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| Searching... Subject: IDOLS Matches Found: 20 A CAMEO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a graven image of desire Last Line: Upon whose lock was written peradventure. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Idols; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery AD ASTRA: 93, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Like children, seizing first the glittering bait Last Line: That they might learn through suffering whence they sprung. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Idols AFTER THE IDOLS, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Maybe they can save each other's lives Last Line: The chant, calling the faithful to prayer %dying out in the brightly lit halls Subject(s): Idols AN EASTERN GOD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an eastern god to-day Last Line: "o guard my love, where'er he be." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Idols; Prayer CAELICA: 105, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three things there be in mans opinion deare Last Line: Devils there many be, and gods but one. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Devil; God; Idols; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DANCE TO BAAL, by FELIX KOWALEWSKI Poem Text First Line: With lithe young body sheathed in cloth-of-gold Last Line: To greet her lord in virgin arrogance! Subject(s): Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Gold; Idols; Statues DON WILSON TOPPS CARD #217 1973, by FRANK VAN ZANT Poem Source First Line: He had only one year left before Last Line: Did they place a better face above you? %one early pose for each unopened eye? Subject(s): Future Life; Idols; Suicide ENTREATY, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Oh! Silver disc Last Line: He would be mine. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Idols; Secrets FALLEN, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Another idol toppled from its place Last Line: Nor admire. Subject(s): Hope; Idols; Optimism GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS CROSS), by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in her stories' complex flow, I drowned Last Line: Listening in. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880); Idols; Evans, Mary Ann IDOL CONSTRUCTION, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Take any one of the things you believe in Last Line: Sucks you like ripe fruit off the rotten pit of self Subject(s): Faith; Idols; Worship IDOLS, by CLARA T. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Idols are just %poor excuses Subject(s): Idols IDOLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They made them idols in the elder days Last Line: Salute the mystery beyond their ken. Subject(s): God; Idols; South Sea Islands QUANTRAINS: THE INNER WORSHIP, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By too much incense the idol is obscured Last Line: The heart outweighs all holy word and rite. Subject(s): Idols; Worship ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE GOLDEN CALF, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiddle, flute, and horn uniting Last Line: Kettle drums and ringing laughter! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Idols; Laughter; Music & Musicians THE IDOL, by AUGUSTE BARBIER Poem Text First Line: O limp-haired corsican! Thy france was fair Last Line: Unquiet when she neighed. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Idols THE IDOL SPEAKS, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: I, who have listened to man's groveling prayers Last Line: And I have spoken who so long was dumb. Subject(s): Idols; Prayer; Soul TO AN AZTEC IDOL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Little idol of gold / with your legs interlaced Last Line: Lusts, little god,—little fiend! Subject(s): Aztecs; Idols WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all. Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Idols; Love; Regret; Solitude; Sympathy; Truth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Loneliness; Empathy WORSHIP OF DIAN, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the tumbling floods! O, lend thine ear Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Idols |
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