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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHURCHYARDS Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHURCHYARD SOLILOQUY, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand by me here, beloved, where thick crowd Last Line: The day and darkness, in life's twilight time? Subject(s): Churchyards A REVERIE ON HATHERLEY CHURCHYARD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Nay, mock me not with shifting human smiles Last Line: For thou art righteousness, and love, and christ, and god! Subject(s): Beauty; Churchyards; Earth; Love; Nature; Truth; World ABOVE THE CHURCHYARD, CROCKATEEMORE, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: A stop to see the tombs Last Line: As if such visits will keep %all threats farther from anyone's life Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; War AS ONE ACKNOWLEDGES DREAM AND EXILE, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Night has now come and I acknowledge you Last Line: And not clothe your new novels, your novels of duress Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of AT DRUMCLIFFE CHURCHYARD, COUNTY SLIGO, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: That great feather the mind's wind drives Last Line: For this feather breath breathes too %upon you Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) AT TRINITY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: Where wall street's head from full broadway Last Line: Where peace sole reigneth. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; New York City; Trinity Churchyard (new York); Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BERKLEY CHURCHYARD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still are all the dead Last Line: Our gift of love for men. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Marble; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BIRCHINGTON CHURCH-YARD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lowly hill which overlooks a flat Last Line: Silent and neither swift nor slow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Churchyards; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) CHILD'S BURIAL IN SPRING, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ocean's waves to the hollow caves murmur Last Line: A veil to be by eternity but ne'er by time with-drawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Churchyards; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise CHURCHYARD UNDER SNOW, by DAVID SCOTT Poem Source First Line: The newer headstones tense against the cold Last Line: We can only trust their souls do well to fly Subject(s): Churchyards CITY CHURCHYARD, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From birth screwed tight, I writhed inside my soul Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Churchyards CITY CHURCHYARD, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From birth screwed tight, I writhed inside my soul Last Line: Why try to fight? The odds are on our side Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Churchyards DESERTED CHURCHYARD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lay an ancient churchyard Last Line: The shadowy days of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Churchyards; Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Loneliness ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 41. NEW CHURCHYARD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The encircling ground, in native turf arrayed Last Line: That to the almighty father looks through all. Subject(s): Churchyards ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pressed by the moon, mute arbitress of tides Last Line: To gaze with envy on their gloomy rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Churchyards; Moon; Sussex, England ELEGY IN THE CHURCHYARD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Who will listen when we cry out in the night? Last Line: The first words of benediction in our behalf Subject(s): Churchyards; Prayer IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is a quicksand; yon square tower Last Line: Thy tiny skull? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Cemeteries; Churchyards; Graveyards IN CARROWDORE CHURCHYARD, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your ashes will not stir, even on this high ground Variant Title(s): In Carrowdore Churchyard; At The Grave Of Louis Macneice Subject(s): Churchyards; Macneice, Louis (1907-1963) IN CARROWDORE CHURCHYARD, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your ashes will not stir, even on this high ground Last Line: Rinsing the choked mud, keeping the colours new Variant Title(s): In Carrowdore Churchyard; At The Grave Of Louis Macneic Subject(s): Churchyards; Macneice, Louis (1907-1963) IN LALEHAM CHURCHYARD (THE BURIAL-PLACE OF MATTHEW ARNOLD), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at this season, year by year Last Line: To work their will. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Churchyards; Poetry & Poets LEON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: I used to live in a big house by the church of st. Francis Last Line: And crying %bread Subject(s): Central America; Churchyards; Hunger LINES WRITTEN IN RICHMOND CHURCHYARD, YORKSHIRE, by HERBERT KNOWLES Poem Text First Line: Methinks it is good to be here Last Line: Who bequeathed us them both when he rose to the skies. Subject(s): Churchyards MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MEDITATIONS IN GREAT BEALINGS CHURCH-YARD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only while we look upon Last Line: One more look ere I part! 'tis given, and now, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Churchyards; Farewell; Gosfield Park, Essex, England; Parting MOONLIGHT CHURCHYARD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round thee, pure moon, a ring of snowy clouds Last Line: Sits spectre-like, the guardian of the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Churchyards ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As once, if not with light regard / I read aright that gifted bard Last Line: Or curtained close such scene from every future view. Subject(s): Churchyards; Poetry & Poets OLD SWEDE'S CHURCHYARD, by ALICE L. REYBOLD Poem Text First Line: It is well that ancient tree Last Line: And slumber after violence. Subject(s): Churchyards ON A POET IN A WELSH CHURCHYARD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind souls! Who strive what pious hand shall bring Last Line: One sprig of each to trim a poet's grave. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Poet In A Welsh Courtyard Subject(s): Churchyards; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones SCENES IN LONDON: 4. THE CITY CHURCHYARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee lay me not to rest Last Line: Give loveliness to death. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Churchyards; Funerals; London; Burials ST. MICHAN'S CHURCHYARD, by ROSE KAVANAGH Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Inside the city's throbbing heart Last Line: The peace of heaven was everywhere. Subject(s): Churchyards; Dublin, Ireland; Emmet, Robert (1778-1803) SUNFLOWERS, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Earth-coloured people, potato eaters Last Line: Hiroshima, nagasaki, %earth-coloured people, who tried to cry Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Hiroshima, Japan SUNSHINE: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet and merry sunshine makes the very churchyard fair Last Line: Though it plays upon a grave-stone through the gloomy cypress tree. Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Coffins; Thought; Thinking THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ancient church! Its lowly tower Last Line: Might call a tear on mine. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Churchyards THE CHURCHYARD, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How slowly creeps the hand of time Last Line: The eternal voice of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Churchyards THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Palid and cold as the morning star Last Line: And taming its raging waves. Subject(s): Churches; Churchyards; Graves; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer Meetings; Worship; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD CHURCHYARD OF BONCHURCH, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The churchyard leans to the sea with its dead Last Line: They shall lie there, together. Subject(s): Churchyards; Wight, Isle Of THE SPEED FIEND, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They dread my coming, east and west, and Last Line: I spoil a pedagogue, and there I bag a grocer. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Dead, The VERSES TO A FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I promis'd thee, that, soon or late Last Line: But graver—lead to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Churchyards VISITING MY GRAVESITE: TALBOTT CHURCHYARD, WEST VIRGINIA, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: Maybe because I was married and felt secure and dead Last Line: I wouldn't interfere for the world, the world being %everything this isn't, this unknown buried in t Subject(s): Churchyards; Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WHILE WALKING THROUGH THE CHURCHYARD, by KENNETH O'KEEFE Poem Source First Line: The amber air of summer paints the stones Last Line: My soul in peace beyond the grief it knows Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Death WIDCOMBE CHURCHYARD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The place where soon I think to lie Last Line: That little care. Variant Title(s): The Wall-flower;a Request;youth And Age Subject(s): Churchyards |
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