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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BIBLE Matches Found: 2522 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ADAM LAY I-BOWNDYN [OR, I-BOUNDEN, OR, Y-BOUNDEN]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "adam lay I-bowndyn, bowndyn in a bond" Last Line: Therefore we may singen / deo gracias Variant Title(s): O Felix Culpa;bless The Time The Apple Was Taken Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;eden;love;religion;sin; Theology "I SING OF A MAIDEN [OR, SYGE OF A MAYDEN]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I sing of a maiden that is makeles Last Line: Well may such a lady / goddes mother be Variant Title(s): Two Carols To Our Lady Subject(s): Christmas Carols;mary. Mother Of Jesus;religion;women - Bible; Virgin Mary;theology "LO, HOW A ROSE E'ER BLOOMING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And share our every load Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary; "SALVE, SANCTA PARENS!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail, lovely lady, leman bright / mighty mother, and maiden mild" Last Line: "that we may sing with joy to thee, / salve, sancta parens!" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary "STILL THY SORROW, MAGDALENA!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "welcome love, and welcome gladness! / hallelujah!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ;mary Magdalen;women - Bible; Mary Magdalene 1959, LOOMIS AVENUE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The intimate smell that belongs Last Line: Calling us home Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Preaching And Preachers; Religion; Sermons; Speech A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods my master went Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880. Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology A BIBLE LOVER'S THANKSGIVING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the book! Its way, its truth, its life? Last Line: Oh, praise to god for what we may become! Subject(s): Bible; Holidays; Thanksgiving A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, awake, thou heavy sprite Last Line: Then watch and labour, while time is! Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology A CHARACTER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her whole life is an epigram, smack-smooth, and neatly penned, Last Line: Platted quite neat to catch applause, with a sliding noose at the end. Variant Title(s): Her Whole Life Is An Epigram Subject(s): Bible; Mythology 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 CHILD'S PRESENT TO HIS CHILD-SAVIOR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, pretty child and bear this flower Last Line: To spoil the first impression. Variant Title(s): To His Saviour, A Child; A Present, By A Child Subject(s): Bible; Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology A CHRISTMAS EVE CHORAL, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halleluja! / what sound is this across the dark Last Line: Halleluja! Halleluja! Halleluja! Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest gift the father's love Last Line: That thrilled the bethlehem way. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary A COMMENT ON THE SCRIPTURE: 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD', JOHN, I,1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the word - saith john Last Line: That was in the beginning—is the end. Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Life; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A COMPENSATION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: However fiercely fortune struck Last Line: He did not murder cain. Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Luck A COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reached the place by night Last Line: For the cottage by the water. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails A CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! Sleep! Beauty bright Last Line: Heaven and earth of peace beguiles. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Childhood A CRADLE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin stills the crying Last Line: "my jesu, sleep!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A CRADLE SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet dreams, form a shade / o'er my lovely infant's head Last Line: Heaven and earth to peace beguiles. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Mythology; Sleep; Nativity, The A CRY TO MARY, by GODRIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sainte marye virgine Last Line: Bring me winne with the self god. Alternate Author Name(s): Godric Of Finchale; Godric, Saint Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A DISQUALIFIED JOCKEY'S STORY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see, the thing was this way - there was me Last Line: Well so long, mister, till we meet again. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Bible A DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cruelty has a human heart Last Line: The human heart, its hungry gorge. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; War; Theology A DREAM QUESTION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked the lord, 'sire, is this true Last Line: Within the ethic of my will.' Subject(s): Bible; God; Religion; Theology A DREAM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a dream did weave a shade Last Line: "little wanderer, hie thee home!" Subject(s): Bible; Fireflies; Mythology; Glowworms A FATHER READING THE BIBLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas early day, and sunlight streamed Last Line: That home where god is felt! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bible; Fathers A GOOD FRIDAY DEVOTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo, even now, the sky's far rim Last Line: Forever more 'tis easter morn. Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; The Resurrection; Virgin Mary A GOOD ORISOUN OF OUR LADIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "christ's dear mother, mary mild" Last Line: "christ's dear mother, saint marie!' amen" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A HINT TO CHRISTIAN POETS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where now the jove, the phoebus, and the nine Last Line: Will rise spontaneous in your purer breast. Subject(s): Bible; Christian Science; Christianity; Poetry & Poets A HYMN ON THE DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lord! Thou hast known me, and searched me out Last Line: And the darkness, to thee, is clear as the light. Subject(s): Bible; Hymns (as Literary Form); Singing & Singers; Songs A HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of on that [pat] is so fayr and bright Last Line: "mayde milde, moder es / effecta" Variant Title(s): A Hymn To Mary;in Praise Of Mary Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary; A HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to one that is so fair and bright, / velut maris stella" Last Line: "and the pit hath closed, I wis, inferni!'" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A LAY OF OLD TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning of the first sad fall Last Line: New adams and new eves! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible A LEGEND, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: To the home of the rabbi a lord in his splendor Last Line: At the home where his teacher abides. Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Jews; Legends, Arabic; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism A LILY OF THE FIELD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all his glory, solomon Last Line: God stooped from highest heaven to bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nought loves another as itself Last Line: Are such thing done on albion's shore? Subject(s): Bible; Death - Children; Mythology; Sacrifices; Death - Babies A LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the future age Last Line: "that shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair!" Subject(s): Bible; Love - Complaints; Mythology A LITTLE OVER [OR, EAST OF] JORDAN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A little east of jordan, Subject(s): Jacob (bible) A MADONNA OF DOMENICO GHIRLANDAJO, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let thoughts go hence as from a mountain spring Last Line: God's meaning hand, thou chosen, upon thee. Subject(s): Ghirlandajo, Domenico (1449-1494); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1449-1494); Bigordi, Domenico (1449-1494); Virgin Mary A MIRACLE OF OUR LADY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whoso loves our lady aye / she his love will well repay Last Line: "mary maid, by this, thy might, / bring us safe to heaven so bright!" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A MOTHER UNDERSTANDS, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, I hold my hand to take Last Line: The mystery of thy pierced hands—the broken bread. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A PARAPHRASE OF THE LATTER PART OF THE SIXTH CHAPTER OF ST. MATTHEW, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my breast labours with oppressive care Last Line: Is he unwise? Or are ye less than they? Subject(s): Bible A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the loftiest mountain-tops, unfurl Last Line: And harp, where eccho'd once thy feastful halls. Subject(s): Advice; Bible; Desolation; God; Vengeance; War A PARAPHRASE ON THE 65TH PSALM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, jehovah, grateful sion sings Last Line: And the full valleys laugh and sing and shout around. Subject(s): Bible; Earth; God; Nature; Praise; Prayer; World A PARAPHRASE ON THE COLLECT FOR ADVENT SUNDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god, thy heav'nly grace impart Last Line: One glorious god triune, for evermore. Subject(s): Bible; God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A PARAPHRASE ON...LEVITICUS: 11; CONTAINING REASONS OF PROHIBITIONS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of feathred foules, that fanne the bucksom aire Last Line: Flittyng, with littel leathren sailes dispredde. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Food & Eating; Religion; Theology A PITIFUL CASE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The villain at the gallows tree Last Line: Michael angelo michael angelo Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was angry with my friend Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree. Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "gentle mary, noble maiden" Last Line: This our prayer is: hail! All hail! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A PROGNOSTICATION UPON CARDS AND DICE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the sixth day of the next new year Last Line: Whose very beard is flesh, and mouth is horn. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): On The Cards And Dice Subject(s): Bible; Gambling; Religion; Wagering; Betting; Theology A PSALM FOR THE TIMES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God is refuge and strength Last Line: "and I will be ruler of men!" Subject(s): Bible A REFLECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When eve upon the first of men Last Line: That adam was not adamant! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Pity; Sin; Women; Eve A SAINT, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary most pure Last Line: Is complete. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 45, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it chance your eye offend you Last Line: When your sickness is your soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 47. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the hangman stops his cart Last Line: Live, lads, and I will die.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Theology A SMALL FIG TREE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am dead, to be sure Subject(s): Bible; Curses; Religion; Theology A SOLILOQUY ON READING THE 5TH AND 8TH VERSES OF THE 37TH PSALM, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In psalm, this evening order'd to be read Last Line: Commit and trust, and he will bring to pass. Subject(s): Bible; God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A SONG FOR SIMEON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, the roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A SONG OF MARY, by AGNES H. BEGBIE Poem Text First Line: Closely to my heart I hold thee Last Line: Close this little one! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A SONG OF MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere it being yesterday Last Line: I smiling an ordinary smile Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A SONG OF ST. ANNE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our lady in cold stable lay Last Line: And the rose-leaf of his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A SONG TO MARY, by WILLIAM OF SHOREHAM Poem Text First Line: Marye, maide, milde and fre Last Line: And of davies kende. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit passed before me: I beheld Last Line: Heedless and blind to wisdom's wasted light!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A STICK OF INCENSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence did all that fury come? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 1, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niloiya said to noah, what aileth thee Last Line: Shall have no let of me, to do its will.' Subject(s): Arks; Floods; God; Judgment Day; Noah (bible); End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 2, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now ere the sunrise, while the morning star Last Line: Into the waste to meet the voice of god. Subject(s): God; Methuselah; Noah (bible) A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 9, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prayer of noah. The man went forth by night Last Line: The door is shut.' Subject(s): Evil; God; Noah (bible); Prayer A STORY OF KING DAVID, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas the harvest-time, and the warrior king Last Line: Could a king do more, or a hero less? Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Enemies; Sickness; Illness A STRICTURE ON BISHOP WARBURTON'S DOCTRINE OF GRACE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writing or scripture, sacred or profane Last Line: To deify a book is bibliolatry. Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Warburton, William (1698-1779); Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools A STUDENT'S PRAYER, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Bible; God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A TENT BESIDE A RIVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering lanterned, canvas-sprawled fields Last Line: Nor their words ferried anyone safely anywhere. Subject(s): Bible; Camping; Faith; Parents; Camps; Summer Camps; Belief; Creed; Parenthood A TRIBUTE TO THE JEWS, by RUFUS CLEMENT HOPKINS Poem Text First Line: Since terah's son from chaldea went Last Line: In science, literature and art. Subject(s): Bible; Honor; Israel; Jews; Judaism A WAR SONG TO ENGLISHMEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war Last Line: Prepare, prepare. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Patriotism; War; English A WEATHER-DREAM, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Mary and her angels Last Line: Torn from virgin mary's veil! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A WOMAN SCALY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman scaly and a man all hairy Last Line: Will find the womans scales scrape off the mans hairs Subject(s): Bible; Mythology AARON'S BREASTPLATE, by ANNA SHIPTON Poem Text First Line: In the wondrous breastplate golden Last Line: Ever in our father's sight. Subject(s): Aaron; Bible; God; Jews; Judaism ABEL, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cain's eyes are not gracious to god Last Line: Have you slain the sweet birds %in your brother's face? Subject(s): Bible ABIGAIL, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: I care for him, although he is a fool Last Line: And reason with the sot when I get back. %but my guess is he'll have a heart attack! Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ABISHAG, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, your servants sought me and I came Last Line: Is this way slowly easier? It is well. Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by MOSHE DOR Poem Source First Line: When david is cold, abishag Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by JACOB FICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I waste my teeming age. I do not know Last Line: All of my warmth I give to the old king %his heart plays th e weeping of my spring Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Spring; Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At god's word david's kinsmen cast Last Line: Believe that of my body Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little tender rose of bethlehem Last Line: The mirrored portrait of myself seems young. Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my defiance in the past, I lay Last Line: A brief bow following on the final leap Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible ABISHAG THE SHUNAMMITE (1), by DEBORAH BURNHAM Poem Source First Line: The king's ribs rise like cool stone rods beneath my check Last Line: Of air where his stories lie, where small flames disappear %when they are blow out Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible ABISHAG TO DAVID, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I am afraid, my lord. I am afraid. Last Line: You would be dwelling in god's house - %god's home - forever Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women - Bible; Women In The Bible ABISHAG WRITES A LETTER HOME, by ITSIK MANGER Poem Source First Line: Abishag sits in her room Last Line: While girlish in a corner %a dream sobs tenderly Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible ABISHAG: RECOLLECTIONS IN OLD AGE, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: I have know horrors Last Line: He never knew me Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Old Age; Women; Women In The Bible ABRAHAM, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing a song of heroes Last Line: On east and west with brothered rays. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; God; Jews; Judaism ABRAHAM AND ISAAC, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Abraham in the land of eden Last Line: But he did love his servant Subject(s): Bible ABRAHAM AND ISAAC, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Abraham built a town of sod Last Line: The lord, however, said: this is enough Subject(s): Bible ABRAHAM TO KILL HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Manners may prevail Variant Title(s): Poem: 1317; Poem: 133 Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion ABRAHAM'S SACRIFICE (MIRACLE PLAY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Most myghty makere of sunne and of mone Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible) ABRIDGED BESTIARY, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the story goes, noah took animals of every variety Last Line: Recreated, according to the discarded pictures that the %monkey had saved for god Subject(s): Boats; God; Noah (bible); Religion; Sea Voyages ABSOLVED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far floating o'er its native fen Last Line: Of radiant rest, appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ACCREDITATION, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Miriam's brief biography Last Line: And recognize %her stature? Subject(s): Women - Bible ACON, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear me to dictaeus Last Line: And frail-headed poppies. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible AD. AN' EVE, by WILL SEEDY Poem Text First Line: When adam lived in eden park Last Line: "de lord said, ""you be damned!" Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM, by CELIA DROPKIN Poem Source First Line: Spoiled, %stroked by many women's hands Last Line: You will not hide from me Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible ADAM, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God made man upright at the first Last Line: The earth being in the middle found. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM AND EVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The names %of the things Last Line: My body opens %into brothers Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion ADAM AND EVE, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam and eve were reading about a monkey in a bath Last Line: And the hand of eve reached for the apple Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible ADAM AND EVE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When adam fell asleep in paradise Last Line: Towards lilith by the brooks of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADAM POSED, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could our first father, at his toilsome plough Last Line: T' have hit the wavering form, or given this thing a name! Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology ADAM THE FIRST, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gendarmes of heaven with flaming swords Last Line: To hell and desolation. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Heaven; Eve; Paradise ADAM'S CURSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together at one summer's end Last Line: As weary-hearted as that hollow moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM'S DREAM, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the first dream adam our father had Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM'S DREAM, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the first dream adam our father had Last Line: Cried out and was at peace, and turned again %in love and grief in eve's encircling arms Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology; Eve; Words; Vocabulary ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Last Line: Thou, sproal; thou, zant; thou, lily-eater. %naming's over. Day is done Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology ADAM, LILITH, AND EVE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it thundered and lightened Last Line: They re-seated themselves beside. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM; A HUNGARIAN LEGEND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in asia, saith the legend Last Line: Death his troubled face shall brighten. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Asia; Bible; Creation; God; Legends, Hungarian; Far East; East Asia; Orient ADMIRAL'S WIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Noah's wife Last Line: To leave %or lose Subject(s): Women - Bible ADOLESCENT, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: Half-man, half child, his whole limp body nods Last Line: The gods themselves as adam leapt to eve! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Adolescence; Bible; Puberty; Teen Agers ADONIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each of us like you Last Line: Fit to be worshiped. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible 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 AFTER READING PSALMS 34, 40, ETC, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simple was I and was young Last Line: Yea: quem elegisti?' Subject(s): Bible AFTER THE ANNUNCIATION, by TUA MARINA Poem Source First Line: Mary, the maiden, walked out in the country Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AGATHA, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mountain, not where rocks Last Line: Give us with the saints a place! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Women; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips AGITATOR?, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Was huldah Last Line: The holy impetus %her nation needed? Subject(s): Women - Bible AHOLIBAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning god made thee Last Line: If his were that aholibah. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Women; Theology AIDS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, by PETER KOCAN Poem Source First Line: The wages of sin is death. These words run Last Line: The promised payment in the promised coin Subject(s): Bible; Religion AISHAH SCHECHINAH, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shape, like folded light, embodied air Last Line: Her awful child: her son. Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary AKATHISTOS HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He who was bodiless, having heard the bidding secretly Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ALBION'S SPECTRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But the spectre, like a hoar-frost and a mildew, rose over albion Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine Last Line: The soul that must endure it. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Vanity; Theology ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true Last Line: The true man is the source he being the poetic genius Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ALMA REDEMPTORIS MATER, by HERMANUS CONTRACTUS Poem Source First Line: Gracious mother of our redeemer, for ever abiding Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ALMOST AN ELEGY, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by I too would stand and wait Last Line: Not music yet, already more than noise Subject(s): Waiting; Jacob (bible); Love – Complaints; Memory ALMOST ISAAC, by ANTHONY RUSSELL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Abraham raises his necessary knife and strikes Last Line: And the beauty that is isaac, %blooming in anatolia in may Subject(s): Abraham; Farm Life; Isaac (bible) AMARANTH, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I blind alas Last Line: Save in her presence. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible AMERICA A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadowy daughter of urthona stood before red orc Last Line: But tho' obscur'd, this is the form of the angelic land. Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology; Prophecy & Prophets AMORETTI: 68, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most glorious lord of life, that on this day Last Line: Love is the lesson which the lord us taught. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "easter Day;christ's True Love's Example;easter Morning;sonnet On Easter;easter;""most Glorious Lord Of Lyfe That On This Day""; Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology AMORIS EXSUL: 12. IN SAINT-JACQUES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with the sunlight, her eyes close in prayer Last Line: But I should see only the wax and paint. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary AMOS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one would listen. He Subject(s): Amos (bible) AMOURETTE, by BEATRICE LAGONE Poem Text First Line: Because we steal this nectar, sire Last Line: May triumph, dear, when other dreams are broken. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary AN AFTERTHOUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lost garden paradise Last Line: And the blessed door made fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Heaven; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise AN ANCIENT PROVERB, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remove away that blackning church Last Line: Youll quite remove the ancient curse Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Proverbs; Maxims; Adages AN ANNUAL OF THE DARK PHYSICS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The baltic sea froze in 1307. Birds flew south Last Line: Nothing happened that was worthy of poetry. Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Lent; Mary Magdalen; Suicide; Women In The Bible; Eckhart, Meister; Mary Magdalene AN ANSWER TO THE PARSON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why of the sheep do you not learn peace?' Last Line: Because I dont want you to shear my fleece Subject(s): Bible; Mythology AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come knock your heads against this stone Last Line: For sorrow that poor john thompson's gone. Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was buried near this dike Last Line: That my friends may weep as much as they like Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology AN IMITATION OF SPENCER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden apollo, that thro' heaven wide Last Line: Or does th' afflicted man thy heav'nly bosom move? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) AN INVOCATION, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, harp of judah! Wake again! Last Line: And lend its sweetness to my dreams! Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Judah (bible); Liberty; Judaism ANAGRAM OF THE VIRGIN MARY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well her name an army doth present Last Line: In whom the lord of hosts did pitch his tent! Variant Title(s): Ana-{mary/army}gram;ana {mary Army} Gram;ana (mary Army) Gram Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ANCIENT HISTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain Last Line: The gaunt wild man whose lovely sons were dead. Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; Religion; Soldiers; Theology AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Break in the sun till the sun breaks down %and death shall have no dominion Subject(s): Bible; Death; Life Change Events; Religion; Time AND HE ANSWERED THEM NOTHING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty nothing! Unto thee Last Line: Tis made by nothing now again Subject(s): Bible; Religion AND IN HER MORNING, by MIRIAM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Poem Source First Line: The virgin mary cannot enter into Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AND IN MELODIOUS ACCENTS I, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology AND SHE WASHED HIS FEET WITH HER TEARES, AND, by EDWARD SHERBURNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible AND STILL I WONDER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source Last Line: Was meager but so full %of romance and of hope Subject(s): Women - Bible AND TURN, FR. MYRTLE BOUGH, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible ANENT THE APPLE, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Sad eve, the crime all hers and mankind cursed Last Line: Wind-falling fruit, the storms lave at their love Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible ANGER AND WRATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger and wrath my bosom rends Last Line: I find them the errors of the foe Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Mythology ANGRY SAMSON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are they blind, the lords of gaza Last Line: A-clank to my stride Subject(s): Bible; Religion ANIMALS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do not live in the world Last Line: On the sixth day we came Subject(s): Bible; Memory; Religion ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Daughters; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Last Line: To dreaming then? I fight this thing. %all day we scrubbing scrubbing Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible ANNOTATIONS TO SWEDENBORG'S WISDOM OF ANGELS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There can be no good will Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ANNOUNCEMENT, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it be understood that I am don juan gomez Last Line: "and cry, ""don juan is praying, and must not pray in vain!" Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Don Juan; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Saints; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ANNUNCIATIO B.V., by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Come every eare / that longs to heare Last Line: Eve's gall in maries sweets are drownd. Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Gabriel; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary 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 ANNUNCIATION, by MARGARET DEVEREAUX CONWAY Poem Source First Line: Not yesterday, nor yet a day Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by JOHN DUFFY Poem Source First Line: And was it true Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel and the girl are met Last Line: As if their grace would never break Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Religion ANNUNCIATION, by NERSES SHNORHALI Poem Source First Line: Mary, mother of our maker Alternate Author Name(s): Nerses Glaietsi Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by KAY SMITH Poem Source First Line: For all the old paintings Last Line: Anything but the space between Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Uffizi (gallery), Florence; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our lady went forth pondering Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION NIGHT, by KATHERINE ELEANOR CONWAY Poem Source First Line: It was night in the village of nazareth Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION NIGHT, by ABBY MARIA HEMENWAY Poem Source First Line: In through every lattice-bar Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANOTHER ON THE VIRGIN MARY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sun-beames pierce the glasse, and streaming in Last Line: But, in a mother, kept a maiden-head. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ANTIPATER OF SIDON, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, corinth, charm incarnate, are your Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Science ANTIQUE BIBLE, by KATHRYN DUDLEY Poem Text First Line: When a collector found Last Line: And never read a line! Subject(s): Bible; Collectors & Collecting APPARITION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All rose before the aged apparition Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Winter APPROACHING THE LORD, by VALLATTOL Poem Source First Line: But who is this approaching now in fear Last Line: Can hearts reach any higher bliss than this? Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible ARK, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all know Last Line: We all know Subject(s): Arks; Noah (bible); Rites & Ceremonies; Jews; Women's Rights ARMAGEDDON, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Antichrist, playing his lissome flute and merry Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ARMAGEDDON, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Antichrist, playing his lissome flute and merry Last Line: These armageddons weary me much,' he said Subject(s): Bible; Religion ARTS OF DEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then left the sons of urizen the plow & harrow, the loom Subject(s): Bible; Mythology AS JACOB SERVED FOR RACHEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas the love that lightened service! Last Line: "twas love that lightened service, / the old, old story sweet" Subject(s): Jacob (bible);jews; Judaism AS THE DOVE, WHICH FOUND NO REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a grave Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Noah (bible); Doves; Heaven ASCENSION, by DENIS DEVLIN Poem Source First Line: It happens through the blond window, the trees Last Line: Life with its dark, and love above the laws Subject(s): Bible; Religion ASENATH, by DIANA HUME GEORGE Poem Source First Line: Why did you choose me for your wife, joseph? Last Line: What are you dreaming, %diviner of dreams? Subject(s): Bible; Religion ASSUMPTA EST MARIA, by LIAM BROPHY Poem Source First Line: Lo, she cometh to us from afar Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ASSUMPTA MARIA, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mortals, that behold a woman Last Line: All am I, and I am one. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary ASSUMPTION, by JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI Poem Source First Line: O heart submissive in this martrydom Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ASTROLOGER PREDICTS AT MARY'S BIRTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one lie down on grass Last Line: At a certain place when she see something %it will break her eye Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AT A CALVARY NEAR THE ANCRE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One ever hangs where shelled roads part Last Line: Lay down their life; they do not hate Subject(s): Bible; Religion AT BAIA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have thought Last Line: No touch, but forever and ever this. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible AT ELEUSIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What they did Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible AT GLASTONBURY, by HENRY KINGSLEY Poem Source First Line: Magdalen at michael's gate Variant Title(s): The Blackbird's Song; Magdale Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible AT ITHACA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over and back Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible AT SINAI, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: Down from the mist-clad mountain moses came Last Line: Whate'er the lord hath bidden, shall we do! Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Ten Commandments; Judaism AT THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O mother, draw thou near the rood Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AT THE SHRINE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mary, humanity's woman, immaculate mother Last Line: Is it thou, thou alone, that art pure, and never another? Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Virgin Mary AT THE SHRINE OF MARY, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary mother, we are twining flowers Last Line: "those are flowers our hearts have long enshrined." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This day winding down now Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day winding down now Last Line: And the flood flowers now Subject(s): Bible; Religion AUTOBIOGRAPHY: NEW YORK (2 - 10), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not believe that david killd goliath Last Line: I will fight in my own way %with a couple of pebbles and a sling Subject(s): Bible; Religion AVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of the fair delight Last Line: O mary virgin, full of grace! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary AVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary full of grace, well may thou be Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE EVA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild strawberries, gooseberries, trampled Last Line: And trampling the gooseberries and the strawberries. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible AVE MARIA, by HENRIETTE CHARASSON Poem Source First Line: The third sunday after easter Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime AVE MARIA, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Source First Line: Lady, the soldier I would be Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE MARIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave, maria! I am tired Last Line: What it is to be so tired. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was this his coming! I had hoped to see Last Line: And over both with outstretched wings the dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology AVE MARIS STELLA (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Star of ocean fairest Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE REGINA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, o queen of heaven enthroned! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE REGINA COELORUM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Queen of the heavens, we hail thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE SANCTISSIMA!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE, MARIS STELLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, thou star of ocean Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE, VITA NOSTRA, by CLIFFORD JAMES LAUBE Poem Source First Line: Attila's spirit rides again the red roads of the east Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AWAKENING, by HARRY LEE Poem Source First Line: Zacchaeus, chief of publicans Subject(s): Bible; Zacchaeus BABEL FALLS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou great babel - out of nothing reared Last Line: "shouted abroad in heaven, ""great babel falls." Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Bible BABY BOY, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knelt to the virgin mary. Help me, mary, to pray. Last Line: Oh, mary, make me as a child, and teach mine eyes to see! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BABYLON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow, daughter of babylon, bow thee to dust! Last Line: And the satyrs shall dance, and the bittern shall cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Religion; Theology BABYLON SLIM / -NESS OF, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Numb rhythm before christ Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Religion BALLAD, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O praye for peace, sweet mayde marie Last Line: That peace, joy's treasure, maye befall. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary BALLAD MADE AT THE REQUEST OF HIS MOTHER .. PRAY TO OUR LADY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's lady! Regent of this world terrene Last Line: And in this faith I mean to live and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BALLAD OF JOKING JESUS, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: - I'm the queerest young fellow that you ever heard Last Line: And olivet's breezy... Goodbye, now, goodbye Subject(s): Bible; Religion BALLAD OF OUR LADY, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O empress high, celestial queen most rare Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all Last Line: Sin' they nailed him to the tree. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology BALLADE MADE FOR HIS MOTHER THAT SHE MIGHTE PRAYE, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladye of heaven that o'er earth hath swaye Last Line: And in this faith I live and will goe hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Faith; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Prayer; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady and queen and mystery manifold Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady and queen and mystery manifold Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BARABBAS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he opens the gates of the morning Last Line: Amplias. Perhaps, perhaps! Subject(s): Bible; Generosity; Pride; Religion; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Theology BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Of the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Bathsheba(bible); Male-female Relations BATHSHEBA, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King david, from his house-top / saw one whose only dress Last Line: "are flies, in the web of craft!" Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); Capital Punishment; Lust; Marriage; Women; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BATHSHEBA: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: It was my habit when my husband Last Line: And then I wake up. Trembling in light Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BATTLES OF JOSHUA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lest poets paint each jewish saint Last Line: None can relate accounts more straight %of jonah and the fish Subject(s): Bible BE NOT LIKE SERVANTS BASELY BRED, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Antigonus of socho said Last Line: Is better than all life in this. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Clergy; Jacob (bible); Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism BEAUTY OF JOB'S DAUGHTERS, by JAY MACPHERSON Poem Source First Line: The old, the mad, the blind have fairest daughters Last Line: In all the land no women found so fair Subject(s): Bible; Daughters; Job (bible); Religion BEELZEBUB AND JOB; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sly beelzebub took all occasions Last Line: Short-sighted devil, not to take his spouse! Variant Title(s): Job's Luck Subject(s): Devil; Job (bible); Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub BEFORE EVE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a strangeness Last Line: And the earth and adam knew! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible BEFORE THE IKON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, by CONSTANTINE OF RHODES Poem Source First Line: If any would portray thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BEGGARS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jacob gods beggar was; and so we wait Last Line: (though ne're so rich) all beggars at his gate. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Jacob (bible) BEGINNING OF THE BOOK, by EDMOND JABES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The book does not begin,' he replied Last Line: We shall written on the wavy surface of a breath! Subject(s): Bible BELOVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonathan the son of saul Last Line: Onto the roof of the king's house Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Love; Religion BETHULIA'S GATE, FR. JUDITH, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have you in your apron wrapped? Last Line: Hold holofernes' head. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible BEYOND KNOWLEDGE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rescued world newcomer Last Line: "o child, it is a rescued sin!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Bible; Children; Redemption; Religion; Sin; Childhood; Theology BIBLE DEFENCE OF SLAVERY, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take sackcloth of the darkest dye Last Line: Make heathens at your doors! Subject(s): Bible; Slavery; Serfs BIBLE STORIES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room was low and small and kind Last Line: The little jesus supped with me. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BIBLE STORIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Young folks, old folks, everybody come Last Line: But the whale couldn't stomach it and spit him right out Subject(s): Bible BIBLICAL MEDITATIONS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jacob rolled the stone off the well Subject(s): Bible BIBLICAL MEDITATIONS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jacob rolled the stone off the well Last Line: From his mouth, too soon Subject(s): Bible BIBLIOMANCY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Walk down any row-past science and gardening Last Line: In which the words that wake you are written Subject(s): Bible; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Literature BIRDS IN SNOW, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, %how they trace Last Line: In egypt of her dead Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible BLACK MADONNA, by ALBERT RICE Poem Source First Line: Not as the white nations Last Line: The untaught %of earth Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BLACK VIRGIN, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One in thy thousand statues we salute thee Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BLAKE'S APOLOGY FOR HIS CATALOGUE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having given great offence by writing in prose Last Line: That I may put them in mind of their latter ends Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets BLESSED AMONG WOMEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed was she that bare Last Line: Thou fill men's eyes who listen with a heart that hears. Subject(s): Blessings; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Praise; Women; Women In The Bible BLESSED BE THE PAPS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose he had been tabled at thy teats Last Line: The mother then must sunk the son Subject(s): Bible; Religion BLESSED VIRGIN (WHY IS THE B.V. CLAD IN BLUE?), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because when comes no cloud between Last Line: The livery of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BLESSED VIRGIN MARY COMPARED TO A WINDOW, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Because my will is simple as a window Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BLESSED VIRGIN'S EXPOSTULATION, by NAHUM TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, some pitying angel, quickly say Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BLIND BARTIMAEUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind bartimaeus at the gates Last Line: "thy faith from blindness gives release!" Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Bible; Blindness; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When silver snow decks susan's cloaths Last Line: Then laws were made to keep fair play. Variant Title(s): Song Third By An Old Shepherd Subject(s): Bible; Games; Mythology; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BLUE, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The wise-hearted women used their creativity Last Line: And this is still our scarlet %blue and purple opportunity Subject(s): Women - Bible BODY OF GOD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is the great urge that has not yet found a body Last Line: The rest, the undiscoverable, is the demi-urge Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOKE OF TWO LADIES, SELS., by DAVID MORTON Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BOOK, by EDMOND JABES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone said, 'our right hand is in the book. But the left has the privilege Last Line: We shall never master the horizons Subject(s): Bible BOOK OF ISAIAH, PART 1, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isaiah awoke angry Last Line: He grinned in the dark, she went back inside Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOOK OF JOB, SELS., by RICHARD BLACKMORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Job (bible) BOOK OF MECHTILDE, by ANNA RUTH HENRIQUES Poem Source First Line: Many years ago, %in the land of jah, there lived a good Last Line: Has come %amen Subject(s): Death; Illumination Of Books; Job (bible); Mothers BOOK OF WISDOM, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I go on loving anyone at fifty Last Line: Hymns of the terrible organ in decay Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT, by JOHN NELSON DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Four are the men who tell of the life of our saviour and master Last Line: Next is the letter by judas, and last is the great revelation. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Religion; Story-telling; Reading; Theology BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: THE OLD TESTAMENT, by JOHN NELSON DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Genesis tells of creation; of abraham's call and migration Last Line: Thus with a word rich in promise he ends the old testament record. Subject(s): Bible BOTTICELLI'S MADONNA IN THE LOUVRE, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What strange presentiment, o mother, lies Last Line: "say to her then: ""he also rose again." Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Virgin Mary BOTTLE, by RALPH KNEVET Poem Source First Line: Thou bearst the bottle, I the bag (oh lord Last Line: And to the brim, these shall thy bottle fill Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOY WITH LACROSSE STICK, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: He's tall for twelve he leans his right arm bent Last Line: That the old verse I well could understand %that says the child is father to the man Subject(s): Bible; Boys; Lacrosse; Shepherds And Shepherdesses BRAVE-HEARTED MAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Be glad in heart, grow great before the lord Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BRING FLUTED ASPHODEL, FR. SONGS FROM CYPRUS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible BROTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus replied: 'fear not albion: unless I die thou canst not live Subject(s): Bible; Mythology BRUDDER SIMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dah's brudder sims! Dast slam Last Line: "wid faith,"" sez brudder sims, ""an' den you know!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bible; God; Prayer BUCOLIC COMEDY: WHY, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noah's granddaughter / sat on his knee Last Line: "noah said ""damn!" Subject(s): Noah (bible) BUILDERS OF GOLGONOOZA, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are those golden builders doing? Where was the burying-place? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology BURNING LADDER, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jacob %never climbed the ladder Last Line: Shivering. Gravity %always greater than desire Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion BUT MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's light shines; shine as it will Last Line: It will not love its darkness half so well Subject(s): Bible; Religion BUT TO HIS MOTHER MARY, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BY BABEL'S STREAMS, by HENRY PEREIRA MENDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By babel's streams we sat, we wept Last Line: If we forget thy glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Mendes, H. Pereira Subject(s): Bible; Israel; Jews; Judaism CAELICA: 109, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sion lies waste, and thy jerusalem Last Line: To yield the sin her everlasting doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Bible; Jerusalem; Religion; Theology CAESURA, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job sat in a corner of the dump eating asparagus Last Line: The weather of the soul, vandalized, out-at-elbow. A blight, spared though Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CAESURA, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job sat in a corner of the dump eating asparagus Last Line: The weather of the soul, vandalized, out-at-elbow. A blight. Spared, though Subject(s): Bible; Religion CALL OF COAL, by MARTIN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Only the outcasts know Last Line: That swirl down into the unknown Subject(s): Bible; Cain; Nature CALLING OF THE DISCIPLES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some jesus %has come on me Last Line: Laughing like god's fool %behind this jesus Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Religion CALYPSO: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clumsy futility, drown yourself Last Line: What did he say? %o you gods-o you gods- %he shall never getaway Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible CALYPSO: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you clouds Last Line: She gave me a wooden flute, %and a mantle, %she wove of thiswool- %-for man is a brute and a fool Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights CANDIED, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In eden it was never winter, the ground Last Line: Its sticky, sticky rivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden CANTERBURY TALES [MODERN VER.], SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CANTICA OF THE VIRGIN, by GONZALO DE BERCEO Poem Source First Line: Keep watch, keep watch, keep watch Last Line: Keep watch Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CANTICLE FOR GOOD FRIDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Religion; Theology CANTICLE FOR GOOD FRIDAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top Last Line: Creation's issue congealing (and one woman's Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Religion CANTIGA, by GIL VINCENTE Poem Source First Line: White and crimson, cheek and breast Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CARMEN PASCHALE, SELS., by CAELIUS (COELIUS) SEDULIUS Poem Source First Line: Hail, maiden root! Whence lithely mounts a kingly flowering Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CAROL, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vines branching stilly Last Line: But she hath kissed her flower where the wounds are to be. Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CAROL, by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, the mother, sits on the hill Last Line: "sleep, jesu, sleep! Ei, jesu, ei," Alternate Author Name(s): Varley, John Philip Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CAROL, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary laid her child among Last Line: And by the death within his bones %the dead became alive Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS TIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ox he openeth wide the doore Last Line: Between her bosom and his hayre! Variant Title(s): Tryste Noel Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Oxen; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CAROL NAIVE, by JOHN MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: Was never none other / like our god's mother Last Line: Like our god's mother. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CAROL: THE FIVE JOYS OF THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary, for the love of thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CASSANDRA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O hymen king, / lord, greatest, power, might; Last Line: O hymen lord, be kind. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Cassandra (mythology) CATHEMERINON, SELS., by AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CAUSE OF OUR JOY, by MARIS STELLA Poem Source First Line: O mother of fair love, it was not alone Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CELESTIAL CLOUDBURST, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God's spirit Last Line: And inundations %of the spirit Subject(s): Women - Bible CENTAUR SONG, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the day is done Last Line: And zeus, forgetful not of danae or maia, %bid the stars shine forever Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Centaurs CHAMBER MUSIC: 14, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My dove, my beautiful one Last Line: Arise, arise! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CHANCE MEETING, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take from me something Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible CHANT OF DEPARTURE; A MISSIONARY'S PRAYER, by ALFRED BARRETT Poem Text First Line: Woman who walked home on the arm of john Last Line: Stand by my side beneath the southern cross. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Missionaries & Missions; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CHAPTER AND VERSE, by GONZALO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: It was for this that man came into the world, to fight Last Line: Of old age into another butterfly, %a different one Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Creation; Poetry And Poets; Sin CHARITY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue Last Line: For ever blessing, and for ever blessed. Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Knowledge; Moses; Religion; Paradise; Theology CHARITY THE DAUGHTER OF HUMILITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently I took that which ungently came Last Line: Give him the rotten timber for his pains! Variant Title(s): Forbearance Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CHASTITY MATTERS LESS THAN YOU THINK, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot retrieve Last Line: Through her millennia of little deaths. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Chastity; Nature CHERRY TREE CAROL (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Joseph was an old man Last Line: Then mary went home %with her heavy load Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHILD AND MOTHER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look on thy mother's face Last Line: "magnificat"" in wondering love to say." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHILD OF MARY'S SOUL, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Text First Line: The star came out to hail him Last Line: Come in and make me whole! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I see a falling tear Subject(s): Bible; Mythology CHILDLESS CHRISTMAS, by ROWENA MILLAR KELL Poem Text First Line: Mary, from your throne of grace Last Line: Who put no child tonight to bed. Subject(s): Childlessness; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRIST THE MENDICANT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger, to his own Last Line: A mother's love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHRIST UNCONQUERED, SELS., by ARTHUR LITTLE Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRIST'S PASSION, TAKEN OUT OF A GREEK ODE, by BEN MASTERS Poem Text First Line: Enough, my muse, of earthly things Last Line: That he will still require some waters to his blood. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST'S STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How many stars so high and white Last Line: Till we shall find the promised king! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS, by GERTRUDE VON LE FORT Poem Source First Line: Little child out of eternity, now will I sing to thy mother! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRISTMAS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O babe who slept on mary's breast Last Line: "the swords of war at last are broken." Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS DAY. THE FAMILY SITTING, by JOHN MEADE FALKNER Poem Source First Line: In the days of caesar augustus Last Line: I may go up to jerusalem %out of galilee Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now comes the ordered prime Last Line: That holds all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS EVE, by LIAM P. CLANCY Poem Source First Line: Let the door be open wide Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRISTMAS EVE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the death-time of the year Last Line: For christ, our lord, is born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted Last Line: By whose descent among us %the worlds are reconciled Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion CHRISTMAS HYMN, SELS., by EPHREM Poem Source First Line: Virgin truly full of wonder Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRISTMASSE DAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Wonders birthday / which maks't decembers face Last Line: It selfe more full on this contracting day. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTUS NATUS EST, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem / on christmas morn Last Line: Hosannah! Christus natus est Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology CHRISTUS NATUS EST, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem %on christmas morn Last Line: Hosannah! Christus natus est Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion CHRISTUS; A MYSTERY: 2. THE GOLDEN LEGEND, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten! Hasten! %o ye spirits Last Line: And labors for some good %by us not understood Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRONICA, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and father are in heaven Last Line: Satan, have mercy Subject(s): Bible CINQUAIN: SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do / you thus devise Last Line: "therefore." Subject(s): Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible CIRCLE, by THEODORE SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Adam and eve, like us Last Line: Unanswered under the moon Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible CITIES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can we believe - by an effort Last Line: Await the new beauty of cities? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Cities; Urban Life CLOUD, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And, laterally Last Line: And, as it moved, he named it tenderness Subject(s): Bible; Religion CLOUD OF CARMEL, by MIRIAM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Poem Source First Line: Symbol of star or lily of the snows Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible COATLICUE'S RULES: ADVICE FROM AN AZTEC GODDESS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rule 1: beware of offers to make you famous Subject(s): Chicanos; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women In The Bible; Mexican Americans; Virgin Mary COATLICUE'S RULES: ADVICE FROM AN AZTEC GODDESS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rule 1: beware of offers to make you famous Last Line: Rule 9: be selective about what you swallow Subject(s): Chicanos; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible COLLABORATOR, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God employs Last Line: To those who use us %harshly or despitefully Subject(s): Women - Bible COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision." Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism COMING OF THE PLAGUE, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September was when it began Last Line: And hear the sound of rushing wind Subject(s): Bible; Religion COMMINATION, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like john on patmos, brooding on the four Last Line: View thy damnation and depart in peace Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bible; Religion COMPLAINING, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not beguile my heart Last Line: That I may climbe and finde relief. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE VALLEYS OF WESTMORELAND ON EASTER SUNDAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With each recurrence of this glorious morn Last Line: And benefits were weighed in reason's scales! Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Variant Title(s): The Right To Life Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Shoah; Judaism; Virgin Mary CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Last Line: Rather the day is hot and the nights temperate %as in may in spain in andalusia Variant Title(s): The Right To Lif Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women - Bible CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear god - obey his just decrees Last Line: Hosanna! Thou hast won the race Subject(s): Bible; Religion CONTEMPLATION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this, with that unerring step dares tempt the wilds Last Line: By sorrow on a tomb-stone! Subject(s): Bible; Mythology CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE, by PETER HEYLYN Poem Text First Line: If thou art merry, here are airs Last Line: First in the book, and next in thee. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Religious Education; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools CONVERSION, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Religion CORONAL: A LEGEND OF THE ANNUNICATION, by RUTH FORBES SHERRY Poem Source First Line: Gentian blue as noon-lit sea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible COUCH OF DEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veiled evening walked solitary down the western hills Last Line: Over the couch of death, and the youth breathes out his soul with joy into eternity Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plague COUPLET, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great things are done when men and mountains meet Last Line: This is not done by jostling in the street Variant Title(s): To God;great Things Are Done Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Rudeness; Bad Manners COVENANTERS: MARY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Model of models Last Line: The kiss he appended %to his loving epistle Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CRADLE SONG, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madonna, madonna / sat by the grey road-side Last Line: My baby, my dear son. Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CRADLE SONG, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Source First Line: Sleep enfold thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CRADLE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jesu, my sweet son dear Last Line: And with thee from the cold Variant Title(s): Virgin's Song To Her Baby Christ; The Virgin's Son Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CRAWLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The spider crawls into the bible Last Line: Deep in the book of genesis Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Insects; Rest; Spiders CREATION, by EUNICE ODIO Poem Source First Line: High propositions of barrenness Last Line: And then restored Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Heaven; Rebirth; Spiritual Life CREATION'S PSALM, by SWITHUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A deep-bassed thunder-rolling psalm Last Line: "the thundering heavens roar, ""I am!" Alternate Author Name(s): Swithin; Swithaine Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Jews; Judaism CROMEK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A petty sneaking knave I knew Last Line: O mr cromek, how do ye do? Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology CROMEK SPEAKS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always take my judgment from a fool Last Line: Amiable state he cannot feel at all Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology CROSSING THE BAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset and evening star Last Line: When I have crossed the bar. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Death; Evening; Immortality; Religion; Sea; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Theology; Ocean CRUCIFIXION OF OUR BLESSED LORD, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is but a sorry scene Last Line: While wrath and vengeance sleep Subject(s): Bible; Religion CRY FROM THE BATTLEFIELD, by ROBERT MENTH Poem Source First Line: O lady, together with the child you take Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CRY OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care Subject(s): Bible; Mythology CUCKOO SONG, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bird Last Line: When all her hope was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Cuckoos CULMINATION, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God labored Last Line: The new world %right Subject(s): Women - Bible CUPID, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why was cupid a boy Last Line: And away fled every joy. Variant Title(s): Why Was Cupid A Boy Subject(s): Bible; Cupid; Mythology; Eros CURSE ON HEROD, by AMY WITTING Poem Source First Line: May you live forever. In that eternity Last Line: But to the bad children, christmas does not come Subject(s): Bible; Rachel (bible); Religion; Women In The Bible CURSOR MUNDI, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came far Last Line: I worship nature, %you are nature Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 10, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rhodocleia Last Line: Only singing fools and deft %trees %might speak %his prophecies Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rhododendron Last Line: Swear to me, %by his mountain, %by his stream, %none shall mar %the pythian dream Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 12, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will build an altar here Last Line: Singing to the priests, on high %build the altar %let life die, %but his song shall never die Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 13, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leap as sea-fish Last Line: Strung to bear immortal peril, %(pleasure such as gods may feel) %bid men feel %as we feel Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I worship art Last Line: Slurring no word %in the rhythm you make, %the poem, %writ in the air Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair Last Line: Miracle of beauty returned to us, %the sun %born in a woman Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are more than human Last Line: Like under-current of sap in a flowering tree, %covered with late snow; %we are more than we know Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give us the strength to follow Last Line: Now in a frail robe, you are a white butterfly; %burning with white fervour, %you are moon-flower, % Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are every flower Last Line: You will never die; %nor this one, %whom you see not, %sitting, sullen and silent, %this poet Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O let us never meet, my love Last Line: Let us retain integrity, %intensity, %taut as the bow, %the pythian strings %to slay sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 8, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is much to know Last Line: Infinite leisure %to proclaim %harmony, %our master Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANCER: 9, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So haste not Last Line: Stare with me %into the face of death, %and say, %love is stronger Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DANIEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned / some few things Last Line: Even in the lion's den Subject(s): Daniel (bible); Adversity DANIEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned %some few things Last Line: He don't stumble %even in the lion's den Subject(s): Daniel (bible) DANIEL, by RICHARD WILTON Poem Text First Line: Imperial persia bowed to his wise sway Last Line: Which past these visible horizons hide. Subject(s): Daniel (bible); Jews; Prayer; Judaism DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The daughters of zelophehad came running up to moses. Last Line: And goes to show that women's rights can be less %fact than fiction Subject(s): Women - Bible DAUGHTERS OF ZION, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: If there had been Last Line: There wouldn't have been %any sons either Subject(s): Women - Bible DAVID, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wonder why such longing Last Line: For the heart of every nation. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Judaism DAVID AND GOLIATH, by P. HATELY WADDELL Poem Source First Line: Sma' was I, amang brether o' mine Last Line: Frae the folk o' israel, hame wi' me! Subject(s): Bible; David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Religion DAVID AND JONATHAN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: On the brow of gilboa is war's bloody stain Last Line: Ah, how are the mighty fallen! Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Jonathan (bible); Judaism DAVID AND JONATHAN, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O jonathan, how pale I turn upon your lap Subject(s): Bible DAVID AND JONATHAN, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Varicolored does the bible %depict us Last Line: Your goodnight %without my songs Subject(s): Bible DAVID AND JONATHAN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heart of fire! Misjudged by wilful man Last Line: He lives to us who dies, he is but lost who lives. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible) DAVID IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: David and his three captains bold Last Line: That I should drink it, god forbid.' Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Bible; Religion DAVID TO ABISHAG, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Will you warm an old man Last Line: To bring me back %to manhood and desire? Subject(s): Women - Bible DAVID'S PECCAVI, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In eaves sole sparrow sits not more alone Last Line: Wit bought with loss, will taught by wit, will mend Variant Title(s): Psalm 102, Verses 6 And Subject(s): Bible; Religion DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 2, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now the early birds begin to call Last Line: Strait into shapeless air unseen he fell. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible) DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 3, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rais'd with the news he from high heav'n receives Last Line: For you who us receive, and him who drives away. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Moah (kingdom), Bible DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 4, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' state and kind discourse thus robb'd the night Last Line: Well-chosen and well-furnish'd for the chase. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Israel; Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.) DAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun arises in the east Last Line: Crownd with warlike fires & raging desires Subject(s): Bible; Mythology DAYBREAK, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology DE CLOUDS AM GWINE TER PASS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De wedder's mighty waum Last Line: An' de darkies' clouds ob sorrer pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Bible; Blacks; Clouds DE PARTU VIRGINIS, SELS., by ACTIUS SINCERUS SANNAZARIUS Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Sannazaro, Jacopo; Sincerus Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DE PROFUNDIS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heed it all; no more Last Line: E'en all that god could tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary DEAD PRIESTESS SPEAKS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was not pure Last Line: Then they may read %the pattern %though you may not, %I, being dead Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DEAD PRIESTESS SPEAKS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laughed not overmuch Last Line: Ah she is modest, she is purposeful, %and nominated for the herald's place, %one %delia of miletus Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DEAD PRIESTESS SPEAKS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked sedately at the head of things Last Line: Nor poor nor rich, %nor entered into strife, %when the new archon spoke of a new war Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DEAD PRIESTESS SPEAKS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, there was fire Last Line: That will stay %the after-ravages of the plague %they brought here from abydos Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DEAD PRIESTESS SPEAKS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour came to me Last Line: Delia, %the high-priestess %here, lies dead Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DEAD PRIESTESS SPEAKS: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would they have given me that simple white Last Line: O late %my love, %my bride, %delia of miletus Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DEAD PRIESTESS SPEAKS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They carved upon the stone Last Line: In this or that %sharp crescent-light; %or the full light %of moon Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible DEAR ABBY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Some men Last Line: Almost as much %as her bewitching beauty Subject(s): Women - Bible DEATH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Look not so fierce; thy hands are ty'd, I know Last Line: Borne in a surer birth of immortalitie. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Devil; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Eve; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DEATH (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a sad land, that in one day Last Line: Tis last good-night, our sun shall never set. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology DEATH OF EVE, SELS., by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn they came to the stream hiddekel Last Line: Cain waited for the coming of the dawn Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible DEATH OF SAUL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleeping armies of the living god Last Line: And further still from him he could not name Subject(s): Bible; Religion DEBORAH: THE SONG OF DEBORAH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Deborah sang that day Subject(s): Deborah (bible); Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Women In The Bible; Judaism DECRIED, by J. ROY ZEISS Poem Text First Line: Of beauty there will be always Last Line: Condemn the madonna? Subject(s): Beauty; Fruit; Mary And Martha (bible); Sun; Women In The Bible DEDICATION, by EUGENIUS III Poem Source First Line: Tertius eugenius romanus papa benignus Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DEDICATION, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Madre dolorosa / o madre mia! Last Line: Madre dolorosa mia! .... Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary DEDICATION OF THE CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE, by ROBERT FABYAN Poem Source First Line: Most blessed lady, comfort to such as call Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DEDICATION OF THE DESIGNS TO BLAIR'S GRAVE: TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door of death is made of gold Last Line: "the blossoms of eternal life!" Subject(s): Bible; Blair, Robert (1699-1746); Mythology DELILAH, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN Poem Source First Line: If I had known I'd reduce you to this Last Line: Remembering but cannot leave behind Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Women In The Bible DELILAH, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teach me, he said Subject(s): Samson; Delilah (bible) DELILAH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because thou wast most delicate Last Line: A woman fair to look upon. Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Samson; Women In The Bible DELILAH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight of darkness and terror Last Line: And drop you down to sweet hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Passion; Women In The Bible DER HEILIGE MANTEL VON AACHEN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Source First Line: A good stout tankard at a rhineland inn Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DESERT BRIDE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Moses was a hero Last Line: A mismatch with a driven man who had %such mountainous matters on his mind! Subject(s): Women - Bible DESIRE OF MAN BEING INFINITE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science DESTRUCTION OF SODOM, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: One would never suspect there were so many vices Last Line: Forgive us our bodies, forgive our bodies' uses Subject(s): Bible; Religion DEXTERA EXCELSI, by A. SOUBY Poem Text First Line: I sailed Last Line: "I taste gethsemane's aloe!" Subject(s): Bible DIALOGUE BETWEEN MARY AND GABRIEL, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, in a dream of love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DIDN'T WE JIM?, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, sir; we lived home till our mother died Last Line: Didn't she, jim? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Bible; Death - Mothers; Dead, The DIES IRAE, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On that great, that awful day Last Line: Oh, who shall look on thee and live? Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology DINA'S HAPPY ENDING, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: And so I married Last Line: I think I laughed half the night %god, it felt good Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DIRGE OF RACHEL, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And rachel lies in ephrath's land Last Line: To break the slumber that hath bound her. Subject(s): Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CANTO 33, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O virgin mother, daughter of thy son! Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): Saint Bernard's Prayer To Our Lad Subject(s): Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DIVINE IMAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus said, 'wouldst thou love one who never died' Last Line: Jesus will appear; and so he who wishes to see a vision, a perfect whole, %must see it in its minute Variant Title(s): Written 181 Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mythology; Religion DO PEOPLE MOULDER EQUALLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He told me, death was dead Variant Title(s): Poem: 390; Poem: 43 Subject(s): Bible; Corpses; Death; Religion DOGMATIC THEOLOGY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Athaliah Last Line: Down to the last %drop of blood Subject(s): Women - Bible DON'T BURDEN ME (NAOMI TO HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Seeing to myself Last Line: Within %my wilderness Subject(s): Women - Bible DREAM, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had I slept my wonted round Last Line: Make this my dream prove true I'th' latter day Subject(s): Bible; Religion DREAM SONGS: 234. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child stood in the shed. The child went mad Last Line: This great man sought his retire Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion DREAM SONGS: 47. APRIL FOOL'S DAY, OR, ST MARY OF EGYPT, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thass a funny title, mr bones Last Line: Whom god has not visited Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion E TENEBRIS [FROM THE SHADOWS], by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come down, o christ, and help me! Reach thy hand Last Line: The wounded hands, the weary human face. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology EARTH'S ANSWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth rais'd up her head / from the darkness dread and drear Last Line: "that free love with bondage bound." Subject(s): Bible; Earth; Mythology; Religion; World; Theology EARTH'S BATTLE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fight well, encased in christ's armor Last Line: No matter what else betide. Subject(s): Bible; Fights; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Victory; Theology; Religious Conflict EASTER 1984, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we saw human dignity / healing humans in the middle of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER 1984, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we saw human dignity %healing humans in the middle of the day Last Line: Free never to torture man again, %free to believe him risen Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Religion EASTER HYMN, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Make no mistake; there will be no forgiveness Last Line: Being polite to your official guests Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bible; Religion EASTER WINGS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store Last Line: Affliction shall advance the flight in me. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; God; Holidays; Religion; Wings; The Resurrection; Theology ECCLESIASTES, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, you could grow to love it, god-fearing, god Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ECCLESIASTES, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, you could grow to love it, god-fearing, god Last Line: With rhetoric, promising nothing under the sun Subject(s): Bible; Religion ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 25. THE VIRGIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother! Whose virgin bosom was uncrost Last Line: Of high with low, celestial with terrene! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Virgin Subject(s): Catholics; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 29. TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, to outweigh all harm, the sacred book Last Line: Beneath their feet, detested and defiled. Subject(s): Bible ECCLESIASTICUS: JESUS, SON OF SIRACH, by APOCRYPHA BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I am the mother of fair love Last Line: My memory is unto everlasting generations Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ECLOGUE 4, SELS., by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EDEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary and wandering, hand in hand Last Line: Eden must surely win. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Bible; Eden; God; Sin EDEN, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A learned and a happy ignorance Last Line: The glorious wonders of the deity. Subject(s): Bible; God; Religion; Simplicity; Theology EDEN, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden; the first year and the first june Last Line: Adam gave us cain. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain EGYPT, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Egypt had cheated us Last Line: Hellas re-born from death. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Egypt EGYPTIAN BRIDE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Oh, joseph, I am of so little use to you Last Line: Your self, your god, and pharaoh - and your job - %take precedence and priority over me Subject(s): Women - Bible ELEGY AND CHOROS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Electra: no one knows %the heart of a child Last Line: Woe, woe for those who spent %live-blood %in hate Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible END OF THE SONG OF JERUSALEM, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All human forms identified, even tree, metal, earth, and stone; all Subject(s): Bible; Mythology END OF THE WORLD, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a weeping in the world Last Line: Whereby we too must die. Subject(s): Bible; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ENGLISH ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART (FIRST READING), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you mean to please every body you will Last Line: Of lighting a lamp when you dont wish to see Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology ENOCH TELLS THE SECRETS OF THE SIXTH DAY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The fifth day of course was busy, the sea Last Line: A miserable dominion over the earth Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Religion ENQUIRY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Judas the disciple was Last Line: For the part we play? Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Disciples, Twelve ENVY: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I envy you your chance of death Last Line: That you have not? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Fragment Sixty-eight Subject(s): Bible; Envy ENVY: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can death send me Last Line: As you bent? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Dead, The ENVY: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I have known Last Line: Was unspeakably indifferent. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible ENVY: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the goddess has slain me Last Line: Your chance of death. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Dead, The EPI-STRAUSS-IUM, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Matthew and mark and luke and holy john Last Line: And in blue skies the orb is manifest to sight. Subject(s): Bible EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of h's birth this was the happy lot Last Line: His mother on his father him begot Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The errors of a wise man make your rule Last Line: Rather than the perfections of a fool Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology EPIGRAM ON OUR LADY OF BLACHERNAE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If thou seekest the dread throne of god on earth Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EPIGRAM ON THE ANNUNCIATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, blissfulest maiden Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EPIGRAM: TO THE MOST HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Queen %thou holdest in thine arms Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EPILOGUE TO DRAMATIS PERSONAE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first of the feast of feasts Last Line: Become my universe that feels and knows! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology EPIPHANY, by TUA MARINA Poem Source First Line: Those who live in country places Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EPIPSYCHIDION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spirit! Sister of that orphan one Last Line: And come and be my guest -- for I am love's. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Sea; Viviani, Teresa Emilia; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Ocean EPITAPH, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I may say Last Line: Greek flower; greek ecstasy %reclaims for ever %one who died %following %intricate songs' lost measu Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible EPITAPH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young then Last Line: Tongue; these painted eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology EPITAPH: FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God and the devil still are wrangling Last Line: Satan has enough in hell Variant Title(s): For A Mouthy Woman Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology EPITAPH: FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God and the devil still are wrangling Last Line: Satan has enough in hell Variant Title(s): For A Mouthy Woma Subject(s): Bible; Religion EPITAPH: JOHN TROT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john trot, the friend of all mankind Last Line: But now they stand in every bodies way Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology ERIGE COR TUUM AD ME IN CAEULUM (SEPTEMBER 1940), by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your eyes on high Last Line: Is the flower %magicians bartered for Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; World War Ii EROS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is he taking us Last Line: Now that he has turned back? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Love EROS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth is wet with your life Last Line: Vivid through the white. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Love EROS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep love and he wings Last Line: Love entered us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-one: 1 Subject(s): Bible; Love EROS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could eros be kept Last Line: That he left us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-two: 2 Subject(s): Bible; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy EROS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah love is bitter and sweet Last Line: Bitter as ash? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-three: 3 Subject(s): Bible; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy EROS: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had thought myself frail Last Line: Then the day broke. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-four: 4 Subject(s): Bible; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy EROS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What need of a lamp Last Line: Love must first shatter us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-five: 5 Subject(s): Bible; Love - Nature Of ESTEEMING THE BIBLE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This holy book I'd rather own Last Line: Their tears shall cease to flow. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology ESTHER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Let's face it %(I told my mirror) Last Line: But I didn't have to do it %always remember that Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ETHINTHUS, QUEEN OF WATERS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ethinthus, queen of water, how thou shinest in the sky! Last Line: Like the gay fishes on the wave, when the cold moon drinks the dew. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology EUROPE A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five windows light the cavern'd man: thro' one he breathes the air Last Line: Call'd all his sons to the strife of blood. Subject(s): Bible; Europe; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology EURYDICE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So you have swept me back Last Line: For the dead to pass. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Eurydice (nymph) EUTYCHUS, by ROSEMARY DOBSON Poem Source First Line: The first day of the week he spoke to them Last Line: And spring to life again, like eutychus Subject(s): Bible; Religion EVADNE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I first tasted under apollo's lips Last Line: That great arm-full of yellow flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Love EVE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: One book has it that eve Last Line: Before she goes to sleep [or, sleeps] Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Man-woman Relationships EVE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scarlet bird upon her shoulder's snow Last Line: Leapt adam—doubling paradise—and found her. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Eve EVE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the gates of paradise I flee Last Line: Lord god, lord god, open the gates to me! Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible EVE, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, with her basket, was Last Line: "eva!"" again." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVE, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep over me you bent your head Last Line: You bent your head deep over me Subject(s): Bible; Jews - Women EVE, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the highway Last Line: Hoarding this apple %in my hand Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I sit at the door, / sick to gaze within Last Line: His tongue out with its fork. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time a lovely scene Last Line: In god's own image made. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; God; Jews; Judaism EVE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago, in ages grey Last Line: To the work we have to do. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible EVE AND ADAM, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Tis said a clever woman can Last Line: And make a man out of a fool. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations EVE NAMES THE ANIMALS, by SUSAN DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: To me, lion was sun on a wing %over the garden. Dove Last Line: As garlands on my long walks %the next day %I'd find them withered %I liked change Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Names EVE OH EVE, by TASLIMA NASRIN Poem Source First Line: Why won't eve eat of the fruit? Last Line: Eve, if you get hold of the fruit %don't ever refrain from eating Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women's Rights EVE TO HER DAUGHTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was not I who began it Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Women's Rights; Eve; Feminism EVE TO HER DAUGHTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was not I who began it Last Line: He has turned himself into god %who is faultless, and doesn 't exist Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women's Rights EVE WAKES IN THE GARDEN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: One the first day she wakes under a shade Last Line: Is hot, the smell of blossoms thick about her Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; Eden; Trees EVE'S BLOOD, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hides many treasures in its deeps Last Line: The blood of that eve of the early woods. Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brides; Nature; Nudity; Nakedness EVE'S CRADLE-SONG, by WALTER SATTERLEE Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, little cain Last Line: Little cain! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain EVE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am eve, great adam's wife Last Line: There would be no hell, there would be no sorrow, %in the heavens, where our only stability stands Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible EVE'S SONG, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may not ever know Last Line: O heart's desire! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve EVE, ON A MORNING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, on a morning, paused before the / gate Last Line: "and adam plans to break new ground to-day." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Peace; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness EVENING, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light passes Last Line: And leaf-shadow are lost. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING CHANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew before our lady's picture Last Line: We will trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Mary And Martha (bible); Peace; Portraits; Roses; Women In The Bible EVENING OF THE VISITATION, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Go, roads, to the four quarters of our quiet distance Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 1, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Are the omina favorable? %scribes know the king's spittle Last Line: Urge him to tend his kingdom %of impertinence Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 2, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the naked lady stooped to bathe %in the gushings of a spring Last Line: Then the apple-flesh as usual %after the bite turned brown Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 3, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the kitchen, the gregarious, hovering flies Last Line: Does purity of lust last one night only? %in the breakfasting kitchen, the peacock screams Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 4, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The wind blows and the page turns over Last Line: And oh their teeth like milk were white %and their mouths like wine were red Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 5, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Should there be merriment at a funeral? Last Line: From the ardent flowers %not wishing to outstay their visit Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 6, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The wind blows and the page turns over %to bathsheba a babe was born Last Line: And in their shared and naked suffering %the wise child, love, was conceived Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: CODA, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Over the rocky dorsals of the hills %the pilgrim buses of april arrive Last Line: Below the hills and on to the hills %that surrounded jerusalem Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If moral virtue was christianity %christ's pretensions were all vanity Last Line: Both read the bible day & night, %but thou read'st black where I read white Variant Title(s): The New La Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity EVERY TIME AND EVERY WHERE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: For you are fair, my love. Yes, you are fair Last Line: For you are fair, my love. Yes, you are fair. %my love for you is every time and every where Subject(s): Women - Bible EX MARIA VIRGINE, by NORBERT ENGELS Poem Source First Line: And mary said, 'before the void was filled' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Subject(s): Bible; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Theology EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Last Line: Of their brilliance miracle %of Subject(s): Bible; Fathers And Daughters; Religion EXODUS X: 21-23, by JOHN WILLIAM BURGON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When israel dwelt in egypt's land Last Line: While all seems dark and cheerless round! Subject(s): Bible; Exodus From Egypt; Israel; Jews; Judaism EXPERIMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast a lap full of seed Last Line: Some stinking weed Variant Title(s): "o Lapwing;""thou Hast A Lap Full Of Seed""; Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters F.R.H.'S THANKS; WITH A PENCIL-CASE FOR HER BIBLE-CLASS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who gatherest with loving arm Last Line: For ever be thy blessings o'er them streaming! Subject(s): Bible; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FACES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: There are two pictures hanging on my wall Last Line: And mary maiden gray the mother of me! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Inspiration; Creativity; Virgin Mary; Theology FAIR ELEANOR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower Last Line: She hugg'd it to her breast, and groan'd her last. Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology FAIR MAIDEN, WHO IS THIS BAIRN?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FAITH, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, sound forever, ye clarions of thought Last Line: Monologue later used by joyce in ulysses. Variant Title(s): The Trumpets Of The Mind Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Prayer; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be like the little bird Last Line: All conscious of his wings. Variant Title(s): The Trumpets Of The Mind Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Prayer; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH AND WORKS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Rehab's faith and works combine and conspire Last Line: To the reign of god beyond our present seeing %but not beyond the reach of our believing Subject(s): Women - Bible FAITH HEALING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the women file to where he stands Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology FAITH HEALING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the women file to where he stands Last Line: Spreads slowly through them - that, and the voice above %saying dear child, and all time has disprov Subject(s): Bible; Religion FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 3, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder'd much, why any man of parts Last Line: By these important verses of st. John. Subject(s): Bible, N.t. Gospels; Religious Education; Schools; Speech; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Students; Oratory; Orators FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gospel's simpler language being writ Last Line: Of brisker tempers—let us next enquire. Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Books; Language; Religious Education; Writing & Writers; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome' Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAMILY BIBLE, by JAMES DOYLE Poem Source First Line: They would leave nothing to chance Last Line: Filling up with family names Subject(s): Bible; Family Life FAMILY PORTRAIT, by LEONARD FEENEY Poem Source First Line: Our lady is my fear Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FEAR NOT FOR ISMAEL, by JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no need to fear for ishmael Last Line: And darkly broods above jerusalem. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Jane Subject(s): Ishmael (bible) FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF MARY IN THE TEMPLE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The priests stood waiting in the holy place Last Line: Of faith, and hope, and everlasting rest. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary FEMALE WILL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What may man be? But what may woman be Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FILL AND ILLUMINED, by JOSEPH CERAVOLO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God created his image Last Line: Yet there is no joy Subject(s): Bible; Religion FINDING A BIBLE IN AN ABANDONED CABIN, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible FIRE WITHOUT WITNESS, by MARK NEPO Poem Source First Line: God, how do I come to this?! Last Line: Who feeds on death never dies! %what is the use of so much promised light? Subject(s): Bible; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sistine Chapel; Vatican Palace FIRST SACRIFICE, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, the hour is nigh! Last Line: Yet deeper -- and from that, strong comfort win! Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible FIRST WOMAN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Sarah was the first Last Line: To the stupendous %program god proposed Subject(s): Women - Bible FIVE CAROLS FOR CHRISTMASTIDE, SELS., by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FIVE GROUPS OF VERSE (9), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow that does not leave my feet Last Line: I seem to walk but I dance about, %you think me wilent but I shout Variant Title(s): Davi Subject(s): Bible; Religion FIVE WOMEN IN SAMSON'S LIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: All of the women Last Line: A decent relationship. %what a man! Subject(s): Women - Bible FLEMISH MADONNA, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is no golden-crowned, celestial queen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FLIGHT IN THE DESERT, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last settlement scraggled out with a barbwire fence Last Line: Knuckles the generous breast, and feeds Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): Bible; Religion FLORENTINE INGRATITUDE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir joshua sent his own portrait to Last Line: Never can have any to sir jehoshuan Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the beautiful garment Last Line: Now having given all, let us leave all; %above all, let us leave pity %and mount higher %to love-res Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 10, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no madness to say Last Line: It is heal-all, %everlasting; %it is the greatest among herbs %and becometh a tree Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was the first that flew Last Line: To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 12, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the first - it is written Last Line: Stamped with image of caesar Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 13, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In any case, she struck an uncanny bargain Last Line: Out of the door Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 14, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was easy to see that he was not an ordinary %merchant Last Line: No secret was safe with a woman Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 15, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said, I have heard of you Last Line: Unveiled, in the house of a stranger Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 16, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am mary, she said, of a tower-town Last Line: Bitterly...Bitterly Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 17, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But her voice was steady and her eyes were dry Last Line: Or a mirage...It was her hair Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 18, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who was unquestionably Last Line: Appear at all Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 19, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am mary, the incense-flower of the incense-tree Last Line: And turned to unfasten the door Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go where I love and where I am loved Last Line: The-place-of-a-skull %to those who have fashioned it Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 20, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say she slipped out and got away Last Line: Some say he was god Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 21, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anyhow, it is exactly written Last Line: Of her extraordinary hair Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 22, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But simon the host thought Last Line: I do not know her Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 23, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was always a crowd hanging about outside Last Line: Who and what manner of woman this is Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 24, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simon did not know but balthasar Last Line: In a little over two thousand years Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 25, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simon could say, yes Last Line: In a star Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 26, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it is not fair to compare Last Line: And balthasar Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 27, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And kaspar (for of course, the merchant was kaspar Last Line: Kaspar %remembered Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 28, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And kaspar heard Last Line: With his ecstasy Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 29, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not solely because of beauty Last Line: But in the end, kaspar, too, received the title magian Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In resurrection, there is confusion Last Line: We know ultimately we will find %happiness; to-day shalt thou be %with me in paradise Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 30, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he stooped for the scarf, he saw this Last Line: Opened like a flower Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 31, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the flower, thus contained Last Line: His and our earth, before adam Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 32, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And he saw it all as if enlarged under a sun-glass Last Line: Paradise %before eve Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 33, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And he heard, as it were, the echo Last Line: Demons cast out of her Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 34, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then as he dropped his arm Last Line: Appear at all Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 35, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What he thought was the direct contradiction Last Line: The feasting, the laughter Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 36, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the snow fell on hermon Last Line: Silently...Silently Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 37, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And as the snow fell on hebron Last Line: It would happen again Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 38, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And kaspar grieved as always Last Line: That kaspar %was abraham Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 39, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a very kind man Last Line: Or a mariner's map Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue-geese, white-geese, you may say Last Line: As I stand, still unsatisfied, %under the long shadow-on-snow of the pine Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 40, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And no one will ever know Last Line: Least of all kaspar Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 41, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one will know exactly how it came about Last Line: Now your great-grandfather is dead Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 42, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was only a thought Last Line: For the others had bowed low Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 43, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But she spoke so he looked at her Last Line: She held in her arms Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Satisfied, unsatisfied Last Line: For they fall exhausted, numb, blind %but in certain ecstasy, %for theirs is the hunger %for paradis Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I would rather drown, remembering Last Line: That knows the islands of the blest are there, %for many waters can not quench love's fire Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet resurrection is a sense of direction Last Line: Resurrection is remuneration, %food, shelter, fragrance %of myrrh and balm Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 8, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am so happy Last Line: I have gone onward from bronze and iron, %into the golden age Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FLOWERING OF THE ROD: 9, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No poetic phantasy Last Line: Deny me, do not recognise me, %shun me; for this reality %isinfectious-ecstasy Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FOLLIES OF ADAM, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read me euripides Last Line: He laughed, once more Subject(s): Bible; Religion FOOT-WASHING, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now you have come Last Line: Forgive me wakened now Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Bible; Feet; Religion FOR 'OUR LADY OF THE ROCKS' (BY LEONARDO DA VINCI), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, is this the darkness of the end Last Line: Amid the bitterness of things occult. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary FOR A NUN, by LEO T. FOLEY Poem Text First Line: Mary - o mother of sorrow and queen of heaven! Last Line: Fold her, with tenderest love, to thy waiting heart. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary FOR A POET, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By art a poet is not made Last Line: My soul in peace departs away Subject(s): Bible; Religion FOR A VIRGIN AND CHILD, BY HANS MEMMELINCK, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: god, man's life, born into man Last Line: Harsh nether darkness, and make painful moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonntes For Pictures: 1. A Virgin And Child, By Hans Memmeling Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans FOR ANNE AT PASSOVER, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold easter week and the hard buds, forming, shake Last Line: We are all babes who suck at love together Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Critics And Criticism; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jews; Passover; Religion - Reformers FOR DAUGHTERS OF MAGDALEN, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is the ancient story Last Line: That would not toil or spin Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology FOR DAUGHTERS OF MAGDALEN, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is the ancient story Last Line: That would not toil or spin Subject(s): Bible; Religion FOR EVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I have felt a pity surge for eve Last Line: Who kept with adam that first lover's tryst! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Hearts; Love FOR I MUST FIND, FR MYRTLE BOUGH, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FOR SUCH A TIME, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Esther was not seduced Last Line: She contrived to crush %the adversary of her people Subject(s): Women - Bible FOR THE BAPTIST, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last and greatest herald of heaven's king Last Line: Repent!' Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Saint John Baptist;sonnet: Repent, Repent!;the Baptist's Sonnet Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology FOR THE HOLY FAMILY, BY MICHELANGELO (IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn not to the prophet's page, o son! He knew Last Line: The seed o' the woman bruise the serpent's head. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary FOR THE MAGDALENE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These eyes, dear lord, once brandons of desire Last Line: Thus sighed to jesus the bethanian fair, %his tear-wet feet still drying with her hair Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible FOR YOU ARE ARMED, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FOR YOU ARE GRAVED INDELIBLY, FR MYRTLE BOUGH, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FOR ZACHARY, by CHARLES O. HARTMAN Poem Source First Line: After the one swung limb and scramble, all Last Line: The heart is full up, flush, at liberty. %zacchaeus climbed his tree to find his lord Subject(s): Bible; Zacchaeus FOUND WANTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belshazzar had a letter Last Line: On revelation's wall. Subject(s): Bible; Conscience; Religion; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many thanks have been order'd this day to attend Last Line: Excuse the presumption.—dear vicar, adieu! Subject(s): Apostles; Baptism; Bible; Language; Prayer; Religion; Spiritual Life; Disciples, Twelve; Christenings; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 3, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope that the vicar will pardon the haste Last Line: How to clear up the matter.—what can a man say? Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Hebrew Literature; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have with attention, dear vicar, repass'd Last Line: And, speaking or silent, am yours to command, Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Literature; Language Poetry; Religion; Theology FOUR QUARTETS: THE DRY SALVAGES: 4, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, whose shrine stands on the promontory Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FOUR ZOAS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: The dark relisions are departed and sweet science reigns Variant Title(s): Vala, Or The Four Zoas, Sels Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter FOURFOLD AND TWOFOLD VISION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The visions of eternity, by reason of narrowed perceptions Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FOURTH STATION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Mothers who have seen him die - your first child, your only one Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FOURTH STATION, by RUTH SCHAUMANN Poem Source First Line: They say this is his mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, who lov'st britannia's isle Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FRAGMENT 113, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not honey / not the plunder of the bee Last Line: And fiery tempered steel. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Self FRAGMENT OF AN ORATORIO FROM THE BOOK OF JOB, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crushed by misfortune's yoke Last Line: And the thunder of the fight. Subject(s): Job (bible) FRAGMENT THIRTY-SIX, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what to do Last Line: And I lie listening awake? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible FRAGMENTS OF THE MYSTERY OF THE FALL, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam: since that last evening we have fallen indeed! Last Line: Oh cain! Behold your father's words are said! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve FROM A LONDON BOOKSHOP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "holy scripture, writ divine" Last Line: Bibles sold as cheap as these Subject(s): Bible;booksellers;mnemonics; Bookstores FROM BLAKE'S ENGRAVING OF THE LAOCOON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spiritual war: isreal delivered from egypt is art deliver'd from natre Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FROM EVE, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Radiance tempts %from every tree Last Line: Buried deep in the apple's belly Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible FROM THE ANNOTATIONS TO BISHOP BERKELEY'S SIRIS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus considered imagination to be the real man and says Last Line: Which blinds the eye of imagination, the real man Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FROM THE BOOK OF EXTENUATIONS, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Poor boaz thinks that he arranged that parley Last Line: One passion lasts -- the deathless lust of song. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible FRUIT OF THE TREE, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: In the dark ocean which rolls a molten world Last Line: God wept, for heaven seemed hollow ... Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Women FULL MOON, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Softly swims the moon through my blood Last Line: Across the world-all's asleep Subject(s): Bible FULLNESS OF THE BIBLE, by H. J. BETTS Poem Text First Line: There is a lamp whose steady light Last Line: These healing leaves, this heavenly tree. Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Jews; Religion; Paradise; Judaism; Theology GAELIC CHRISTMAS, by LIAM P. CLANCY Poem Source First Line: Their hearts are filled with pity's mead Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GAELIC LITANY TO OUR LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O great mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GALILEE SHORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the blue-dark dome old-starred at night, green boat-lights Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GALILEE SHORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the blue-dark dome old-starred at night, green boat-lights Last Line: Just think how amazing! Someone getting up and walking on the water Subject(s): Bible; Religion GARDEN: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are clear Last Line: I could break you. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening GARDEN: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, rend open the heat Last Line: Of your path. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Heat Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; Heat GARLAND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARIE, by B. I. Poem Source First Line: Here are five letters in this blessed name Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GASCOIGNE'S DE PROFUNDIS, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From depth of dole wherein my soul doth dwell Last Line: Since abraham's heirs did first his laws reject. %ever or never Subject(s): Bible; Religion GENESIS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All things created, moses writes Subject(s): Country Life; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mnemonics; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible GENESIS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the burly air I strode Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GENESIS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the burly air I strode Last Line: Though earth has rolled beneath her weight %the bones that cannot bear the light Subject(s): Bible; Religion GENESIS 24, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this man that walketh in the field Last Line: To his mother's tent. Variant Title(s): The Meeting Of Isaac And Rebecca Subject(s): Isaac (bible) GENTLEST LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say he was a serious child Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GHOSTS OF NARRATIVE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stories that make us Last Line: A promise, and they laugh Subject(s): Bible – Old Testament; Jews - Exodus From Egypt GIFT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wise men of old brought gifts Last Line: And bowed down %to worship %this perfection Subject(s): Bible; Religion GIVE ALL, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden-cheeked, fine smelling peach has come Last Line: "give all you have to give." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Love GIVEN FLESH RETURNS NOTHING BUT BREAD, by AILEEN KELLY Poem Source Last Line: And after all what's said is barely said Subject(s): Bible; Religion GLOZE UPON THIS TEXT, DOMINUS IIS OPUS HABET, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My reckless race is run, green youth and pride be past Last Line: We need no text to answer them, but this, the lord hath need %ever or never Subject(s): Bible; Religion GNOMIC VERSES, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology GOD OF SEEING, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: When sarah's strategy Last Line: Who claim monopoly %of god's good graces Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD WAS NOT SHOCKED (GENEALOGICAL OBSERVATION), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: We wonder Last Line: And lineage %of david Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD'S HANDMAIDEN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: My mother was god's handmaiden Last Line: The psalmist has nothing on me. %I too am the child of god's handmaid Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD'S MOTHER, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A garden bower in bower Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GOD'S PARABLES, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: We must all die. Last Line: The twist %of our estrangements Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD'S PURPOSE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I am obsessed to write and tell their story Last Line: To read the original and recognize again %how women are among the best of 'men.' Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD'S WORLD AND MAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Beneath god's ever present sky Last Line: Marks life's beginning and its end. Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Life; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology GOLDEN CALF, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the answer's to be the sinai sort Last Line: Takes one long slow step nearer Subject(s): Bible; Religion GOOD FREND: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time has an end, they say Last Line: To the herb, %rosemary Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible GOOD FRIDAY, 1613. RIDING WESTWARD, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this Last Line: That thou mayest know me, and I'll turn my face. Subject(s): Bible; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Religion; Theology GOSHEN, by EDGAR FRANK Poem Text First Line: How can you live in goshen Last Line: For my companions. Subject(s): Goshen (bible); Religion; Theology GOURD DIPPER, by RICK (DIDACUS) WILSON Poem Source First Line: Walk the fallow rows of the south Last Line: Nestled in the dirt mattress somewhere, %somewhere out along the twenty Subject(s): Bible; Religion GRACE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stock lies dead, and no increase Last Line: Drop from above. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GRACE OF SERVING, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The women ministered - we are not told Last Line: How can the god of all receive our gifts %when we exclude one giver as ungraced? Subject(s): Women - Bible GRANDMA'S BIBLE, by LEAFA DORNE SEIBERT Poem Text First Line: Grandma's bible is old and worn Last Line: Her influence and love of long ago. Subject(s): Bible; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I upon the first creation / clapped my wings with loud applause Last Line: Weaned from earth, and led to god. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Religion; Theology GWIN, KING OF NORWAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, kings and listen to my song Last Line: The pleasant south country. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Revolutions H. BAPTISME (2), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since, lord, to thee Last Line: Childhood is health. Variant Title(s): Holy Baptisme;holy Baptism (2) Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology H. SCRIPTURES, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome dear book, soul's joy and food! The feast Last Line: Will tell thee so; sweet saviour thou didst die! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HAGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said hagar: nay, I can not see him die Last Line: And mused on abraham and ishmael! Subject(s): Death; Hagar; Ishmael (bible); Memory; Dead, The HAGAR, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone in the wilderness, her child and she Last Line: To cheer the outcast in the desert bare. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Bible; Hagar; Jews; Judaism HAGAR AND ISHAMEL, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Abraham's children played with shells Last Line: The desert's yellow hide where hagar fell. %with their white negro teeth they bit the sand Subject(s): Bible HAGAR AND ISHMAEL, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They played with seashells, abraham's small sons Last Line: And hagar and her son sank in the yellow whorl, %and bit with their white blackmore teeth into the b Subject(s): Bible HAGAR AND ISHMAEL, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Abraham's little sons played with seashells Last Line: And bit their white teeth in the hot sand Subject(s): Bible HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE, MOTHER IN VIRGINITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The holy ghost is to thee sent Variant Title(s): Mary Bore Both God And Ma Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HAIL, MOTHER OF THE SAVIOUR, by ADAM OF SAINT VICTOR Poem Source First Line: Hail to thee, our mother's saviour Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HALCYON DAYS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I find the four gospels a darned good read Last Line: I once wrote in my scrapbook that what I approve of I tend to regard as true Subject(s): Bible, N.t. Gospels; Writing And Writers HALCYON, SELS., by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible HALF-WAY, FOR ONE COMMANDMENT BROKEN, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder %and went with half my life about my ways Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Homosexuality; Lot (bible) HANDS OF GOD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god Last Line: Let me never know myself apart from the living god! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion HANNAH'S MORNING PRAYERS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I am not drunk,' she said. Last Line: Convinced that he would never hear %of her again Subject(s): Women - Bible HAPPY SONGS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HATH THE RAIN A FATHER?, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say, 'it rains.' an unbelieving age! Last Line: And sendeth showers upon the springing grain Subject(s): Bible; Religion HAVE YOU FOUND THE BIBLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Has the book found you Subject(s): Bible HE WHO SEES THE INFINITE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science HEART FOR ALL HER CHILDREN, by JR. ALBERT J. HERBERT Poem Source First Line: I have seen our lady in ireland, being carried in procession in Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HEBREW CRADLE SONG, by EZEKIEL LEAVITT Poem Text First Line: Night has on the earth descended Last Line: That thy mother used to tell! Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Language; Jews; Singing & Singers; Judaism; Songs HEBREW MELODY, by MRS. JAMES GORDEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the hall of our fathers in anguish we fled Last Line: Will welcome the exile to siloa's fountain? Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jeremiah (bible); Jews; Judaism HELEN, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All greece hates / the still eyes in the white face Last Line: White ash amid funereal cypresses. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical HELEN IN EGYPT, SELS., by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible HELIODORA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He and I sought together Last Line: "is a lily kissed." Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Meleager (100 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism HELIOS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helios makes all things right Last Line: Scent of hesperidean orange-spray. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible HELPED BY THE HELPLESS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: She didn't need Last Line: And sets us back %upon our forward journey Subject(s): Women - Bible HERMES OF THE WAYS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hard sand breaks Last Line: Shore-grass. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean HERSELF, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath it in her keeping, the house quietly sleeping Last Line: Herself is lady of the house, its mother and queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary HIGH CALLING, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Everlastingly Last Line: And loving and caring servant %to a child-like world Subject(s): Women - Bible HILLS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lift up mine eyes unto the hills Last Line: And ceasing to see %strength comes Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion HINTS OF HOLOCAUST, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The partitioning of the levite's concubine Last Line: For tolerating liquidation or incineration %of any of god's persecuted children Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women - Bible HIPPOLYTUS TEMPORIZES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I worship the greatest first Last Line: Of veins, purple as violets?) Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible HIS MOTHER IN HER HOOD OF BLUE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus was a little thing Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HIS MOTHER'S SERVICE TO OUR LADY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lady of heaven and earth, and therewithal Last Line: And in this faith I choose to live and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary HIS ONLY CHILD, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: She was his only child' and yet his vow Last Line: And think we pay them by that gloriying. %can we retract our vows before it is too late? Subject(s): Women - Bible HIS PEOPLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He set us free Last Line: Thy yoke we hear / for thy name's sake! Subject(s): Freedom;god;israel;jacob (bible);jews; Liberty;judaism HIS WHOLE LIFE IS AN EPIGRAM SMART, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HIS WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But it was right that she / looked back Last Line: She could taste the salt. Subject(s): Lot (bible); Marriage; Salt; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HO, EVERYONE THAT THIRSTETH, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The lad that hopes for heaven %shall fill his mouth with mould Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Religion HOLINESS OF MINUTE PARTICULARS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And many conversed on these things as they labour'd at the furrow Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HOLY BIBLE, BOOK DIVINE, by JOHN BURTON Poem Source Subject(s): Bible HOLY FAMILY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of beauty rare Last Line: He look'd upon the twain, like joseph standing by. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary HOLY LAND OF WALSINGHAM, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Source First Line: Lay willows under walsingham Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HOLY SATURDAY, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I, in truth, the judas who betrays? Last Line: Rise christ! Give these feet wings! My need is exigent. Subject(s): Betrayal; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HOLY SATYR, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most holy satyr Last Line: Answering note for note. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Goats HOLY SONNET: 5, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a little world made cunningly Last Line: Of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heal. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnets: 15;microcosm;""i Am A Little World Made Cunningly""; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; Theology 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 HOLY SONNET: ANNUNCIATION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salvation to all that will is nigh Last Line: Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 2. Annunciation Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology HOLY SONNET: ASCENTION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salute the last and everlasting day Last Line: Deigne at my hands this crowne of prayer and praise. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 7. Ascension;ascension Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: CRUCIFYING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By miracles exceeding power of man Last Line: Moyst, with one drop of thy blood, my dry soule. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 5. Crucifying;crucifying Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: LA CORONA, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise Last Line: Salvation to all that will is nigh. Variant Title(s): "la Corona: 1;the Crown;""deign At My Hands This Crown Of Prayer And Praise""; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: NATIVITIE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Immensitie cloysterd in thy deare wombe Last Line: With his kinde mother, who partakes thy woe. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 3. Nativity;sonnet On The Nativity;nativity Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology HOLY SONNET: RESURRECTION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moist with one drop of thy blood, my dry soul Last Line: Salute the last, and everlasting day. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 6. Resurrection Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: TEMPLE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his kind mother who partakes thy woe Last Line: By miracles exceeding power of man. Variant Title(s): Jesus In The Temple;la Corona: 4. Temple;temple Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology 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 HOLYROOD ABBEY, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: No guidebook description prepares for this Last Line: Like a fragment of the cross Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Churches; Clergy; Death; Monasteries; Religion; Skeletons HOMESICKNESS, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know the language Last Line: Their prayers sank in the holy river Subject(s): Bible HONOUR AND GENIUS IS ALL I ASK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HOPE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave to hope a watch of mine: but he Last Line: I did expect a ring. Subject(s): Bible; Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology HOPE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Hannah, why shouldst thou despair Last Line: And claim the prize, or er'er I start Subject(s): Bible; Religion HOTEL FLORA, by MIRIAM SAGAN Poem Source First Line: I want to go to mexico city and be mysterious and sad Last Line: To a room that is not mine Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible HOW CRUEL IS THE STORY OF EVE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh dread nature, for your purpose, %to have made them love so Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible HOW EASILY A LOVE ABORTS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Let me be orpah if I cannot be Last Line: And knows how easily a love aborts %when driven to deeds beyond the feasible Subject(s): Women - Bible HOW THE 'HIGHER CRITICISM' BLESSES THE BIBLE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say 'tis still god's book, still true and wise Last Line: Giving your foolish blessing to the book! Subject(s): Bible; Criticism & Critics HOW TO KNOW LOVE FROM DECEIT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love to faults is always blind Last Line: And forges fetters for the mind Subject(s): Bible; Duplicity; Love - Nature Of; Mythology; Deceit HOW TO READ THE BIBLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll read the bible with a microscope Last Line: The free and waiting treasures of the lord. Subject(s): Bible HUMAN IMAGE, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 1, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: As one day I gazed on so many skeletons Last Line: Silken thread that unites us with the portal of the heavens Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 3, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: Are faces of the saints in heaven sad? Last Line: That I may now learn why %your unadulterated tear o holy mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 4, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: Behind the mirror death Last Line: And your love is %the only salvation Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 5, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: We are dazzled by the shield of your beauty Last Line: When love expands as far as the skylark's song Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 6, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: You are the sunray of a stream Last Line: Sun - beautiful madonna all our own %our consolation and our sheltering home Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 7, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: You visit us always o magificent lady Last Line: And all speak of your eyes %resplendent wounds on the banks of the sky Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 8, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: Even the light has need of your presence Last Line: And we entrust all our dreams %into your open hands Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 9, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: Our nights are without stars our days are without suns Last Line: That the first foliage may come like the daybreak of the %resurrection Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMILITY AND DOUBT, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God wants not man to humble himself Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HUNTRESS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, blunt your spear with us Last Line: And drop exhausted at our feet. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hunting; Hunters HURLER OF ACCUSATIONS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Like job Last Line: Or supersede %your verdict? Subject(s): Women - Bible HYMN FOR LAUDES; FEAST OF OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Clap hands with festal joy, o holy people Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN FOR LAUDES; FEAST OF OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We call you mother of our lord and saviour Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN FOR SECOND VESPERS; FEAST OF THE APPARITION OF OUR LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Untouched by adam's curse - our mary's soul! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN FOR THE FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Subsiding form those heavenly wings the air Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN IN THE ASSUMPTION (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come Last Line: Our weak desires have done their best; %sweet angels come, and sing the rest Variant Title(s): On The Assumptio Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN IN THE ASSUMPTION (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come Last Line: Sweet angels come, and sing the rest. Variant Title(s): In The Assumption;on The Assumption Of The Virgin Mary;on The Glorious Assumption Of Our Blessed Lady [or Virgin] Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary HYMN TO ARTEMIS: ALL MOUNTAINS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me all mountains Last Line: And the towering mountain trees. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HYMN TO MARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of on pat so fayr and brigt Last Line: Dat hauet pe foule put inferni %explicit cantus iste Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou flower of flowers! I'll follow thee Last Line: I see no other, come do thou %waft my weak bark along! Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Praise; Women - Bible HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, o virgin of the virgins Last Line: Crowned, thou art reigning. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary HYMN TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by CONAR O'RIORDAN Poem Source First Line: Queen of all queens, oh! Wonder of the loveliness of women Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN: 13. ST. PHILIP AND ST. JAMES, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the winds are all composure Last Line: His inestimable death. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jesus Christ; Religion; Saints; Theology HYMN: INNOCENTS' DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weep not o'er thy children's tomb! Last Line: The flower in heaven shall blow! Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Childhood HYMN: O GLORIOSA DOMINA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, most high, most humble one Last Line: The same to thee, sweet spirit be done; %as ever shall be, was, and is. %amen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN: QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of mercy and of might Last Line: Jesus, hear and save! Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin-born! We bow before thee! Last Line: Blessed was she in her child! Subject(s): Lent; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary HYMNS FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF CHILDREN: 15. TASTE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O guide my judgement and my taste Last Line: And polish'd by the master's hand Subject(s): Bible; Religion HYMNUS SANCTAE MARIAE, SELS., by ENNODIUS Poem Source First Line: How of the virgin mother shall I sing? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible I DREAM I AM EVE, by RACHEL BLUM Poem Source Last Line: Before the clutter %of body. %(after judy chicago) Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Dreams I HAVE BEEN A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND', by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't bliss. What was bliss Last Line: Warming her outstretched palm Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Desire; Eden; Life; Temptation; Eve I HEARD CHRIST SING, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard christ sing quhile roond him dar Last Line: But I wot he did god's will wha made %siccar o' calvary Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Bible; Religion I SAW A MAIDEN SIT AND SING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible I SAW A STABLE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a stable, low and very bare Last Line: And the world's danger. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Variant Title(s): Salus Mundi Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology I SEND OUR LADY, by MARY THERESE Poem Source First Line: I may not venture to your doctor Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible IDYLL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Each time that eve and adam meet, he builds Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Smoking; Soul; Spring; Eve; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE POETIC, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science IF YOU PLAY A GAME OF CHANCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you play a game of chance, know before you begin Last Line: If you are benevolent you will never win Subject(s): Bible; Gambling; Mythology; Wagering; Betting IL MORGANTE MAGGIORE, SELS., by LUIGI PULCI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): History; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible IMAGE O' GOD, by JOE CORRIE Poem Source First Line: Crawlin' aboot like a snail in the mud Last Line: Jings! But it's laughable, tae Subject(s): Bible; Religion IMITATION OF POPE: A COMPLIMENT TO THE LADIES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wondrous the gods, more wondrous are the men Last Line: But ah more wondrous still the charming fair Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) IMMACULATE PALM, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, beautiful mother, give Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible IMMORTAL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The immortal stood frozen amidst Subject(s): Bible; Mythology IMPERIAL ADAM, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial adam, naked in the dew / felt his brown flanks & found the rib was gone Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology IMPERIAL ADAM, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial adam, naked in the dew %felt his brown flanks & found the rib was gone Last Line: Between her legs a pigmy face appear, %and the first murderer lay upon the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion IN A BLIND GARDEN, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The whale %is a room Last Line: Of the truncated future Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN A BOAT, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! Lady! Last Line: A ship of pure gold Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary IN A BOAT, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! Lady! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible IN A MYRTLE SHADE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When should I be bound to thee Last Line: And grey hairs are on my head. Subject(s): Aging; Bible; Myrtle Trees; Mythology; Religion; Theology IN A NORMAN CHURCH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As over incense-laden air Last Line: Who bore the son of god. Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Theology IN DISGUISE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Leah had lovely Last Line: Loved leah %better than he let on Subject(s): Women - Bible IN ECCLESIASTES I READ, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source Last Line: Flickering on and off like a rain-drenched fire in the woods? Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN EVE'S WORDS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In the garden, eve was given little to know: the taste of her skimpy lips Last Line: Persisting in its own language, until it spoke the language of tongues Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Bible - Old Testament; Creation IN GALILEE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The master walked in galilee Last Line: Abiding oft in galilee. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Love; Disciples, Twelve IN MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bound of mine own enclosure Last Line: Might seem the best to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Beauty; Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses IN TENEBRIS: 2, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the clouds' swollen bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong Last Line: Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he disturbs the order here. Variant Title(s): De Profundis 2 Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology IN THE BEGINNING, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the three-pointed star Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology IN THE BEGINNING, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the three-pointed star Last Line: The ribbed original of love Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It took me ten days Last Line: And I knew what I knew Subject(s): Bible IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I heard him calling! Did you hear Last Line: Adam, where art thou? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible IN THE MEANTIME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of loaves and fishes Last Line: I am become death -- the destroyer of worlds Subject(s): Bible; Death; Nuclear War; Religion; Social Protest IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by JAMES PHILIP MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: Christ, you walked on the sea Last Line: That flesh once understood Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN THE WILDERNESS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ of his gentleness Last Line: Tears like a lover wept. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a man harrowing clods / in a slow silent walk Last Line: Ere their story die. Subject(s): Bible; Country Life; Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War INFANT JOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no name: / I am but two days old Last Line: Sweet joy befall thee! Variant Title(s): Joy Is My Name Subject(s): Babies; Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Infants; Joy; Delight INFANT SORROW (MS. VERSION), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother groan'd, my father wept Last Line: But the time of youth is fled, %and grey hairs are on my head Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology INFANT SORROW, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother groaned, my father wept Last Line: To sulk upon my mother's breast. Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Mythology; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery INNOCENCE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that which most I wonder at, which most Last Line: I must become a child again. Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Religion; Theology INSCRIPTION ON AN ANCIENT BELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The rose when shaken fragrance shed around Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible INSCRIPTION ON THE FLY-LEAF OF A BIBLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Could we with ink the ocaen fill Last Line: Nor could a scroll contain the whole, %though stretched from sky to sky Subject(s): Bible INSCRIPTIONS: 1944 - 1956 (22), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not because of victories Last Line: Not for a seat upon the dais %but at the common table Variant Title(s): Te Deu Subject(s): Bible; Religion INTERVIEW, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I questioned job: Last Line: I have some sensibility %for what is fair.' Subject(s): Women - Bible INTRODUCTION TO THE PSALM OF DE PROFUNDIS, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies gan scowl, o'ercast with misty clouds Last Line: To write some verse in honor of his name? Subject(s): Bible; Religion INVITATION TO OBEDIENCE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Eve Last Line: And who still %wishes us well Subject(s): Women - Bible ION: 19, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flee not Last Line: But you evil %doubter, %you shall be %desolate Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH?, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why so desolate? Last Line: At the statue of liberty. Subject(s): Jehoshaphat (bible) ISAAC, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: There are mountains, ask any believer Last Line: One wakeful star above us like a blade Subject(s): Isaac (bible); Religion ISAAC, by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Source First Line: The story haunts this tribe that cannot wipe from its eyes Last Line: Of the wrong of worshipping the blood's terror of sacrifice Subject(s): Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I saw first the dirt under his nails Last Line: The patriarch, no heavier now %than the few sticks he'd have burned me on Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by AMIR GILBOA Poem Source First Line: At dawn, the sun strolled in the forest together with men and father Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by AMIR GILBOA Poem Source First Line: It was early morning Last Line: And there was no blood left %in my right hand Subject(s): Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by AMIR GILBOA Poem Source First Line: Early in the morning the sun took a walk in the woods Last Line: And my right hand was drained of blood Subject(s): Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by HAIM GURI Poem Source First Line: The ram came last %but abaraham did not know Last Line: A knife %in the heart Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by BARRY HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: Now in old age, quiet in his tent Last Line: He sinks deep into innocent sleep Subject(s): Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: When we climbed to the top of the mountain Subject(s): Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by A. C. JACOBS Poem Source First Line: It was my father forced him into the desert Last Line: And our father, the old god-fearing man, has been dead many years Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible) ISAAC, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many the guileless years the patriarch spent Last Line: And saints are lower'd, that the world may rise. Subject(s): Isaac (bible) ISAAC'S MARRIAGE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praying! And to be married? It was rare Last Line: First, a young patriarch, then a married saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ISAIAH 66:11, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, never filled? Be thy lips screwed so fast Last Line: And being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper Subject(s): Bible; Religion ISAIAH BY KEROSENE LANTERN LIGHT, by ROBERT+(1) HARRIS Poem Source First Line: This voice an older friend has kept Last Line: Everything this generation has told me Subject(s): Bible; Religion ISAIAH, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Therefore the lord himself Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ISAIAH: 33. 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes shall see! Yes, thine, who, bind erewhile Last Line: Thine eyes shall see! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ISHMAEL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the wanderer starts out Last Line: To save a home he never had. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Ishmael (bible) ISHWARKE EVE (EVE SPEAKS TO GOD), by KABITA SINHA Poem Source First Line: I was first Last Line: I was first %to know Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ISLAND IN THE MOON (IN A MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moon, is a certain island near by a mighty continent Last Line: Glad you are come said quid Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ISLAND MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the all been done and I Last Line: What star still choosing? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ISLAND MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the all been done and I Last Line: What song around her ear? %what star still choosing? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ISRAEL, by MAX MEYERHARDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How great, o israel, have thy sufferings been Last Line: "the god of judah is our lord and king!" Subject(s): Bible; History; Inquisition; Israel; Jews; Historians; Judaism ISRAEL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the voice / of david and bathsheba Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ISRAEL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the voice %of david and bathsheba Last Line: At the voice %of my people Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion ISRAEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, o israel, jehovah, the lord our god is one Last Line: But we, jehovah his people, are dual and so undone. Subject(s): Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict ISRAEL (2), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since potiphar made you his overseer Last Line: I will establish my people like a pyramid, %no longer to be blown along like sand Subject(s): Bible; Religion ISRAEL AND HIS BOOK, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An age-worn wanderer, pale with thought and tears Last Line: The wondrous promise grief could not conceal! Subject(s): Bible; God; Israel; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology IT FEELS LIKE WE'RELIVING IN THE BIBLE, by JULIA WENDELL Poem Source First Line: Morning rain yammering Last Line: The lullabye of snow, & sleep Subject(s): Bible; Life JACOB, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sons, and ye the children of my sons Last Line: Yet is my heart therewith not satisfied. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Jacob (bible); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The JACOB, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jacob was the buffalo of his herd Last Line: And his ox-face fashioned his smile Subject(s): Bible JACOB, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All was as it is, before the beginning began, before Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JACOB, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All was as it is, before the beginning began, before Last Line: Love is unjust: justice is loveless Subject(s): Bible; Religion JACOB AND ESAU, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rebecca's maid is a stranger from space Last Line: The hunt, his birthright - to serve her and please. %wildly round his shoulders he thrashes through Subject(s): Bible JACOB AND ESAU, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rebecca's maid: a girl come from afar Last Line: The cloak he wears around his shoulders is the woods Subject(s): Bible JACOB'S DREAM, by S. D. Poem Text First Line: Oh, pilgrim, halting on the rock-strewn sod Last Line: The lord is near when thou dost need him most. Subject(s): God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Judaism JACOB'S LADDER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stairway is not %a thing of gleaming strands Last Line: The poem ascends Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion JACOB'S WIVES, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the words of jacob's wives, the words Last Line: While all the sheep were gathered for the night. Subject(s): Jacob (bible) JAEL, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Jael Last Line: Demolition %experts Subject(s): Women - Bible JAEL'S POEM, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Yes %I did it beat Last Line: And sleeps %with one eye open Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since our country, our god- oh, my sire! Last Line: And forget not I smiled as I died! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Jephthah's Daughter Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Already two months alone %twice no blood Last Line: My father will kill him and steal his land %I am a widow in a blood-stained shawl Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: There is a lonely mountain-top Last Line: The voice of her they rue! Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Jephthah (bible); Jews; Women; Judaism JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by BARBARA KEENER SHENK Poem Source First Line: My father promised, so there is no chance Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood before her father's gorgeous tent Last Line: And she was dead -- but not by violence. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEREMIAH, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe's me!' the peaceful prophet cried Last Line: Is pledged, to heal earth's woes? Subject(s): Jeremiah (bible) JEREMIAH, THE PATRIOT, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say, 'the man is false, and falls away' Last Line: In his seer's weakness ye shall see his power. Subject(s): Jeremiah (bible); Jews; Judaism JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN (77), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hebrews are too snug in ur Last Line: Citizens of the great cities, %talking hebrew in every language under the sun Variant Title(s): Joshua At Scheche Subject(s): Bible; Religion JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN (78), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sentences we studied are rungs upon the ladder jacob saw Last Line: For, as our god was never of wood or bone, %our land is not of stones or earth Variant Title(s): Luzzato; Padua 172 Subject(s): Jonathan (bible); Luzzato, Moshe Hayyim (1707-1747) JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: And I heard their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 1, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: Jesus. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love Last Line: Is an arrow from the almighties bow! Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But los, who is the vehicular form of strong urthona Last Line: In englands green & pleasant bowers. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spectres of albions twelve sons revolve mightily Last Line: And I heard the name of their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JESUS WENT BEFORE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their faces to jerusalem Last Line: "our master went before!" Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Disciples, Twelve JESUS' KINGSHIP, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Twere well the soldiers stripped the finery Last Line: And own thee king in thy great sacrifice. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology JEWISH LULLABY, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My harp is on the willow-tree Last Line: Judea's fainting soul! Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Singing & Singers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Songs JEZEBEL AND ATHALIAH (LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: They believed in conversion - Last Line: By the blood - %of other people Subject(s): Women - Bible JOB, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job easy %is the pride Last Line: Like a good baby %to breakfast Subject(s): Job (bible) JOB, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Few be the days that feeble man must breath Last Line: Accounted pure, before such purity. Subject(s): Job (bible) JOB, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During the first stage of suffering, job's companion was a worm Last Line: Has not diminished. A miracle is no cure for bad breath Subject(s): Job (bible) JOB, by THELMA PALMER Poem Source First Line: Job was sitting on a compost pile Subject(s): Job (bible) JOB, by FERNAND ROQUEPLAN Poem Source First Line: A good story his name Last Line: The new wife kicks him keep your dreams %quiet you'll kill us all Subject(s): Bible; Devil; God; Job (bible) JOB, by ELIZABETH SEWELL Poem Source First Line: They did not know this face Last Line: What next what next what next what next what next Subject(s): Bible; Religion JOB 18, 2, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: When will you ever finish using words? Last Line: In the desert Subject(s): Bible; Books; Language JOB I, by JOHN+(1) HALL Poem Source First Line: Out of my mother's womb Last Line: And shall evermore Subject(s): Bible; Job (bible); Religion JOB'S ANGER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not a man's way to plead Last Line: And god came down Subject(s): God; Job (bible) JOB'S CONFESSION, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou canst accomplish all things, lord of might Last Line: Man is not made to question, but adore. Subject(s): Jews; Job (bible); Judaism JOB'S SIN?, by JOSEPHINE EATHER Poem Text First Line: When job delivered to the lord Last Line: To punish job for his conceit. Subject(s): Job (bible) JOB'S WIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Job's wife is often caricatured Last Line: Job did not cry which doesn't mean she didn't. %it's hard to have a hero for a husband Subject(s): Women - Bible JOB, CHAPTER 3, PARAPHRASED, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perish the fatal day when I was born Last Line: New trouble came, new darkness, new controul. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Job (bible) JOB, TOO, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: What if your best is mediocrity Last Line: And milk have been strained from dandelions, %perennial rye,and yesterday's dew Subject(s): Job (bible); Religion JOHN, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS Poem Source First Line: W'en de lawd chose his 'ciples Subject(s): Apostles; Bible JOHN, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What went ye out to see? A shaken reed? Last Line: Repent! And see, while yet its light is given Subject(s): Bible; Religion JOHN CHRISTIAN, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: John christian knew the bible page by page Last Line: By killing christ and spilling human blood. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Theology JONADAB REGARDING TAMAR, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: My name is jonadab. I have Last Line: Than any man has a good right %to be Subject(s): Women - Bible JONAH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember %is green Last Line: I would send to the brothers %- be care full of the ocean Subject(s): Jonah (bible) JONAH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A purple whale Last Line: With disappointed tail. Subject(s): Jonah (bible) JONAH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie here in the sun Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JONAH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie here in the sun Last Line: And also much cattle?' Subject(s): Bible; Religion JONAH, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in his meditative bower Last Line: Of the sweet garden-shade? Subject(s): Jonah (bible) JONAH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: How does the sun set? %like snow Last Line: Have you ever heard such a rainbow? %what is the dew like? %are you asleep? Subject(s): Jonah (bible) JONAH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: How does the sun set? %like snow Last Line: What is the dew like? %are you asleep? Subject(s): Jonah (bible) JONAH AND THE WHALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: About the year of one b.C. Last Line: "her jag, her jag, her jagged tail" Subject(s): Jonah (bible) JONAH AND THE WHALE, by VIOLA MEYNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sported round the watery world Subject(s): Jonah (bible); Whales JONAH AND THE WHALE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now is jonas the jwe jugged to drowne Last Line: The bygge borne on his bak and bete on his sydes Subject(s): Jonah (bible) JONAH'S SONG, FR. MOBY DICK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ribs and terrors in the whale Last Line: His all the mercy and the power. Variant Title(s): Father Mapple's Hymn Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Whales; Theology JONAH'S WIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Jonah's wife worried Last Line: Mongrels, aliens - %even his own children Subject(s): Women - Bible JOSEPH, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams Last Line: The virgin mary by the fire? Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion JOSEPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never in all her sweet and holy youth Last Line: Is not yet given ... One day I may know! Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Childhood; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary JOSEPH AND MARY, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, art thou the little maid Last Line: Nor see his shining eyes. Subject(s): Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT, by WILFRID MEYNELL Poem Source First Line: Because you left her name unnamed Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible JOSEPH'S COAT, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wounded I sing, tormented I indite Last Line: My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JOSHUA, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth stopped. The holy city hit a mountain Last Line: Rose in confusion and resumed its course Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Bible; Religion JOY IN THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou perceivest the flowers put forth their precious odours Subject(s): Bible; Mythology JOY'S PEAK, by ROBERT FARREN Poem Source First Line: Was it at nazareth Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible JUBILATE AGNO, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I prophesy that we shall have our horns again Last Line: For I pray god be gracious to the bees and the beeves this day Variant Title(s): Jubliate Agno, Sels Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Cats; Depression, Mental; Religion JUBILATE AGNO: GARDNER'S TALENT, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardeners talent Last Line: For the poor man's nosegay is an introduction to a prince. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Virtue; Theology JUDAEIS VITA AETERNA, by CHARLES N. LURIE Poem Text First Line: Not for our sake, o lord! Last Line: Unto our god, the lord most high! Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Judaism JUDAH, by GEORGE R. DU BOIS Poem Text First Line: While the tribes of earth yet in the darkness Last Line: Or tarnish a name unsoiled. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Judaism JUDAH'S HALLOWED BARDS, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Let those who will hang rapturously o'er Last Line: Simply, pathetic, eloquently plain. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jews; Judah (bible); Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Judaism; Theology JUDAS, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always I lay upon the brink of love Last Line: I hang, huge teardrop on the cheek of night Subject(s): Bible; Religion JUDAS TREES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Is this the emblem for betrayal Last Line: Saying breath-of-love, if I can Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Repentance JUDGE NOT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faces greying faster than loam-crumbs on a harrow Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JUDGE NOT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faces greying faster than loam-crumbs on a harrow Last Line: I said: on all these, death, with gentleness, come down Subject(s): Bible; Religion JUDGES: SONG OF DEBORAH; FRAGMENTS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Then sang deborah Last Line: His deeds will the people of israel praise. Subject(s): Courage; Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible; Valor; Bravery JUDGES: WAR SONG OF KISHON, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Then sang deborah and barak the son of abinboam on that day, saying Subject(s): Courage; Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible JUDITH, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now holofernes with his barbarous Last Line: Walked with the angels in her widow's weeds. Subject(s): Judith (bible) JUDITH, by ADAH ISAACS MENKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ashkelon is not cut off with the remnant of a valley Last Line: And I know where sleeps holofernes. Alternate Author Name(s): Theodore, Philomene Croi; Mccord, Ada Subject(s): Judith (bible); Philistines; Women In The Bible JUDITH AT THE TENT OF HOLOFERNES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night was down among the mountains Last Line: Wither at jehovah's frown! Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs Last Line: The madman saith he said so: it is strange. Variant Title(s): An Epistle; Containing The Strange Medical Evidence Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experiments Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Concerning The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish ... Subject(s): Arabs; Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Physicians; Religion; Doctors; Theology KEENING OF MARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O peter, o apostle, has thou seen my bright love?' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible KEPT AND CHERISHED, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: In his old age Last Line: Elsewhere. But keturah %he kept and cherished Subject(s): Women - Bible KIND OF BLUE, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: Not delft or %delphinium, not wedgewood Last Line: What else in the world to do but weep Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Gardens And Gardening; Religion; Women In The Bible KING DAVID (2), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell us how ehud stabbed the king of moab Last Line: Bring him to me at once for he shall die! %why should he die? What has he done? Subject(s): Moah (kingdom), Bible KING DAVID DANCES, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aware to the dry throat of the wide hell in the world Last Line: All the black same I dance my blue head off! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology KING DAVID DANCES, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aware to the dry throat of the wide hell in the world Last Line: Of all the black same I dance my blue head off! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion KING DAVID: 2. THE FEAST IN SAUL'S HOME, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell us how ehud stabbed the king of moab Subject(s): Saul (bible); Jews; Illness KING EDWARD THE THIRD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, to whose fury the nations are Last Line: "fair albion's shore, and all her families." Subject(s): Bible; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377); Freedom; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology; Liberty KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from jerusalem Last Line: "than flatteries of the great." Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology KOHL, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: There was a time before I called myself Last Line: Their prophet calls up himself. Is it peace? Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights KOSMOS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of dust the primal adam came Last Line: Lifting the heart of man with love. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Art & Artists; Bible; Love; Mankind; Soul; Eve; Human Race LA BELLE JUIVE, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it because your sable hair Last Line: My heart through all these dreams endures, %how soon shall I be stretched at yours! Subject(s): Bible; Women LA PRIERE DE NOSTRE DAME, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty and all merciable queen %to whom that all this world fleeth for succou Last Line: Bring us to that palace that is built %for penitents that be to mercy able Variant Title(s): The Well Of Pit Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LACEDEMONIAN INSTRUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there Last Line: A fool tangled in a religious snare Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology LADY DAY IN HARVEST, by SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Sleep, sleep, sweetly sleep Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY OF LETTERS, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY OF LIDICE, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: From god's lofty city Subject(s): Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY OF O, by JAMES J. GALVIN Poem Source First Line: By the seven stars of her halo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY OF PEACE, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: I left a lei, lady Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAFAYETTE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the brothels of paris be opened Last Line: And a great many suckers grow all around Subject(s): Bible; Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Mythology; Paris, France LAIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let her who walks in paphos Last Line: Wishing to see that face and finding this. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism LAMENT FOR OUR LADY'S SHRINE AT WALSINGHAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the wrecks [or, wracks] of walsingham Last Line: Happy the heart that thinks of no removes! %of no removes! Variant Title(s): A Lament For The Priory Of Walsingham; Fine Knacks For Ladies; The Ruins Of Walsingha Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAMENTATION OF THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all women that ever were born Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAOCOON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jehovah and his two sons satan & adam as they were copied from Last Line: No secresy in art Subject(s): Bible; Mythology LAST ANTIPHON: TO MARY, by JAMES J. DONOHUE Poem Source First Line: Dear mother of the savior, yet remaining Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAST LAUGH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: What's funny in leviticus? Not much Last Line: But equally we match inequity. %who's laughing then or now? Who hasthe right? Subject(s): Women - Bible LAST OF MAY, TO THE CHILDREN OF MARY OF CATHEDRAL OF MOBILE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mystical dim of the temple Last Line: For the last lovely evening of may. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary LAST SUPPER, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Apostles of the hidden sun Last Line: When the morning came like a white wall of stone, %the day lay in the grass and the blood was gone Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Last Supper, The LATIN HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin mother, thou hast known Last Line: Ave mary! Take my chil! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAUGHING SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy Last Line: "to sing the sweet chorus of ""ha, ha, he!" Variant Title(s): Laughing Song Subject(s): Bible; Forests; Laughter; Mythology; Spring; Woods LAW GIVEN AT SINAI, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arm thee with thunder, heavenly muse Last Line: Nor let thy wishes loose upon his large estate.' Subject(s): Bible; Religion LEARNING TO READ, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very soon the yankee teachers / came down and set up school Last Line: As the queen upon her throne. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Americans; Bible; Schools; Slavery; Southern States; United States; Students; Serfs; South (u.s.); America LEDA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the slow river Last Line: Of the red swan's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEGEND, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: First thunders spoke at half-past one Last Line: A beautiful thing she could not touch. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eve LEGEND OF THE DOVE, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soft from the linden's bough Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible LENT, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary magdalene, that easy woman Last Line: I bring back the petticoat and the bottle of scent Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene LENT, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary magdalene, that easy woman Last Line: I bring back the petticoat and the bottle of scent Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible LET GO THE WHORE OF BABYLON, by MILES (MYLES) COVERDALE Poem Source Last Line: And thank god of his grace Subject(s): Bible; Religion LET HIM WITH KISSES OF HIS MOUTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The virgins love thee well Subject(s): Bible; Religion LET THERE BE LIGHT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever there was a beginning Last Line: And becoming light Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion LET ZEUS RECORD: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say, I am quite done Last Line: Like splendour keeps %peril at bay, %facing inviolate dawn Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible LET ZEUS RECORD: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men cannot mar you Last Line: Stares out deliberate %into cerberus-night Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible LET ZEUS RECORD: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I chide the manner of your dress Last Line: To show where hyacinth or pan have been Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible LET ZEUS RECORD: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When blight lay and the persian like a scar Last Line: Blown inland through darkness and withering rain Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible LET ZEUS RECORD: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you prefer myrrh-flower or cyclamen? Last Line: Stood by her; when the dark perifidious host %turned, it was er with death Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible LET ZEUS RECORD: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare Last Line: To freighted ships, baffled in wind and blast Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): North Sta Subject(s): Bible; Stars LET ZEUS RECORD: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: None watched with me Last Line: Let zeus record this, %daring death to mar Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible LETHE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor skin nor hide nor fleece Last Line: Without kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible LEUCADIAM ARTEMIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the intolerable rhythm Last Line: And the luminous trees. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Arcadians; Artemis; Bible; Mythology - Classical; Trees; Arcadia LI LOENGE NOSTRE DAME, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LIFE TO LOVE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four winds and seven seas have called me friend Last Line: That love is king and creed and persian law Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology LIFE TO LOVE, SELS., by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four winds and seven seas have called me friend Last Line: That love is king and creed and persian law Subject(s): Bible; Religion LIGHT AT EVENTIDE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, thy good and precious book seems written all for me Last Line: So it is light at evening time, and soon it will be day. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Sunset; Twilight LIGHT OF THE SACRED HARP, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small fire of hymnals in a trash can Last Line: And ashes. Subject(s): Bible; Revivals; Salvation; Sermons; Religious Revivals LIGHTS IN THE TEMPLE, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the stars are lit in heaven Last Line: Mingling with his incense cloud! Subject(s): Aaron; Bible; God; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Jews; Paradise; Holy Spirit; Judaism LIGHTWORKS: CHAPTER 66, by DAVID ROSENBERG Poem Source First Line: The lord speaks %this way Last Line: Open to the others %to my words Subject(s): Bible; Religion LIKE A FRUITFUL VINE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The god-fearing man Last Line: She has good reason %to thank god for him Subject(s): Women - Bible LIKE RACHEL, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Like rachel, god cares for the children Last Line: Her grief is god's grief %god's grief becomes god's grace Subject(s): Women - Bible LILITH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fiercest demon-shape in hell / was lilith fell Last Line: To save a world once more! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fables; Lilith; Eve; Allegories LILITH, by CATHERINE MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Some say adam reared me from the beasts Last Line: Will fear as their wet dreams Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LILYA, SELS., by EYSTEINN ASGRIMSSON Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LINES FOR A DRAWING OF OUR LADY OF THE NIGHT, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, could I paint my inward sight Last Line: Forget to weep, forget to weep! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary LINES FOR A FEAST OF OUR LADY, by MARIS STELLA Poem Source First Line: What shall be added to your praises? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LINES ON A REREADING OF PARTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sublimity! Sublimity! I lay thee down Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Bible LISTEN TO ME, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I have listened to you,' Last Line: My gift of hospitality %and hope Subject(s): Women - Bible LISTENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She listened like a cushat dove Last Line: To hear him speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Doves; Love LITANY TO OUR LADY, by CARYLL HOUSELANDER Poem Source First Line: Lady, giver of bread Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LITTLE BALLAD FOR THE MOMENT, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Down came zaccheus Subject(s): Bible; Zacchaeus LITTLE PHOEBUS CAME STRUTTING IN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology LITTLE SONG, by ROBERT GROSSETETE Poem Source First Line: Mary, maiden, mild and free Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LIVE, EVIL VEIL, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The church of heaven's triumphal car Last Line: In whose dead embrace %dead %man hangs Subject(s): Bible; Religion LO! I AM SAUL, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Creature, begone, nor harrow me with horror Last Line: Or dwell with thee 'midst darkness in the grave. Subject(s): Bible; Evil; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul (11th Century B.c.); Saul Of Tarsus LOAN OF A STALL, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Source First Line: At the inn there was no room Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LONDON BRIDGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is broken down Last Line: With a gay lady Subject(s): Bible; Mythology LONDON, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wander thro' each charter'd street Last Line: And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. Variant Title(s): London Subject(s): Bible; Corruption In Politics; London; Mythology; Poverty; Voices LONELINESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who had all else heaven and earth Last Line: For loneliness, for loneliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fathers; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Solitude; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Loneliness LONG JOHN BROWN AND LITTLE MARY BELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little mary bell had a fairy in a nut Last Line: And there goes miss bell with her fusty old nut Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sex LOOK AT ME, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Come, look at me again and try to dream Last Line: Or artist's sketch - the essentials of my self - %the woman alive in this portfolio Subject(s): Women - Bible LOOK TO SARAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Abraham was not Last Line: Sarah! %sarah! Subject(s): Women - Bible LORD, HEAR MY PRAYER; A PARAPHRASE OF THE 102ND PSALM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, hear my prayer when trouble glooms Last Line: But still regard the destitute Subject(s): Bible; Prayer; Religion; Theology LORD, LISTEN, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night draws itself as tight Last Line: And everywhere, in every core, there's bitterness Subject(s): Bible; Night LOS PASTORES DE BELEN: A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ye go through these palm-trees Last Line: Stay ye the branches. Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary LOSS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea called / you faced the estuary Last Line: The gods wanted you back. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean LOST BABIES, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The lake's a lake of purple wine Last Line: "until they come, bide close to me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Infants; Nightmares; Virgin Mary LOST IN THE LORE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Leah gets lost Last Line: Whose line has gone out %through all the earth Subject(s): Women - Bible LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS: 1, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ruddy fire-glow, like her sister's eyes Last Line: And drove his javelin through her tawny hide Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bible; Religion LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS: 2, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun above the hills raged in the height Last Line: In that best wisdom, which is not to know Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bible; Religion LOT LATER; VAUDEVILLE FOR GEORGE FINKEL, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems now far off and foolish, a memory Last Line: Bring him his supper nights, and clean the cave Subject(s): Lot (bible); Sodom LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the just man followed god's ambassador here Last Line: For a single look, she gave up her life Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LOT'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Text First Line: If you would sing of heroes, sing of her Last Line: The sky saluted and prometheus bowed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Lot (bible) LOT'S WIFE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have become a gate Last Line: Salt the rain of the world Subject(s): Lot (bible) LOT'S WIFE LOOKED BACK, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Lot's wife looked back at her home city, lit Last Line: Toward the horizon out of fallout range %of the doomed city of disobedience Subject(s): Women - Bible LOT'S WIFE PRAISES THE PILLAR, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Crimson light crawled into that strange day Last Line: His daughters, frantic to propagate the tribe Subject(s): Lot (bible); Praise LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back Last Line: So I did sit and eat. Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology LOVE IN HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child is rocked on mary's knees Last Line: "who lost thee yesterday but finds to-morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary LOVE LETTER, by CAROLE CLEMMONS GREGORY Poem Source First Line: Dear samson %I put your hair Last Line: Love - delilah Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Delilah (bible); Samson; Women; Women In The Bible LOVE SONG, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me in the night - we shall sleep closely together Last Line: We shall make love quietly like two rare animals %in the high reeds behind this world Subject(s): Bible; Night LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my neighbor %but Last Line: All I can say then is nay! Nay! Nay! Nay! Nay! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion LOVE'S SECRET, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never seek to tell thy love Last Line: He took her with a sigh. Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love; Mythology LUBBERLU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green were her eyes, - yellow were her eyes Last Line: Over the hills and away. Subject(s): Bible; Candles; Churches; Eyes; Jesus Christ; Lips; Cathedrals LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a starred night prince lucifer uprose Last Line: The army of unalterable law. Subject(s): Bible; Devil; Religion; Stars; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Theology LUCIFER SINGS IN SECRET, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the broken arrow Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Arrows; Bible LUKE 7:36, by MARJORIE RUSSO Poem Source First Line: It is my nature to be profligate Last Line: Today, I'm bought with imperishable currency! Subject(s): Bible LUKE, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible LULLA, MY SWEET LITTLE BABY, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lulla, la lulla, lulla lullaby Last Line: Oh joy, and joyful happy day, when wretches want their will! Subject(s): Bible; Religion LULLABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Slumber, jesu, lightly dreaming Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LULLABY OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, child - thy mother's first-born" Last Line: A thousand songs of praise Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary LULLING, OR CRADLE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sweet was the song the virgin sang Last Line: And sweetly rocked him on her knee Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MAD SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild winds weep Last Line: With frantic pain. Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Insanity; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness MADMAN I HAVE BEEN CALLED, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madman I have been called; fool they call thee Last Line: I wonder which they envy thee or me Subject(s): Bible; Depression, Mental; Mythology; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress MADONNA IN FLANDERS, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk as the glamor of disgrace Last Line: Hell's joke is heaven's epitaph. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Paradise; Virgin Mary MADONNA OF THE DONS, by ARTHUR MACGILLIVRAY Poem Source First Line: Before the stirring of the notes at the lecture Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA OF THE EMPTY ARMS, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The child was gone: the mother stood alone Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA OF THE EXILES, by JAMES EDWARD TOBIN Poem Source First Line: We stumble down the pocked and cratered road Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA REMEMBERS, by MARY EDWARDINE Poem Source First Line: Madonna loves Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA'S LULLABY, by SAINT ADOLPHUS DE LIGOURI Poem Source First Line: When our lady sings the heavens Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA: 1936, by JOHN LOUIS BONN Poem Source First Line: Yes, there are Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by GEORGE KENYON ASHENDON Poem Text First Line: Though he had vowed she was divinely fair Last Line: Of having been a magdalen arraigned. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN, by AUGUSTINE BOWE Poem Source First Line: She loved everyone she saw Last Line: Her avowels might be soft, easy to tear, %but her soft heart did not know how to hurt you Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by MILES MENANDER DAWSON Poem Source First Line: I am the sacrificial lamb Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day that the world shall end my dear Last Line: And forfeited heaven for him. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sacrifices; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN, by ANNA KIRBY Poem Source First Line: I have eaten Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER Poem Source First Line: You are rosetta stone Last Line: Translates morning into women who see angels, %into one woman who, weeping, %wakens you Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hebrew girl, with flaming brow Last Line: From out a broken heart! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any woman of us all Last Line: Could we but also claim that deed! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN (AFTER SWINBURNE), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath done what she could' Last Line: "she hath done what she could." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN TO HER POET, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take back thy song; or let me hear what thou Last Line: The pity at whose touch dies every sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALENA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Magdalena's robes are trailing through the highway's soiling Last Line: Faithful to the hand that saved her and his love-light in her eyes Subject(s): Love;mary Magdalen;women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALENE, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each night brings back my demon Last Line: And, swooning, I prepare your body %for other oils than these Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Scottish Translations; Women - Bible MAGDALENE, by FRANCES VEJTASA Poem Text First Line: Your face tradition wrongs Last Line: Placed blight -- not heaven. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGICIAN: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no man can take Last Line: Would be the first to scrap %the old trophies %for new Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGICIAN: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have crawled back into the womb Last Line: Too long have we slain, %too long have we wept Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGICIAN: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is fire upon rain? Last Line: Your cloak hides the sinner, %your cloak shields the lover, %colour of wine, %cyclamen, %red rhodode Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGICIAN: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salt, salt the kiss Last Line: Too long, too long, %have we propitiated the terror in the sea, %forgotten its beauty Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGICIAN: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I instil rest Last Line: He said, %consider the flower of the field; %did he specify %blue or red? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGICIAN: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too long we prayed Last Line: We never heard the magician %we never, never heard what he said Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGICIAN: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We expected some gesture Last Line: Dead were our ears %that heard not, yet heard Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGICIAN: 8, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A basket Last Line: And one broke %a fine box %of cyprian ivory, %(or alabaster)%a rare scent Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGICIAN: 9, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He liked jewels Last Line: He would tell of the whorl of whorl of light %that was infinity to be seen in glass, %or a shell %or Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MAGNIFICAT (LUKE 1:45-56), by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My soul magnifies the lord Last Line: As he told our fathers, %abraham and his seed, forever Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MAID, OUT OF THY UNQUARRIED MOUNTAIN LAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MAIDEN RING-ADORNED, by CYNEWULF Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Young was the woman Alternate Author Name(s): Cynwulf Subject(s): Incarnation; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MAJOLICA PLATE, by RUTH MASON RICE Poem Text First Line: Yellow and green, with garlands gay Last Line: Majolica chronicles have this plight. Subject(s): Mallorca; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Majorca; Virgin Mary MALZAH SPEAKS, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, weary! I am called the laughing devil Last Line: More gloomy than a trinity of ravens. Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Grief; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness MAN'S SPECTRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each man is in his spectre's power Subject(s): Bible; Mythology MANOAH'S WIFE AND THE DEVINE VISITOR, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: To see Last Line: Was not a threat %but a reward Subject(s): Women - Bible MANTLE OF MARY, by PATRICK O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Fair is the hue of your mantle, mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARIA BRIGHT, OUR PRECIOUS LADY GOOD, by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARIA IMMACULATA, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How may I sing, unworthy I Last Line: Who found thee without spot and full of grace! Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MARIAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She can be as wise as we Last Line: And give the peace of eden. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Love; Women MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a man has married a wife Last Line: Glued together Variant Title(s): "when A Man Has Married A Wife, He Finds Out Whether""; Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mary, the first time she ever was there Last Line: That shall never be quiet till laid on its bier Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology MARY, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: Miriam, mary, maria, marie Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This kiss / as soft as cotton Last Line: I see a tree Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This kiss %as soft as cotton Last Line: Between my legs %I see a tree Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Women - Bible MARY, by NELLE COLLOW Poem Text First Line: O little town of nazareth Last Line: "my soul doth magnify the lord." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY, by ROBERT FARREN Poem Source First Line: Thou art god's sky Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Text First Line: Twice martha called remindingly, then torn Last Line: ". . . ""mary,"" . . . She called again. . . ." Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY, by CARLA LANYON LANYON Poem Text First Line: When that my son was born in a little town Last Line: To keep a christian peace. Subject(s): Israel (state); Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Discrimination; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Religious Conflict MARY, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Text First Line: Fairest of women must have been that maid Last Line: When all the morning stars hosannaed earth! Subject(s): Christmas; Gabriel; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary MARY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maid-mother of humanity divine Last Line: Of grace the sole immaculate design! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary 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 AND GABRIEL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young mary, loitering once her garden way Last Line: The air was colder, and grey. She stood alone. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MARY AT NAZARETH, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know, lord, thou hast sent him Last Line: Out of my heart the tares %are torn by awe! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY AT THE CROSS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: And mary stood beside the cross! Her soul Last Line: And grant their dead shall not have died in vain! Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary MARY AT THE FEET OF CHRIST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Blest beyond all daughters of the earth! Last Line: Some one bright solemn star all its lone mirror fills. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Text First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one, and broken hearted! Last Line: For ever, towards the skies. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALEN, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O eyes that strip the souls of men Last Line: "for love of him, for love of him." Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALEN, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: His mouth was like the heart of a pomegranate, and the shadows Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Poor mary magdalen Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALEN SPEAKS TO THE MADONNA FROM ANOTHER GOSPEL, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Mary of marble, %pieta Last Line: Blessed are the women %who have danced and loved Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn she sought the saviour slain Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wash your ankles %with my tears. Unhem Last Line: By wrecking their bodies on other men Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Native Americans; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE, by AUGUSTE GOMEZ Poem Text First Line: O, lonely heart of a thousand dreams Last Line: Good and evil—and magdalene! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When blessed marie wip'd her saviours feet Last Line: And yet, in washing one, she washed both. Variant Title(s): Marie Magdalene Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE, by KASSIA Poem Source First Line: Lord, this woman who fell into many sins Last Line: Do not overlook me, your slave, %in your measureless mercy Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion MARY MAGDALENE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came in deep repentance Last Line: Loved much, and was forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE AND I, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seven unclean spirits of mary magdalene' Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY; A SONG FOR ALL MARIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our master lies asleep and is at rest Last Line: Our master lies asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE AND THE SUN, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: Hugging her breasts, waiting in a hard garden Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE AT THE SEPULCHRE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeper! To thee how bright a morn was given Last Line: Awed by the mighty gift thy tears and love had won! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE BEARING TIDINGS OF THE RESURRECTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then was a task of glory all thine own Last Line: Whose undespairing love still owned the spirit's worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MARY ASTONISHED BY GOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We pray for you sister woman shook by the %awe full affection of the saints Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY OF BETHLEHEM, by MARY (WHITE) KING Poem Source First Line: When mary came to bethlehem Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY ON AUGUST THE FIRST, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of mary in the cool of evening Last Line: "and thrice forgetful of the chariot of progress." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY ON HER WAY TO THE TEMPLE, by RUTH SCHAUMANN Poem Source First Line: Scarce lay the blossoms of her golden hair Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY PASSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary went through the thorn-wood wild Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY SHEPHERDESS, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the heron's in the high wood and the last long furrow's Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY WAS WATCHING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary was watching tenderly Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY WEEPS FOR HER CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A, my dere, a, my dere son ...' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY'S ASSUMPTION, by ALFRED BARRETT Poem Source First Line: There was silence in heaven, as if for half an hour Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY'S BIRTHDAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is at rest Last Line: Her anthem they shall swell, her joy they too shall know. Subject(s): Birthdays; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY'S DREAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winged women was saying Last Line: I joined them, whispering / yes Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY'S DREAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winged women was saying Last Line: I joined them, whispering %yes Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 1, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is that blessed mary, pre-elect Last Line: Because the fulness of the time was come. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Mary's Childhood Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 2, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the symbols. On that cloth of red Last Line: Shall soon vouchsafe his son to be her son. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MARY'S SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunday lamb cracks in its fat Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MARY'S SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunday lamb cracks in its fat Last Line: O golden child the world will kill and eat Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Religion MARY'S VISION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Are you asleep, mother?' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY, MARTHA, MARY, by JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI Poem Source First Line: Oh mary, martha, not so bound in roles Subject(s): Mary And Martha (bible); Women In The Bible MARY, THE SINNER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary - 'tis a tender plea Last Line: Lo! He pardons thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MASTER: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was very beautiful Last Line: For no one but you could devise %anything suitable %for him,%so beautiful Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) MASTER: 10, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But one does not forget him Last Line: One does not forgive him %who makes god-in-all %possible, %for that is unbearable Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) MASTER: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now can I bear even god Last Line: This thought of the man-pulse has tricked them, %has weakened them, %shall see woman, %perfect Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Women's Rights MASTER: 12, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they did Last Line: You are near beauty the sun, %you are that lord become woman Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Women's Rights MASTER: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what to suggest Last Line: Alone knew why %and understood %and told the old man %to explain %the impossible, %which he did Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) MASTER: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can god give the old man Last Line: And the whole made a rhythm %in the air, %till now unguessedat, %unknown Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) MASTER: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was angry at the old man Last Line: I could not accept from wisdom %what love taught, %woman is perfect Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) MASTER: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is a woman Last Line: Is that dart and pulse of the male, %hands, feet, thighs, %herself perfect Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Women's Rights MASTER: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the old man lie in the earth Last Line: Who will bring a new world to birth) %it is he, %it is he %who already has formed a new earth Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) MASTER: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He will trouble the thoughts of men Last Line: Only I, %I will escape Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Psychoanalysis MASTER: 8, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it was he himself, he who set me free Last Line: He was rather casual, %'we won't argue about that' %(he said) %'you are a poet.' Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Poetry And Poets; Self MASTER: 9, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I went forth Last Line: I can not love him %he is too near %too precious to god Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) MATER AMABILIS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A roman host descended form the height Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATER DEI, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She looked to east, she looked to west Last Line: Since god himself played by her gown. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MATER DOLOROSA, by JOHN FITZPATRICK Poem Source First Line: She stands, within the shadow, at the foot Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATER DOLOROSA, by J. GRIMSTONE Poem Source First Line: Why have ye no ruth of my dear child? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATER DOLOROSA, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O clinging hands, and eyes where sleep has set Last Line: For kingly death will wait until you come. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MATER DOLOROSA, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He raised the latch in his father's door Last Line: For mary, mother, hears an' sees. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Solitude; Women - Bible; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Loneliness MATER INCOGNITA, by MARY BENVENUTA Poem Source First Line: She came to me in hidden guise Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATERNAL LADY WITH THE VIRGIN GRACE, by MARY LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATTER OF FIDELITY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: To be faithful to the first Last Line: And the word image %metaphorically appropriate Subject(s): Women - Bible MEDIATRIX OF GRACE, by FRANCIS BURKE Poem Source First Line: The mother of christ and priest and of his Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: FRIDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With hearts deep rooted in love's holy ground Last Line: To god's good pleasure, with a christ-like mind. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: SATURDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus is crucified - the previous scene Last Line: Salvation is the life of christ in us. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Salvation; Supernatural; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: THURSDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead as men are, in trespasses and sins Last Line: The gate of life, and paradise regain'd. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: TUESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour died, according to our faith Last Line: Pain is its cure, and it exists no more. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; Healing; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Belief; Creed; Cures; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: WEDNESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justice demandeth satisfaction' - yes Last Line: Itself restor'd,—not any thing in lieu. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Justice; Religion; Theology MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: ADAM AND EVE, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Of all the trees that in the garden grew Last Line: And both must dye and turned be to dust. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Eden; Religion; Snakes; Theology; Serpents; Vipers MEDITATIONS ON THE FALL AND WINTER HOLIDAYS: 2. DAY OF ATONEMENT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great giver has ended his disposing Last Line: "not by might not by power Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MEDITATIONS ON THE FALL AND WINTER HOLIDAYS: 2. DAY OF ATONEMENT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great giver has ended his disposing Last Line: A spark in your seeing Subject(s): Bible; Religion MEIN BLAUES KLAVIER, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At home a blue piano stands Last Line: Though through them yet I may not go Subject(s): Bible MEN AND STATES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the pilgrim passes while the country permanent remains Subject(s): Bible; Mythology MEN CANNOT MAR YOU, FR. LET ZEUS RECORD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MENORAH, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've read in legends of the books of old Last Line: "and keeps me what I am today in every clime." Subject(s): Candles; Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Synagogues; Judaism MERLIN'S PROPHESY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harvest shall flourish in wintry weather Last Line: Before two virgins can meet together Variant Title(s): Merlin's Prophecy Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Prophecy & Prophets METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brothers; Eve; Half-brothers METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual Last Line: But what can I reap? What can I destroy? Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Brothers METAMORPHOSIS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: There is a decided Last Line: To her beloved son %prince solomon Subject(s): Women - Bible METRICAL PARAPHRASE OF THE GOSPEL, by OTTFRIED Poem Text First Line: She gave with joy her virgin breast Last Line: For us she bore the heavenly lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Otfrid Subject(s): Bible MID-DAY, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light beats upon me Last Line: Among the crevices of the rocks. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MIDNIGHT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to my eyes / whilst deep sleep others catches) Last Line: Which thy spirit blows! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MIDRASHIM: PROVERBS 6:6, by DAVID CURZON Poem Source First Line: Go to the ant, you sluggard Last Line: Consider her ways - and be content Subject(s): Bible; Religion MIDWIVES, by CELIA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Low huts, groans muffled Last Line: Every one redeemer Subject(s): Bible; Religion MILE FROM EDEN, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With buds embalmed alive in ice Last Line: The bird's-eye glory to full sight %bring, and outcasts into delight Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible MILLSTONE CONNECTION: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Abimelech's blood career Last Line: Behavior. %the millstone grounded him! Subject(s): Women - Bible MILTON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stolen and perverted writings of homer & ovid: of plato & cicero Last Line: To go forth to the great harvest & vintage of the nations Subject(s): Bible; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mythology MIRACLES, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight is spacious, near things in it seem far Last Line: Into the darkness. . . . It is exquisite. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Resurrection, The; Disciples, Twelve MIRIAM, by E. DUDLEY JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Oh, for that day, that day of bliss entrancing Last Line: "forever and ever." Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jews; Women In The Bible; Judaism MIRIAM, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: She who could see the light of days to come Last Line: Unlamenated in the widerness of zin Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MIRIAM, by PENINA MOISE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the flexile reeds of nile a lovely infant slept Last Line: Farewell, inspired miriam, thou lost star of the sea Subject(s): Miriam (bible); Moses; Women In The Bible MIRIAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, miriam! Pearl of the morning, gazelle of the palm-land, soul of my spirit Last Line: Thy bitterness, oh, miriam, is sweeter than all their sweetness! Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Miriam (bible); Moses; Women In The Bible MIRIAM (IN FIFTY WORDS OR LESS), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Supportive sister Last Line: And toughness this miriam %poet and prophet Subject(s): Women - Bible MISCONCEPTION, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: There is an unkind Last Line: She could conceive %easily and often Subject(s): Women - Bible MOMENTARY DANIEL, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down, down, hot beast Subject(s): Daniel (bible) MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary mother, pray for one Last Line: Kneeling before the mercy gate. Subject(s): Catholics; Cavalry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Prayer; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary MOONRISE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you glimmer on the sea? Last Line: We measure her by the pine trees. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MORAL DISCOURSE, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: There were these three prisoners. All three had heads on their shoulders Last Line: In such a situation, what's the point of discussing anything?' Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Jesus Christ; Prisons And Prisoners MORNING COMES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology MORNING STAR, by JAMES J. GALVIN Poem Source First Line: I loathe the very thought of her Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MORPHEUS, SELS., by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MOSES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on bones Last Line: God had got his eye on Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Old Age; Slavery; Serfs MOSES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on bones Last Line: Like a bush %god got his eye on Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Old Age; Slavery MOSES AND JOSHUA, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When moses was as old as god Last Line: When his soul, a weary lion, cried to god Subject(s): Bible MOSES AND THE DERVISH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, that heaven's seven climates hath spread forth Last Line: The circumstance according to the worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Judaism MOSES AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: He held the %record album high Last Line: And even now %I still do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Bible; Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Music And Musicians; Preaching And Preachers; Sermons; Ten Commandments MOSES IN THE DESERT, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go where a foot hath never trod Last Line: That power belongs to god alone. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism MOSES ON MOUNT NEBO, by I. SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: He stood on nebo's lofty crest Last Line: He sleeps, his sepulchre unknown. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Graves; Jews; Moses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism MOTHER AND CHILD, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Solomon grinned Last Line: Love doesn't do things %by halves Subject(s): Women - Bible MOTHER AND CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come, little mary, the woods are in tune Last Line: The kingdom of heaven, and the light of his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS), by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: We made room for you, remembering Last Line: Of golden love, and innocence, and tears. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; World War Ii; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Second World War MOTHER MOST POWERFUL, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: That thou so often held him in thine arms Last Line: Shows thou wert mortal,—mother,—yea, and more! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHER OF GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lady mary, blissful dame Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MOTHER OF GOD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Last Line: Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones %and bids my hair stand up? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion MOTHER OF ICHABOD, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God's glory does not vanish Last Line: Because she thought that god was dead %at least for her - perhaps for israel Subject(s): Women - Bible MOTHERHOOD, by AGNES LEE Poem Text First Line: Mother of christ long slain, forth glided she Last Line: "I am the mother of iscariot." Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHERHOOD: 1, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The angels sang above the bed Last Line: There mary wept most bitterly. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Theology MOTIF FOR MARY'S DOLORS, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: Seven notes of grief Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MOTTO TO THE SONGS OF INNOCENCE & OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good are attracted by men's perceptions Last Line: And the eagle is known from the owl Subject(s): Bible; Mythology MOUNT SINAI, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From sinai's top the lightnings flashed Last Line: For none can see his face and live. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Judaism MOURNING, by WILLA BLAKE Poem Text First Line: Draw the shades across the window Last Line: For a heart has died today. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Silence MR. CROMEK TO MR. STOTHARD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune favours the brave old proverbs say Last Line: Turn thro the iron gate down sneaking lane Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Fortune; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) MR. STOTHARD TO MR. CROMEK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fortunes favours you your riches bring Last Line: Sneaking & backbiting & odds & ends Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Fortune; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) MRS. BRONTE FINDS HER PAGE IN THE GOSPELS, SEPTEMBER 1821, by LYNNE BUTLER Poem Source First Line: A smile can be as true as a wound Subject(s): Bible, N.t. Gospels MULIER AMICTA SOLE, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: Woman supremely blest Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MUSE IN LATE NOVEMBER, by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I greet you, son, with joy and winter rue Last Line: The dream that battles me, may you fulfill. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MY DAUGHTER, LIKE EVE, REALIZES NAKEDNESS, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: At graduation, every eighth-grade girl Last Line: Hidden in a row of perfect white bones Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Daughters; Mothers MY FATHER'S BIBLE, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one book, far dearer than the rest Last Line: And kiss its covers, too, when I'm alone. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Judaism MY LOVE SONG (TO SASHA, THE HEAVENLU PRINCE), by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon your cheeks lie / golden pigeons Last Line: Everyone is breathless. Subject(s): Bible MY MADONNA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hailed me a woman from the street Last Line: Where you and all may see. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Models; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MY MOTHER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: O god, my mother Last Line: But never stopped loving, %o god, my mother Subject(s): Women - Bible MY MOTHER, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was she the great angel %who walked beside me? Last Line: Like that great angel %who walked beside me Subject(s): Bible MY MOTHER'S BIBLE, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This book is all that's left me now Last Line: It taught me how to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Bible; Mothers; Youth MY MOTHER'S JEWELRY BOX, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I am looking for my mother's jewelry box - Last Line: Amethyst, chrysoprase, and diamonds glistening %and sapphires and rubies, and pearls which encase my Subject(s): Women - Bible MY PEOPLE, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That rock is crumbling Subject(s): Bible; Germany MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For lack of knowledge do my people die! Last Line: War wastes our fields and doth the people slay! Subject(s): Bible; Religion MY PRETTY ROSE TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flower was offer'd to me Last Line: And her thorns were my only delight. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology; Roses MY SONG FOR SOLOMON, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS Poem Source First Line: I have drunk the poisoned milk Last Line: The blood of a ghost among the living Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY THOUGHT WAS ON A MAID SO BRIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I lay upon a night Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MYRRH BEARERS, by E. D. MUND Poem Source First Line: The silver cord is loosed, the bow is broken Subject(s): Incense-trees; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MYRRH-BEARERS, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three women crept at break of day Last Line: Their spices had been bruised for christ! Subject(s): Incense-trees; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MYRTLE BOUGH, SELS., by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hands %make pallas wonder Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MYSTERIES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark Last Line: I keep the law, %I hold the mysteries true, %I am the vine, %the branches, you %and you Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible MYSTERIES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark %days are past Last Line: The branches, you %and you.' Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible NA-HA-MOO, by J. C. LEVY Poem Text First Line: By babel's streams, thy children wept Last Line: "with blessings of his ""na-ha-moo." Subject(s): Bible; Israel; Jews; Judaism NAAMAN'S SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, wash thyself in jordan - go, wash thee and be clean! Last Line: And, if they cannot cure my woes, a leper will I die! Subject(s): Bible; Religion NAME, by TUA MARINA Poem Source First Line: We make that lovely sighing sound Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NAMING THE ANIMALS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having commanded adam to bestow Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Names; Religion; Theology NAMING THE ANIMALS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having commanded adam to bestow Last Line: And shyly ventured, 'thou shalt be called 'fred'' Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Names; Religion NAOMI WATCHES AS RUTH SLEEPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She clings to me Last Line: I can grieve in peace. Subject(s): African Americans; Naomi (bible); Peace; Women In The Bible; Negroes; American Blacks NATIVITY, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Among the oxen (like an ox I'm slow) Last Line: Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence %some wooly innocence! Subject(s): Bible; Religion NEAR DAMASCUS, by W. S. DI PIERO Poem Source First Line: The antlered scarab rolled a dungball Last Line: Rousted, found out, blasted, saved %down in the road's pearly filth Subject(s): Bible; Damascus, Syria; Religion NEBUCHADNEZZAR, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology NEBUCHADNEZZAR, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain Last Line: And the dandelion is gall in a thin green pipe, %but the clover is honey and sun and the smell of sl Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM; SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before he went to feed [or, live] with owls and bats Last Line: "by belching out ""ye are that head of gold." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S KINGDOM-COME, by DAVID ROWBOTHAM Poem Source First Line: Daniel in the lion's den Last Line: Confounding deities, not men Subject(s): Bible; Religion NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: To any watch they keep? Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Same Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birds; Eve NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: And to do that to birds was why she came Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Sam Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Birds NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old adam, with his fist-full of plump earth Last Line: And none be left to witness the blank mist? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; History; Humanity; Time; Eve; Historians NEW TESTAMENT: REVISED EDITION, by MARY CATHERINE+(2) Poem Source First Line: This is a wrong that needs not my bespeaking Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NICODEMUS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And nicodemus came by night Last Line: He dared the world by day! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nicodemus (bible); Wisdom NICODEMUS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went under cover of night Last Line: And the wild seed of abraham is cold Subject(s): Abraham; Nicodemus (bible) NIGHT, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night has cut Last Line: To perish on the branch. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Night; Bedtime NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NIGHT IS DARK: JACOB'S PRAYER TO REBEKAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The night is dark Last Line: Build me a bridge %to father's god Subject(s): Women - Bible NIGHT, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun descending in the west Last Line: As I guard o'er the fold.' Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Night; Bedtime NIMROD WARS WITH THE ANGELS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But god sent forth a pale and spectral host Last Line: "am I not nimrod?" Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Bible; Nimrod (bible) NIMROD: 1, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One time, in shinar, when the setting sun Last Line: "and I, and all my sons, shall be as kings." Subject(s): Nimrod (bible) NIMROD: 2, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And nimrod looked on babel and beheld Last Line: Being greatly wroth, hated him for his speech. Subject(s): Nimrod (bible) NIMROD: 3, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And nimrod came to bathsheba the queen Last Line: And on the polished stone wrote his own name. Subject(s): Nimrod (bible) NIMROD: 4, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then did the powers of the air breed forth Last Line: "and said, ""upon the stone I wrote god's name." Subject(s): Nimrod (bible) NIMROD: 5, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That night the angels in their citadels Last Line: Ebbed back to silence and eternal calm. Subject(s): Nimrod (bible) NIMROD: 6, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days, above the plain, the setting sun Last Line: The solemn beauty of that elder speech. Subject(s): Nimrod (bible) NIMROD: 7, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And they that went from babel were a host Last Line: Raised in mid heaven the eternal word of god. Subject(s): Nimrod (bible) NO MORE DESTRUCTIVE FLAME, by FRANCIS X. CONNOLLY Poem Source First Line: Once for our consolation it seemed, o lord Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NOAH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When old noah stared across the floods Last Line: Earth was saved; and noah danced a jig. Subject(s): Noah (bible); Soldiers' Writings NOAH EN DE ARK, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: I wisht dat I wuz norah a-sailin' in de ark Last Line: Gawd he walk' wid norah, etc. Subject(s): Noah (bible) NOAH'A DAUGHTER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Good questions %I can answer them Last Line: I wanted the forty days to go on forever Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOAH'S ARK, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It was one of my oldest toys, the ark my father made Last Line: Like birds eager to lift Subject(s): Floods; Noah (bible); Religion; Rivers NOAH'S RAVEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I have returned? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology NOAH'S RAVEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I have returned? Last Line: Hoarse with fulfillment, I never made promises Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bible; Religion NOAH'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible); Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOAH'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief Last Line: Makes you think (the furrow, the fruit) %I had to be told? Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible) NOCTURNE AT BETHESDA, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I saw an angel flying low Subject(s): African Americans; Bible; Religion; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology NOCTURNE AT BETHESDA, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I saw an angel flying low Last Line: You are sad. It is the same with me Subject(s): African Americans; Bible; Religion NOEL, by MARGARET MOORE MEUTTMAN Poem Text First Line: Bless all the little white things, holy mother Last Line: Bless all the little white things, holy mother. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary NOSSIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to hear him speak Last Line: Nossis, he cried, a flame Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Meleager (100 B.c.); Women's Rights NOT A VOICE, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: Clad in festive robes Last Line: Not a ram to redeem %a mere girl Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOT FORTY YEARS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Not forty years across the wilderness Last Line: And this is all the ask when first they come %begging of the house of bread a widow's crumb Subject(s): Women - Bible NOT LIKE DELILAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Not like delilah ready to ensnare Last Line: When he awakes there suddenly occurs %the best solution to his need and hers Subject(s): Women - Bible NOT NEVER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Never again, Last Line: Might love and be %better than seven sons Subject(s): Women - Bible NOT QUITE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The young man Last Line: Most happily ever after. %life isn't quite like that! Subject(s): Women - Bible NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks NOTRE DAME DES PETITS, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the little children die Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NOVEMBER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unable to sleep, I spend the predawn hours Last Line: Shapes in the frost like hopeful boats. Subject(s): Bible; Desire; God; November; Plato (428-348 B.c.) NOW I A FOURSOME VISION SEE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology NOW I SEE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see!' but not the parting Last Line: Now I see' that god is love. Subject(s): Bible; Faith; God; Love; Religion; Vision; Belief; Creed; Theology NUN TO MARY, VIRGIN, by MARY SAINT VIRGINIA Poem Source First Line: I had gone fruitless and defenceless, lady Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NUNC GAUDET MARIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary is a lady bright Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed Variant Title(s): Play Time Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight NURSE, HELPER, FRIEND, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Almost invisible Last Line: In bethel %for her final sleeping Subject(s): Women - Bible O GLORY OF VIRGINS, by VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMANTIANUS FORTUNATUS Poem Source First Line: Where troops of virgins follow the lamb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O JESU PARVULE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I saw a sweet and silly sight Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O MARY PIERCED WITH SORROW, FR. SONG BEFORE ACTION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O MIGHTY LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O STAR OF GALILEE, by GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is / not with us enough Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is %not with us enough Last Line: Hungry, and plucking %the fruit Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion O TO BE A DRAGON, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I, like solomon Subject(s): Wishes; Dragons; Bible; Dragons; Religion; Theology O TO BE A DRAGON, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I, like solomon Subject(s): Bible; Dragons; Religion; Theology O TO BE A DRAGON, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I, like solomon Last Line: A symbol of the power of heaven-of silkworm %size or immense; at times invisible. %felicitous phenom Subject(s): Bible; Dragons; Religion O, MY HEART IS WOE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When that my sweet son was thirty winter old Last Line: Then came longeus with a spear and cleft his heart in sunder.' Subject(s): Bible; Religion OAKS AND SQUIRRELS, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: I speak to my lord though I am dust and ashes Last Line: Our home is warring disobedient history Subject(s): Bible; Religion OBSERVATION (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin-mother stood at distance (there) Last Line: And then to weep they both were licensed. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology OCCASIONAL POEM, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When adam day by day Last Line: The more I think of this %the more I beat my wife the apparently inexhaustible pianoforte Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible ODE, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spacious firmament on high Last Line: "the hand that made us is divine!" Variant Title(s): Hymn To The Creation;ode To The Creation;psalm 19;hymn;creation Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Religion; Sky; Theology ODE TO THE VIRGIN, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair virgin Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OF A CHILD WHO WOULD NOT LEARN THE CRIS-CROSS ROW, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little child of mine, come hit her to my knee Last Line: Then the morning touched mine eyelids, and I woke. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Fathers; Regret; Religious Education; Childhood; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OF BEING NUMEROUS, 16, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Isaac (bible); Orpheus OF SPIRITS AND SPINES, by KATHY COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Bending double could impair perspective Last Line: To clink like keys in the rusty lock of her bondage Subject(s): Bible; Bodies OF THE APPLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The apples in the garden bed Last Line: "wherewith the world abounds,"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; God; Praise OF THE BIBLE, by MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It were seemly that a scripture for all nations should be styled universally Last Line: To soothe us in this vale of tears, and cheer our path to heaven Subject(s): Bible OF WOUNDS, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: I have no word to match with its white wonder Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OH, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your goldlocks absorb %no more than my breath Last Line: Across god's grave. %how my sorrow pains me Subject(s): Bible OLD ADAM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain fell Last Line: And so lay smiling, %his heart held breathless with beatitude Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Night OLD NOAH'S INVENTION, by GEORGE NEAVES Poem Text First Line: We read that old noah, soon after the flood Last Line: And can make a right use, of old noah's invention. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Noah (bible); Wine OLD TESTAMENT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept awhile, then woke. The night was wild Last Line: Thy breast would still me, sharper yet my pain. Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament OLD TESTAMENT, AGAIN, by LILJANA DIRJAN Poem Source First Line: A woman's cheek grazes a kiss Last Line: Their eyes moist %asleep at their feet Subject(s): Bible OLNEY HYMNS: 10. THE FUTURE PEACE AND GLORY OF THE CHURCH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what god the lord hath spoken Last Line: "god your everlasting light." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 12. EPHRAIM REPENTING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, till I received thy stroke Last Line: "he shall not seek in vain." Subject(s): Ephraim (bible) OLNEY HYMNS: 19. CONTENTMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce passions discompose the mind Last Line: Have learned to be content. Subject(s): Bible; Contentment; Religion; Mind, The; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 21. SARDIS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Write to sardis,' saith the lord Last Line: "and woe be to the rest!" Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ON 'EVE TEMPTED BY THE SERPENT' BY DEFENDENTE FERRARI, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rare spirit remembered now with a pang Last Line: Or easy but possible and we fall. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Jordan, Barbara (1936-1995); Temptation ON A FEAST, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of heaven and earth has made a feast Last Line: Theve to much pepper, and too little salt Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON A ROCOCO CRUCIFIX, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guarded by bursts of glory, golden rays Last Line: While god groaned in the dark night of his soul? Subject(s): Betrayal; Cavalry; Crucifixion; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology ON A STUMP OUTSIDE VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, by JUDITH SKILLMAN Poem Source First Line: While the children sing about zacchaeus Subject(s): Bible; Religious Education; Zacchaeus ON ANOTHER'S SORROW, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I see another's woe Last Line: He doth sit by us and moan. Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Mythology; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology ON ART AND ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Denegrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ON ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT THE JEWS TO CHRISTIANITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou canst wash the ethiopian white Last Line: Each one to answer for himself alone Subject(s): Bible;catholics;jews;religion - Reformers; Roman Catholics;catholicism;judaism ON CARLO DOLCE'S MAGDALEN, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fairest penitent! How pure the light Last Line: And the lone heart of love, in heaven its home of rest! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by ZOE KINCAID BROCKMAN Poem Text First Line: When he was gone, and christ mass came to mary Last Line: To see this night a star and not a cross! Subject(s): Christmas; Death - Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Death - Babies; Virgin Mary ON F----- & S-----, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found them blind I taught them how to see Last Line: A fool to a bolt a knave to a glass of gin Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) ON FALLING ASLEEP BY FIRELIGHT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the fireplace, pointing at the fire Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ON FALLING ASLEEP BY FIRELIGHT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the fireplace, pointing at the fire Last Line: Turns softly on the hearth into that dust %isaiah said would be the serpent's meat Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON FRIENDS AND FOES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am no homer's hero you all know Last Line: And becomes the enemy & betrayer of his friends Variant Title(s): I Am No Homer's Hero Subject(s): Bible; Enemies; Friendship; Mythology ON H---- THE PICK THANK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write the rascal thanks till he & I Last Line: With thanks & compliments are quite drawn dry Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology ON H----YS FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When h----y finds out what you cannot do Last Line: Hired a villain to bereave my life Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology ON HAYLEY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To forgive enemies h-- does pretend Last Line: Do be my enemy -- for friendship's sake Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Hypocrisy; Mythology; Villains In Literature ON HIMSELF, UPON HEARING WHAT WAS HIS SENTENCE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let them bestow on every airth a limb Last Line: And confident thou'lt raise me with the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): His Metrical Prayer;verses Composed On The Eve Of His Execution Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl & 1st Marquis Of; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Graham, James (1612-165); Theology ON HOMER'S POETRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every poem must necessarily be a perfect unity, but why Last Line: The classics, it is the classics! & not goths nor monks, that desolate europe with wars Subject(s): Bible; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry And Poets ON KNOCKING OVER MY GLASS WHILE READING SHARON OLDS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The milk spread, %a translucent stain Last Line: To refill my glass %with her wild and holy blood Subject(s): Convents; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Praise; Prayer; Statues; Women - Bible ON LAZARUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, by HENRY COLMAN Poem Source First Line: Where am I, or how came I here, hath death Last Line: Prepare, and fit me 'gainst the reckoning day Subject(s): Bible; Lazarus; Religion ON MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes' flood licks his feet's fair stain Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible ON S-----, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say reserve & modesty he has Last Line: By sweet reserve & modesty get fat Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) ON S. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the youthful morning's light Last Line: And the sun appearing, dies Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Roll back, thou tide of time, and tell Last Line: Love's last, love's sweetest sacrifice. -- Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Time; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can there be anything more mean Last Line: When he praises michael angelo Subject(s): Bible; Hypocrisy; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Villains In Literature ON THE BIBLE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou dost take this sacred book into they han Last Line: Where reverence alone stands open, and sense stands by Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Condemned to hope's delusive mine, / as we toil from day to day Last Line: And freed his soul the nearest way. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): Lines On The Death Of Mr. Levett;dr. Levett;the Quiet Life Subject(s): Bible; Death; Levet, Robert; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Doctors; Theology ON THE DEATH OF MARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same great angel who had once Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hear the words of scripture, or to read Last Line: To seek the truth, receive it, and retain. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary ON THE GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN BY ENGLISH NOBILITY & GENTRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the ignorant savage will sell his own wife Last Line: To give these rascals a dose of cawdle Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Paintings & Painters ON THE GROUND OF TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Explain religion by a thousand schemes Last Line: From earth to heav'n, where god is all in all. Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Belief; Creed; Theology; Religious Conflict ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did our blessed savior please to break Last Line: An elephant shall swim; a lamb may wade Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON THE INFANCY OF OUR SAVIOUR, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, blessed virgin, full of heavenly grace Last Line: The weed not being, I may adore the wearer. Variant Title(s): The Child Jesus Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary ON THE MARIEN CAPELLE, CARLSBAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One silver star with evening's twilight strove Last Line: Bows down in worship to the virgin-born. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary ON THE MEANING OF THE WORD 'WRATH' AS APPLIED TO GOD IN SCRIPTURE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That god is love is in the scripture said Last Line: Not to love him, who first lov'd us so well. Subject(s): Bible; Love; Saints ON THE PICTURE OF THE FINDING OF MOSES BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This picture does the story express Last Line: Because I from the waters drew him. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Judaism ON THE TRUE MEANING OF THE SCRIPTURE TERMS 'LIFE AND DEATH,', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True life, according to the scripture plan Last Line: Immortal life is that of christ in us. Subject(s): Bible; God; Holy Ghost; Jesus Christ; Holy Spirit ON THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In pastures green? Not always; sometimes he Last Line: "why, in his wisdom, he hath led me so" Variant Title(s): He Leadeth Me Subject(s): Bible;religion; Theology ON THE TWO GREAT FLOODS, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two floods I read of; water, and of wine Last Line: When shall we see a rainbow after wine? Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I syng [sing] of a mayden [maiden] Last Line: Wel may swych a lady %godes moder be Variant Title(s): A Maiden That Is Makeless; A Carol Of Mother Mary; The Maiden Makeles; Carol To Our Lady; As Dew In Apri Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ON THE VIRGINITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er is done to her she cannot know Last Line: No one can take the pride no one the shame Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals ON THE WALL NEXT TO MY WINDOW, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who %will make art of this Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Arabs; Bible; Home; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ON TRANSLATING THE PSALMS, by SAMPSON GIDEON JR. Poem Text First Line: How great thy thoughts, how glorious thy designs Last Line: That all the world in duty must esteem. Alternate Author Name(s): Guideon, Sampson, Jr.; Eardley, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Praise; Prayer; Judaism ON VIRGIL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred truth has pronounced that greece and rome Last Line: Gothic is living form Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virgil (70-19 B.c.) ON WHITSUNDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, ascended into heav'n again Last Line: Who hear this inward teacher and obey. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology ON WOMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May god be praised for woman / that gives up all her mind Last Line: That sheba led a dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Theology ON ZACHEUS, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks, I see, with what a busy haste Last Line: Bird that was shot ne'er dropped so quick as he. Variant Title(s): On Zacchaeus Subject(s): Bible; Zacchaeus; Zaccheus ONE CROWN THAT NO ONE SEEKS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That coronation pierces him %he recollects it well Variant Title(s): Poem: 1735; Poem: 175 Subject(s): Bible; Pilate, Pontius; Religion ONE GOOD QUALITY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Jezebel painting her face Last Line: As decorously as possible. %and don't we all? Subject(s): Women - Bible ONE VERSION, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that mary magdalene Last Line: I know the woman well. Variant Title(s): Mary Magdalene Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ONE: 28, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man who had fallen among thieves Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Good Samaritan; Religion; Theology ONE: 28, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man who had fallen among thieves Last Line: A million billion trillion stars Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Good Samaritan; Religion ONLY A JEW, by DAVID BANKS SICKLES Poem Text First Line: Nobody cares, for he's only a jew Last Line: Cannot be blighted by passion or hate. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Jews; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Judaism ONLY ONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A big book, a very big book Last Line: Knows the whole story Subject(s): Bible; Books; Knowledge; Scholarship And Scholars OPPORTUNITY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who binds to himself a joy Last Line: You can never wipe off the tears of woe. Variant Title(s): Eternity;several Questions Answered;epigram Subject(s): Bible; Future Life; Mythology; Opportunity; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORA PRO ME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave maria! Bright and pure Last Line: Ora pro me. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Mary And Martha (bible); Soul; Women In The Bible; Dead, The ORA PRO NOBIS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While I was still a child so young Last Line: Ave maria, ora pro nobis. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ORCHARD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the first pear Last Line: I bring you as offering. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Keeper Of The Orchards;priapus Subject(s): Bible; Orchards OREAD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whirl up, sea Last Line: Cover us with your pools of fir. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Nymphs ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Babe jesus lay in mary's lap Last Line: Babe jesus said never a word. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Singing & Singers; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary ORGAN SONGS: DORCAS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might guess, then guess I would Last Line: And showed the coats she made. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dorcas (bible); Women - Bible ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no more wine!' she said Last Line: Brimming full of heavenly wine. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Drinks & Drinking; Feasts; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Water; Wedding Song; Women - Bible; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Virgin Mary; Epithalamium ORIGINAL SEQUENCE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was the apple adam ate Last Line: Stopped feet. He reached and wound the clock Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ORIGINAL SEQUENCE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was the apple adam ate Last Line: Stopped feet. He reached, and wound the clock Subject(s): Bible; Religion ORIGINALS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I have stayed awake Last Line: Which all of humankind %has yet to unlearn Subject(s): Women - Bible ORION DEAD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (artemis speaks) Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible ORISON TO THE FIVE JOYS OF OUR LADY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "mary mother, hail to thee! / maid and mother, think on me" Last Line: "which for ever shall endure, / bring me, at thy will! Ave" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary ORTHODOXIES 25, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He brooded, a crooked spell. A diagonal, so-so paradise Last Line: His daydreams. But they say their suit him Subject(s): Bible; Books; Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian OTHER MOTHER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The other mother Last Line: Befuddled by grief %she lied for love Subject(s): Women - Bible OUR FATHER JACOB, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father jacob on the beaten track Last Line: For all that we know, he is still climbing there Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion; Theology OUR FATHER JACOB, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father jacob on the beaten track Last Line: For all that we know he's still climbing there Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion OUR LADY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess azure-mantled and aureoled Last Line: And complete the creation. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR LADY, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god! No lady thou Last Line: "and the rich he hath sent empty away." Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary OUR LADY IN THE MIDDLE AGES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I looked upon the earth: it was a floor Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF FRANCE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave we awhile without the turmoil of the town Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF GOOD VOYAGE, by LUCY A. K. ADEE Poem Source First Line: You hold a silver ship Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF MERCY, by MARY BERTRAND Poem Source First Line: Our lady walks the parapets of heaven Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE CANNERY WORKERS, by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: Returning from watsonville Last Line: You turn to seed Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE LIBRARIES, by MARY IGNATIUS Poem Source First Line: In bodleian and harleian Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE MAY, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O flower of flowers, our lady of the may! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE PASSION, by JOHN MAUROPUS Poem Source First Line: O lady of the passion, dost thou weep? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE REFUGEES, by MARY MAURA Poem Source First Line: Mother, who knew Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE SKIES, by JAMES M. HAYES Poem Source First Line: Twelve stars upon the brow of her Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY ON CALVARY, by MICHAEL MARIE Poem Source First Line: So like a queen she moves Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY WITH TWO ANGELS, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Source First Line: She sits in sarras, delicate and strange Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OUR LADY'S LABOR, by JOHN DUFFY Poem Source First Line: Day after day Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY'S LULLABY, by RICHARD ROWLANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my lap my sovereign sits Last Line: Sing, lullaby, my life's joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Verstegen, Richard Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR LADY'S SALUTATION, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spell eva back and ave shall you find Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY'S WELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fount of the woods! Thou art hid no more Last Line: Who hath made thee nature's own again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Ruins; Springs (water); Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The puny child who knows he can have but little love Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LORD AND OUR LADY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They warned our lady for the child Last Line: With the white moon at her feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR SISTER DINAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: If dinah Last Line: And not %a person? Subject(s): Women - Bible OUT FROM PARADISE, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I would not quarrel with justice Last Line: Adam and eve. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve OUT OF EGYPT, by DOROTHEA DE PASS Poem Text First Line: The flaming sunset bathed the distant hills Last Line: Of sin. Subject(s): Bible; Israel; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism OUT OF THE DEPTHS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Out of the depths Last Line: In all the world %was you? Subject(s): Women - Bible OVER AND OVER, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: Arguing day by day, over and over and over Last Line: Two brothers palsied and grey, arguing over and over. Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; God OX-BONE MADONNA, by JAMES J. GALVIN Poem Source First Line: Once they minted our lady in multiple golden medallions Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OX-BORNE MADONNA, by JOHN DUFFY Poem Source First Line: We have minted her beauty in multiple golden medallions Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PAGAN WOMAN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To go dying and singing. And to baptize the shadow Last Line: Leaving thousands of eyes of blood on the dagger Subject(s): Catholics; Judith (bible); Women In The Bible PALINODE: BOOK ONE: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not despair, the hosts Last Line: The old enchantment holds, %here there is peace %for helena,helen hated of all greece Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK ONE: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The potion is not poison Last Line: So they fought, forgetting women, %hero to hero, sworn brother and lover, %and cursing helen through Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK ONE: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, my brothers Last Line: Though the wounded heel treads lightly %and more lightly follow, %the purple sandals Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Helen In Egypt: 1, Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK ONE: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did we know each other? Last Line: As if I, helen, had withdrawn %from the bruised and swollen flesh, %the arrow from its wound Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK ONE: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the token, his mortality Last Line: As the new mortal, %shedding his glory, %limped slowly across the sand Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK ONE: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did we greet each other? Last Line: Let him forget, %amen, all-father, %let him forget Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK ONE: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We huddled over the fire Last Line: Knew not helen of troy, %knew not helena, hated of greece Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK ONE: 8, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How could I hide my eyes? Last Line: O thetis, o sea-mother, I prayed under his cloak, %let me remember, let me remember, %forever, this Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK TWO: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps he was right Last Line: Still, he had lost %and they had lost- %the war-lords of greece Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK TWO: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the burning ember Last Line: I would study and decipher %the indecipherable amen-script Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK TWO: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, I was instructed in the writ Last Line: That ember, I became %what his accusation made me, %isis, forever with that child, %the hawk horus Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALINODE: BOOK TWO: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the spread of wings Last Line: The thousand feathered darts %that sped them home, %mine, the one dart in the achilles-heel, %the th Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PALM SONG, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my sweetly beloved, your countenance is my palmgarden Last Line: Oh, my sweetly beloved. Subject(s): Bible; Palm Trees PANEGYRIC ON THE LADIES; READ ALTERNATE LINES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That man must lead a happy life Last Line: Is sure of earthly blessedness Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;women PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 1, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Come!' spoke the almighty to adam Last Line: The rest are rubbish. You must try again tomorrow Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 10, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: All this fuss about an apple Last Line: But the snake had scarpered Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 11, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Eve chomped at the apple Last Line: She plucked a second for adam Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 12. A SEQUENCE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What about adam? %shall I keep it to myself Last Line: I'm a simple woman Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 13, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sighing through all her works Last Line: Eve observed. It loosens the tongue Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 14, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Must be that cox's orange pippin Last Line: I wish there were ten forbidden trees %snore Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 15, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Where are you, adam Last Line: The weather might change, lord %too right. It will Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 16, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I should have ceased at noon Last Line: I should have stopped at midday Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 17, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The woman Last Line: Ending this little tete-a-tete Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 18, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Son of my bosom Last Line: By now the quire was in full swing Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 19, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: So the archangel, out of pity Last Line: All -- or some, he murmured at the door Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 2, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What a dream! Said adam waking Last Line: Knowing what he knew Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 20, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There was the escort, in position Last Line: We don't want any trouble, do we Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 21, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I had no voice Last Line: He said, I'll learn to make you shoes Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 22, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Why didn't we think of clothes before Last Line: Asked eve %laundering adam's Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 23, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What was she like Last Line: So what are you Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 24, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I gave him a very nice name Last Line: Who named them Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 25, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Death, said adam in funereal tones Last Line: And there's a lamb to slaughter Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 26. A SEQUENCE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What's all this %about a sense of sin? Last Line: You see?' his parents said, %'we told you so Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 27, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I told him flat Last Line: Adam! You should see a psychiatrist Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 28, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Enoch died untimely, he was only 365 Last Line: I have a feeling too Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 29, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There were giants in the earth Last Line: I knew this would happen, said god Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 3, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Rich soil, remarked the landlord Last Line: Snapped the landlord. Yet Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 30, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Jabal had erected the tents Last Line: We are losing on the roundabouts Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 31, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Cities were all right when they were towns Last Line: It was just the thing for his allotment Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 32, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The days of adam were 930 years Last Line: People lived forever then Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 33, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Adam was old bones, lost in his clothes Last Line: At heart he'd always been a gardener Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 34, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The lord called adam man Last Line: She died soon after adam Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 4, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: If you wanted ice-cream Last Line: Adam told himself, but eve needs me Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 5. A SEQUENCE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: About them fisking played Last Line: He said: %'I think of words, therefore I am Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 6, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Can't you let her name something Last Line: They all sound womanish to me %said adam, nettled Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 7, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: To whom, indignantly, the angel thus Last Line: He murmured: can she cook? Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 8, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I thought I had no family ties Last Line: Those two will have to go Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE ILLUSTRATED: 9, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Satan considered the creatures Last Line: In search of silly she Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PARADISE RE-ENTERED, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the strait gate of passion Last Line: On our primal loam Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion PARAPHRASE OF PROVERBS, CHAP. IV, VERSES 6-11, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn on the prudent ant thy heedless eyes Last Line: Shall spring to seize thee, like an ambushed foe Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 137, by HENRY CARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: By babylon's still waters we sat down Subject(s): Bible PARAPHRASE UPON PART OF THE 139 PSALM, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great monarch, whose feared hands the thunder fling Last Line: Turn to that nothing, from whence raised by thee Subject(s): Bible; Religion PARENTALIA (2), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go your ways, as if in thanksgiving Last Line: "harvest festival to armistice day Subject(s): Daniel (bible) PARLEY OF BEASTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld noah was at hame wi' them a' Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Love; Religion; Theology PARLEY OF BEASTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld noah was at hame wi' them a' Last Line: At hame it's hard to feel Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Love; Religion PASSION OF OUR LADY, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For the past three days she had been wandering, and following Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PASSOVER, by MIRIAM SAGAN Poem Source First Line: Jews must be everywhere Last Line: Despite our exile, wandering Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible PAST THINKING OF SOLOMON, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wise - unto - hell ecclesiast Last Line: Now we say: they please me not. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Theology PATRIARCH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As honest jacob on a night Last Line: And up and till 't like fire!!! Subject(s): Bible; Religion PEAR TREE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver dust Last Line: In their purple hearts. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Pear Trees; Trees; Pears PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 14. AL-MUZAWWIR, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord would fashion men Last Line: "come thou!"" at man's hour of death." Variant Title(s): Making Of Man Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Islam; Jews; Mankind; Eve; Judaism; Human Race 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 PENITENT HOPES IN MARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now shrynketh rose and lilye-flour Last Line: That al this world honoures. Amen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PENITENTIAL PSALM, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love to give law unto his subject hearts Last Line: With tender heart, lo, thus to god he sings: Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PERCIPIENT PEACEMAKER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The united nations Last Line: And mediative methods %of the wise woman of abel Subject(s): Women - Bible PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Just as my fingers on these keys Last Line: And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Music & Musicians; Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible PHAEDRA REBUKES HIPPOLYTA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift and a broken rock Last Line: Toward the shadow-side of the rocks. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PHAEDRA REMEMBERS CRETE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, o my soul Last Line: Waste and drift of the cold rain. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Crete PHARAO'S DAUGHTER, by MICHAEL MORAN Poem Source First Line: In agypt's land contaygious to the nile Last Line: Tare-an-ages, girls, which o'yees own the child? Subject(s): Bible; Exodus From Egypt; Religion PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Did pharaoh's daughter Last Line: Would at last %amount to Subject(s): Women - Bible PHAROAH AND JOSEPH, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pharoah rejects his blossoming wives Last Line: In the wheat of our morning Subject(s): Bible PHILIPPINE MADONNA, by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Source First Line: In every war, strange legends circulate Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PHYSIOGNOMY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: No wonder I did not find you at the barber shop Last Line: The scripture of her body Subject(s): Bible; Books; Printing And Printers PICTURES IN VERSE: 3. JESUS AND JOHN CONTENDING FOR THE CROSS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the cross, I pray you dearest jesus Last Line: Of women first in honour and in woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Pesaro, Simeone Da; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary PILATE REMEMBERS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Source First Line: I wonder why that scene comes back tonight Last Line: Remembering it was spring and he was young Subject(s): Bible; Religion PINDARIC ODE: THE RESURRECTION, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not winds to voyagers at sea Last Line: But flings writer and reader too that sits not sure. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PISGAH SIGHTS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the ball of it Last Line: Star that now sparklest! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PLAINT OF EVE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man's mate was I in paradise Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible PLASTIC BEATITUDE, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long Last Line: To their last temptation. Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary PLESANT TO YOUR TASTE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I bring you bread, dear boaz. Last Line: And let me be plesant to your taste %as well as the bread I bring Subject(s): Women - Bible PLIGHT OF POTIPHAR'SWIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Oh, joseph, you and I might have been Last Line: Thatled me to betray you. And still I burn %to share the uttermost planets of your dreams Subject(s): Women - Bible PLUMAGE OF THE FLOWERS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tetlapan as a poet carried Last Line: "face-down in crimson dew." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary POET: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were sea-horses and mer-men Last Line: Your song is the wail %of something intangible %that I almost %but not-quite feel Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible POET: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But you are my brother Last Line: You are true %to your self, being true %to the irony %of your shell Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible POET: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes Last Line: A butterfly has antennae, %is moral %and ironical too Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible POET: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And your shell is a temple Last Line: Everyone has heard of the small coptic temple, %but who knows you, %who dwell there? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible POET: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No Last Line: He couldn't live alone in the desert, %without vision to comfort him, %there must be voices somewher Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible POET: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am almost afraid to sit on this stone Last Line: I am almost afraid to think to myself, %why, %he is there Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible POETICAL SKETCHES, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology PORTUGUESE HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, WRITTEN AT SEA, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Star of the wide and pathless sea Last Line: Ave maris stella! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary PRACTICE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world arrived / so carefully packed Last Line: With speech Subject(s): Bible; Speech; Oratory; Orators PRAISE BE TO NOAH, by HARVEY C. GRUMBINE Poem Text First Line: Spermatozoa were precious in the time of noah Last Line: Praise be to noah who did his best for the spermatozoa! Subject(s): Bible PRAYER IS THE STUDY OF ART, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Prayer; Science PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF CHARTRES, by HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gracious lady: / simple as when I asked your aid before Last Line: The futile folly of the infinite! Subject(s): Catholics; Chartres, France; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary PREFERENCE, by DANIEL SARGENT Poem Source First Line: I should rather say one prayer to the mother of god Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 7, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy human frame, my glorious lord, I spy Last Line: Thy bottle make my soule, lord, it to hold. Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 8, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kenning through astronomy divine Last Line: Eate, eate me, soul, and thou shalt never dy. Variant Title(s): I Am The Living Bread;sacramental Meditations: 8 Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 29, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I say, my lord? With what begin? Last Line: To toss my songs of praise rung on them, higher. Subject(s): Noah (bible); Puritans In Literature PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 3, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the marigold, I blushing close Last Line: Shall be the psalms sung forth in gracious layes. Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 77, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A state, a state, oh! Dungeon state indeed Last Line: Whose strings toucht by this grace, will twang thy praise. Subject(s): Bible; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Theology PRETENCES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pretence of art ot destroy aart, a pretence of liberty Subject(s): Bible; Mythology PRETTY PICTURE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: If a beautiful woman Last Line: The handsome but insensitive %and witless man? Subject(s): Women - Bible PRIEST, by WILLIAM FAULKNER Poem Source First Line: Evening like a nun shod with silence, evening like a girl slipping along Last Line: Ave, maria; deam gratiam...Tower of ivory, rose of lebanon Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Women - Bible PRISONERS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is strange that I should want Last Line: As the horsemen passed. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PRIZED EQUALLY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Women can rebel Last Line: By god %in new creation Subject(s): Women - Bible PRO CASTITATE, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin born of virgin Last Line: Love and love and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary PRODIGAL SON, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prodigal son is kneeling in the husks Last Line: Under the water there's a door the pigs have gone through Subject(s): Bible; Religion PROGRESS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master stood upon the mount, and taught Last Line: The friend of man desires' Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology PROGRESSION; OR, THE SOUTH DEFENDED: SLAVERY, by MARY SOPHIE SHAW HOMES Poem Text First Line: The book of books we confidently quote Last Line: Gainst wild fanaticism's fickle laws. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayfield, Millie Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Cruelty; Slavery; Southern States; United States - History; Serfs; South (u.s.) PROLOGUE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou speaker of all wisdom in word Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PROLOGUE TO KING JOHN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justice hath heaved a sword to plunge in albion's breast Last Line: Sing as to the rising year! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology PROLOGUE. INTENDED FOR A DRAMATIC PIECE OF KING EDWARD THE FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue Last Line: Hear it not, heaven, thy ministers have done it! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology PROPHET'S WIDOW DISCOVERS THE OIL OF GLADNESS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I who had borrowed too much Last Line: And miracle %of our sharing Subject(s): Women - Bible PROPHETIC BOOKS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology PROPOSAL, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Was there a harvest moon that noisy night Last Line: His who are you? Is followed by the smile %which proves that he has loved her all the while Subject(s): Women - Bible PROVERBS FROM HELL, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging Last Line: Exuberance is beauty Subject(s): Bible; Men; Mythology PROVERBS: SOLOMON, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PROVIDE, PROVIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience; Reputation; Theology; Impermanence PROVIDE, PROVIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Last Line: With boughten friendship at your side %than none at all. Pr0vide, provide! Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience PROVING THE PERTINENCE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Statistically men Last Line: And prove their pertinence %to all the sacred story Subject(s): Women - Bible PSALM 1. THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED CONTRASTED, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of Last Line: Shall perish. Variant Title(s): The Tree And The Chaff Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament PSALM 137. THE JEWISH CAPTIVE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Oh zion! If I cease for thee Last Line: "forgetful, lord, of thee." Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Prayer; Judaism PSALM 44, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O god! We with our ears have heard Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PSALM CXXVI, by R. B. I. Poem Text First Line: When zion's dire captivity Last Line: Come laden with his sheaves. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Zionism; Judaism PSALM: 114, by MYRTILLA E. MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: When israel from proud egypt's yoke Last Line: Of waters, for his flock. Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Judaism PSALM: 3, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To god: to illuminate all men. Beginning with skid road Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PSALM: 3, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To god: to illuminate all men. Beginning with skid road Last Line: I feed on your name like a cockroach on a crumb - this cockroach is Subject(s): Bible; Religion PSALM: 7, by ARTHUR SCHILLER-SZINESSY Poem Text First Line: O lord, my god, in thee I put my trust Last Line: And to the heavens my tongue his fame shall roll. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Judaism PSALMS, SELS, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The oil that spins our bones Last Line: Tries us as silver's tried Subject(s): Bible; God; Religion PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, by BONAVENTURE Poem Source First Line: Blessed is the man, o virgin mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PUNISHMENT AND FORGIVENESS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should punishment weave the veil with iron wheels of war Subject(s): Bible; Mythology PURIFICATION, by COSMAS Poem Source First Line: Sion, thy bridal-bower prepare Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PURIFICATION OF YE B. VIRGIN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: May we have leave to ask, illustrious mother Last Line: By his owne death can make his mother live. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary PURIFICATION OF YE B. VIRGIN (TO A BASE, A TENOR, AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: How shall chrystall purer grow? Last Line: Sweet law of humilitie. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary PURIFICATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Source First Line: May we have leave to ask, illustrious mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PURSUIT, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do I care Last Line: In the larch-cones and the underbrush. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible PYGMALION, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I let myself be caught Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible QUEEN OF ANGELS, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of angels, mary, thou whose smile Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible QUEEN OF COURTESY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blissful,' said I, 'can this be true' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible QUEEN OF HORIZONS, by JOSEPH DEVER Poem Source First Line: Oh lord, give me a plane Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible QUEEN OF SHEBA, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Her dark beauty Last Line: Long after she departed - and so do we Subject(s): Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.); Women - Bible QUIA AMORE LANGUERO (THE VIRGIN'S COMPLAINT), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within a chamber of a tower Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible QUIA NOCTE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Because in the night ar of moab is laid waste Subject(s): Moah (kingdom), Bible R.I.P., by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the englishman asks Last Line: Too clever to believe in Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Bible RACE AND BATTLE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The race is not to the swift Last Line: To save the streaked pansy of the heart from being trampled to mud Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bible; Religion RACHEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When memnon's sculptured form the god of day Last Line: What victor monarch's crown is with such gems / enwrought Subject(s): Jews;rachel (bible);women;women In The Bible; Judaism RACHEL, by RACHEL BLUWSTEIN Poem Source First Line: For her blood runs in my blood Last Line: For memories are preserved in my feet %ever since, ever since Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wan september moonbeams, struggling down Last Line: Crowned with the palm, walking the fields of peace! Subject(s): Moon; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL, by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: Named from the bible %that good and holy book Last Line: Need to take a closer look... %suffer the little children... Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL CRIED THERE FOR HER CHILDREN, by RIVKA MIRIAM Poem Source First Line: Rachael cried there for her children not yet born Last Line: And they hovered quietly into her cry %as into their border Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL LAMENTS, by MARION ETHEL HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: O rachel, crying and lamenting loud Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL'S TOMB, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN Poem Source First Line: On the fields of bethlehem Last Line: Merging silently Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash Subject(s): Graves; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RANDOM CONJECTURE, by BILL NOBLE Poem Text First Line: Would the world have been a better place Last Line: And died a celibate? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible RATTLIN' JOE'S PRAYER, by JOHN WALLACE CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Jist pile on some more o' them pine knots Last Line: So I guess I hed best turn in too. Alternate Author Name(s): Jack, Captain Subject(s): Bible; Coffins; Mass; Prayer; War READING BIBLES IN TENNESSEE, by ROSS MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Because there is faith they will be replaced Last Line: Stories are read and forgotten like %the ones before Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Tennessee READING THE BIBLE BACKWARDS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the altar, huge lianas Last Line: The spirit moved upon the face of the waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bible REAL PEOPLE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Those women were complicated Last Line: Of real people %made in the heterogeneity of god Subject(s): Women - Bible REAL WOMAN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: A virtuous woman Last Line: Of god %as any man may be Subject(s): Women - Bible REALIZATION, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaviness rises everywhere out of earth Last Line: Beware the tip of even your finest eyelash! Subject(s): Bible REASON, OR THE RATION OF ALL WE HAVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science REBECCA'S HYMN, FR. IVANHOE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When israel, of the lord beloved Last Line: "are mine accepted sacrifice ." Variant Title(s): Hebrew Hymn;hymn Of The Hebrew Maid Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology RECOGNITION OF EVE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it was she had so fiercely fought Last Line: She was already turning beautiful Subject(s): Bible; Religion RECONCILIATION (TO MY MOTHER), by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great star will fall into my lap Last Line: A great star will fall into my lap. Subject(s): Bible RED ROSE AND A BEGGAR, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you come %to trouble my decline Last Line: Walk unfalteringly toward a lover, %the hachish superieur of dream Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible REED, by CARYLL HOUSELANDER Poem Source First Line: She is a reed Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible REGENERATION, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ward, and still in bonds, one day Last Line: "and let me die before my death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Redemption; Religion; Theology REGINA ANGELORUM, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lady went into a strange country Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible REGINA COELI, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, did his sisters wonder what could joseph see Last Line: Who was indeed thy god! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary REGINA COELI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O queen of heaven, be joyful, alleluia Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible REMEMBRANCE OF MOAB, by BYRON HERBERT REECE Poem Source First Line: King mesha had within his keep Subject(s): Moah (kingdom), Bible REMEMBRANCE OF SIN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o thou lamb of god, and take away the remembrance of sin Subject(s): Bible; Mythology REMONSTRANCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters of eve! Your mother did not well Last Line: Find the lost eden in their love to you. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Love; Women; Eve REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of angels glorified the hour Last Line: His mother stood apart. No other looked %into her secret eyes. Nobody dared Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Russia - Stalin Era; Women - Bible RESCUE OF MOSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In judah's halls the harp is hushed Last Line: The babe that slept by nile's broad tide Subject(s): Hebrew Literature;jews;judah (bible); Judaism RESURRECTION, IMPERFECT, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep old sun, thou canst not have repast Last Line: Desunt coetera. Variant Title(s): Resurrection Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology RETABLO, by RONNIE BURK Poem Source First Line: Was it woman in the shape of a tree? Last Line: As I fly into %the sun Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible RETURN OF EVE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When man rose up out of the red mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible REVAMPING THE VIRGIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How green the grass looks on the other side Last Line: To get it right this time and have a girl. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology REVELATION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We make ourselves a place apart Last Line: Must speak and tell us where they are. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology REWARDING, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: After eliciting Last Line: Of the day %off! Subject(s): Women - Bible RICHES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The countless gold of a merry heart Last Line: Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury Subject(s): Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Joy; Delight RISE UP, MY LOVE (BOAZ' SONG TO RUTH), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Rise up, my love, my fair one. Come away. Last Line: Arise, my love, my fair one. Come away %this day of days shall be our wedding day Subject(s): Women - Bible RIZPAH, by LUCY MARION BLINN Poem Source First Line: The long, bright day of harvest toil is past Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible RIZPAH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what the desolate rizpah said Last Line: The beasts of the desert, and fowls of air. Subject(s): Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible RIZPAH, by JOHN READE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is growing dark Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible RIZPAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many sons, how many generations Last Line: That lights towards hell his bondslaves and their czar. Subject(s): Mothers; Poland; Rizpah (bible); Russia; Tragedy; Women - Bible; Soviet Union; Russians RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea Last Line: Going. He calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English RIZPAH, by GEORGE M. VICKERS Poem Source First Line: Night came at last. The noisy throng had gone Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible RIZPAH WITH HER SONS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bread for my mother!' said the voice of one Last Line: [unfinished.] Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible RIZPAH, DAUGHTER OF AIAH (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC), by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the changing sky Last Line: Rizpah, daughter of aiah. Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women In The Bible ROADSIDE POEMS: ZACCHAEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom the heavy burden clings Last Line: And saved the lost whom he had won. Subject(s): Bible; Guests; Jesus Christ; Salvation; Truth; Zacchaeus; Visiting; Zaccheus ROCHESTER EXTEMPORE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And after singing psalm the twelfth Last Line: "I am a rascal, that thou know'st!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ROMANCE: 8, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then he summoned an archangel Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ROSA MYSTICA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is no rose of such virtue Last Line: And follow we this joyful birth. / transeamus Variant Title(s): The Rose That Bore Jesu Subject(s): Jesus Christ;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary ROSA MYSTICA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is a mystery' -- where is it found? Last Line: Draw me by charity, mother of mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Roses; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ROSARY, by MARY MAURA Poem Source First Line: A fragrant silence filled the purple air Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible RUTH, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the land of bethlehem judah Last Line: Fill'd our infant hearts with pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Bible RUTH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And it was back in the days of judges Last Line: Oved and his wife gave birth to jesse %and he to david Subject(s): Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible RUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plume-like swaying of the auburn corn Last Line: "thy people and thy god shall be mine own!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism RUTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood breast high amid the corn Last Line: Share my harvest and my home. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Jews; Love; Ruth (bible); Seasons; Women In The Bible; Youth; Fall; Judaism RUTH, by H. HYMAN Poem Text First Line: Leave thee alone in sorrow! Ask me not Last Line: And whither thou goest will I also go. Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Ruth (bible); Solitude; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism; Loneliness RUTH AND NAOMI, by WILLIAM OLIVER BOURNE PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell? Oh, no! It may not be Last Line: My firm and faithful heart from thee. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism RUTH IN THE BEGINNING, by JANET FRASER Poem Source First Line: Alien in the corn my mother wanders Last Line: Curved ruth, sheltering thoughts and mapping dreams Subject(s): Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible RUTH'S ANSWER TO NAOMI, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Entreat me not, I must not hear Last Line: Shall fleshly, sweetly bloom for me. Subject(s): Naomi (bible); Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible RUTH'S WEDDING SONG, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Now once upon a time within that land Last Line: Honey and milk are underneath your tongue. %your lips, my bride, are as the honeycomb.' Subject(s): Women - Bible RUTH: RUTH TO NAOMI, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Entreat me not to leave thee Last Line: If aught but death part thee and me Subject(s): Naomi (bible); Religion; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible S. MARY MAGDALEN'S OINTMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Forbid her not, nor ask a reason why Last Line: And fill th' eternall mouth of holy fame. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene SACRED EPIGRAM: GOD IN THE WOMB OF THE VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold your father, nature! Here is your father, he is here Last Line: Indeed, while you lie, a chaste wife, with your husband - %this more strange - you are yourself a co Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE BASHFULNESS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is (believe it) the modesty not of the mother but of the son Last Line: In order to see heaven must be cast down Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE BASHFULNESS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask why the virgin should keep her eyes on her lap Last Line: She looks down, but even so she nevertheless still sees heaven Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DAY OF THE MASTER'S PASSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay even you too adore the ashes of your phoenix Last Line: Moistened this eternal morning of life and your day Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE EASY PARTURITION OF BLESSED VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still she was not made a mother without pain Last Line: That one time he was the joys of birth for his mother; %every day he was the groans of birth Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: THE BLESSED VIRGIN SEEKS HER JESUS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, may you return, sweet boy, may you return to your poor parent Last Line: If our arms could hold you, their god Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: THE FIRST DAY OF WEEK COMETH MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came beore the rosy dawn, holy Last Line: And to be the new morning star for the new sun! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor does caesar's bird now say his hail Last Line: Hear how my hail should differ from your hail: %he speaks yours, you give birth (behold!) to mine Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN, BELIEVING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder (indeed what else would you do?) bur also you believe Last Line: You were a faithful daughter of god; you will be [his] mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ZACHARIAS NOT BELIEVING AT ALL, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you will be the father of a speechless [babe] seems a strange Last Line: Now - except by a sign - you can ask for nothing Subject(s): Bible; Zacharias SACRIFICE, by CHANA BLOCH Poem Source First Line: The patriarch in black takes %candle and knife Last Line: The waiting %under his father's eyes Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible) SAGESSE, SELS., by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You look at me, a hut or cage contains Last Line: Sparrows, I think it was Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SAINT BERNARD'S HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin mother, daughter of your son Last Line: All the good of all created things Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): Saint Bernard's Hymn Of Praise To Virgin Mary (paradiso -- Canto 33 Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible SAINT MARY MAGDALENE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What great apostle, / when the christ rose Last Line: And himself appears. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Religion; Saints; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology SALUTATION, by ZEREA JACOB Poem Source First Line: Hail, hail to thy blessed name, o mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SALUTATIONS: TO MARY, VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail! Mother-maid, unmatched since time was born Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SALVE REGINA, by HERMANUS CONTRACTUS Poem Source First Line: Mary, we hail thee, mother and queen compassionate Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SAMSON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Samson, the strongest of the children of men Last Line: Secret; but, if thou wilt, offer an offering unto the lord Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Samson SAMSON, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wherefore was my birth from heaven foretold Last Line: Himself in bonds under philistine yoke Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Samson; Strength SAMSON TO HIS DALILAH, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could not once blinding me, cruel, suffice? Last Line: When first I look'd on thee, I lost mine eyes. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SANDALPHON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read in the talmud of old, / in the legends the rabbins have told Last Line: To quiet its fever and pain. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Judaism SANDALWOOD COMES TO MY MIND, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the song shall go on Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion SANTCA MARIA DOLORUM, OR THE MOTHER OF SORROWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In shade of death's sad tree Last Line: Lo, heart, thy hope's whole plea! Her pretious breath %powr'd out in prayers for thee; thy lord's in Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SARAH, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The angel said to me:'why are you laughing?' Subject(s): Sarah (bible) SARAH, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel said to me:'why are you laughing?' Last Line: The joke's on me!' Subject(s): Bible; Religion SARAH'S CHOICE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little late rain Last Line: "but it is written what will happen if you stay." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Isaac (bible); Prophecy & Prophets; Sarah (bible) SARAH'S PROMISE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who understands better than I Last Line: Spare me my one good boy. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Faith; Sons; Belief; Creed SAUL, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great melech lies waking over judah Last Line: And with five hundred thousand men he swings the clubs Subject(s): Bible; Saul (11th Century B.c.) SAUL AND DAVID, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a villainous spirit, snub-nosed, foul Last Line: .......And make saul cease to tremble Subject(s): Saul (bible) SCOTCH DRINK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other poets raise a fracas Last Line: Directs thee best. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bible; Religion; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Theology SEA GODS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say there is no hope Last Line: Along your ragged beach. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean SEA GODS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But we bring violets Last Line: Of your own white surf. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean SEA GODS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For you will come Last Line: And cherish and shelter us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Sea; Ocean SEA IRIS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weed, moss-weed Last Line: In our nostrils. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Iris (flower) SEA IRIS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do the murex-fishers Last Line: Stained among the salt weeds. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Iris (flower) SEA LILY, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reed / slashed and torn Last Line: To cover you with froth. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Lilies SEA POPPIES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amber husk Last Line: As your bright leaf? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poppies SEA ROSE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose, harsh rose Last Line: Hardened in a leaf? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Roses SEA VIOLET, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white violet Last Line: Frost, a star edges with its fire. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Violets SEA-BIRDS, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: In days when albion's seamen knew Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunny may morning; going through the mail Subject(s): Bible SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunny may morning; going through the mail Last Line: Possibly be sufficient per lap. %ethan, who will be running, just turned ten Subject(s): Bible SECOND SAMUEL: 1. DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE First Line: The beauty of israel is slain upon thy high places: / how the mighty have fallen Variant Title(s): David Lamenteth The Death Of Jonathan Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.) SECOND SAMUEL: 1. DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All your glory, o israel, lies slain upon your heights Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.) SECOND SAMUEL: DAVID'S LAMENT FOR JONATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Thy glory, o israel Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible) SEQUENCE: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He loves her until Last Line: Three children continue their burning. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Bible; Love SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNETH', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three things make earth unquiet Last Line: Is more than ever slave! Subject(s): Bible; Religion SERVICES, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man in the land of ur Last Line: For those who felt deeply Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SERVICES, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man in the land of ur Last Line: For those who feel deeply Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Bible; Religion SHAKESPEARE READS THE KING JAMES VERSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by our lady, here is master speech! Last Line: "and pluck a heedless world anew from hell!" Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dramatists; God; James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists SHARING EVE'S APPLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blush not so! O blush not so Last Line: O cut the sweet apple and share it! Variant Title(s): Eve's Sweet Pipin Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Religion; Eve; Theology SHE WALKS, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She lies in silence Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SHED, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Source First Line: Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SHELTERED GARDEN, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have had enough Last Line: Wind-tortured place. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; Nature SHIP OF FOOLS, SELS., by ALEXANDER BARCLAY Poet Analysis Subject(s): Fools; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SHRINE IN NAZARETH, by MARY SAINT VIRGINIA Poem Source First Line: Out of the garden in the gathering gloom Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SHRINE OF THE BLACK MADONNA AT CZESTOCHOWA, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: A multitude, such as jesus must have spoken to, swells the Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women - Bible SHULAMITE, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, from the sweetness of your mouth Last Line: And my soul kindles in the evening hues %of jerusalem Subject(s): Bible SHULAMITE, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, from your sweet mouth I have come Last Line: And my soul burns away in the evening colors of jerusalem Subject(s): Bible SIDEKICKS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God freed eve Last Line: Prime partners &for the new enterprise Subject(s): Women - Bible SIGIL: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you take the moon in your hands Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Moon In Your Hands Subject(s): Bible; Moon SIGIL: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you take the moon in your hands Last Line: Mullein-leaf, dog-wood leaf, moth-wing %and dandelion-seed under the ground Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Moon In Your Hand Subject(s): Bible; Moon SIGIL: 12, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are these ashes in my hand Last Line: A moon-flower %from a flower-husk, %or fire-flies %from a thicket? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SIGIL: 14, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the cycle sweep us here and there Last Line: Will lift up wild, wild throat, %and that song heard, %will stifle out this note %and this song note Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SIGIL: 15, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So if you love me Last Line: Or shall we rise, %wing-tip to purple wing, %create new earth, %new skies? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SIGIL: 16, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it won't be that way Last Line: How the walls stretched out %to desert and sand, %the symplegedes %and the sea Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SIGIL: 17, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time breaks the barrier Last Line: O ultimate breath, %o master-lyrist, %beat my wild heart to death Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SIGIL: 18, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are we unfathomable night Last Line: How do you know %who is my lord %and lover? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SIGIL: 19, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you,' Last Line: Endure the other, %after the first fine flavour %of irony %had worn off Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SILENT MOVES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep SIMAETHA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drenched with purple Last Line: Rending the sleet?) Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: She hated to give him up Last Line: For the sun to slip through Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Temples; Women - Bible SIMEON MEDITATING, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: So long, o lord, I've waited for this day Last Line: I'm waiting, lord, to hear thy last clear call! Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology SIMON SURNAMED PETER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time that has lifted you over them all Last Line: Gnarled branch of the vine! Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Disciples, Twelve SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He never spoke a word to me Last Line: With bruise of lash or stone. Variant Title(s): Shadowed Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Simon Of Cyrene; Theology SIN (12), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, with what glorie wast thou served of old Last Line: The note is sad, yet musick for a king. Variant Title(s): Sion Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 90, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen the wind? Last Line: The wind is passing by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Who Has Seen The Wind;the Wind Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Wind; Theology SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sir joshua reynolds died Last Line: And all his pictures faded Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES BIBLE AS LIT CLASS: LIFE OF NOAH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along the ganges and indus Last Line: Age the flood there was no ark for Subject(s): Noah (bible) SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES BIBLE STUDY CLASS: NOAH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Months and months adrift Last Line: And that endurance always comes in pairs Subject(s): Noah (bible) SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO THE EDITOR OF COLUMBUS DISPATCH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since 1830, the pope's signed off on Last Line: The day the earth stood still Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Miracles; Women - Bible SITTING BY A BUSH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I spread out my hand here today Last Line: The other persists as our faith Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SITTING BY A BUSH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I spread out my hand here today Last Line: The other persists as our faith Subject(s): Bible; Religion SKEPTICAL NOAH, by ALBERTO BLANCO Poem Source First Line: The voices, I hear the voices singing Last Line: Begins the desert and oblivion Subject(s): Noah (bible) SKY WRITING, by MARY FINETTE BARBER Poem Text First Line: She heard in town of the way he took Last Line: That glints in the sun like an aeroplane. Subject(s): Bible SMALL FIG TREE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am dead, to be sure Last Line: I will the devil kiss Subject(s): Bible; Curses; Religion SOCRATIC, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They cut it in squares Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SOFT SNOW, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked abroad on a snowy day Last Line: And the winter called it a dreadful crime. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Snow; Winter SOJOURN IN THE WHALE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to open locked doors with a sword, threading Last Line: The path—rise automatically. Subject(s): Jonah (bible) SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery SOLOMON'S PARENTS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do I turn to poison? Am I corrupt? Last Line: How they grew. Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women In The Bible SON AND MOTHER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know what you are fighting against, fatuous mother Last Line: Go -- and wait. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Mothers; Passion; Sons SON OF MARY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She the mother was of one Last Line: Yea: her love's beloved -- john. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love and harmony combine Last Line: And doth among our branches play. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My silks and fine array Last Line: True love doth pass away! Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the jocund dance Last Line: But thou art all to me. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year Last Line: Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet I roamed from field to field Last Line: And mocks my loss of liberty. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My silks and fine array Last Line: True love doth pass away! Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When early morn walks forth in sober grey Last Line: And then I'd die in peace, and be forgot. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the jocund dance Last Line: But thou art all to me. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year Last Line: Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet I roamed from field to field Last Line: And mocks my loss of liberty. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou the golden fruit dost bear Last Line: There is love: I hear his tongue Subject(s): Bible; Mythology SONG, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are as gold Last Line: Casts light for a shadow. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SONG AT THE RED SEA, by GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Sing to jehovah, who gloriously triumphs Last Line: He reigns in his glory, through infinite days! Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Red Sea; Judaism SONG BY AN OLD SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When silver snow decks sylvio's clothes Last Line: That makes our limbs quake, if our hearts be warm. Variant Title(s): Song 3d By An Old Shepherd Subject(s): Bible; Mythology SONG FIRST BY A SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, stranger, to this place Last Line: The jewel health adorns her neck. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology SONG FOR A LISTENER, SELS., by LEONARD FEENEY Poem Source First Line: Because of her who flowered so fair Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG FOR SIMEON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, the roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and Last Line: Let thy servant depart, %having seen thy salvation Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONG FOR THE CLATTER-BONES, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Full Text First Line: God rest that jewy woman Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology SONG FOR THE CLATTER-BONES, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: God rest that jewy woman Last Line: There's music in the old bones yet Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Bible; Poetry And Poets; Religion SONG OF DEBORAH (JUDGES 5:1-31), by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Then sang deborah and barak the son of abinoam on that day saying Last Line: But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth%in his might Subject(s): Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible SONG OF DEGREES, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the road lead nowhere Last Line: In zion everywhere Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Israel SONG OF MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere it being yesterday Last Line: I watching my mother. %I smiling an ordinary smile Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG OF MARY THE MOTHER OF CHRIST, by HENRY WALPOLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would I write, my mind ashamed is Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warriors and chiefs! Should the shaft or the sword Last Line: Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Judaism; Theology SONG OF SOLOMON: CANTICLE OF CANTICLES, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I am the flower of the field Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG OF SONGS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: O my beloved, there is none like you, Last Line: You the pleasant fruit of all my fascination %your banner over me is all I need Subject(s): Women - Bible SONG SUNG AT THE FEAST OF LOS AND ENITHARMON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain called out to the mountain: 'awake o brother mountain! Subject(s): Bible; Mythology SONG TO OUR LADY (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of one that is so fair and bright Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG TO OUR LADY (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the star of the sea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by PERO LOPEZ DE AYALA Poem Source First Line: Lady, as I know thy power Last Line: My pilgrim steps shall see Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONGS FROM CYPRUS, SELS., by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SONGS FROM CYPRUS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather for festival Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SONGS FROM CYPRUS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the nightingale Last Line: Only night heals again Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SONGS FROM CYPRUS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring myrrh and myrtle bud Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible SONGS OF EXPERIENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the voice of the bard! / who present, past, & future sees Last Line: "is giv'n thee till the break of day." Variant Title(s): The Poet's Voice;the Voice Of The Bard;the Bard;the Ancient Trees;introduction Subject(s): Bards; Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piping down the valleys wild Last Line: Every child may joy to hear. Variant Title(s): Child And The Piper;the Happy Piper;pipe A Song;reeds Of Innocence;a Song Of Singing;the Piper Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Innocence; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Pipers; Vision; Fancy SONGS TO HOLY MARY, by HILDEGARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O splendid jewel, serenely infused with the sun! Last Line: And his inner power appear like a face from his heart Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion SONNET, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art indeed just, lord, if I contend Last Line: Mine, o thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Variant Title(s): "justus Quidem Tu Es, Domine;""thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend""; Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; God; Religion; Theology SONNET FOR THE MADONNA OF THE CHERRIES, by ARCHIBALD PERCIVAL WAVELL Poem Source First Line: Dear lady of the cherries, cool, serene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONNET ON THE FEMALE CHARACTERS OF SCRIPTURE: INVOCATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the tired voyager on stormy seas Last Line: When god's own whisper shook the cedars of your clime! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women In The Bible SONNET ON THE FEMALE CHARACTERS OF SCRIPTURE: INVOCATION CONTINUED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And come, ye faithful! Round messiah seen Last Line: Sink to the gentleness of infant sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women In The Bible SONNET. I. CORINTHIANS, XV, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fool! To judge that he, who from the earth Last Line: Well might the great apostle say, 'thou fool!' Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God SONNET: 12, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an ugly beast come from the sea Last Line: The beast, in setting of her image up Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONNET: 13, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a woman sitting on a beast Last Line: Now for a truth great babylon is fallen. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Prostitution; Religion; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Theology SONNET: 14, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then might I see upon a white horse set Last Line: Is pitiless thrown down in pit of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SONNET: 14. ON THE RELIGIOUS MEMORY OF CATHERINE THOMASON, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When faith and love, which parted from thee never Last Line: And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. Variant Title(s): On The Religious Memory Of Mrs Catherine Thomason, My Friend;sonnet 14 Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Thomason, Catherine (d. 1646); Theology SONNET: 15, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw new earth, new heaven, said saint john Last Line: There grows life's fruit unto the churches good. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider how my light is spent Last Line: "they also serve who only stand and wait." Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 16;sonnet On His Blindness;sonnet: 17 Subject(s): Bible; Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Time; Visually Handicapped; Theology SONNET: 4, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the garden: colours come and go Last Line: Some silver-fingered fountain steals the world Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONNET: 68. TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this your mother sweated in the cold Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology SONNET: 68. TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this your mother sweated in the cold Last Line: The stone the angel rolled away with tears %is back upon your mouth these thousand years Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion SONNET: 9. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, that in the prime of earliest youth Last Line: Hast gained thy entrance, virgin wise and pure. Variant Title(s): "lady, That In The Prime Of Earliest Youth"";sonnet 9; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SONNETS FROM CHINA: 2, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wondered why the fruit had been forbidden Last Line: And the way back by angels was defended %against the poet and the legislator Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): In Time Of War: Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONNETS ON PICTURES: MARY MAGDALEN AT THE DOOR OF SIMON THE PHARISEE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair? Last Line: He needs me, calls me, loves me: let me go!' Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Mary Magdalen; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Mary Magdalene SONS OF ADAM, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Text First Line: Adam, wrestler with storms Last Line: But the sons of adam crawl. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Sons SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL; MIRIAM'S SONG, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the loud timbrel o'er egypt's dark sea Last Line: Jehovah has triumph'd, his people are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Religion; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Theology SOWN IN DISHONOR?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A circumstance or two! Subject(s): Bible; Paul, Saint (first Century) SPOIL, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Fair spoil I thought him as I reached the well Last Line: "peace! . . . And two hours ago I thought him spoil!" Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology SPOKEN .. TO A COUNTRY CLERK .. HAVING HEARD HIM SING PSALMS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sternhold and hopkins had great qualms Last Line: By god! 'twould have made him mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Bible; Hopkins, John (d. 1570); Sternhold, Thomas (d. 1549) SPONSA DEI, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamb of god! Yea, mary, and thy lamb! Last Line: For a sick child, his own and mary's son? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary SPOTLESS MAID, by VINCENT MCNABB Poem Source First Line: Ladye marye! Today Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SPRING IN NAZARETH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is come!' a shepherd Last Line: Green, green, the barley and the corn! Subject(s): Christianity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Spring; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary SPRING SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green of jesus Subject(s): Christianity; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Roman Catholics; Catholicism SPRING SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green of jesus Last Line: In the body of jesus and %the future is possible Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ SPRING, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the flute! Last Line: Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year. Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Spring ST. LUKE PAINTING THE VIRGIN, by VICKI HEARNE Poem Source First Line: St. Luke's eyes are steady on the babe Last Line: Between the light and the world Subject(s): Luke, Saint (1st Century); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Van Der Weyden, Roger; Women - Bible ST. MARY MAGDALEN, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, beauteous saint! More white than day Last Line: Who saint themselves, they are no saints. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Saints; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ST. MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD WATSON DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kneeling before the altar step Last Line: Of utter woe Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible ST. PAUL, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When I was saul, and sat among the cloaks Last Line: Waits for your word to take his keys and come Subject(s): Bible; Religion STABAT MATER, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the cross of expiation Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STABAT MATER, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sorrowing mother was Last Line: The bird of paradise %from you to me Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STABAT MATER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O thou mournful mother, standing by the cross with / eyes uplift Last Line: How a mother's pain may be a soul's sublime beatitude. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Pain; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery STABAT MATER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jews were wrought to cruel madness Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STABAT MATER, by JOSEF WITTLIN Poem Source First Line: The grieving mother stood in the square Last Line: Stabat mater, poland our mother, %with her crown of thorns, by the gallows-tree Subject(s): Freedom; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STABAT MATER (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the shadow of the rood Last Line: With thy glory crowned. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary STABAT MATER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The star that in his splendor hid her own Last Line: On tearful calvary. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Calvary; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the afflicted mother weeping Last Line: Glories bright of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the afflicted mother weeping Last Line: Glories bright of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the cross her station keeping Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Helye! Goddes moder dolorous Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible STABAT MATER SPECIOSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the lovely mother smiling Last Line: To the vision of his face! Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary STANZAS IMITATED FROM PSALM 99, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, how shall thoughtless, easy-natur'd youth Last Line: Thy name to honour, and thy law to love. Subject(s): Bible; Forgiveness; God; Prayer; Sin; Clemency STANZAS ON THE PSALMS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not the songs that nobly tell Last Line: As jove by great jehovah is excell'd. Subject(s): Bible; Prayer; Religion; Theology STAR OF THE SEA, by RICHARD WEBB SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: Hail, star of the sea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STARLIGHT LIKE INTUITION PIERCED THE TWELVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The starlight's intuitions pierced the twelve Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology STARLIGHT LIKE INTUITION PIERCED THE TWELVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The starlight's intuitions pierced the twelve Last Line: And we shall never be as once we were, %this life will never be what once it was! Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion STEADFAST LOVE OF RIZPAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Rizpah, whose name means glowing coal Last Line: With those of saul and jonathan %indomitable rizpah has done all she can Subject(s): Women - Bible STEED BIT HIS MASTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Cry, 'all flesh is grass.' Subject(s): Bible; Religion STEPHEN TO LAZARUS, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS Poem Source First Line: But was I the first martyr, who Last Line: Died once) must all be died again? Subject(s): Bible; Religion STICK OF INCENSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence did all that fury come? Last Line: But liked the way his fingers smelt Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Religion STILL, CITIZEN SPARROW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call Subject(s): Birds; Noah (bible) STILL, CITIZEN SPARROW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call Last Line: Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide %to ararat; all men are noah's sons Subject(s): Birds; Noah (bible) STORM, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You crash over the trees Last Line: A green stone. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Storms STORY OF JOSHUA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reach the promised land Last Line: To destroy jericho Subject(s): Bible; Religion STUDIES OF THE VIRGIN: ICONS IN SERIES: OUR LADY OF THE FIRE SCREEN, by BECKY GOULD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Haughty madonna in oil and egg tempera Last Line: Perhaps a servant will soon take the child Subject(s): Bible; Religion SUCCESSFUL SUMMER, by DAVID SCHUBERT Poem Source First Line: The still small voice unto Last Line: July's contour of green Subject(s): Bible; Religion SUDDEN THOUGHT, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: While negotiating Last Line: She knew %all along? Subject(s): Women - Bible SURFEIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I am betrayed by multiplicity Last Line: Had for horizon his own straining knees. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Self; Eve; Theology SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is foolish for rubens to show her Subject(s): Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS, by JACK GILBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is foolish for rubens to show her Last Line: Far off, the small coin of color. %and, sometimes, leaves Subject(s): Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible SYCAMORE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zaccheus he Last Line: Our lord to see Subject(s): Bible; Plane Trees; Zacchaeus; Sycamores; Zaccheus SYCAMORE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zaccheus he Last Line: Our lord to see Subject(s): Bible; Plane Trees; Zacchaeus SYCAMORE, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Always it's the tree zacchaeus climbed Last Line: Always the flesh free-falling, %always the house sufficient to take it in Subject(s): Bible; Plane Trees; Zacchaeus SYMPHONY IN BLUE, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: The gentian sleeps in waters Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TALE OF THREE WOMEN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Sisera's mother Last Line: All be as the sun %in his glorious rising Subject(s): Women - Bible TAORMINI, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, hast thou track'd a traveller's round Last Line: For fourteen trial-years. Subject(s): Jacob (bible) TEARS OF MARY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, but he is so helpless and so sweet ...' Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TECHNIQUES OF THE MASTERS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In this painting with their flushed cheeks Last Line: They typeset, bound and shut Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Gabriel; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible TELLING THE GOSPEL TRUTH, by BETH ANN FENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who placed this here, bible Last Line: Whither. %whither Subject(s): Bible; Catholic Church - Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Women - Bible; Women And Religion; Writing And Writers TEMPORALL SUCCESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Foule beauteous witch, whose painted face Last Line: Nor will his saints think much till then to stay. Subject(s): Bible; Job (bible); Temptation TESTAMENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning %was the word Last Line: Alone %in a room Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; God THE AFTER WOMAN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of the ancient eve Last Line: This song is sung and sung not, and its words are sealed. Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary 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, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream! What can it mean Last Line: And grey hairs were on my head. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE ANIMALS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do not live in the world Subject(s): Bible; Memory; Religion; Theology THE ANNUNCIATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lowliest of women, and most glorified! Last Line: And own thyself the handmaid of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE ANNUNCIATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel and the girl are met Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Religion; Theology THE ANNUNCIATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pure, and frail, and white Last Line: Here at her feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE ANNUNCIATION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Naught in heaven, divinity beneath Last Line: In hers portrayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE ANNUNCIATION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiat' - the flaming word Last Line: Of life and light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE APPLE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, smiling, plucked the apple, then Last Line: As to let adam taste of it! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit THE ARK, by NOAH CALWELL CANNON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brothers & sisters, we love one another Last Line: Shouting the great messiah's praises. Amen. Subject(s): God; Worship; Bible THE ARK AND THE DOVE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me a story- please,' my little girl Last Line: May gently guide it to the ark of peace. Subject(s): Arks; Noah (bible); Peace THE ASS SPEAKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the little ass of christ Last Line: The whip, for jesus christ his sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Christmas; Duty; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary; Theology THE ASSUMPTION, by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is she that ascends so high Last Line: Flames with flames t'unite. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE ASSUMPTION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! The mother bird Last Line: "thy fledgling calls thee home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE ASSUMPTION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor bethlehem nor nazareth Last Line: Were not his mother there. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE ASTROLOGER PREDICTS AT MARY'S BIRTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one lie down on grass Last Line: It will break here eye Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE BABE TO THE GIFT-BEARER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot hold within my hands Last Line: Till I am older grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE BALLAD OF JOKING JESUS, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: - I'm the queerest young fellow that you ever heard Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE BATTLE CRY OF THE SOUTH, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers! The thunder-cloud is black Last Line: And the god of the maccabees! Subject(s): Bible; Soldiers; Southern States; War; South (u.s.) THE BIBLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this book-this holy book, on every line" Last Line: "and earnest sighs, to read, believe and live" Subject(s): Bible;books;jews;religion; Reading;judaism;theology THE BIBLE, by RICHARD BARTON Poem Text First Line: Lamp of my feet, whereby we trace Last Line: Our anchor and our stay! Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLE, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is my christian brother linked with me Subject(s): Christianity; Bible THE BIBLE, by DAVID LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to an ancient temple Last Line: Lift purified to heaven! Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLE, by PHOEBE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Blessed bible! How I love it! Last Line: Sweeter still thy truths shall be! Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That! That! There I was told Last Line: And shall be sated with celestial mirth. Subject(s): Bible THE BIBLE I REMEMBER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know it all is waiting Last Line: Shall be the whole dear book! Subject(s): Bible THE BIBLE IS AN ANTIQUE VOLUME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It did not condemn Subject(s): Bible THE BIRD OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy, holy, holy Last Line: All the birds together. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Rewards; Salvation; Self-immolation; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where thou dwellest, in what grove Last Line: Among green leaves & blossoms sweet Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Mythology THE BIRTH, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a legend that the love of god Last Line: A rain of spirit and a dew of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Miracles; Stars; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O scene of enchantment! O vision of bliss! Last Line: As in accents sepulchral it groaned -- I am death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birth; Death; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The THE BLESSED VIRGIN, COMPARED TO THE AIR WE BREATHE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild air, world-mothering air Last Line: Fold home, fast fold thy child. Variant Title(s): Mary Mother Of Divine Grace, Compared Subject(s): Air; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE BLOSSOM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merry merry sparrow! Last Line: Near my bosom. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Flowers; Mythology THE BOOK OF AHANIA, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fuzon, on a chariot iron wing'd Last Line: Before they see the light. Subject(s): Bible; Lament; Mythology THE BOOK OF BOOKS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within this ample volume lies Last Line: That read to doubt or read to scorn. Variant Title(s): The Bible Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE BOOK OF BOOKS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We search the world for truth Last Line: Is in the book our mothers read. Variant Title(s): Knowledge;the Bible;the Book Our Mothers Read Subject(s): Bible; Knowledge; Mothers THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, PART 3, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isaiah walked for three years in the valley of vision Last Line: Thus their contract continued Subject(s): Bible THE BOOK OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eno, aged mother Last Line: In darkness and deep clouds involvd. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE BOOK OF THEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daughters of the seraphim led round their sunny flocks Last Line: Or love in a golden bowl? Variant Title(s): The Lament Of Thel Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology THE BOOK OF WISDOM, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I go on loving anyone at fifty Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of this fair volume which we world do name Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): The Book Of Nature;the Lessons Of Nature;the World Subject(s): Bible; Books; Earth; Religion; Reading; World; Theology THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America THE BUNCH OF GRAPES, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man Last Line: Ev'n god himself being pressed for my sake. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE CALL TO EVENING PRAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Allah ho akbar! Allah ho akbar! Last Line: Naray'yana! Naray'yana! Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Virgin Mary; Theology THE CANDLE INDOORS, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by Last Line: And, cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt? Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE CANTERBURY TALES: PROLOGUE OF THE PRIORESS'S TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, oure lord, thy name how merveillous Last Line: "gydeth my song that I shal of yow seye." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE CANTERBURY TALES: PROLOGUE TO SECOND NUN'S TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ministre and the norice unto vices Last Line: Now have I yow declared what she highte. Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE CHERRY TREE CAROL (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Joseph was an old man Last Line: To see the uprising / of the heavenly king Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary; THE CHEWING THE CUD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When well we speak, & nothing do that's good Last Line: We then both chew the cud, and cleave the hoof. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE CHIEF WITNESS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her that hath hid a babe beneath her breast Last Line: "through me the race aspires from man to man!" Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sons; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE CHILD JESUS TO MARY THE ROSE, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father above, beholding the meekness Last Line: When they me pray for help in thy presence. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE CHILD READING THE BIBLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him at his sport erewhile Last Line: Child-like, and therefore full of might! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bible; Children; Childhood THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little black thing among the snow Last Line: "who make up a heaven of our misery." Subject(s): Bible; Child Labor; Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Mythology THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother died I was very young Last Line: So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. Subject(s): Bible; Child Labor; Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Mythology THE CHRIST CHILD, by GRACE E. WILSON Poem Text First Line: A star shone in the east Last Line: With mary kneeling at his feet. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Stars; Wishes; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Shine gently down, o radiant star Last Line: In every little baby's birth. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE CLIFF-TEMPLE: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great, bright portal Last Line: Beneath its great feet. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE CLIFF-TEMPLE: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said: / for ever and ever, must I follow you Last Line: Taunt him with his evil and his vice. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE CLIFF-TEMPLE: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I hurl myself from here Last Line: How far I had to walk? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE CLIFF-TEMPLE: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over me the wind swirls Last Line: Still further on another cliff. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love seeketh not itself to please Last Line: "and builds a hell in heaven's despite." Variant Title(s): True And False Love Subject(s): Bible; Humility; Love; Mythology THE COMING OF THE LORD, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come suddenly, o lord, or slowly come Last Line: Thou wilt to us thy word of promise keep. Variant Title(s): Take Ye Heed, Watch And Pray Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September was when it began. Last Line: And heard the sound of rushing wind Subject(s): Locusts; Bible; Religion; Theology THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: September was when it began Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE CONTEST, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your stature is modelled Last Line: For their breadth. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE CONTINUOUS IS BROKEN, AND RESUMES, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam made the world Last Line: Anyone is out there, listening. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Earth; Sin; World THE CRIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Speak, everlasting word, oh speak Last Line: Yf thou but soundst with thy sweet word. Subject(s): Bible; Prayer THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then pilate, the roman governor, took jesus and scourged him Last Line: Therefore, believe in the saviour, and heaven you shall enter in! Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Death; Heaven; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology THE CRY OF JOB, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou lovest the heart that's pure Last Line: Come with thy judgment day to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bible; God; Job (bible); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE CRY OF RACHEL, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the dark; I beat on the floor Last Line: Let me in, death. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism THE CRYSTAL CABINET, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden caught me in the wild Last Line: I fill'd with woes the passing wind. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vain, sinful art! Who first did fit Last Line: She tempts to incest, thou to blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: With a whirl of thought oppressed Last Line: I damn such fools! -- go, go, you're bit.' Variant Title(s): On The Day Of Judgement Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology 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 DEATH OF MOSES, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: See moses nebo's slopes ascend Last Line: From doors against thee barred! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Moses; Dead, The THE DEATH OF SAUL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleeping armies of the living god Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DEBTOR CHRIST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, woman is my debt to thee Last Line: "I gave thee power to die." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE DEFILED SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a chapel all of gold Last Line: And laid me down among the swine. Variant Title(s): "i Saw A Chapel All Of Gold"";i Saw A Chapel; Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave Last Line: For jacob's weary tribes are free! Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Mourning; Judaism; Bereavement THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, Last Line: Hath melted like snow in the glance of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sennacherib Subject(s): Assyria; Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; War; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology 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 DISCIPLES: OVERTURE, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I write of the disciples, because he Last Line: Grace to endure yet faithful to the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Disciples, Twelve THE DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To mercy pity peace and love Last Line: There god is dwelling too. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE DONKEY, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fishes flew and forests walked Last Line: And palms before my feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Bible; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Mules; Theology THE DREAM SONGS: 234. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child stood in the shed. The child went mad Last Line: The great man sought his retire Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DREAM SONGS: 47. APRIL FOOL'S DAY, OR, ST MARY OF EGYPT, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thass a funny title, mr bones Last Line: Whom god has not visited Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vital spark of heavenly flame! / quit, o quit this mortal frame! Last Line: O death! Where is thy sting? Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Variant Title(s): Ode: The Dying Christian To His Soul Subject(s): Bible; Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology THE ECHOING GREEN, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun does arise, / and make happy the skies Last Line: On the darkening green. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Night; Play; Childhood; Bedtime THE EIGHTH PSALM PARAPHRASED, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, our governor, whose potent sway Last Line: How great is thy adored name. Subject(s): Bible THE END, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the blast of lightning from the east Last Line: "nor my titanic tears the seas be dried." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE ENGLISH FARM-LABORER'S SUNDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are sweet that sweep to-day Last Line: Each day in all the seven. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Churches; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Sunday THE ENTHUSIAST, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall hearts that beat no base retreat Last Line: From fealty to light. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL: PREFACE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will tell you what joseph of arimathea Last Line: What I called humility they called pride Subject(s): Bible; Humility; Mythology THE EXPECTATION, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the apple-trees with their red load Last Line: The earth will bear her longed-for perfect fruit. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pregnancy; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE EYE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not true that eyes Last Line: Hill pastures and reluming the green-caved wood. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eyes; Light; Eve THE FAIRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither my sparrows Last Line: Of the marriage ring Variant Title(s): The Marriage Ring Subject(s): Bible; Fairies; Marriage; Mythology; Elves; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FALL, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How blest was the created state Last Line: You love me for the frailer part. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Bible; Love; Religion; Theology THE FAMILY BIBLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What household thoughts around thee as their shrine Last Line: Heart blessings on the holy dead and thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): To A Family Bible Subject(s): Bible; Mothers THE FESTUBERT SHRINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sycamore on either side Last Line: We are no less poor than they. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; World War I; Virgin Mary; First World War THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the primeval priest's assum'd power Last Line: 9. And the salt ocean rolled englob'd Variant Title(s): The Book Of Urizen Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Judgment Day; Mythology; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FIRST CHRISTMAS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O mary, drooping by the door Last Line: Before thy son, the king. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE FIRST SONG OF MOSES, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the praises of the lord be sung Last Line: The seed of israel safe and dry-shod came. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism THE FIVE JOYS OF THE VIRGIN MARY, by RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a man a song doth find / for her who gladdens all mankind Last Line: E'en in our utmost need. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE FLIGHT IN THE DESERT, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last settlement scraggled out with a barbwire fence Last Line: Knuckles the generous beast, and feeds Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE FLY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little fly, / thy summer's play Last Line: Or if I die. Subject(s): Bible; Flies; Mythology THE FOLLIES OF ADAM, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read me euripides Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE FOUR GOSPELS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Matthew, the gospel of the publican! Last Line: Ah, john, the gospel of the soul of christ! Subject(s): Bible, N.t. Gospels THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIFTH AND SIXTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infected mad he danced on his mountains high & dark as heaven Last Line: In their progressions & preparing urizens path before him Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: Vala Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And los & enitharmon builded jerusalem weeping Last Line: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then urizen arose the spectre fled & tharmas fled Last Line: Babylon again in infancy calld natural religion Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now sat the king of light on high upon his starry throne Last Line: Into unusual forms dancing & howling stamping the abyss Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: THE SONG OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing you a song of los, the eternal prophet Last Line: Urizen wept. Subject(s): Africa; Asia; Bible; Mythology; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead brood over europe: the cloud and vision descends over cheerful france Last Line: Morning's beam. Subject(s): Bible; French Revolution (1789); Mythology THE FULFILMENT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these that go with our girl white as snow Last Line: Sets all the roses swinging in heaven's bower. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE GARDEN OF GOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a vineyard where grape-laden boughs Last Line: The bible, the garden of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; God; Religion; Theology THE GARDEN OF LOVE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the garden of love Last Line: And binding with briars my joys & desires. Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE GATES OF PARADISE; FOR CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is man! Last Line: 16 I have said to the worm, thou art my mother & my sister Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE GATES OF PARADISE; FOR THE SEXES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutual forgiveness of each vice Last Line: The lost travellers dream under the hill Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Mythology; Paradise THE GENTLEST LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say he was a serious child Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE GHOST OF ABEL; A RELATION IN THE VISIONS OF JEHOVAH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What doest thou here, elijah? Last Line: Mercy seat: each in his station fixt in the firmament by peace brotherhood and love. Subject(s): Abel; Bible; Mythology THE GHYRLOND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARIE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, are five letters in this blessed name Last Line: As if they adored the head, whereon they're fixed. Variant Title(s): The Garland Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE GIFT, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of pearls - a wrought clasp Last Line: No bracelet -- accept this. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Gifts & Giving THE GIFT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wise men of old brought gifts Last Line: To worship / this perfection Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE GOLDEN APPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She saw on the far bank a golden apple Last Line: With gloss of gold on his ruddy hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Evil; Fruit; Good; Temptation THE GOLDEN NET, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three virgins at the break of day Last Line: O when will the morning rise Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 1. THE MOTHER MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, to thee the heart was given Last Line: His life from hers he drew. Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Wine; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 10. PILATE'S WIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why came in dreams the low-born man Last Line: As poor a verity. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Pilate, Pontius; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 11. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot sun, for water cool Last Line: She has the master found! Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Generosity; Jesus Christ; Women; Wine THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 12. MARY MAGDALENE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With wandering eyes and aimless zeal Last Line: Dwell'st with him in god's heart! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 13. THE WOMAN IN THE TEMPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still dark joy! A sudden face! Last Line: Oh, wash them clean again! Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Shame; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 14. MARTHA, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With joyful pride her heart is high Last Line: And with the dead man rise? Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Lazarus; Mary And Martha (bible); Women; Women In The Bible THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 15. MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sitteth at the master's feet Last Line: For he had left the tomb. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Lazarus; Mary And Martha (bible); Women; Women In The Bible THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 16. THE WOMAN THAT WAS A SINNER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face, his words, her heart awoke Last Line: Lord, make no difference! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Sin; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 2. THE WOMAN THAT LIFTED UP HER VOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filled with his words of truth and right Last Line: We hear no more of her. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 3. THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt, she bore a bold request Last Line: God hath prepared it. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Women; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 4. THE SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant, lord, her prayer, and let her go Last Line: In fulness of her will! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 5. THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the city, with the load Last Line: And life is yet our fate! Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 6. THE WOMAN WHOM SATAN HAD BOUND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years eighteen she, patient soul Last Line: And hoping I endure. Subject(s): Bible; Exorcism; Jesus Christ; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 7. THE WOMAN WHO CAME 'BEHIND HIM IN THE CROWD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near him she stole, rank after rank Last Line: He comforteth her soul. Subject(s): Bible; Healing; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Women; Cures THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 8. THE WIDOW WITH THE TWO MITES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here much and little shift and change Last Line: Nor knew her heavenly meed. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Widows & Widowers; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 9. THE WOMEN WHO MINISTERED UNTO HIM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough he labours for his hire Last Line: To him 'tis very much. Subject(s): Bible; Generosity; Jesus Christ; Love; Women THE GRACE OF GOD, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The lord's cross, so runs the old norse tale Last Line: From lips an hungered for its succulence? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Heaven; Religion; Eve; Paradise; Theology THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death. Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE GREY COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream on november night Last Line: Hiding them warm in her blue cloak. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Purgatory; Women - Bible; Nightmares; Virgin Mary THE GREY MONK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I die, I die!' the mother said Last Line: And became a tyrant in his stead Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Fancy THE HA' BIBLE, by ROBERT NICOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I could worship thee! Last Line: A sunbeam sent from god,—an everlasting bow! Subject(s): Bible; Books; God; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE HABIT OF PERFECTION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elected silence, sing to me Last Line: Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun. Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE HEBREW MINSTREL'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from the hills of the west, as the sun's setting / beam" Last Line: On the bosoms that bled for their country and god' Subject(s): Jews;judah (bible); Judaism THE HELMSMAN, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O be swift Last Line: We have always known you wanted us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh book! Infinite sweetness! Let my heart Last Line: Subject to ev'ry mounters bended knee. Variant Title(s): The H. Scriptures (i) Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE HOUND OF HEAVEN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I fled him, down the nights and down the days Last Line: "thou dravest love from thee, who dravest me." Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; God; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 71. THE CHOICE (1), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die Last Line: And round their narrow lips the mould falls close. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 90. 'RETRO ME, SATHANA!', by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get thee behind me. Even as, heavy-curled Last Line: For certain years, for certain months and days. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE HUMAN ABSTRACT, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity would be nor more / if we did not make somebody poor Last Line: There grows one in the human brain. Subject(s): Bible; Cruelty; Hypocrisy; Mythology THE HUNTING OF DIAN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of a midnight lost, lost forevermore Last Line: As far away I heard the cry her dim sea-lover gave. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Diana (goddess); Eden; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE HYMNARY: 389. FESTIVALS OF APOSTLES, by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, through instruments how weak Last Line: In darkness to thy glorious light. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Disciples, Twelve THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dewdrop of the darkness born Last Line: Wherewith was veiled divinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary THE IMMORTAL MARRIAGE, by JAMES DUVAL PHELAN Poem Text First Line: Eve speaks a language none can fail to hear Last Line: But only nature answers as he falls. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible THE IMMORTALITY OF ISRAEL, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun and moon unchanging do obey Last Line: While night and day do alternate in peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): God; Israel; Jacob (bible); Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141); Judaism; Yehuda Ben Shemuel Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan THE INVITATION, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come ye hither all, whose taste Last Line: Where is all, there all should be. Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Religion; Theology THE ISLANDS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the islands to me Last Line: What is greece? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Greeks THE ISLANDS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can love of land give to me Last Line: And delos, the clasp of the white necklace? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can love of land give to me Last Line: And fall back. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What has love of land given to you' Last Line: "and they answered -- ""peace." Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But beauty is set apart Last Line: And from greece. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my garden Last Line: Broken by the wind at last. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening THE ISLANDS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the islands to me Last Line: And its bleak sacrifice? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Greeks THE ITALIAN GIRL'S HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep hour of dreams Last Line: And maiden's heart, blest mother, guide and save! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE JACOB'S LADDER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stairway is not / a thing of gleaming strands Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion; Theology THE JEW, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, from whose loins I sprung Last Line: Then why do they sneer at me? Subject(s): Bible; Freedom; Jews; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Liberty; Judaism; Theology THE JEW IS TRUE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth among this homeless race Last Line: The better christian is the jew. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Israel; Jews; Religion - Reformers; Judaism THE JEW'S APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN, by J. W. BLENCOWE JR. Poem Text First Line: Cease, christian, cease the word of scorn Last Line: On judah's race—on israel's name. Subject(s): Christianity; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Judaism THE JEWISH CAPTIVE'S SONG, by MARION MOSS Poem Text First Line: Gone is thine hour of might Last Line: O'er the scattering of their race. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Judah (bible); Dead, The; Judaism THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it seems! These hebrews in their graves Last Line: And the dead nations never rise again. Subject(s): Bible; Cemeteries; Jews; Newport, Rhode Island; Religion; Social Protest; Graveyards; Judaism; Theology THE KNOT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright queen of heaven! God's virgin spouse Last Line: United keeps for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little lamb, who made thee: / dost thou know who made thee? Last Line: Little lamb god bless thee. Variant Title(s): The Lamb Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Lambs; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE LAME, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dragging the foot to the water's edge Last Line: All the whole and newly healed leave the river lame. Subject(s): Bible; Healing; Human Abnormalities; Cures; Deformities THE LAMENT OF JUDAH, by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain the crimson garment now Last Line: Turn sickening from your revelry! Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath Subject(s): Judah (bible) THE LAMENTATION OF DAVID OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy beauty, israel, is gone Last Line: How warlike instruments decay! Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Jonathan (bible); Judaism THE LAMP [LAMPE], by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis dead night round about: horror doth creep Last Line: And where thou mad'st an end, there I'll begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Immortality; Religion; Theology THE LAND OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, awake, my little boy! Last Line: "above the light of the morning star." Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep THE LATEST DECALOGUE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt have one god only; who Last Line: More than thyself to love thy neighbour. Subject(s): Bible; Calvinists; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Ten Commandments; Theology THE LILY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory of flowers! Pre-eminent o'er all Last Line: The virgin mother of all nations blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE LILY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The modest rose puts forth a thorn Last Line: Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Lilies; Mythology THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our flesh that was a battle-ground Last Line: Are merged in paradise. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me in the southern wild Last Line: And be like him, and he will then love me. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Brotherhood; Freedom; Mothers; Mythology; Racism; Liberty; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE LITTLE BOY FOUND, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little boy lost in the lonely fen Last Line: Her little boy weeping sought. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Father! Where are you going? Last Line: And away the vapour flew. Subject(s): Bible; Loss; Mythology THE LITTLE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars began to peep Last Line: And knows that it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Supernatural; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the night in woe Last Line: Nor the lion's growl. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Lions; Mythology THE LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In futurity / I prophetic see Last Line: To caves the sleeping maid. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Loss; Mythology THE LITTLE VAGABOND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold Last Line: But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bible; Mythology; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE LIVING BOOK, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This bears the seal of immortality Last Line: It follows every one, as if by name. Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Bible THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WANT', by RE HENRY Poem Text First Line: The lord my shepherd is, no want I know Subject(s): Bible THE LOST SPECTACLES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a country curate, visiting his flock" Subject(s): Bible THE MADONNA'S ISLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Embosomed on the deep there lay Last Line: Still kneeling on the shore! Subject(s): Islands; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MAGI, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye Last Line: The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE MANUSCRIPT OF SAINT ALEXIUS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a child into the solemn hall Last Line: But still aglaia could not understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Bible; Catholic Church - Clergy; Manuscripts; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Saints; Catholic Priests THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MARRIAGE OF TIRZAH AND AHIRAD, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the dead of night Last Line: "in that great day of the revenge of god." Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Bible THE MATER PIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Softly the fading moon dies in the sky Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby, god is with thee. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Messiah; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE MATERNITY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One through mother mary, we Last Line: Earth had closer claims of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MAY MAGNIFICAT, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May is mary's month, and I Last Line: In god who was her salvation. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MEANING OF THE WORD 'WRATH', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God so loved the world! - by how tender a phrase Last Line: From the father and son, a life-spirit in man. Subject(s): Bible; God; Love; Religion; Saints; Theology THE MEMORIAL OF MARY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast thy record in the monarch's hall Last Line: One lowly offering of exceeding love. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MENTAL TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I travel'd thro' a land of men Last Line: And all is done as I have told. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Fancy; 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 MILD MADONNA, by BEULAH MAY Poem Text First Line: The mild madonna has her shrine Last Line: To bless them every one. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MOABITESS, by PHILLIPS BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet moab gleaner on old israel's plain Last Line: And god himself smiles on their godlike beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism THE MODERN JUDAS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The type has never perished from the earth Last Line: And dark design of his satanic ways. Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Disciples, Twelve THE MONTH OF MARY; A SONG, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green are the leaves, and sweet the flowers Last Line: And they will ne'er decay. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MOTHER OF GOD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE MOTHER OF JUDAS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O'er her dear babe she leaned with watchful care Last Line: "forgive them for they know not what they do""?" Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Disciples, Twelve THE NAMES OF OUR LADY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wide world thy children raise Last Line: The first we breathe in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Mary And Martha (bible); Names; Prayer; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Theology THE NATIVITY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the birth was born tonight Last Line: Can man forget this story? Variant Title(s): A Hymn On The Nativity Of My Saviour;a Hymn For The The Nativity Of My Savior Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE NATIVITY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down kedron's vale the wind blows chill Last Line: To find the manger-cradled king. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE NEW APOCRYPHA: BUSINESS REVERSES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything! Counter and scales Last Line: In the land of galilee. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE NEW JERUSALEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hierusalem, my happy home" Last Line: "would god my woes were at an end, / thy joys that I might see!" Variant Title(s): The Heavenly City Subject(s): Death;jerusalem;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "dead, The;virgin Mary; THE NEW MAGDALEN, by RICHARD L. CARY JR. Poem Text First Line: The yellow death came stealing Last Line: The true new magdalen? Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene THE NEW TEMPLE, by LOUIS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: A new shrine stands in beauty reared Last Line: With concord and with peace. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Praise; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE NIGHT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the pure virgin-shrine Last Line: Might live invisible and dim! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Jesus Christ; Night; Religion; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Theology THE OLD BOOK, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O book of books, and friend of friends alone Last Line: Thy radiant light is ever shining there Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE OLD GENTRY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: That all from adam first began Last Line: Himself can fix or change his fate. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fate; Labor & Laborers; Destiny; Work; Workers THE OLD-FASHIONED BIBLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my heart are the Last Line: The leathern-bound bible my grandfather read. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bible; Fathers; Memory; Past THE ORIGIN OF EVIL; AN ELEGY, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ranting topers, midnight rovers Last Line: Milton. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible THE ORIGIN OF TEARS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When eve, the twilight heavens to view Last Line: Bestowed his blessing ere he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Tears THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: So abram rose, and clave the wood, and went Last Line: And half the seed of europe, one by one. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War THE PASSION OF MARY; VERSES IN PASSION-TIDE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady mary, thy bright crown Last Line: O light in light, shine down from heaven! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE PASSIONATE MAN'S PILGRIMAGE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Give me my scallop shell of quiet Last Line: To tread those blest paths which before I writ Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): His Pilgrimage;faith;the Pilgrim;the Pilgrimage;the Soul's Pilgrimage Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Religion; Theology THE PEARL, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the ways of learning; both the head Last Line: To climb to thee. Variant Title(s): The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE PENITENT, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come to thee blind, despairing Last Line: These my tears on thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Mary Magdalen; Repentance; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Penitence THE PENITENT ANOINTING CHRIST'S FEET, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a mournfulness in angel eyes Last Line: For thee, the child won back, the penitent forgiven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forgiveness; Women In The Bible; Clemency THE PHOENIX TO MRS. BUTTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird rise from the east Last Line: Then it flies on glancing wing Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE PILLAR OF THE CLOUD, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom Last Line: Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile. Variant Title(s): Faith - Heavenly Leadings;guidance Subject(s): Bible; Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE PLACE OF REST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the deep the deep heart goes Last Line: The mother takes her child again. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE PLACE OF THE DAMNED, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All folks who pretend to religion and grace Last Line: How happy for us, that it is not at home! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE PLEDGE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: These are the words of your judiths Last Line: New legions, their own unborn sons. Subject(s): Jews; Judith (bible); Miriam (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism THE POETRY OF THE PSALMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobly thy song, o minstrel! Rushed to meet Last Line: With the deep worship of a living soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bible THE POOL, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you alive? Last Line: What are you -- banded one? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE PRICE, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man lived fifty years - joy dashed with tears Last Line: God paid — and thought it cheap. Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; David (bible); Dead, The; Songs THE PRIDE OF NIMROD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art king of all the nations Last Line: And he sunk to endless woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Nimrod (bible) THE PRODIGAL SON, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prodigal son is kneeling in the husks Last Line: Under the water there's a door the pigs have gone through Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Old Age; Theology THE PROPHET, by LYMAN BRYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jeremiah, will you come? Last Line: Are you coming? Are you coming? O prophet of the word! Subject(s): God; Jeremiah (bible); Prophecy & Prophets; Redemption; Waiting THE PSALMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With ecstacy the heart responds Last Line: Majestic and sublime. Subject(s): Bible; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE PULLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god at first made man Last Line: May toss him to my breast. Variant Title(s): The Gifts Of God;rest Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Melancholy; Redemption; Religion; Human Race; Dejection; Theology THE PURIFICATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, woman is thine offering Last Line: "and I, the mother-dove." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purity born of a maid Last Line: Her god and redeemer and child. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virtue; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE QUEEN OF THE YEAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When suns are low, and nights are long Last Line: With the christ-child in her arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE QUESTION ANSWER'D, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it men in women do require? Last Line: The lineaments of gratified desire. Variant Title(s): A Question Answered Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love - Marital; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE RABBI'S SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thought ever reach to heaven Last Line: Be not expelled from him. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE RABBINICAL ORIGIN OF WOMEN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell us that woman was made of a rib Last Line: Why—he leaves her behind him as much as he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Bible; Women THE RAINBOW: OR CURIOUS COVENANT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eyes, like clouds, were drizling raine Last Line: No more wo'd drown mine eyes, or me. Subject(s): Bible; Rainbows; Religion; Theology THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE REPLY OF THE SHUNAMITE WOMAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell among mine own.' - oh! Happy thou! Last Line: Weaving from each some link for home's dear charities. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women In The Bible THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER, ON 'THE HIGHER CRITICISM', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since reverend doctors now declare Last Line: And read that moderate man voltaire. Subject(s): Bible; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology THE RICH YOUNG RULER QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: The night grew late, nor yet matthias paused Last Line: "sometimes I wonder did he think me fool!" Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Disciples, Twelve THE ROYAL CROWN, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I stand before thee, lord, and I am Last Line: Before thy might in awe I stand, bowed low unto the ground! Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; God; Jews; Sin; Eve; Judaism THE RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE SCHOOL BOY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to rise in a summer morn Last Line: When the blasts of winter appear? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Schools; Students THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the word I rest Last Line: "the scripture cannot be broken!" Subject(s): Bible THE SEARCH, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now clear day: I see a rose Last Line: Travels in clouds, seeks manna, where none is. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SECRET (F.P.D.), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem the stable was small and mean and old Last Line: Then held him close against her breast, for little jesus smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SEED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing a life unseen Last Line: Love-lost -- and saved! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Servant of god! Thy soul's pure spring of life Last Line: No more thy captives, taken at thy will. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Bible; God; Good; Humanity THE SHEPHERD, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot Last Line: For they know when their shepherd is nigh. Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Mythology; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERDS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure Last Line: Their day was dark and dim. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE SHRINE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are your rocks shelter for ships? Last Line: From the splendour of your ragged coast. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Shrines THE SHRINES OF MARY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are many shrines of our lady Last Line: The throne of the queen of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE SICK ROSE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, thou art sick! Last Line: Does thy life destroy. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Despair; Flowers; Mythology; Roses; Worms; Dead, The THE SISTER AT A MATERNITY HOSPITAL, by R. ALEXANDER BATE Poem Text First Line: When sister through the doorway peeps Last Line: Madonna and the child asleep. Subject(s): Birth; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Sisters; Women In The Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Theology THE SISTERS OF BETHANY AFTER THE DEATH OF LAZARUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One grief, one faith, o sisters of the dead! Last Line: Free service from the heart is all in all to heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Lazarus; Women In The Bible THE SISTINE MADONNA, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She treads the unseen stair of heaven Last Line: When they revisit the home they left. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SLAVE-MONGERS' CONVENTION: CANTO 2, SELECTION, by J. P. RANDOLPH Poem Text First Line: My brethren, most beloved and dear Last Line: Your whips -- Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; U.s. - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE SLEEP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the thoughts of god that are / borne inward unto souls afar Last Line: "he giveth his beloved sleep." Variant Title(s): He Giveth His Beloved Sleep;to Sleep Subject(s): Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE SMILE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a smile of love Last Line: There's an end to all misery. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Smiles THE SONG OF A CHRISTIAN SOJOURNER IN AMERICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: If christ be god, I him adore Last Line: Nor sin nor hell shall come between. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SONG OF EVE TO CAIN, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Rest, my baby, rest Last Line: Oh! Rest, my darling, rest! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SONG OF LAMECH, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken to me, ye mothers of my tent Last Line: Shall lamech surely and his people die? Subject(s): Bible THE SONG OF MIRIAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ye daughters and soldiers of israel look back Last Line: Omnipotent-glorious-eternal-alone Variant Title(s): Sacred Melody Subject(s): Disasters;god;jews;miriam (bible);women In The Bible; Judaism THE SONG OF MIRIAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for israel's god! Spear, crest and helm Last Line: Back to the life-springs of thy native urn! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Miriam (bible); Women In The Bible THE SONG OF THE BEGGING CRIPPLE, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy masters, worthy wives Last Line: Spare a mite for me! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mites; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, as a sunburst flushing mountain-snow Last Line: Being of god, and therefore not to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: 2, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The I, the creature man, unto my soul Last Line: That god in man is love in human care. Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Love; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Soul THE SPINNER, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: Mary the mother of jesus, / a lady of high degree Last Line: Her tears falling down on his hands. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE SPIRIT'S WARFARE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To find the western path Last Line: Ascends the sky Variant Title(s): Morning Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE STONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have it now Last Line: As one than dust more vile and vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE STORY AS I UNDERSTAND IT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that eve first told the callow tree of apples Last Line: Through a divine monotony of spring on spring. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible THE STORY OF JOSHUA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reach the promised land Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE SUFFICING BIBLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am tired, the bible is my bed Last Line: How should I give myself, great book, to thee! Subject(s): Bible THE SUNFLOWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah sun-flower! Weary of time Last Line: Where my sun-flower wishes to go. Variant Title(s): Ah Sunflower Subject(s): Bible; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Sunflowers THE SWORD AND THE SICKLE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sword sung on the barren heath Last Line: But could not make the sickle yield Variant Title(s): "the Sword Sung On The Barren Heath""; Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Peace THE TENT OF ABRAHAM, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of an eastern day Last Line: And abraham stood rebuked before his god. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; God; Jews; Judaism THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness THE THREE KINGS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three kings came riding from far away, / melchior and gaspar and baltasar Last Line: And returned to their homes by another way. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE TIGER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright / in the forests of the night Last Line: Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Variant Title(s): The Beauty Of Terror;the Tyger Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Creation; God; Mythology; Terror; Tigers THE TREE (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the blessed tree Last Line: Of love divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE TREE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that man was cast away Last Line: "what I lost by eden bower." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Life; Trees THE TREES ARE DOWN, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens Subject(s): Bible; Nature; Religion; Trees; Theology THE TRIBUTE: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Squalor spreads its hideous length Last Line: Offer refuse for meat. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poverty; Social Protest THE TRIBUTE: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While we shouted our wares Last Line: The songs withered black on their lips. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poverty; Social Protest THE TRIBUTE: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we turn from the market Last Line: One bright god with a lance. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poverty; Social Protest THE TRIBUTE: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have sent the old gods from the city Last Line: Beside one young life that is lost. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poverty; Social Protest THE TRIBUTE: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though not one of the city turned Last Line: As light circles an olive-branch. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poverty; Social Protest THE TRIBUTE: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With these we will cry to another Last Line: For our city's sake. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Poverty; Social Protest THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad as the weary traveller, tempest-tost Last Line: And freed the nation best beloved of god. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Sex Role; Victory; Women THE TRYST AT BETHLEHEM, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The daily tasks are set aside Last Line: "my tryst at bethlehem." Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Travel; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the hand of god man was created Last Line: "come, child of mine, and slumber in my bosom." Subject(s): Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Virgin Mary THE UNPARDONABLE SIN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sin against the holy ghost Last Line: To set the face and make the heart a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; War; Theology THE VIGIL OF RIZPAH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who watches on the mountain with the dead Last Line: The unconquerable angel, mightiest love! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women In The Bible THE VIRGIN MARY (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To work a wonder, god would have her shown Last Line: At once, a bud, and yet a rose full-blowne. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN MARY (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin marie was (as I have read) Last Line: Once shut, was never to be open'd more. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN MARY TO CHRIST ON THE CROSS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mist hath dimmed that glorious face Last Line: Let sorrow string my heavy lute. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN MARY TO THE CHILD JESUS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep, mine holy one! Last Line: Wak'st thou, o loving one? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is that goddess to whom men should pray Last Line: As you with erring reverence overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN OF SAINT MARK'S; THE SACRISTAN'S STORY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a secret recess Last Line: Keeps watch forevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Venice, Italy; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN; COPIED FROM A PRINT OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, sweet babe! My cares beguiling" Last Line: "come, soft slumber, balmily" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (PIEDMONTESE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, oh sleep, dear baby mine" Last Line: "sleep my child, and lullaby" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (SICILIAN), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin thus to jesus did sing Last Line: "sleep now that my tears freely may flow." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We met, a hundred of us met Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE VISION OF EVE, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: Three years their leaves on eden's smirch had shed Last Line: Two streams of gold o'er thee their radiance threw. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Love; Women; Eve THE VISION OF JESUS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest son, what dost thou see? Last Line: The shadows of three gaunt crosses fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Predestination; Vision; Women - Bible; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary THE VISITATION OF OUR LADY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is passing along to-day Last Line: In the time of love's dear visiting. Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Virgin Mary THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth of delight! Come hither Last Line: And wish to lead others, when they should be led. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE WALLS DO NOT FALL: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An incident here and there Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; War THE WALLS DO NOT FALL: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spell, for instance Last Line: That pearl-of-great-price. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Self THE WALLS DO NOT FALL: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In me (the worm) clearly Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE WALLS OF JERICHO, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, what is your word Last Line: And de walls come a-tumblin' down. Subject(s): Bible; Spiritual Healing; Faith-cure THE WARMING PAN; ABISHAG, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: When age had david stricken Last Line: Is certain of her fame. Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible THE WARNING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware! The israelite of old, who tore Last Line: A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Samson; Theology THE WASHER WOMAN'S SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I washed them out & washed them in' Last Line: And they told me it was a great sin Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE WAYSIDE VIRGIN, by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the virgin; from this granite ledge Last Line: Felt the first sunshine of the early spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Varley, John Philip Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE WEDDING FEAST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the chief of the marriage feast to the groom Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE WEEPER (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, sister springs Last Line: A worthier object -- our lord's feet. Variant Title(s): Saint Mary Magdalene Or The Weeper Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology THE WELL-DIGGER, by O. E. ENFIELD Poem Text First Line: I picked up the bible this mornin' Last Line: To keep the system primed and repaired! Subject(s): Bible; Wells THE WILD FLOWER'S SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wanderd the forest Last Line: But I met with scorn Variant Title(s): "as I Wandered""; Subject(s): Bible; Disappointment; Flowers; Mythology THE WIND SLEEPERS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whiter / than the crust Last Line: Discords. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible THE WOMAN AND THE ANGEL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street Last Line: "the ancient, outworn, puritanic traditions of right and wrong." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM AT THE CROSS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like those pale stars of tempest-hours Last Line: To that which her deep soul hath proved of holiest worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women In The Bible THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THE WORLD OF THE PERFECT TEAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire from a fixed star Last Line: To raise the living up Subject(s): Arks; Brothers; Death; Noah (bible); Stars; Half-brothers; Dead, The THE WRITTEN WORD, by ROBERT GRANT (1785-1838) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starry firmament on high Last Line: When heaven and earth have passed away. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE YOUNG MOSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The world was at his feet Last Line: "to lead them, if the might, from bondage" Subject(s): Bible;egypt;god;jews;moses; Judaism THE ZIZ, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the ziz? Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Ziz (mythical Bird) THERE IS NO LAND YET, by LAURA RIDING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long sea, how short-lasting Last Line: In water where no land is Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Bible; Religion THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (A), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man has no notion of moral fitness but from education Last Line: Organs of sense, must be limited to objects of sense. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (B), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception Last Line: Is Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists THERE WAS A SAVIOUR, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Unclenched, armless, silk and rough love that breaks all rocks Subject(s): Bible; Religion THERE'S HOPE FOR THE SEXUALLY INEXPERIENCED, by CHRISTOPHER SCRIBNER Poem Source First Line: Before pretty eve was nigh adam Last Line: Poor adam was pretty naive Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Sex THESE WOMEN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: It is not my purpose Last Line: For our own %avowals Subject(s): Women - Bible THETIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had asked for immortal life Last Line: A river's blue. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sea; Ocean THEY SAY THIS MYSTERY SHALL NEVER CEASE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; War THIRTEENTH STATION, by WILLIAM A. DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: Now you may have him, mary, they are done Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible THIRTEENTH STATION, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Source First Line: Once you journeyed with him, mary Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible THIS BREAD I BREAK WAS ONCE THE OAT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My wine you drink, my bread you snap Subject(s): Bible; Religion THIS OTHER NIGHT I SAW A SIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible THOU MOON AND O YE STARS, FR. JUDITH, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou moon and o ye stars, ye hosts of light! Last Line: [she returns into the tent and draws the curtain.] Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible THOUGH SHE SLUMBERS, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber, small one Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible THREE PORTRAITS: GEORG TRAKL, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes were so distant Last Line: His shadow lingered ineffably %across the evening of my room Subject(s): Bible; Expressionism - Poets; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914) THREE PORTRAITS: GEORGE GROSZ, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes colored tears play Last Line: His god only seems to be dead Subject(s): Bible; Expressionism - Poets; Grosz, George (1893-1959) THREE PORTRAITS: TO THE BARBARIAN, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nights when I lie Last Line: Oh you %you! Subject(s): Bible; Expressionism - Poets THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: It was a lovely paperweight, that bible Last Line: Is less than this. A big red s. A text %we read too lightly Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Superman THY MAKER IS NEAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not thou canst sigh a sigh Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TIMES GO BY TURNS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lopped tree in time may grow again Last Line: Who least hath some, who most hath never all. Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Fortune; Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology TIRIEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And aged tiriel stood before the gates of his beautiful palace Last Line: He ceast outstretchd at har & hevas feet in awful death Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Mythology; Tyranny & Tyrants; Madness; Mental Illness; Dictators TIRZAH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou poor human form!' said she. 'o thou poor child of woe!' Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TLAZOLTEOTL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Goddess of love %goddess of death Last Line: Goddess of love %tlazolteotl! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible TO A PICTURE OF THE MADONNA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair vision! Thou'rt from sunny skies Last Line: Ave! Such power be ever thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary TO A SONG OF SAPPHO, DISCOVERED IN EGYPT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jonah wept within the whale Last Line: As gods are wont to do. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jonah (bible); Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) TO AUTUMN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O autumn laden with fruit, and stained Last Line: Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load. Subject(s): Autumn; Bible; Mythology; Seasons; Fall TO DAVID, by MIRIAM SUHLER Poem Text First Line: O israel's god-anointed warrior king Last Line: On thine more precious gift of psaltery. Subject(s): Bible; Goliath; Jews; Judaism TO DIVES, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dives, when you and I go down to hell Last Line: They order things so damnably in hell Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Bible; Charon; Religion; Styx (river); Theology TO DIVES, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dives, when you and I go down to hell Last Line: They order things so damnably in hell Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Bible; Charon; Religion TO ENGLISH CONNOISSEURS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must agree that rubens was a fool Last Line: And not a brewers servant my good sir Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Critics & Criticism; Mythology; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) TO F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You call me mad tis folly to do so Last Line: If you do not you are but what you was Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Insanity; Mythology; Madness; Mental Illness TO FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mock thee not, tho' I by thee am mocked Last Line: Thou call'st me madman, but I call thee blockhead. Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology TO GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have formed a circle to go into Last Line: Go into it yourself & see how you would do Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO GOD, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god, my plaint may move no longer Last Line: The need is vast. I sense Subject(s): Bible TO GOD (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do with me, god! As thou didst deal with john Last Line: My sackcloth here; but there my stole of white. Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology TO H----, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ake Last Line: Do be my enemy for friendships sake Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology TO HEAVEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open thy gates Last Line: Come in, or force the gate. Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology TO HEAVEN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good and great god! Can I not think of thee Last Line: For weariness of life, not love of thee. Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit to yours, dear brother Last Line: Races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology TO HIS CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I not sin, but thou wilt be Last Line: So I'll not fear the judge or thee. Subject(s): Bible; Conscience; Religion; Theology TO HIS SAVIOUR. THE NEW YEERS GIFT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That little prettie bleeding part / of foreskin sent to me Last Line: Because I send thee all. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology TO HUNT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think fuseli is not a great painter. I'm glad Last Line: This is one of the best compliments he ever had Subject(s): Bible; Fuseli, Henry (1741-1825); Mythology TO ISAIAS, SEER, by MARY OF THE VISITATION Poem Source First Line: How did you picture her before the ages Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO MARY, by GOTTFRIED VON STRASSBURG Poem Source First Line: Thou lily-leaf, thou roseal-bud Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO MARY AT CHRISTMAS, by JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI Poem Source First Line: No stranger pilgrims wear the shepherd's way Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Source First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one Last Line: Forever, to the skies Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women - Bible; Women And Religion TO MARY: AT THE THIRTEENTH STATION, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: You are the priest tonight Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO MEMORY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, hither come Last Line: With silent melancholy. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Bible; Melancholy; Memory; Mythology; Rivers; Dejection TO MICHAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving and moaning / under our coverings Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving and moaning %under our coverings Last Line: But michal from myself Subject(s): Bible; Marriage TO MORNING, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O holy virgin! Clad in purest white Last Line: Thy buskin'd feet, appear upon our hills. Subject(s): Bible; Morning; Mythology TO MRS. ANN FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little flower grew in a lonely vale Last Line: Tis your own fault if you dont flourish now Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology TO MRS. BUTTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wife of the friend of those I most revere Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MRS. ANNA FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song to the flower of flaxman's joy Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO MY DEAREST FRIEND, JOHN FLAXMAN, THESE LINES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bless thee, o father of heaven and earth! That ever I saw flaxman's face Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO MY MYRTLE [MIRTLE], by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a lovely myrtle bound Last Line: O my lovely myrtle tree Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Trees TO MY REVEREND FRIEND, DR. SAM. WOODFORD, ON HIS VERSION OF THE PSALMS, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See (worthy friend) what I would do Last Line: In tissue you, and tyrian purple have him clad. Subject(s): Bible; Translating & Interpreting; Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700) TO NANCY F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I help thy husband's copying me Last Line: Should that make difference twixt me & thee Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology TO NOBODADDY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou silent and invisible Last Line: Gains females loud applause Subject(s): Bible; Jealousy; Mythology TO ONE CONSECRATED, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Your paths were all unknown to us Last Line: But not its ring of wounding spears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO OTHER MARYS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ said, 'mary,' as he walked within the garden Last Line: "mary"" was the first name that god ever said." Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Mary (name); Mary Magdalen; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Names; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Virgin Mary TO OUR BLESSED LADY (1), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that (o queen of queens) thy birth was free Last Line: Who had your god for father, spouse and son? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary TO OUR BLESSED LADY (2), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sovereign of queens: if vain ambition move Last Line: And, jealous, bids me love her alone. Subject(s): Ambition; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary TO OUR BLESSED LADY (3), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I any love o queen but thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO OUR BLESSED LADY (4), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet queen: although thy beauty raise up me Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO OUR LADY, THE ARK OF THE COVENANTS, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON Poem Source First Line: And if by such bright tokens Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO S-----D (1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To s----- in childhood on the nursery floor Last Line: He is extreme old & extreme poor still Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) TO S-----D (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You all your youth observed the golden rule Last Line: Mine is the flesh the bones may be your share Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (1), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed offender, who thyself hast tried Last Line: And in my spouse's palace give me place Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (2), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such as returned from sight of men, like thee Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (3), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet saint: thou better canst declare to me Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (4), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For few nights solace in delitious bed Last Line: What high rewards by little pain is won Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible TO SPRING, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Last Line: Whose modest tresses are bound up for thee. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Spring TO ST. MARY MAGDALEN, by BENJAMIN DIONYSIUS HILL Poem Text First Line: Mid the white spouses of the sacred heart Last Line: Like that long gold which wiped the feet of god? Alternate Author Name(s): Edmund, Father Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene TO SUMMER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who passest through our valleys in Last Line: Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Summer TO THE CHRISTIANS, by FRANCIS WILLIAM LAUDERDALE ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Take, then, your paltry christ Last Line: It's your 'good taste' that prefers %a bastard god! Subject(s): Bible; Religion TO THE CHRISTIANS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THE COUNTESS OF DORSET, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See here how bright the first-born virgin shone Last Line: There's no way to be safe, but not to see. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE DEISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He can never be a friend to the human race who is the preacher Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening Last Line: Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Evening Star; Imagination; Mythology; Stars; Vision; Sunset; Twilight; Fancy TO THE GARDEN THE WORLD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the garden the world anew ascending Last Line: Or in front, and I following her just the same. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep what in repair? Last Line: The voice of amos / past its own enduring Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Amos (bible); English History TO THE HOLY BIBLE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O book! Life's guide! How shall we part Last Line: Farewell o book of god! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible TO THE HOLY VIRGIN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of him who made us! First of mothers! Last Line: Far in the past, with jesus and with john! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE INFANT MARTYRS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go smiling souls, your new built cages break Last Line: Milk all the way Subject(s): Bible; Religion TO THE LADY DURSLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here reading how fond adam was betrayed Last Line: Nor had frail adam fallen, nor milton wrote. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Heaven; Milton, John (1608-1674); Paradise TO THE LIGHTED LADY WINDOW, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I kiss my hand to you Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO THE MOTHER OF CHRIST, THE SON OF MAN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We too (one cried), we too Last Line: Of our humanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE MUSES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether on ida's shady brow / or in the chambers of the east Last Line: The sound is forced, the notes are few! Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy TO THE PUBLIC, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After my three years' slumber on the banks of the ocean Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THE QUEEN OF DOLORS, by MARY MAURA Poem Source First Line: Seven times seven Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange erratum in all the editions Last Line: In all that he has writ Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain TO THE SISTINE MADONNA, by CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Poem Source First Line: Mary, most serenely fair Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 17. THE CHILD'S PURCHASE; A PROLOGUE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a young child, whose mother, for a jest Last Line: Which he who does it deems impossible!' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 7. TO THE BODY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creation's and creator's crowning good Last Line: Quick, tender, virginal, and unprofaned! Subject(s): Bible; Elijah; Feet; Hair; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE VIRGIN, by FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD VON HARDENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand hands, devoutly tender Last Line: My whole rapt being—heart and mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Novalis Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE VIRGIN, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of heaven, of hell eke emperess Last Line: To thy five joys that have devotion. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No room at the crowded inn for you. And why? Last Line: The world itself is too cramped for what's inside you Subject(s): Evil; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO THOMAS BUTTS (1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Why was I born with a different face? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THOMAS BUTTS (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To my friend butts I write Last Line: Such the vision to me %appear'd on the sea Variant Title(s): To My Friend Butts I Write; To My Friend Butt Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THOMAS BUTTS (3), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With happiness stretch'd across the hills Last Line: And twofold always. May god us keep %from single vision & newton's sleep Variant Title(s): With Happiness Stretch'd Across The Hill Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO TIRZAH, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er is born of mortal birth Last Line: Then what have I to do with thee? Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology TO VENETIAN ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That god is colouring newton does shew Last Line: Those who taste colouring love it more & more Subject(s): Bible; Colors; Mythology; Paintings & Painters TO WINTER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O winter! Bar thine adamantine doors Last Line: Is driv'n yelling to his caves beneath mount hecla. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Winter TONANTZIN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Mother %are you here %with us? Last Line: And fire of %our rebellion! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Women - Bible TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have broken my wings Last Line: If I escape your evil heart. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you Last Line: So simple a word as love. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Love TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What had you done Last Line: That I am wise. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had been a boy Last Line: Intolerably cold and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Admiration; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not chastity that made me cold nor fear Last Line: Fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bible; Chastity; Despair; Weapons; Ammunition TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: INTRODUCTION, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slay with your eyes, greek Last Line: One blow for you, passionate greek. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O TENDER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender heart of our humanity Last Line: All suffering for thy dear sake is holy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hearts; Humanity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Religion; Women In The Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. O CHILD OF URANUS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of uranus, wanderer down all times Last Line: Thy form in glory clad shall reappear. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Eve; Male-female Relations TOWER OF BABEL, by LAURANCE WIEDER Poem Source First Line: Nimrod gazed across the plain Last Line: Stern, an absence, or a bubble Subject(s): Bible; Religion TRAGEDY OF MAN, SELS., by MADACH EMERICH Poem Source First Line: First citizen - behold, there comes another horde of heathen Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Devil TRANCE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floor %of the temple Last Line: Then lets fall a fold %on my knee Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRANSCENDER OF GENDER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Three of the hebrew Last Line: Attribute %which we theologize Subject(s): Women - Bible 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 TREES ARE DOWN, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens Last Line: But I, all day, I heard an angel crying: %'hurt not the trees Subject(s): Bible; Nature; Religion; Trees TREES OF KNOWLEDGE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It's all about the trees, then Last Line: It's all about the trees now Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; God; Knowledge; Religion; Trees TRIAL, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Sarah had laughed Last Line: Did not own sarah. And sarah herself %did not own abraham. God owned them all Subject(s): Women - Bible TRIBUNAL, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE Poem Source First Line: After death, suppose we were judged by animals Last Line: Which came to this in the end Subject(s): Bible; Religion TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS, SELS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see her hand in her lap Last Line: There are white flowers on the water Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hermes trismegistus Last Line: Opal, onyx, obsidian, %now scattered in the shards %men tread upon Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 10, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the field-furrow Last Line: Phosphorus at sun-rise, %hesperus at sun-set Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O swiftly, re-light the flame Last Line: Is full, they say, of poison, %food for the witches' den Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 12, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly re-light the flame Last Line: To venerate, %venerator Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 13, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the jewel color?' Last Line: He said, %'invent it' Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 14, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can not invent it Last Line: Concentrate on it %till I shrink, %dematerialize %and am drawn into it Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 15, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annael-this was another voice Last Line: With the weight of massive bees Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 16, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annael-and I remembered the sea-shell Last Line: Was another of seven, %named among the seven angels, %annael, %peace of god Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 17, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we hail them together Last Line: So delicate, green-white, opalescent %like our jewel in the crucible? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 18, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For uriel, no temple Last Line: But love's sacred groves, %withered in thebes and tyre, %flower elsewhere Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 19, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see her visible and actual Last Line: Then she set a charred tree before us, %burnt and stricken to the heart; %was it may-tree or apple? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your walls do not fall, he said Last Line: I saw the shape %which might have been of jasper, %but it was not four-square Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 20, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Invisible, indivisible spirit Last Line: It was an ordinary tree %in an old garden-square Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 21, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is no rune nor riddle Last Line: You have seen for yourself Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 22, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new sensation Last Line: That pierces the heart Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 23, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are part of it Last Line: This is the flowering of the wood, %where annael, we pause to give %thanks that we rise again from d Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 24, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every hour, every moment Last Line: Should not separate but relate rather, %our life, this temporary eclipse %to that other Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 25, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the no need Last Line: And she was standing there, %actually, at the turn of the stair Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 26, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of us said, how odd Last Line: And the faint knocking %was the clock ticking Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 27, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet in some very subtle way Last Line: Of whom we must be not forgetful %for some have entertained angels unawares Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 28, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been thinking of gabriel Last Line: How could I imagine %the lady herself would come instead? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 29, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have seen her Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 29, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have seen her Last Line: Her everywhere (or did find), %in cathedral, museum, cloister, %at the turn of the palace stair Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I john saw. I testify Last Line: He of the seventy-times-seven %bitter, unending wars Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 30, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see her hand in her lap Last Line: Where boat follows slow boat on the lagoon; %there are white flowers on the water Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 31, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But none of these, none of these Last Line: Maria von dem schnee, %our lady of the snow Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 32, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I can say truthfully Last Line: As if fell to the floor; she bore %none of her usual attributes; %the child was not with her Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 33, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hermes took his attribute Last Line: Into the abyss Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 34, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So saint michael Last Line: Who weighed the souls of the dead Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 35, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So she must have been pleased with us Last Line: For she looked so kindly at us %under her drift of veils, %and she carried a book Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 36, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah (you say), this is holy wisdom Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 36, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah (you say), this is holy wisdom Last Line: What she lost the race, %given over to sin, to death; %she brings the book of life, obviously Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 37, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a symbol of beauty (you continue Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 37, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a symbol of beauty (you continue Last Line: A hieratic figure, the veiled goddess, %whether of the sevendelights, %whether of the seven spear-po Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 38, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yes - you understand, I say Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 38, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yes - you understand, I say Last Line: Imprisoned in leaden bars %in a coloured window; %she is psyche, the butterfly, %out of the cocoon Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 39, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But nearer than guardian angel %or good daemon Last Line: Different yet the same as before Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in our time, o lord Last Line: Not in our time, o king, %the voice to quell the re-gathering, %thundering storm Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 40, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is no rune nor symbol Last Line: She was not even over-whelming %like an angel Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 41, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She carried a book, either to imply Last Line: No need of the moon to shine... %I saw no temple Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 42, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some call that deep-deep bell Last Line: Whose candle burns deep-violet %with the others Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 43, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the point in the spectrum Last Line: Thanks that we rise again from death and live Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay - peace be still Last Line: God's very breath-uriel Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never in rome Last Line: That in a candle on a candle-stick %or in a star, %is known as on of seven %is named among the seven Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To uriel, no shrine, no temple Last Line: Where, uriel, we pause to give %thanks that we rise again from death and live Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 8, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now polish the crucible Last Line: Mer, mere, mere, mater, maia, mary, %star of the sea, %mother Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS: 9, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bitter, bitter jewel Last Line: What is this unsatisfied duality %which you cannot satisfy? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible TRUST; NAOMI, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know if good or ill Last Line: Thou art beside me still. Subject(s): Naomi (bible); Trust; Women In The Bible TWO EPIGRAMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TWO KINDS OF RICHES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since all the riches of this world Last Line: If I thanked my god for worldly things Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Property; Possessions TWO MOTHERS, by SHANE LESLIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the hill of weeping Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TWO WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two went to pray? O rather say Last Line: The other to the altar's god. Subject(s): Bible; Prayer; Religion; Theology UNBORN, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, full of grace thou art Last Line: These months when god is part of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary UNCERTAINTY, by NOLANNE O'HAIR Poem Text First Line: If I had been thy mother, holy child Last Line: Have given thee as mary gave? ... O holy child... Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary UNDER THE PINES, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All is still / under the pines Last Line: All is still. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; God; Pine Trees; Eve UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom UNIVERSAL FAMILY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our wars are wars of life, and wounds of love Subject(s): Bible; Mythology UPON CHRIST HIS BIRTH, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange news! A city full? Will none give way Last Line: Their hearts, as well as inns, are made of clay. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology UPON OUR SAVIOR'S TOMB WHEREIN NEVER MAN WAS LAID, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How life and death in thee agree Last Line: A joseph did betroth them both Subject(s): Bible; Religion UPON THE CIRCUMCISION, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flaming powers, and winged warriors bright Last Line: Will pierce neer his heart. Subject(s): Bible; Circumcision; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology VALA, OR THE FOUR ZOAS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VALOR OF VASHTI, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: What else was vashti the queen supposed to wear Last Line: Or denigrate her beautiful integrity. %he could not terminate her majesty Subject(s): Women - Bible VENITE ADOREMUS, by MARGERY CANNON Poem Source First Line: She was the human chalice Last Line: He was the flame eternal, %he was the light Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VERSES FOR ALFEO FAGGI'S STATIONS OF THE CROSS: 4TH STATION, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus his mother meets Last Line: By us, too, be it won, %the grace that brings us revelation Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VERSES ON CLERGY PREACHING POLITICS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed, sir peter, I could wish, I own Last Line: If these good folks would keep within their tether! Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Churches; Cathedrals VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PRINT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See represented here, in light and shade Last Line: The birth of jesus in the human soul. Variant Title(s): The Salutation Of The Blessed Virgin Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary VIGIL OF THE ASSUMPTION, by GERTRUDE VON LE FORT Poem Source First Line: The angel of the lord came in unto mary, and brought her the Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VIGIL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sword of silver cuts the fields asunder Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VIOLIN SONGS: THE TEMPLE OF GOD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the desert by the bush Last Line: In his heart he makes his home. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); God; Jesus Christ; Job (bible); Moses; Prayer; Temples; Mosques VIRGIN, by LAURA RIDING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My flesh is at a distance from me Last Line: A forgotten passion, %before I learn of it Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Bible; Religion VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While young john runs to greet Last Line: And had read all the sovran schemes and divine riddles there Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Variant Title(s): Lines On A [celebrated] Picture By Leonard Subject(s): Art And Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible VIRGINITIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Jewell of jewells, richer far Last Line: All creatures come in virgin puritie. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virginity; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Vestals VISION OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the fourfold man; the humanity in deadly sleep Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VISION OF JERUSALEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see thy form. O lovely, mild jerusalem! Wing'd with six wings Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VISION OF JOSEPH AND MARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! In the visions of elohim jehovah, behold joseph and mary! Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VISION OF MOSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, to whom by a peculiar grace Last Line: "murder'd the father of that very child." Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Religion; Theology VISION OF ST. BERNARD, by M. WHITCOMB HESS Poem Source First Line: Bernard reads late, alone; and twilight falls Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VISION OF SUNDAY IN HEAVEN, by VICTOR JAMES DALEY Poem Source First Line: Methought, one night, I saw, in trance sublime Last Line: He said, and sadly to the earth descended Subject(s): Bible; Religion VISION OF THE THREE DAUGHTERS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors VISIONS OF DANIEL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Magician, appointed officer Subject(s): Babylon; Daniel (bible) VISIONS OF DANIEL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Magician, appointed officer Last Line: And the reign of cyrus the persian Subject(s): Babylon; Daniel (bible) VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved theotormon Last Line: The daughters of albion hear her woes, & eccho back her sighs. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Love; Mythology; Vision; Fancy VISITATION, by CALVIN LE COMPTE Poem Source First Line: To elizabeth she came Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VISITATION, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE Poem Source First Line: The preacher mounts the pulpit and begins to speak as the metal folds Last Line: Self in the snow Subject(s): Bible; Preaching And Preachers; Religion VOICE OF THE DEVIL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VOTIVE ODE, by DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Poem Source First Line: Hail, jesus' virgin-mother ever blest Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VOW TO HEAVENLY VENUS, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We that with like hearts love,we lovers twain Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WALKING ON WATER, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feeling it with me Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WALKING ON WATER, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feeling it with me Last Line: Shall pass, as if led by the nose into heaven Subject(s): Bible; Religion WALLS DO NOT FALL, SELS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spell, for instance Last Line: Possibly we will reach haven, heaven Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL, SELS., by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Love WALLS DO NOT FALL: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An incident here and there Last Line: We passed the flame: we wonder %what saved us? What for? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; War WALLS DO NOT FALL: 10, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But we fight for life Last Line: Your triumph, however exultant, %must one day be over, %in the beginning %was the word Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without thought, invention Last Line: Dream, %vision Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 12, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, in our secretive, sly way Last Line: Than a whisper Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 13, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The presence was spectrum-blue Last Line: Companions %of the flame Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 14, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet we, the latter-day, twice-born Last Line: Toward our individual star Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 15, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too old to be useful Last Line: Since nineveh and babel Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 16, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ra, osiris, amen appeared Last Line: Were all one texture, %as if without pupil %or all pupil, dark %yet very clear with amber %shining Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 17, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...Coals for the world's burning Last Line: Forever and ever, amen Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 18, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The christos-image Last Line: That amen is our christos Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 19, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He might even be the authentic jew Last Line: And they are amber and they are fire Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evil was active in the land Last Line: How can you scratch out %indelible ink of the palimpsest %ofpast misadventure? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 20, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it appears very clear Last Line: And follows the mage %in the desert Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 21, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splintered the crystal of identity Last Line: Here am I, amen-ra whispers, %amen, aries, the ram, %be cocoon, smothered in wool, %be lamb, mothere Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 22, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now my right hand Last Line: Let your teeth devour me, %let me be warm in your belly,. %the sun-disk, %the re-born sun Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 23, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take me home Last Line: Where the mantis %prays on the river-reed: %where the grasshopper says %amen, amen, amen Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 24, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or anywhere %where stars blaze through clear air Last Line: Healers, helpers %of the one, amen, all-father Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 25, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amen, %only just now Last Line: Has taken its nourishment Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 26, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What fruit is our store Last Line: In the noon-heat? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 27, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is ours lotus - tree Last Line: Arbutus-fragrant? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 28, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heart, small urn Last Line: Of bitter thought Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 29, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant us strength to endure Last Line: Here is the bread? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us, however, recover the sceptre Last Line: It bears healing: %or evoking the dead, %it brings life to the living Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 30, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard scorpion whet his knife Last Line: Illusion, reversion of old values, %oneness lost, madness Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 31, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wistfulness, exaltation Last Line: Reversion of old values, %oneness lost, madness Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 32, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Depth of the sub-conscious spews forth Last Line: Has its peculiar orbit Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 33, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us measure defeat Last Line: For blind eyes Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 34, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have seen how the most amiable Last Line: Before her Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 35, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us substitute Last Line: As asps, scorpions, as serpents Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 36, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In no wise is the pillar-of-fire Last Line: Things new %and old Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 37, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt have none other gods but me Last Line: For help - or shall we? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 38, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This search for historical parallels Last Line: Has its particular star, coral or prism shape Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 39, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have had too much consecration Last Line: They are anagrams, cryptograms, %little boxes, conditioned %to hatch butterflies Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 40, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For example Last Line: Fosterer, begetter, the same-forever %in the papyrus-swamp %in the judean meadow Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 41, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sirius: %what mystery is this? Last Line: You are a mist %of snow: white, little flowers Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 42, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, sire, is this the path Last Line: Is this union at last Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 43, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still the walls do not fall Last Line: We have no map; %possibly we will reach haven, %heaven Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the company of the gods Last Line: He is mage, %bringing myrrh Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In me (the worm) clearly Last Line: Spin my own shroud Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gods, goddesses Last Line: Or the erect king-cobra crest %to show how the worm turns Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 8, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we reveal our status Last Line: He takes precedence of the priest, %stands second only to the pharaoh Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WALLS DO NOT FALL: 9, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoth, hermes, the stylus Last Line: And hatshepsut's name is still circled %with what they call the cartouche Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WANT MATCHES?, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WAR CRY: TO MARY, by LEO XIII Poem Source First Line: When warfare blusters at high lucifer's command Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WARRIOR AND THE DAUGHTER OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The beautiful daughter of albion sits naked upon the stone Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WAY I WAS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: You who seemed my enemy Last Line: When I %gave up on you Subject(s): Women - Bible WEDDASE MARYAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And now we will write the praises of our lady, and mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WEDDING FEAST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the chief of the marriage feast to the groom Last Line: Can come out of galilee! Subject(s): Bible; Religion WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, 1940, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the east window a storm Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, 1940, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the east window a storm Last Line: And a gale with it Subject(s): Bible; Religion WEEPER (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, sister springs! Last Line: Crown'd heads are toyes. We goe to meet %a worthy object, our lord's feet Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible WHAT IS HE, THIS LORDLING, by WILLIAM+(3) HERBERT Poem Source First Line: What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight Last Line: Adreint all with shenness, y-drawn down with shame Subject(s): Bible; Religion WHEN ADAM WALKED IN EDEN YOUNG, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the soul fevers in my breast %and aches to be away Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Religion WHEN BLIGHT LAY, FR. LET ZEUS RECORD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WHEN FRANCE GOT FREE, EUROPE, 'TWIXT FOOLS AND KNAVES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WHEN I READ THE BIBLE THROUGH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I supposed I knew my bible Last Line: When you read the bible through! Subject(s): Bible WHERE DO I LOVE YOU, LOVELY MAID?, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WHERE LOVE IS KING, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WHICH ARE BAUTIES SWEETEST DRESS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: These are beauties sweetest dress Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WHILE WE SHOUTED, FR. TRIBUTE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WHITE ROSE, O WHITE, FR. SONGS FROM CYPRUS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WHITE WORLD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole white world is ours Last Line: Lifted, of the flower. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Love WHOM THE NEW MOON MOCKS, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: The sky unfolds a starry cover Last Line: Above the young leaf and the lover. Subject(s): Moon; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL HESTER PRYNNE?, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity him up to his waist in middle age Last Line: "gabriel told me to." Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary WILLIAM BOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder whether the girls are mad Last Line: In the naked & outcast seek love there Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology WILLIAM COWPER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this is being a friend just in the nick Last Line: For any man to pretend to inspiration Subject(s): Bible; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Mythology; Poetry & Poets WINE BOWL, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will rise Last Line: For the white wine %and the red Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology - Classical WINTER LOVE: 16, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, do not bring snow-water Last Line: Love built on dreams %of the forgotten first unsatisfied embrace, %is satisfied Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 19: STROPHE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Odysseus; fretful brow Last Line: Helen, commend their happiness %and so invoke the greater bliss %of helios-helen-eros Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I thought of you, I only thought Last Line: Then, you were in and out as they all were at the palace, %it is more, more than ten years Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 20: ANTISTROPHE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise from your apathy, your dream Last Line: The sun goes into the dark, %the gods decree %that helen is deserted utterly Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 21, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ebony island, o tall cypress-trees Last Line: The heart and entrails were drawn out; %a shell? A shatteredheart? %no heart is left to heal Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 24, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helios-helen-eros? Is that menelaus? Last Line: Lives in the hope of something that will be, %the past made perfect; %this is the tangible %this is Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 25, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The golden apples of the hesperides Last Line: Your child, my child and helios' child, no other, %to lure us on, on, on, euphorion, esperance Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 27, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandam, midwife, sage-femme Last Line: You brought him forth in darkness, %while I slept Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 28, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am delirious now and mean to be Last Line: Esperance, o golden bee, %take life afresh and if you must, %so slay me Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we were together Last Line: Helen, helen, come home; %there was a helen before there was a war, %but who remembers her? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WINTER LOVE: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The-tis-sea-'tis, I played games like this Last Line: Helen was conceived under the oleanders, %that is, helen, the future helen %that wrecked citadels, w Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WISDOM, by APOCRYPHA BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For she is a vapour %of the power of god Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WISE WOMAN OF TEKOA OFFERS PEACE PROPOSAL TO KING DAVID, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Why let the vicious circle still revolve - Last Line: You who would spare my son for god's sake %spare yours and make this a peaceable kingdom Subject(s): Women - Bible WIT AND WISDOM OF MIDWIVES, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The story of exodus and liberation Last Line: Of enabling his persecuted people %to steal away Subject(s): Women - Bible WITH ILLUSTRATION TO GRAY'S POEMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the springs of gray my wild root weaves Last Line: Traveller repose & dream among my leaves, Subject(s): Bible; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Mythology WOEFULLY ARRAYED, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For mankind, whom I have bought dear Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, by JOHN THE EVANGELIST Poem Source First Line: And a great sign appeared in heaven Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WOMAN WRAPPED IN SILENCE, by JOHN W. LYNCH Poem Source First Line: A little girl Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WOMEN OF JERICHO, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though seven times, or seventy times seven Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WOMEN OF JERICHO, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though seven times, or seventy times seven Last Line: These armoured walls, and raze the citadel Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Religion WORD MADE FLESH IS SELDOM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like this consent of language, %this loved philology Variant Title(s): Poem: 1651; Poem: 171 Subject(s): Bible; Language; Religion WORDS OF LOS, FR, JERUSALEM, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must create a system, ot be enslav'd by another man's Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WORSHIP OF GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is easier to forgive and enemy than to forgive a friend Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WOULD YOU PREFER MYRRH-FLOWER, FR. LET ZEUS RECORD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible WRATH OF GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breath divine went forth over the morning hills. Albion rose Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WRESTLING JACOB, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o thou traveller unknown, / whom still I hold, but cannot see Last Line: Thy nature and thy name is love. Subject(s): Jacob (bible); Religion; Theology YOU ARE FIRE EATERS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a mere blowing flame Last Line: Surrender, may be conquest. Subject(s): Jehoshaphat (bible) YOU DON'T BELIEVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't believe I won't attempt to make ye Last Line: Try ,try & never mind the reason why Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep YOU THAT WOULD READ THE BIBLE, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You that would read the bible, turn all Last Line: Shan't write a sentence of my own. Subject(s): Bible YOU WERE A STRANGER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Whethr from justice or from kindnes let Last Line: Lest you in your own luxury forget %you were a stranger you were in distres Subject(s): Women - Bible YOU, RUTH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: You, ruth, who knew you could not stand to stay Last Line: Encounter compassion in some foreign face, %by god's grace gain an inheritance as did ruth? Subject(s): Women - Bible YOURSELF IN MYSELF, FR MYRTLE BOUGH, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible ZACCHAEUS IN THE LEAVES, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence before Last Line: Still Subject(s): Bible; Zacchaeus ZACCHEUS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zaccheus clim' up de sycamo' tree Last Line: While a-waitin' fo' de good lo'd ter come. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Bible; Zacchaeus; Zaccheus ZIZ, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is the ziz? Last Line: We are blind to, a birdhood %to cover the head of the sky Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Ziz (mythical Bird) |
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