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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ETERNITY Matches Found: 305 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALL, FR, THE POET'S VOCATION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the music of the morns Last Line: "crying: ""come to me! Come to me!" Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A DIEU! AND AU REVOIR!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: As you love me, let there be Last Line: "his father!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology A LEAF FALLS, by LOU MALLORY LUKE Poem Text First Line: The lyric rustle of a leaf Last Line: Shall claim eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Leaves; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. ENVOY, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I have play'd the little hour Last Line: Of joy, and then our infinite alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Variant Title(s): Reunited Subject(s): Diaries; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A MONODY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hour after hour Last Line: Eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A NEW BIRTH, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fate, my portion in the strife Last Line: Submissive to thy will! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A NEW DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if already pulsed in every part Last Line: For childhood's joy, for dreams and hopes and fears. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A PROPOSAL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, I love thee! With such words / wouldst thou Last Line: In life, in love, in soul, unto eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Beginnings; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A SOLACE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Think not of all the loved ones you have lost Last Line: And thank god for his goodness and his grace. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Gratitude; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A SONG OF ETERNITY IN TIME, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, at night, in the manor wood Last Line: Macon, georgia, 1867. Revised in 1879. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A STAR-GAZER GOES HIGHER, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He read the vaulted heavens for his book Last Line: What fadeless stars, what never-setting sun? Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise A THOUGHT ON ETERNITY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: E'er the foundations of the world were laid Last Line: Ten thousand thousand rolling years are nought. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A VINDICATION, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: I claim the eternal right to love, without conditions Last Line: Till he restored thee, smiling, unto me. Subject(s): Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A VOICE TO THE DYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Unknown and uncounted the years thou hadst / lain in my bosom Last Line: But never to be parted from her that bids thee come! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Future Life; Mothers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AD ASTRA: 102, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our minds are finite-can we measure his? Last Line: Worlds yet undreamt of may go wheeling by! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AD ASTRA: 3, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O gentle love! Sooth whisperer to mankind Last Line: Cradling the great deeps of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AFTER DEATH, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know just what may hap, when I go Last Line: Is just that simple little creed, to climb the golden stairs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AFTER WORK, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, when thou seest that my work is done Last Line: Will I come. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology AFTER-LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O boon and curse in one - this ceaseless need Last Line: Born but to bloom a summer time and die. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ALWAYS; TO MADAME FAURE-FAVIER, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poet's Biography First Line: Always / we'll go further without ever advancing Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN ARGUMENT FOR DAVID'S BELIEF OF A FUTURE STATE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If david knew not of a future life Last Line: Now give as plain an answer thereupon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Future Life; Salvation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN EARLY AFTER LIFE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN INVITE TO ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, wilt thou go with me sweet maid Last Line: We are wed to one eternity. Subject(s): Consolation; Courtship; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN OPEN DOOR, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That longed-for door stood open, and he passed Last Line: "I still am I,"" his eyes say, ""thou art thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AND AFTER--WHAT?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Twas omar said--and it was strangely true-- Last Line: The shrouding blackness does not finish all? Variant Title(s): And After-what? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise ANOTHER YEAR, by VIOLET DARLINGTON WAY Poem Text First Line: Another year, I'll have some poppies there Last Line: Another year! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ANTICIPATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day in highest heaven, made fair and white Last Line: As I shall be that day. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ASOLANDO: REPHAN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I lived, ere my human life began Last Line: "thou art past rephan, thy place be earth!" Subject(s): Transience; Eternity; God; Impermanence ASPIRATIONS TO THE INFINITE; ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ne'er felt a feeling deep arise Last Line: Star-throned in your heart such utterance to inspire! Subject(s): Future Life; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AT THE LAST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She cometh no more Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Ocean AT THE SHRINE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mary, humanity's woman, immaculate mother Last Line: Is it thou, thou alone, that art pure, and never another? Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Virgin Mary AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime BACCHUS, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: The blood of full grapes swells my wooden goblet Last Line: Before the barred door of eternity. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Grapes; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BE-ALL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The insect clings Last Line: Will become belong. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Longing; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise BEAUTY, by JESSAMINE S. FISHBACK Poem Text First Line: Blue haze of autumn etching scrolls against the skies Last Line: Though all that dies, I know, shall live again. Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BELLS IN THE ENDTIME OF GYURMEY TSULTRIM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bowl made from a tobacco-yellow skull Last Line: Something has begun... Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Future Life; Lightning; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Lightning Rods BENEATH A PICTURE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Fearfully gazing spirit! Wherefore lies Last Line: Shrouding the brightness of thine angel form. Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Future Life; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BEYOND OUR BREATHING, by CAROL RULOFSON Poem Text First Line: Across the threshold of our garden path Last Line: That peace which is the earnest of god's will. Subject(s): Faith; Future Life; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BEYOND THE STARS I SEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I gaze into thy heavens, lord Last Line: The christ of calvary. Subject(s): Cavalry; Future Life; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BOOK OF VISIONS: ETERNITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: One does not need to credit death. The human heart to rest is fain Last Line: One does not need to credit death. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BUT NEVER LIFE -, by LILLIAN R. WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There shall be many mornings after Last Line: Ceaseless . . . . Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CHAITIVEL; OR, THE LAY OF LOVE'S UNFORTUNATE, by MARIE DE FRANCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and lovers, may ye dwell Last Line: And so they two fight on till doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Shaftesbury, Marie, Abbess Of Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Love; Women; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CHILDREN OF LIR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We woke from our sleep in the bosom where Last Line: Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the infinite lir. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Death; Future Life; Happiness; Mythology - Celtic; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight COMFORT YE!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In that sweet after-life Last Line: "and bid us ""welcome home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COMMUNION: 1. FIDES, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a peak of limitless ascent Last Line: Radiant upon the starless precipice of birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Future Life; Trust; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations CORYBANTIAST, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP Poem Text First Line: Who, thinking on death, decides Last Line: Too long the idle night! Subject(s): Death; Festivals; Future Life; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CRUCIFERI, by EUPHEMIA MACLEOD Poem Text First Line: A silent train, they pass along Last Line: Triumphant, scale the heights of god! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DAILY DYING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a moment drops the rose Last Line: Wide they will open for you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Nature; Summer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DAWN IN SPRING, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: In the depth of silence Last Line: Where life will be retold. Subject(s): Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise DE OLE SEXTON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brudder amos is de sexton Last Line: It am nebber gwine ter fail. Subject(s): African Americans; Future Life; Sin; Negroes; American Blacks; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DEATH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not, my friends, that we are growing old Last Line: The mother of our youth!she maketh speed. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DESCRIPTIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The wave breaks Last Line: Don’t know what to say Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DIAL-HANDS, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Index and thumb come from the invisible arm thrust from a shoulder Last Line: Die. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierr Subject(s): Future Life; Hands; Thumbs; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DOWN IN WALHALLALAH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I put flowers on leeda's grave Last Line: Down in walhallalah. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of dream Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow Last Line: Beneath those silent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery DREAMS?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit slips away at night Last Line: Will waken daily with a smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Soul; Truth; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EARTH LEADS TO HEAVEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a weary and a wretched life Last Line: And we can but remember and regret. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EARTH-LOVE, by IRENE NILES Poem Text First Line: I shall not mind when time comes to me here Last Line: And watch you where you go, old lovely earth! Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER XII, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath a few more days to live, and we Last Line: Of whom we know not, and who gave it birth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Bereavement END AND BEGINNING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The world of the elder gods is aflame. The smoke of its burning Last Line: Baldur the beautiful, rise! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EPHEMERA, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Last Line: "are love, and a continual farewell." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Eternity 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 EPITAHPHIUM CAECILLIAE BOULSTRED, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks death like one laughing lies Last Line: And did not die, but left her body dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yeares! And age! Farewell Last Line: Drown'd in one endlesse day. Variant Title(s): Eternity Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by GRACE GRISWOLD BISBY Poem Text First Line: Enough for me to realize Last Line: Through deathless time's eternal range. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Reincarnation; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Transmigration; Pretas ETERNITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this wondrous sea Last Line: Ashore at last! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity is a wind-blown husk Last Line: And give me her little hand! Subject(s): Beauty; Fools; Future Life; Life; Love; Sleep; Idiots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what a weary while it is to stand Last Line: Or any crumb of gloom to feed upon? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can almost taste it Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: As time's sure pendulum swings to and fro Last Line: "eternity,"" in muffled song or cry." Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: At the edge of the sea lay a skull Last Line: Eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FAITH, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: I do not know when I shall go on - on Last Line: Reveals a paradise that gave it birth? Subject(s): Future Life; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FARTHER ON, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not think of them all as dead Last Line: Think of them only as farther on. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOR EVER, by HENRI CAZALIS Poem Text First Line: Withhold thy love, though life betrays Last Line: O heart fulfil thy fond desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOR EVER AND EVERMORE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The woods are no less rich for all the flowers within them Last Line: For ever and evermore! Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOREBODING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why do these tragic fancies throng Last Line: The way is pity, margaret. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; God; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FORETASTE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How do I know that after this Last Line: And sun me in thine immortality. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOREVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Forever and ever the reddening leaves Last Line: Forever the rain rains on Subject(s): Future Life;memory;rain; Retribution;eternity;after Life FOREVER, by BERTHA MILLER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Away and away in the far blue distance, life Last Line: Which is carried away forever, ever . . . Aye! Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Singing & Singers; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Songs FOURTH NIGHT, by HARRY WILLIAM NELSON Poem Text First Line: Escape the towers of the night Last Line: I know of what heat brings. Subject(s): Future Life; Night; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime FROM A BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! We are loose. Hear how they shout Last Line: That stares into eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Balloons; Earth; Future Life; Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FUTURITY, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, spectres, rise! Some pitying ghost, appear Last Line: And spring to clasp her in the world unknown. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FUTURITY, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, when the spirit fleets away Last Line: The unconscious form and lifeless clay. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HALCYON DAYS, by MCMYNN ELIZABETH P. Poem Text First Line: A mystic calm broods over all the land Last Line: Your death is but the prelude to rebirth. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HEART O' THE NORTH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when I come to the dim trail-end Last Line: Eternity passing over. Subject(s): Canada; Future Life; North, The; Canadians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HEAVEN, by KATHARINE HAVILAND TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: I am too little for a grand eternity Last Line: Too short yesterday! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HEAVEN, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of pure delight Last Line: Should fright us from the shore. Variant Title(s): The Heavenly Canaan;the Heavenly Land;a Prospect Of Heaven Makes Death Easy Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Theology HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology HIS OWNE EPITAPH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal rest on him bestowe Last Line: Eternal rest on him bestowe. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HOMAGE TO LESTER FLATT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five seasons without traveling to a festival, without walking Last Line: Rattling the bank echoes the tenor of our lives. Subject(s): Fame; Festivals; Flatt, Lester; Future Life; Music, Rock; Homage & Respect; Reputation; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Rock & Roll I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind Last Line: Far away, far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness IF WE BUT ONLY KNEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I wrote a verse and sent it forth Last Line: Through all eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Knowledge; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the tomb's inward arch Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ILIAD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False dreams, all false Last Line: When love's over, endures. Subject(s): Future Life; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Iliad; Odyssey IMMORTALITY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: From your life's blood to coin a trenchant word Last Line: That sounds within the changing hearts of men. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IMPATIENCE, by MELANIE LILLIAN VAN DER TOORN Poem Text First Line: Now that you are gone Last Line: Then I'll march on. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN A COUNTRY, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I are inventing a country, which we Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN ANOTHER ROOM, by LULA BEHM Poem Text First Line: I shall not think of her at all Last Line: To wait me in another room. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN GREY DAYS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measures of oil for others Last Line: Death, will be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Suffering; Misery IN LOVE'S ETERNITY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body was part of the sun and the dew Last Line: As my love; and together we wept. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Love; Reunions; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise IN SALUTATION TO THE ETERNAL PEACE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men say the world is full of fear and hate Last Line: O intimate essence of eternity! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Peace; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN THE NEXT GALAXY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things will be different Last Line: Blue skies and drinking water. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INFINITY, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: From time without beginning Last Line: In god's all-seeing care. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips INTROIT: AN ECHO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look and see the world is fair Last Line: Seeks us again, finds us again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INVOCATION AND INTERRUPTION [IN MEMORIAM TED HUGHES], by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gigantic iron hawk Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ISIDORA (SEE MATURIN'S 'MELMOTH'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, whom I have loved too well Last Line: Paradise, will he be there? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise KARMA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantom of mystery, older than history Last Line: Deathless associates, -- shadow and soul! Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Past; Sin; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KINCHINJUNGA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O white priest of eternity, around Last Line: On any shrine is left to tell life's sting. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Future Life; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) KING EDWIN'S FEAST, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was feasting in the hall Last Line: "would to god that we might know!" Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity! Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird alone Last Line: Answer: yea, come, lord jesus, come Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Solitude; Eternity; Time; Patience LIFE AFTER DEATH, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For them the sun shines ever in full might Last Line: Burned for the glory of heaven continually. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise LIFE AND DEATH: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or endless sleep 'twill be, - and that is rest Last Line: Into the unknown, air on golden wing. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Future Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If at one door stands life to cheat our trust Last Line: Of thunder falls. There is no life beyond? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 6, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, heralded by reason, faith may tread Last Line: And all the oracles are dumb and blind. Subject(s): Faith; Future Life; Soul; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND YOU, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Ask much of life Last Line: Her golden key. Subject(s): Birth; Future Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE'S BOUNDARY, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a glass wherein we dimly see Last Line: That bounds the dim perspective of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE'S TWO INTERPRETERS: 2, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: As those who rest from toil we end our years Last Line: "light breaks, god lives! Love reigns eternally." Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOUVAIN, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bleeding and torn, ravished with sword and flame Last Line: Shrived by the sacred sorrow of louvain. Subject(s): Betrayal; Faith; France; Future Life; God; Martyrs; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOVE AND DEATH, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: While I was pondering lazily Last Line: "I struck your love this morning dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MATER CONSOLATRIX, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's-joy must fade - though it borrow Last Line: And where the stars are led. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight MOMENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crow caws, / on the pine tops Last Line: Eternity seems to end. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Future Life; Pine Trees; Trees; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MORNING-GLORY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: To argue from the design in the morning-glory Last Line: God. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore? Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness MY DESIRE, by LUCY H. KING SMITH Poem Text First Line: When earth's door shall close for me Last Line: And -- deathlessly. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MY HEAVEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a dream, sweetheart, last night Last Line: The heaven in your love. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Love - Nature Of; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise NEW BODY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a sort of eternity Last Line: Love scratched out of sky, o my visitor. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Love - Beginnings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 6. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (1), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She (for I know not yet her name in heav'n) Last Line: Stronger than death, and smiling at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Future Life; Immortality; Life; Love; Night; Wealth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime; Riches; Fortunes NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NO DEATH, by MARY BAGGOTT Poem Text First Line: How do I know there is no death?' Last Line: "there is no death." Subject(s): Future Life; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life NO TIME IN ETERNITIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By houres we all live here, in heaven is known Last Line: No spring of time, or times succession. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life NOT BY HANDS CREATED, by PIOTR ORESHIN Poem Text First Line: Fall on your face Last Line: Hosannah in the highest! Subject(s): Forests; Future Life; Russia; Woods; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Soviet Union; Russians ON ROSANIA'S APOSTASY, AND LUCASIA'S FRIENDSHIP, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great soul of friendship, whither art thou fled? Last Line: Since 'twas at first from thy orinda sent. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Friendship; Future Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED FRIEND, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not dead -- life has but set you free Last Line: You merely smiled to greet another friend! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Future Life; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology ON THE DEATH OF MR. GARRICK, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last sad rites were done - the sacred ground Last Line: "and knowwhoe'er thou artthe prize is thine." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Graves; Mourning; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ON THE DUNES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there there is any life when death is over Subject(s): Seashore; Future Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE DUNES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is any life when death is over Last Line: Stand on the sun-swept dunes and call my name. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE STRAND, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie on the sand and thro' thy fingers drain Last Line: To fall and mingle on the eternal strand. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Seashore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Beach; Coast; Shore ONCE & EVER, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Sure love is nothing less than love Last Line: Learn what thy love to love must be. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ONE TOKEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The power was given at birth to me Last Line: Another life on the other side. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life OPPORTUNITY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who binds to himself a joy Last Line: You can never wipe off the tears of woe. Variant Title(s): Eternity;several Questions Answered;epigram Subject(s): Bible; Future Life; Mythology; Opportunity; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: A PRAYER FOR THE PAST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All sights and sounds of day and year Last Line: What home is too may know? Subject(s): Aging; Children; Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Life; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet heart, submissive, meek Last Line: Than if broad lands were mine. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Humility; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: HYMN FOR A SICK GIRL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in the dark I lay Last Line: Rise and live in thine. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Future Life; Girls; God; Sickness; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Illness ORGAN SONGS: REST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When round the earth the father's hands Last Line: My deep, still, resting sea. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Rest; Sleep; Retribution; Eternity; After Life OUR GOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our god is the god of the infinite Last Line: The god of eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Holy Spirit; Theology PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening / the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fatigue PHANTOM OF LIFE, by VIOLET MCKAY BALL Poem Text First Line: Uncertain, subtle, shrouded close in clouds of mystery Last Line: Until the vision, mirrored clear, beholds eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PLANTING BULBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Setting my bulbs arow Last Line: No more weeping, but laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 90, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal life! What life is this, I pray? Last Line: Thy sweetest tunes shall ring eternall joy. Subject(s): Future Life; Puritans In Literature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PRESCIENCE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: A precious place is paradise and none may know its worth Last Line: And vision earth and heaven, with a rustic bridge between. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise PRESCIENCE, by MARIE AUSTIN MAJOR Poem Text First Line: The trees that were in summer decked Last Line: Imploring, saddened arms of eld. Subject(s): Autumn; Future Life; Mortality; Seasons; Fall; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PRISON-HOUSE OF FLESH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "our body is our doom, a place of death" Last Line: The soul escapes to god and reaches heaven Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution;eternity;after Life Q IS FOR QUESTION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The man who tells me he has seen a ghost Last Line: "what lies beyond this life I lead to-day!""'" Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life QUATORZAINS: 11. A CLOCK STRIKING AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the echo of time's footsteps; gone Last Line: While the glad spirit seeks a brighter birth. Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 REMINISCENCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are tales to be told of the land and the sea Last Line: The soul's eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Sea Voyages; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RESURRECTION, by HARRIET ANNA WRATTEN Poem Text First Line: O, I have learned how beauty, lingering, sings Last Line: Upon the earth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RETRIBUTION, by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the mills of god grind slowly Last Line: Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. Alternate Author Name(s): Golaw, Salomon Von; Logau, Frederick Von Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ROSA MYSTICA, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This rose so exquisite Last Line: There is the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; God; Praise; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SAN BORONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Saint brandan, a scotch abbot, long ago Last Line: Whose boundless deep we name eternity. Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Death; Future Life; Religion; Soul; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology SEPARATION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till death do us part Last Line: Until death us do wed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SEVEN AGES, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Text First Line: Over the dim hill in the twilight Last Line: For I know it is the beginning. Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Future Life; Hope; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism SHE ASKS FOR NEW EARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I find at last thy paradise Last Line: For thy new heaven, lord, give me new earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Future Life; God; Heaven; Houses; Prayer; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise SHE IS NOT FASHIONED, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is not fashioned to command Last Line: Ordained to bless this world below. Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Saints; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SHULE, SHULE, SHULE, AGRAH!, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His face was glad as dawn to me Last Line: Shule, shule, shule, agrah! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Songs Of Ethlenn Stuart Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Male-female Relations SONNET, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could then the babes from yon unshelter'd cot Last Line: Shall gild their passage to eternal rest. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SPEECH FOR MYSELF AS A GHOST, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever I was, whatever I may have done, speaks to me Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SPHINX, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who are nothing but self, and have no manner of being Last Line: Is it eternal death, or is it infinite life? Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is come, no fears disturb Last Line: And ye had joy in heaven. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Despair; France; Freedom; Future Life; Guilt; Saints; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life STARRY HEAVENS WITHOUT, by PTOLEMAEUS OF ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortal though I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment Last Line: And my lively spirit drinketh immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Ptolemy Variant Title(s): Immortality Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUGGESTIONS OF ETERNITY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: False time, so fleet, so fugitive! Last Line: Where time's all ends. Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Time; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN .. (CONTINUED), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bliss of heaven, maria, shall be thine! Last Line: For ever feeling pain or missing bliss below. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN .. FORCED CONVICTION OF FUTURE STATE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'erladen with sad musings, till the tear Last Line: That such as thou were never born to die!' Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUSPIRIUM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Life of my soule, bright lord of love Last Line: To thee ye easier shall I swimm. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Love; Soul; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH Poem Text First Line: A planet revolving around the sun Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race TEMPERAMENT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where love and hate, honor and infamy Last Line: Back to that mystery when we go there. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stephen, the pleasures of the afterlife Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You live in a sinking nation, stephen, in a stinking Last Line: Of all the beauty and comradeship I've lost. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Social Protest; United States; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; America THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most painful image I have now, here, is Last Line: Is always, always, accompanied by pain. Subject(s): Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Pain; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE ASPIRATION, by JOHN NORRIS Poem Text First Line: How long, great god, how long must I Last Line: But fly, and love on all the way. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BARGAIN OF FAUST, by HAZEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: Shall a man, then, not own his own soul? Why Last Line: She hers in heaven, but you yours in hell. Subject(s): Faust; Future Life; Love; Sin; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BETTER LIFE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From silken cords of earth's delight Last Line: The winds of heaven blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Prayer Meetings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BUGLES OF DREAMLAND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the dews of the gloaming are falling Last Line: And the bugles of dreamland about us are calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Dreams; Future Life; Mysticism; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CALL OF ETERNITY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, thou shalt be with me to-night Last Line: Shalt be learning thy spirit's grandest consummation. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me Last Line: Were toward eternity-- Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology THE CHILDREN'S BOATS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loop of water, with the green Last Line: In that far spring men call eternity? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Future Life; Games; Spring; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CLIMAX, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, by favoring fortune richly led Last Line: Superbly win all profits at a bound! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CRIMSON MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the legions of the sun, the star battalions of the night Last Line: When the hidden people shall march out beneath the crimson moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Moon; Mortality; Redemption; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DEATH OF YE LIFE OF LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mighty love, well may thy glorious throne Last Line: Trust not my selfe, but hang on thy sweet care. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Love; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DREAM CALLED LIFE, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream it was in which I found myself Last Line: When dreaming, with the night, shall pass away. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DRUNKEN SONG, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O man, what seem Last Line: "would have deep, deep eternity!" Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THE DUELL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Sad fruit of misapplyed valour! Here Last Line: Yf thou in courage faylst, thy name of spirit? Subject(s): Fights; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE ENCHANTED VALLEYS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the gate of sleep we enter the enchanted valleys Last Line: It is past: there is no dawn: no to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE END, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is to come we know not. But we know Last Line: What is to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 FAILURE, by MERLE KULOW SHERRILL Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Although I ever did my best Last Line: "you did the best you could." Subject(s): Future Life; Perseverance; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FIRE WITHIN, by ROBERT BRENDON Poem Text First Line: A snow - covered garden in pain Last Line: Fades, -- but the I can never die. Subject(s): Future Life; Soul; Winter; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FUTURE LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps Last Line: Thy fit companion in that land of bliss? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE GLORIFIED, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What doth our loves befall? Last Line: Flame on in paradise! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE GOD-MAKER, MAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore / shall the shepherds of arcady follow Last Line: Humble, but open eyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Future Life; God; Immortality; Mythology; Religion; Truth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE GOLDEN GATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim shadows gather thickly round Last Line: And then with beating heart await the opening of the golden gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death. Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE GREAT QUESTION, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waves, they are wildly heaving Last Line: And never be sick any more. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE HAWTHORN BUD AND THE STAR, by EDOUARD SCHURE Poem Text First Line: The hawthorn bud said to the star Last Line: "-- to love and die within an hour!" Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE IMMORTAL GODS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods can't die, poor fellows Last Line: When we are gone to sleep. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE JET LAG OF THE NEWLY DEAD, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One definition of jet lag is the process of the soul Last Line: About me than anyone, but you're quickly forgetting Variant Title(s): The Therapist's Funera Subject(s): Future Life; Jet Lag; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE JOURNEY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our journey had advanced Last Line: And god at every gate. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE JUST MADE PERFECT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately music rises on my ear Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way. Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE KEY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The cross of calvary Last Line: Of life reborn of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Jesus Christ; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE KEY FOUND, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a strange wild wail around, a wail of wild unrest Last Line: And life becomes the prelude of the everlasting song! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LAND OF BEYOND, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have ever you heard of the land of beyond Last Line: Behold it, our land of beyond! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LAST PORTAGE, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Age shall never come near my soul Last Line: The lord of life commanding. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LEADERS, by LOUISE E. V. BOYD Poem Text First Line: The maiden read the spring time's idyl through Last Line: Death but the entrance to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism THE LIFE TO COME, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a city where god's happy children Last Line: Then I should ask of god no more. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Future Life; Music & Musicians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LOVE OF GOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The love of god is limitless Last Line: Eternal life to man. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE LULL OF ETERNITY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a voice has echoed the cry for a lull in life Last Line: "soon shall a ""better thing"" be thine, the lull of eternity." Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE MATERIALIST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul has left its tent of clay Last Line: "when death said, ""you may die." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE METEMPSYCHOSIS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the petty passions of the crowd Last Line: The catacombs and fragments of old worlds. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE MISER'S MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mouldering mansion, whose embattled side Last Line: And angels hymn'd the rich man's soul to heaven. Subject(s): Future Life; Generosity; Hospitality; Misers; Wealth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Riches; Fortunes THE NEW BUDDHA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonbeams, like intangible flowers Last Line: Night, the only buddha that attains to it. Subject(s): Buddhism; Future Life; Buddha; Buddhists; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn, tremble at honk Last Line: To where road starts again Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cities; Future Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Work; Workers THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RAINBOW OVER THE ROAD, by FRANCES JACKSON DELANO Poem Text First Line: A high road, a hard road; it ofttimes plungeth down Last Line: A new road, an old road, on, through eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Wellesley College; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do all who lie down expect to awake? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RUNE OF AGE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that on the hills and wastes of night art shepherd Last Line: Give me now thy darkness and thy silence! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Comfort; Future Life; Gifts & Giving; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SANCTUARY: 2. THE ILLUSION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you may be as all men say Last Line: The very vision of god's dwelling-place. Subject(s): Fate; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUL REVISITING THE BODY, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do youj return? Subject(s): Soul; Body, Human; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUL'S ARMAGEDDON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where I go Last Line: With immeasurable fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Knowledge; Messengers; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SUICIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast was the wealth I carried in life's pack Last Line: Toil on to where selfhood in godhood dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Pain; Suicide; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Maps; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TERRORS OF DEATH; WRITTEN ON THE WALLS OF A CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who dost pace this cloistered hall Last Line: Of him whose life hath been too sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE THOUGHT ETERNAL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether day my spirit's yearning Last Line: He is ever fair and great. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TOMB OF ETERNAL LIFE, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him. Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones THE TRAIL OF NO RETURN, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY Poem Text First Line: Along the trail my way I wend Last Line: Away, from world sojourn. Subject(s): Future Life; Roads; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paths; Trails THE TRUE GROUNDS OF ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE RECTITUDE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Th' eternal mind, ev'n heathens understood Last Line: Is one divine, immutable good-will. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou knowest all: -- I seek in vain Last Line: In some divine eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VALLEY OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the secret valley of silence Last Line: Eddies of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VALLEY OF WHITE POPPIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the grey pastures and the dark wood Last Line: I am alone now among the silent grasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Poppies; Salvation; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VIGIL OF AIDEN, SELECTION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the rosy bowers of aiden Last Line: There to rest forevermore. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE VISION, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I sit musing all alone Last Line: The vision of eternity is strange. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VISION OF LOUKIANOS, THE ARMENIAN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: When unto heaven the souls elect take flight Last Line: So I may breathe the perfumes of that land. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise 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 THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THEOLOGY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heaven, for ever, day by day Last Line: If there were not, where would my neighbours go? Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THERE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There shall be no more partings there for ever Last Line: They will come home to her, come home to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Future Life; Heaven; Home; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THINKING OF HELEN IN HAVANA, by JULIAN H. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Oft in the darkness there shines a light Last Line: Where, and what, are the snows of tomorrow? Subject(s): Future Life; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Light; Silence; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THIS, AND THE NEXT WORLD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God hath this world for many made; 'tis true Last Line: But he hath made the world to come for few. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THREE FATES: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, follow fast the star Last Line: The couch is flowered for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Future Life; Rest; Nightmares; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wish me, then, away? Last Line: Eternity and I are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME AND ETERNITY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Far flung by the omnipotent Last Line: Of god's eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is divided into Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME LENGTHENING, IN THE LENGTHENING SEEMETH LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Eternity still here and still to come Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time; Eternity TIME PASSETH AWAY WITH ITS PLEASURE AND PAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Time passeth away Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time; Eternity TIME TABLE, by FANNY DE GROOT HASTINGS Poem Text First Line: Leave, arrive - leave, arrive Last Line: The rest belong to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME'S TRAIN, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So in this tale he gets to come back Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A FRIEND INQUIRING IF WOULD LIVE OVER MY YOUTH AGAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I regret the past? Last Line: Again to wake in light. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Past; Regret; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A LITTLE NIECE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So full of mirth, so full of play Last Line: Then, little dove, remember me! Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO FORTUNE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am old, all things I will endure Last Line: The grey friend sweet. Subject(s): Fortune; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO ONE UNBORN, by ELAINE M. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: With eyes that use not earthly light or color Last Line: My child's grandchild, yet to be born on earth. Subject(s): Future Life; Imaginary Conversations; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO ONE WHO SPOKE OF ETERNAL THINGS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! For the shadow of a flower Last Line: More than eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Future Life; Trees; Worship; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE CONDOUR, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Poised there against the cliffs no one can say Last Line: Unloved lone watcher of eternity. Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE DEAD (A PARAPHRASE), by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone art thou, gone, and is the light Last Line: I shall be with thee; we again may smile. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO-MORROW, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: In thought I wandered where time lays his dead Last Line: Eternity, secure, to me is left. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TOGETHER ETERNITY AND DEATH THREATEN ME, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poet's Biography First Line: Http://www.Poetryfoundation.Org/poetrymagazine/browse/155/1#!/20602236/1 Subject(s): Eternity; Death TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A LONG JOURNEY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long insatiable yearning of the mortal creature Last Line: Way. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TRAIL'S END, by BEULAH MAY Poem Text First Line: Is this the end of all adventuring Last Line: What is death's meaning but life just begun? Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TREADMILL, by HARRY ELMORE HURD Poem Text First Line: The treadmill turns - the fruiting season swings Last Line: And death the prelude to life just begun. Subject(s): Future Life; Treadmills; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TRYST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I thought to have made her my bride Last Line: We leave to love. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Marriage; Reunions; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ULTIMA SPES MORTUORUM, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells will ring to-morrow for the day Last Line: And, by the living spurned, deludes the dead! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ULTIMATE HARVEST, by LUCY WHEELER KEGLEY Poem Text First Line: How shall man apprehend eternity? Last Line: Was sown all beauty and desire. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNABLE TO FIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The right way to get out of bed Last Line: Make plans for summer -- winter even. Subject(s): Activity; Fate; Future Life; Longing; Morning; Exercise; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNDERTONES, by GRACE HOLBROOK BLOOD Poem Text First Line: When this today Last Line: To find eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray's body lies below a slab that states Last Line: To end the thing that he'd begun to say Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Future Life; Coffins; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNINITIATED, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Who hath not walked beside the sea Last Line: Where god's bright beacon fires burn. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VERSES ON TEXTS: 1 TIM. 6, 12, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A life is before thee which cannot decay Last Line: Safe and blest for aye. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VIOLIN SONGS: A DREAM SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of a song - I heard it sung Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; God; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VISIONS IN VERSE: 9. DEATH. VISION THE LAST, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thought my visions are too grave Last Line: And triumph'd in the thoughts of death! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WAIT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go not far in the land of light! Last Line: Wait, my darling, wait. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the brooding home Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE MAY NOT KNOW, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fragile figure robed in costly gown Last Line: Weighs human motives, thoughts, and deeds aright. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHEN I SHALL RISE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I shall rise, and full of many fears Last Line: As once they stood! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHEN I WANDER WITH DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life is a fleeting breath Last Line: Let me find love's long-lost day. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Future Life; Mortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHY SHOULD I WAIT?, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Text First Line: If, as the oriental mystics say Last Line: Why should I wait till death to be reborn? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Jesus Christ; Rebirth; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WILTED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little blossom, thou and I Last Line: Haply, more eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH ETERNITY STANDING BY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I bid you good-bye Last Line: With eternity standing by. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Future Life; Love; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH OMAR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat with omar by the tavern door Last Line: Would ask and answer -- trust and doubt and pray. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH THE CARAVAN, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Closer the curtain. Still the sun is flame Last Line: Are the gates wide, hasán? Subject(s): Future Life; Mortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagined the atmosphere would be clear Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life YES HOLY BE THY RESTING PLACE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ZION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly copper roses glow on the deadwood. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life |
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