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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: END OF THE WORLD Matches Found: 82 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 20, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if a much of a which of a wind Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Judgment Day; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day; World; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this ae nighte [night], this ae nighte [night]" Last Line: And christ receive thy saule [soul] Variant Title(s): The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge Subject(s): Death;judgment Day;wakes; "dead, The;end Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man; A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 1, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niloiya said to noah, what aileth thee Last Line: Shall have no let of me, to do its will.' Subject(s): Arks; Floods; God; Judgment Day; Noah (bible); End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A TINKLE OF BELLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light of the moon on the white Last Line: Sheer into the judgment day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Judgment Day; Moon; Snow; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man AD ASTRA: 131, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O baleful lure, to lead our feet astray! Last Line: Strong in whose strength man may think scorn of fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Judgment Day; Religion; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S ALONE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do when I stand in my place Last Line: And I stand at god's judgment alone! Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man APOCALYPSE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all sixty of us I am the only one who went Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BILLY AND HIS DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! It's come, kids, come! Last Line: Ef you don't hear little billy an' his big bass drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Drums; Judgment Day; Musical Instruments; Noises; Childhood; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CHRIST'S COMING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The peoples long have waited Last Line: Exalt his holy name! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Justice; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man COMPANY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, 'how terrible, if I were seen Last Line: "I thought, ""why should I, if the rest are so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CONCLUSION, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: There is an ending, even to these things Last Line: More graciously before our hearts were broken? Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DIES IRAE, by ABRAHAM COLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of wrath, that day of burning Last Line: Spare, lord, in that hour of terror! Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DIES IRAE, by THOMAS OF CELANO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of vengeance, without morrow! Last Line: Save him, god! From condemnation! Variant Title(s): The Day Of Judgment Subject(s): Consolation; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DIES IRAE DIES ILLA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hears't thou, my soul, what serious things" Last Line: "my hope, my fear! My judge, my friend! / take charge of me, and of my end" Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man DOOMES-DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let not that day gods friends and servants scare Last Line: The bench is then their place; and not the barre. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Judgment Day; Longing; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of everything approaches Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOST THOU DENY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dost thou deny the virgin birth? Last Line: When thou shalt face christ's judgment seat. Subject(s): Devil; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology END OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: Once I knew that the end of the world Last Line: Who measure time by years. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man END OF THE WORLD, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a weeping in the world Last Line: Whereby we too must die. Subject(s): Bible; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ENGLAND'S ALFRED ABROAD, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrong? Are they wrong? Of course they are Last Line: And the 'bus to cimiez. Subject(s): Austin, Alfred (1835-1913); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FAREWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tie the strings to my life, my lord, / then I am ready to go! Last Line: Now I am ready to go! Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Prayer; Reformation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FORMULA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I saw the flesh that made the lover burn Last Line: X equals aand so, he is destroyed. Subject(s): Heaven; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man GOOD-NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You linger when you say good-night Last Line: Or only on the day of days?' Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Fear; Judgment Day; Dead, The; Parting; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HYMN CONCERNING THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by THOMASIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a thief, who falls at midnight on his unsuspecting prey Last Line: When the master comes, to meet him, bearing with you lamps that burn. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomasius, Christia Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ILICET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an end of joy and sorrow Last Line: The poppied sleep, the end of all Subject(s): Death; Grief; Judgment Day; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty judge, how shall poor wretches brook Last Line: There thou shalt finde my faults are thine. Subject(s): Judges; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGEMENT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my day, yet ere thou art quite departed Last Line: Thou who art christ, christ who is more than thou. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGMENT, by FERNAND MAZADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night the true god lists your every crime Last Line: And the true godI see it allwill pardon you. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Every day is judgment day Last Line: Sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When through our bodies our two spirits / burn Last Line: Irked by long shadows, mocked by those bright far tones. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man LMFBR, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death himself, / (liquid metal fast breeder reactor) Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON ETHNIC DEFINITIONS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON THOSE THAT DESERVE IT, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O when our clergy, at the dreadful day Last Line: Durst ye not stoop to play the fools for him? Subject(s): Clergy; Judgment Day; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered water made a misty din Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken." Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore RECOMPENSE, by JESSE M. BALL ALLEN Poem Text First Line: When sound shall cease, there being none to hear Last Line: Not failure, not defeat, but consummation! Subject(s): Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 3. RESURRECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpet's wild echo fills the skies Last Line: And hell for the goats is selected. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TESTIMONY OF HANDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is every day the judgment day? Last Line: The hand that plies eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE APPROACHETH THE HALL OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o my heart, my mother, my heart, my mother" Last Line: "yea, millions-of-years, o my mother, my heart!" Subject(s): Judgment Day;mythology - Egyptian; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE CRY OF JOB, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou lovest the heart that's pure Last Line: Come with thy judgment day to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bible; God; Job (bible); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: With a whirl of thought oppressed Last Line: I damn such fools! -- go, go, you're bit.' Variant Title(s): On The Day Of Judgement Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day of life, of light, of love Last Line: Make all things new! And without end! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT; AN ODE ATTEMPTED IN ENGLISH SAPPHIC, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the fierce north-wind with his airy forces Last Line: Shout the redeemer. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Asunder shall the clouds be rolled Last Line: With vanished light like dead men's eyes Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE DOOM OF YS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the bell? 'tis a silver chime Last Line: It rings o'er the town that the deep sea hides!' Subject(s): Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades! The end of the world's at hand! Last Line: For the end of the world is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had fallen many nights and days Last Line: "he can stay with me while I do not lift them." Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the world: it was given to me to see it Last Line: Postpones the end of the world: in which we live forever Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE EPITAPH ENDING IN AND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last storm, when hawks Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE ETERNAL JUSTICE, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god that god shall judge my soul, not man! Last Line: All's well with thee if thou art in just hands. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FIFTEEN DAYS OF JUDGEMENT, by SEBASTIAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Then there shall be signs in heaven Last Line: Mark yon shadow on the dial! Subject(s): God; Heaven; Judgment Day; Ruins; Storms; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FINAL CONFLAGRATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "verily, verily that day shall come" Last Line: "this done, who shattered all, shall all restore" Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man 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 FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE HYPOCRITES REWARD, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When came his final judgment Last Line: He wore them in god's name. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE INEVITABLE. SURAT: 59, by KORAN Poem Text First Line: When the day of wrath and mercy cometh, none shall doubt it come Last Line: "oh, ""companions of the right hand!"" oh! Ye others who were wise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Quran Subject(s): Heaven; Islam; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGE-MENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God hides from man the reck'ning day, that he Last Line: Expect the coming of it ev'ry day. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGEMENT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The judgment trump has blown Last Line: In one flood of viewless flame. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGEMENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In doing justice, god shall then be known Last Line: Who shewing mercy here, few priz'd, or none. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MILLENNIUM, by IDA TEEPLE WITTENBERGER Poem Text First Line: The armaments and power of kings Last Line: In chains in deepest hell! Subject(s): Judgment Day; Peace; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house. Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SUMME, AND THE THE SATISFACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I drew up mine account Last Line: By law, the bond once cancelled. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE TRUMPET CALL (1), by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over earth awakes a whirring Last Line: "glad or grieving, thou shalt rise." Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Trumpets; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We met, a hundred of us met Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE WHEAT AND THE TARES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Satan hath with devil's cunning Last Line: Tares are tares, and wheat is wheat. Subject(s): Judgment Day; Judgments; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TO HAYDN, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the mighty master that can trace / the eternal lineaments of nature's fac Last Line: And consonance sublime amid confusion hears. Subject(s): Fights; Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809); Judgment Day; Thunder; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright Last Line: Then chiefly lives. Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence WENDELL PHILLIPS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him stand, upon the judgment day Last Line: If but one soul be lost, how is man saved?' Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 WHAT WE ARE, by PEARLE MOORE STEVENS Poem Text First Line: I may not scale the mountain top Last Line: For what we really are. Subject(s): Good; Judgment Day; Truth; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man YOUR ACCOUNTING, by EMME MAAK Poem Text First Line: If you've walked with wisdom - known the way Last Line: You've done god's work -- you'll get god's pay! Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man |
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