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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE, by OLIVER MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man who put on airs
Last Line: Because they were too ladified.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dolls; Friends, Religious Society Of; Men; Prayer; Toys; Quakers


A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER ON RESIGNATION, FROM JACOB BEHMEN, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear brother in our saviour christ - his grace
Last Line: And christian love here dictates what I say.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Sympathy; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy


A VISION OF SAINTS: ELIZABETH FRY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then I saw a stately figure come
Last Line: "and whoso loves his brother, loves his lord."
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Fry, Elizabeth (1780-1845); Quakers


AN EYE OF A QUEEN AND A TESTICLE OF A BULL, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We each one wear moccasins & a strip of deerskin
Last Line: Loving an enchantment of islands
Subject(s): Country Life; Friends, Religious Society Of; Hunting; Property; Quakers; Hunters; Possessions


ANNIVERSARY POEM; ALUMNI OF THE FRIENDS' YEARLY MEETING SCH., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more, dear friends, you meet beneath a clouded sky
Last Line: The crown for cross!
Subject(s): Alumni; American Civil War; Friends, Religious Society Of; U.s. - History; Quakers


CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK; 1658, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the god of all sure mercies let my blessings rise today
Last Line: And tamed the chaldean lions, is mighty still to save!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Southwick, Cassandra (mythology); Quakers; Religious Conflict


CHALKLEY HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How bland and sweet the greeting of this breeze
Last Line: The holy hues of heaven!
Subject(s): Chalkley, Thomas (1675-1741); Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers


DANIEL WHEELER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O dearly loved!
Last Line: And glorious as lebanon!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Missions & Missionaries; Wheeler, Daniel (d. 1840); Quakers


DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK, 1813, by THOMAS EATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lord supreme the basis laid
Last Line: Makes us forget where we have been.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; New York City - 19th Century; Quakers


DRAB BONNETS, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They may cant of costumes, and of brilliant head-dresses
Last Line: And the bonnet of drab is still beauteous to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Hats; Quakers


FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views
Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man.
Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors


FIRST-DAY THOUGHTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In calm and cool and silence, once again
Last Line: Yet trusting not in mine, but in his strength alone!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Worship; Quakers


FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the grave of a departed friend
Last Line: In grace, and love, and fellowship divine.
Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Quakers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


FOR THE QUAKERS, by BIANCA BRADBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Theirs is the gentle finger on the pulse %of war's old woe
Last Line: And touch, and hold
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; World War Ii


GUARDIAN ANGEL, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the bird that flutters against your window in the morning
Last Line: Whom you cannot accept, %and who can never forget you
Subject(s): Angels; Friends, Religious Society Of; Heaven


HOW THE WOMEN WENT FROM DOVER; 1662, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tossing spray of cocheco's fall
Last Line: She smoothed the thorns with her bleeding feet.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Freedom; Quakers


LITTLE QUAKER SINNER, by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little quaker maiden with dimpled cheek and chin
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Ewan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dimples; Friends, Religious Society Of; Sin


MARTYRDOM OF THE QUAKERS, by GEORGE JOY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those that in conscience cannot wrong a worm
Last Line: To serve the lord, and whips must be their greeting
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Social Protest


MR. BRIGHT ON THE LAW OF ENTAIL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To broad lands though a foe, to broad brims still a friend
Last Line: John's speech has already made all of them quakers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Friends, Religious Society Of; Landlords & Tenants; Quakers


ON BARCLAY'S APOLOGY FOR THE QUAKERS, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These sheets primeval doctrines yield, / where revelation is revealed
Last Line: The crows, that brought him bread and meat.'
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Prometheus; Quakers


ON RESIGNATION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear child, know this, that he who gave thee breath
Last Line: And trust in god thro' his beloved son.
Subject(s): Affliction; Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Pain; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever be the meaning of that creed
Last Line: By the son's act, the father's late remorse?
Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers


POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Prove his own love of peace and sanction theirs
Last Line: Day after day, the balance of his soul.
Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers


PRESENT AGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the ages ever known
Last Line: I fear you'll see the right on't
Subject(s): American Revolution; Friends, Religious Society Of; Independence; Life Change Events


QUAERE, by GEORGE FAREWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whether at doomsday (tell, ye reverend wise)
Last Line: My friend priapus with myself shall rise?
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers


QUAKER'S MEETING, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A traveller wended the wilds among
Variant Title(s): The Quaker And The Robbe
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Friends, Religious Society Of


QUAKERDOM - THE FORMAL CALL, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through her forced, abnormal quiet
Last Line: And the stately mother found us prim enough to suit her eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Love; Quakers


REVELATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, as of old, in beavor's vale
Last Line: And hear the song of hope she sings.
Subject(s): Fox, George (1624-1691); Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 9. THE DREAM OF ISAAC THE QUAKER, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O spirit of that quaker sire of mine
Last Line: Still from these hills his children heaven adore!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers


THE CROSS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cross, if rightly borne, shall be
Last Line: Shall rise with bloom and fruit at last.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Friends, Religious Society Of; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Quakers; Serfs


THE FAIR QUAKERESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a fair young girl, yet on her brow
Last Line: Like waters from the desert-rock of old.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Girls; Quakers


THE KING'S MISSIVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the great hill sloping bare
Last Line: Is gospel and law where the martyrs died.
Subject(s): Boston; Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Endicott, John (1588-1655); Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Discrimination; Shattuck, Samuel; Endecott, John (1588-1655); Quakers; Religious Conflict


THE MYSTIFIED QUAKER IN NEW YORK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Respected wife: by these few lines my whereabouts thee'll learn
Last Line: So I left them in disgust: plain-spoken men like me / with such perverters of our tongue can have no
Subject(s): "friends, Religious Society Of;new York City;speech;" "quakers;manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple;oratory;orators;


THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to posterity!
Last Line: The world forgets, but the wise angels know.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Germantown, Pennsylvania; Pastorius, Francis Daniel (1651-1720); Pilgrim Fathers; Spener, Philipp Jacob (1635-1705); U.s. - Colonial Period; Quakers


THE PRINCE'S BALL, 1860, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, haven't you heard how an english prince, prince, prince
Last Line: Of the splendour and fame of the prince's ball!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; New York City - 19th Century; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Quakers


THE QUAKER ALUMNI, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the well-springs of hudson, the sea-cliffs of maine
Last Line: And winnow in mercy our good from the ill!
Subject(s): Alumni; Friends, Religious Society Of; Newport, Rhode Island; Religious Freedom; Quakers


THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four straight brick walls, severely plain
Last Line: In gentlest mockery.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Quakers


THE QUAKER LADY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid drab and gray of moldered leaves
Last Line: Their quaint obeisance made.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Women; Quakers


THE QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the corn-rows from our barracks stood
Last Line: With windows burning like the fires of home.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Houses; Religion; War; World War I; Quakers; Theology; First World War


THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quaker poet!' -- is such name
Last Line: Of him, who is its donor!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Poetry & Poets; Self; Quakers


THE QUAKER WIDOW, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee finds me in the garden, hannah
Last Line: The lord looks down contentedly upon a willing mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Widows & Widowers; Quakers


THE QUAKERESS BRIDE, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No, not in the halls of the noble and proud
Last Line: "I am thine!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers


THE QUAKERS ARE OUT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not vainly we waited and counted the hours
Last Line: For lincoln goes in, when the quakers are out!
Subject(s): Elections; Friends, Religious Society Of; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Quakers


THE SEEKER, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I first came to london, I rambled about
Last Line: Tis plain, without turnpikes, so nothing to pay.'
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers


THREE QUAKERS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met three quakers on a hill
Last Line: Would make him be a quaker goat.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers


TO A BEAUTIFUL QUAKER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet girl! Though only once we met
Last Line: Of him who never can forget!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers


VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN A BURIAL-GROUND .. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What though no sculptur'd monuments around
Last Line: Calmly to share thy couch, which needs no graven stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Quakers