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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CROSSES Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SISTER OF SORROW: 2. WEEPING CROSS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now when you come to weeping cross Last Line: "who kissed as judas kissed." Subject(s): Crosses A WAY-SIDE GRAVE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our upland journey wound its way Last Line: Was golden glimmering with may. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crosses; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BLACK CROSS FARM, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After full many a mutual delay Last Line: The secret of the black cross back with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crosses; Emptiness; Farm Life; Home; Secrets; Agriculture; Farmers CALVARY, by JOHN ROTHSCHILD Poem Text First Line: Acres of crosses - wooden crosses - bleak Last Line: Of folded arms in the menacing hour? Subject(s): Calvary; Crosses; Crucifixion; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The DUST, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only my dust is never laid Last Line: And then unmakes again the world the dance has made. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Dust; Dead, The GENEOLOGY OF CROSSES, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The microscope revealed a world of miracles Last Line: The cross just threw up its hands Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Crosses HE IS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stranger has a black cross on his forehead Last Line: Between fiction and lies Subject(s): Crosses; Lies; Strangers; Truth JESUS FALLS THE FOURTH TIME, by CHRISTINE DRESCH Poem Source First Line: Any number of natural explanations might suffice Last Line: Of a toppling milk-white christ Subject(s): Crosses; Jesus Christ NOCTURNE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night of mid-june, in heavy vapours dying Last Line: Except its cross of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Crosses; Nature; Religion; Vision; Theology 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 CHANT OF THE CROSS-BEARING CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear dis cross dis many a mile Last Line: "de cross-bearin' chile!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Crosses; Life; Childhood THE CROSS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since christ embraced the cross itself, dare I Last Line: That crosses children, which our crosses are. Subject(s): Christianity; Crosses THE GOLDEN CROSS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A golden cross, lifted so high Last Line: Yet there it stands unmoved alway. Subject(s): Crosses THE RUINED CROSS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wreathed bright flower-wreaths in her hair Last Line: The youthful wanderer died. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE SWAGMAN'S REST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We buried old bob where the bloodwoods wave Last Line: Is known as 'the swagman's rest'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Graves; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE THREE TREES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak is a brave tree that groweth in the wood Last Line: By such as ye the cruel cross was made. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Crosses; Crucifixion; Oak Trees; Pine Trees; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE TOY CROSS, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little boy at christmas-tide Last Line: Clasp'd for eternity! Subject(s): Christmas; Crosses; Nativity, The THE WATCHERS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She fell asleep among the flowers Last Line: May they all meet in heaven. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Crosses; Grief; Love; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness THE WAYSIDE CROSS, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wayside cross at set of day Last Line: For such sweet thoughts in the twilight grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise VICTORY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before those golden altar-lights we stood Last Line: There's but one way. God make us better men. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Fame; France; Love; Victory; Dead, The; Reputation |
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