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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CROSS, THE Matches Found: 37 A HYMN TO THE CROSS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "steddefast crosse, inmong alle other" Last Line: And sweter be the birdin that hangis upon thee Subject(s): "cross, The; A WAYSIDE CROSS, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: The moving pictures of my flight Last Line: A wayside cross. Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion AVE CRUX, SPES UNICA!, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than two crosses stand on either side Last Line: "remember us, o king!" Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CLAUD HALCRO'S INVOCATION, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Magnus control thee, that martyr of treason Last Line: Hence pass till hallow-mass!—my spell is spoken. Subject(s): Cross, The; Ghosts; Mass; Saints; Sin; Supernatural CROSS, by THOMAS BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Our saviour's cross, begilt with guiltless blood Last Line: Of the vast world, and from the four winds should %christ's flock be fetched to his thrice-blessed f Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I'll draw a cross Last Line: Motionless in their gaze Subject(s): Cross, The CRUCIFIXION TO THE WORLD BY THE CROSS OF CHRIST, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I survey the wondrous cross / on which the prince of glory died Last Line: Demands my soul, my life, my all. Variant Title(s): The Cross;glorying In The Cross;the Wondrous Cross Subject(s): Christianity; Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CRUCIFORM, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Source First Line: Here, in the sand, where some one laid him down Last Line: But then, or some day, could lie down and fit %our desolate arms and bodies into it Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Cross, The; Love DESCENT FROM THE CROSS, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Had he been a sack of grain, the fullness Last Line: Gathering bushels and bags [or, bagsful] of fruit Subject(s): Cross, The; Death EASTER, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Light streams from out the open tomb Last Line: But the shadow falleth still. Subject(s): Cross, The; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection GOD'S CROSS, by MARTIN E. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: There lies the holy cross Last Line: Etched by god's finger. Subject(s): Cross, The HEAL MY HANDS!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Lord, near thy cross, as men count nearness Last Line: Heal my hands. Subject(s): Christianity; Cross, The; God; Religion; Theology HELENA'S BEACONS; THE FINDING OF THE CROSS, A.D. 326, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helena, empress-mother Last Line: Is the joy of the blest on high! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Cross, The; God; Helena, Saint (248-328); Jesus Christ MARGINALIA, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: At first, in catherine's hours of the cross Last Line: Its logic hammered out like filigree Subject(s): Cross, The; Cruelty; Sickness MARY AT THE CROSS, by KAREN PICONI Poem Source First Line: At the foot of the cross, mary holds Last Line: Hand on his chest - he feels so cold %and so far away in death Subject(s): Cross, The NAILS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So, you're stretched on the planks, you schemer Last Line: Left him up, let the show begin. - %which was the nail, friend, that you drove in? Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice ODE TO THE SETTING SUN: PRELUDE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wailful sweetness of the violin Last Line: Sweet with wild wings that pass, that pass away! Subject(s): Cross, The ON BEARING THE CROSS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take up the cross which thou hast got Last Line: "this bitter cross—thy will be done!" Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion 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 PRAYER, by EVELYN B. FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As here before. Thine altar now I kneel Last Line: That I may never be alone, doubting in a troubled world. Subject(s): Altars; Cross, The; Prayer SAD VENTURES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I stood and watched my ships go out Last Line: A crown linked to a cross Subject(s): "cross, The;crosses;crowns;faith;farewell;ships & Shipping;" Belief;creed;parting THE APPLE TREE CROSS, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN Poem Text First Line: Our apple tree - we loved it well Last Line: A reverenced thing it be. Subject(s): Cross, The THE CORONET, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When for the thorns which I long, too long Last Line: May crown thy feet, that could not crown thy head. Subject(s): Cross, The; Flowers THE CROSS, by CHARLES NELSON PACE Poem Text First Line: The cross is such a simple thing Last Line: By one identified with it. Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ THE CROSS, by SHIRLEY DILLON WAITE Poem Text First Line: So heavy and so fraught with pain Last Line: The cross. Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice THE CROSS OF LIGHT, by METTA ELAINE WALSH Poem Text First Line: On the wooded heights of mount davidson Last Line: "in the cross of christ I glory." Subject(s): Cross, The THE CROSSE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this strange and uncouth thing? Last Line: With but foure words, my words, thy will be done. Variant Title(s): The Cross Subject(s): Cross, The; Repentance; Penitence THE CRUCIFIX, by ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In hopeless contemplation of his work Last Line: "my god, my god, thou hast not forsaken me!" Subject(s): Cross, The THE CRUCIFIX IN THE FILING CABINET, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the filing cabinet of true steel Subject(s): Cross, The; Jews; Judaism THE FLAMING CROSS, by GERTRUDE M. MCGRATH Poem Text First Line: Northward, high and lifted up Last Line: Calls a warring world to brotherhood. Subject(s): Cross, The THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er across this sinful flesh of mine Last Line: Its source he cannot know. Subject(s): Cross, The THE SONG OF THEODOLIND, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen theodolind has built / in the earth a furnace-bed Last Line: Red of heat, beat, beat! Subject(s): Cross, The; Legends; Temptation THE SYMBOL LOVE CHOSE; A RED CROSS POEM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Love:--that sweet goddess of mercy Last Line: He gave her this symbol of red. Subject(s): Calvary; Cross, The; Crucifixion; Love; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology TO A LITTLE 17TH CENTURY FIGURE OF THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST: CROSS MISSING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is your cross. Poor homeless one? I see Last Line: Between pale thieves, the dreams that dream in vain! Subject(s): Cross, The VEXILLA REGIS, THE HYMN OF THE HOLY CROSSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Look up, languishing soul! Lo where the fair Last Line: And let thy lost sheep live t'inherit %that kingdom which this cross did merit Subject(s): Cross, The VOX ULTIMA CRUCIS, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tarye no lenger; toward thyn heritage Last Line: For the I offered my blood in sacryfice. Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion WATERBURY CROSS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fall. You're driving 84 southwest Last Line: Who bides time in a cloud? Choking, my car %walks over water, across to danbury Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Cross, The; Religion; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) |
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