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Subject: COMMUNION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GENERAL COMMUNION, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the throng, so deeply separate
Last Line: For each, the whole of the devoted sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


AD ASTRA: 173, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In catholicity there breathes a voice
Last Line: And all men's hearts be knit in christ again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Catholics; Churches; Eucharist; Love; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology


AD ASTRA: 89, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How meetly from the poor his gospel came
Last Line: And in men's hearts the living truth instil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Eucharist; Jesus Christ; Religion; Communion; Theology


AFTER COMMUNION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I call thee lord, who art my god
Last Line: How will it be with me in time of love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Eucharist; Jesus Christ; Communion


CHRISTMAS COMMUNION, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come in, dear babe, and rest!
Last Line: For thee, for thee, the stable waits once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas; Eucharist; Nativity, The; Communion


COMMUNICANTS, by J. C. EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know some lowly, cringing clods
Last Line: Hung high against the blue.
Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Eucharist; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Communion


COMMUNION, by EDWARD DOWDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, I have knelt and tried to pray tonight
Last Line: "and do with me according to thy word."
Subject(s): Eucharist; Religion; Communion; Theology


COMMUNION, by IDA LEE ECHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The organ played a well-remembered strain
Last Line: With god in peace, and felt at home.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


COMMUNION, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have spoken with the dead
Last Line: I pass, for I have talked with death!
Subject(s): Death; Eucharist; Dead, The; Communion


COMMUNION, by P. M. SNIDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quietly I enter the closet
Last Line: But, we!
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


EASTER COMMUNION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast
Last Line: Lo, god shall strengthen all the feeble knees.
Subject(s): Easter; Eucharist; Holidays; The Resurrection; Communion


EUCHARIST, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still we who follow christ in deed
Last Line: Our blood and bodies, like the christ.
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Eucharist; Jesus Christ; Communion


HOLY COMMUNION, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father, for jesus' sake
Last Line: And let them drink it up.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


HYMN: AN INTROIT, TO BE SUNG BETWEEN THE LITANY AND COMMUNION SERVICE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh most merciful! / oh most bountiful!
Last Line: Hear us, help us when we cry!
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


INTERLUDE, by MARJORIE EASTWOOD DUDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bread of the world,' the choir sang
Last Line: Crept 'round the sculptured virgin's feet.
Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Clergy; Eucharist; Public Worship; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Communion; Church Attendance


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


NO-MORE-FEAR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came to the mountains of sleep
Last Line: Back with me to the porch of day.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Fear; Soul; Communion


ON CHURCH COMMUNION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Religion, church communion, or the way
Last Line: A disposition so divinely right?
Subject(s): Eucharist; Religion; Communion; Theology


ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 3. AT COMMUNION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still must the implacable road lie dark and bare
Last Line: Though still thy hid communion serves me best.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Churches; Eucharist; Religion; Catholic Priests; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology


POEM FOR EASTER, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All women are beautiful as they rise
Last Line: To find that he is not alone
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 111, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Gracious grace! Whither soarst thou? How high
Last Line: Will make my soul grow brisk, thy praise to chime.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Puritans In Literature; Communion


SURSUM CORDA, by MARGARET CARROLL BRADY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lift up your hearts, you whom the spring days urge
Last Line: In sea and sun, his work of love, a new day starts!
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


THE BUGLER'S FIRST COMMUNION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bugler boy from barrack (it is over the hill there)
Last Line: Forward-like, but however, and like favourable heaven heard these.
Subject(s): Army Life; Eucharist; Gays & Lesbians; Drills & Minor Tactics; Communion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE EUCHARIST, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He that is hurt seeks help: sin is the wound
Last Line: The salve for this I'th eucharist is found.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


THE HOLY COMMUNION, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome sweet and sacred feast; welcome life
Last Line: Become both food and shepherd to thy sheep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


THE MESSAGE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking from tender sleep
Last Line: Your message has been given.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


THE MIRACLE, by MABEL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot sound the depths of my own soul
Last Line: Thyself.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion


THE REACH FOR IMMORTALITY, by HENRY SAMUEL HOEFFLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wherever I wander, in mountain or mart
Last Line: Communion with god is the soul's vital need.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Immortality; Communion


UNDER HIS SHADOW; COMMUNION HYMN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sit down beneath his shadow
Last Line: Whose blood for us was shed!
Subject(s): Eucharist; Communion