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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CREATION Matches Found: 239 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FIFTEENTH CENTURY ZEN MASTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A blind girl steps over the red staves Last Line: Master, where is the difference? Subject(s): Buddhism; Creation; Desire; Buddha; Buddhists A MEMORIAL OF AFRICA, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a rock I sat - a mountain-side Last Line: Unfold a world, that I, thy child, might see. Subject(s): Africa; Creation; God A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 1, CANTO 1, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A yucca crowned in creamy bloom Last Line: "saint silence never told a lie." Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 1, CANTO 2, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From out the surge of sutro's steep Last Line: Her cloud-topped towers of ilium. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 1, CANTO 3, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White sea-gulls glistened in the sun Last Line: And he their jason -- argonaut! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 1, CANTO 4, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How passing fair, how wondrous fair Last Line: White ice tents dash and dot the seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 2, CANTO 1, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His triple star led on and on Last Line: The bible, lid to lid, is true! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 2, CANTO 2, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year waxed weary, gouty, old Last Line: Lay on the yukon. Night had passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 2, CANTO 3, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days grew longer, stronger, yet Last Line: Red, pink, and brown with nippon bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 3, CANTO 1, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all fair trees to look upon Last Line: A mist is rising to the eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 3, CANTO 2, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This water town of tokio Last Line: I did not hear that baby cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 3, CANTO 3, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would forget -- help me forget Last Line: Forever, ever and a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 3, CANTO 4, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How cold she grew, how chilled, how changed Last Line: "the while sweet mother rocked and rocked." Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 3, CANTO 5, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when first blossoms feel first bees Last Line: "of love, of light, the light of morn!" Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 4, CANTO 1, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And which of all hawaii's isles Last Line: "a house of murders manifold!" Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: BOOK 4, CANTO 2, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He heard; he could but bow his head Last Line: Yet gentle, patient as his prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SONG OF CREATION: INTRODUCTION, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The braviest, manliest man is he Last Line: When birds are nesting, rocks again. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Creation A SUABIAN LEGEND, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made all things Last Line: So soon: so soon.) Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Dead, The ACTS OF LIGHT: OPENWORK, by STEPHEN SARTARELLI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feathered wind, skylorn Subject(s): Creation ACTS OF LIGHT: OPENWORK, by STEPHEN SARTARELLI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feathered wind, skylorn Last Line: Turning in a bending %of the sun Subject(s): Creation AD ASTRA: 134, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In his own image god created man Last Line: But down the ages prowls the selfsame range. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Theology 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 ADDRESS TO THE ALABASTER SARCOPHAGUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou alabaster relic! While I hold Last Line: But build a lasting mansion for thy soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Death; God; Soul; Dead, The ADON OLAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Before thy heavenly word revealed the wonders / of thy will Last Line: And in early dawn I wake and find thee ever near Subject(s): Creation;god;jews; Judaism ADON OLAM, by DAVID AARON DE SOLA Poem Text First Line: Lord over all! Whose power the sceptre swayed Last Line: The lord with me,—no fears my soul can shake. Alternate Author Name(s): De Sola, D. A. Subject(s): Creation; God; Jews; Judaism 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 ALL THY WORKS PRAISE THEE, O LORD; A PROCESSIONAL OF CREATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I all-creation sing my song of praise Last Line: Praise god, praise god, praise god, his creature saith. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Creation ALMANACK FOR 1733, SELS., by NATHANIEL AMES Poem Source First Line: Time works a change on all material things Last Line: He's raised sublime above his former place Subject(s): Creation; Plague AN EVENING SCENE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here all is joy and all is light Last Line: Knows the whole secret and is blest. Subject(s): Creation; Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight AND GOD CREATED WOMAN, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To walk / with bare feet Last Line: Of a nipple Subject(s): Creation; Women AND GOD MADE THE ANIMALS, CONT'D, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: God made skunks, %as you all know Last Line: God gave sharks %the sleek-fin backs %of eldorado %cadillacs Subject(s): Creation; God AQUINAS' MONSTER, by KATE FARRELL Poem Source First Line: She was very good with all the chores Last Line: But how ponderous %a hammer Subject(s): Creation; Monsters AS THE STARS AND THE SANDS, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills and the valleys are flooded with moonlight Last Line: S. Frug. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Creation; Jews; Judaism ATAVISM, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This mad longing, this wild hunger Last Line: On creation's golden strings. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Creation ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a very virtuous burgher Last Line: "dance before the master's throne?" Subject(s): Creation; Grief; Religion; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology BIG BANG, by ROBERT PACK Poem Source First Line: If it had been, in the beginning, god Last Line: That even laughing father pass away Subject(s): Creation BIRTH, by SULAMITH ISH-KISHOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god who built this body round my heart Last Line: And shook me forth, a grain of mortal sand! Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race BROTHERS: 1. INVITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come coil with me Last Line: What it meant. Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Half-brothers BROTHERS: 2. HOW GREAT THOU ART, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, you are beyond Last Line: Imperfection. Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Desire; Self; Half-brothers BROTHERS: 3. AS FOR MYSELF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Less snake than angel Last Line: And to be unafraid. Subject(s): Angels; Brothers; Creation; Mankind; Half-brothers; Human Race BROTHERS: 4. IN MY OWN DEFENSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What could I choose Last Line: Could they have failed to hear. Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Sin; Half-brothers BROTHERS: 7. STILL THERE IS MERCY, THERE IS GRACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How otherwise / could I have come to this Last Line: But, amen, yours. Subject(s): Creation; Grace; Mercy; Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, why grievest thou? Last Line: It still repenteth me!' Subject(s): Creation BY WAY OF THE STARS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise, gentle muse, a worthy note! Last Line: And take the stars along our way. Subject(s): Creation; Hope; Soul; Stars; Optimism CANSO: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must there be in the continuum and whorl Last Line: Hone the incredible silence against their tongues Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Life; Mankind CARMEN GENESIS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing how the uncreated light Last Line: Of the prime water's font. Subject(s): Creation CHANGE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am that creature and creator who Last Line: I am that creature and creator, change. Subject(s): Creation 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 CHOOSING MY CONCEPTION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother at a party in a blue dress Last Line: Of a blue dress falling, and soon, %and randomly I will exist Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Conception; Creation CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: PART 2, SELS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is finished!' thou didst cry like the roar %of a thousand cataracts Last Line: Of god. To thy last groan responded only %in the far distance the pitying sea Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Solitude CIRCLE OF DAYS, by REEVE LINDBERGH Poem Source First Line: Lord, we offer thanks and praise Last Line: Around the circle of our days Subject(s): Creation; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Nature - Religious Aspects; Saints COLOMBIAN JOKE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day god Last Line: Watching what happens Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Creation; Washington, D.c.; Wit & Humor COMPLAINT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Creator-so we call him and believe Last Line: And we have had forever to repeat. Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Human Race CONCERNING JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race Last Line: Never a true crown but thy crown of thorn! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Jesus Christ; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Statues; Truth COURTESY, by DANIEL SARGENT Poem Text First Line: Blessed be god who made such pretty briches Last Line: The beach grass the embroidery of the wave. Subject(s): Creation; God; Nature - Religious Aspects COYOTE'S DISCOURSE ON POWER, MEDICINE, AND WOULD-BE SHAMANS, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: Good evening, friends. You notice this long, straight branch I'm Last Line: Money, it will be a very happy basket. %thank you Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Creation; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Speech CREATION, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God dreamed - the suns sprang flaming into place Last Line: He woke -- his smile alone illumined space. Subject(s): Creation CREATION, by LAWRENCE R. KAHN Poem Text First Line: God gave sod to the man Last Line: Created love. Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Theology 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, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the pregnant womb of night Last Line: Creating and devouring suns. Subject(s): Creation CREATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one by one the veils took flight Last Line: Thy word in every wandering voice. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Creation CREATION, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vollard loved to tell his clients this story Last Line: -- the planet spinning now, luminous %as the archetypal pearl-- %did he ever manage to float such a Subject(s): Art And Artists; Creation; Paintings And Painters; Story-telling 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 CREATION, WITH A BRIDGE, by PAUL GRANT Poem Source First Line: There's no need to choose between them Last Line: Here come the escapees from paradise Subject(s): Bridges; Creation CREATIVITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when the sun rises, I go to work" Last Line: I share creation; kings do no more Subject(s): Creation CRICKET, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: At the cricket's song %a green star Last Line: Is clothed in splendor Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Crickets; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons DARWINITY, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Power to thine elbow, thou newest of sciences Last Line: Born in the sea with a cold in its head? Subject(s): Creation; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; War DAY AND NIGHT: HOW THEY CAME TO BE, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: In those times %when just saying a word Last Line: Following the daytime of the hare Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion DE RERUM VIRTUTE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the skull of a man: a mans thoughts and emotions Last Line: Whatever the sick microbe does. But he too is part of it Subject(s): Creation DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Death! Is it thou whom bravest souls do fear Last Line: Reviving, creeping to calamity. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Tragedy; Dead, The; Declaration Day DECALOGUE OF THE ARTIST, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of god Last Line: That most marvelous dream of god which is nature Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Creation; Nature DELUXE CREATIONS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I am interested in superstitions Last Line: Because the voice of the hare was stronger, %light was created Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Creation; Past; Progress; Supernatural DEVOTION, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To carve this long-haired, melon-breasted girl Last Line: Her lover had to slay, then flay, a whale Subject(s): Art And Artists; Creation DITTY OF CREATION, by ENID MAUD DINNIS Poem Source First Line: What makes this earth so wondrous fair Subject(s): Creation DOG WHO WALKED WITH GOD, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Water, they say, was everywhere Last Line: Everything grown %and still growing Subject(s): California; Creation; Kato Indians; Legends, Native American; Native Americans DRIFTWOOD, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's castoff sculpture on the lesser scale Last Line: Gesture, these crumbling continents, god's juvenilia. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Sculpture & Sculptors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore EARTH AND THE PEOPLE, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: The earth was here before the people Last Line: But we know our land is not the whole world Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion ECCLESIASTES, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days Last Line: Return unto god who gave it. Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Theology ECSTASY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Each perfect rose that unfolded yesterday Last Line: They think, here they stuggle, here they love Subject(s): Creation; Life; Nature; Spain EGYPTIAN THEOSOPHY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the introspective east Last Line: Was laid by an almighty goose. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Creation; Egypt; Theosophy EL FRUTO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The apple wasn't our true origin Last Line: It was king-executive, demi-god of the new business Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Creation ELEGY, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: At the recurrent end of the unending came creation Last Line: From the center of the silent word grace bleeds into %miraculous may, still untarnished Subject(s): Creation 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 EPICUREAN PORTRAITS, by ELISA ALBO Poem Source First Line: You tasted of caramel %caramelo the hue of honey Last Line: I'll begin again. %you tasted of ashes Subject(s): Creation; Fire; Taste (sense) ESSAY: AN AMATEUR OF HUMAN ICHTHYOLOGY: HAIRSHIRT WOVEN IN #S, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear person from a practicable point of view Last Line: At the human-to-be-made: an alphabet collar of hairs, woven in white Subject(s): Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Human Race FABLE: THE BEAU AND THE VIPER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All wise philosophers maintain Last Line: Be still, be humble, and adore!' Subject(s): Animals; Creation; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FAITH, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the seal of science / emblazoned Subject(s): Creation; Faith; Science; Belief; Creed; Scientists FAITH, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the seal of science %emblazoned Last Line: As I've always done before Subject(s): Creation; Faith; Science FALL, by HARRIET ZINNES Poem Source First Line: It came suddenly. You had created it. It had not been there before. This Last Line: Not created that. But who had planted the fig tree in that northern %garden? Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Fig Trees; Mourning; Seasons FAUST BOOK: FAUST ASKS FOR TROUBLE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Now tell me, mephistopheles -- who was it made the world Last Line: What these collaborative efforts are. Team-work's the answer Subject(s): Creation; Devil; Faust 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 GENESIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outer world that was before this earth Last Line: So shall a man be after among the dead. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Life; Light; Universe; World GENESIS UNDONE, by BERTHA BLOKSBERG Poem Source First Line: In the beginning: %man made fire Last Line: Together with the garden pest, %in the earth %that gave us birth Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Nature GENESIS: A RETROSPECTIVE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began with division Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Spirituality; Theology GENESIS: A RETROSPECTIVE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began with division Last Line: But there'd always be incarnations, innuendos Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Spirituality GOD CREATES MAN!, by EDWARD DORN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There's no problem with Last Line: And he was a traveller / like mercury Subject(s): God; Creation; Odin (norse God); Southwest; Pacific States GOD MADE A WORLD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: God made a little world in time's beginning Last Line: And, looking on his world, still finds it good. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; World; Human Race GOD NEVER RESTS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Star-dust through space he flings Last Line: God never rests. Subject(s): Creation; God 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 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 HAIL TEESSIDE!, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ironmasters and their iron men Last Line: And earn fresh honours for our own teesside. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Creation; Enterprise (ship); Iron & Steel Industry; Printing & Printers; Towns HE MADE THIS SCREEN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not of silver nor of coral Subject(s): Creation; Screens HE MADE THIS SCREEN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not of silver nor of coral Last Line: Designating here, a bower; %there, a pointed passion-flower Subject(s): Creation; Screens HOMO SAPIENS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a morning moon the color of cream Last Line: A residue still too ancient to name Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Creation; Evolution; Skulls; Wilderness HYMN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jehovah reigns: let every nation hear Last Line: And your reward is sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Creation; God HYMN OF MAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began Last Line: Glory to man in the highest! For man is master of things. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; Soul; Universe; World; Human Race I CREATED A UNIVERSE ONCE, by ROBERT MURDOCK Poem Source First Line: There was nothing - then: one, two Last Line: Farting noises on her arm while I painted heaven Subject(s): Creation; Heaven IF I HAD ONE THING TO SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see words effaced in the footprints of the conquered Subject(s): Creation; Life; Modern Man 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 GOD, TOO, LONELY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god scooped up a handful of dust Subject(s): God; Creation; Loneliness IN PRINCIPIO, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: In the beginning Last Line: A common horizon Subject(s): Abandonment; Creation; Solitude IN THE BEGINNING, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Long before shark fin, the juncture of bone Last Line: Our splitable hearts, our pittance of knowing Subject(s): Bodies; Creation; Mankind IN THE BEGINNING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How first did the cosmical order Last Line: And thy great orbs are lost in the void, and thy universe uncreate! Subject(s): Creation IN THE BEGINNING, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: This is how he made the snake Last Line: It was dark of the sixth day. Subject(s): Animals; Creation; God; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers INVOCATION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dirt and stone, if I may know you as you know yourselves Last Line: As if already they were partners of the stones and dirt Subject(s): Creation; Death; Dirt; Stones JUST CALIFORNIA, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt the seas and the deserts Last Line: The middle of the world. Subject(s): California; Creation; God; Nature - Religious Aspects KILN GEOMETRY: 1. WOMB, by NOELLE SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: A woman's pails wait by the creek Last Line: She lets nature have it, under a great dome sky, %ruddy walls and vistas widespread Subject(s): Creation; Women KILN GEOMETRY: 3. SIPAPU, by NOELLE SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: I walk into the bellybutton of creation. You bend Last Line: The memory of heat; it bursts, we fall apart Subject(s): Creation KNOWEST THOU JEHOVAH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With the dawn of morning Last Line: Knowest thou the three? Subject(s): Creation; God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Trinity, The; Holy Spirit; Theology LAST ACT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: A hundred times you wanted to think about the eye Last Line: The sect of creation as creator %existing through sight Subject(s): Creation; Eyes; Life; Light 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 LORD, THOU GREAT JEHOVAH, by ALBERT FRANK HOFFMANN Poem Text First Line: Creator, author of all things! Last Line: Lord, thou great jehovah. Subject(s): Creation; God; Jews; Judaism MAGIC WORDS (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: Nobody could explain this: / that's the way it was Subject(s): Cosmology;creation;eskimos;mythology - Native American;native Americans;religion; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America;theology MAKING A MYTH, by RONALD ALBERT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Making a myth is easy Last Line: You can't bear: %it's so immense Subject(s): Creation; Human Rights; Mythology MARBLE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A blank unshapely mass but yesterday Last Line: A form to haunt the midnight of our dreams! Subject(s): Creation; Marble MAY MORNING, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy, the rapture Last Line: God. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Creation; Earth; God; Life; World MERCY'S REPLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the earth was made; yet still, though full of light" Last Line: And with thy brother gently deal below Subject(s): Creation METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of bodies changed to various forms I sing Last Line: And saw the palace by the purple light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Creation; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting; Human Race MICHELANGELO, by LOUISE LINCOLN NEWELL Poem Text First Line: There is a god, the artist said Last Line: "upon it set thy seal." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God MIND IN CREATION, by RICHARD BLACKMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes by nature your enlightened school Last Line: While none in all th' original appear? Subject(s): Creation MUD, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Mud, unending malice. All other source gives way at last Last Line: With a funny tremor in her voice Subject(s): Children; Creation NAMING AND ADAM GAVE NAMES TO ALL THE CATTEL AND TO THE FOWL OF, by MARTHA E. BOSWORTH Poem Source First Line: The lust for knowledge: everything of earth Last Line: We name our deities and barely nod %before our hunger craves a greater god Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION, by LISA MECKEL Poem Source First Line: All night I've remained awake Last Line: Know again that the river is never the same river, ever Subject(s): Creation; Self; Self-criticism O BROTHER CHICKEN! SISTER CHICK!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Egg-nostics for to be? Subject(s): Birth; Chickens; Creation; Eggs 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 OF DUST AND THE NIGHT, by LISA YANOVER Poem Source First Line: The first woman calls herself lilith Last Line: Out of danger by their true names, %back into human form Subject(s): Creation; Women OF GOD AND MAN, by F. G. WEIBAULT Poem Text First Line: When god made man, it was his one mistake Last Line: Relieved to find man's vanished from his sight. Subject(s): Creation ON RETURN FROM THE SHORE, by HELEN IFFLA BAY Poem Text First Line: Surely he made his sea for solitude Last Line: Perhaps it was for this he made his sea. Subject(s): Creation; God; Sea; Ocean ON THE OUTERMOST EDGE, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: On the outmost edge of the ocean Last Line: Toward the star, which alone shimmers %in black air Subject(s): Creation; Earth ON THE SEVENTH DAY, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: On the first day god said Last Line: Under that huge prairie sky Subject(s): Creation; God; Heaven; Marriage ONE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One blood are we Last Line: Of the one creative love. Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Human Race OSWEGO LAKE, by MARGARET BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: God's mirror of the mountains Last Line: Whose earth with heaven compares. Subject(s): Creation; Lakes; Pools; Ponds OVER ALL THE FACE OF EARTH MAIN OCEAN FLOWED, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Creation; Sea PARAPHRASE OF THE BIBLE: OPENING, by CAEDMON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most right it is that we praise with our words Last Line: The fairest woman. Subject(s): Creation; Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub PAULINE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pauline, mine own, bend o'er me - thy soft breast Last Line: Or touch of fear. Love me and wish me well. Subject(s): Creation; Faith; Belief; Creed 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 PHANTASMATA: 1, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world was sleeping in the lap of night Last Line: To stay the rise of hyperion's orb. Subject(s): Creation; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes PHANTASMATA: PROLOGUE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boreal sea is bathed in golden mist Last Line: Sped swiftly upward through the smiling skies. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; Poetry & Poets POEM ON MODERATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In making bodies love could not express Last Line: God made man greater while he made him less. Subject(s): Creation; God; Soul PRINCE ARTHUR: THE CRYSTAL PALACES, by RICHARD BLACKMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious illuminations, made on high Last Line: Which from th' eternal battlements were flung. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Crystallization; Physics; Sky; Universe; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROBLEM AND ANSWER, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: To conjure life into a lonely waste Last Line: And solve the subtle trick with more than sleep. Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Religion; Dead, The; Theology PSALM 74, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Thou art, o god, the life and light Variant Title(s): The Glory Of God In Creatio Subject(s): Creation; God RADIOGRAPHY, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: Nights like this my body would open Last Line: Each cold seed is opening Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Creation; Music And Musicians REBUILDING THE TINMAN, by JOSHUA KEEN Poem Source First Line: First he gave me new ears melted down Last Line: I'm learning to move more softly than planets Subject(s): Birth; Creation RECYCLING, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If from ruined tara's draperies Subject(s): Creation; Refuse & Refuse Disposal RECYCLING, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If from ruined tara's draperies Last Line: Edure as reference, memory, and love, %recycled, feather-light, perennial Subject(s): Creation; Refuse And Refuse Disposal RESPONSIBILITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Have you ever seen god Last Line: Baroque sustenance of the people Subject(s): Creation; Duty; God ROOM, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through that window - all else being extinct Last Line: I will be watching then as I watch now. %I will praise darkness now, but then the leaf Subject(s): Creation RUINS REBUILT, by ADOLPH BOCK Poem Text First Line: God said, 'let there be light!' and lo! Last Line: Behold, humanity come forth to pray. Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Heaven; Humanity; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology SAMPLES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me not all-this severed bit Last Line: The bottom of an empty cup! Subject(s): Beauty; Creation SCALLOP SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a garland of the briar that put me now in awe Last Line: & leave all sorrow bye & bye. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Parents; Infants; Parenthood SEVENS (VERSION 3): IN THE CLOSED IRIS OF CREATION, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of heavy scissors lay across the sky Last Line: Began to sever us Subject(s): Creation; Humanity; Life; Perception SHORE LINE, by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: When the dry land appeared, and seas were called Last Line: That god made not a man -- and then a shore! Subject(s): Creation; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SHOREHAM: TWILIGHT TIME, by SAMUEL PALMER Poem Text First Line: And now the trembling light Last Line: And mark'st when sparrows fall. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; God; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: THE SECOND DAY, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he said on that first dark day Last Line: This second day alone of all the seven %of the week wasn't called 'good' Subject(s): Creation SOIL AND SOUL, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth a bit of star-dust is Last Line: "to plunder or create." Subject(s): Creation; God; Mankind; Human Race SOMERSAULT, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A somersault was prone to sign Last Line: We're all just grains of sault %turned out %from his great somershaker Subject(s): Creation; Life SONG OF WELCOME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ai, ai, my small red man" Subject(s): Babies;creation;mothers;mythology - Native American;native Americans; Infants;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONGS OF CREATION: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God at first the sun created Last Line: "calves he finally is making." Subject(s): Creation SONGS OF CREATION: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the devil spake the lord thus Last Line: Thou canst nothing make, however. Subject(s): Creation; Devil; God; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub SONGS OF CREATION: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made for my glory and edification Last Line: For nought but my own delight I intended. Subject(s): Creation SONGS OF CREATION: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With one short week of preparation Last Line: Both doctors of law and little fleas. Subject(s): Creation SONGS OF CREATION: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the sixth day spake the lord thus Last Line: Man will praise and worship me. Subject(s): Creation; Nature; Praise SONGS OF CREATION: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stuff out of which a poem is wrought Last Line: From being artist'cally treated. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Women; World SONGS OF CREATION: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefest reason why I made Last Line: Creation made me once more sound. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Soul; World SONNET, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starry flower, the flower-like stars that fade Last Line: Stippled orion on the midnight blue. Subject(s): Pfrayer; Creation; God 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: 35, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this of death, from you who never will die? Last Line: Make known him master, and for what good reason. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Dead, The SONNET: THE NEBULAR THEORY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the genesis of heaven and earth Last Line: Froze into suns, and thus the world was formed. Subject(s): Creation ST. PAUL'S, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Among the madmen %who play at magnificent Last Line: In the rooms with windows %like shards of light Subject(s): Art And Artists; Creation; Paintings And Painters; Solitude SUN AND MOON, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: A brother and sister had been very wicked Last Line: Because his torch no longer burns Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion 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 THE ANGELS MARVEL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are stars up in the heavens Last Line: Is his one creature—man. Subject(s): Angels; Creation; Heaven; Mankind; Stars; Paradise; Human Race THE BEGINNING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell strange things of the primeval earth Last Line: On certain days I dream about her still.' Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Hearts; Life; World 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 CHEERFUL HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The world is ever as we take it' Last Line: "when first he said, ""let there be light." Subject(s): Creation;life THE CHRYSALIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I floated sightless, nor did know Last Line: And from that world a mighty angel fled. Subject(s): Christianity; Creation; God THE COMMENT OF CREATION, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A painter indicates the time of day Subject(s): Creation 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 CREATION, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things bright and beautiful Last Line: Who has made all things well. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Variant Title(s): Maker Of Heaven And Earth Subject(s): Creation; Nature THE DAYS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Issuing from the word Subject(s): Creation THE DOWNWARD GAZE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the earth, if thou wouldst see Last Line: Shall know he never tarries long. Subject(s): Creation; God THE EARTH IS BUILDED, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Full Text First Line: Out of the sun Subject(s): Creation THE ETERNAL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is his garment and also heaven Last Line: Answer with mercy and law and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Creation; Future Life; Heaven; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise 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 GLORY AND SHAME OF GOD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God created man. He breathed into the mould Last Line: Man is the shame of god! Subject(s): Creation; God; Mankind; Shame; Human Race THE GODDESS WHO CREATED THIS PASSING WORLD, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gods & Goddesses; Creation THE IMAGE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I be like my god, my king Last Line: Like me to lie. Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Human Race THE JOB, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, god, it won't come right! It won't come right! Last Line: —from sky lines and wood smoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Creation; Lightning; Rain; Storms; Thought; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Thinking THE MAKER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made the country Last Line: Of great renown? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Creation; God; Mankind; Towns; Human Race THE MAKING OF BIRDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made him birds in a pleasant humour Last Line: Bade them soar and sing for his joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Creation; God; Praise; Singing & Singers THE MEASURE, HYMN 4, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God the creator, with a pulseless hand Last Line: With the dry dust of death. Subject(s): God; Creation THE MOMENT OF CREATION, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A painter indicates the time of day Last Line: A floor of jade, obsidian, turquoise, ebony, lapis. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation THE NEXT CHILD WAITS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the city waits - the next child waits - there is a great singing, mother Subject(s): Creation THE NORTHERN PINE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Hark! O man, to the urgent song I sing Last Line: Hark! O man, to the urgent song I sing. Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Nature; Pine Trees THE ODE OF CREATION, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark and boundless deep Last Line: Its former self or primal state at all. Subject(s): Creation THE POET, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: From a pit of bones Last Line: Creation is perfect Subject(s): Creation THE POET TO THE READER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a poem have I made Last Line: Save when two mingle, soul in soul. Subject(s): Creation; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE PRAYER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many worlds have I made,' said the good god Last Line: "to draw men's souls to me." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Creation; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Prayer 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 ROOM, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through that window—all else being extinct Last Line: I will praise darkness now, but then the leaf Subject(s): War; Trees; Creation THE ROSE OF THE WORLD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? Last Line: Before her wandering feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Creation; Dreams; God 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 TEN WORDS OF CREATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the beginning god created Last Line: "yhvh, yhvh, a god merciful and gracious, the existent, yhvh" Subject(s): Creation;jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism 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 THEY MAY RAIL AT THIS LIFE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may rail at this life-from the hour I began it Last Line: And leave earth to such spirits as you, love, and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; Love; Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight THINGS IN THE SKY, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: The weather with its storms and snows Last Line: Of the lovely colored light in the sky Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion THIS IS THE MAKING OF MAN, by PRISCILLA LEONARD Poem Text First Line: Flame of the spirit and dust of the earth Last Line: This is the making of man. Subject(s): Creation; Religion; Theology THOUGHTS IN A CATHEDRAL, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not with these thy priesthood dwells Last Line: With these thy holy priesthood dwells. Variant Title(s): In A Cathedral Subject(s): Churches; Creation; God; Nature; Spring; Cathedrals THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: Once in a time of hunger Last Line: That thunder and lightning could be %very dangerous indeed Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion TO BAPTISTA TURRIANO, ON THE DEATH OF HIS SONS, by GIROLAMO FRACASTORO Poem Text First Line: Since with sweet balm the muse alone can heal Last Line: Together rush'd to form th' emerging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Fracastorius, Hieronnymus Subject(s): Creation; Death; Grief; Mourning; Nature; Parents; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood TO MISS LEAR ON HER BIRTHDAY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, and very dear relation Last Line: And kindly meant in perpetration Subject(s): Birthdays; Creation TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! What a world I would create from my own, my lovers Last Line: We shall need no other world, no other worlds. Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Earth; Friendship; Love; Socialism; World TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I HEAR THY CALL, MYSTERIOUS BEING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear thy call, mysterious being Last Line: I hear thy call—I come. Subject(s): Creation TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SO THIN A VEIL, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So thin a veil divides Last Line: So thin a veil divides! Subject(s): Creation TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BABE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trio perfect: the man, the woman, and the babe Last Line: And herein all creation. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Family Life; Love; Infants; Relatives TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TO BECOME A CREATOR, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice saying Last Line: To the centre of all creation—to the heart indeed of all lovers. Subject(s): Creation; Emotions; God; Humanity TWELVE GOOD MEN AND TRUE, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rusty key has whined in the lock, the rickety door is fast Last Line: They're tired, now, and they want their tea, the twelve good men and true! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Creation; God; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty TWO BEGINNINGS, by PATRICIA FAREWELL Poem Source First Line: With this hammer build your house Last Line: When you swim there, shorebirds follow Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Creation; Houses; Sea UNHOLY SONNETS: 4, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many creatures and so many minds Last Line: Were not a way of loving our own kind Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Creation; Nature UP NATURE'S STEPS, by WILLARD PACKARD HATCH Poem Text First Line: This life, up nature's steps, mounts on and on Last Line: Who answered prayer, and helped man as he grew. Subject(s): Creation VIOLIN SONGS: LOVE IS HOME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is the part, and love is the whole Last Line: Home unto thee, we are coming home! Subject(s): Creation; God; Home; Love; Nature WALKING NONSEQ IN NEW SNOW, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: In the beginning were deuterium Last Line: As we fling into the year 2000 Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Creation; Universe WHALE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, with a silver flail Last Line: "and there was whale!" Subject(s): Creation; God; Judgment Day; Whales; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHO MADE WAR?, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: God, who made the shining stars Last Line: Who made war? Subject(s): Creation; God; War WILD NATURE, by CHARLES NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Fresh were the breathings of the nightborn gale Last Line: More than an evening's hour, or a long summer's day Subject(s): Creation; Nature YIGDAL, by PHILIP ABRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Extol we now the living god Last Line: His name be ever blest. Subject(s): Creation; God; Jews; Judaism YIGDAL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The living god, o magnify and bless Last Line: And let his praise resound for evermore. Subject(s): Creation; God; Israel; Jews; Judaism YOU, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When god was in his rarest skill Last Line: Then sent you, flawless, from his hand. Subject(s): Creation; God |
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