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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ABBEYS Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FRAGMENT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And by that mansion's western side there stoode Last Line: And meeke unconscious state and winning majestie. Subject(s): Monasteries; Statues; Abbeys A NIGHT FANCY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: This tide of night that surges slowly Last Line: They are the grim old monks. Subject(s): Clergy; Monasteries; Monks; Prayer; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys A SONNET, by ORANGE WILLIS WINKFIELD Poem Text First Line: Swift-footed time, let me not weep for thee Last Line: And gain by defeat the laurels I may. Subject(s): Monasteries; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Abbeys ACHONRY (THE LEGEND OF ERIN'S HOPE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mood of the spring time subtly crept Last Line: "^1^ ""malo mori quam foedari""—""death sooner than dishonour!"" see notes." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Bells; Clergy; Legends, Irish; Monasteries; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys; Journeys; Trips AT A RUINED ABBEY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray day's ending followed the gray day Last Line: Will priest and sinner vanish on the night? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 35. OLD ABBEYS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monastic domes! Following my down-ward way Last Line: Your spirit freely let me drink, and live! Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys ELEGY ON NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newstead! Fast-falling, once-resplendent dome Last Line: And bless thy future as thy former day. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Monasteries; Newstead Abbey, England; Abbeys FOUNTAIN'S ABBEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never more, when the day is o'er Last Line: With its beauty to cheer decay. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys IN A MONASTERY GARDEN, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the long salt ridges Last Line: And smiles in the eyes of god. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Monasteries; Abbeys IN AN ABBEY COURTYARD, by LAWRENCE R. KAHN Poem Text First Line: Tell me the song that the swallow sings Last Line: And I'll tell you what god must be. Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys LAMENT OVER THE RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF TIMOLEAGUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Lone and weary as I wander'd Last Line: "death's deliverance were welcome- / father, let the old man die" Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys MARMION: CANTO 2. THE CONVENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze, which swept away the smoke Last Line: To hear that sound so dull and stern. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys MARMION: CANTO 5. THE COURT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train has left the hills of braid Last Line: For march against the dawning day. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys MONASTIC POEM (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All alone in my little cell Last Line: And I there all alone Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys MONT SAINT MICHEL, by EMILY TAYLOR PERKINS Poem Text First Line: Across the battlements of saint michel Last Line: Have worshiped god beneath saint michel's spire! Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Monasteries; Abbeys MONTSERRAT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace waits among the hills Last Line: And this poor breath. Subject(s): Monasteries; Montserrat (mountain), Spain; Abbeys; Monserrat (mountain), Spain NETLEY ABBEY; A LEGEND OF HAMPSHIRE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee, netley, as the sun Last Line: "but -- I can't say much for his taste.""'" Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Hampshire, England; Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dome of my sires as the clear moonbeam falls Last Line: But the wreck of the line that have held it in sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Monasteries; Newstead Abbey, England; Abbeys SIX YEARS: DECEMBER, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three a.M. -- a far bell Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys SONNET WRITTEN IN A RUINOUS ABBEY, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: As 'mid these moldering walls I pensive stray Last Line: In spells of rapture all my soul is bound! Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys SWEET ABBIE AT THE SPRING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have read of sculptured beauties Last Line: A-drinking at the spring. Subject(s): Monasteries; Women; Abbeys THE ABBEY MASON (WITH MEMORIES OF JOHN HICKS, ARCHITECT), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new-vamped abbey shaped apace Last Line: And upon nothing rear a name. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Monasteries; Abbeys THE ABBOT, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, with dream-like sadness, tolled Last Line: That treasured lock of gold. Subject(s): Monasteries; Monks; Abbeys THE BELLS OF RONCEVAUX, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: You can hear them as you go Last Line: To the bells of roncevaux. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Bells; Monasteries; Abbeys THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys THE NUN OF KENT; A HISTORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A goodly saint, a goodly saint now Last Line: (curtain falls.) Subject(s): Clergy; Convents; Kent, England; Monasteries; Nuns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys THE SEMBLABLES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The red brick monastery in Last Line: Within where the wrapt machines / are praying ... Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys THE SHAVING OF MURDOCH, by MUIREDACH O'DALY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Murdoch, whet thy razor's edge Last Line: Mary, soft flower of jesse's stem. Alternate Author Name(s): O'daky, Murragh; Murdoch The Scotchman; O'daly, Murrough; Muiredach Albanach; O'daly, Murdoch Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys TROITSA MONASTERY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sacred troitsa! When the skies Last Line: For the lord of the saints is here as there! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Monasteries; Russia; Troitzka, Russia; Abbeys; Soviet Union; Russians; Troitsa, Russia UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 23. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sun, out of the blast Last Line: With careless looks may pass you by. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Monasteries; Religion; Abbeys; Theology VERSES FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through alpine meadows soft-suffused Last Line: "and leave our desert to its peace!" Variant Title(s): Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse Subject(s): Monasteries; Poetry & Poets; Abbeys WRITTEN AT NETLEY ABBEY, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: Why should I fear the spirits of the dead? Last Line: And hold mysterious converse with the dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys |
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