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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ASCENSION DAY Matches Found: 37 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASCENSION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body lay on the bier of death Last Line: "but say, from vienna or munich instead." Subject(s): Ascension Day; Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology ASCENSION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretching himself as if again Subject(s): Ascension Day; Religion; Theology ASCENSION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretching himself as if again Last Line: Mothering his birth: %torture and bliss Subject(s): Ascension Day; Religion ASCENSION, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the gray dawn they left jerusalem Last Line: He was uplifted from us, and was gone %into the darkness of another dawn Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: All things climb a starry stair Last Line: Will tomorrow be a wing! Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION (1), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The time is come / for times great lord to think Last Line: And their ascension thus supply. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Happiness; Heaven; Home; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joy; Delight; Paradise ASCENSION DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When christ went up to heaven Last Line: Is that his cloud?' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION DAY, 1964, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From leaf to leaf in silence Last Line: Impelled to giggle %at any crucifixion Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord almighty who hast formed us weak Last Line: We may pursue thy steps, lord jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION LILIES, by HELEN WALL STALLWORTH Poem Text First Line: The hours that come between the colored drift Last Line: To glorify their lord on easter morn. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Flowers; Lilies ASCENSION NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take a bath enveloped Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy; Italians ASCENSION NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take a bath enveloped Last Line: Moonlight over the alps %in a stormy sky Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy ASCENSION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright portals of the sky Last Line: From top of olivet such notes did rise, %when man's redeemer did transcend the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): An Hymn Of The Ascension; Song Of The Ascensio Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden harps are sounding Last Line: Glory to our king! Subject(s): Ascension Day AT THE ASCENSION, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou, holy shepherd, leave Last Line: How beggared wilt thou leave us, how %obscure! Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Ascension Day; Grief BOTHWELL: PART 5, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascension morn! I hear the bells Last Line: The sword that darnley wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts CHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye humble souls that seek the lord Last Line: To realms of endless day Subject(s): Ascension Day FORTY DAYS: THE SECOND ASCENSION OF CHRIST, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forty days %and forty nights, which were as days Last Line: Go tell the roman synagogue. %tell rome! Subject(s): Ascension Day HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a holy thing to see Last Line: Nor poverty the mind appall. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a holy thursday, their innocent faces clean Last Line: Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty HYMN: 14. THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And other wond'rous works were done Last Line: To reign with god for evermore Subject(s): Ascension Day HYMN: ASCENSION DAY AND SUNDAY AFTER, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit thou on my right hand, my son!' saith the lord Last Line: "and the work which thy worthiness hath done!" Subject(s): Ascension Day JOHN REMEMBERS, by PAUL SMITH Poem Text First Line: Then I saw the ascension Last Line: Peacefully green, and eternal. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) RESURGAM, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: It happened on an april day Last Line: Christ rose upon an april day! Subject(s): Ascension Day ROGATIONTIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who scatters tares shall reap no wheat Last Line: Tho' man weary himself to find the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day; Rogation Days SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE CLOUD WHICH CARRIED OFF THE MASTER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O this blak [cloud]! Why indeed does it show its shining breast to me? Last Line: If it does not bring night, behold it steals away the day Subject(s): Ascension Day SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DAY OF THE MASTER'S PASSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, o christ, do we hold you, our loves? Last Line: We are powerless because you do not ascend to it, %heaven itself indeed descends for you, christ Subject(s): Ascension Day SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE MASTER'S ASCENSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He goes through the open gates of his heaven Last Line: How else would you celebrate a triumph, who else would was sufficient? Subject(s): Ascension Day SACRED EPIGRAM: RAISE OUR EYES, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift our eyes, o lift our eyes with you, your stars Last Line: These would be blinded by their own tears without their sun Subject(s): Ascension Day SACRED EPIGRAM: THE DISCIPLES LAMENT CHRIST'S DEPARTURE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has gone away. Now o you evils, whichever ones remain to us Last Line: Already have perished at the departure of their lord Subject(s): Ascension Day SILEX SCINTIALLANS: THEY ARE ALL GONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are all gone into the world of light! Last Line: Where I shall need no glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Ascension Hymn;beyond The Veil;departed Friends;beauteous Death;the World Of Light;friends Gone Subject(s): Ascension Day; Christianity; Consolation; Death; Heaven; Immortality; Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement; Theology THE ASCENSION, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the gray dawn they left jerusalem Subject(s): Ascension Day THE DISCIPLES AFTER THE ASCENSION, by ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is gone! Beyond the skies Last Line: Thitherward let us ascend. Subject(s): Apostles; Ascension Day; Bible; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology THE HYMNARY: 305. ASCENSION, by HARTMANN Poem Text First Line: Lord of all power and might Last Line: To us eternal peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Monk Of St. Gall Subject(s): Ascension Day THE HYMNARY: 317. ASCENSION, by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For aye shall mortals bless the day Last Line: And holy spirit, three in one. Subject(s): Ascension Day THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went out of the house to smoke. A thousand Last Line: And mother of christ. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Cold; Insects; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Spiders; Bugs WE'LL PASS WITHOUT THE PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Those that died Variant Title(s): Poem: 996; Poem: 50 Subject(s): Ascension Day |
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