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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ALTARS Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHANT OF MY BELOVED, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: My beloved / is the altar Last Line: Of earth or heaven. Subject(s): Altars; Hearts; Love AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MOMENT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young married couple Subject(s): Altars; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Parting ANGEL OF PEACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "angel of peace, thou hast wandered too long!" Last Line: "angels of bethlehem, echo the strain!" Subject(s): Altars;angels;peace;prayer AT THE ALTAR, by ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: That bag you packed me Last Line: In an incision %where something's been removed Subject(s): Altars CASUALTIES: 24. A PHOTOGRAPH IN THE OBSERVER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night falls over them Last Line: Night falls over us Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Altars; Bodies; Night; Photography And Photographers EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MOMENT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young married couple Last Line: Filling the world with their thunderous music Subject(s): Altars; Farewell; Paintings And Painters 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 MY MIND HAS THE SCENT OF AN ALTAR TRIPTYCH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Let him rest, %good spirit, %let him rest Subject(s): Altars; Angels; Death; Heaven; Memory 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 PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU AT THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD IN ASCONA, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: Far from our village on the other side of the hill, we found the Last Line: The house of the dead - so full of life and love Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Death; Photography And Photographers; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Prayer; Stones; Travel PRAYER, by EVELYN B. FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As here before. Thine altar now I kneel Last Line: That I may never be alone, doubting in a troubled world. Subject(s): Altars; Cross, The; Prayer 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 SACRILEGIOUS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Above the white linen altar cloth the figure of jesus Last Line: On my tongue and let it melt there like the host Subject(s): Altars; Israel; Jesus Christ; Religion 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 THANKSGIVING SONG, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: I brought my gifts to the altar Last Line: Reach upward toward the sun. Subject(s): Altars; Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Theology THE ALTAR, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken altar, lord, thy servant reares Last Line: And sanctifie this altar to be thine. Subject(s): Altars; Doubt; Immortality; Skepticism THE ALTARPIECE FINISHED, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not see how in time it will be possible to look at Last Line: I have done; you can see it on the sixth of may. It will eat you Subject(s): Altars THE DEAREST ONE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Which of all my dearest dear is most / my very own? Last Line: Whose want and weakness are his prayer, and without word can plead. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ; Love; Prayer THE INDIAN QUEEN: HYMN TO THE SUN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You to whom victory we owe Last Line: And by their loss of pow'r declare your own. Subject(s): Altars; Blood; Sacrifices; Sun 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 TO HARRY WAKELYN SMITH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Not as that other man who, slow to see Last Line: They set your altar in the heart of youth! Subject(s): Altars; Friendship; Honor; Service TRUMMERFRAUEN (THE RUBBLE-WOMEN), by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old paintings, the ones with silken oils Last Line: Never stop: tap tap, tap tap, tap tap. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Altars; Architecture & Architects; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Pyramids; Art Gallerys WHAT WAS LEFT OVER; FOR SUJATA BHATT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you said, sujata, it was not Last Line: Atomized silk of its spray. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Altars; Church Burnings; Clergy; Sacrifices; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops |
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