worship; Belief; Creed PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 42. AL-JAMIL, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much ye tremble, too much fear to feel Last Line: Behold the roses on that tree. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Islam; Roses; Worship PETITION, by LENA MOORE FISHER Poem Text First Line: Rise up, my soul, in dignity and beauty Last Line: He can, and will, a gentle solace bring. Subject(s): Worship PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PINE TREES ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ROSE CRAWFORD PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Silence and solitude, and a dove's low call Last Line: Pine trees of the mountains... Looking up to god! Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees; Worship PLACES OF WORSHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit! Whose life-sustaining presence fills Last Line: Their claim on human hearts to solemn tenderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance PLEAD FOR ME, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now Last Line: And tell why I have chosen thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): Speak, God Of Visions;plead For Me? Subject(s): Worship PLOW BOY, by VIRGINIA CONNETT Poem Text First Line: Silent dreamer of the rutted field Last Line: You sense a greater nearness unto god. Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen; Worship POEMS FROM NA KEIKI O HAWAII: HERO WORSHIP, by BEATRICE KIRSTEN HOFGAARD Poem Text First Line: Mary felt the barber's shears Last Line: "that's like the moon my uncle's got." Subject(s): Hero-worship POINTING SPIRES, by ETHEL BELLE WASSINK Poem Text First Line: As I travel round the country Last Line: Beneath a single spire. Subject(s): Towns; Worship PRAISE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise Last Line: Both all my praise, and more! Subject(s): Worship PRAY, THINK, AND STRIVE!, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou be safe from those, who plead or sneer Last Line: Without the spleen of coarser heretics. Subject(s): Worship PRAYER FOR UNITY, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round Last Line: Given or withhold, let pain or pleasure be, %enough to know that we are serving thee Variant Title(s): Divinity School Graduation Hym Subject(s): Harvard University Divinity School; Worship PREFERENCE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in scorn do I reprove thee Last Line: I to him will still be true! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Worship PRESENT DAY SONNETS: THE ALTAR-RAIL, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their hands they hold across the altar-rail Last Line: A human clasp moved by a heavenly will. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship PRISONERS' EVENING SERVICE; SCENE OF FRENCH REVOLUTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was our doom, my father? -- in thine arms Last Line: In life, in death, we yield thee boundless trust! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Prisons & Prisoners; Public Worship; Convicts; Church Attendance PRIVATE DEVOTION, by PHOEBE HINSDALE BROWN Poem Text First Line: I love to steal awhile away Last Line: And lead to endless day. Subject(s): Worship PROCESSION, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: A ragged block of rockets breaks up Last Line: In the humble sincerity of a craftsman Subject(s): Religion; Tradition; Worship PROGRESS, by CATHARINE MACADAM Poem Text First Line: Man struck a green hill and chiseled its tower Last Line: He molded it into an altar -- to god! Subject(s): Progress; Worship PSALM 117, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Praise, prayse the lord. All that of lowest sphere Last Line: D ecayeth not, he needs it not renew. Subject(s): Worship PSALM 9, SELECTION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: I will praise thee, o lord, with my whole heart Last Line: I will sing praise to thy name, o thou most high. Subject(s): Worship PSALM OF PRAISE, SELS., by RICHARD BAXTER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Worship PURIFICATION OF YE B. VIRGIN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: May we have leave to ask, illustrious mother Last Line: By his owne death can make his mother live. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary PURIFICATION OF YE B. VIRGIN (TO A BASE, A TENOR, AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: How shall chrystall purer grow? Last Line: Sweet law of humilitie. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary QUANTRAINS: THE INNER WORSHIP, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By too much incense the idol is obscured Last Line: The heart outweighs all holy word and rite. Subject(s): Idols; Worship RABBI BEN EZRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grow old along with me! Last Line: Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same! Subject(s): Aging; Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology RAPTURE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because, from all that round thee move Last Line: I have no flowers that he can mow. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Worship READING RESPONSIVELY, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: I sat in church. I heard Last Line: I wear a hat against a light %hot and strong as irons Subject(s): Public Worship; Religion; Revolutions; Unfaithfulness REBECCA'S HYMN, FR. IVANHOE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When israel, of the lord beloved Last Line: "are mine accepted sacrifice ." Variant Title(s): Hebrew Hymn;hymn Of The Hebrew Maid Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology RELIGION, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hassan bedriddin, clad in rags, ill-shod Last Line: "it is the only place where I am not." Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance RELIGION AND DOCTRINE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood before the sanhedrim Last Line: He knew, and not the sanhedrim. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship RELIGION; AN ESSAY IN COUPLETS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What blesses yet is difficult Last Line: This -- goodness: worship -- the result. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Religion; Worship; Theology REMARKS TO THE BACK OF A PEW, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All this whining and repining! Last Line: It should be! Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance REPENTANCE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Last sunday at st. James's prayers Last Line: By half so much repent Subject(s): Public Worship;repentance; Church Attendance;penitence REVERENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True rev'rence is (as cassiodore doth prove) Last Line: The feare of god, commixt with cleanly love Subject(s): Worship RHYME FOR HOLY SATURDAY, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning father blake / will bless us all Last Line: Will bless us all. Subject(s): Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Religion; Worship; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; The Resurrection; Theology RITUAL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, what may we think of thee Last Line: Like as the trees whose rustlings cease, -- who hear thee and are still! Subject(s): God; Worship RODEF SHALOM, by W. G. SKILLMAN Poem Text First Line: When ancient nations bowed the knee Last Line: The one jehovah, sovereign lord. Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Temples; Worship; Judaism; Mosques ROOM, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: A small hutch. A love seat Last Line: Nothing that can be distinguished %from a living room Subject(s): Altars; Faith; Worship RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow down my soul in worship very low Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Worship S. BARNABIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Mistaken priest / thou mightily disparagest Last Line: Way to heavns gate through zeno's portch doth ly. Subject(s): Saints; Worship S. JOHN BAPTIST, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: When nights black houres be almost spent Last Line: Then herod at his feast beheld thee heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Worship SABBATH HYMN ON THE MOUNTAINS, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise ye the lord! / not in the temple of shapeliest mould Last Line: Praise ye the lord! Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship; Sunday SABBATH REMINISCENCES, by MRS. JOHN GRAY Poem Text First Line: I remember, I remember, when sabbath morning rose Last Line: From heaven descending to the earth, led back from earth to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewers, Miss Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday SANCTUARY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us put by some hour of every day Last Line: And touched by the white light ineffable! Subject(s): Worship SANTOS VEGA: THE SOUL OF THE SINGER, by RAFAEL OBLIGADO Poem Source First Line: When evening bends sighing towards the west, a Last Line: The country of echeverria, the land of santos vega! Subject(s): Argentina; Death; Soul; South America; Worship SCHOLA CORDIS: EMBLEM 35. THE ENLARGING OF THE HEART, by CHRISTOPHER HARVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant is that now which heretofore Last Line: Nothing want for which I call. Subject(s): Worship SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: 7. THE MEASURE OF BEAUTY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give beauty all her right Last Line: My sovereign is as sweet and fair. Subject(s): Beauty; Worship SERENADE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: I was he that came in pain and trouble Last Line: Thus to love thee more and better still! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Worship SERVANT OF GOD, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O would that I might be Last Line: And draw me near to thee, my king and lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Devotion; God; Jews; Worship; Judaism SERVICE, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are strange ways of serving god Last Line: And building palaces for him. Subject(s): Worship SEVEN VIALS HOLD THY WRATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Behold its shadow in the deed he did Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Anger; Worship; Prayer SHINING MONEY OF LOVE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: We wear small white handkerchiefs Last Line: Seeing the shining money %of love inside, begins to sing Subject(s): God; Love; Money; Public Worship; Religion SHOWER SEX ON SUNDAY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: It is a small chapel Last Line: To get dry as sin and change %out of our sunday best Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Public Worship SILENT DEVOTION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is on his holy throne Last Line: That clasps jehovah's feet. Subject(s): Worship SILENT PRAISE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who givest to the woodland wren Last Line: Hath breathed abroad those folds of silent praise! Subject(s): Worship SINCE WITHOUT THEE WE DO NO GOOD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Worship SINCERE PRAISE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty maker god! Last Line: In sweet perfumes of praise. Subject(s): Worship SINGING FOR JESUS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing for jesus, our saviour and king Last Line: Singing for jesus forever above. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship SISTER MARY OF THE LOVE OF GOD, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the convent where they tend the Last Line: The sick are smiling and the dead in bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Nuns; Worship SISTER WATER: TO THE READER, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: A thread of water falling from an imperfect faucet Last Line: And this will be my reward in the task, so long as my life %shall last Subject(s): God; Poetry And Poets; Religion; Worship SLAIN IN THEIR HIGH PLACES: FALLEN ON REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Slain in their high places Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Altars; Worship SOME KEEP THE SABBATH GOING TO CHURCH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm going, all along Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship SONG BEFORE SORROW, by LOUISE A. BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: I can be brave when dim cathedral bells Last Line: Resound the brazen note of bugle calls. Subject(s): Faith; Public Worship; Belief; Creed; Church Attendance SONG FOR THE MORNING OR EVENING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, how endless is thy love! Last Line: Demand perpetual songs of praise. Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Reformation; Worship SONG OF RADHA THE MILKMAID, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I carried my curds to the mathura fair Last Line: How brightly the river was flowing! Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers; Worship SONNET, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold Last Line: In my love's service, but to live to thee. Subject(s): Worship SONNET: SILENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Temple of god, from all eternity Last Line: The voice of love's unutterable word. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence; Worship SPATTER'S RAMBLES: CHURCH CONGREGATIONS, by HUGH KELLY Poem Text First Line: To our parish church sunday evening, I went Last Line: "says your friendly adviser,jack spatter." Alternate Author Name(s): Spatter, Jack Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance SPEED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They tell how fast the arrow sped Last Line: Of him who's late for chapel Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance SPIRITUAL WORSHIP, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though glorious, o god! Must thy temple have been Last Line: Where the fire burns unquench'd on the altar! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Variant Title(s): Silent Worship Subject(s): Worship STEEPLE ON THE HOUSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if it should turn out eternity Last Line: Means that a soul is coming on the flesh Subject(s): Worship STONE WORSHIP, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I could have spent an entire lifetime laughing in despair Last Line: Able to pick up signals from anywhere in the universe but here Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Worship STORM WORSHIP, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud-cymbals make the music of the thunder Last Line: Poured through a million silver showers. Subject(s): Worship STORMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She fears not me Last Line: Back to my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Storms; Worship SUBMISSION, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that thou art my wisdome, lord Last Line: Since thou hast both mine eyes. Subject(s): Worship SUBMISSION, by JESSIE E. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: A crystal mirror, I Last Line: To be a rare mosaicin the dust! Subject(s): Worship SUN WORSHIP, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: Looking like muslims at prayer, they gather Last Line: By light, ascend Subject(s): Prayer Meetings; Worship SUNDAY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day most calm, most bright Last Line: Flie hand in hand to heav'n! Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship; Sunday SUNDAY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm always glad when sundays comes, and our Last Line: Do not have to dodge or spurn the agent for a patent churn. Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Sunday SUNDAY, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The preacher's voice droned on and on Last Line: Her gemless, withered hands. Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday SUNDAY AFTERNOON SERVICE IN ST. ENDOC CHURCH, CORNWALL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come on! Come on! This hillock hides the spire Last Line: The second evening and the fourteenth psalm' Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship SUNDAY BELLS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet sabbath bells Last Line: With blood he hath bought us: then praise him to-day! Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday SUNDAY MORNING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day to sweet religious thought Last Line: The things ordained of god. Subject(s): Worship SUNDAY MORNING BELLS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the near city comes the clang of bells Last Line: "to ""glory in the highest, -- on earth peace""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Bells; Peace; Sabbath; Worship; Sunday SWAMI VIVEKANANDA, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: Vivekananda, swami, now as near Last Line: You taught that all religions lead to god. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Worship TELL IT OUT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell it out among the heathen that the lord is king Last Line: Tell it out, etc. Subject(s): Worship TEMPLE GOLD, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: What shall I offer as temple gold, what shall I bring Last Line: As a gale, then my gift to him, is complete . . . For I offer my cross. Subject(s): Worship TERMINUS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the roll of folly and of crime Last Line: The church bowed eastward still, and all was well. Subject(s): Christianity; Worship THANKSGIVING HYMN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come let us sing to the lord a new song Last Line: Yea, let ev'ry thing praise theeamen, and amen. Subject(s): Holidays; Kindness; Lord's Supper; Thanksgiving; Worship THE AGNOSTIC'S PRAYER, by DEMPS ALEXANDER ODEN Poem Text First Line: Awed by thy firmament above / confused by Last Line: Wondering, trusting, unafraid. Subject(s): Agnosticism; Religion; Worship; Theology THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 10. GOING TO CHURCH, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke at three; for I was bid Last Line: By the vibrations of my heart. Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance THE ARK, by NOAH CALWELL CANNON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brothers & sisters, we love one another Last Line: Shouting the great messiah's praises. Amen. Subject(s): God; Worship; Bible THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cruel manger, how bleak, how bleak! Last Line: Break, o heart, for thy god! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mothers & Sons; Worship THE BAMBOO, THE PLUM AND THE PINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Somewhere in this land they must be found Last Line: To the new year three-in-one, the bamboo, the plum and the pine. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Worship; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BOOK OF GOD, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy thoughts are here, my god Last Line: The church's heritage. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology THE BOY AND THE ANGEL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning, evening, noon and night Last Line: They sought god side by side. Subject(s): Angels; Popes; God; Worship; Papacy THE CATHEDRAL, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is a cathedral vast where thou Last Line: And over all thy spirit broods supreme. Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Prayer; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Church Attendance THE CHARIOTEER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, take the reins of my life! Last Line: Now thou hast my place, which is thine. Subject(s): Worship THE CHIMES OF [OLD] ENGLAND, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chimes, the chimes of motherland Last Line: The wilderness shall ring Subject(s): Bells; England; Worship; English THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Last Line: Whose music is the gladness of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Ambition; Creative Ability; Life Change Events; Music & Musicians; Religion; Worship; Inspiration; Creativity; Theology THE CHRISTMAS ANGELS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, as of old, the shadows fold, and the Last Line: Children yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Love; Worship; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CHURCH OF UNBENT KNEES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went by the church to-day Last Line: My god of unbent knees! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance THE CHURCH WINDOWS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word? Last Line: And in the ear, not conscience, ring. Variant Title(s): The Windows Subject(s): Churches; Worship; Cathedrals THE CID AND THE JEW, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The cid, stern victor in each fight Last Line: Entered a convent's gloom. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hero-worship; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE COMPLAINT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Mighty love, oh how dost thou Last Line: Make an holocaust of me! Subject(s): Worship; Death; Dead, The THE CREED OF LOVE, by HENRY BERNARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mightier church shall come, whose covenant word Last Line: Great love alone, is captain of the soul. Subject(s): Worship THE DIVINE PRIVILEGE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, where are thy prerogatives? Last Line: I cannot give her half my sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Worship THE ECHO OF THE SABBATH BELL - HEARD IN THE WOODS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dong -- sounds the brass in the east Last Line: And the sun has not reached its tower. Subject(s): Bells; Public Worship; Church Attendance THE END OF THE PLAY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The play is done; the curtain drops Last Line: To men of gentle will. Variant Title(s): Be Each A Gentleman Subject(s): Adversity; Christmas; Worship; Nativity, The THE EVERLASTING PEACE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sooner a shovelling dwarf the sea shall fill Last Line: I reach thy hand of comfort, and am still. Subject(s): Worship THE FARM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tenant at will indeed I am; & yet Last Line: Who would not chuse to be freeholders there? Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Worship; Agriculture; Farmers THE GARDEN, by ROSE PARKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Two of thy children one summer day worked in their garden, lord Last Line: Two of thy children, all the days of their life will work in thy garden, lord! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Worship; Theology THE GOLDEN MEAN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest to evil ways I run Last Line: Him whose name is love. Subject(s): Worship THE GREEN HILL A PRIEST WITH HIS HOOD OF WHITE MIST, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: She too a devotee, in the honeyed sanctuary of cythera Subject(s): Worship THE HEAVEN THAT'S HERE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I feel thy wondrous might Last Line: Within the heaven that's here. Subject(s): Worship THE HOME ALTAR, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we seek at all to gain Last Line: This duteous worship mild, and reasonable fear. Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance THE HUMMING-BIRD, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I entered my parlor one bright summer morn Last Line: And your souls will be wafted to mansion above. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Worship THE HYMN OF GLORY, by JUDAH BEN SAMUEL HE-ASID OF REGENSBURG Poem Text First Line: Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs Last Line: For all my being is athirst for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Judah He-hasid Subject(s): God; Jews; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Worship; Judaism; Songs THE IDEAL CITY, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you whom god hath called and set apart Last Line: To serve. Subject(s): Cities; Worship; Urban Life THE JOURNEY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some there are that melt and meet Last Line: Love shall raise us up again. Subject(s): God; Worship THE LAST CONTENTION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young captain of a crazy bark! Last Line: Athwart an evening grey. Subject(s): Love; Love - Age Differences; Worship THE LAST WORSHIPPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broken and shattered Last Line: The dying gods cannot wholly die. Subject(s): Candles; Death; Heaven; Prayer; Worship; Dead, The; Paradise THE LIVING TEMPLE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the world of light alone Last Line: And mould it into heavenly forms! Subject(s): Churches; Worship; Cathedrals THE MANY MANSIONS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My father's house,-where doth it stand? Last Line: The universe is thine. Subject(s): Heaven; Mansions; Worship; Paradise THE MEETING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elder folks shook hands at last Last Line: "life of our life, he lives to-day." Subject(s): Worship THE MEMORY OF LOVE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Religious love! It is most sure and true Last Line: For as thou honourest love -- so will love honour thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Memory; Worship THE MISSES POAR DRIVE TO CHURCH, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: Out from the tall plantation gate Last Line: Than the overseer of a patch-work nation! Subject(s): Public Worship; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Church Attendance THE MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER INFANT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Cold is his brow, and the dew of the evening Last Line: Henceforth will I worship my saviour alone! Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies THE NEW MAGDALENE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She turns her with sick heart Last Line: Can work her no more harm. Subject(s): Grief; Hair; Hearts; Tears; Worship; Sorrow; Sadness THE NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts & Feasts; Ford, Edward ('whitey'); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur; Judaism THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Palid and cold as the morning star Last Line: And taming its raging waves. Subject(s): Churches; Churchyards; Graves; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer Meetings; Worship; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD VILLAGE CHOIR, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Blessed song, blessed singers! Forever, amen! Subject(s): Worship THE PHILOSOPHER TOAD, by REBECCA S. REED NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Down deep in the hollow, so damp and so cold Last Line: By the gray weeds of prejudice rankly o'ergrown. Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed THE PRESENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not crouch today and worship Last Line: Bids us serve the great to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Worship THE PROBLEM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like a church; I like a cowl; / I like a prophet of the soul Last Line: I would not the good bishop be. Subject(s): Clergy; Soul; Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667); Worship; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE PROCESSION OF THE DUMB, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In deep thought-watches with the night, a host Last Line: "and burn anew as lit from god's own light.' " Subject(s): Mourning; Worship; Bereavement THE PUPPETS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked into a cathedral's eternal twilight Last Line: Even as he had been well pleased with him of old. Subject(s): Worship THE REBUILDING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is builded, lord: build it anew! Last Line: A better house erect. Subject(s): Houses; Worship THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER, ON 'THE HIGHER CRITICISM', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since reverend doctors now declare Last Line: And read that moderate man voltaire. Subject(s): Bible; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology THE RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a river flowing from god's sea Last Line: For love is all, and over all. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Rivers; Worship THE RUINS OF SETON CHAPEL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful the powerful, and the proud Last Line: The pride and insignificance of man! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Prayer; Ruins; Worship; Cathedrals THE SABBATH MORNING, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With silent awe I hail the sacred morn Last Line: So smiled that day when the first morn arose! Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship; Sunday THE SACRAMENT, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Sacred gift of god to man Last Line: But worship the design. Subject(s): Worship THE SANCTUARY: 3. THE WORSHIP OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crush me, o love, betwixt thy radiant fingers Last Line: And praise thee for my death! Subject(s): Death; Love; Worship; Dead, The THE SEASIDE WELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One day I wandered where the salt sea-tide Last Line: And life rise sparkling in the sight of god / an endless day Subject(s): Faith;worship; Belief;creed THE SIGN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Faithful hearts had long been watching Last Line: And the signa little child! Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Paradise THE SILENCE IN THE CHURCH, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O holy spirit, we entreat Last Line: "the awful charge thou gavest me." Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Worship THE SONG OF THE SEXTON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At dawn going from house to house & Last Line: Get up work for god Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;worship; Judaism THE STILL HOUR, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quiet of a shadow-haunted pool Last Line: As this still hour with thee! Subject(s): Worship THE STORY OF TWO SPEECHES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eloquent word -- for the master Last Line: Yea, venture to fail -- for him. Subject(s): Speech; Worship; Oratory; Orators THE STREETS OF FORBES, by JOHN MCGUIRE Poem Text First Line: Come all you lachlan men Last Line: To show the prize they had! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Hero-worship; Heroism; Murder; Sorrow; Sadness; Heroes; Heroines THE TEMPER (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should I praise thee, lord! How should my rhymes Last Line: Make one place everywhere. Subject(s): Worship THE TEMPLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My body is the temple of my god Last Line: A janitor within the house of god! Subject(s): Worship THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serve god - by the eternal heaven's chart Last Line: Since peace is thine for ever. Subject(s): Ten Commandments; Worship THE TITANIC PYGMY, by ROBERT HUGH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Lord, we have boasted we are wise Last Line: And trav'lers to the unseen shore. Subject(s): Disasters; Humility; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Vanity; Worship THE TRANCE, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, I saw thee then; one mind last night Last Line: Or a cry out of a fearful ecstasy. Subject(s): Hypnosis; Worship THE WAITING NOTE; DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT SUSAN MILLS OF MILLS COLLEGE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the full celestial chorus Last Line: Lay their worship at his feet. Subject(s): God; Mills College, California; Religion; Worship; Theology THE WHEELING GOSPEL TABERNACLE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homer rhodeheaver, who was the evangelist billy sunday's psalmodist Last Line: Homer had times between hymns to make some lonely widow happy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Evangelists; God; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To love our god with all our strength and will Last Line: What is so hard but faith can do with ease? Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed THE WILDERNESS TRANSFORMED, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amazing, beauteous change! Last Line: Of ardent praise. Subject(s): Worship THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS; ADDRESSED TO TWO SWALLOWS .. DURING SERVICE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gay, guiltless pair Last Line: And nature's own great god adore. Subject(s): Birds; Churches; Swallows; Worship; Cathedrals THE WORD, by WILLIAM WALSHAM HOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O word of god incarnate Last Line: They see thee face to face. Subject(s): Worship THE WORD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the holy spirit, making known Last Line: Is to deny the word within! Subject(s): Worship THEY ARE BUT GIANTS WHILE WE KNEEL, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good people! Put no faith in kings, nor in your princes trust Last Line: They were but giants while we kneel: one leap, and up go we Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Variant Title(s): Kings Are But Giants Because We Knee Subject(s): Jews; Worship THRO' BURDEN AND HEAT OF THE DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thro' burden and heat? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worship; Labor & Laborers; Weariness THROWN ASIDE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I have loved thee fondly Last Line: My love can never fade! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Worship TO A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAS TOLD A LIE, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And has my darling told a lie? Last Line: And neither tell a lie nor need. Subject(s): Truth; Worship TO AN UNKNOWN GODDESS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Like to the violet amongst her leaves Last Line: Will wonder pensively, 'who can it be?' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Worship TO HIS SAVIOURS SEPULCHER: HIS DEVOTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haile holy, and all-honour'd tomb Last Line: I'le my eternitie spend here. Subject(s): Worship TO HIS WORSHIPFULL WEL-WILLER, MAISTER EDWARD LEIGH, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Image of that, whose losse is here lamented Last Line: Then will I sweare, that shee is dead indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Worship; Lament TO ONE WHO SPOKE OF ETERNAL THINGS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! For the shadow of a flower Last Line: More than eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Future Life; Trees; Worship; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO OUR BLESSED LADY (2), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sovereign of queens: if vain ambition move Last Line: And, jealous, bids me love her alone. Subject(s): Ambition; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary TOO LATE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings, alas! Unmerited Last Line: We have no refuge, but our trust. Subject(s): Time; Worship TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ARENZANO, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great church over the little fishing-village Last Line: And join the ave maria, ave, ave. Subject(s): Churches; Public Worship; Religion; Cathedrals; Church Attendance; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE COMING OF THE LORD, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice saying Last Line: I the lord demos have spoken it: and the mountains are my throne. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Worship; Theology TRUANT, by MARY CASS CANFIELD Poem Text First Line: Fifty ladies trot to church Last Line: God is in the apple trees. Alternate Author Name(s): C.; Mulme, Mary Cass Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance TRUST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old baffling questions! O my friend Last Line: Who moves to his great end unthwarted by the ill. Subject(s): Mothers; Worship ULTIMA VERITAS, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bitter waves of woe Last Line: I shall see him, and I will wait. Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Worship; Theology USK, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON Poem Source First Line: Such a fool as I am you had better ignore Last Line: Come sleep, come lighting, comes the dove at last Subject(s): Language; Prayer; Worship VAIN WITS AND EYES, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In tears to you, in fire to me Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Worship VESPER HYMN, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now on land and sea descending Last Line: Shining in the spirit's skies. Subject(s): Worship VESPER HYMN, by ELIZA SCUDDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is done, the weary day of thought and toil is past Last Line: At morn, at night, in earth, in heaven, be thou my first and last! Subject(s): Transcendentalism; Worship VESPERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the city behind me Last Line: And the thrushes sing their hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Cathedrals; Theology VICTORY, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that my soul, too far from god Last Line: The weary dust of earthly things. Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who doubts? The lawes fel down from heauens height Last Line: So robs the sheepe, in fauours faire pretence. Subject(s): God; Law & Lawyers; Mankind; Worship; Attorneys; Human Race WATER AND WORSHIP: AN OPEN-AIR SERVICE ON THE GATINEAU RIVER, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the pathway mica glints Last Line: Joyful, joyful, we adore thee' Subject(s): Worship WE ARE THE MARINERS, AND GOD THE SEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Worship WEARY [IN WELL-DOING], by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would have gone; god bade me stay Last Line: And rest with thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship WESTLAND ROW, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every sunday there's a throng Last Line: As they thought of during prayers. Subject(s): Clergy; Prayer; Public Worship; Sabbath; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance; Sunday WHAT IS IT JESUS SAITH UNTO THE SOUL?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who tells thee what to-morrow keeps in store? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Future; Worship WHAT IS [OR WAS] HIS CREED?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He left a load of anthracite Last Line: What was his creed? / what his belief? Subject(s): Faith;worship; Belief;creed WHEELING GOSPEL TABERNACLE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homer rhodeheaver, who was the evangelist billy sunday's psalmodist Last Line: Little I know. I can pitch a pretty fair tune myself, for all I know Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Evangelists; God; Public Worship; Religion WHERE TO GO ON SUNDAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How to spend a sunday - that's the problem now Last Line: Why not church on sunday? Ever thought of that? Subject(s): Public Worship; Sabbath; Church Attendance; Sunday WHITE SPIRITUAL, by WILLIAM BERRY Poem Text First Line: In the dim old church Last Line: And the greasy candles burning. Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance WHITENESS, OR CHASTITY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tell me, where doth whiteness grow Last Line: Doth thee alone, fair chastitie, inrich. Subject(s): Chastity; Worship WHO HEARS THE PARSON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To sqauat with hymn book he doth use Subject(s): Clergy; Churches; Public Worship WHY?, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Text First Line: Why do we follow, like a flock of sheep Last Line: From bricks and mortar, who have wings to fly? Subject(s): Worship WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all. Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Idols; Love; Regret; Solitude; Sympathy; Truth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Loneliness; Empathy WISHES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Now I have mind & leisure Last Line: Thy will being grown almightie. Subject(s): Materialism; Temptation; Wishes; Worship WORSHIP, by RONALD CAMPBELL MACFIE Poem Text First Line: Work is devout, and service is divine Last Line: Than he who crushes sacramental wine. Subject(s): Worship WORSHIP, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forms are dissolving Last Line: Is shattered at last. Subject(s): Worship WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broken and maimed and bruised Last Line: And the laughing lovers worship god. Subject(s): Death; God; Sea; Worship; Dead, The; Ocean WORSHIP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pagan's myths through marble lips are spoken Last Line: And in its ashes plant the tree of peace! Subject(s): Christianity; Worship WORSHIP GOD ONLY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Revere our holy church; though some within Last Line: Mind; in him only place thy trust henceforth. Subject(s): Worship WORSHIPPERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gift of utterance is ours Last Line: In lowliness, to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Worship YOU WILL NOT MIND, by GRACE HARNER POFFENBERGER Poem Text Last Line: You will not mind, for dear, you will not know. Subject(s): Worship YOUNG GIRL SEEN IN CHURCH, by ELIZA MARY HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Was she an orphan? -- can another grief Last Line: Each brilliant petal of their heart's deep cup Subject(s): Girls; Public Worship YOUR CRACKED HERO WORSHIP FOR MEN, by JUDSON CREWS Poem Source First Line: Who are dead. While I Subject(s): Hero-worship ZEAL AND PURITY, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou to wax fierce Last Line: Thine own. Subject(s): Worship |
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