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Subject: ALTARS
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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