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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEATH, RETURN FROM Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL SOULS' EVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I cried all night to you Last Line: I knew not you were here. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Death, Return From; All Hallows Night ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother, I swept the hearth, I set his chair and the white board Last Line: Afraid to meet my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Variant Title(s): On All Souls' Night Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Death, Return From; Superstition; All Hallows Night COULD DEATH, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The order of lone things Subject(s): Death, Return From; Solitude CRACKING THE SHELL, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: At evening %a green star burns Last Line: To be born again %as the universe Subject(s): Birth; Death, Return From EVEN IN THE TOUCH, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: If, as the superstitious claim, the dead Last Line: Stepped across that threshold, never to return? Subject(s): Death, Return From FAIRBANKS UNDER THE SOLSTICE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, without sun, the day sinks Last Line: Word of the resurrection of silence. Subject(s): Death, Return From; December; Frost; Winter FATHER LYNCH RETURNS FROM THE DEAD, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's one day a year Subject(s): Death, Return From FOR FIVE LONG YEARS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: The ax lay at your roots in deadly hush Last Line: A mystery which awes, transcends the mind of man. Subject(s): Absence; Death, Return From; Separation; Isolation I MUST COME BACK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dread the break when I shall die Last Line: I must come back! I must come back! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Absence; Death, Return From; Separation; Isolation LIFE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A child is born Last Line: On the stone of the door-sill Subject(s): Death, Return From; Future Life; Soldiers MANY HAPPY RETURNS, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: There is nothing,' you said, 'to return to Last Line: The act of faith unto death Subject(s): Death, Return From; Eucharist; Worship RESURRECTION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I buried joy; and early to the tomb Last Line: Who dared to dream that joy, my joy, could die! Subject(s): Death, Return From; Immortality RESURRECTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let's shake wild music from grey belfry Last Line: Lived for an hour—then for all time were dead. Subject(s): Death, Return From THE CHILD-ANGEL'S RETURN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: A child-angel came down from her home in high heaven Last Line: "at the longest, my dear ones, it cannot be long." Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Death, Return From; Heaven; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Paradise THE DISTANCE THAT THE DEAD HAVE GONE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With their dear retrospect Subject(s): Death, Return From THE LIGHT THE DEAD SEE, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are many people who come back Subject(s): Death, Return From THE RETURN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The shadow far and wide Last Line: Its home where great souls dwell. Subject(s): Death, Return From; Shadows; Soul TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I COME FORTH FROM THE DARKNESS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come forth from the darkness to smite thee Last Line: Joy, joy! The earth is thine. Subject(s): Death, Return From; Shadows WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life; Death - Babies WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Last Line: Of our mortal goddess on the indifferent wind Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life |
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