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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CONVENTS Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye trees! Whose slender roots entwine Last Line: Appear to sight still more forlorn. Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Convents; Mountains; Ruins; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ANTIQUE CONVENT PARLOR, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers would only die in the fluted bowl, Last Line: Outwits the pilfering dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Antiques; Convents ARTHURIAN SONGS: 2. THE END, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen guenevere a-maying rode Last Line: In white clothes and in black. Subject(s): Convents; Courts & Courtiers; Nuns AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grieve for the man who hither came bereft Last Line: The most profound repose his cell can give. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI (CONTINUED), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world foresaken, all its busy cares Last Line: Give him a soul that cleaveth unto thee. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians AT THE EREMITE OR UPPER CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What aim had they, the pair of monks, in size Last Line: Meet on the solid ground of waking life. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians BIDDING ADIEU TO A SINGSONG GIRL NOW BOUND FOR A NUNNERY, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Washing off rouge and powder, you bid farewell to chu terrace Last Line: The firs and cypress by the imperial tombs will sooner or later turn to ash Subject(s): Convents; Farewell BLACK MADONNA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: In mexico there's a madonna with her teeth ajar Last Line: They butt into the wooden benches %until they collapse Subject(s): Churches; Convents; Nuns BLUE WILLOW, by MILDRED D. SHACKLETT Poem Text First Line: My fate might not have been the dreamer's Last Line: When nurtured from a willow plate? Subject(s): Convents CACHOEIRA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept, woke, breakfasted, and met the man Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Cachoeira, Brazil; Tourists; Slavery; Convents; Serfs CARMELITE CONVENT, MEXICO DF, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Past portraits of sedate saints Last Line: Skinned back to bare a knuckled wrist Subject(s): Convents; Death; Nuns; Portraits; Saints CONVENT, by MARCIA NICHOLS HOLDEN Poem Source First Line: Minutes were poplars on the avenue Subject(s): Convents CONVENT CEMETERY: MOUNT CARMEL, by MARY SAINT VIRGINIA Poem Text First Line: Twilight: and pine trees keep the blessed enclosure Last Line: Night will be good; and morning will be better. Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia Subject(s): Cemeteries; Convents; Graveyards CONVENT OF LA VERNA, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lofty spot Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Convents; Italy CUT HAIR OF NUNS, by VALERIE WOHLFELD Poem Source First Line: Austere as horsehair, or luxuriant as cashmere Last Line: Locket-locked oval-window shut midair Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CONVENT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray stole away from nice Last Line: Out of a curious but hardened heart. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Letters; Life; Nuns; Prayer; Italians FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My knees recall the pockets Last Line: And certainly attended. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 2. SOMEONE INSIDE ME REMEMBERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That my knees must be hidden away Last Line: Than myself Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Prayer; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 5. SINNERMAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizontal one evening Last Line: And my own whispered / hosanna? Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Women & Religion HAWKESYARD, by MARY BENVENUTA Poem Source First Line: This is the mew of god set high Subject(s): Convents HIDDEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three nuns at owlet-call Last Line: Die by the virgin's knees. Subject(s): Convents; Death; Mourning; Nuns; Dead, The; Bereavement IDYLL, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA Poem Source First Line: Lord, forgive me if I do not look for you Last Line: Whom one foresees Subject(s): Convents; Forgiveness; Nuns MOUNTAIN CONVENT, by LAURA BENET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sinister presence changed life in a twelvemonth Subject(s): Convents NEEDLEWORK, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes fate takes Last Line: In the butterfly's orange wings. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Convents; Needles; Nuns; Seamstresses NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 1, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, your harridan nuns Last Line: Enthroned as a symbol with upturned palms Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Convents; Nuns; Women NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 2, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, my darling nuns Last Line: Who rustles dryly inside my gown? Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Convents; Nuns; Religion ON ASCENDING A HILL LEADING TO A CONVENT, by FRANCISCO MANUEL Poem Text First Line: Pause not with lingering foot, o pilgrim,here Last Line: Hope is reality, and time is life. Subject(s): Convents ON ASCENDING A HILL LEADING TO A CONVENT, by MANUEL DE MELO Poem Source First Line: Pause not with lingering foot, o pilgrim Last Line: Hope is reality and time is life Subject(s): Convents; Hope; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages 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 SAN MIGUEL DE LA TUMBA, by GONZALO DE BERCEO Poem Source First Line: San miguel de la tumba is a convent vast and wide Last Line: Than the bishop, hight don tello, has been hurt by hand of mine Subject(s): Convents SANCTUARY, by JEAN BAILEY Poem Text First Line: In the quiet of the convent garden close Last Line: To make her quiet day complete by prayer. Subject(s): Convents; Sanctuaries THE LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In meek seclusion where cathedrals vie Last Line: The convent gate of fra hilario. Subject(s): Church Of The Transfiguration, New York; Convents; Nuns; The Little Church Around The Corner THE NUN OF KENT; A HISTORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A goodly saint, a goodly saint now Last Line: (curtain falls.) Subject(s): Clergy; Convents; Kent, England; Monasteries; Nuns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys THE NUNNERY, by ANNA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: What wond'rous projects formed the fickle fair? Last Line: And thus the castle sunk ere yet begun. Subject(s): Convents TO ONE WHO HAD LEFT HER CONVENT TO MARRY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago you gave yourself to god Last Line: Who knows? Next year may add a third, the devil. Subject(s): Convents; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UNATTRIBUTED FRAGMENT (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Sister mary cairnith lit the lamps Last Line: None needing suck, my daughter's (heart?) stops Subject(s): Churches; Convents; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters VISITING SUNDAY: CONVENT NOVITIATE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The parlor doors shall be glazed, the custom book Last Line: To write the lyric. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Convents; Cousins; Musical Instruments; Pianos WHITE BIRCHES, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Pale birches always make me think Last Line: Or can it not be told? Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Theology WILD ROSES AND MYRRH, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prairie ocean rolled away Last Line: To line the manger bed. Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Women; Theology |
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