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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ANGELS Matches Found: 442 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 27-INCH GOD (IN STEREO), by JOE QUINN Poem Source First Line: Standing close the screen Last Line: Pulled down down down a deep and empty blue Subject(s): Angels; God; Mothers A CHILD'S PRAYER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy mother! Holy mother! / in the dark I fear Last Line: One to waken me. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary A CHOICE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An angel stooped down from the hill-side Last Line: For the heart of a friend lay there. Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros A DREAM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I had a plot of ground / once when I chanced asleep to drop Last Line: Has bloomed the other side, I said. Subject(s): Dreams; Angels A FLOW'RET IN THE GARLAND; FOR OUT GREAT CENTENARIAN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Somewhere I have read or heard it Last Line: For thy gift — for montefiore. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Prayer; Religion; Paradise; Theology A GOOD MAN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: He lived a very blameless life Last Line: But none remembered quite his name. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Good; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise A LAKE SUNRISE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sheathed by the everlasting sky Last Line: Whereon an angel lingering may kneel and pray. Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Lakes; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds A MAY DAY ORISON, by ELIZABETH STANLEY TROTTER Poem Text First Line: These are the children of the may Last Line: Emblem of happy hours. Subject(s): Angels; Children; May (month); Spring; Childhood A PRAYER TO AZRAEL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because thy face is more compassionate Last Line: O azrael, be kind! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Azrael; Prayer A QUERY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should a good angel and a bad between Last Line: Which would the good one go to, which the bad? Subject(s): Angels; Conduct Of Life A SERVIAN LEGEND, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago, ere yet our race began Last Line: "man will I create with a foot like thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Evil; Heaven; Legends; Paradise A SPIRITUAL LEGEND, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were who spiritual legends feigned Last Line: Thus he, the legend spiritual who feigned. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Paradise; Holy Spirit A VISION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two angels, among the throng of angels Subject(s): Angels ABOUT ANGELS: 1, by ULEA Poem Source First Line: See how the first houseflies already fly about! Last Line: Who is not a pure-blooded angel Subject(s): Angels ABOUT ANGELS: 2, by ULEA Poem Source First Line: The fallen angel shows an interest in individuality Last Line: Because they are the heavenly father's own Subject(s): Angels ABOUT ANGELS: 3, by ULEA Poem Source First Line: The angels dream the same dreams Last Line: And its head is not in the clouds, %--although a heavenly inhabitant Subject(s): Angels; Heaven ABOVE THE HOUSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You call it yellow, I call it gold Last Line: The prisoner's dreams touch the angel's wings. Subject(s): Angels; Colors AD S. ANGELUM CUSTODEM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Who e'r thou art, oh yt I knew thy name Last Line: To lift me up, & lead me in ye way. Subject(s): Angels; Fear; Prayer AFTER OUR LADY'S PRESENTATION, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wife, my wife our journey o'er Last Line: To her according to thy word! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women In The Bible; Infants; Paradise; Virgin Mary AIR AND ANGELS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Sine qua non of bed wetting Last Line: Junta that films its dog days, bright tiger eye Subject(s): Angels; Heaven AN ANGEL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At my window there's an angel Last Line: Tis the maple on the lawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Angels; Maple Trees AN ANGEL CAME, by WILLIAM ALFRED QUAYLE Poem Text First Line: One noon I met an angel by the way Last Line: But left an angel at my heart with me. Subject(s): Angels AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it were if, without feeble fright Last Line: In unison with ours, breeding its future wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Angels AN ANGEL OF PERUGINO, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have I not seen your face before Last Line: The umbrian halo on your brows. Subject(s): Angels AN ANGEL SINGS OF SHELLEY NEWLY DEAD, by THOMAS LAKE HARRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe him with jonquils and anemones Last Line: Shelley the spirit lives eternally. Subject(s): Angels; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) AND THERE THE ANGELS OF GOD WERE ASCENDING, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: In heaven, the children are harming one another Last Line: As afterimage, starlight, the air above [or, about] a shortened grave Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Future Life; Heaven ANGE DE MORTE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: These two %tiny figures, suspended Last Line: Sky, into your own %waiting arms Subject(s): Angels; Death; Museums ANGEL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stabbed woman cries in her hospital bed Last Line: I can't believe my angel is dead Subject(s): Angels; Death ANGEL, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: That was only my ring name of course Last Line: My contract, stuck wholly to the script Subject(s): Angels ANGEL AMONG THE HERBS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Angelica archangelica Last Line: In your green tongue Subject(s): Angels ANGEL BOUQUETS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angels, in the early morning Last Line: Parched the flowers they bear along. Variant Title(s): Poem: 94;poem: 73 Subject(s): Angels ANGEL CONSIDERS THE NAMING OF MEAT, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever this was, with its arms and skirt Last Line: You're my first customer. This one's on me Subject(s): Angels ANGEL EYES, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: Angels are in singapore Last Line: To keep their watch on me Subject(s): Angels ANGEL FEATHER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Here is the quill Last Line: And with a prayer-- %gone Subject(s): Angels ANGEL FOR DONNA, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: She sat there at the end of the room Last Line: And make them happy, too.' Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels ANGEL FOR MY FRIEND, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: I want my friend to have an angel Last Line: Well, I want my friend to have an angel %just like him Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels ANGEL IN A WINDOW, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night has fallen in gethsemane so fast Last Line: Over the empty field Subject(s): Angels ANGEL IN BLYTHBURGH CHURCH, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shot down from its enskied formation Last Line: Nothing is projected - death the only angel %to shield her from despair Subject(s): Angels ANGEL IN MY HOUSE, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: There is an angel in my house Last Line: Who watches over me Subject(s): Angels ANGEL IN SUMMER: WEST VIRGINIA, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Forgiveness is water over stone Last Line: Each cast is a prayer Subject(s): Angels ANGEL IN THE TREE HOUSE, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't stay back there hiding Last Line: When the world is new Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels ANGEL OF DEATH DROVE UP, by WILLIAM JOHN WATKINS Poem Source Last Line: A touch of the blind absurd %for comic relief Subject(s): Angels; Death ANGEL OF KNOWLEDGE, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: She knows almost all there is to know Last Line: But even she must wait %for answers Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels 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 ANGEL TELLS THE BIRDS TO GATHER FOR THE GREAT SUPPER, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Robins and meadowlarks Last Line: From east to west Subject(s): Angels ANGEL VISITS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are ye for ever to your skies departed? Last Line: One, one is near -- a spirit holier still! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Angels ANGEL'S METHOD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I tally everything, every death. %I can see you recognize me Last Line: You were a soldier once, too. %I was your unbridled angel Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Heroism; Soldiers ANGELIC FREQUENCIES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Captivated by the couple's nakedness, the angel of paradise Last Line: Angels afraid of loneliness become guardian angels Subject(s): Angels; Heaven ANGELIC LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angelic love that stoops with heavenly lips Last Line: O thou of mortal visions most divine! Subject(s): Angels; Love - Nature Of ANGELIC SCRIPT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: In the year 1327 Last Line: And such volumes do not repeat lies Subject(s): Angels ANGELLS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angells are called gods; yet of them, none Last Line: Are gods, of them, but by adoption. Subject(s): Angels ANGELS, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Essentially, they are alike. And no one has ever seen one, for there is Last Line: Weight of these tidings: inexplicable, overwhelming, unbelievable, to be Subject(s): Angels; Messengers ANGELS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two shinning women. %I will not betray you with Last Line: And your meticulous absence %of wing Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Heaven; Wings ANGELS, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: We are older than %the oldest star Last Line: Our love shines %ever bright Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels ANGELS, by GERTRUDE HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we tell an angel Last Line: "whom thou call'st fool." Subject(s): Angels ANGELS, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: What the devil are these angels doing perched half-way between Last Line: Above a land that doesn't belong to them Subject(s): Angels; Heaven ANGELS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of angels Subject(s): Angels ANGELS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days god sent his angels oft Last Line: God bless you all, our angels unaware! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise ANGELS, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With downy pinion they enfold Last Line: Where much has been forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Angels ANGELS, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: Have you noticed %how they roost in trees Last Line: As they back away into the mist Subject(s): Angels; Blessings; Heaven ANGELS, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Watching from %heaven, they Last Line: Gleaming feather %over another Subject(s): Angels ANGELS (REPRISE), by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: I am older than %the oldest star Last Line: My love glows forever %bright Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels ANGELS AMONG THE SERVANTS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: St. Zita, patron saint Last Line: From the deep river Subject(s): Angels ANGELS FLY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source Last Line: They take themselves %lightly Subject(s): Angels ANGELS IN WINTER, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mercy is whiter than laundry Last Line: Even the air could kill us Subject(s): Angels ANGELS OF DESPERATION AND ABANDONMENT, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The blind man's angel is touch Last Line: The dead man's angel weeps desolately and, like a young widow seeks out a new man Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Angels; Widows And Widowers ANGELS OF PAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, should they come revisiting the spot Last Line: How soon their visitations are forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Angels ANGELS OF THE FRENCH QUARTER [FOR EMILY], by DONNA REIS Poem Source First Line: Down on the rue bourbon Last Line: Kneeling with a prayer book forever %magnolia and bougainvillea strewn at her knees Subject(s): Angels ANGELS OF THE SPRING, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see them not - we cannot hear Last Line: Is meet, my love, for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Variant Title(s): Are They Not All Ministering Spirits Subject(s): Angels; Spring ANNUNCIATION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: She is reading, her brown hair pulled back Last Line: Spreading its tender red stain Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Sky; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: You know the day, the month, even the year Last Line: The angel nodded, knowing she meant cocks Subject(s): Angels; Italian Renaissance; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANTHROPOPHAGIA, by MARIA ELENA CABALLERO-ROBB Poem Source First Line: You will want an angel with a dirty face, scuffed Last Line: Of earthly cares, %into a new, holy life Subject(s): Angels; Life APPARITION, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Something in dimity has flown down in the night Last Line: What is this strange gentility we feel? Subject(s): Angels; Heaven ARCHAIC WARRIOR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I have seen ticketed and labelled Last Line: With angels for you! Subject(s): Angels; Hearts; Love ARCHANGEL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's dark in here Subject(s): Angels ARCHANGEL MICHAEL DELIVERS A SERMON TO THE STARS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Mercury, venus, the dancing sisters Last Line: Set in motion by the breath of god Subject(s): Angels; Michael, The Archangel; Saints ARE ANGELS GREEN?, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Are angels green? Can the sky support them? Last Line: I want the light to strike me, air, %I want everyone to breathe, mouse, shit Subject(s): Angels; Heaven ARIEL'S REVENGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In olden time sprite ariel would fly Last Line: T is thou hast freed us, and we love thee well! Subject(s): Angels; Forgiveness; Humanity; Love; Clemency AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: She stood at the beautiful gate of heaven Last Line: But never to be divided more. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise AUNT FANNY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: They were introduced, mother said Last Line: Like angels in their wings, their halos Subject(s): Angels AZRAEL, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT Poem Source First Line: Dread episode sublime Subject(s): Angels; Azrael BABY'S ANGEL, by VICKI L. COUCH Poem Source First Line: It's dark outside %daddy ain't home Last Line: Baby done seen an angel!' Subject(s): Angels BALLAD OF THE SAINT, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little cherubs whispered, Last Line: "who cometh not like this!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Saints BENEATH A PICTURE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Fearfully gazing spirit! Wherefore lies Last Line: Shrouding the brightness of thine angel form. Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Future Life; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BIG SISTER, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: My sister is such an angel Last Line: But she's an angel, too Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels BIRTH ANGELS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy-lidded enterprise of the dead Last Line: A sudden consciousness, the thrashing of wings Subject(s): Angels BISMILLAH, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from his tent the patriarch abraham stept Last Line: The patriarch bowed in meekness. Great is god! Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Angels; God; Holidays; Thanksgiving BITCHES ANGELS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Angels' entrails hung out like linen Last Line: Why, then, should angels return? %to walk beside you? Subject(s): Angels BOW OF BEAUTY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow of beauty, arching o'er us, tinted with unearthly dyes Last Line: Love's and mercy's light assuming, like the rainbow it doth shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Cupid; Heaven; Jews; Love; Eros; Paradise; Judaism BROTHERS: 3. AS FOR MYSELF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Less snake than angel Last Line: And to be unafraid. Subject(s): Angels; Brothers; Creation; Mankind; Half-brothers; Human Race BUSINESS OF ANGELS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know, can't say when they first Last Line: At the kitchen window drying dishes Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Angels BUTTERFLIES, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs CAELI, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If stars were really watching eyes Last Line: I could not feel more far away. Subject(s): Angels; Stars CAMELLIA, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA Poem Source First Line: Come to see the camellia Last Line: That closes upon itself-perfect Subject(s): Angels; Death; Friendship; Hearts; Heaven; Peace CAROL FOR THE SHEPHERDS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An angel woke three shepherds Last Line: The prince of peace has come Subject(s): Angels CASE FOR AN ANGEL, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Bareheaded, incorruptible, wings honed from %quarter moons Last Line: The clamp of gravity, he levels %his gaze Subject(s): Angels; Heaven CHILDREN'S SLUMBER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the lambs in all the folds are sleeping by their / mothers Last Line: The happy messengers have lulled each darling house-hold band. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Childhood CHRISTMAS, by MARY LOU CARNEY Poem Source First Line: A star celebration %come down to earth Last Line: Proclaim to the world: %tonight is the night! Subject(s): Angels CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 1. IN CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whose birth on earth Last Line: Bid the day be born. Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Life; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How hushed they were in heaven that / night Last Line: To man it seemed a star. Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Heaven; Stars; Nativity, The; Paradise CLEAN SWEEP, by LISA BAHLINGER Poem Source First Line: When isabel lay down to sleep Last Line: Now go to sleep, my sweet isabel.' Subject(s): Angels COLLOQUY AT PENIEL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Countenance like lightning, why do you stand Last Line: It will be your body that will fall Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Love - Beginnings CONGRATULATION, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Today I saw an angel Last Line: I saw heaven in her eyes Subject(s): Angels; Children; Children's Rights; Girls CONSCIENCE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A knocking at my heart - and what art thou? Last Line: "I am your angel of forgiveness now." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Conscience; Lazarus CRIVELLI'S PIETA ANGEL (VERSION 1), by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: Then it was just another spring Last Line: Crivelli must have pondered %before shading history on an angel's face Subject(s): Angels; Crivelli, Carlo (1430-1494); Paintings And Painters CRIVELLI'S PIETA ANGEL (VERSION 2), by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: In life if was just another spring Last Line: Crivelli must have pondered %before painting sorrow into an angel's face Subject(s): Angels; Crivelli, Carlo (1430-1494); Paintings And Painters DANCING WITH ANGELS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am flat-footed, left-footed Last Line: On the heads of pins Subject(s): Angels DANIEL IN SNOW, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: The snow world had called him Last Line: And listened to the magical call %of snow Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels 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 DIVINE DUTIES, by MARY LOU CARNEY Poem Source First Line: High in the heavens Last Line: And bring earth delight Subject(s): Angels DUO, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman in the garden Last Line: Shall find a mother there! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Angels; Death; Prayer; Dead, The EAST SONG, by ALVARO MUTIS Poem Source First Line: At any turn Last Line: To your brief happiness on earth Subject(s): Angels; Death EASTER SERMON, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Do not mention angels, I am warned Last Line: Like sermons in the sky %I believe Subject(s): Angels ECHOES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still the angel stars are shining Last Line: Cry farewell, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Farewell; Night; Voices; Parting; Bedtime EMPTY CRADLE, by JOSE SELGAS Y CARRASO Poem Source First Line: The angels bending Last Line: They flew away Subject(s): Angels; Children; Cradles EPITAPH: 9, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For long my feet Last Line: My feet for wings. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The ESTATE SALE: THE SCRABBLE GAME OF A DEAD WOMAN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crowd of strangers flies over your life Last Line: To stand on. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Wings; Graveyards; Dead, The ETERNITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what a weary while it is to stand Last Line: Or any crumb of gloom to feed upon? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EVENING PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now I lay me down to sleep Last Line: And wake me with the morning light Subject(s): Angels EVERY MORNING AFTER KILLING THOUSANDS OF ANGELS, by TAMURA RYUICHI Poem Source First Line: I read a boy's poem called Last Line: Killing thousands of angels Subject(s): Angels EVERY VISIBLE THING, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Asparagus I can believe Last Line: Could have time or will for exaltations Subject(s): Angels EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't such a bad thing Last Line: Everyone knows whom the saved envy Subject(s): Angels; Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 1, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: Sundays we Last Line: Save these poor wretches Subject(s): Angels; Prayer; Sabbath EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 3, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: A squatting woman grins, or Last Line: Bones brushing, wings enfold me Subject(s): Angels; Birth; Women EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 4, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: God blesses Last Line: And amazed. The whole world is in love with me Subject(s): Angels; Love; Religion EXILE, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: This mania of knowing I am an angel Last Line: And devastate hope Subject(s): Angels; Exiles; Love - Complaints FABLES: 1ST SER. 27. THE SICK MAN AND THE ANGEL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no hope? The sick man said Last Line: Then why such haste? So groan'd and dy'd. Subject(s): Angels; Hope; Sickness; Optimism; Illness FALLING STARS, by BAYARD DOMINICK JR. Poem Text First Line: Whene'er a man commits a sin Last Line: Bright stars across the skies. Subject(s): Angels; Sin; Stars FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A LITTLE BOY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I must own, my dear sonny, 'tis likely but few Last Line: —look me up in the year nineteen-hundred-and-one. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers & Sons; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise FAREWELL TO EARTH, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Farewell! Farewell! Last Line: Until then—farewell! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death; Farewell; Heaven; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Dead, The; Parting; Paradise FIELD, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Crows land like horses neighs Last Line: Rain quiet as wings %on her back Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Death; Fields; San Francisco; Vietnam FLAX SEEDS IN BLOSSOM, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Graciously smiling, the heavens were generous Last Line: Heaven-like! Beautiful! Flowering flax! Variant Title(s): Flax Fields In Blossom Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Paradise FLEETING TO THE SPIRIT-LAND, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I am dying - life and strength are gone Last Line: Who strikes the harp with silver strings so gently?—— Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise FLESH, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of this world I live for-a woman you named Last Line: Where everything appears to be either angel or skull Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Memory FLOWERS, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: My stepfather brought me flowers today Last Line: Becaurse I had just sung my first solo Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels FOR BABIES, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: I visit babies %after the sun Last Line: Is going to be %all right Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels FOUNDING OF SAINT ANDREWS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Brother regulus awoke Last Line: God's angels know what they are about Subject(s): Angels FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lovely retching moss-capped cherub: this penny's for you Last Line: Throw them back, throw them out. Subject(s): Angels; Avignon, France; Disdain; Faith; Fountains; Gratitude; Prayer; Wishes; Scorn; Belief; Creed 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 FROM HOUSE TO HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first was like a dream through summer heat Last Line: And stay upon my god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; God; Angels FRUSTRATED ANGEL (CONVERSATION NO. 2), by JAY HOPLER Poem Source First Line: Why can't I stop pissing on homecoming queens Last Line: He still wants to know Subject(s): Angels; Conversation GABRIEL RETURNS FROM THE ANNUNCIATION, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Notice the wings of the angel Last Line: They open the valves of light Subject(s): Angels GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The noisy sparrows in our clematis Last Line: Supernal wisdom only knows how much. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Classmates; Death; Friendship; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Soul; Schoolmates; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise GETTING DRESSED, by LISA BAHLINGER Poem Source First Line: Maybe angels put on bodies Last Line: Pulsing power %and %dazzling glow Subject(s): Angels GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 4. FRA ANGELICO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They called him angel brother, for his smile Last Line: Floats like a presence his so pure renown. Subject(s): Angels; Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Jesus Christ; Soul GOD'S WILL, by GRACE AVERILL HERRON Poem Text First Line: God came and took him away Last Line: Till the day comes when we must meet our god. Subject(s): Angels; God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Holy Spirit; Theology GOODNIGHT ANGEL, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source Last Line: That I might sleep Subject(s): Angels GUARDIAN ANGEL, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: I am the bird that flutters against your window in the morning Last Line: Whom you cannot accept, %and who can never forget you Subject(s): Angels; Friends, Religious Society Of; Heaven HARAHEL WRITES ON THE HEAD OF A PIN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Hunched by the candle Last Line: It is always thus %with writers Subject(s): Angels HARPO AND THE ANGEL, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The manager gave me a harp %who cried on my shoulder Last Line: Knowing what I need to know %and giving me private lessons Subject(s): Angels HAVE YOU SEEN THE ANGELS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Every common way Subject(s): Angels HE AND SHE AND ANGELS THREE, by ELIZABETH SIDDAL Poem Source First Line: Ruthless hands have torn her Last Line: And sing at his right hand Subject(s): Angels HEAD, PERHAPS OF AN ANGEL, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Point dume was the point Last Line: To child and childless alike, indifferently. %I am coming Subject(s): Angels HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: O heaven, how glorious thou art Last Line: Thy holiness my heart? Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise HEAVEN'S FIRE, by TRISTAN GULLIFORD Poem Source Last Line: But words will not convert me Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Redemption HEAVEN'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Visions of bethlehem come to me Last Line: Brought down from heaven by angel's wing. Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Carols; Heaven; Singing & Singers; Stars; Paradise; Songs HEPHZIBAH CEMETERY, APRIL 1889, by CODY WALKER Poem Source First Line: Hephzibah means my delight is in thee Last Line: Wrecked, moored in georgia- %caleb Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death; Graves HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT ON THE SUBJECT OF ANGELS, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: Fallen %angels Last Line: They fall drop by drop Subject(s): Angels HYMN OF THE LOST SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrims of life are we! Last Line: Ye are doomed and damned for ever! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Despair; Guilt; Soul; Dead, The HYMN OF UNITY, by KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall narrate thy wonders wrought of old? Last Line: Who shall narrate? Subject(s): Angels; Jews; Peace; Togetherness; Judaism HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 3, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when we have not any light Last Line: To each unloving one. Subject(s): Angels; Children; God; Childhood I BRING LAUGHTER, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: I made you laugh, %isn't this fun? Last Line: I tickled my angel self, too Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels I HAD A DREAM, by EDITH FOSTER Poem Text First Line: I had a lovely dream today / I climbed Last Line: I played again with baby kay. Subject(s): Angels I SAW AN ANGEL STANDING IN THE SUN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Angels I SHALL BE GOD, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: God is spirit Last Line: And god is all. Subject(s): Angels; God; Religion; Soul; Spirituality; Theology I STILL LIVE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O thou, whose love is changeless Last Line: I thank thee that I live. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Immortality; Love; Paradise I. (RAFAEL CAME BY, THE NIGHT BEFORE THE DEPORTATIONS), by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rafael came by, the night before the deportations were to start. He was dressed Last Line: Where is the sky? Where? Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Angels; Travel IDEAL BEAUTY, by FERDINAND DE HERRERA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O light serene! Present in him who Last Line: The immortal still I seek and follow %on to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Herrera, Fernando De Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Heaven; Immortality IF THE ANGEL ASKS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: My son, where is your soul? - - Last Line: Clings and beats and crys in silence %and prays for love Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Angels IF THE LORD WOULD MAKE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN', by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She who had eyes but had not wherewithal Last Line: Might one day not be seen from anywhere Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Religion; Saints; Paradise; Theology IF THE LORD WOULD MAKE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN', by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She who had eyes but had not wherewithal Last Line: Might one day not be seen from anywhere Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Religion; Saints IMAGES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Her soul was so beautiful and delicate that two angels were Last Line: I dreamt I slept embracing an angel. I awoke to find an exotic %feather in my bed Subject(s): Angels; Dreams IN EXILE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel with a flaming sword Last Line: Whose form is life, whose shadow death! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Angels; Death; Exiles; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise IN THE LIBRARY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There's a book called Subject(s): Books; Angels; Reading IN THE SURGICAL THEATRE, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: In the moment between %the old heart and the new Last Line: The doctors pausing with their knives uplifted, the rush of wings %stirring a wind - Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Surgery INCOGNITO, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: An angel came and touched my hand Last Line: Were pain to his humility. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels INCONVENIENCE OF WINGS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my book of prayers I studied Last Line: Stand up. Put your weight on it Subject(s): Angels INFELIX, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, gazing on thy cradle sleep Last Line: And thine own mother comfort thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Comfort; Mothers; Infants INSIDE AN ANGEL, by MATTHEW ZAPRUDER Poem Source First Line: Angles are clever, and do not exist Last Line: It seems only those who feel nothing %say angel Subject(s): Angels ISLAND IN THE EARTH, by SARA DE IBANEZ Poem Source First Line: To the north, the cold and its broken jasmine Last Line: My dry island in the midst of the battle Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Islands JACOB AND THE ANGEL, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: The chandelier of stars Last Line: To wrestle with angels Subject(s): Angels JACOB BOEHME AND THE ANGEL, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A light in his workshop Last Line: Even the snow did not speak of it Subject(s): Angels KAMALI'S ANGEL, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: I saw an angel %in a bubble I blew Last Line: I would be sad %forever Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels KIARTAN THE ICELANDER: DEDICATION TO F. H., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When at one winter's end our boy looked forth Last Line: Fit for the world's one angel, love himself! Subject(s): Angels; Love; Voices; Winter LABOR, THE PROPHET, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: I am grim labor, I who boldly stand Last Line: Which kings and priests in terror will cast down Subject(s): Angels; Labor & Laborers; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Work; Workers; Theology LADDERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the angels were too old Last Line: We could count on a ram in the thicket %or stop the knife Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 2. BEFORE HE DIES, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: It is best to try in the morning. She makes her lips into fish and kisses Last Line: Love,' the angel says seductively. 'all love.' Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LEARNING HOW TO PRAY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When I die, I will practice the humble submission Last Line: All creatures tumbling under the canopy of clouds Subject(s): Angels; Knees; Prayer; Religion; Soul LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie - angels named her Last Line: From me like a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; God; Summer; Death - Babies LES AVEUGLES; TO P.T.A., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: As blind folk groping in a barren land Last Line: To our sure haven, down the great white road. Subject(s): Angels; Friendship; Mercy LESSON ON GUARDIAN ANGELS AT STAR OF THE SEA ELEMENTARY, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sister humiliana, sparrow Last Line: Waiting for the whitecaps %to collect them Subject(s): Angels LINES TO MISS F., by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "forbear, sweet girl; your scheme forego" Last Line: But keep their sister angel there Subject(s): Air Travel;angels;balloons;beauty;faces;women LINES WRITTEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER PARTING FROM A LADY, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is gone! The occasion for ever is past! Last Line: On delusion my raptures arose! Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation LISTENING ANGELS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue against the bluer heavens Last Line: Slowly passed away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Silence LITTLE JOHNNY, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Sing not, o blessed angels! Last Line: "and helpers of their joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Love; Sympathy; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Empathy LITTLE LEAGUE ANGEL, by GENE FEHLER Poem Source First Line: I squint through sunlight at the ball Last Line: He helped me start a double play! Subject(s): Angels LORD, HOW I RISE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Let me be your supreme law all the way to the end ed their heads Subject(s): Angels; God; Religion LOS ANGELES NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: You could say that the streets flow softly in the night Last Line: And when they sleep they dream, not of angels, but %of mortals Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Wings LOS ANGELES NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: It looks like the streets are flowing sweetly in the night Last Line: And when they sleep they will not dream of angels but of mortals Subject(s): Angels; Desire; Los Angeles; Love Affairs; Romance LUCIFER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Turning and turning Last Line: Fell night after Subject(s): Angels LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lennavan-mo Last Line: Lennavan-mo. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs MA DEESSE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her brow, - no language can express Last Line: Aught of angel-perfectness! Subject(s): Angels; Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Love MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN, by EUGENIO FLORIT Poem Source First Line: Yes, come to my arms, little doves of iron Last Line: Lodged within the contents of my heart Subject(s): Angels; Death; Doves; Love - Loss Of MARY AND CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How lovingly she looked on him Last Line: Of cross against the sky? Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MARY BURKE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Och! Shure 'tis well I mind the day Last Line: Mary burke—mary burke! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Dreams; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise MEETING, by IDA FASEL Poem Source First Line: Some make legends of angels Last Line: Saying holy holy holy %in that celestial company Subject(s): Angels; Heaven MEN AND MAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men the angels eyed Last Line: Bear radiant in the stain. Subject(s): Admiration; Angels; Mankind; Human Race MESSENGERS OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Through the sky are angels winging Last Line: When revealed in glory there. Subject(s): Angels; Bethlehem, Palestine; Heaven; Messages & Messengers; Wings; Paradise METAMORPH, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I have given away my wings Last Line: Light-stained years Subject(s): Angels MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not woman-faced and sweet, as look Last Line: Splendid beyond comparison! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Angels; Michael, The Archangel; Saints; Soldiers; Michael, Saint MICHAEL'S ANGEL, by SAILOR METTS Poem Source First Line: I saw an angel's picture Last Line: But I bet he guards me the most! Subject(s): Angels MID-MORNING CHAT WITH CHARLES SIMIC WHILE WAITING FOR THE CONCORD, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: What are the colors of true splendor? Last Line: They stand less stiffy bouffant hairdo of wind segue into white Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven MIDNIGHT, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And suddenly I wakened in a fright Last Line: If he would let me off -- he said he would. Subject(s): Angels; Night; Bedtime MIDNIGHT AT THE MILL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once an angel came and said Last Line: "and I would lovely be!" Subject(s): Angels; Dreams; Murder; Nightmares MINISTERING ANGELS, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They parted - one to soothe the dying Subject(s): Angels MINISTERING ANGELS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angels of light, spread your bright wings Last Line: O take me home! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Fear; Hearts; Life MINNIE'S DEPARTURE, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest minnie, she has left us, Last Line: Tears there from our eyes will steal. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Angels MISSION OF THE PUFFBALL, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike my brain, it was smooth Last Line: Do as the air tells you Subject(s): Angels MODERN SPIRITUALISM, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trust that ancient folly yet shall come Last Line: And fills the future world with fools. Subject(s): Angels; Ghosts; Mediums; Supernatural; Spiritualists MORNING PAPER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The morning paper is opened out on the 7:35 Last Line: A procession behind glass %as if to a restricted and private funeral on some star Subject(s): Angels; Death; Funerals; Soul MORNING PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Angel of god %my guardian dear Last Line: To light and guard %to rule and guide Subject(s): Angels MOZART IN HEAVEN, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: The small astonished angels said: who can that be? Who in the world can that be Last Line: And from then on wolfgang amadeus mozart was the youngest of angels Subject(s): Angels; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) MY ANGEL, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: No one can hurt me %an angel comes to guard Last Line: Snatches me away %from all danger Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels MY ANGEL, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My passion was an angel veiled in grey Last Line: Shrouded and still she lies 'twixt you and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels MY ANGEL-DRESS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavenly father, I would wear Last Line: Clothed, adopted I shall be. Subject(s): Angels; Clothing & Dress MY GOOD ANGEL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very simple are my pleasures Last Line: Herein all my askings be. Subject(s): Angels MY GUARDIAN ANGEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear angel ever at my side Last Line: You're watching over me Subject(s): Angels MY HEAVEN, by CATHERINE CUSHMAN LEACH Poem Text First Line: Your heaven, friend, has massive gates of / gold Last Line: Within a heaven so loveless, friend, as thine. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Paradise MY LOVE DIED, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: My love died she left but said nothing to me Last Line: But he also says nothing Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of 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 NAMES, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: The cherubs at the manger Last Line: Into the waiting fold Subject(s): Angels NIGHT, by CARLYLE FERREN MACINTYRE Poem Text First Line: The ever-busy weaver clouds are carding Last Line: Wash clean the earth from stain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Peace; Rest; Dead, The NIGHT ANGELS, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: All over the cities Last Line: At heaven's front door Subject(s): Angels NINE ELEGIES FOR AMY MCCLELLAND: 7., by HUGH STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: I want to imagine that you are an angel, taht you are Last Line: Left this world, this sweet old world Subject(s): Angels; Death; Memory NO PEEPING, by VICKI L. COUCH Poem Source First Line: I cannot tell %if I'm awake Last Line: Till next time, %I'm asleep Subject(s): Angels NOTHING REMAINS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing remains of unrecorded ages Last Line: This, this remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Time; Dead, The ODE ON MUSIC, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! The sweet vibrating lyre Last Line: Hosannahs to their glorious king Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Immortality; Music And Musicians; Saints ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns Last Line: His glory fills the air. Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON BEING AN ANGEL, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Angels are diverse and misunderstood Last Line: Angels hope to be reincarnated as parrots Subject(s): Angels; Heaven ON THE PICTURE OF AN ANGEL BY FRA ANGELICO, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in Last Line: To rest me in a fairer italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Angels; Italy; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro; Italians ONE ANGEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A homely little woman with big Last Line: "a homely little angel with big hands!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Hands ONE OF EARTH'S ANGELS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now art thou beautiful, thou child of light! Last Line: Thy presence to such heights hath lifted me! Subject(s): Angels OUR ANGELS, by RUBY PRICE DEBOE Poem Text First Line: Often when the crooning night winds Last Line: Where the holy angels lead. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Messages & Messengers; Paradise OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY, by CATHERINE MCALEESE Poem Text First Line: In a little chapel lowly / kneels a child Last Line: Of our lady of the rosary. Subject(s): Angels; Prayer; Saints OUR LIVES AS ANGELS, by SCOTT BEAL Poem Source First Line: We expected at least halos and we scrutinized Last Line: On the murmur below in which gradually we fancied we heard voices knotted pleas for help Subject(s): Angels; Future Life PARADISE, by EDUARDO URIOS-APARISI Poem Source First Line: God of day, you that wake the light, you Last Line: A field of violets grows Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Sky PEACE, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Let the reign of hate cease Last Line: Be unclouded and long! Subject(s): Angels; Peace PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 20. AL-'ALIM, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ye keep hidden your mind, if ye declare it loud Last Line: With hearts unveiled on thee we call. Subject(s): Angels; God; Islam PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 77. AL-MUTAHALI, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis written in the chapter 'of the cave' Last Line: Exalted art thou past our ken. Variant Title(s): Moses And The Angel Subject(s): Angels; Bible; God; Islam; Jews; Moses; Judaism PERHAPS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, once, and a woman Last Line: For twenty years? Subject(s): Angels; Hearts; Love PHILOSOPHY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At morn the wise man walked abroad Last Line: "jehovah, god, save thou my child." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; God; Night; Philosophy & Philosophers; Bedtime PHOTOGRAPHING ANGELS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first angel you brought us stands high Last Line: The piety of eggs, the light in a dark room. Angels Subject(s): Angels PILLOW AND STONE, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a stone in olden time Last Line: The pillow's changed to stone!— Subject(s): Angels; Jews; Judaism PINDARIC ODE: DESTINIE [DESTINY], by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange and unnatural! Lets stay and see Last Line: And all thy great forefathers were, from homer down to ben. Subject(s): Angels; Chess; Poetry & Poets PISTIS SOPHIA: A DISPATCH, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: She took the twisting serpent in hand Last Line: So what did the earth matter Subject(s): Angels PODAGER BEGS PARDON OF BIRDS, BEES, AND WINGS IN GENERAL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, all ye birds that float at ease Last Line: A chiding angel, of the smallest wing. Subject(s): Angels; Bees; Birds; Flight; Insects; Wings; Beekeeping; Flying; Bugs POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 1, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither all nor any angels arrive in the mind where Last Line: Out in the first mud and forsythia. Far outside. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Memory; Reason; Time; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PRAYER, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were in a book it would be the book Subject(s): Soul; Angels PRAYER, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of lost spectacles Last Line: In your pocket of light Subject(s): Angels PRAYER FOR THE NEST, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Sweet lord, I for a brother make my prayer Last Line: The bird's nest bears the semblance of a heart! Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Prayer PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The memory of a simple tale, / called up from childhood's years Last Line: "warding off despair." Subject(s): Angels; Death; Legends; Mothers & Daughters; Poverty; Spinning; Dead, The PRESENTED TO THE KING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye careful angels, whom eternal fate Last Line: Averted darts of rage, and pointless arms of death. Subject(s): Angels; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Night; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Destiny; Bedtime PROLOGUE TO A TIME THAT IS NOT ITSELF, by EUNICE ODIO Poem Source First Line: Nothing was forseen Last Line: Growing in secret Subject(s): Angels; Children; God; Heaven PROMISES OF A VALENTINE'S DAY, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: My love: %I wanted to thank you for the gifts you sent me for Last Line: And I will make you happy. %you will be like a king for me. %and shall be your queen. %I promise you Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Music And Musicians; Valentine's Day PSALM: 8, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How noble is thy mighty name Last Line: 9 how noble each-where is thy name! Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Names; Praise QUATRAINS OF IDLENESS, by EDWIN LEFEVRE Poem Text First Line: When angels walk across the sky Last Line: To use in case he has to drink. Subject(s): Angels; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence QUEEN OF ANGELS, PROVIDENCE, AND MERCY, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: I am here on a mechanical matter dozing hooked to the apparatus Last Line: Rustling away the old paraphernalia the stern hem of the minister Subject(s): Angels QUESTIONS ABOUT ANGELS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the questions you might want to ask Subject(s): Angels RABBI LOEW AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Leaving his studies Last Line: Will dance the letters of your name Subject(s): Angels REAL THING, by LISA BAHLINGER Poem Source First Line: Angel stickers, %angel stamps Last Line: We'd recognize %one of those? Subject(s): Angels RECITAL, by MARY LOU CARNEY Poem Source First Line: Angels dancing in the dark Last Line: Angels dance %the minuet? Subject(s): Angels REQUEST, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Angel sitting on a star Last Line: Teach us what we need to know Subject(s): Angels REQUIEM OF ARCHANGELS FOR THE WORLD, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearts, beat no more! Earth's sleep has come! Last Line: The torches of thy train of stars! Subject(s): Angels; Sleep RESURREXI, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: From the throne of life eternal Last Line: Like an amulet of safety, to your heart forevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Mortality; Prayer; Spirituality RILKE'S ANGELS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: At times it must be sad to be one of them Last Line: A terribly astonished breath Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Prayer; Wings ROAST LEVIATHAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old jews!' well, david, aren't we? Last Line: Jeered at? Well, let them laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Angels; Feasts; Fights; God; Jews; Monsters; Judaism ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 15. TO THE ANGELS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is dread thanatos indeed! Last Line: Ye angels, grant matilda your protection! Subject(s): Angels; Life; Marriage; Tears; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SACRED PLACES, by LAURA STILL Poem Source First Line: Another time %ghost crabbing on the beach Last Line: Keeping the secret %another time Subject(s): Angels; Ghosts; Saints; Supernatural SAINT CECILY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what she sang, or if she sang Last Line: When angels spake with her. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Saints SAINT SEBASTIAN, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On slow and smoky fire thou burn'st and art consumed Last Line: To kiss thy mouth? Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Sebastian, Saint (d. 288); Paradise SAN GABRIEL ARCANGEL, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Veil of the sierra madre! Sheen of light to tell whose / gleam Last Line: Let the Æons antiphone it, till time sees the end of days! Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Messengers; Missions & Missionaries; Paradise SATAN ABSOLVED; A VICTORIAN MYSTERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Satan. To-day is the lord's 'day.' once more on his / good pleasure Last Line: Michael (aside). The anti-christ! Subject(s): Angels; Antichrist; Christianity; Devil; Evil; Heaven; Mystery; Religion & Science; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise SAVING LOVE, by WHITLEY STOKES Poem Text First Line: Methought I stood before the face of god Last Line: Our sister makes us dearer than we were' (59). Subject(s): Angels; Religion; Theology SHE CAME TO ME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She came to me Last Line: And the past was lost in the radiant flame! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise; Male-female Relations SHEPHERD, SHEPHERD, HARK, by THERESA OF AVILA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling! Last Line: Angels they are, and the day is dawning Alternate Author Name(s): Teresa Of Avila; Teresa Of Jesus; Teresa De Avila Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SILENTLY FLUTTER THE ANGELS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Immortality, verbs of the sun, %stop, rest, lay the flutes aside Last Line: Clear the hill, clear the life %clear the path of the milky way, clear charity Subject(s): Angels SILK AND FLAX, SELS, by META KUSAR Poem Source First Line: Photosynthesis is a legitimate process Last Line: This line in the palm of my hand Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Soul SINERA CEMETERY: 24, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: No eternalized waves Last Line: Of sea and cloud Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven SISTERS, COUSINS, AND WAYWARD ANGELS, by DAVID TILLINGHAST Poem Source First Line: My sister and I dwell in the lost Last Line: Clipped from baby angels %culled at birth Subject(s): Angels; Family Life SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden, glowing Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise SNOW ANGELS, by MARY LOU CARNEY Poem Source First Line: Do snow angels shiver Last Line: At thirty-one below? Subject(s): Angels SNOW REST, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR Poem Text First Line: The down of angels wafted slowly to the earth Last Line: Obscured as the floss in a blanket heaven-made. Subject(s): Angels; Snow; White (color); Winter SOFT, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: My mama holds me Last Line: Precious baby, %precious one.' Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels SOME ANGEL, by DAVID SWANGER Poem Source First Line: Thinking how fathers die, I want Last Line: Rented for the final, gutteral afternoon Subject(s): Angels; Death SOME MOTIONLESS CONFLICT IN THE SKY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Colors; Angels; Sky SONG FOR TWO, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: Two hearts are singing a love song Last Line: I love you. My father. My son.' Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels SONG OF THE ANGELS AT THE NATIVITY, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night Last Line: "begin, and never cease!" Variant Title(s): Christmas Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 27, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some kind angel, gently flying Last Line: E'er shall shake my constant mind. Subject(s): Angels; Faces; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart! Last Line: And death must dig the level where these agree. Variant Title(s): Death And Love Subject(s): Death; Angels; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations SOON, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: Soon one evening or soon one morn Last Line: A wonderful angel like me Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night. Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology SPIRITUAL SONNET: ON ANGELS, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angels, as well as birds, on silent wing Last Line: With kind and piercing glance of soul and eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E. Subject(s): Angels SPIRITUAL SONNET: THE STREAM OF LIFE, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angelic figures gliding in the stream Last Line: Minds where a lasting melody is sung. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E. Subject(s): Angels; Life SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 8. ANGEL DUST, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: I met monsignor in the vestibule Last Line: Letting them divvy the body and soul Subject(s): Angels; Churches; Death; Religion SPRING (1), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love as the resurrection angel, goes Last Line: Will never staunch the tears of mortal eyes. Subject(s): Angels; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Service and strength, god's angels and archangels Last Line: With all his creatures. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Michael, The Archangel; Saints; Michael, Saint ST. PETER AND THE ANGEL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delivered out of raw continual pain, Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Angels STUDIES OF THE VIRGIN: ICONS IN SERIES: OUR LADY OF THE BELT BUCKLE, by BECKY GOULD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: The assumption by di giovanni Last Line: The angels are wearing socks! Subject(s): Angels; Clothing And Dress; Religion SUNSET (IMPROMPTU DURING A WALK WITH E. CLAY), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant 'tis at eventide Last Line: Where there is no more night. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Paradise SWAN BY THE MALL, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The swan's white bulk, crumbled like a corrugated box Last Line: Drawing itself from death's shrunken [or, sunken] belly into the room? Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Medicine; Nurses; Swans TAKE PARADISE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: A willowy swamp once stewed just off %the highway by the lake, till kmart Last Line: This anchor of the human spirit, where you can get %the cheapest batteries in town Subject(s): Angels; Good; Heaven; Saints; Sky TEARS, by RICARDO GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: Angel of my earthly paradise, star of my gloomy night Last Line: My soul been left without thine! Subject(s): Angels; Graves; Grief; Tears TEEN ANGELS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The holy family gathers on a desert mountain top Last Line: Sob clots, the donkey and the oxen, though half-painted, %braying with big teeth Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Paintings And Painters; Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492) TELL ME FAIREST MAIDEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once a little angel Last Line: Through the gates above? Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Love; Mothers; Infants THE ANGEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked a thief to steal me a peach Last Line: Enjoyed the lady. Variant Title(s): "i Asked A Thief To Steal Me A Peach"";i Asked A Thief; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Crime & Criminals; Mythology THE ANGEL, by DOROTHY S. SILVERMAN Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I saw an angel in the sky Last Line: And with a sigh, she floated far away. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jews; Paradise; Judaism THE ANGEL (1), by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the heavens of midnight an angel was sped Last Line: The song wherewith heaven had thrilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Paradise THE ANGEL AND THE LITTLE OLD LADY, by ROBERT LAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel / appeared to Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Angels; Wishes THE ANGEL OF DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the beautiful angel Last Line: And death, thy friend, will give them all to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE ANGEL OF GOD IN THE GARDEN OF DAME PHANTASY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Dame fancy's garden hath a deep bocage Last Line: The simples of her art will make them live alway Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Love; Music & Musicians; Paradise THE ANGEL OF THE CORNICE, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Listen to me, ye creeping ants of men Last Line: Ye, too, shall learn the love that is remorse. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Angels; Heroism; New York City - Buildings; Heroes; Heroines THE ANGEL OF THE SUN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While bending o'er my golden lyre Last Line: Rise, cherub, rise! Thy palm is won! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Angels; Universe THE ANGEL OF TRUTH, by LEOPOLD STEIN Poem Text First Line: Once th' omnipotent maker of world without end Last Line: And his sovereign law all his creatures obey. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jews; Justice; Paradise; Judaism THE ANGEL THAT MISSED CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Along the hills the echoes died away Last Line: And the world's christ was ready for his cross. Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The THE ANGEL'S BIDDING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sound is heard in the convent Last Line: "at the deed you have done to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE ANGEL'S CHRISTMAS QUEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where have ye laid my lord? Last Line: Swathing the limbs of love! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The THE ANGEL'S SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let us sing the angel's song Last Line: Glory to god! And peace on earth.' Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise THE ANGEL'S SONG, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have a land of mist and shade Last Line: Sing ye that song to me. Subject(s): Angels THE ANGEL'S STORY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Through the blue and frosty heavens christmas stars were shining bright Last Line: No one knew who rested there. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels THE ANGEL'S TREASURE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stude a wee house on a lanely muirside Last Line: "wha trusts thee in need, s'all be blest in the en'." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Angels; Widows & Widowers THE ANGEL'S VISIT, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I believe in angels? Yes Last Line: To bring my overcoat to me. Subject(s): Angels THE ANGEL'S WHISPER, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby was sleeping Last Line: "said, ""I knew that the angels were whispering with thee." Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Children; Sleep; Smiles; Infants; Childhood THE ANGELS, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Run, shepherds, run where bethlehem blest appears Last Line: And cope of stars reëchoéd the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): For The Nativity Of Our Lord Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The THE ANGELS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithless as saint thomas, never Last Line: Whom the people call a bard. Subject(s): Angels THE ANGELS, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lassitude of angels Last Line: Their suffering has brought Subject(s): Angels THE ANGELS MARVEL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are stars up in the heavens Last Line: Is his one creature—man. Subject(s): Angels; Creation; Heaven; Mankind; Stars; Paradise; Human Race THE BEAUTY IN MY HEART, by MAUDE ZOBEL Poem Text First Line: Of the beauty in my heart / you seem a thing Last Line: You are the beauty in my heart. Subject(s): Angels THE BEELAH VIADUCT, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: O wondrous age! A wondrous age we live in Last Line: When we have bid farewell to earthly things. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Faith; Religion; World; Belief; Creed; Theology THE BIRTH ANGELS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy-lidded enterprise of the dead Last Line: A sudden consciousness, the thrashing of wings Subject(s): Angels 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 CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not lift him in my arms. His face Last Line: O, we are both bereft, bereft—the mother and the child! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Birth; Children; Courts & Courtiers; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE CHILD-ANGEL'S RETURN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: A child-angel came down from her home in high heaven Last Line: "at the longest, my dear ones, it cannot be long." Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Death, Return From; Heaven; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Paradise THE CHILDREN'S ANGEL, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The streets are dark at clermont in auvern Last Line: "and take the children's angel from their youth." Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Angels; Children; France; Childhood THE CHOLERA MORBUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It comes! It comes! From england's trembling tongue Last Line: Requite the love that snatched them from the pest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Angels; Death; England; Love; Dead, The; English THE CHRISTMAS TREE OF THE ANGELS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen god's christmas tree in the sky Last Line: To this tree of god in paradise? Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Magic; Paradise THE CITY CLERK (WHEN HIS CHILD LAY DYING), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of her when sunshine falls Last Line: Would pass her by. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE COURSE OF TIME: THE ONCE-OVER, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, all was calm in heaven. Nor yet appeared Last Line: Now glanced a look on man, and then retired. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Sky; Paradise THE CROSS OF THE DUMB; A CHRISTMAS ON IONA, LONG, LONG AGO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One eve, when st. Columba strode Last Line: Who on that day was glad and proud! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Columba, Saint (521-597); Generosity; Guests; Iona, Scotland; Miracles; Salvation; Strangers; Nativity, The; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Visiting THE DEATH OF MOSES, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, who spake with god as with his friend Last Line: "he dwells not with you dead, but lives as law." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Law & Lawyers; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Attorneys; Theology THE DESTROYING ANGEL, OR, THE POET'S DREAM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream the other night Last Line: But, alas, I started up in bed, and behold it was a dream! Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Evil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FIERCE BIRDS, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kindling the air, fierce birds with feathers of fire Last Line: Angels exulted in fruits that are secret and sweet and forbidden. Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Feathers; Wings THE GATE OF FAME, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Open the portal, let me in Last Line: The key to the gate of fame. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE GOOD ANGEL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good angel / time and again he would come Last Line: And solid, at last Subject(s): Angels THE GUARDIAN ANGELS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father john in the green lane went Last Line: "I thank thee, lord,"" he said." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Angels; Clergy; Healing; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Cures THE HEAVEN-SIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was soft with tender blue Last Line: Seem isles of peace in upper air. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Peace; Paradise THE HERMIT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, counting human joys as vain Last Line: And sees in heaven the smile of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Angels; God; Hermits; Rewards THE HOMELESS POOR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm the city lay in midnight silence Last Line: In thy homeless ones to succor thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Homeless; Poverty; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE IDLE WORD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: We did not spare to speak him ill Last Line: Look up and find another star. Subject(s): Angels; God; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE IMPRISONED SOUL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weary, sorrowful soul of man Last Line: And time and fate shall bind no more. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Soul; Paradise THE INQUIRY, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men may delighted be with springs Last Line: And that his godhead in his works doth shine. Subject(s): Angels THE LAST JUDGMENT, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To his angel company drowsing on their strings Last Line: And showed her small round bosom kissed by the asp. Subject(s): Angels; Gabriel; God THE LEGEND OF EASTER EGGS, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trinity bells with their hollow lungs Last Line: Of the holy marvel of easter day. Subject(s): Angels; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE LIBELLED BENEFACTOR, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They warned me by all that affection could urge Last Line: "but short-sighted mortals have christened me death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Death; Life; Dead, The THE LOST LOVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Simple and sweet as a child Last Line: Simple and sweet as a child. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Paradise THE LOST STAR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A star was loosed from heaven Last Line: On the lips of eternal light. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; God; Stars THE MAIDEN VIOLAINE, SELECTION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: The angel of god bears tidings of peace Last Line: The vine. Subject(s): Angels; God; Religion; Theology THE MERCY SEAT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in an enamel tub with a black Last Line: While he was content to settle on the facts... Subject(s): Angels; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Salvation; Vision; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MESSENGER, by O. B. MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben josef, old and blind Last Line: "should prove a messenger from me." Subject(s): Angels; Clergy; Heaven; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Paradise; Judaism THE NIGHT OUR DARLING DIED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking of an evening, a weary time ago Last Line: In the hours of weary watching, that night our darling died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE ONLY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lest he miss other children, lo! Last Line: His happy mother's tears and prayers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Angels; Children; Play; Childhood THE ORGANIST, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Soft thro' the chancel casement Last Line: Before the great white throne. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Paradise THE PRISON AND THE ANGEL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Self is the only prison that can ever bind Last Line: His way may lie through darkness, but it leads to light at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Angels; Prisons & Prisoners THE PROMISE IN DISTURBANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How low when angels fall their black descent Last Line: The rebel discords up the sacred mount. Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Heaven; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise THE ROAD TO CURRASHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There's a lonesome, rugged road Last Line: Like what led to currasheen! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness THE SABBATH DAY-KIDDUSH AND HABDALAH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou sweet sabbath of rest! Priceless gift from / above! Last Line: "while a creature incarnate, a foretaste of heaven" Subject(s): Angels;faith;jews;messengers;sabbath; Belief;creed;judaism;sunday THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise 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 SKY OF ANGELS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light within light Last Line: Before memory began, or I was a child. Subject(s): Angels; Memory; Sky THE SPIRIT-CHILD, BY 'JENNIE', by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, thou holy heaven above us! Last Line: Rise victorious in the strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE SUPREME GIFT, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: A singer with eyes on the star lighted heavens Last Line: And giving herself, she gave all. Subject(s): Angels; Children - Lost; Heaven; Love; Paradise THE TROUBLESOME BABY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones cling to the mother Last Line: That may love thee better than all. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Caregivers; Mothers; Rest; Infants THE TWO ANGELS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two angels, one of life and one of death Last Line: Against his messengers to shut the door? Subject(s): Angels; Immortality THE TWO ANGELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God called the nearest angels who dwell with him above Last Line: "henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song of sin forgiven!" Subject(s): Angels; Service THE VEIL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I thought a veil was lifted from mine eyes Last Line: And straight my vision vanished utterly. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Prayer; Paradise THE VIGIL OF AIDEN, SELECTION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the rosy bowers of aiden Last Line: There to rest forevermore. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE VISION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft a white-robed angel I beheld Last Line: I saw the starry multitudes ablaze. Subject(s): Angels; Love; Vision THE WAITING ANGEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are leaning through the roses Last Line: Surely I shall rise and go. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE WAKERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass Last Line: And there was the old scolding of the birds. Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Heaven; Rebirth; Shadows; Sleep; Dead, The; Paradise THE WATCHERS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She fell asleep among the flowers Last Line: May they all meet in heaven. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Crosses; Grief; Love; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness THE WATCHERS ON THE ROAD, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hill road, the desert road Last Line: With a white and terrible sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Angels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Roads; Paths; Trails THE WEAVER OF SOULS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this unseen messenger Last Line: From thee, o angel of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Angels; God; Love; Relationships; Soul THOUSANDS: THE GUARDING ANGEL, by LAIRD HUNT Poem Source First Line: Abe did finally get his wings. They were long and slender and incurving, and Last Line: It was the sound of his head being hit against a cornice and abe hung limply %up, up Subject(s): Angels TO A CHILD IN HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: How dost thou fare in the high, silent skies? Last Line: Since thou art there and I to earth exiled? Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise TO AN EVOLUTIONIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good, probing friend, I accept your view Last Line: We both may be angels, by and by. Subject(s): Angels; Evolution TO ANGELIC CIRCUMSTANCES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless you, angelic circumstances Subject(s): Angels; Blessings TO ANGELIC CIRCUMSTANCES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless you, angelic circumstances Last Line: The blest air that we breathe! Subject(s): Angels; Blessings TO LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie!' angels missed her Last Line: Than the morning skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Tears; Death - Babies; Paradise TO MY FATHER, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I kneel, my father, here beside thy grave Last Line: Where thou my father with the angels art. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven; Veterans Day; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise TO THE END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are lilies for her sisters Last Line: And leaning from the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Death; Flowers; Heaven; Lilies; Love; Dead, The; Paradise TO THE FATHER OF THE UNIVERSE, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Source First Line: Tell me, thou common father, tell me Last Line: Is earth a spot for heaven-born souls to %love?' Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion TO THE PROTECTOR, ANGEL, OF INTELLECTUAL DOUBT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gods many and lords many be Last Line: But who save you can succour faith? Subject(s): Angels; Faith; God; Heaven; Saints; Belief; Creed; Paradise TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A windy shell singing upon the shore Last Line: Shall he find faith upon the earth? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Belief; Creed; Paradise TO WINIFRED (AGED EIGHTEEN MONTHS), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The angels alone might tell you Last Line: The sorrow it needs must find! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Infants TOBIAS AND THE FISH, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grab this fish by the gills, said the angel Last Line: And calmed the dark waters Subject(s): Angels TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O EARTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, scene of what toil and anguish Last Line: Scarce sustain! Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Soul; Paradise TRAGEDIES: 6, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: At top of the thinnest steeple-spire Last Line: And whispers and waves in the drafty air. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Lips; Night; Paradise; Bedtime TRAGEDIES: 7, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A rose-set cloud had kiss'd her cheek Last Line: And the bar of heaven closes at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Kisses; Lips; Night; Sun; Paradise; Bedtime TRANSITION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O lay again thy hand in mine Last Line: Dear voice, speak on. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Love - Nature Of; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY HOUSE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The house is brown, a simple framed structure Last Line: Traveling over a great distance at a spirited pace Subject(s): Angels; Churches; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Spirituality; Women - Bible TRANSLATION OF THE PATRIARCH, by LUCY A. RANDALL Poem Text First Line: No tombstone saw they there Last Line: Reveals how enoch went home to him. Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism TRANSLATION: 5. PUT ASIDE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bitterness %the swamp of it Last Line: Benevolent whispers %angels' wings Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TREE-TOP ANGEL, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source Last Line: Even when you're %tucked away Subject(s): Angels TRIAD: 2. VISIT, by ALEJANDRO ESCALONA Poem Source First Line: You invade the fullness of an afternoon Last Line: The love that joined us...Never and always Subject(s): Angels; Death; Shadows TROUBLED BY AN ANGEL, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: It was not the cow's fault Last Line: Is always in the way Subject(s): Angels TWENTY-EIGHT ANGELS RULING IN THE TWENTY-EIGHT MANSIONS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: In each house there is cheese on the table Last Line: Plump in their autumn skins Subject(s): Angels UNDER A WINGED CUPID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis vain to haste when love pursues Last Line: "for he has wings, - thou, only feet" Subject(s): Angels;arrows;cupid;love;passion; Eros UNDER THE VULTURE-TREE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have all seen them circling pastures Last Line: With mercy enough to consume us all and give us wings. Subject(s): Angels; Mercy; Trees; Vultures UNSEEN ANGELS, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: I've never really seen one Last Line: And that's enough %for me Subject(s): Angels VIOLIN SONGS: THE FLOWER-ANGELS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of old, with goodwill from the skies Last Line: In flowers even read his mind. Subject(s): Angels; Flowers; God VISION OF THREE ANGELS VIEWING THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And the first with his hands folded and a money belt for a truss Last Line: So I'll stick around until judgment. Heaven is a sometime thing Subject(s): Angels; Economics; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Socialism; Work; Workers VISITATION IN A PEWTER DISH, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When jacob finished stitching Last Line: Out of the fields of light Subject(s): Angels VISITOR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: She was living with an angel. A fugitive, secretive angel Last Line: Haltingly describe to her the angelic geography of distant worlds Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Wings VOICES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are voices that come from the beyond Last Line: Of god's eternity. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Mouths; Voices; Paradise WEATHER REPORT, by MARY LOU CARNEY Poem Source First Line: Do you suppose Last Line: Anyone knows %for sure! Subject(s): Angels WET EARTH, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: Wet earth of liquid evenings when the rain Last Line: An acolyte of camphor, %slightly swordfish, slightly %saint isador labrador... Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, GARCIA LORCA?, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In andalusia, along the blue mediterranean sea Last Line: Spreading its bright red skirts like a new wound %upon the sallow sea Subject(s): Angels; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936) WHEN I AM DEAD, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: I'll have no compromise Last Line: Their paradise. ... Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise WHEN, WITH YOU ASLEEP, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: When, with you asleep, I plunge into your soul Last Line: The secret of the center %of the heavens Subject(s): Angels; Dreams; Heaven; Love - Loss Of WHERE ANGELS WATCH, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: Tonight in the sky Last Line: For the angels to see? Subject(s): Angels WHILE ANGELS WEEP, by ED ZAHNISER Poem Source First Line: Sanctus by benoit: the organ prelude Last Line: While angels weep, hopes to bolster us %another week while angels weep Subject(s): Angels; Religion WHISPER OF ANGEL WINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Today I stumbled and once again Last Line: The whisper of angel wings hovering near Subject(s): Angels WHY?, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What makes you ask dan cupid 'why?' Last Line: For love never knows the reason why. Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Eros WINGED ONES, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No birthday gift whiter or stranger Last Line: Angel who forgives Subject(s): Angels WINGS, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: I once had %two wings! Last Line: Exactly as if they were thawing! Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Wings WINGSPUN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Mornings she descended the stairs and waited by the stove Last Line: Lingering among the trees Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Spirituality WITNESS, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: The hands can help, I see Last Line: Wiped away by the clasp %of helping hands Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels WORK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If some great angel spoke to me tonight Last Line: Where will and work and strength go hand in hand Subject(s): Angels;labor & Laborers;nature YAEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She must be an angel, waiting outside Last Line: She knows what she has to do Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War YE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury thy dead, dear friend Last Line: Take comfort, he will not forget Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Soul; Angels; Heaven; God |
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