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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 why—jehovah 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 afar—not 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 beauty—keeping 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 mosaic—in 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 thee—amen, 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 sign—a 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