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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JESUS CHRIST Matches Found: 2015 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "CHRIST FOR SICKNESS, CHRIST FOR HEALTH", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Christ my hope draws ever nigh Subject(s): Jesus Christ "I NEED THEE, PRECIOUS JESUS", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "to gaze, my lord, on thee!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ "RABBI, WHERE DWELLEST THOU? COME AND SEE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "master, where abidest thou" Last Line: "the triumphant ""come and see." Subject(s): Jesus Christ "REST OF THE WEARY, JOY OF THE SAD", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "thine to be ever, saviour and friend" Subject(s): Jesus Christ "STILL THY SORROW, MAGDALENA!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "welcome love, and welcome gladness! / hallelujah!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ;mary Magdalen;women - Bible; Mary Magdalene "THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou art the way Last Line: For thou art love! Subject(s): Jesus Christ 1959, LOOMIS AVENUE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The intimate smell that belongs Last Line: Calling us home Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Preaching And Preachers; Religion; Sermons; Speech A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods my master went Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880. Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology A BETTER RESURRECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wit, no words, no tears Last Line: O jesus, drink of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Pain; Belief; Creed; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Suffering; Misery A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will accept thy will to do and be Last Line: I do not deprecate Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wills A CHAPLET OF FLOWERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, set the casement open Last Line: Will call my soul away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Love; Sin; Soul A CHILD IS BORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A child is born!' the magi cried, and then Last Line: "lord of the earth beneath and heaven above." Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Good; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHILD MY CHOICE, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let folly praise that fancy loves, I praise and love that child Last Line: Correct my faults, protect my life, direct me when I die. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A CHILD'S PRAYER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy mother! Holy mother! / in the dark I fear Last Line: One to waken me. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary A CHILD'S SONG, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the child played in galilee Last Line: Stood high as heaven. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, sweet christmas, blest be the morn Last Line: And many without a blanket to their bed Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Kindness A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon that now is shining Last Line: Of glory and of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Peace; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three damsels in the queen's chamber Last Line: Bring us to thy son's eyes. Amen. Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bleak mid-winter Last Line: Give my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Gift Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Christmas Gifts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A CHRISTMAS CAROL (ON THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god, thank god, we do believe Last Line: Firstborn of god and heir of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Praise; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me at christmas time and Last Line: Within her tiny, crumpled hand I touched the mighty hand of god! Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS EVE CHORAL, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halleluja! / what sound is this across the dark Last Line: Halleluja! Halleluja! Halleluja! Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what is this innumerable throng Last Line: Bring love alone, true love alone, and lay it at his feet. Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Love; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ for a dream was given from the dead Last Line: And the poor christ again was with the dead. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends A CHRISTMAS SONG, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then from his throne the godhead bowed Last Line: To wait the coming lord! Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Waiting; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT, by MRS. FRANK A. BRECK Poem Text First Line: Christ jesus was born in a stable Last Line: And with him forever abide. Subject(s): Jesus Christ A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest gift the father's love Last Line: That thrilled the bethlehem way. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary A CHRISTMAS WISH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At christmas season's glad return Last Line: And god's rich love be understood. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A COUNTRY CAROL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There the patient oxen were, by the ass's stall Last Line: In the open country-land of my good lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nativity, The; The Resurrection A CRADLE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin stills the crying Last Line: "my jesu, sleep!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A CROSS ON A HILL, by CARL S. WEIST Poem Text First Line: Among the few things Last Line: A cross on a hill. Variant Title(s): Symbol Of Hope Subject(s): Jesus Christ A DEATH IN THE DESERT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supposed of pamphylax the antiochene Last Line: But 't was cerinthus that is lost.] Subject(s): Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology A DEATH OF A FIRST-BORN (JANUARY 14, 1892), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One young life lost, two happy young lives blighted Last Line: Shall rise up of the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A DESIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, to have dwelt in bethlehem Last Line: And worship and believe. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Christmas; Desire; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A DIALOGUE (FOR A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Death had not venturd to draw neer Last Line: Is ty'd & bound, have power to goe ! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The A DREAM ABOUT THE ASPEN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Oh! Know ye why the aspen leaves so tremulously / sigh Last Line: "that ""they who shut love out shall be in turn shut out from love." Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Crucifixion; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion A GOOD FRIDAY DEVOTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo, even now, the sky's far rim Last Line: Forever more 'tis easter morn. Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; The Resurrection; Virgin Mary A GUARD OF THE SEPULCHER, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a roman soldier in my prime Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The A HEAVENLY FRIEND, by PAUL TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A loving friend is jesus Last Line: If with our soul 'tis well. Subject(s): Jesus Christ A HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In the steps of christ I follow Last Line: And three crosses on the hill. Subject(s): Christianity; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Legends; Sermons; Speech; Oratory; Orators A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this auspicious, memorable morn Last Line: We are, in christ, eternally alive. Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY (BEING A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THREE SHEPHERDS), by JEREMY TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: There is this blessed babe Last Line: How good! How great! Even as our misery. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The A HYMN FOR EASTER DAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is risen! He, who came Last Line: Cho. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, &c. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Salvation; The Resurrection; Theology A HYMN TO JESUS, by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu! The soul that thinks on thee Last Line: The pow'r of jesus and his love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soul A HYMN TO JESUS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, saviour jesus! From above Last Line: The giver only to adore. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Songs A HYMN TO MY GOD IN A NIGHT OF MY LATE SICKNESS, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great power, in whom I move Last Line: My life, my strength, my joy, my all! Subject(s): Jesus Christ A LEGEND, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He walked alone beside the lonely sea Last Line: While others cursed, the thorn-crowned crucified. Subject(s): Jesus Christ A LEGEND OF THE CHILD JESUS; WRITTEN FOR A CHILD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: You ask a story, dearest. Here is one Last Line: Healed by the kisses of the holy child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) A MARTYR: THE VIGIL OF THE FEAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inner not outer, without gnash of teeth Last Line: Shorten the race and lift me to the goal. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Martyrs A MOTHER UNDERSTANDS, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, I hold my hand to take Last Line: The mystery of thy pierced hands—the broken bread. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A NEW DAY, by MABEL HAMMER Poem Text First Line: I thank thee, lord, for this new day Last Line: To save the world and set it free. Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Thanksgiving A NON-NATURAL ASCENSION AND WHIT-SUNDAY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ leaves to-day the little gazing crowd Last Line: Rolled sadly from beneath the saviour's feet. Subject(s): Jesus Christ A PAGE FROM AMERICA'S PSALTER, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the bitter centuries I hear the wail of men Last Line: If thou couldst come again to us as once in bethlehem. Variant Title(s): Thy Kingdom Come Subject(s): Jesus Christ A PAGE'S ROAD SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu, / if thou wilt make Last Line: Jesu. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Trees; Paradise A PRIEST OF HUMANITY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Of sorrows bitter-strange is wove his fate Last Line: More bitter is the grief that eats his heart! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A PRODIGAL SON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does that lamp still burn in my father's house Last Line: "grant me, father, a servant's place." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ A RIME OF THE ROOD, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: A word of mystery is told / whose secret shall remain Last Line: Ecce lignum crucis! Subject(s): Jesus Christ A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness A SLUMBER STORY, by ROBERT J. IRISH Poem Text First Line: At slumber time the nodding heads Last Line: My faith becomes the firmer. Subject(s): Children; Faith; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Childhood; Belief; Creed; Theology A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chant me a rhyme of christmas Last Line: Run through the melody. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The A SONG FOR THE LEAST OF ALL SAINTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is the key of life and death Last Line: And I love thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ A SONG OF ST. ANNE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our lady in cold stable lay Last Line: And the rose-leaf of his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A SONG OF THE BURDEN BEARER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the narrow footpath Last Line: To breathe to his will, amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer; Worship A SONG OF THE LOVE OF JESUS, by RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luf es lyf that lastes ay, where it in criste es feste Last Line: Jesu, gyf us grace, as thou wel may, to luf thee withowten endyng. Variant Title(s): Love Is Life (3) Subject(s): Jesus Christ A SONG ON THE PASSION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "summer's come, and winter gone" Last Line: "thou did'st arise, / raise us! Amen" Subject(s): Jesus Christ A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 7, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And while he spoke there was a noise without Last Line: The lord rebuke thee.' Subject(s): Anger; God; Jesus Christ; Love A STRANGER IN SEYTHOPOLIS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eager he wandered the streets of scythopolis Last Line: Though he knew not yet that to him should the gentiles seek. Subject(s): Bethshan (seythopolis); Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Palestine A SUPPLICATION FOR LOVE, HYMN 1, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, named love, whose fount thou art Last Line: Give thine -- that we may love like thee! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship A THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seen by memory's magic Last Line: Slightly prized to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology A TRUE LENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a fast, to keep Last Line: And that's to keep thy lent. Variant Title(s): To Keep A True Lent Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Lent; Religion; Theology A VIRILE CHRIST, by REX BOUNDY Poem Text First Line: Give us a virile christ for these rough days! Last Line: Silent, upon the cross on calvary? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A WAYSIDE CROSS, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: The moving pictures of my flight Last Line: A wayside cross. Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart lies open to thy sun Last Line: When I with thee abide! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship ABIDE WITH US, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis evening now Last Line: And I with thee! Subject(s): Jesus Christ ABNEGATION, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, dear christ, were the wood-ways sweet Last Line: Ay,—and for that dost thou live! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry ABOVE THE BATTLE'S FRONT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh foolish people, and without understanding Last Line: Thorn-crowned above the water and the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buddhism; Evil; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Hate; Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Saints; Social Protest; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); War; Buddha; Buddhists ABOVE THE HILLS OF TIME THE CROSS IS GLEAMING, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source Last Line: Till we are gathered to thy home above Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion ACCEPT OUR TRIBUTE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, thou everlasting king Last Line: At the great supper of the lamb. Subject(s): Jesus Christ AD ASTRA: 105, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O breaking hearts! O smiles that fain would hide Last Line: If that far crown of thorns availeth naught? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Crucifixion; Cruelty; Grief; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness AD ASTRA: 148, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Two roads present themselves to every man Last Line: And soul or body now must meet the blade! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 162, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His life and teaching cannot be in vain Last Line: What hand like his to lead us thro' the gloom? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Graves; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools AD ASTRA: 164, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And canst thou doubt that christ doth surely live? Last Line: The harmony that links all sentient things. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 170, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What signifies that anglican and greek Last Line: Yet ever the crook of christ would all enfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise AD ASTRA: 78, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: From distant aeons was this earth ordain'd? Last Line: The vision of the saviour of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love AD ASTRA: 89, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How meetly from the poor his gospel came Last Line: And in men's hearts the living truth instil. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Eucharist; Jesus Christ; Religion; Communion; Theology AD MATREM, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O christ, you left not even cynthia Last Line: That man might rise by thy love's regency. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ADVENT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Once to this troubled world Last Line: To weary eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Hope; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Worship; Infants; Nativity, The; Optimism AFRAID, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Why slew they workman jesus Last Line: Because they were afraid! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools AFRICA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I slept. I dreamed. I seemed to climb a hard, ascending track Last Line: And oh! The pain, the pain, the pain that looked from that dear face Subject(s): Jesus Christ AFTER COMMUNION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I call thee lord, who art my god Last Line: How will it be with me in time of love? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Eucharist; Jesus Christ; Communion AFTER READING WILLIAM BLAKE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Those who cut a worm in twain Last Line: Thrusts the spear into jesus' side. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Jesus Christ; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AFTER THE MARTYRDOM, by FEDERICO SCHARMEL IRIS Poem Source First Line: They threw a stone, you threw a stone Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice AFTER THIS THE JUDGEMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As eager homebound traveller to the goal Last Line: Thy life then ransomed mine, my god, my god! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims AFTERNOON IN A CHURCH, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown tired of routine work Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry AH LORD, LORD, IF MY HEART WERE RIGHT WITH THINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With us long sought, long loved, to me:and much forgiven Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ AIRY CHRIST, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this that comes in splendour, coming from the blazing Last Line: Because he died; he only wishes they would hear him sing Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Jesus Christ ALL OUR GRIEFS TO TELL, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Jesus, who knows full well Last Line: Will make our cause his care. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ALL SAINTS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are flocking from the east Last Line: And praise in mouth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Saints ALL THINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus alone: - if thus it were to me Last Line: Some time below till timeless time above. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Jesus Alone Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love ALL TOO SLOWLY, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Like a glacier man advanced Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice ALLELUIA!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With windflower now and daffodil Last Line: Alleluia! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Jesus Christ; Praise; Resurrection, The ALONE INTO THE MOUNTAIN, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day from that deep well of life within Last Line: Save by a poor lost sheep with thorn-torn fleece %that follows on and hears him talk with god Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry AMORETTI: 68, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most glorious lord of life, that on this day Last Line: Love is the lesson which the lord us taught. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "easter Day;christ's True Love's Example;easter Morning;sonnet On Easter;easter;""most Glorious Lord Of Lyfe That On This Day""; Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology AN A.B.C. OF DEVOTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Crosse of jesu christ be ever oure spede Last Line: As to thy crosse reverence we may have Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion AN ART-LOVER TO CHRIST, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If these I love, what love have I for thee Last Line: For thou art noble; and I love them best. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Love AN EASTER CAROL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring bursts today Last Line: Angels and men and birds and everything. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection AN EASTER OFFERING, by NANCY A. BASTON Poem Text First Line: Now, nature, from the fertile mold Last Line: He lives, our resurrected king! Subject(s): Easter; Grace; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection AN EASTER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden sun climbs up the sky Last Line: God sends thee easter day! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Prayer; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection AN EASTER SONG, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song of sunshine through the rain Last Line: Were just three days apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Variant Title(s): Calvary And Easter Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology AN EASTER VISION, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: On easter morn I had a wondrous vision Last Line: Doth every sunrise bring an easter morning. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection AN EPISTLE FROM CORINTH, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Paul of tarsus, I have enquired of jesus Last Line: An upward gaze. . . . Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Death; Jesus Christ; Dead, The AN EVENING REVERIE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since climbed the trembling light of dawn far up the / eastern stairs Last Line: "nor, for my little thought of thee, take thou thy thoughts away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Peace; Prayer AN EXCEEDING BITTER CRY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contempt and pangs and haunting fears Last Line: Would raise thy praises now! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ AN HYMN OF HEAVENLY LOVE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, lift me up upon thy golden wings Last Line: Kindled through sight of those faire things above. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty; Jesus Christ AN OLD CHRISTMAS CAROL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh wake ye, little children Last Line: For this is christmas day. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Childhood; Nativity, The; Theology AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, by MARTHA SNELL NICHOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His name shall be wonderful' Last Line: Wonderful name of our wonderful lord! Subject(s): Jesus Christ AND JESUS WEPT, by MATTHEW BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright were the mornings first impearl'd Last Line: May weep with those that weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Brydges, Matthew Subject(s): Jesus Christ AND NOW WHY TARRIEST THOU, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, grant us grace to mount by steps of grace Last Line: In thee our all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ AND THE WOMEN PRAYED, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, who loveth passing well Last Line: Thine own beloved son? Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love; Prayer AND THOU WOULD'ST NOT!', by WINIFRED STODDARD LEBAR Poem Source First Line: He stood upon a slope of olivet Subject(s): Jesus Christ ANGEL VOICES, by MARY B. STEVENSON Poem Source First Line: Listen! Do you hear the winging Subject(s): Jesus Christ ANGER OF CHRIST, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day that christ ascended %to jerusalem Last Line: Drive the false thy roof from under; %teach thy priests thy word Subject(s): Jesus Christ ANGUS DEI, by VICTOR KINON Poem Text First Line: O lamb of god, o little infant lying Last Line: Drop from thy lips thy syllables of quiet! Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Lips; Sin ANNUNCIATION NIGHT, by KATHERINE ELEANOR CONWAY Poem Source First Line: It was night in the village of nazareth Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANOTHER FOR CHRIST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another called, another brought, dear master, to thy feet Last Line: Another heart to read aright thy heart of love untold! Subject(s): Jesus Christ ANOTHER, TO GOD (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou thou beest all that active love Last Line: If through my christ I saw not thee. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ANSWER TO PRAYER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Der ain't no use in sayin' de lawd won't answer / prah Last Line: Night. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Nativity, The; Theology APOCRYPHA, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When john the baptist was so young Last Line: He shaped a kiss: all day she smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Mothers APOSTROPHE TO TRUTH, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will arrive some day. - I know this surely Last Line: And burn them until they live again! Subject(s): Jesus Christ APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy parables discarding Last Line: That is not an answer, surely? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology APPROACHES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou turn'st away from ill Last Line: Then christ is thy very soul. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology ARCHITECT, by MOLLY WHITFORD ANDERSON HALEY Poem Source First Line: I would not all him in, my heart decried Subject(s): Jesus Christ ARES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in dream our mighty hunter ride Last Line: "to storm his paradise." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice ARISEN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: At every tomb an angel Last Line: Cloud and strand rejoice, rejoice! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The ART [THE HERALD], by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond; beyond; and yet again beyond! Last Line: Re-crucified in every wayside flower. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Jesus Christ AS HE WALKED WITH US, by HARRY WEBB FARRINGTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm, strong and gentle mand of galilee Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry AS I CAME OVER THE GREY, GREY HILLS, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And the golden light is glowing! Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Jesus Christ AS IT BEGAN TO DAWN, by GEORGE EDWARD HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: A sound, a sigh; a whip of rushing air Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The AS THE APPLE TREE AMONG THE TREES OF THE WOOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one red rose in a garden where all other roses are white Last Line: Chief and centre of all, in fellowship yet alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ AS WHEN THE CHRIST SHALL COME AGAIN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From out the golden doors of dawn Last Line: Outstanding, like some night-hewn silhouette Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jesus Christ AS YE DO IT UNTO THESE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ ASCENSION (1), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The time is come / for times great lord to think Last Line: And their ascension thus supply. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Happiness; Heaven; Home; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joy; Delight; Paradise ASCENSION HYMN, by BEDE Poem Text First Line: A hymn of glory let us sing Last Line: May all our glory be in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): The Venerable Bede (beda) Subject(s): Jesus Christ ASCRIPTION, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS Poem Source First Line: If aught of worth be in my psalms Variant Title(s): Envo Subject(s): Jesus Christ ASHAMED OF JESUS, by JOSEPH GRIGG Poem Text First Line: Jesus! And shall it ever be Last Line: That christ is not ashamed of me! Subject(s): Jesus Christ ASLEEP IN JESUS, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Text Last Line: And wait the summons from on high. Subject(s): Jesus Christ AT ARLES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see thy likeness in all beauteous things Last Line: That made us wretched all, and thee divine. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion AT HIS FEET, by LOIS R. CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Three times in bethany, that hallowed spot Last Line: That men may know we've been at jesus' feet! Subject(s): Jesus Christ AT NAZARETH, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little child, a joy-of-heart with eyes Last Line: His daily speech so innocently wise %that all the town went telling: 'jesus saith' Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth ATONEMENT, by MARIE LE NART Poem Text First Line: Atonement? Lord, who doth atone today? Last Line: Forgive us—we know not what we do! Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice AUDITIONS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So there we were eating feathered dinosaur Last Line: Lifters and blowers-away, alas Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Jesus Christ AVE CRUX, SPES UNICA!, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than two crosses stand on either side Last Line: "remember us, o king!" Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was this his coming! I had hoped to see Last Line: And over both with outstretched wings the dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology AWAKENING, by FLOSSIE FAITH SAWINGS Poem Text First Line: Oh, brave and high that day of evermore Last Line: To find the father waiting at the door. Subject(s): Jesus Christ BABY BOY, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knelt to the virgin mary. Help me, mary, to pray. Last Line: Oh, mary, make me as a child, and teach mine eyes to see! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BALLAD, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O praye for peace, sweet mayde marie Last Line: That peace, joy's treasure, maye befall. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all Last Line: Sin' they nailed him to the tree. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology BALLADE FOR THE SIXTH HOUR, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Good masters of the market-place Last Line: For such as you my saviour died. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice BAPTISM OF CHRIST, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a green spot in the wilderness Last Line: Circled, and flutter'd to the saviour's breast. Subject(s): Baptism; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Christenings BARGAIN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose will cost you more Last Line: This. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion BARNFLOOR AND WINEPRESS, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that on sin's wages starvest Last Line: We are so grafted on his wood Subject(s): Jesus Christ BARTIMEUS, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: God, grant to us thy blessed gift again Subject(s): Jesus Christ BE NOT WEARY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! He knows the way is dreary Last Line: Jesus is thy strength and stay. Subject(s): Jesus Christ BEACON LIGHT, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Whenever I come on kelp-stained nets Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BEACON LIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister blossoms, ye have kept Last Line: His beacon in the darkness shone. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ BEAUTIFUL GIFT, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Source First Line: What can a mother give her children Subject(s): Jesus Christ BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was hungry, and thou feddest me Last Line: Half I keep for thee.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ BEDTIME IN GALILEE, by BERENICE RICE Poem Text First Line: When the little jesus had been fed Last Line: Before she lost her little lad. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth BEFORE A CRUCIFIX, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, down between the dusty trees Last Line: Hide thyself, strive not, be no more. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; God; Jesus Christ; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The BEFORE PILATE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: What utter loneliness he knew Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice BEHOLD THE MAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall christ hang on the cross, and we not look Last Line: And fire and fasts and tearful night watches. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ BEHOLD YOUR KING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold your king! Though the moonlight steals Last Line: His wondrous love in his wondrous woe! Subject(s): Jesus Christ BEHOLD! THE DREAMER COMETH!, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jesus Christ BEHOLD, MY CROSS WAS GONE, by ALICE MORTENSON Poem Text First Line: The cross I bore seemed heavy Last Line: Behold: my cross was gone! Subject(s): Jesus Christ BELOVED THORN, by CHESTER ANDERS FEE Poem Text First Line: Thorn of silvery dew Last Line: I hear again the christ in agony. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Thorns BENEATH SUCH RAINS, by JAMES EDWARD WARREN JR. Poem Source First Line: The day I rode through devonshire Subject(s): Jesus Christ BESIDE THE CROSS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, in thy death I see Last Line: Be my life, and conquer death! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Faith; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Belief; Creed BETHLEHEM, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For paten and for chalice Last Line: To the majesty of the least. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants BETHLEHEM, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There man was all too marred with sin Last Line: Once in the stable on the hay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The BETRAYAL, by HESTER H. CHOLMONDELEY Poem Text First Line: Still, as of old Last Line: Himself, not christ. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology BIBLE STORIES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room was low and small and kind Last Line: The little jesus supped with me. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BID ME SIN NO MORE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, friend of sinners, hear Last Line: And bid me sin no more. Subject(s): Jesus Christ BIRDS OF PARADISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden-winged, silver-winged Last Line: The paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Paradise: In A Symbol Subject(s): Birds; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Paradise BIRTHDAY GIFTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you look sad, my minnie? Last Line: How to give her all the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Love; Childhood BLESS THE BLESSED MORN, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, god, our god, has come Last Line: Praise ye the king that comes to reign. Subject(s): Jesus Christ BLESS, DEAR SAVIOUR, THIS CHILD, by THOMAS BECK Poem Text First Line: Jesus, we lift our souls to thee Last Line: A follower of thine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ BLESSED AGITATOR, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Jesus, the blessed agitator Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Variant Title(s): Mary's So Subject(s): Jesus Christ BLESSED AMONG WOMEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed was she that bare Last Line: Thou fill men's eyes who listen with a heart that hears. Subject(s): Blessings; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Praise; Women; Women In The Bible BLESSED ROAD, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three roads led out to calvary Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice BLESSING, AND HONOR, AND GLORY, AND POWER, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dying in weakness, but rising to reign Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The BLIND BARTIMAEUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind bartimaeus at the gates Last Line: "thy faith from blindness gives release!" Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Bible; Blindness; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND MAN'S CRIES, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The murdered eye is not dead Last Line: I hear the horn's knell Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion BORNE OF FOUR', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bearers are unsteady. Racked and worn Last Line: O, good physician if I get to thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ BOY CHRIST, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Source First Line: Exquisite face that agony must tear Last Line: Yourselves upon less loving hands that will %not fail to strike you on that shameful hill Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth BREAD, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: He knew what hunger a man can feel Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BREAK MY HEART OF STONE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, let thy pitying eye Last Line: And break my heart of stone. Subject(s): Jesus Christ BRIER; GOOD FRIDAY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because, dear christ, your tender, wounded arm Last Line: The crown of thorns upon your bleeding brow Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Catholics; Humanity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Selfishness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism BRING THEM BACK, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many are out of the fold to-day Last Line: To the straight and narrow track. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology BRINGERS OF THE HEMLOCK, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: They thought to kill old socrates: instead Subject(s): Jesus Christ BROTHER GIAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear jesus christ, I'm brother gian Last Line: From eve his sins forever rise! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary BROTHERS OF THE FAITH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In christ there is no east or west Last Line: Throughout the whole wide earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): No East Or West Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology BROTHERS, AND A SERMON, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a village built in a green rent Last Line: Might have been his. Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ; Life; Quarrels; Sermons; Half-brothers; Arguments; Disagreements BUILDING OF THE CITY, by ISA CRAIG-KNOX Poem Source First Line: Behold the city is building! Last Line: And christ is in the midst of us Subject(s): Cities; Jesus Christ BURNING-GLASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No map shows my jerusalem Last Line: I am thy long-lost son.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice BUTTADEUS, by WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: I understand: that smoke-cloud is souchez Last Line: Where waits the peace of god. Subject(s): Crucifixion; God; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion BY AN ANCIENT SEA, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ BY HIM, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What comfort by him do we win Last Line: Can man forget this story? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion BY THE SEA OF GALILEE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erect in youthful grace and radiant Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON (B.C. 570), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where I dwell, I waste to skin and bone Last Line: And end me as a tale ends that is told. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Psalm 137. By The Waters Of Babylon Subject(s): Jesus Christ CAESAR AND CHRIST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Proud caesar came in strength of steel Last Line: And he lives. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Evil; Good; Jesus Christ; War; Dead, The CALL FOR CHRIST, by CYNEWULF Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Come now, thou lord of victory, creator of mankind Last Line: Shelter of man! O living god! Come soon, our need is sore! Alternate Author Name(s): Cynwulf Subject(s): Jesus Christ CALLING OF THE DISCIPLES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some jesus %has come on me Last Line: Laughing like god's fool %behind this jesus Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Religion CALVARY, by MARY HALLET Poem Source First Line: A dying figure against the sky Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CALVARY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If he could doubt on his triumphant cross Last Line: My god, my god! Why hast thou forsaken me? Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Calvary; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice CALVARY, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Source First Line: Five thousand followed him for fish and loaves Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CALVARY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow Last Line: Are we to keep christ writhing on the cross! Subject(s): Calvary; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CALVARY, by JOHN ROTHSCHILD Poem Text First Line: Acres of crosses - wooden crosses - bleak Last Line: Of folded arms in the menacing hour? Subject(s): Calvary; Crosses; Crucifixion; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The CALVARY'S CRY, by JOHN WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: From calvary a cry was heard Last Line: Melt and reclaim my wand'ring soul. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CALVARY-TALK, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three black crosses against the sky Last Line: Who thought their god was dead. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CANA, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend! Whose presence in the Last Line: And water turned to wine Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Jesus Christ - Legends; Miracles; Religion; Theology CANA, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Once when our eyes were clean as noon, our rooms Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Jesus Christ - Legends; Miracles CANTICA: OUR LORD CHRIST: OF ORDER, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: Set love in order, thou that lovest me Last Line: Even this love's heat must be its curb and rein. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Order CANTICA: OUR LORD CHRIST: OF ORDER, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set love in order, thou that lovest me Last Line: Even this love's heat must be its curb and rein. Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Jesus Christ; Order CARNAL AND THE CRANE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I passed by a river side Last Line: Even the blessed virgin %she's now brought forth a son Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends CAROL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the royal babe arrayed?' Last Line: In excelsis gloria! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS TIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ox he openeth wide the doore Last Line: Between her bosom and his hayre! Variant Title(s): Tryste Noel Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Oxen; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CAROL NAIVE, by JOHN MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: Was never none other / like our god's mother Last Line: Like our god's mother. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CAROL OF JESUS CHILD, by FRANCIS MACNAMARA Poem Text First Line: What danger, mary ...' Last Line: "by-by, lullay." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CAROL: NEW STYLE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus christ should come again Last Line: On christmas day in the morning. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Crucifixion; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CARPENTER, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: He sang at his bench in nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: To the kind, the tall carpenter Last Line: The tree-souls whispered %music without words Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by PHYLLIS HARTNOLL Poem Source First Line: Silent at joseph's side he stood Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, at joseph's humble bench Last Line: Home to thy father thou shalt bear %another child made thee like to thee Variant Title(s): At Joseph's Benc Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion CARPENTER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what he charged for chairs at nazareth Last Line: Men cheat and lie to one another so; %it's hard to be a carpenter Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by GUMPEI YAMAMURO Poem Source First Line: Long, long ago Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Labor And Laborers CARPENTER OF ETERNITY, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had been his apprentice Last Line: And worked in the nazareth shop. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Variant Title(s): In The Carpenter Shop Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CARPENTER OF GALILEE, by HILDA WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Source Last Line: The carpenter needs more Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion CARPENTER OF NAZARETH, by GEORGE BLAIR Poem Source First Line: In nazareth, the narrow road Last Line: Mould thou into the perfect part, %o carpenter of nazareth Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER OF NAZARETH, by WALTER+(1) SMITH Poem Source First Line: Were it table, trunk or stool Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER'S SON, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Text First Line: The little shop at nazareth Last Line: And love--thy love--that held thee fast. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CATHERINE TO GREGORY, THE POPE, by MARY KATE BLAND Poem Text First Line: Most holy christ on earth, I catherine Last Line: To die. Thy blessing, father -- rise and come! Subject(s): Death; Humility; Jesus Christ; Popes; Dead, The; Papacy CENTURION, by HELEN PURCELL ROADS Poem Source First Line: I saw him leave his pagan century Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CERTAIN SATURDAY, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Lost day Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CERTAINTIES, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: In all his life and teaching Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHARM FOR A THORN; CORNWALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Happy man that christ was born Last Line: In with healing, out with thorn, %happy man that christ was born Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHILD, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young child, christ, is straight and wise Last Line: For the young child. Christ, straight and wise. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology CHILD BALLAD, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, he loves one and all Last Line: Jesu lord, where'er I be! Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHILD OF MARY'S SOUL, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Text First Line: The star came out to hail him Last Line: Come in and make me whole! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CHILD THOUGHT, by JOSIE MANUS Poem Text First Line: When jesus was a child like me Last Line: He was a child like me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CHILD'S CAROL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked boy, brown boy Last Line: —christ is born! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Childhood; Nativity, The CHILD'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ used to be like you and me Last Line: Our hearts go singing up to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Childhood CHILDLESS CHRISTMAS, by ROWENA MILLAR KELL Poem Text First Line: Mary, from your throne of grace Last Line: Who put no child tonight to bed. Subject(s): Childlessness; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHILDREN DANCE: 7. JESUS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: While we were dancing Last Line: We think the dawn is about to shine! Subject(s): Children; Dancing And Dancers; Jesus Christ CHILDREN IN THE MARKET-PLACE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like children in the market-place Last Line: The everlasting good we seek %we can attain through thee Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion CHILDREN OF LILITH, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now tell me, villon, where is he Last Line: What, brother villon, shall we say? Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rome, Italy; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Childhood CHIRST IS ARISEN, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly we make for thee a grave apart Last Line: Alleluia! Christ is arisen! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The CHRIST, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no way in this starless night Last Line: And I sing as I follow him on--my guide. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul's physician thus the soul would kill Last Line: And dawn, not darkness, rule o'er earth and sky. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To all our wounds, here, whatsoe're they be Last Line: Christ is the one sufficient remedie. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All men betray me Last Line: As of the earth itself Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST, by EDGAR WILLIAM WHAN Poem Source First Line: The rumble of distant thunder Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST AND THE COMMON DAY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, oh my lord, I thank thee Last Line: The common day is sweet! Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST AND THE LITTLE ONES, by JULIA GILL Poem Text First Line: The master has come over jordan Last Line: That hour to her spirit were given. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST AND THE MOURNERS, by KATHERINE ELEANOR CONWAY Poem Text First Line: Down on the shadowed stream of time and tears Last Line: O thou, the resurrection and the life! Subject(s): Immortality; Jesus Christ CHRIST AND THE PAGAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had no god but these Last Line: "beyond eternal hope." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Paganism & Pagans CHRIST AND THE WINDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From bethlehem to calvary Last Line: We, wanderers, remain alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wind CHRIST AND WE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ took our nature on him not that he Last Line: But love and grace took glory by the hand, %and built a braver palace than before Variant Title(s): Christ's Incarnatio Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CHRIST AS A GARDENER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boxwoods planted in the park spelled live Subject(s): Christianity; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST AS A GARDENER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boxwoods planted in the park spelled live Last Line: Of milkweed, thistle, cattail, and goldenrod Subject(s): Christianity; Gardens And Gardening; Jesus Christ; Religion CHRIST AT EIGHT, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little boy, gentle boy Last Line: To slay them all in battle! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth CHRIST AT EMMAUS, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: One asked the stranger to divide the bread Last Line: Would have brought to me Subject(s): Bread; Food And Eating; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Legends; Lord's Supper CHRIST AT THE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "behold, a stranger's at the door" Last Line: "when, at his door, denied you'll stand" Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST AWAKENING THE APOSTLES ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, by CHARLES WYATT Poem Source First Line: Christ's in the center standing Last Line: Figures stirring; these lines are drawn in haste Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST BEFORE PILATE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: He is a man - magnanimous broad brow Last Line: Waking - the thorn-crowned to be crucified, - %roman and galilean slow returned Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CHRIST BEFORE PILATE, by ROBERT AB GWILYM DDU Poem Source First Line: Terrible to see him, for no fault of his own Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CHRIST CAN GIVE THEE HEART, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But christ can give thee heart who lioveth thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST CHILD'S CHRISTMAS, by LAURA SPENCER PORTOR Poem Source First Line: Oh, brother christ, come play with me Last Line: And overhead, the angel train %waited the christ-child all in vain Variant Title(s): The Christ-chil Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CHRIST CROWNED WITH THORNS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too little do we think of thee Last Line: From past and guilty years. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST CRUCIFIED, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy restless feet now cannot go Last Line: It gives tho' bound, tho' bound 'tis free! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CHRIST CRUCIFIED, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ride on, ride on in majesty! Last Line: Then take, o god, thy power, and reign! Variant Title(s): Palm Sunday Subject(s): Crucifixion; Palm Sunday; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CHRIST CRUCIFIED, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear on the ghostly sky the sharp black cross Last Line: And holy women; this was magdalen. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CHRIST HAS RISEN, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The CHRIST IN BONDS, by LAURANCE J. NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: He came, and yet his own receiv'd him not!' Last Line: "christ jesus reigns!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Thule Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST IN FLANDERS, by LUCY WHITMELL Poem Text First Line: We had forgotten you, or very nearly Last Line: And that you'll stand beside us to the last. Alternate Author Name(s): W., L. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Jesus Christ; Women; World War I; First World War CHRIST IN HADES; A PHANTASY, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keen as a blinded man, at dawn awake Last Line: Hades her interrupted life resumed. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST IN THE ANDES, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Source First Line: High on the rim edge of the argentine Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST IN THE STREET, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He came to earth one blue-skied day Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST IN THE UNIVERSE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With this ambiguous earth Last Line: When, in our turn, we show to them a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Universe CHRIST IN WOOLWORTH'S, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: I did not think to find you there Last Line: Who thought it strange to find you there, %when you are with us everywhere Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST IS ALL, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O everlasting light Last Line: Lord jesus, bless us now! Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST IS COMING, by HEYMAN WREFORD Poem Text First Line: Christ is coming! We are waiting Last Line: Christ is coming! Come, lord, come! Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST IS CRUCIFIED ANEW, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: Not only once, and long ago Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CHRIST IS HERE, by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carol, christians! Christ is here Last Line: Who love others, they love him. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST IS RISEN: 22, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the news %pealed Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST LIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Far out through the night there shines a star Last Line: Deflected by you, christ's light divine. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Light; Stars; Paradise CHRIST LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Greater love hath no man than this Last Line: Christ died for his enemies, not his friends. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Theology CHRIST MILITANT, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: We serve no weak and timid christ Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: Far, far the mountain peak from me Last Line: Fain would we climb to heights of peace - %thy peace upon the mountain Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the summit-wall and bridge for two races Last Line: And here below, peace to the men of good will Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sinai, Mount; Worship CHRIST ON EARTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had we but lived in those mysterious days Last Line: His voice sounds now as then. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST ON MADISON STREET, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I looked for christ on madison street Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST ON THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He that seeth on the rood Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS, by THOMAS KELLY (1769-1855) Poem Source First Line: The head that once was crowned with thorns Last Line: Their name an everlasting name, %their joy the joy of heaven Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The CHRIST QUIETS THE TEMPEST, by CAELIUS (COELIUS) SEDULIUS Poem Source First Line: He sought the sea; his footsteps press the Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST STILLING THE TEMPEST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear was within the tossing bark Last Line: "speak, and say, ""peace be still!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry CHRIST TELLS OF HIS PASSION, by CYNEWULF Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Alone I was born Alternate Author Name(s): Cynwulf Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ CHRIST THE CARPENTER, by LESLIE L. HASKIN Poem Text First Line: A crowd was thronging my doorstep Last Line: From the workshop down the street. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST THE COMRADE, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, by thine own darkened hour Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST THE CONQUEROR, by HENRY FOSTER BURDER Poem Text First Line: Jesus, immortal king, arise Last Line: Hosannas to the lord. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST THE CONSOLER, by HENRY WILLIAMS BAKER Poem Text First Line: O god of love, o king of peace Last Line: Give peace, o god, give peace again! Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST TO DUMB CREATURES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For man or for your fellows die Last Line: With my humanity are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CHRIST TO THE VICTIM-TREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon, but not alone to die Last Line: Seals thy fate to compass mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST TO THOMAS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy imperious finger, would it, then, reborrow Last Line: That on a living christ thou mayst rely, %cruel, wouldst thou thy christ recrucify? Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST WITH MARTHA AND MARY, by ANTONY OLDKNOW Poem Source First Line: And now he had a parish of a sort Last Line: Accompanying them as they finished work Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST WRITES IN THE SAND, by LUCY CULRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Crafty words and questions at jesus christ were flung Last Line: In flaming letters of forgiveness in our heart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mercy; Sin CHRIST'S AGONY IN THE GARDEN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knelt - the saviour knelt and prayed Last Line: Save, or we perish, son of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST'S COMING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The peoples long have waited Last Line: Exalt his holy name! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Justice; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CHRIST'S COMING IN TRIUMPH, by JEREMY TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Lord, come away; why dost thou stay? Last Line: Amen. Variant Title(s): Christ's Coming O Jerusalem In Triumph Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST'S ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat upon the ass's foal and rode Last Line: In earth or heaven, equal unto this? Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST'S GIFT TO MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Christ maketh to man a fair present Last Line: And love in love shall make it fine Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST'S GIVING, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: The spirit of self-sacrifice Last Line: Such was christ's giving. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry CHRIST'S INVITATION, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come unto me, ye who are tired and sad Last Line: That hides my face. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love CHRIST'S KINGDOM AMONG THE GENTILES, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Last Line: Their early blessings on his name. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST'S NATIVITY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, glad heart! Get up and sing! Last Line: Must not be numbered in the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The CHRIST'S PASSION, TAKEN OUT OF A GREEK ODE, by BEN MASTERS Poem Text First Line: Enough, my muse, of earthly things Last Line: That he will still require some waters to his blood. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST'S RECALL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return, / o wanderer from my side! Last Line: My wrath is turned away, I have redeemed thee. Subject(s): Absence; Jesus Christ; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery CHRIST'S REIGN OF PEACE, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And he shall charm and soothe, and breathe and bless Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST'S STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How many stars so high and white Last Line: Till we shall find the promised king! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary CHRIST'S WORDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of christ are fruitful seeds Last Line: Here and through eternity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Words; Vocabulary CHRIST, THE DREAMER, by KARL M. CHWOROWSKY Poem Text First Line: This man once dared to hold a glorious dream Last Line: Yet we plod on so dreamlessly and slow. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST, THE GOOD PHYSICIAN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, thy far-extended fame Last Line: Art willing to restore them now. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRIST, THE MAN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lord, I say nothing; I profess Last Line: Gives its best time and thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRIST, THE NAZARENE, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The copyist group was gathered round Last Line: "the face of christ, the nazarene?" Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTIANITY AND WAR, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Talk, if you will, of hero deed Last Line: Of war-like followers of jesus. Subject(s): Christianity; Evil; Good; Hypocrisy; Jesus Christ; Religion; War; Theology CHRISTMAS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Once more the tender christ child's feet Last Line: The marvel of thy birth. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: This is the day the great god pan lies dead Last Line: To soothe his sobbing with the pipes of pan. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Tis christmas day! 'tis christmas day! Last Line: And christmas carols sing. Subject(s): Bells; Christianity; Christmas Carols; Churches; Happiness; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Songs CHRISTMAS, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The heavens are black, the earth is white Last Line: "sing to the shepherds, ""christ is born." Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O babe who slept on mary's breast Last Line: "the swords of war at last are broken." Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: I feel the cold of night Last Line: And when he sees us he'll break into tears Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ CHRISTMAS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love to think of bethlehem Last Line: Comes yet on christmas day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by BETTY SCOTT STAM Poem Text First Line: No sheep in the folds Last Line: Shines forth in god's son. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTMAS (1), by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us go a journey' Last Line: She wept, 'o my lord!' Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Happiness; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 1. IN CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whose birth on earth Last Line: Bid the day be born. Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Life; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS AT BABBITT'S, by HENRY HALLAM TWEEDY Poem Source First Line: On christmas eve they filled the hpouse, some fifty guests all told Last Line: O little lord of christmas, let us keep the day with thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion CHRISTMAS BELLS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, christmas bells, your music swells upon Last Line: Honest youth, the days he's left so far behind. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint CHRISTMAS BELLS, by ALICE MORTENSON Poem Text First Line: Christmas bells are ringing sweetly Last Line: "for he's coming, coming soon!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTMAS DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all dear days is christmas day Last Line: In all the winds that blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now comes the ordered prime Last Line: That holds all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS EVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The north wind rustles in the roads Last Line: His blessing gave to struggling men. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint CHRISTMAS EVE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the death-time of the year Last Line: For christ, our lord, is born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS EVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The door in on the latch tonight Last Line: I would not bar a single door %where love might enter in Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion CHRISTMAS EVE AT BETHLEHEM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The christ-thorn rustles in the hedge Last Line: The snow-wind blown from lebanon! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How all the welkin rings Last Line: Formed in each believing heart! Variant Title(s): For Christmas Day;glory To The King Of Kings Subject(s): Christmas; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS STILL LIVES, by CLARENCE HAWKES Poem Text First Line: There's a message, sweet and tender Last Line: The hope of all humanity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTMAS TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white trees for christmas Last Line: And the stars for the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Trees; Nativity, The CHRISTMASSE DAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Wonders birthday / which maks't decembers face Last Line: It selfe more full on this contracting day. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTS ACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ never did so great a work, but there Last Line: His humane nature, and his part divine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry CHRISTS INCARNATION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ took our nature on him, not that he Last Line: Because our flesh stood most in need of him. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTS PART, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, he requires still, wheresoere he comes Last Line: Of all the house: the best of all's the heart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTS SADNESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ was not sad, I'th garden, for his own Last Line: Passion, but for his sheeps dispersion. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTS SUFFERING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justly our dearest saviour may abhorre us Last Line: Who hath more suffer'd by us farre, then for us. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice CHRISTS TRIUMPH OVER AND AFTER DEATH: CHRISTS TRIUMPH AFTER DEATH, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now the second morning from her bower Last Line: Light is the pallace whear she dwells. O blessed wight! Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTS VICTORIE, AND TRIUMPH: CHRISTS VICTORIE IN HEAVEN, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birth of him that no beginning knewe Last Line: Whose woods drop honie, and her rivers skip with wine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTS VICTORIE, AND TRIUMPH: CHRISTS VICTORIE ON EARTH, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thear all alone she spi'd, alas the while Last Line: See how the night comes stealing from the mountains high. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTS WORDS ON THE CROSSE, MY GOD, MY GOD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, when he hung the dreadful crosse upon Last Line: Had no one beame from gods sweet majestie. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CHRISTUS CONSOLATOR, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the dead I knelt for prayer Last Line: "he smiled: ""abide in me." Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Religion; Dead, The; Theology CHRYSALIS, by MAE EMERSON DINELLI JONES Poem Text First Line: Death drew a pall about his form Last Line: A worthy leader of his failing race. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The CITIZEN OF THE WORLD, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No longer of him be it said Last Line: The king of glory enters in. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Jesus Christ CLAIMING THE PROMISE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, we look to thee Last Line: In hope of perfect love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CLOSER TO THEE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Closer, closer would I be Last Line: Blessed jesus, let me be! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology COHEIRES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are coheires with christ; nor shall his own Last Line: Of his great birth-right nothing derogate. Subject(s): Jesus Christ COLOSSIANS: 3, 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we cling to earth? Its sweetest pleasures Last Line: No longer cling to earth, but soar to yon bright heaven! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Praise; Singing & Singers; World; Songs COME AND WELCOME, by THOMAS HAWEIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the cross uplifted high Last Line: "come and welcome, sinner, come." Subject(s): Jesus Christ COME UNTO ME, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, said jesus' sacred voice Last Line: Rest, eternal, sacred, sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Variant Title(s): Hymn Vii;the Gracious Call Subject(s): Jesus Christ COME UNTO ME, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We labor and are heavy-laden Subject(s): Jesus Christ COME UNTO ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for the time gone by when thought of christ Last Line: And love is christ, and christ is all in all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ COME UNTO ME', by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest words that ever fell Last Line: And I will give you rest Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Jesus Christ COME, FOLLOW ME!', by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Athwart the jangling of our creeds is heard Subject(s): Jesus Christ COME, LORD JESUS, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O jesus! At thy feet we wait Last Line: Forever fill'd with god. Subject(s): Jesus Christ COMFORTED, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: A great wind blowing, raging sea Last Line: My heart is comforted in thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion COMING TO CHRIST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To him, who longs unto his christ to go Last Line: Celerity even it self is slow. Subject(s): Jesus Christ COMMUNICANTS, by J. C. EVANS Poem Text First Line: I know some lowly, cringing clods Last Line: Hung high against the blue. Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Eucharist; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Communion COMMUNION, by PHOEBE SMITH BACHELDER Poem Source First Line: Not to the twelve alone Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice COMMUNION, by LOREN W. BURCH Poem Source First Line: I would be one with thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ COMMUNION HYMN, by WILLIAM GAY Poem Source First Line: His gospel sounds in every wind that sings Subject(s): Jesus Christ COMPANIONSHIP, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No distant lord have I Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship COMPARED WITH CHRIST, by AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Compared with christ, in all beside Last Line: If thou, o god! Art mine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ COMPASSION SO DIVINE, by ANNE STEELE Poem Text First Line: Jesus-and didst thou leave the sky Last Line: Thy righteous rule obey. Subject(s): Compassion; Jesus Christ COMRADE CHRIST, by VERNE BRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Give us jesus christ, the carpenter Last Line: Christ, the carpenter, has come again. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry COMRADE JESUS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Source First Line: I tramped the pavement, cursing god Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry COMRADE JESUS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to st. Matthew, who had been Last Line: Comrade jesus hath his red card. Subject(s): Freedom; Jesus Christ; Liberty CONCERNING JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race Last Line: Never a true crown but thy crown of thorn! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Jesus Christ; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Statues; Truth CONFIDENCE (IMPROMPTU ON THE ROAD TO WARWICK), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thee I trust, on thee I rest Last Line: Thy power, thy love, thy faithfulness. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CONFIRMATION DAY, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: O bernadette, the day I took your name Last Line: Please don't go back to france %we could have such a blast Subject(s): Catholics; Confirmation; Jesus Christ CONQUEST, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Though rulers spend a million men Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CONSECRATION, by ANNA HOPPE Poem Text First Line: Had I a thousand lives to live Last Line: Is heav'n enough for me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CONSIDER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider / the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief Last Line: To do us good. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CONTEMPLATION, by LINA HARVEY Poem Text First Line: A mountain Last Line: The saviour mild. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CONTEMPORARY, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: Then to emmaus with him I, too, walked Last Line: It threw a cross of shadow on the room. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice CONTINUING CHRIST, by WALTER RUSSELL BOWIE Poem Source First Line: Far, far away is bethlehem Subject(s): Jesus Christ CONTRAST, by AUBERT EDGAR BRUCE Poem Source First Line: What wrote he on the parched and dusty ground Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CONTRAST, by CHARLES GRANVILLE HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: And it was in the winter Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice COOL JERKS, by KEITH ANTAR MASON Poem Source First Line: You be made a man the same way jesus was made a savior Last Line: They are praying for a sign %amen Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer; Revolutions COPLAS DE MANRIQUE, SELS., by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To one alone my thoughts arise Subject(s): Jesus Christ CORDE NATUS EX PARENTIS, by AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the father's love begotten Last Line: Evermore and evermore! Subject(s): Jesus Christ CORPUS CHRISTI, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Come, dear heart! Last Line: Crushed and tormented in the mills of god, %and offered at life's hands, a living eucharist Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CORPUS CHRISTI, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corpus,' they say, as in 'habeas.' Last Line: A christ the anglo half chews down with shrimp Subject(s): Jesus Christ CORPUS CHRISTI: HIBERNAL, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Legend in a country-side Last Line: To see the world a flowering heart. Subject(s): Ignorance; Jesus Christ; Dullness; Stupdity COST, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because heaven's cost is hell, and perfect joy Last Line: For those he came to save, to the accursed tree, - %for this I know that christ indeed is christ Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice COURTESY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or courtesy, it is much less Last Line: My rhyme is written, my work is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Courtesy; Christmas; Etiquette; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Manners; Courtesy COURTESY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of courtesy, it is much less Last Line: My rhyme is written, my work is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Christmas; Etiquette; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Manners; Courtesy COVENANTERS: JESUS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wore no hat, but he produced, say Last Line: Each to the glass-house of his own mind Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CREDO, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not what, what whom, I do believe! Last Line: But whom! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology CROSS, by THOMAS BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Our saviour's cross, begilt with guiltless blood Last Line: Of the vast world, and from the four winds should %christ's flock be fetched to his thrice-blessed f Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by CHARLES S. BRADEN Poem Source First Line: A cross? That? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tree which heaven has willed to dower Last Line: God on thee endured to die Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Salvation CROSS, by DONALD EARL EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: I saw it in a shell-torn town Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not of justice Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by RUBY WEYBURN TOBIAS Poem Source First Line: Charlemagne carried it far Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS AND THE TREE, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: A tree is such a sacred thing Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Trees CROSS AND THRONE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross it standeth fast Last Line: Throne and cross forever. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CROSSROADS OF THE AGES, by ESTELLA MOUL MILLER Poem Text First Line: Will you leave the christ in bethlehem Last Line: At the crossroads, to be shown the jesus' way. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The CROWD, by IRENE MCKEIGHAN Poem Source First Line: Always he feared you Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROWNING WONDER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His followers had fled like frightened sheep Last Line: And in his own good time will come again, %to dwell once more among the sons of men Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ CROWNS, by LOUISE UPHAM BROOKS Poem Source First Line: Only thorns for the master Subject(s): Jesus Christ CRUCIFIED THIEF, by JOHN S. MBITI Poem Source First Line: I am a crucified theif Last Line: And steals their sins away Subject(s): Jesus Christ CRUCIFIX, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Pitted and pock-marked by a roving gun Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CRUCIFIXION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You understand the colors on the hillside have faded Last Line: On the hillside, and after a while I nodded back to him Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CRUCIFIXION, by HUGH O. ISBELL Poem Source First Line: Golgotha's journey is an ancient way Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CRUCIFIXION, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, must I bear the whole of it Last Line: "only the spear-point in a broken heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CRUCIFIXION, by CARL S. WEIST Poem Source First Line: Had I been there that cruel day Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CRUCIFIXION TO THE WORLD BY THE CROSS OF CHRIST, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I survey the wondrous cross / on which the prince of glory died Last Line: Demands my soul, my life, my all. Variant Title(s): The Cross;glorying In The Cross;the Wondrous Cross Subject(s): Christianity; Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CRUCIFIXUS PRO NOBIS: 1. CHRIST IN THE CRADLE, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look, how he shakes for cold Last Line: Gives in a groan; or mary in a tear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CRUCIFIXUS PRO NOBIS: 2. CHRIST IN THE GARDEN, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look, how he glows for heat! Last Line: He only breathes a sigh, and weeps a tear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry CRUCIFIXUS PRO NOBIS: 3. CHRIST IN HIS PASSION, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What bruises do I see Last Line: Sigh out a groan, weep down a melting tear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice CRUSADERS, by ELIZABETH WADDELL Poem Text First Line: They have taken the tomb of our comrade christ Last Line: To give our comrade back to his own. Subject(s): Crusades; Jesus Christ CRUSTS, by WALTER SHEA Poem Source First Line: How cruel they! The cause of all Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CUP, by FREDERICK T. ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: If now unto my lips be raised Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DAILY BREAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Day by day the manna fell Last Line: Glowing yet with gratitude! Subject(s): Jesus Christ DAILY CROSS, by EARL BIGELOW BROWN Poem Source First Line: Calvary was just one more Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DAMASCUS ROAD, by DANIEL HUGHES Poem Source First Line: O sacred lance that heals the wound it makes Subject(s): Jesus Christ DAWN, by MIRIAM LEFEVRE CROUSE Poem Source First Line: Near the dawn mary went Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The DAY BREAKS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Man-made laws and doctrines pass Subject(s): Jesus Christ DE PROFUNDIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O savior of the world, who by Last Line: Save us and help us! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Salvation; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion DE PROFUNDIS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: My soul! / can this as truth abide Last Line: We only die. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEAR ANGELS AND DEAR DISEMBODIED SAINTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To rise and run and rest in paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints; Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Worship DEATH AND RESURRECTION, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The priests, the elders, and the scribes Last Line: Joint-ruler of his own. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The DEATH OF CHRIST, by ARTHUR RAYMOND MACDOUGALL JR. Poem Source First Line: Pilate made report to rome Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DEATHLESS TALE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had he not breathed his breath Last Line: Unutterably dim %our bright world, lacking him Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth DEBTS, by ADA NEILL CLARK Poem Text First Line: I'll never be able to pay Last Line: Who died on the tree. Subject(s): Debt; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice DEDICATION FOR A HOME, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose gracious presence blest Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ DELIVER US FROM ..., by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Is there no greater good than health and ease? Last Line: Where stands unchanging a forgotten cross! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Prayer DEMOCRITUS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy of your opulent atoms! Wouldst thou dare Last Line: Christ with immortal love-beams laves the height. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Democritus (460-370 B.c.); Jesus Christ; Philosophy & Philosophers DERELICTION, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen morning break within his eyes Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DESERT WANDERINGS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Yes, we have lost our way Subject(s): Jesus Christ DESPISED AND REJECTED, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homeless! Last Line: Who is every outcast's home. Subject(s): Jesus Christ DESPISED AND REJECTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sun has set, I dwell Last Line: The mark of blood for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology DEVOTIONS, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Both relished the yield Last Line: And we kiss with a gift of tongues %and forget how jesus was betrayed Subject(s): Faith; God; Jesus Christ; Religion DIES IRAE, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Source First Line: There are no footprints left upon the waters Subject(s): Jesus Christ DIRE: 13. THE SAVIOR OF SOCIETY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O son of man, but of what man who knows? Last Line: December, 1869. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Nations; Salvation; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The DIRE: 16. THE DESCENT INTO HELL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night and death, to whom we grudged him then Last Line: That we have lived to say, the dog is dead. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Dead, The DIRE: 6. LOCUSTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come close and see her and hearken. This is she Last Line: Praying. There are who say she is bride of christ. Subject(s): Cups; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.) DISILLUSIONED, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Through years our minds have wrestled - and how vain! Subject(s): Jesus Christ DISSENTER, by LILLIAM M. SWENSON Poem Source First Line: Before the altar in his heart he knelt Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DIVERSITY, by EVERARD V. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: A gardener to the magdalene Last Line: Filled with such diverse souls? Subject(s): Jesus Christ DIVINE IMAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus said, 'wouldst thou love one who never died' Last Line: Jesus will appear; and so he who wishes to see a vision, a perfect whole, %must see it in its minute Variant Title(s): Written 181 Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mythology; Religion DIVINE REBEL, by GEORGE SCHEFTEL Poem Source First Line: The carpenter was not afraid to die Subject(s): Jesus Christ DOES CHRIST SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SIN?, by HOWARD S. BLISS Poem Source Last Line: Call him by no name, but follow him! Subject(s): Jesus Christ DOST THOU NOT CARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love and love not: lord, it breaks my heart Last Line: Do I not live for thee? Leave me to-morrow.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was twenty-five years ago Last Line: That you are just as foolish as can be Subject(s): Disasters;jesus Christ;pride;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); Self-esteem;self-respect DRAW ME, SAVIOUR, AFTER THEE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saviour, the world's and mine Last Line: All immersed and lost in love! Subject(s): Jesus Christ DRAW NEAR, O SON OF GOD, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let every knee to jesus bow. Subject(s): Jesus Christ DREAM OF THE ROOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark! Of a matchless vision would I speak Last Line: Had dwelt in glory; when their ruler came, %almighty god, into his fatherland Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DREAM OF THE ROOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am remembering in the long ago Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ DREAM OF THE ROOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hwaet! %a dream came to me Last Line: It was they who girt me with gold and silver Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DREAMS AND DEEDS, by JOHN HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Dear master, in whose life I see Last Line: O thou whose deeds and dreams were on Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion DUALITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never pass a human house Last Line: Awake, as in its sleep? Subject(s): Death; Duplicity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DUM AGONIZATUR ANIMA, ORENT ASSISTENTES; FRAGMENT, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold me will-less, witless in the night Last Line: And I will follow thee where'er thou goest. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Jesus Christ DYING, by JESSIE HOLT Poem Source First Line: Beauty goes out to meet a greater beauty Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DYING THAT I MIGHT LIVE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus hath died that I might live Last Line: And where thou art is heaven. Subject(s): Jesus Christ E TENEBRIS [FROM THE SHADOWS], by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come down, o christ, and help me! Reach thy hand Last Line: The wounded hands, the weary human face. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology EARLIEST CHRISTIAN HYMN, by TITUS FLAVIUS CLEMENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Curb for stubborn steed Alternate Author Name(s): Clement Of Alexandria Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion EARLY ONE MORNING, by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: And with sunrising %all was gone Subject(s): Jesus Christ EARTH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What made us think Last Line: The hand that fastened you %to the cross, but cannot absolve us Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Jesus Christ EARTH BOWS TO THE NEW BOMB, by ALINE BADGER CARTER Poem Source First Line: What power is this released in man's dark night Subject(s): Jesus Christ EARTH WORSHIPED!, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: A crown of thorns men gave to christ Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice EAST LONDON, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas august, and the fierce sun overhead Last Line: Thou mak'st the heaven thou hop'st indeed thy home. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; London EASTER, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Slow phoebus thou hast slept too long Last Line: Now he, our head revived doth appeare. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: It comes again-the eastertide Last Line: Oh, would that men had understood! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it risen?-spirit of earth Last Line: Spirit of heaven. Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection EASTER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, joyful, glad easter morning Last Line: On the resurrection day. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, now that spring is in the world Last Line: I'll hear thee pass! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O soul, be still! Scourge not thyself with doubt Last Line: "recurrent resurrection is eternal life." Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by JOHN VAN BRAKLE Poem Source First Line: Today unnumbered church bells ring Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The EASTER, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Source First Line: With song and sun-burst comes the easter morn Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Lent; Resurrection, The EASTER (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tears have done: / our rising sun Last Line: And sing him now his morning-sacrifice. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER ANTHEM, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing the loud anthem o'er land and o'er sea Last Line: Jehovah has triumphed, his kingdom is free. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER CAROL, by GEORGE NEWELL LOVEJOY Poem Text First Line: O earth! Throughout thy borders Last Line: And christ is risen today! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER CHORDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ the lord is risen to-day! Last Line: And earth and heaven together meet in ecstasies of glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection EASTER COLLECT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god! Whose blessed will was one Last Line: Who liv'd and died, and rose again for all. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Salvation; The Resurrection EASTER DAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning dawns; the third approaching day Last Line: In glorious bodies, fashion'd like his own. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER DAY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Christ the lord is risen today Last Line: Hail him lord this easter day! Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Resurrection, The; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER EVEN (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing more that they can do Last Line: And with him bring his sheaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection EASTER FLOWERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blooming to garland easter Last Line: To deck our king's highway. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection EASTER HYDRANGEAS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: These potted pink hydrangeas Last Line: Please say yes Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The EASTER HYMN, by JOHN OF DAMASCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, and let us drink of that new river Last Line: With thyself upraise me to the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): John Damascene; Chrysorrhoas Subject(s): Jesus Christ EASTER HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ the lord is risen to-day Last Line: Thus to sing, and thus to love! Variant Title(s): Easter Day;he Is Risen;the Lord Is Risen;for Easter-day Subject(s): Easter; Faith; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; Theology EASTER JOY, by DAISY CONWAY PRICE Poem Source First Line: I, too, o christ, denied you Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The EASTER LIGHT, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: Because upon the first glad easter day Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The EASTER MESSAGE, by JOHN VAN BRAKLE Poem Source First Line: Almost two thousand years ago today Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The EASTER MORNING, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gray clouds against a leaden sky Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The EASTER MORNING AT THE TOMB, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I went to the tomb Variant Title(s): To The Tom Subject(s): Jesus Christ EASTER MUSIC, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Blow, golden trumpets, sweet and clear Last Line: "through death immortal life is here!" Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night had shout of men and cry Last Line: He rose again behind the stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER REVELATION, by CLARA EMELIA ULLMAN Poem Text First Line: No mortal yet knows how the white lily grows Last Line: Life, and love never-failing and true. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Lilies; The Resurrection EASTER SUNDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was in the middle of the night Last Line: And lift men up Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER SUNDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was in the middle of the night Last Line: I must slide down like a great dipper of stars %and lift men up Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The ECCLESIASTICAL BALLADS: THE VETERAN OF HEAVEN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O captain of the wars, whence won ye so great / scars? Last Line: "it is written ""king of kings, lord of lords.""'" Subject(s): Crucifixion; Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion ECHOES OF JESUS, by LUCILE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A little inn in bethlehem first heard the echo of his voice Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The ELUSIVE JESUS, by SASCHA T. MOORE Poem Source First Line: I read about you, today Last Line: Pity the poor scholars! Subject(s): Jesus Christ ENSAMPLES OF OUR SAVIOUR, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our saviour Last Line: The soule, by prayer it lives. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ENTRANCE INTO HEAVEN, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down the white steps of heaven christ came to meet him Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice EPIPHANY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The kings have brought him ambergris Last Line: Falls like a full-fed lamb, asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Epiphany; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Twelfth Night ETERNAL WORD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the word Subject(s): Jesus Christ EUCHARIST, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still we who follow christ in deed Last Line: Our blood and bodies, like the christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Eucharist; Jesus Christ; Communion EVALUATION, by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Text First Line: Born in a borrowed cattle shed Last Line: Before he changed death into birth! Subject(s): Jesus Christ EVEN AS THE BIRD, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My soul's a new-fledged bird: it tries to fly Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Jesus Christ EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is a welter of blistering sorrow Last Line: Even so, even so. Lord jesus, come Subject(s): Jesus Christ EVENING HYMN, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun of my soul, thou saviour dear Last Line: We lose ourselves in heaven above. Subject(s): Jesus Christ EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If moral virtue was christianity %christ's pretensions were all vanity Last Line: Both read the bible day & night, %but thou read'st black where I read white Variant Title(s): The New La Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity EVERLASTING MERCY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From '41 to '51 Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion EXCELLENCY OF CHRIST, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is a path, if any be misled Last Line: A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth. Subject(s): Jesus Christ EXCEPT YE REPENT', by J. FRANKLIN PINEO Poem Source First Line: Christ, forgive us Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice EXPECTANT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yes, I shall watch the sky tonight Last Line: With heavenly halo on his head. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood EYE-WITNESS, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down by the railroad in a green valley Last Line: And earth bore east with all toward the new morning. Subject(s): Jesus Christ FAILURE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I strove, o lord, to grasp a star for thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ FAIREST LORD JESUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fairest lord jesus, / ruler of all nature" Last Line: Then all the angels heaven can boast Variant Title(s): Song Of The Crusaders;crusader's Hymn Subject(s): Crusades;jesus Christ FAIRY TREE, by TEMPLE LANE Poem Source First Line: All night around the thorn tree Last Line: You'll never fear the thorn tree %that grows beyond clogheen! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Trees FAITH, by DONALD EARL EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: I did not see the crown Subject(s): Jesus Christ FAITH, by HUGH O. ISBELL Poem Source First Line: Religion is of faith indeed Subject(s): Jesus Christ FAITH, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: And I must say that god is christ Subject(s): Jesus Christ FALLEN, by GEORGE EDGAR MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: Here is my hand / o weary one Last Line: Tears scorching as thine own for christ's love undivined. Subject(s): Jesus Christ FALLEN BY THE WAY, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall man surely save his soul? Last Line: That grows, and rows, as grows the fruitful seed Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soul; Salvation FAR TRUMPETS BLOWING, by LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON Poem Source First Line: A king might miss the guiding star Last Line: May catch far trumpets blowing Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion FATHER, INTO THY HANDS, by THOMAS B. POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: Jesus-all thy labor vast Last Line: Grace to reach the home on high! Subject(s): Jesus Christ FELLOWSHIP, by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Source First Line: Caiaphas, pilate and herod Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FEW WHOLLY FAITHFUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Many sit at jesus' table Last Line: Give me love like this Subject(s): Jesus Christ FIFTH VILLANCICO, SELS., by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because my lord was born to suffer Last Line: Let him have his sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love FILIUS REGIS MORTUUS EST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As reason ruled my reckless mind / and on wild ways as forth I went Last Line: My son for that will grant ye grace - / filius regis mortuus est!' Subject(s): Jesus Christ FIRST MONENTS OF RESURRECTION, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog sat there on the manure pile Last Line: In the world! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The FISHERMAN SPEAKS, by FEDERICO SCHARMEL IRIS Poem Source First Line: Oh, he who walked with fishermen Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry FISHERMEN - NOT OF GALILEE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have toiled all the night, the long weary night Last Line: I shall wake in thy likeness, satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Anglers FISHERS, by ALBERT REGINALD GOLD Poem Text First Line: Tangled in nets Last Line: O man of galilee. Subject(s): Jesus Christ FISHERS, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, we have toiled all night. All night Last Line: Once more, once more - at thy strange word, %master, we will let down the net! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry FISHERS IN THE NIGHT, by BEULAH MAY Poem Source First Line: It was all over now Subject(s): Jesus Christ FISHERS OF MEN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago he said Last Line: From calvary. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Hearts; Jesus Christ; Sea; Singing & Singers; War; Ocean FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by PETER QUENNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within heaven's circle I had not guessed at this Last Line: And to make dumb our theft %the white and moving sand that will not bear a print Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth FLOWER OF QUINCE, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three quince trees dance, a windy row Last Line: Jesus and two thieves. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion FLY BACK TO CHRIST, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, my saviour, brother, friend Last Line: Fly back to christ, for sin is near! Subject(s): Jesus Christ FLY TO JESUS, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary souls, that wander wide Last Line: Blest to all eternity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ FLY, SOME KIND HARBINGER, TO GRASMEREDALE!, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Smile on his mother now with bolder cheer Subject(s): Jesus Christ FLYING TO THE BODY OF CHRIST, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: On, we are lifted for a little while Last Line: And, when paradise comes, we will %not be able to stand it Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion FOCUS OF THAT FACE, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: Peter denied, but jesus did not scold Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FOLDING TIME, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, herds pursue Last Line: "husheen-na-hoon." Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nonsense FOLK SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "steal away, steal away, steal away to jesus" Last Line: I ain't got long to stay here Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;jesus Christ; Negro Spirituals FOLLOW ME, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And him evermore I beheld Last Line: From the centuries that are gone, %to the centuries that shall be Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion FOLLOW ME!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, I would follow, but Last Line: He must be christ's and christ's alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology FOLLOW ME!, by SHELDON SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: In the name of him who died Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FOLLOW THOU ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, carry me - nay, but I grant thee strength Last Line: Follow thou me along my way of grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ FOLLOWER, by DAISY CONWAY PRICE Poem Source First Line: I might have climbed up calvary Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FOR A MERCY RECEIVED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god who spared me what I feared Last Line: To do, and make me love thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Mercy; Dead, The FOR A VIRGIN AND CHILD, BY HANS MEMMELINCK, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: god, man's life, born into man Last Line: Harsh nether darkness, and make painful moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonntes For Pictures: 1. A Virgin And Child, By Hans Memmeling Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans FOR ANNE AT PASSOVER, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold easter week and the hard buds, forming, shake Last Line: We are all babes who suck at love together Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Critics And Criticism; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jews; Passover; Religion - Reformers FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS SON, by GEORGIA HARKNESS Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ FOR ME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Under an eastern sky Last Line: To thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice FOR MY BROTHER JESUS, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father had terrible words for you Last Line: With your words of love, %your voice gentle as my father's Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jews FOR PERFECT PEACE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, my lord, attend Last Line: The joy of angels know. Subject(s): Jesus Christ FOR RODDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am imagining this of you Last Line: Toward me, wherever, whose ever I am. Subject(s): Imagination; Jesus Christ; Life; Resurrection, The; Fancy FOR THE HOLY FAMILY, BY MICHELANGELO (IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn not to the prophet's page, o son! He knew Last Line: The seed o' the woman bruise the serpent's head. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary FOR THE MASTER'S SAKE, by MINNIE MASON BEEBE Poem Text First Line: I sat in the gathering twilight Last Line: That we lived for the master's sake. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, our saviour, brother, friend Last Line: And perfected in love below. Subject(s): Jesus Christ FOR THINE OWN SAKE, O MY GOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearied of sinning, wearied of repentance Last Line: I plead thyself with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Sin FORGIVE, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Text First Line: O prince of peace, who came to bless Last Line: In banner Subject(s): Jesus Christ FORGIVENESS, by HENRY FRANCIS LYTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When at thy footstool, lord, I bend Last Line: And let that blood my pardon buy! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Clemency FRA ANGELICO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was this beata's grief in thought of christ upon the cross Last Line: That brought his body up to where -- it had to turn its head? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Jesus Christ; Soul; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness FREE ENTERPRISE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Source First Line: Three workmen fashioning a cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FRIEND OF SINNERS, by RICHARD BURNHAM Poem Text First Line: Jesus! Thou art the sinner's friend Last Line: Dear lord! Remember me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ FRIEND OF SOULS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O friend of souls! How blest the time Last Line: The heaven of heavens is won Subject(s): Jesus Christ FROM THE EARTH, A CRY, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O christ! And o christ! In thy name the law! Last Line: God purifies slowly by peace, but urgently by fire. Subject(s): French Revolution (1848); Hate; Jesus Christ; Social Protest; War; February Revolution FUTILE SACRIFICE, by MURRAY SKINNER Poem Source First Line: The lamb of god wears a scarlet robe Subject(s): Jesus Christ GABAEL, by ADRIEN MITHOUARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone gabael of sichem, blind from birth Last Line: Silent, the sunset tinged with blood the skies. Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Faces; God; Jesus Christ; Visually Handicapped GADARA, A.D. 31, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Rabbi, begone thy powers Last Line: Until the latch be lifted from within. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology GALILEAN, by MARGIELEA STONESTREET Poem Source First Line: Sad searching eyes with benediction in their gaze Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry GAMBLER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And sitting down they watched him there Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Variant Title(s): He Was A Gambler To Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GARDEN, by BELLE F. OWENS Poem Source First Line: The garden now is sealed and dead Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The GENTLY HE DRAWETH ME UNTO HIS BOSOM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Proving his love again and again! Subject(s): Jesus Christ GETHSEMANE, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like him, whilst friends and lovers slept Last Line: Gethsemane! Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Jesus Christ GETHSEMANE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pursing his traitor lips he onward went Last Line: The sin he worked with, nor its curse removed. Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) GETHSEMANE'S GIFT, by KATHERINE MARIE CORNELIA BREGY Poem Source First Line: When is he is nearest to all of us Last Line: But I would not forget what the olive-trees heard - %his one unanswered prayer! Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion GIFTS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Myrrh and frankincense and gold Last Line: "of the dark where thou wast laid?" Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The GIVE OUR CONSCIENCE LIGHT, by ALINE BADGER CARTER Poem Source First Line: Shine forth into the night, o flame Subject(s): Jesus Christ GLAD TIDINGS FROM THE KING OF KINGS, by CHARLES COFFIN Poem Text First Line: On jordan's bank the baptist's cry Last Line: And holy spirit -- three in one! Variant Title(s): Jordanis Oras Praevia Subject(s): Jesus Christ GLIMPSES, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life comes to us only by glimpses Last Line: Has found its interpreter -- christ! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 4. FRA ANGELICO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They called him angel brother, for his smile Last Line: Floats like a presence his so pure renown. Subject(s): Angels; Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Jesus Christ; Soul GLORY OF THE GRASS, by CLAIRE WALLACE FLYNN Poem Source First Line: In what far, judean field Last Line: Seeing but dimly as we pass %the ancient glory of the grass! Subject(s): Grass; Jesus Christ GO TELL THEM THAT JESUS IS LIVING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A light on the dark horizon Last Line: For christ is risen today! Subject(s): Jesus Christ GOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that face at the window? Last Line: I refuse to believe in god! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Faces; Fire; God; Jesus Christ; Lies; Love; Wine GOD IN CHRIST, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou far-off, eternal god Last Line: Thou lovest us with a human heart! Subject(s): Jesus Christ GOD INCARNATE, by RUTH M. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Fairest lord jesus, serene you lay Last Line: Some day we'll crown you our lord and king. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The GOD IS LOVE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, there are mighty things under the sun Last Line: Christ jesus the man, not the god, I adore. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ GOD IS OUR HOPE AND STRENGTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tempest and terror below Last Line: Till we gaze on thee face unto face, and respond to thee love unto love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ GOD SEND EASTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we will lace the Last Line: Glory in our skin Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology GOD SEND EASTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we will lace the Last Line: And apple as we %glory in our skin Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion GOD THE BROKEN LOCK, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've died enough by now I trust Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Sin; Singing & Singers; Songs GOD'S ACRE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, garden of confident hope Last Line: Each and all one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Gardens & Gardening; Flowers GOD'S UNSPEAKABLE GIFT, by MACEY P. SEALEY Poem Text First Line: One christmas night in the long ago Last Line: "it's ""god's unspeakable gift." Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The GODS OF WAR, 1914, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fate wafts us from the pygmies' shore Last Line: And crown thee then without a thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; War; World War I; First World War GOING OF HIS FEET, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His feet went here and there Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nature GOLGOTHA, by KATHERINE GREENLEAF PEDLEY Poem Source First Line: They did not crucify the lord Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GOLGOTHA'S CROSS, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the cross on golgotha to me Last Line: Golgotha's cross is the road to heaven. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice GOOD COMPANION, by BELLE F. OWENS Poem Source First Line: Wayworn and weary Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry GOOD FRIDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise up above my self Last Line: If they want it Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ GOOD FRIDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise up above my self Last Line: Men will be gods %if they want it Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ GOOD FRIDAY, by VINCENT HOLME Poem Source First Line: Gall is the taste of life when we Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY, by ALICE B. JURICA Poem Source First Line: The son of god am I,' he humbly said Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friday is a heavenly day Last Line: Died—and forgave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Easter; Forgiveness; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Clemency GOOD FRIDAY, by FLAVIA VIDAL Poem Source First Line: Absinthe, green, bewitching moon Last Line: Sprout up phosphorescences of gangrene! Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Love; Redemption GOOD FRIDAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a stone, and not a sheep Last Line: And smite a rock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY: REX TRAGICUS, OR CHRIST GOING TO HIS CROSSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put off thy robe of purple, then go on Last Line: That done, wee'l see thee sweetly buried. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion GOOD FRYDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But now ye sceen is chang'd, chang'd is ye day Last Line: Who turnes ye crosse into so sweet a thing. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Pain; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GOOD-FRIDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be hushed, my heart, remembering Last Line: Full paid on calvary. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Calvary; Catholic Church - Clergy; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Catholic Priests GOODFRYDAY (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Weep & spare not / good eyes are not Last Line: Weep & spare not. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion GOODTIME JESUS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. Subject(s): Jesus Christ GOSPEL VILLANELLE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus will always be there. He's waiting. It's true.' Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology GRACE AT EVENING, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: Be with us, lord, at eventide Last Line: Thyself, for thy dear sake Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Thanksgiving GRAVEN ON THE PALMS OF HIS HANDS, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, the lamb of god, hath bled Last Line: Jesus, thou canst not pray in vain. Subject(s): Jesus Christ GRAVES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both of us had been close Last Line: All the time. ... Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; God; Graves; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology GREAT JEHOVAH EVER PRESENT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the eastern sky is burning Last Line: Grant me wisdom, grant me sight. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Wisdom; The Resurrection; Theology GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, great shepherd of the sheep Last Line: And reign above the sky. Subject(s): Jesus Christ GREAT WAGER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How is it proved? Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GREATER GUILT, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: They gave his flesh the sting of knout Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GROWING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto him that hath, thou givest Last Line: Daily let me grow in grace. Subject(s): Grace; Jesus Christ GUARD OF THE SEPULCHER, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a roman soldier in my prime Last Line: For we, who all the wonder might have told, %kept silence, for our mouths were stopt with gold Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The GUEST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Perhaps you have heard of jack frost Subject(s): Jesus Christ H. SACRAMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Love, upon a deep designe Last Line: Make us as happy as it pleaseth thee. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Last Supper, The; Sacrifices HAD THERE BEEN PEACE ON EARTH, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ HAIL, DAY OF DAYS! IN PEALS OF PRAISE, by VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMANTIANUS FORTUNATUS Poem Text Last Line: Who heaven and earth sustains. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HALF DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ the life, look on me where I lie Last Line: It was not they died for us, it was thou. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice HANDS OF CHRIST, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: A baby's hands in bethlehem Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry HANDS OF CHRIST, by FRANCISCO E. ESTRELLO Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry HAVE YOU NOT A WORD FOR JESUS?, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not a word for jesus? Not a word to say to him? Last Line: And confess them in thy glory, when we see thee on thy throne. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship HE 'HAD NOT WHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD', by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The conies had their hiding-place Last Line: That all the wandering world would gain. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE CANNOT DENY HIMSELF, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love still is love, and doeth all things well Last Line: Come what will. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE DIED FOR ME, by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When time seems short, and death is near Last Line: "for I, thy saviour, died for thee." Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET', by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O north, with all thy vales of green! Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE IS RISEN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lord indeed is risen Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The HE IS RISEN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is not here,' the angel said Last Line: A life of spotless purity! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Resurrection, The HE IS THE LONELY GREATNESS, by MADELEINE CARON ROCK Poem Source First Line: He is the lonely greatness of the world Last Line: Those darkened eyes Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE IS THY LIFE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, thy life is mine Last Line: Thy life from mine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE IS THY LORD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, beloved master, art thou near Last Line: To work for thee with single heart and eye. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE SATISFIES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's not a craving in the mind Last Line: Which thou dost not fulfill. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE SHALL SPEAK PEACE UNTO THE NATIONS, by LILA V. WALTERS Poem Text First Line: A stormy sea! Waves dashing high! Last Line: "in his own time ""he shall speak peace." Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE STRAINED MY FAITH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't you know me? Variant Title(s): Poem: 366; Poem: 49 Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ HE THAT DOETH THE WILL,' FR. CHRISTUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From all vain pomps and shows Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE THAT IS NEAR ME IS NEAR THE FIRE, by ADAMANTIUS ORIGEN Poem Source First Line: The saviour himself says Last Line: He that is near me is near the fire Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion HE TOOK MY PLACE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a life I have not lived Last Line: As one who has thy gift received. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE WORKED, by J. N. SCHOLES Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry HE'S COME! THE SAVIOUR HAS COME, by ALICE MORTENSON Poem Text First Line: At what a great cost god gave to the world Last Line: "he's come! The saviour has come!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE-THEY-WE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: They hailed him king as he passed by Last Line: And him betray. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology HEAR US, IN THIS THY HOUSE, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of the sabbath, hear us pray Last Line: And sleep in death, to rest with god. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HEART'S COUNSEL, by HASSOLDT DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Look, lord judas, here, in the diligent brain Last Line: A cross's width between. Subject(s): Dishonor; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Tears; Nightmares HEAVEN, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: Heaven shines over the mountains Last Line: And sweet is our daily bread. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise HEBREWS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come of a mighty race - I come of a very mighty race Last Line: Is a well in asia. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wandering Jew HELENA'S BEACONS; THE FINDING OF THE CROSS, A.D. 326, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helena, empress-mother Last Line: Is the joy of the blest on high! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Cross, The; God; Helena, Saint (248-328); Jesus Christ HERSELF, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath it in her keeping, the house quietly sleeping Last Line: Herself is lady of the house, its mother and queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary HIDDEN IN LIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first the sun dispels the cloudy night Last Line: New praise to thee through our poor lives be won. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HILLTOPS, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: No doubt on the hills of nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth HIMSELF HE CANNOT SAVE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O scoffer! He who from the cross Last Line: Himself he cannot save! Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Belief; Creed HIS ANTHEM, TO CHRIST ON THE CROSSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold thee, almost slain Last Line: Which done, lord say, the rest is mine. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HIS BIRTHDAY, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: The day the christ-child's tender eyes Last Line: May find somewhat to comfort them. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Birthdays; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The HIS CROSS, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He burned no fiery cross Last Line: As he went out to die! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HIS GARMENTS, by ESTHER LLOYD HAGG Poem Source First Line: He gave his life upon a cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HIS GLORY TELL, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apostles of the risen christ, go forth Last Line: All nations bowing to his high command, Subject(s): Jesus Christ HIS HANDS, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: The hands of christ Last Line: Hands hold fast. Subject(s): Hands; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice HIS LAUREATE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before christ left the citadel of light Last Line: For it was christ that was your own apollo, %and thorns were in the laurel on your hair Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Jesus Christ HIS NAME, by DORA GREENWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Dorothy, Greenwell Subject(s): Jesus Christ HIS PASSION, by GEORGE CONRAD PULLMAN Poem Source First Line: A heap of stones lay at his command Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HIS PROMISES, by MARTHA SNELL NICHOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I am very sick Last Line: And he will keep his word! Subject(s): Jesus Christ HIS SAVIOURS WORDS, GOING TO THE CROSSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have, have ye no regard, all ye Last Line: Had he not drank them up for you. Subject(s): Christianity; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HIS SIMPLE CREED, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: He taught them his new simple law Last Line: And shall while life endures. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology HIS SON'S / A JEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I thought %you knew Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jews HIS THRONE IS WITH THE OUTCAST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I followed where they led Subject(s): Jesus Christ HIS WORDS TO CHRIST, GOING TO THE CROSSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou wast taken, lord, I oft have read Last Line: For me to flie, but now to follow thee. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HIS YOUTH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But all too soon the much-loved father died Last Line: For they in him found sweet companionship, %and he found good and god in everything Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth HISTORIC EPISODES, by PETER WELLINGTON CLARK Poem Source First Line: Toussaint %sticking out his tongue Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Jesus Christ; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803) HOLD THOU ME FAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, who would think that I am thine Last Line: That I am thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ HOLIER NIGHT, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: A star looked down on bethlehem Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HOLIEST AMONG THE MIGHTY, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Source First Line: Christ who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the Subject(s): Jesus Christ HOLLY AND PINE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas comes with mirth and cheer Last Line: When again the christmas angels come. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Public Worship; Childhood; Church Attendance HOLLY CAROL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toward the doors of lonely folk Last Line: With holly round his head. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The HOLY CHILD, by CHARLES CARROLL ALBERTSON Poem Source First Line: He is the ancient wisdom of the world Last Line: The nameless of innumerable names, %ageless forever, yet forever new Subject(s): Jesus Christ HOLY INNOCENTS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us herod slew, / willing to slay the infant christ, our lord Last Line: As babies trembling in the tears of her. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Sorrow; Sadness HOLY LAND, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the earth he walked on: not alone Last Line: Soil with foul deed the ground whereon he laid %in holy death his pale, immortal head! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Palestine HOLY SATURDAY, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I, in truth, the judas who betrays? Last Line: Rise christ! Give these feet wings! My need is exigent. Subject(s): Betrayal; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HOLY SATURDAY (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, who daily kissed his feet Last Line: "and made a temple of the tomb." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology HOLY SONNET: 11, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spit in my face you jews, and pierce my side Last Line: Hee might be weake enough to suffer woe. Variant Title(s): To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 7 Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jews; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Judaism HOLY SONNET: TEMPLE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his kind mother who partakes thy woe Last Line: By miracles exceeding power of man. Variant Title(s): Jesus In The Temple;la Corona: 4. Temple;temple Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology HOLY WEEK, by PHOEBE SMITH BACHELDER Poem Source First Line: And having taken bread, he broke it Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HOLY WEEK, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Source First Line: I cannot wax ecstatic with the throng Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HOME HEROISM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That barren night in galilee Last Line: They are the master's fishes. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HOPE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He died! / and with him perished all that men hold dear Last Line: Rose when he rose Subject(s): "crucifixion;jesus Christ;resurrection, The;" Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HOPE SPRINGING UP, by JOHN WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul before thee prostrate lies Last Line: That thou, my lord, my god, art love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HORA CHRISTI, by ALICE BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the time for joyous folk Last Line: The silence of the soul. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The HOUR IS LATE, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The HOUSEWIFE, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Jesus, teach me how to be Last Line: Grant me wisdom mary had %when she taught her little lad Subject(s): Housekeeping; Jesus Christ; Religion HOW IS HE COMING THEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a pot turned on the straw Last Line: Like a shepherd who hears in his herding %his mother whisper my son my son Subject(s): Jesus Christ HUNGER, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I have known hunger Last Line: But he is crucified. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hunger; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HYMN, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Sluggard soul! Awake and raise Last Line: Hosanna in the highest! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship HYMN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, where breathing love divine Last Line: And your reward is sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Jesus Christ HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god! I know, I feel thee mine Last Line: But christ be all the world to me, %and all my heart be love Subject(s): Jesus Christ HYMN FOR A HOUSEHOLD, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Lord christ, beneath thy starry dome Last Line: O man of nazareth, be our guest! Subject(s): Home; Jesus Christ; Prayer HYMN FOR CATHOLIC LOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Lord jesu, son of grace Last Line: May find thee here below! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Theology HYMN TO THE CROSS, by GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, refuge of the weary Last Line: Be the cross, and crucified! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HYMN TO THE NAME OF JESUS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the name which none can say Last Line: And break before thee. Variant Title(s): To The Name Above Every Name Subject(s): Jesus Christ HYMN TO THE PERFECT, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Before thy cross, o saviour, we confess Subject(s): Jesus Christ HYMN: 13. ST. PHILIP AND ST. JAMES, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the winds are all composure Last Line: His inestimable death. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jesus Christ; Religion; Saints; Theology HYMN: 32. THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is this stupendous stranger Last Line: Of the very world he made. Variant Title(s): The Nativity Of Our Lord;the Nativity Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The HYMN: ADVENT SUNDAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hosanna to the living lord! Last Line: Hosanna! Lord! Hosanna in the highest! Subject(s): Advent; Jesus Christ HYMN: EASTER DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God is gone up with a merry noise Last Line: He hath won the victory! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection HYMN: FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life nor death shall us dissever Last Line: Comfort ere we die! Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Dead, The HYMN: FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: 1, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When through the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming Last Line: "rebuke the destroyer -- ""help, lord! Or we perish!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends HYMN: GOOD FRIDAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh more than merciful! Whose bounty gave Last Line: Nor let thy glorious blood be spilt in vain. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice HYMN: NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh blest were the accents of early creation Last Line: In the hour of thy terrors, let mercy prevail! Subject(s): Crucifixion; God; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HYMN: SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the dark and stormy sky Last Line: Turn not, o lord! Thy guests away! Subject(s): Jesus Christ HYMN: SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! Not, oh mother! Sounds of lamentation! Last Line: Strong was the word of god to succour thee! Variant Title(s): The Widow Of Nain Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship; Death - Babies HYMN: SIXTH SUNDAY IN LENT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of might, from sinai's brow Last Line: O'er death and hell defeated! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Lent HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord! Whose love, in power excelling Last Line: Jesus! Master! Make us clean! Subject(s): Healing; Jesus Christ; Cures HYMN: TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To conquer and to save, the son of god Last Line: Babes were his heralds, and his friends the poor. Subject(s): Jesus Christ HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 1, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, the children are calling Last Line: Praise be done! Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Praise; Childhood HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 2. CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though the snow be on the hill Last Line: Let us behold thy guiding light! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 5, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our lord became a servant Last Line: His 'peace be unto you.' Subject(s): Harvest; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Labor & Laborers; Love; Peace; Work; Workers I AM THE CROSS, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice I AM THE ROSE OF SHARON, by CATHERINE WINKWORTH Poem Text First Line: I know a flower so sweet and fair Last Line: In heaven at last we bless thee. Subject(s): Jesus Christ I AM THE WAY', by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the way Last Line: Art thou, time, way, and wayfarer. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, by EDWIN HENRY NEVIN Poem Text First Line: Always with us, always with us Last Line: With salvation's radiant beam. Subject(s): Jesus Christ I BELIEVE THY PRECIOUS BLOOD, by JOHN WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, thy blood and righteousness Last Line: For all a full atonement made. Subject(s): Jesus Christ I FEEL SORRY FOR JESUS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People won't leave him alone Last Line: From the antioch review Subject(s): Jesus Christ I FOLLOWED THEE, MY GOD, I FOLLOWED THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Me also bear thy cross Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Crucifixion; Worship I GIVE MY HEART TO THEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: O jesus most desired Subject(s): Jesus Christ I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: The crown of empire - must thou yield it now? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice I HEARD IMMANUEL SINGING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Alone, set free, rejoicing, %with a green hill for his throne? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Consolation; Jesus Christ I KNOW YOU NOT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ the vine with living fruit Last Line: So now he hears their cry no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ I MET THE MASTER FACE TO FACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I had walked life's path with an easy tread Last Line: "I met the master, face to face" Subject(s): Jesus Christ I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine I SAW A STABLE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a stable, low and very bare Last Line: And the world's danger. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Variant Title(s): Salus Mundi Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology I SAW DEATH SLAIN, by WILLIAM CAPELL Poem Source First Line: Call me no more the cursed tree Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice I SAW THEE, by RAY PALMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee when, as twilight fell Last Line: And read the secrets of thy heart! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology I SHALL BE SATISFIED, by MARTIN BEHEMB Poem Text First Line: Lord jesus christ, my life, my light Last Line: Forever I behold thy face! Subject(s): Jesus Christ I SHALL KNOW WHY, WHEN TIME IS OVER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That scalds me now – that scalds me now! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) I SOUGHT THE LIVING GOD IN ANCIENT LORE, by JOHN CALVIN SLEMP Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice I WAS AN HUNGERED, by M. LANNING SHANE Poem Text First Line: Jesus (I lately dreamed), again on earth Last Line: Some ancient words of his drooped in my mind. Subject(s): Jesus Christ I WILL ARISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary and weak, -- accept my weariness Last Line: To feeble prayers; -- o lord, I will arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ I WOULD GO BACK AND SIT BESIDE HIS FEET, by MARY M. CURCHOD Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ IDYLLS OF THE KING: GARETH AND LYNETTE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last tall son of lot and bellicent Last Line: But he that told it later says lynette. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courage; Jesus Christ; Arthur, King; Valor; Bravery IF ANY MAN WOULD COME AFTER ME', by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: Be anxious if christ presses on your life Subject(s): Jesus Christ IF CHRIST SHOULD COME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If christ should come to my store to-day Last Line: In our daily toil we would do our best. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgments; Second Advent; Second Coming Of Christ IF CHRIST WERE HERE TO-NIGHT, AND SAW ME TIRED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And heaven will be of thy rich life a part Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion IF HE SHOULD COME, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Jesus Christ IF HE SHOULD COME, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus should tramp the streets tonight Last Line: Out of a thousand lands? Subject(s): Jesus Christ IF I BE LIFTED UP, by E. P. DICKIE Poem Source First Line: Three things there are,' said one Variant Title(s): And I, If I Be Lifted Up, Shall Draw All Me Subject(s): Jesus Christ IF I SHOULD SAY MY HEART IS IN MY HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor to have lived nor to have died in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Jesus Christ – Suffering & Sacrifice IF JESUS CAME BACK TODAY, SELS., by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus came back today Last Line: And follow a ghost instead Subject(s): Jesus Christ IF ONLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only I might love my god and die Last Line: Yea, they shall sing for love when christ shall come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IMAGE IN THE FORUM, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not baal, but christus-jingo! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Jesus Christ IMITATION OF CHRIST, by WILMA C. LUDLOW Poem Source First Line: Taking your life as one long eucharist Subject(s): Jesus Christ IMMANENCE, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I come in the little things Last Line: I shall achieve my immemorial plan, %pass the low lintel of the human heart Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ IMMORTAL WORDS, by ALINE BADGER CARTER Poem Source First Line: Above the lake of galilee Subject(s): Jesus Christ IMMORTALITY, by HELEN LOUISE STAPLEFORD Poem Text First Line: Within the shadows of the church I kneel Last Line: "to share with him, his immortality." Subject(s): Jesus Christ IMMUNITY, by THOMAS A KEMPIS Poem Text First Line: Think you to escape Last Line: Than this—the royal pathway of the holy cross. Alternate Author Name(s): Hammerken, Thomas Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice IN A TROUBLED WORLD, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Vainly we crave for some divine redeemer Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice IN AN UPPER ROOM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within an upper chamber Last Line: Abides the lord we love. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love; Peace; Prayer IN BETHLEHEM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back to-day to bethlehem Last Line: Where yet the angels are! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Stars; Nativity, The IN EVERY TREE, THE CRUCIFIED LORD, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Heals fleshy pain Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Jesus Christ IN GALILEE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The master walked in galilee Last Line: Abiding oft in galilee. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Love; Disciples, Twelve IN GETHSEMANE, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eden was the arbor of delight Last Line: And christ, from bitter venom, would again %extract life out of death, and pleasure out of pain Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion IN HIM YE ARE MADE FULL', by SR. WILLIAM HERBERT HUDNUT Poem Source First Line: O empty cross, portentous against the sky Subject(s): Jesus Christ IN JERUSALEM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dawns leaden day: a grey Last Line: One lying lone in stone %only knows rest Subject(s): Jesus Christ IN LENT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now with the lengthening days Last Line: How christ is risen, is risen, and death is slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lent; Prayer; The Resurrection IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: PROEM, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong son of god, immortal love Last Line: And in thy wisdom make me wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Prologue Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IN NAZARETH, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: During happy boyhood years Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth IN PALESTINE, by GEORGE W. CARLIN Poem Source First Line: Have the rocks on the hillside voices Subject(s): Jesus Christ IN PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not faint, but trust in god Last Line: But re-awakening on the morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Patience; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness IN PORTUGAL, 1912, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And will they cast the altars down Last Line: The wine-press holds the unbidden christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Portugal IN SWEET COMMUNION, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May the grace of christ our saviour Last Line: And possess in sweet communion joys which earth cannot afford Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion IN TEMPTATION, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus [or, jesu], lover of my soul Last Line: Rise to all eternity! Variant Title(s): Christ, The Refuge Of The Soul;jesus [or Jesu], Lover Of My Soul Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Belief; Creed IN THE CARPENTER SHOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth IN THE CARPENTER'S SHOP, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary sat in the corner dreaming Last Line: All the years. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth IN THE GARDEN, by JOHN SAMUEL BEWLEY MONSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sins, my sins, my savior Last Line: That told thy sorrow there. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice IN THE HOLY NATIVITY [OF OUR LORD GOD]; AS SUNG BY SHEPHERDS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, we shepherds, whose blest sight Last Line: Our selves become our own best sacrifice. Variant Title(s): At Bethlehem;hymn Of The Nativity;the Nativity;hymn In The Holy Nativity (2) Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The IN THE KNOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dead faces, voices come and go Last Line: Why jesus wept Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Jesus Christ - Legends; Religion IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "glows once more in the russian sky, the blood" Last Line: "my brother, jesus of nazareth" Subject(s): Catholics;jesus Christ;jews;russia; Roman Catholics;catholicism;judaism;soviet Union;russians IN THE STORM, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I see, against a storm-whipped sky Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice IN THE WAY OF PEACE, by LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT Poem Text First Line: Jesus, whose love rekindles dying fires Last Line: When love and memory in thee shall meet. Subject(s): Jesus Christ IN THE WILDERNESS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ of his gentleness Last Line: Tears like a lover wept. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IN THINE OWN HEART, by JOHANNES SCHEFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though christ a thousand times Last Line: Alone can make thee whole Alternate Author Name(s): Silesius, Angelus Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion INASMUCH!, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Source First Line: I saw the lord christ tonight Subject(s): Jesus Christ INCARNATION, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child he was, and had not learned to speak Last Line: Where gold, to make their prince a crown, they all present Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth INCENSE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Fragrance drifts through our thoughts of him Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The INDIFFERENCE, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus came to golgotha they hanged him on a tree Last Line: And jesus crouched against a wall and cried for calvary. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Variant Title(s): The Crucifixion Subject(s): Apathy; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion INERTIA, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, for instance the stark exposure and awkward pose of this Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion INGRATITUDE, by GERTRUDE HANSON Poem Text First Line: He comes from nazareth,' they said, and bent Last Line: The christ is silenced on a cross of greed. Subject(s): Jesus Christ INJUSTICE, by SHELDON SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: I heard the verdict, stern and grim Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice INSUBORDINATION, by MARGARET EVELYN SINGLETON Poem Source First Line: Forgive yourself' if part of the command Subject(s): Jesus Christ INTEGRITY, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He made honest doors Last Line: And on a cross he died! Subject(s): Carpenters; Honesty; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth INTERCEDING, by OPAL LEONORE GIBBS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed the saviour came to be Last Line: Every day. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer INTERPRETATION, by SHELDON SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: The cross that bears my master slain Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice INTO THY HANDS MY SPIRIT I COMMEND, by LOREN W. BURCH Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice INTOLERANCE, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: A jet form swaying in the morning mist Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice INVOCATION, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come down to us, help and heal us Last Line: And deliver us from death. Subject(s): Jesus Christ INVOCATION, by S. A. DETHALL Poem Text First Line: Christ with the crown of thorns Last Line: Send me your strength for a while. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hate; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Social Protest; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery IO VICTIS, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the battle of life Last Line: Pilate or christ? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IRONY OF GOD, by EVA WARNER Poem Source First Line: In vain %they shook their garments Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth IS IT FOR ME?, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it for me, dear saviour? Last Line: And lovingly adore. Subject(s): Jesus Christ IS IT TRUE?, by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON Poem Text First Line: Said the child of the bright yellow hair Last Line: "like elsie's—and said: ""I'm a jew." Subject(s): Catholics; Children; History; Jesus Christ; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Childhood; Historians; Judaism IS THIS PRESUMPTION?, by LOUISE H. TONESS Poem Source First Line: Is this presumption, lord Subject(s): Jesus Christ IT IS FINISHED, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His the pardon, ours the sin Last Line: His the agony and strife. Subject(s): Jesus Christ IT IS FINISHED, by JONATHAN EVENS Poem Text First Line: Hark! The voice of love and mercy Last Line: Glory to the bleeding lamb! Subject(s): Jesus Christ IT IS FINISHED', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, let me recount to thee Last Line: Thy little one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Childhood IT IS I, BE NOT AFRAID, by ALBERT BENJAMIN SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the storm was fiercely raging Last Line: "it is I, be not afraid!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ IT IS NOT FINISHED, LORD, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice IT IS TOWARD EVENING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "abide with me, o christ: thou must not go" Last Line: Make thou it perfect with thy perfect life Subject(s): Jesus Christ JERICHO ROAD, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: I know the road to jericho Subject(s): Injustice; Jesus Christ JESHUA, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: Stranger in the heaven-hood, Last Line: With greening sceptre Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESSIE'S FRIEND, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little jessie, darling pet Last Line: Come, oh come to me.' Subject(s): Friendship; Jesus Christ JESU, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name Last Line: And to my whole is jesu. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology JESU DULCIS MEMORIA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus to cast one thought upon Last Line: World without end alone in thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory in her black, and all intent Last Line: To praise again, though east and west are wild, %the girl, the singing, and the christmas child Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Hess, Dame Myra (1890-1965); Jesus Christ; Music And Musicians JESUKIN, by ITA Poem Text First Line: Jesukin / lives my little cell within Last Line: Jesukin is on our breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridget Of Munster, Saint Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "jesus, whose lot with us was cast" Last Line: "that heart of love, that spirit of steel" Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, by EUGENE VICTOR DEBS Poem Source First Line: The martyred christ of the working class, the inspired Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus %our jesus Last Line: Our jesus a pincushion Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS (1), by THEODORE PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, there is no dearer name than thine Last Line: Nor our weak orbs look through immensity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS (2), by THEODORE PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great friend to all sons of men Last Line: To uplift their bleeding brothers from the dust. Variant Title(s): The Way, The Truth, And The Life Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS - THE CONQUEROR RENOWNED, by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O jesus, king most wonderful Last Line: The image of thine own. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS - THE KING IN HIS BEAUTY, by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O jesus, thou the beauty art Last Line: While endless ages run! Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS - THE SWEETEST NAME, by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, the very thought of thee Last Line: And through eternity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS AND HIS MOTHER, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My only son, more god's than mine Last Line: Answer me as my only son %'I am my own and not my own' Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS AND I, by DAN CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: I can not do it alone Last Line: But he never gives in, so we two shall win - jesus and I Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion JESUS AND THE DOVE, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, the mother good and mild Last Line: And kneel'd before her child. Subject(s): Doves; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth JESUS CHRIST - AND WE, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Text First Line: Christ has no hands but our hands Last Line: Unless from him we learn? Variant Title(s): No Other Hands But Ours;the World's Bible Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS COMES ON CLOUDS TRIUMPHANT, by GODFREY THRING Poem Text First Line: Jesus came, the heavens adoring Last Line: Till the dawn of endless day. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS COMFORTS HIS MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A baby is born us bliss to bring Last Line: To drive away all heaviness Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS FALLS THE FOURTH TIME, by CHRISTINE DRESCH Poem Source First Line: Any number of natural explanations might suffice Last Line: Of a toppling milk-white christ Subject(s): Crosses; Jesus Christ JESUS FANS, by EDMUND AUGUST Poem Source First Line: Told to stand in the corner Last Line: Of the nothing after death Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS FIRST AND JESUS LAST, by THOMAS MACKELLAR Poem Text First Line: Jesus! When my soul is parting Last Line: Let me see thee, and adore. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS IS NEAR, by ROBERT CASSIE WATERSTON Poem Text First Line: In darkest hours I hear a voice Last Line: With jesus near! Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS KNEW, by NICK FLYNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS OF NAZARETH, by ERNEST CADMAN COLWELL Poem Source First Line: Would you see the marks of the roman scourge Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSES BY, by GEORGE T. LIDDELL Poem Source First Line: Unshaken by the storms that rage Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSETH BY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watcher, who watchest by the bed of pain Last Line: "jesus of nazareth passeth by." Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS OF THE SCARS, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we never sought, we seek thee now Last Line: And not a god has wounds, but thou alone. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice JESUS ONLY, by ELIAS NASON Poem Text First Line: Jesus only, when the morning beams upon the path I tread Last Line: Through eternal ages sing. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS ONLY, by ALBERT BENJAMIN SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once it was the blessing Last Line: Safe within the veil. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS PRAYING, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sought the mountain and the loneliest height Last Line: Nor ceases yet for sinful man to plead, %nor will, till heaven and earth shall pass away Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion JESUS PRAYS ALONE, by WILLIAM BINGHAM TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Tis midnight; and on olive's brow Last Line: That sweetly soothe the saviour's woe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS THE BEAUTIFUL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses gleam with red and white Last Line: All is beautiful from thee! Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS THE CARPENTER, by CATHERINE C. LIDDELL Poem Text First Line: Isn't this joseph's son?' - ay, it is he Last Line: Unexpected, you know! Alternate Author Name(s): Fraser-tytler, Catherine C. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS THE CARPENTER, by CHARLES M. SHELDON Poem Text First Line: If I could hold within my hand Last Line: But brotherhood was builded there. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology JESUS THE CHRIST, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our wars are wars of life, and wounds of love Last Line: Living in perfect harmony in eden the land of life, %giving,receiving, and forgiving each other's tr Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS THE NAME MOST HIGH, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, the name high over all Last Line: Behold, behold the lamb! Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS THEY MADE FOR US, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy who drank his mother's milk Last Line: He swallowed the sea like a hungry whale Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion JESUS TO THE SOUL, by GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair soul, created in the primal hour Last Line: Repent, fair soul, ere yet that hour cometh. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS WAS A HUMBLE MAN, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry JESUS WENT BEFORE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their faces to jerusalem Last Line: "our master went before!" Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Disciples, Twelve JESUS WEPT, by FRANCIS BROOKS Poem Text First Line: At eve he rested there amidst the grass Last Line: And was consoled — then to his shelter crept. Subject(s): Consolation; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Jesus Christ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Destiny JESUS WEPT, by WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary rose up, as one in sleep might rise Last Line: A sound that smote his spirit. Jesus wept. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS! THY CRUCIFIX, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mind thee in paradise %of our's! Variant Title(s): Poem: 225; Poem: 19 Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS' KINGSHIP, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Twere well the soldiers stripped the finery Last Line: And own thee king in thy great sacrifice. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology JESUS' NIGHT OF PRAYER, by MARY L. SEWARD Poem Text First Line: Tis night! And weary eyes in slumber closing Last Line: "like him, unceasingly to ""watch and pray." Alternate Author Name(s): Mumford, Mary L. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry JESUS' QUESTION, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O blessed lord, thou christ of galilee Last Line: And be my answer, lord, the deed, the deed! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Faith; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Belief; Creed JESUS, CHILD AND LORD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mary bids thee sleep, thou sleepest Last Line: To suffer and to weep! Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, DELIVERER, by GERMANUS I Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce was the wild billow Last Line: "peace! It is I!" Alternate Author Name(s): Germanus I Of Constantinople Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, IN COMPASSION AID!, by THOMAS BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: When the angry billows roll Last Line: Jesus, in compassion aid! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL, by EUGENE J. HALL Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, MY GOD AND MY ALL, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O jesus! Jesus! Dearest lord! Last Line: No, nor eternity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, MY SAVIOUR, LOOK ON ME, by JOHN MACDUFF Poem Text Last Line: Thou art my all. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, THE SOUL OF OUR JOYS, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, thou soul of our joys Last Line: That endless song above. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, THOU ART THE KIND, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, thou art our king Last Line: Conqu'ring and to conquer go. Subject(s): Jesus Christ JESUS, THOU DIVINE COMPANION, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bless us in our daily labor, %lead us to our sabbath rest Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion JOINT HEIRS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a precious meaning Last Line: By saints and angels heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Praise; Prayer; Paradise JOSEPH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about this boy Last Line: Jesus jesus jesus Subject(s): Boys; Jesus Christ JOSEPH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about this boy Last Line: My mouth cries only %jesus jesus jesus Subject(s): Boys; Jesus Christ JOSEPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never in all her sweet and holy youth Last Line: Is not yet given ... One day I may know! Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Childhood; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary JOSES, THE BROTHER OF JESUS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But never to catch the vision which glorified his clay. Variant Title(s): Joses, Brother Of Jesus Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Soldier! Last Line: He hears me - he is coming. %jesus - darling! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth JUBILATE!, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: We do not need, dear friend, to seek Last Line: And jubilance of christmas day! Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The JUDAS, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Source First Line: And one that dips with me the sop.' - 'not I!' Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice JUDAS ISCARIOT, by MARGARET NICKERSON MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Judas was I! Ah, the mockery! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) JUDAS TREES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Is this the emblem for betrayal Last Line: Saying breath-of-love, if I can Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Repentance JUDEAN HILLS ARE HOLY, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Of jesus everywhere Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mountains JUDGE ME, O LORD!, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I had been in palestine Last Line: To think my life dared not stake %and beard the romans for his sake Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice JUDGE NOT ACCORDING TO THE APPEARANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, purge our eyes to see Last Line: And hear it, 'fear not: it is I.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ JUDGEMENT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my day, yet ere thou art quite departed Last Line: Thou who art christ, christ who is more than thou. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGMENT, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: They hailed him, trembling, to the judgment seat Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice JUST SO, JESUS RAPS - HE DOES NOT WEARY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At thee! Subject(s): Jesus Christ JUST WHEN THOU WILT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just when thou wilt, o master, call Last Line: With thee, my king, my saviour, christ! Subject(s): Jesus Christ KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs Last Line: The madman saith he said so: it is strange. Variant Title(s): An Epistle; Containing The Strange Medical Evidence Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experiments Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Concerning The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish ... Subject(s): Arabs; Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Physicians; Religion; Doctors; Theology KEPT FOR JESUS, by EDITH E. CHERRY Poem Text First Line: Oh, to be 'kept for jesus!' Last Line: "thou shalt be ""all in all." Subject(s): Jesus Christ KET THE TANNER, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ket the tanner hath saddled his mare! Last Line: For rich men make merry, while poor men weep.] Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Sin; Widows & Widowers KING ARTHUR'S WAES-HAEL, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waes-hael for knight and dame Last Line: And learn the lip of bethlehem's child. Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Jesus Christ KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this that name as ointment poured forth Last Line: Man's life and resurrection from the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ KING PASSES, by ANNE HUNTER TEMPLE Poem Source First Line: The king has passed along the great highway Subject(s): Jesus Christ KINGDOM, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Where is the kingdom?' asked the pompous priest Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry KINGDOMS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The kingdoms of the earth go by Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice KINGS, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: Who has not marveled at the might of kings Subject(s): Jesus Christ KYRIE ELEISON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In joy, in pain, in sorrow Last Line: Kyrie eleison! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Theology L'ENFANT JESUS DE PRAGUE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: December snow! The great world dead in gloom Last Line: Tries to awake and cannot break the charm. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prague, Czech Republic LAST HILL, by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Source First Line: You who have raised Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LAST SUPPER: JESUS TO JUDAS, by SAMUEL FOSTER DAMON Poem Source First Line: In no one sin couldst tou abide Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, S. Foster Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP', by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: All night they toiled, those men of galilee Subject(s): Jesus Christ LAVENDER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There's a clump of lavender Last Line: Had such sweet strewings, said he. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Lavender; Linen; Sin LAZARUS, by PEDRO PRADO Poem Source First Line: Who calls me?' and lazarus, coming forth from %the tomb Last Line: Of his vanished first love!' Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Lazarus LE MAUVAIS LARRON (SUGGESTED BY WILLETTE'S PICTURE), by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moorland waste lay hushed in the dark of the second day Last Line: And his soul fled into the waste between a kiss and a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Martyrs; Paintings And Painters; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion LE REPOS EN EGYPTE: THE SPHINX, by AGNES REPPLIER Poem Source First Line: All day I watched the stretch of burning sand Last Line: Lay stretched o'er-wearied. On my breast of stone %rested the crucified Subject(s): Egypt; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Sphinx LEAF FROM LEAF CHRIST KNOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To thee all spirits and all dust Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ LEBEN JESUS AND VIE DE JESUS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, ancient creeds! That help us to disdain Last Line: And test his slighted word by holier rules. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892); Strauss, David (1808-1874) LEGACY, by RUTH WINANT WHEELER Poem Source First Line: My lord, when he went back Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LEGEND, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young child jesus had a garden Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth LEGEND OF GETHSEMANE, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: O, what is this that seeks at night Last Line: Too late. Moved by remorse forever, %the grasses shake, the aspens quiver Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LEGEND OF THE DOGWOOD TREE, by GERALDINE FARRAR Poem Source First Line: The dogwood tree was once as broad Last Line: Shall in this tree of beauty bright %forever fill the world with light Subject(s): Dogwood; Jesus Christ - Legends LENT, by MIRIAM LEFEVRE CROUSE Poem Source First Line: Behold, we go up to jerusalem again Subject(s): Jesus Christ LENT, by JANE MCKAY LANNING Poem Source First Line: To search our souls Last Line: These are things %god meant Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion LENTEN THOUGHTS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yet many were offended in him Last Line: Must jesus be crucified anew? Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology LET THEM REJOICE IN THEIR BEDS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds sing to us where we lie Last Line: In the harvest-land of love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Death LET US KEEP CHRISTMAS, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Source First Line: Whatever else be lost among the years Last Line: Let us get back our childlike faith again Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion LIFE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love triumphant over guilt and sin Last Line: My life is lifeless till it live in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Variant Title(s): L'envoi Subject(s): Jesus Christ LIFE FOR JESUS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is come to claim his throne Last Line: Live for him who died for thee! Subject(s): Jesus Christ LIGHT BENEATH THE SKIN (OR PRONOUN 2), by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: I am holy yours, sweet christ Last Line: Over the waiting shingles. The hard boards of my heart Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion LIGHT OF THE SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "light of the soul, o saviour blest" Last Line: "all glory with the father be, / and holy ghost, eternally" Subject(s): Jesus Christ LIGHT OF THE WORLD, by SYLVESTER JUDD Poem Text First Line: O son of god! Thy children we Last Line: Hope spreads an heavenward wing. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LIGHT'S GLITTERING MORN BEDECKS THE SKY, by JOHN MASON NEALE Poem Source Last Line: An angel robed in light hath said, %'the lord is risen from the dead' Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The LIKE AS THE HEART DESIRETH THE WATER BROOKS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is yearning Last Line: Ever old, ever new. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ LIKE ONE I KNOW, by NANCY CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little christ was good, and lay Last Line: Still had been a-worshipping. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LILIES OF THE FIELD, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: When I went up to nazareth Last Line: With all their ancient eloquence %the lilies spoke of him! Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Lilies LILIES OF THE VALLEY, by JO GARDNER Poem Text First Line: I have within my hand some lilies of the valley Last Line: His presence brings forth fragrance without fail. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LINES TO A JEWISH CHILD, by C. D. Poem Text First Line: In the dark depths of those great soulful eyes Last Line: What pride a jew must feel to be a jew! Subject(s): Children; Israel; Jesus Christ; Jews; Childhood; Judaism LINES WRITTEN AT THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "saviour of mankind, man! Emmanuel" Last Line: "I may be known, and entertained for thine" Subject(s): Jesus Christ LISTENING, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Growing in wisdom and in stature, oft Last Line: That his adventure must be suffering. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Passover LITANY, by ROBERT GRANT (1785-1838) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saviour, when in dust to thee Last Line: Of our solemn litany! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LITANY, by MARIE LE NART Poem Source First Line: Oh, by thy cross and passion, by thy pain Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LITTLE CHILD OF MARY, by H. T. BURLEIGH Poem Source First Line: Baby born in bethlehem Last Line: O holy child, give peace to all men! Subject(s): Jesus Christ LITTLE CHRISTMAS DONKEY, by GERALDINE FARRAR Poem Source First Line: Great herod on his golden throne Last Line: Remember how he served our lord, %and never use him ill Subject(s): Donkeys; Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ LITTLE GREGORY, by THEODORE BOTREL Poem Text First Line: Gregory,' his dam would chide Last Line: "jesu domine!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Versailles, Frances; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LITTLE JESUS, by BARBARA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Who worships the meek? The meek, of course Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth LITTLE JESUS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Little jesus, wast thou shy Last Line: Has not changed since thou wast young! Variant Title(s): Ex Ore Infantium;a Child's Prayer Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Prayer; Childhood; Nativity, The LIVE AND HELP LIVE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live and let live!' was the call of the old Last Line: The cry of the christ for a comrade-like earth. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LIVE CHRIST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Live christ! - and though thy way may be Last Line: That fruit through all eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LIVING BREAD, by EVA WEAVER SEFTON Poem Text First Line: Lonesome, dear lord, how can I ever be Last Line: Through christ revealed by sacrifice. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LIVING TITHE, by MABEL MUNNS CHARLES Poem Source First Line: Ten met the master in the field Subject(s): Jesus Christ LIVING WATER, by RUTH M. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: He must needs go through samaria Last Line: Their thirst unto him bring. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, by JOHN CHARLES EARLE Poem Text First Line: Wide fields of corn along the valleys spread Last Line: For he is all around us here today. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOCKSMITH, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: On time nearly to the minute, he drives up Last Line: His sweet fields whispering jesus, jesus Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion LOIN CLOTH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body of jesus taken down from the cross Last Line: And christ-love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LONELINESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who had all else heaven and earth Last Line: For loneliness, for loneliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fathers; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Solitude; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Loneliness LONELY CHRIST, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Many now had left him, melting fast Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LONG BARREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who didst hang upon a barren tree Last Line: Feed thou my feeble shoots. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOOK UP, by MARTHA SNELL NICHOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the cannon's roar we hear his voice Last Line: With ear of faith, his footfall drawing near! Variant Title(s): His Footfall Draweth Nea Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Patience LOOKING AT THE CROSS, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Text First Line: In evil long I took delight Last Line: Yet live by him I killed. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LORD JESUS, WHEN STAND AFAR, by WILLIAM WALSHAM HOW Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jesus Christ LORD, JESU, THOU ART SWEETNESS TO MY SOUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O sweet jesu Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ LORE, by EDNA ETHEL DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Humanity struggles on and is blind Last Line: Christ wrote a few words in the sand. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOS PASTORES DE BELEN: A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ye go through these palm-trees Last Line: Stay ye the branches. Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary LOST AND FOUND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I missed him when the sun began to bend Last Line: A light I knew not till my soul was dark. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LOST BUT FOUND, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a wandering sheep Last Line: Tis he that still doth keep. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOST CHRIST, by JR. FRANKLIN D. ELMER Poem Source First Line: Where have we laid him now Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOST, BUT WON, by HENRY J. VON SCHLICHTEN Poem Text First Line: I was lost Last Line: Bought my release. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: When love / had strove Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Worship; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Full Text First Line: Say what is love Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Worship; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion LOVE, by CHARLES FRANCIS RICHARDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If suddenly upon the street Last Line: Love's gift to lay at jesus' feet. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back Last Line: So I did sit and eat. Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology LOVE IN HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child is rocked on mary's knees Last Line: "who lost thee yesterday but finds to-morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary LOVE IS OF GOD, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, let us love: love is of god Last Line: Beloved, let us love: for only thus %shall we behold that god who loveth us Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion LOVE IS STRONG AS [OR STRONGER THAN] DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not sought thee, I have not found thee Last Line: And clasp thee to me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LOVE TO MY LORD, by LOUISA VAN PLETTENHAUS Poem Text First Line: Had I a thousand hearts, I'd raise ...' Last Line: Love to my lord! Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOVE-LONGING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when I see the blossoms spring, / hear the birds' sweet song" Last Line: "and from hence we needs must wend, / take us unto thee!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOVING MESSAGES FOR THE LITTLE ONES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every little flower that grows Last Line: What he waiteth to bestow! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love LOYALTY HYMN, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: While nations rage, while empires rock and fall Subject(s): Jesus Christ LUBBERLU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green were her eyes, - yellow were her eyes Last Line: Over the hills and away. Subject(s): Bible; Candles; Churches; Eyes; Jesus Christ; Lips; Cathedrals LULLABY OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, child - thy mother's first-born" Last Line: A thousand songs of praise Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary LULLAY, LULLAY, MY LITYL CHYLD, SLEPE AND BE NOW STYLL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Bot wel I wate as well I may - slepe and be now styll - %suffre the paynes that I may; it my fader w Subject(s): Jesus Christ LUX IN TENEBRIS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night what things will stalk abroad Last Line: Will spread a rainbow wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Supernatural; Dead, The LYNTON VERSES: 6. SYMPHONY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw her die, and she is dead Last Line: Dove, blackbird, goldfinch, larch! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Sisters; Spring; Death - Babies LYRIC, by RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu! Forsooth naught doth me move Last Line: And bliss with thee hereafter share! Subject(s): Jesus Christ MAID-SERVANT AT THE INN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's queer, she said; I see the light Last Line: I've prayed that all is well with them Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ MAKING CANNON IN BETHLEHEM, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was long ago in bethlehem town Last Line: The great word is love, the right plan is peace! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Peace; Social Protest; Violence; War; Weapons; Ammunition MALCHUS, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: We crossed brook cedron to gethsemane Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice MALCHUS' EAR, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, peter, dost thou wield thy active sword Last Line: To strike at ears, is to take heed there be %no witness, peter, of thy perjury Subject(s): Jesus Christ MAN, by CHRISTOPHER SOUTHGATE Poem Source Last Line: Word man %hanged man Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Riddles MAN OF GALILEE, by MARY LOUISE DEISSLER Poem Text First Line: O man, who walked by galilee Last Line: Come walk with me! Come walk with me! Subject(s): Jesus Christ MAN OF GALILEE, by HILDEGARDE HOYT SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He waw no dreamer, dwelling in a cloud Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth MAN OF SORROWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ MANGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Who knows the name and country now Last Line: And jesus to a little child. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Jesus Christ MARTYR, by NATALIE FLOHR Poem Source First Line: And all the while they mocked him and reviled Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice MARTYRS' SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We meet in joy, though we part in sorrow Last Line: God almighty, god alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Martyrs MARY, by W.+(1) B. Poem Source First Line: Beside the empty sepulcher she lingered Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice MARY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: With love that counted not the cost Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry MARY, by NELLIE KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: On the first easter, ere the harbinger Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The MARY, by CARLA LANYON LANYON Poem Text First Line: When that my son was born in a little town Last Line: To keep a christian peace. Subject(s): Israel (state); Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Discrimination; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Religious Conflict MARY, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Text First Line: Fairest of women must have been that maid Last Line: When all the morning stars hosannaed earth! Subject(s): Christmas; Gabriel; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary MARY AND CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How lovingly she looked on him Last Line: Of cross against the sky? Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MARY AND MARTHA, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martha with joy received her blessed lord Last Line: Sure, both loved well; but mary was the debtor, %and therefore should, in reason, love the better Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Women MARY AT NAZARETH, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know, lord, thou hast sent him Last Line: Out of my heart the tares %are torn by awe! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY AT THE CROSS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: And mary stood beside the cross! Her soul Last Line: And grant their dead shall not have died in vain! Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary MARY KNEW, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: Trembling with grief came mary magdalene Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY; A SONG FOR ALL MARIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our master lies asleep and is at rest Last Line: Our master lies asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE BEARING TIDINGS OF THE RESURRECTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then was a task of glory all thine own Last Line: Whose undespairing love still owned the spirit's worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MASTER MUSICIAN, by MARGARET EVELYN SINGLETON Poem Source First Line: He plays across the centuries Subject(s): Jesus Christ MASTER SURGEON, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Men at the council tables Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Jesus Christ MATER DOLOROSA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again maternal autumn grieves Last Line: Who died upon a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Autumn; Crucifixion; Seasons; Fall; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion MEDITATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou, lord god, willest to judge Last Line: Thee, the high judge, and their sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Prayer; War; World War I; First World War MEDITATION IN ST. MARY'S, by GERTRUDE DU BOIS Poem Source First Line: Do gold-tongued candles comfort thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ MEDITATION ON SAVIORS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Last Line: Shine the sun black; the trap in which it is better to catch the / inhuman god than the hunter's own Subject(s): Oedipus; Jesus Christ; Buddhism; Prophecy & Prophets; Buddha; Buddhists MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: FRIDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With hearts deep rooted in love's holy ground Last Line: To god's good pleasure, with a christ-like mind. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: SATURDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus is crucified - the previous scene Last Line: Salvation is the life of christ in us. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Salvation; Supernatural; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: THURSDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead as men are, in trespasses and sins Last Line: The gate of life, and paradise regain'd. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: TUESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour died, according to our faith Last Line: Pain is its cure, and it exists no more. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; Healing; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Belief; Creed; Cures; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: WEDNESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justice demandeth satisfaction' - yes Last Line: Itself restor'd,—not any thing in lieu. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Justice; Religion; Theology MEN FOLLOW SIMON, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They spat in his face and hewed him a cross Last Line: O master, master—into the sun! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice MEN HAVE FORGED, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He wrote in the sand - the wind-blown sands Last Line: Of scabbard and of hilt. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Jesus Christ; Modern Man; Redemption; Clemency MENDICANT, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Coming down san pasqual mountain on a day Last Line: Those damp wooden beads Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Jesus Christ; Prayer MESSIAH; A SACRED ECLOGUE IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S POLLIO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye nymphs of solyma! Begin the song Last Line: Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own messiah reigns! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology MESSIAS, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Stranger, the world expected you for long days Subject(s): Jesus Christ METRICAL HOMILY: CHRIST'S TEACHING OF NICODEMUS, by ORM Poem Text First Line: In that the lord said thus Last Line: To win the grace of christ. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Ormin; Orm (circa 1170) Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry MICHAEL ANGELO: THE DEAD CHRIST, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death,why is it I cannot portray Last Line: So near to death, and yet so far from god! Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Dead, The MIDNIGHT - THE 31ST OF DECEMBER, 1900, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Now on the midnight the soul of the century passing Last Line: "and victory followeth me." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Night; War; Bedtime MILAN; DA VINCI'S CHRIST, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long, year after year Last Line: Their loving benedicite. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Milan, Italy; Paintings And Painters MIRACLE, by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Source First Line: Oh, paltry miracles Subject(s): Jesus Christ MIRACLES, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight is spacious, near things in it seem far Last Line: Into the darkness. . . . It is exquisite. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Resurrection, The; Disciples, Twelve MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is this horrifying face Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Racism; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Second World War MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is this horrifying face Last Line: That man's long journey through the night %may not have been in vain Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Racism; World War Ii MOMA POEMS IN TIME OF THE PLAGUE: 2. CHRIST MOCKED BY SOLDIE, by THOMAS AVENA Poem Source First Line: Buffoons %distorted as potatoes Last Line: Do something, anything Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soldiers MORAL DISCOURSE, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: There were these three prisoners. All three had heads on their shoulders Last Line: In such a situation, what's the point of discussing anything?' Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Jesus Christ; Prisons And Prisoners MOST HONORED GUEST, by WALTER SHEA Poem Source First Line: Since he will call some night to sup Subject(s): Jesus Christ MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS), by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: We made room for you, remembering Last Line: Of golden love, and innocence, and tears. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; World War Ii; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Second World War MOTHER COUNTRY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh what is that country Last Line: Seemed it short or long. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ MOTHER MOST POWERFUL, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: That thou so often held him in thine arms Last Line: Shows thou wert mortal,—mother,—yea, and more! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHER'S PETITION, IN WARTIME, by HELEN M. BURGESS Poem Source First Line: Mary mother, heart sublime Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice MOTHERHOOD: 1, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The angels sang above the bed Last Line: There mary wept most bitterly. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Theology MY CHOICE, by GRACE B. RENFROW Poem Text First Line: I'd rather have jesus than all earth can give Last Line: I'd rather have jesus, there's nothing beside. Subject(s): Jesus Christ MY COMPANION, by JOYCE RAMAGE Poem Text First Line: He walks beside me every day Last Line: The christ of calvary. Subject(s): Jesus Christ MY FATHER'S AT THE HELM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas when the sea's tremendous roar Last Line: Where storms shall never come Subject(s): Jesus Christ MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All unseen the master walketh Last Line: Thou shalt lay thy burden down Subject(s): Jesus Christ MY LEMAN ON THE ROAD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When I see by the road Last Line: If only I can, %if only I can Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Nostalgia; Tears MY LORD, by MARTHA SNELL NICHOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see Last Line: My lord, my lord. Subject(s): Jesus Christ MY MASTER, by HARRY LEE Poem Source First Line: My master was so very poor Last Line: So very rich my master was, %he gave his all and knew no loss Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion MY PRAYER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lord jesus, make thyself to me" Last Line: "more dear, more intimately nigh / than e'en the sweetest earthly tie" Subject(s): Jesus Christ;prayer MY PRAYER, by RUTH TURNER WEAVER Poem Text First Line: When morn triumphant breaks Last Line: Behold my christ -- and king! Subject(s): Jesus Christ MY RISEN LORD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my risen lord, I feel thy strong protection" Last Line: This easter day Subject(s): "easter;holidays;jesus Christ;prayer;resurrection, The;" The Resurrection MY SAVIOUR, by MARY HALLET Poem Source First Line: My saviour in gethsemane Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The MY SOUL SHALL CLING TO THEE, by CHARLOTTE ELLIOT (1830-1880) Poem Text First Line: O holy saviour! Friend unseen Last Line: Saviour! I cling to thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Florenz Subject(s): Jesus Christ MY VESPER SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Filled with weariness and pain Last Line: "let me to thy bosom fly!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ MY YOKE IS EASY, by GLADYS LATCHAW Poem Source First Line: The yokes he made were true Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth NAILS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So, you're stretched on the planks, you schemer Last Line: Left him up, let the show begin. - %which was the nail, friend, that you drove in? Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NATIVITIES, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Godlings are born racily Last Line: Through [or, by means of] the usual channels Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Jesus Christ NATIVITY OF CHRIST, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today from the aurora's breast Last Line: A downy couch, where on its bosom %that flower has fallen, that crimson blossom Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ NATIVITY OF CHRIST, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today from the aurora's bosom Last Line: That flower had fallen, - that crimson blossom Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Birth; Catholic Church - Clergy; Christmas; Jesus Christ NATURE'S SORROW CURE, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: The only thing to cheer me Last Line: Will bring him back to me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ NAZARETH, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Rome still holds her rod of power Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth NEGROES LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So always, justice drowsy and hate rising Last Line: Proffering his blood to pleasure antichrist. Subject(s): African Americans; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Lynching; Mississippi; Murder; Negroes; American Blacks; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty NEW CHURCH, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: When grass beckons %and soil and water shout Last Line: Am I dreaming? Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Prisons And Prisoners; Religion NEW CREATURES; THE CREATOR STILL THE SAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our king of old and still our self-same king Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ NEW CRUCIFIXION, by EARL BIGELOW BROWN Poem Source First Line: Now, around the world, the mills Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NEW CRUCIFIXION, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: He arose from the dead Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NEW GETHSEMANE, by HAZEL M. KERR Poem Source First Line: Now once again the christ keeps watch beside Subject(s): Jesus Christ NEW HEAVEN, NEW WAR, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to your heaven, you heavenly choirs! Last Line: Then flit not from this heavenly boy. Subject(s): Jesus Christ NICODEMUS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And nicodemus came by night Last Line: He dared the world by day! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nicodemus (bible); Wisdom NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NO COMING TO GOD WITHOUT CHRIST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good and great god! How sho'd I feare Last Line: Wo'd see thy face, and he not by. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology 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 PRISONER OF TIME, by JR. WILLIAM HERBERT HUDNUT Poem Source First Line: Christ was no prisoner of time Subject(s): Jesus Christ NOEL, by M LABBE SIMON-JOSEPH PELLEGRIN Poem Text First Line: Dear infant! Tender, new-born child! Last Line: And through the countless ages burn! Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The NONE OTHER LAMB, NONE OTHER NAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor home, but thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ NONE WITH HIM', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, to live: how didst thou bear to live Last Line: Thy spirit saith Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Jesus Christ NOT ALL THE CROSSES, by LUCILE KENDRICK Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NOT MADE WITH HANDS, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: Carpenter, what are you building now? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Jesus Christ NOT READY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of our pain and struggle Last Line: The goodness which brims the days! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religious Education; Worship; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools NOT THOU FROM US!, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jesus Christ NOT YOURS BUT YOU', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died for me: what can I offer him? Last Line: As thou hast loved me even to bitter death Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ – Suffering & Sacrifice NOTHING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will my love come to me? Last Line: Alas! I have no love. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Jesus Christ; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Nothingness; Soul; Dead, The; Nihilism; Voids NOTHING BETWEEN, by C. A. TINDLEY Poem Text First Line: Nothing between my soul and the saviour Last Line: Keep that way clearl let nothing between! Subject(s): Jesus Christ NOTHING TO WISH OR TO FEAR, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Text First Line: His name yields the richest perfume Last Line: If jesus would dwell with me there. Subject(s): Jesus Christ NOTRE DAME DE ROUEN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, as the vesper chant Last Line: Victor and king! Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology NOW GO'TH SUN UNDER WOOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Nou goth sonne under wode Last Line: "me reweth, marye, thi sonne and the" Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, even now, I yield, I yield Last Line: Into thy perfect love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ NOW SLEEPS THE LORD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now lies the lord in a most quiet bed Last Line: Now lies the lord serene, august, apart Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O black and unknown bards of long ago Last Line: You sang a race from wood and stone to christ. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Bards; Jesus Christ; Slavery; Serfs O CHRIST MY GOD WHO SEEST THE UNSEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Remember all my hope, remember me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ O CHRIST OUR ALL IN EACH, OUR ALL IN ALL!, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And if thou hold me fast, yet cleave to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ O CHRIST, WHO DIED, by JOHN CALVIN SLEMP Poem Source First Line: O christ, who died upon the cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice O FOOLISH SOUL! TO MAKE THY COUNT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Save thee, o foolish soul Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Forgiveness; Jesus Christ O GOLDEN DAY SO LONG DESIRED, by CHARLES ALBERT DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And brethren all are we. Subject(s): Jesus Christ O JESUS! SWEET THE TEARS I SHED, by RAY PALMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: On thy great judgment day Subject(s): Jesus Christ O LORD! MY HIDING PLACE, by THOMAS RAFFLES Poem Text First Line: Thou art my hiding place, o lord Last Line: My hope within the vail. Subject(s): Jesus Christ O LORD, WHEN THOU DIDST CALL ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yea, I knew Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day O MASTER WORKMAN OF THE RACE, by JAY THOMAS STOCKING Poem Source Last Line: That it may be our highest joy, %our father's work to do Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion O PROPHETS AND REDEEMERS! YOU WHO BLED, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ O SUN OF LIFE, A WONDROUS SHINING LIGHT, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ O YOUNG AND FEARLESS PROPHET OF ANCIENT GALILEE, by S. RALPH HARLOW Poem Source Last Line: Triumphantly to lead us along god's holy way Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion OBERAMMERGAU, 1890, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trembling vow breathed in a night of fears Last Line: Show forth his passion till the saviour come. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Oberammergau Passion-play; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology OBTAINING BUT OUR OWN EXTENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That bore him from the tomb Variant Title(s): Poem: 1543; Poem: 157 Subject(s): Jesus Christ OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 19. THE ABSENCE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who this limned is gone. They treasure / still Last Line: Of peter's garment would so gladly fill! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) ODE ON THE PASSION, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sable clad, urania come Last Line: And proud captivity an humbled captive led! Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Crucifixion; Death; Passion; Piety; Prayer; Sin; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The ODE: ON THE MESSIAH, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When man had disobey'd his lord Last Line: In visions of eternal day. Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Jesus Christ; Clemency OF HIM THAT WAS READY TO PERISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I am waiting, weeping, watching for thee Last Line: For the glory of thy name. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ OF OUR LORD'S PASSION, SELS., by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In thine hour of holy sadness Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice OF THINGS NOT SEEN, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Theirs is the courage of flesh and bone Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice OH, NO CROSS THAT I MAY CARRY, by ALICE MORTENSON Poem Text First Line: When I think of things denied me Last Line: Just because he loved me so. Subject(s): Jesus Christ OLNEY HYMNS: 18. LOVEST THOU ME?, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, my soul! It is the lord Last Line: Oh for grace to love thee more! Subject(s): Jesus Christ OLNEY HYMNS: 50. TRUE PLEASURES, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, my soul with pleasure springs Last Line: And find his burden light. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ON A DRAWING OF THE CRUCIFIXION STILL VISIBLE ON A DUNGEON WALL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, lake reflected, chillon's turrets shine Last Line: Hope pointed heavenward to his home above. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Drawing; Hope; Jesus Christ; Prisons & Prisoners; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Optimism; Convicts ON A PICTURE OF CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS; PAINTED BY VELASQUEZ, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the dark stillness brooding in the sky Last Line: One living beam of dayspring from on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Crucifixion; Paintings & Painters; Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion ON A REMEMBERED PICTURE OF CHRIST; AN ECCE HOMO, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met that image on a mirthful day Last Line: Sounded all depths of love, grief, death, humanity! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters ON A ROCOCO CRUCIFIX, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guarded by bursts of glory, golden rays Last Line: While god groaned in the dark night of his soul? Subject(s): Betrayal; Cavalry; Crucifixion; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology ON BEARING THE CROSS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take up the cross which thou hast got Last Line: "this bitter cross—thy will be done!" Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion ON HIS HEAD WERE MANY CROWNS, by MATTHEW BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crown him with many crowns Last Line: Throughout eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Brydges, Matthew Subject(s): Jesus Christ ON RISING FROM THE DEAD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday noon: the morning of the mind Last Line: With dionysus, singing from the cross! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Morning; Religion; Resurrection, The; Waking; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Feminism ON SYRIAN HILLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is said the bedouins cry, on the syrian hills, a clear Last Line: And the ages they hear him yet, and his voice do the nations know. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nations; Peace; War ON THE NAVITITY OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rorate coeli desuper! Last Line: Pro nobis puer natus est! Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The ON THE PASSION OF CHRIST, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What rends the temple's veil, where is day gone? Last Line: Nature must needs be sick, when god can die. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice ON THE RESURRECTION, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice, the lord is king Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The ON THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Done is a battle [battell] on the dragon black [blak] Last Line: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The ON THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Done is a battle [battell] on the dragon black [blak] Last Line: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The ON THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro %the lord is risen from death to life again Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The ON THE RESURRECTION: THE LORD IS KING, by EDWARD PERRONET Poem Text First Line: All hail the power of jesus' name Last Line: The crowned lord of all! Variant Title(s): Coronation Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Worship ON THE ROAD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For road-mates and companions he chose twelve Last Line: That they might see life's whole, and share with him %the joyousness of god's companionship Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry ON THE SACRAMENT, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was the word that spake it Last Line: I do believe and take it. Variant Title(s): The Sacrament;this Is My Body Subject(s): Jesus Christ ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 2. CRUX MUNDI, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not thee, ourselves on thee for cross, o lord Last Line: But o what blossoming beauty in the dry! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology ON THE TRUE MEANING OF THE SCRIPTURE TERMS 'LIFE AND DEATH,', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True life, according to the scripture plan Last Line: Immortal life is that of christ in us. Subject(s): Bible; God; Holy Ghost; Jesus Christ; Holy Spirit ON TOP OF TROUBLED WATERS, by DOROTHY J. LANGFORD Poem Text First Line: The little ship was tossed about Last Line: Christ from his people parts. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ON TRINITY SUNDAY (1), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Co-equal trinity was always taught Last Line: By its paternal, filial, spirit bliss. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Trinity Sunday ON WHITSUNDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, ascended into heav'n again Last Line: Who hear this inward teacher and obey. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology ONE APRIL DAY, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: Who could be sad in april Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice ONE GROWS TIRED OF THE HOAX OF UP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of neither perfect lines, squares, nor circles Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nature; Perfection ONE OF THE SOLDIERS WITH A SPEAR PIERCED HIS SIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah lord, we all have pierced thee Last Line: Let mercy overrun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice ONE THERE WAS, by STELLA FISHER BURGESS Poem Source First Line: One there was who, passing by Last Line: Meaning to leavening dough he lent; %he made, of bread, a sacrament Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry ONE WHO DARED TO DIE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: When I consider how proud nations fall Subject(s): Jesus Christ ONLY A JEW, by DAVID BANKS SICKLES Poem Text First Line: Nobody cares, for he's only a jew Last Line: Cannot be blighted by passion or hate. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Jews; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Judaism ONLY FOR JESUS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only for jesus! Lord, keep it forever Last Line: Secret of rest, and the strength of our strife. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ONLY JESUS WILL I KNOW, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vain, delusive world, adieu Last Line: And jesus crucified. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ONLY ONE KING, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: In arrogance and vanity Subject(s): Jesus Christ ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by FLOYD HARDIN Poem Text First Line: Help me, o christ, to hold thy sacred cross Last Line: (his head appears!—thank god!—I've popped my man!) Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War OPEN DOOR, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: There passed the low door of the nazareth home Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Babe jesus lay in mary's lap Last Line: Babe jesus said never a word. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Singing & Singers; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR 1862, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are pale, the trees are stiff Last Line: Will soon be driven out. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Despair; Hope; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: AN OLD STORY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ancient house of ages Last Line: And a child for king! Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The ORGAN SONGS: BLIND BARTIMEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As jesus went into jericho town Last Line: Tis he! I follow him! Subject(s): Blindness; Healing; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Visually Handicapped; Cures ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS DAY AND EVERY DAY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Star high, / baby low Last Line: Near and far! Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS MEDITATION, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who by a mother's love Last Line: Binding, binding heart to heart! Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS, 1873, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas-days are still in store Last Line: News to men! To god old glory! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS, 1884, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though in my heart no christmas glee Last Line: Thyself will come! Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The ORGAN SONGS: COME UNTO ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come unto me, the master says Last Line: And that will make thee well. Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures; Suffering; Misery ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no more wine!' she said Last Line: Brimming full of heavenly wine. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Drinks & Drinking; Feasts; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Water; Wedding Song; Women - Bible; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Virgin Mary; Epithalamium ORGAN SONGS: SONG OF THE INNOCENTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merry, merry we well may be Last Line: We have learned to walk, and must follow him home! Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Jesus Christ; Childhood ORGAN SONGS: THE CHILDREN'S HEAVEN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The infant lies in blessed ease Last Line: And bid them dream again. Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Hope; Innocence; Jesus Christ; Childhood; Paradise; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: THE SLEEPLESS JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time to sleep, my little boy Last Line: Smile, son of god, smile on. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Sleep; Childhood ORGAN SONGS: WRITTEN FOR ONE IN SORE PAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, on before thy sheep Last Line: Thou wilt miss me—and wilt find! Subject(s): God; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Sickness; Cures; Suffering; Misery; Illness ORTHODOXIES 15, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: A crack of lilacs. A mask chipped off their wood. It is Last Line: Christ goes out to paint the town red. And he won't come back Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian OUR CHRIST, by HARRY WEBB FARRINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how that bethlehem's babe Last Line: Our immortality! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The OUR CHRIST, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In christ I feel the heart of god Last Line: Now are we his, and all is well. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology OUR COMMISSION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who hear the blessed call Last Line: Fellow-workers, lord, with thee. Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR EVER PRESENT GUIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "jesus, the lord of glory died" Last Line: "beloved, obey'd, adored" Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR FATHER'S BUSINESS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O christ child, everlasting, holy one Last Line: O christ, hear us! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR KING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O saviour, precious saviour Last Line: Our saviour and our king! Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR MASTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal love, forever full Last Line: And its obedience praise! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology OUR ROCK, by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If life's pleasures cheer thee Last Line: The rock of thy salvation. Variant Title(s): Life Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR SEVEN WONDERS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O christ, the wonderful! We gladly see Last Line: Worship our christ, the ever-living god! Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR SOVEREIGN KING, by FELIPE PARDO Poem Source First Line: A bit of topsy-turvy artifice Last Line: And called 'the sovereign people' %for his pains Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR TWO WORTHIES, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the here and all the there Last Line: He is our exegete Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR TWO WORTHIES, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the here and all the there Last Line: He is our exegete Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUT OF BOUNDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy of heavenly birth Last Line: Join in to get him back his ball! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology OUT OF EGYPT HAVE I CALLED MY SON, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The might river flows as when thine eyes Last Line: Which gave its shelter to thine infant grace, %and nourished thee to be the life of life Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth OUT OF GROTIUS HIS TRAGEDY OF CHRISTES SUFFERINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O thou the span of whose omnipotence Last Line: Heav'n, earth, and sea, my triumphs. What remain'd %now but the grave? The grave it selfe I tam'd Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice OUT OF THE SHADOW, by MARGARET FAIRLESS BARBER Poem Text First Line: Out of the shadow of the night Last Line: The centre of all mystery! Alternate Author Name(s): Fairless, Michael Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The; Theology OUTDOOR SON OF GOD, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: My master was a man who knew Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry PALESTINE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O land, a-stoop with penitential years Last Line: O god! To kneel upon the self-same earth! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice PALM SUNDAY AND MONDAY, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: They pluck their palm branches and hail him as king Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice PALM SUNDAY HYMN, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looking back across the years, o christ, we see thee go Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Subject(s): Jesus Christ PARABLE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young man who had great possessions dreamed Last Line: Ever went empty-handed from his door. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Jesus Christ; Poverty PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love and honour a poor humble state Last Line: I'm nothing else but misery and woe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Salvation; Self-pity; Sin; Human Race PASS ON THE TORCH, by ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS Poem Text First Line: Pass on the torch, pass on the flame Last Line: Pass on the torch, pass on the flame. Subject(s): Jesus Christ PASSION AND EXALTATION OF CHRIST, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus saith the ruler of the skies Last Line: And angels sound with endless joy, %the saviour and the king Subject(s): Jesus Christ PASSION OF CHRIST, by DENIS DEVLIN Poem Source First Line: The fall %from what did man fall? Last Line: Soul is waste and play, %oh, come, unwordly, from the world within! Subject(s): Jesus Christ PASSION OF JESUS CONSIDERED AS AN UPHILL RACE, by ALFRED JARRY Poem Source First Line: Entered to race, barabbas was scratched Last Line: That he continued the race airborn - but that's another story Subject(s): Jesus Christ PASSOVER, by JOHN BEAUCHAMP THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: But wine was cheap in old judea Subject(s): Jesus Christ PASSWORD, by REGINALD C. EVA Poem Source First Line: When I shall come before thy gate and stand Subject(s): Jesus Christ PASTORAL, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dove walks with sticky feet Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion PATENT PENDING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have an invention Last Line: Like picking up a gun Subject(s): Jesus Christ PATIENCE OF HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers that bloom in sun and shade Last Line: We trust to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ PAUL, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Bond-slave to christ, and in my bonds rejoicing Last Line: Unsealed his eyes to that he had not known. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Saul Of Tarsus; Theology PAX, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our father who, in clay Last Line: August almighty god! Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day Last Line: And her madness passed away. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PEACE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, there is a country Last Line: Thy god, thy life, thy cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Sweet Peace Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise PEACE AND JOY IN JESUS CHRIST, by JOHANN FRANCK Poem Text First Line: Jesus, my chief pleasure Last Line: In all tribulation. Subject(s): Jesus Christ PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tumult and turmoil, trouble and toil Last Line: Wrap me up in thy love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ PEACE ON EARTH, by GERMANUS I Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great and mighty wonder Last Line: Our lord and god for aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Germanus I Of Constantinople Subject(s): Jesus Christ PELAGIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall praise him and the shores bear part Last Line: In every likeness of a little child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Religion; Sea; Soul; Human Race; Theology; Ocean PENTECOST, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: In simple wise the revelation came Subject(s): Jesus Christ PERHAPS, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: He spoke of sound-thin waves of sound Last Line: The men of galilee! Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Radio; Sound PETER AND JOHN, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve good friends / walked under the leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) PETER AND JOHN, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve good friends %walked under the leaves Last Line: In your dream? Said john. %'no,' said the other, %that I was not. %I was our brother %iscariot Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) PICTURE OF THE INFANT CHRIST WITH FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the bright hues from eastern garlands Last Line: O'er blooms that mocked our hope, o'er idols that forsook! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth PICTURES IN VERSE: 3. JESUS AND JOHN CONTENDING FOR THE CROSS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the cross, I pray you dearest jesus Last Line: Of women first in honour and in woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Pesaro, Simeone Da; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary PICTURES IN VERSE: 4. CHRIST'S DECSENT INTO PURGATORY, BY GIORGIONE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saving work for man is finished Last Line: To bear them to their father and their home. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Giorgione Da Castelfranco (1477-1511); Jesus Christ; Paintings And Painters PIETA IN LOS ANGELES: 1. PIETA IN A LOS ANGELES MORTUARY, by PHILOMENE LONG Poem Source First Line: John thomas: stretched upon a gurney Last Line: Into the 'eye of god' Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Love; Poetry And Poets; Resurrection, The PLANTATION HYMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear dat rum'lin' in de sky! Last Line: As he goes walkin' by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Jesus Christ; Slavery; Negro Spirituals; Serfs PLEA TO SILENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O science reaching backward through the distance Last Line: Leave christ, I pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Gethsemane; God; Jesus Christ; Science; Scientists POET OF PALESTINE, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: Poet, jesus, speak to me Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry POLTROON, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His country cowered under the mailed fist Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion POTION, by WINNIE LYNCH ROCKETT Poem Source First Line: Life's burnished grail I take from him Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRAESTO, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Expecting him, my door was open wide Last Line: I know not, knowing only he was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Belief; Creed PRAYER, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I crept across the snow Last Line: It could have been a christmas dream. Subject(s): Christmas; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Nativity, The; Nightmares PRAYER, by ROBERT FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White captain of my soul, lead on Last Line: What once they scorned, help me be true! Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRAYER, by WILLIAM HAMILTON OF BANGOUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who didst multiply, by galilee Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRAYER, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Bear with me, master, when I turn from thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRAYER, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Oh, kneel to the god force of love Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRAYER AT THE ELEVATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "welcome, lord, in form of bread" Last Line: Hail! In form of bread! Amen Subject(s): "jesus Christ;resurrection, The; PRAYER BEFORE MEAT, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Source First Line: Christ, by dark clouds of worldliness concealed Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Thanksgiving PRAYER FOR A WORLD HURT SORE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, we lift to thee Last Line: Made whole again! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Pain; Salvation; War; World; Suffering; Misery PRAYER FOR THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source First Line: Reveal thy presence now, o lord Last Line: And keep our hearts from growing cold Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion PRAYER HYMN, by M. K. H. Poem Text First Line: Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time Last Line: Accept this service that I do—I do it unto thee. Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRAYER OF A MODERN THOMAS, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If thou, o god, the christ didst leave Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice PRAYER OF A PATRIOT, by HENRY J. VON SCHLICHTEN Poem Text First Line: Lord of the land Last Line: Forever free! Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA Poem Text First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream Last Line: Long grass. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PRESENT DAY SONNETS: THE ALTAR-RAIL, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their hands they hold across the altar-rail Last Line: A human clasp moved by a heavenly will. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship PRESENT DAY SONNETS: THE CHRIST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gift I have, a sore perplexity Last Line: "from all mankind, and new conditions breeds." Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRISON SONG (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jesu christ, sooth god, sooth man Subject(s): Jesus Christ PROBLEM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was this problem Last Line: Their premise. The problem reposed %over the cellars of the alchemists Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Jesus Christ PRODIGAL SON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young man - %young man Last Line: And say in your heart: %I will arise and go to my father Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry PRODIGAL SON, by SEYMOUR GORDDEN LINK Poem Text First Line: It was foretold...And christ returned to earth! Last Line: But jesus froze to death behind a breadline! Subject(s): Jesus Christ PROGRESS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master stood upon the mount, and taught Last Line: The friend of man desires' Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology PURIFICATION OF YE B. VIRGIN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: May we have leave to ask, illustrious mother Last Line: By his owne death can make his mother live. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary QUATRAIN, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delve not so deep Last Line: Against a star, and climb eternally. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice QUATRAIN, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Christ bears a thousand crosses now Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice QUERY, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: The world is the inn at bethlehem Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Jesus Christ QUESTION, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Source First Line: I wonder if that cypress tree Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice QUESTION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the son of god go by Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice RABBONI, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring thee balm, and lo, thou art not here Last Line: "rabboni!"" -- only this." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection RABBONI! MASTER!, by MOTHER LOYOLA Poem Source First Line: That he who lay on mary's knee Subject(s): Jesus Christ RAIN: SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: It is palm Last Line: A lesson about jesus %into his palm Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Sabbath; Youth REALITY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: Not from two who supped with you Subject(s): Jesus Christ REALITY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reality, reality, / lord jesus christ thou art to me! Last Line: "unveiled, thy ""bright reality""?" Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Reality REDEMPTION, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having been tenant long to a rich lord Last Line: Who straight, your suit is granted, said, and died. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Belief; Creed REFRESHMENT, by GEORGE EDWARD HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Forever we are eating up thy bread Subject(s): Jesus Christ REINCARNATION, by LLOYD FRANK MERRELL Poem Source First Line: From hills that echo strangely clear Subject(s): Jesus Christ REJOICE WITH ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little lamb, who lost thee Last Line: Draw thee nigher.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ REJOICE! HE LIVETH, by KATHRYN BLACKBURN PECK Poem Text First Line: Sing all the earth, ye hills break forth with singing Last Line: Rejoice! He liveth, heaven's risen king! Subject(s): Jesus Christ REJOICING IN HOPE, by AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When languor and disease invade Last Line: Directly, lord, from thee? Subject(s): Jesus Christ RELEASE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I paced the street at evening and my soul was fraught / with fears Last Line: From the ghosts and the sins and shadows, for christ had walked with me. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise RELIGION AND DOCTRINE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood before the sanhedrim Last Line: He knew, and not the sanhedrim. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship REMEMBER ME, by THOMAS HAWEIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, from whom all goodness flows Last Line: "I'll cry, ""remember me!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ REMEMBERING, by SANDRA LEE CHURCHILL Poem Source First Line: Sunlight spills like liquid gold Last Line: My early days with him %so long ago Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion REMEMBRANCE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: The sun lay warm on tawny fields Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice RENUNCIATION, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wherefore thus, apart with drooping wings Last Line: Thou sweetest, dearest angel! Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Tears; Paradise REPENTANCE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Once I prayed to the lord of battles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Repentance RESIGNATION, by RICHARD BAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, it belongs not to my care Last Line: And I shall be with him. Variant Title(s): Entering By His Door;the Covenant And Confidence Of Faith Subject(s): Jesus Christ RESIGNATION, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: He prayed by the stone Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice RESPICE IN FACIEM CHRISTI, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Look to the lord, man, hanging on the tree Last Line: No salve, nothing to save us but anguish and woe Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ RESTING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Resting on the faithfulness of christ our lord Last Line: Glory, glory, glory be to christ our king! Subject(s): Jesus Christ RESURRECTION, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who have lived through these death-lusty days Last Line: And in the lily's waxen pallor,—death. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: It was sunday, easter sunday, he remembered. Helen is in Last Line: Of substrate what the product is. I must tell this to helen Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION, by LLOYD FRANK MERRELL Poem Source First Line: I did not know, the day I nailed Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, o world, if you would glimpse the wonder Last Line: God and immortal life are here and now! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: It came so quietly Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION, by FLORENCE A. PEPOON Poem Text First Line: This day in march I walk the hills Last Line: This day in march. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection RESURRECTION, by ETHEL BLACKWELL ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: In time god decrees us a boon of sweet rest Last Line: For god-given vigor ne'er dies! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION, by AGNES WILLIAMSON STORER Poem Text First Line: In this brown seed, so dry and hard Last Line: And christ our lord has conquered death. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All that springeth from the sod Last Line: Waits the resurrection morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION, by EARL D. TODD Poem Source First Line: He built a kingdom with his heart and brain Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The RESURRECTION EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He resteth: weep not Last Line: That he inherits. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology RESURRECTION HYMN, by MICHAEL WEISS Poem Text First Line: Christ the lord is risen again Last Line: Hallelujah! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection RESURRECTION SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thread the nerves through the right holes Last Line: And pull up the nostrils! His nose was snub. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Singing & Singers; Songs RESURRECTION UPDATE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then it happened Last Line: An aspirin in a glass of water Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; World RESURRECTION, IMPERFECT, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep old sun, thou canst not have repast Last Line: Desunt coetera. Variant Title(s): Resurrection Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology RETURN, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wise man, wise man / fingers and thumbs Last Line: That jesus comes. Subject(s): Jesus Christ RETURN!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: We pray / lord christ, come down again Last Line: Return! Return! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology REVEALMENT, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: They planned for christ a cruel death Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice RHYTHM OF HIS LIFE, by MARY HALLET Poem Source First Line: Until I caught the rhythm of his life Subject(s): Jesus Christ RIDE TO JERUSALEM, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The colt is tethered at the appointed gate Last Line: Master, like sunlight strike my slaty heart %and ask not acclamations from the stone Subject(s): Jesus Christ RIDING THROUGH JERUSALEM, by MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I thought it strange he asked for me Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: PASSION, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last supper over, christ's long night about to begin: suffering Last Line: Toward my job. Most of us know this: it hasn't been difficult at all Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Passion RISE, GLORIOUS CONQUEROR! RISE, by MATTHEW BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: "brought safely home." Alternate Author Name(s): Brydges, Matthew Subject(s): Jesus Christ RISEN WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS, by JOHN OF DAMASCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us rise in early morning Last Line: Hail, with his triumphant band. Alternate Author Name(s): John Damascene; Chrysorrhoas Subject(s): Jesus Christ RIVER OF GRACE, by MOLLY WHITFORD ANDERSON HALEY Poem Source First Line: Make of my heart an upper room, I pray Subject(s): Jesus Christ ROAD TO EMMANUS, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: Twilight, and on a dusty ribboned way Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The ROADSIDE POEMS: AFTER THOMAS KEMPIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who follows jesus shall not walk Last Line: Of the one thing needful! Subject(s): God; Humility; Jesus Christ; Knowledge; Life; Pride; Truth; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect ROADSIDE POEMS: SAINT PETER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O peter, wherefore didst thou doubt? Last Line: And on the sea forget the land! Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; God; Jesus Christ; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Skepticism; Belief; Creed ROADSIDE POEMS: ZACCHAEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom the heavy burden clings Last Line: And saved the lost whom he had won. Subject(s): Bible; Guests; Jesus Christ; Salvation; Truth; Zacchaeus; Visiting; Zaccheus ROBIN REDBREAST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When christ was taken from the rood Last Line: Where, lo, it reddened all his breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Robins ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 3. RESURRECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpet's wild echo fills the skies Last Line: And hell for the goats is selected. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man RONDEAU A L'ENFANT JESUS, by MARIE CLAEYS GARZIA Poem Text First Line: Joli petit enfant, tout blanc, tout rose Last Line: Plus resplendissant que le diamant. Subject(s): Jesus Christ ROOM FOR HIM! ROOM!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ ROSA MYSTICA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is no rose of such virtue Last Line: And follow we this joyful birth. / transeamus Variant Title(s): The Rose That Bore Jesu Subject(s): Jesus Christ;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary S. JAMES BP. OF JERUSALEM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: All yee whose pride is built upon Last Line: In truth is, what's in shadows heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Legends; Passover; Saints S. JOHN BAPTIST, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: When nights black houres be almost spent Last Line: Then herod at his feast beheld thee heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Worship S. JOHN: THE DISCIPLE, WHOM JESUS LOVED, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Belov'd indeed: not that thine onely heart Last Line: Those flames the phenix lived, must it dy. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; John The Apostle, Saint (1st Century) S. MARY MAGDALEN'S OINTMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Forbid her not, nor ask a reason why Last Line: And fill th' eternall mouth of holy fame. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene S. MATTHIAS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: There must be twelve; ye other sunn Last Line: Judge the proud tribes then trembling at thy feet. Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ - Legends; Saints; Half-brothers S. PHILIP YE DEACON, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Faith, thou art boundless; not one graine Last Line: He throws himselfe into ye fire againe. Subject(s): Clergy; Faith; Jesus Christ; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Belief; Creed S. THOMAS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: I must not praise thee that thou tardy art Last Line: My god, my lord, for ever will I crie. Subject(s): Doubt; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Saints; Skepticism SACRAMENT, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Source First Line: There lies no magic in this bit of bread Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH MY OWN SOUL, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since your tragedy has no sword, christ Last Line: For from whatever evils your tragedy grew, christ, %all these are your sword, blessed virgin Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: AND THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM ALL SICK PEOPLE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather to yourself both the furies and the fevers, grim dragon Last Line: Gather, gather them boldly to yourself so that - you may die Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SACRED EPIGRAM: AND THEY SPAT UPON HIM, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What so soully will not the wrath of this cruel sea dare! Last Line: Who owes to your spittle the fact that he himself sees Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SACRED EPIGRAM: CAIAPHAS RESENTS CHRIST ACKNOWLEDING HIMSELF, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You berate christ because he does not deny he is christ Last Line: By whom god is not allowed to be god with impunity Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: CHRIST IN EGYPT, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, o nile, show him to your people by a greater flock Last Line: Now you yourself may be the flood of your own joy Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, CAST THYSELF DOWN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If christ should not cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple Last Line: Do you not believe that he is the son of god? Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: JOHN 9:22, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlucky man, whoever you are, acuused of worshipping christ! Last Line: O unlucky defendant! How heavy is your punishment! Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: LORD, THOUGH ABSENT, CURES SON OF CENTURION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What unexpected health glides in on silent wings! Last Line: Was the cure, absent and present, it was the cure Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SACRED EPIGRAM: MAN WITH DROPSY HEALED THIRSTS FOR CHRIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirst is driven thence; but here another thirst arises Last Line: He thirsts for water from the very souce of life Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: NO RUNAWAY LOVE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy virgin, do not suffer these laments too much Last Line: No indeed, do not suffer these laments of yours. Holy one. %why should you doubt? This is no runaway Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: NOW LETTEST THOU [THY SERVANT] DEPART (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did my arms then finally hold my hopes? Last Line: I want to see nothing after you, except you, o christ Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: NOW LETTEST THOU [THY SERVANT] DEPART (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, my eyes (for what more do you want?) Last Line: This is the first [wish], that I could see you (christ): second: %having seen you, to have been able Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DARK ANS STORMY VOYAGE OF ... LORD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the night hold these tender wayfarers, the mother with her son Last Line: And he let them bathe: and finally let them be released in the morning %so that the day itself may d Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DAY OF THE MASTER'S PASSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should I be so gloomy? Away with fasts! I have Last Line: See there is what cuts the strength of the wine, water Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is not content with the light of the usual torch of aurora Last Line: Are you listening, persian seer? He who performed so many works %isa crying in the stalls of bethleh Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE FLOCK OF CHRIST, THE SHEPHERD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O flolck, o too much blessed in such a great shepherd! Last Line: Himself is shepherd for it, and himself is p[asture for his flock Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE MARKS OF THE WOUNDS ..., by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With these eyes (not yet met together like closed windows) Last Line: Our faith rejoices to see your love, christ Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, you are born! And with you, your world, golden king Last Line: But surely not even death: indeed so that it may be buried in your tomb, %christ, death itself will Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE SEPULCHRE OF THE LORD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let them yield, let those miracles of the rock of old [time] yield Last Line: You blessed rock, when the third day will dawn, %will proudly flow in a sacred font of flames Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE TOMB OF CHRIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This circle moves in an orbit, similar and how equal to itself! Last Line: That [couch] was betrothed to a joseph as was that [tomb] Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE WOMAN WITH FEVER, THE MAN WITH DROPSY, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the holy writ read recently [christ] stopped a serious fever Last Line: How well he put down those waters with these fires! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SACRED EPIGRAM: ON WOUNDS WHICH CHRIST STILL HAS SURVIVING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever the spiked thorn, or the sharp-pointed nail Last Line: No, but they are the medicine for my wounds Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: SIGNS OF THE COMING OF CHRIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So come; whatever fears may accompany the signs Last Line: Whatever it is, let it come: only you, christ, come Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: THE ACCUSED CHRIST ANSWERS NOTHING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says nothing: o precious silence of that holy tongue! Last Line: Saying no word, now remakes all things Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SACRED EPIGRAM: THE BOY JESUS IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man is deceived who hangs on every bearded chin Last Line: Not to think that whiteness of the head is the head Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: THE INFANT CHRIST IS PRESENTED TO HIS FATHER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the lamb go, and let him play at the feet of his butting father Last Line: This is the gift, this is it, which surely should dare %to be worthy of god himself: of course it is Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: THEY SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, come, o christ, make ready your heavenly chariot Last Line: Or the sun itself will give itself [to be] your cloud Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRED EPIGRAM: UNLESS I SHALL PUT MY FINGER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then will the impious finger again [drive] the nails? Again [thrust] the Last Line: Would you, ah cruel one, make christ die? Subject(s): Jesus Christ SACRIFICE, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Sing not to me of earthly power Last Line: Christ's death upon the cross. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion SACRILEGIOUS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Above the white linen altar cloth the figure of jesus Last Line: On my tongue and let it melt there like the host Subject(s): Altars; Israel; Jesus Christ; Religion SAINT AGNES' EVE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep on the convent-roof the snows Last Line: The bridegroom with his bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Eve Of St. Agnes;saint Agnes Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Catholics; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Saints; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me Last Line: Sang bridget bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SAINT JOHN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He loved you and you lay upon his breast Last Line: Kept thee for very love on calvary Subject(s): Calvary; Catholics; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; John The Apostle, Saint (1st Century); Martyrs SAINT PAUL: 1, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ! I am christ's! And let the name suffice you Last Line: Less than the love wherewith I ache for souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Saul Of Tarsus; Theology SAINT STEPHEN WAS A CLERK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Saint stephen was a clerk in king herod's hall Last Line: Took they then stephen and stoned him in the way, %thereforeis his even on christe's own day Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Legends; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.) SAINTS AND ANGELS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's oh in paradise that I fain would be Last Line: And paradise hath room for you and me and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise SALUTATION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, I have read, did to his chaplains say Last Line: Salute we must, nor strangers, kin, or friends. Subject(s): Jesus Christ SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SATURDAY IN Y' HOLY WEEK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The sabbath now / can a more ample title show Last Line: Till ye worlds generall crack shall set them ope. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Holy Week; Sabbath; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sunday SCULPTOR OF THE SOUL, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone Last Line: And made a molten cast of god's portrait on his own flesh. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sculpture & Sculptors; Theology SEARCH, by T. MOORE ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Across its wastes a universe I trod Subject(s): Jesus Christ SECOND COMING, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Christ came to earth again, and made his plea Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SEE! HERE, MY HEART, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O! Mankinde Last Line: Lo! Here my hert Subject(s): Jesus Christ SEEKIN', by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: Seekin', massa jesus Last Line: Ligttime, too. Subject(s): Jesus Christ SEEN ON A WAR-SHRINE IN PENNSYLVANIA, by E. M. GREEVES-CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood Last Line: Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mothers & Sons; Pennsylvania; Shrines; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The SEPULCHER IN THE GARDEN, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Source First Line: What though the flowers in joseph's garden grew Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY GRAVESTONE FOR A CHILD, by RAYMOND OLIVER Poem Source First Line: The resurrection must take place Last Line: But she is in her father's mansion Subject(s): Graves; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The SHADOWBOXER, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the soldier who put a spear through christ's side on the cross Last Line: Was a face all still as dew in april. Hook. Jab. Jab Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ SHALL I BE SILENT?, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds sing; and shall I be silent? Last Line: The pasture is thy word; the streams thy grace, %enriching all the place Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion SHALL WE FORGET, by WILLIAM MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: Jesus! Thy love shall we forget Last Line: Our constancy shall prove. Subject(s): Jesus Christ SHARING HIS CROSS, by GRACIA L. FERO Poem Text First Line: Should I tread with ease the path he trod with sorrow? Last Line: In gaining my crown, I'd gladly share his cross. Subject(s): Jesus Christ SHE ASKS FOR A HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joseph, send me a house Last Line: Who gave me a house from the cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Houses; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Prayer SHE HEARD MUSIC, by MAUDE SCRUGGS Poem Text First Line: She heard music. Her soul received Last Line: She heard music. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Music & Musicians; Soul; Belief; Creed SHEEP AND LAMBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All in the april evening Last Line: And thought on the lamb of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Lambs; Sheep; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion SHEKEL IN THE FISH'S MOUTH, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What luck had peter! For he took a fish Last Line: That stored his purse, as well as filled his dish Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SHEPHERD'S MADRIGAL, by GERALDINE FARRAR Poem Source First Line: Come, little children, gather round Last Line: The holy child in bethlehem %his birthday shares with you Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SHINE OUT, O STAR, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shine out midst the azure, o star of Last Line: Hath come to redeem the lost sheep of his fold! Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Subject(s): Jesus Christ SHINING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you shining for jesus, dear one Last Line: Unto the perfect day! Subject(s): Jesus Christ SHINING FOR JESUS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, do you shine for jesus Last Line: Ever any less in him? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life SHOW US THY GLORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Show us thy glory, lord Last Line: Thy glory ever see. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise SIENA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside this northern summer's fold Last Line: Up to god's side. Subject(s): Heaven; Italy; Jesus Christ; Summer; Paradise; Italians SIGHT, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: In nazareth he know each narrow street Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SIGNUM CUI CONTRADICETUR, by MARY ANGELITA Poem Text First Line: Long months he lay within the womb Last Line: Who was the life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stackhouse, Mary Agnes Subject(s): Jesus Christ SIGNUM CUI CONTRADICETUR, by MARY ANGELITA Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Stackhouse, Mary Agnes Subject(s): Jesus Christ SILVER NAILS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man was crucified. He came to the city a stranger Last Line: John silvernail on the statue. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: She hated to give him up Last Line: For the sun to slip through Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Temples; Women - Bible SIMEON MEDITATING, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: So long, o lord, I've waited for this day Last Line: I'm waiting, lord, to hear thy last clear call! Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology SIMON AND JUDAS, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Text First Line: How dare we look askance at these two men Last Line: Nor followed even at a great way off! Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) SIMON AND JUDAS, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: At these two men will may we churchmen scoff Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) SIMON OF CYRENE, by GEORGIA HARKNESS Poem Source First Line: I walked that day out to the death-marked hill Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS, by GLEN BAKER Poem Source First Line: Look not on me with scorn because Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He never spoke a word to me Last Line: With bruise of lash or stone. Variant Title(s): Shadowed Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Simon Of Cyrene; Theology SINGING FOR JESUS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing for jesus, our saviour and king Last Line: Singing for jesus forever above. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ON THE FORESKIN OF THE SAVIOR, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fascinating, we say today Last Line: The god of all of us is all man Subject(s): Jesus Christ SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slain for man, slain for me Last Line: O lamb of god, slain for man, slain for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ SLAVE AND EMPEROR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor mocked at nazareth Last Line: To save his world again. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Jesus Christ; Slavery; Dead, The; Serfs SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded like spoons Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery; Estrangement; Outcasts; Serfs SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded like spoons Last Line: Can this sin live Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery SNOW, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Source First Line: His softest feathers winter thither sent Last Line: But at his presence into tears it fell, %checked by a whiter, chaster spectacle Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Snow SO RUNS OUR SONG, by MARY EVA KITCHEL Poem Source First Line: A dozen sandaled saints I see Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SO WELL THAT I CAN LIVE WITHOUT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As I love thee Variant Title(s): Poem: 456; Poem: 68 Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love SODOMA'S CHRIST SCOURGED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in siena pictures Last Line: The gray-walled street received me; %on peace I mused no more Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SOMEWHERE, by J. C. COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: Somewhere there lies the dust Last Line: Through alchemy of deathless love? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion SON OF MAN, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: He often spoke of thing of home Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SONG, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What trees were in gethsemane Last Line: In gardens, late at night. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice SONG, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have the years left us? Last Line: Sorry we came. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice SONG, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, in one semester Last Line: Which face is all your own? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice SONG AT EASTER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If this bright lily Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The SONG FOR THE NIGHT OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the noon of night Last Line: Holding the new-won crown above his saintly head. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Light; Night; Resurrection, The; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs SONG OF THE CHRISTIAN WORKMAN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Our master toiled, a carpenter Last Line: Who serve in labor's brotherhood? Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SONG UPON THE BLEEDING CRUCIFIX, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu, no more, it is full tide Last Line: The well of living waters, lord, till now. Variant Title(s): On The Bleeding Crucified Lord;upon The Bleeding Crucifix. A Song;on The Bleeding Wounds Of Our Crucified Lord Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion SONHOOD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fragments of being, mystically flung Last Line: For god has a son! Subject(s): Jesus Christ SONNET. CHRISTIANITY, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in the east a star! The orient shade Last Line: Still brightening kindles faith, lo, in the east a star! Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The SONNET. MATTHEW XXI, 5, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes, a king! What splendors gird him round Last Line: Throned in the heart alone, o lord, thy sovereign reign! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SONNET: 68. TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this your mother sweated in the cold Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology SONNET: 68. TO JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this your mother sweated in the cold Last Line: The stone the angel rolled away with tears %is back upon your mouth these thousand years Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion SONNET: DESIDERIUM INDESIDERATUM, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gain that lurk'st ungained in all gain! Last Line: Framed the august embraces of the cross. Subject(s): Consolation; Jesus Christ SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 29. CHRIST AND ENGLAND, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Nay! But our own dear land thou shalt not hold Last Line: We are content. We have no need of thee. Subject(s): England; Jesus Christ; English SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 30. CHRIST AND WOMAN, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Nor shalt thou hold our women. Their grey eyes Last Line: Thou rulest not the land of oak and pine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Women SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 39. NOT CHRIST, BUT CHRIST'S GOD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Though christ we need not, yet the god who shone Last Line: Not in one heart alone god's spirit glows. Subject(s): Jesus Christ SOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was no enemy which did this wrong Last Line: The bruised palms of more than mortal death %combine to furnish forth the saviour's haroseth! Subject(s): Jesus Christ SOSPETTO D'HEROID [D'HERODE] (THE SUSPICION OF HEROD), by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, now the servant of soft loves no more Last Line: So much? Rude shepheards. What his steeds? Alas %poore beasts! A slow oxe, and a simple asse Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Variant Title(s): Herod's Suspicion Subject(s): Devil; Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SOUL-FEEDING HYACINTHS, by CORINNE FARLEY Poem Source First Line: Be with us, lord, today Subject(s): Jesus Christ SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 6. SPONSI DEI, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus christ, I have longed with my whole heart for thee Last Line: Lick up the dust of this consuming martyrdom! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Soul SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.., by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't say it or write it or sign it or give it a name Last Line: His small star would someday pass close to him but not yet. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Religion; Spirituality; Nativity, The; Theology SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night. Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology SOVEREIGNTY, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: How soon a mighty throne can fall Subject(s): Jesus Christ SPEAK THE WORD, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever fainting with desire Last Line: And perfect me in love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ SPECULUM AMORIS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god the baby is Last Line: The mirror of divinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ SPIRIT OF LIBERTY, by MRS. M. L. OBERHOLTZER Poem Source First Line: Bright is the moon that hangs aloft Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SPLENDID LOVER, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: One and one only is the splendid lover Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SPONSA DEI, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamb of god! Yea, mary, and thy lamb! Last Line: For a sick child, his own and mary's son? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary SPRING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is so beautiful as spring Last Line: Most, o maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning. Subject(s): Eden; Jesus Christ; Religion; Spring; Time; Theology SPRING (1), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love as the resurrection angel, goes Last Line: Will never staunch the tears of mortal eyes. Subject(s): Angels; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones SPRING SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green of jesus Subject(s): Christianity; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Roman Catholics; Catholicism SPRING SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green of jesus Last Line: In the body of jesus and %the future is possible Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ ST. CHRISTOPHER; FOR A CHILD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was none so tall as this giant bold Last Line: Was changed to giant christopher. Subject(s): Christianity; Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Jesus Christ ST. LUKE XXIV, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: And now upon the first morn of the week Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Saints; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection ST. MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the freezing cold and the blinding snow Last Line: Soldier and servant and knight of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Jesus Christ ST. PATRICK, SELS., by PHYLLIS L. GARLICK Poem Source First Line: Christ with me, christ before me, christ behind me Last Line: Christ in every ear that hears me Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion STABAT MATER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O thou mournful mother, standing by the cross with / eyes uplift Last Line: How a mother's pain may be a soul's sublime beatitude. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Pain; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery STABAT MATER SPECIOSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the lovely mother smiling Last Line: To the vision of his face! Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary STAR OF THE MORNING, by D. V. JOHNSTONE Poem Text First Line: He is the star of the morning Last Line: He means all to the hearts of men. Subject(s): Jesus Christ STARLIGHT LIKE INTUITION PIERCED THE TWELVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The starlight's intuitions pierced the twelve Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology STARLIGHT LIKE INTUITION PIERCED THE TWELVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The starlight's intuitions pierced the twelve Last Line: And we shall never be as once we were, %this life will never be what once it was! Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion STATION (1), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I envy the soldiers' sleep -- ah, the sleep of a soldier Last Line: No, no one Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Sleep; Soldiers STATION (5), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere between a bird's nest and a solar system Last Line: Washing less than nothing from your hands Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Birds; Jesus Christ STEP OVER THE LINE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Heaven's morning is breaking, step out in the light Last Line: "then hear his words spoken, ""good servant, well done." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Theology STILL FALLS THE RAIN; THE RAIDS, 1940. NIGHT AND DAWN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Still falls the rain - / dark as the world of man, black as our loss Last Line: "still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my blood, for thee." Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Crucifixion; Religion; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology; Second World War STILL THE CROSS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calvary is a continent Last Line: Recrucified? Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Crucifixion; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology STILL THOU ART QUESTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We place thy sacred name upon our brows Last Line: Have I been with thee all these many years, %o world - dost thou not know me even yet? Subject(s): Jesus Christ STONE, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: Christ is risen, christ is risen!' Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The STORY FROM EASTER: HE HAS RISEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mouse under the sink Last Line: Buries mouse next day Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Easter; Grief; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Loss; Resurrection, The STORY OF THE CHRIST-CHILD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would the muses me inspire Last Line: In the bible. Read it there! Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The STRENGTH, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON Poem Text First Line: Ask of your soul this question, what is strength? Last Line: Bear up to calvary a cross, alone? Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Strength SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD, AND BURIED, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a green hill far away Last Line: Of heaven and let us in. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology SUFFERING GOD, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cross they raised against the rain Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SUNRISE THROUGH THE TREES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ocean reaches vast and wonderful Last Line: And greet thee through the parting of the trees! Subject(s): Dawn; Jesus Christ; Trees; Sunrise SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ's heart was wrung for me Last Line: Christ comes, -- and listens for that hour to strike. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ SWEET TRIOLETS: A TRIOLET FOR PASSION SUNDAY, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Lord jesus plucked a triolet Last Line: Beside the sea of galilee Subject(s): Jesus Christ SYMBOL, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My faith is all a doubtful thing Last Line: In blossoms, everywhere. Subject(s): Jesus Christ SYMBOLS, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: I never see upon a hill Subject(s): Jesus Christ SYRIAN'S TALE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: While riding toward jerusalem Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SYRO-PHOENICIAN WOMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Had christ rebuffed me as he did that mother Last Line: And if he then blessed humour - cherish it Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TAKE CARE OF HIM', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whom I love, for whom I died Last Line: Thou diddest it to me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sacrifice; Jesus Christ TALE OF ONE HILL, by JR. FRANKLIN D. ELMER Poem Source First Line: Time erodes the hills? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TELL FORTH HIS FAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Christ is born! Tell forth his fame Last Line: For he hath triumphed gloriously! Subject(s): Christmas;jesus Christ; "nativity, The; TELL JESUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou wakest in the morning Last Line: Come--in telling jesus all Subject(s): Jesus Christ TEMPLE OFFERING, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Did times grow hard in nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth TEMPTATION, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They took him to a mountain top to see Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TEMPTED, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the wilderness Last Line: So christ's immortal rose above his mortal %and on it trod Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TEN LEPERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not white and shining like an ardent flame Last Line: Before I shall forget thee, keep me, lord, %a sick man at thy gate Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Leprosy; Religion TERRIBLE MEEK, SELS., by CHARLES RANN KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Already our kingdoms are beginning to totter Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TEST, by HELEN PURCELL ROADS Poem Text First Line: Not those elate upon the mountain height Last Line: Shall find in christ—peace, after victory. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THAT HOLY THING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They all were looking for a king Last Line: Yea, every bygone prayer. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THAT NATURE IS A HERACLITEAN FIRE & OF THE COMFORT OF THE RESURRECTION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows Last Line: Is immortal diamond. Variant Title(s): That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrecti Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nature; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How know I that it looms lovely that land I have never Last Line: Thou art there. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THAT'S JESUS, by GRACE B. RENFROW Poem Text First Line: Almighty god, the wonderful Last Line: That's jesus. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE ACTS OF SAINT JOHN: THE ROUND DANCE OF JESUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A praise poem Last Line: Understand & say / amen Subject(s): Jesus Christ;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE AGELESS CHRIST, by B. L. BYER Poem Text First Line: Christ of the council chamber Last Line: In poppies and poinsettias Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE ANGEL'S SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let us sing the angel's song Last Line: Glory to god! And peace on earth.' Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise THE ANGELS OF PRAYER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye to whom my prayer is given Last Line: Such as came when jesu smiled. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Paradise THE ASS OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If I was like st. Francis Last Line: The ass of christ by name. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Heaven; Jesus Christ; Saints; Paradise THE ASS SPEAKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the little ass of christ Last Line: The whip, for jesus christ his sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Christmas; Duty; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary; Theology THE AUTHORS CONFESSION, SELECTION, by ELIZABETH MAJOR Poem Text First Line: Old age -- the eternal son of god for sin did die Last Line: O let not any intice thee time to waste. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Love; Seasons; Sin; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM, by HENRY BEER Poem Text First Line: The blessed story of the christ Last Line: Tis he that makes men whole. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cruel manger, how bleak, how bleak! Last Line: Break, o heart, for thy god! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mothers & Sons; Worship THE BABE TO THE GIFT-BEARER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot hold within my hands Last Line: Till I am older grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was about the deep of night Last Line: And judas one of three. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Christmas; Ghosts; Jesus Christ - Legends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Pilate, Pontius; Supernatural; Nativity, The THE BALLAD OF THE COMFORTING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary smiled on her little son Last Line: Her torn heart beat again? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Calvary; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BALLAD OF THE SCULLION MAID, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the little scullion maid Last Line: In the inn at bethlehem. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Nativity, The THE BETHLEHEM STAR SHINES ON!, by ALICE MORTENSON Poem Text First Line: Over a scarred and war-torn world Last Line: The bethlehem star shines on! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE BETTER PART, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long fed on boundless hopes, o race of man Last Line: If we then, too, can be such men as he!' Variant Title(s): Anti-desperation Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE BIRD OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy, holy, holy Last Line: All the birds together. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Rewards; Salvation; Self-immolation; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary THE BIRDS, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus christ was four years old Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BIRTH, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a legend that the love of god Last Line: A rain of spirit and a dew of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Miracles; Stars; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE BIRTH SONG OF CHRIST, by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm on the listening ear of night / come heaven's melodious strains Last Line: Breaks the first christmas morn. Variant Title(s): Christmas Hymn;christmas Song;the Glorious Song;the Glorious Song Of Old;the Nativity Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE BITTER WITHY (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it fell out on a holy day Last Line: "oh! The withy, it shall be the very first tree / that perishes at the heart" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;punishment THE BLEEDING MIND, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great man was giving a lecture in a town Subject(s): Lectures; Crucifixion; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE BLESSED FACE, by RAY PALMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, these eyes have never seen Last Line: All-glorious as thou art. Variant Title(s): Unseen, Not Unknown Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE BLESSED TASK, by HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL Poem Text First Line: I said, 'sweet master, hear me pray Last Line: Than this my blessed, blessed task. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE BOY JESUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, measuring his height, he stood Last Line: I've seen the tears upon his cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Variant Title(s): The Child At Nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BRIDEGROOM OF CANA, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Veil thine eyes, o beloved, my spouse Last Line: "jesus bar-joseph, the carpenter's son." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BURNING BABE, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow Last Line: That it was christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE BURNING-GLASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No map shows my jerusalem Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE CAPTAIN; AFTER READING HENLEY'S INVICTUS, by DOROTHEA DAY Poem Text First Line: Out of the light that dazzles me Last Line: Christ is the captain of my soul. Variant Title(s): My Captain Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Jesus Christ THE CAPTAINS OF THE YEARS, by ARTHUR RAYMOND MACDOUGALL JR. Poem Text First Line: I watched the captains Last Line: While christ rode on ahead. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE CARPENTER, by AMY BRUNER ALMY Poem Text First Line: Jesus was a carpenter. He gladly plied Last Line: The light, the way of life, for all mankind. Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry THE CARPENTER LAD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joseph's son was a carpenter lad Last Line: That led to calvary. Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ; Love; Sons THE CARPENTER'S SON, by KATHRYN BLACKBURN PECK Poem Text First Line: Son, fit the grooves and join them well ...' Last Line: I shall rejoice thy yoke to share! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CARPENTER'S SON, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer dawn came over soon Last Line: Voices like these. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CATHEDRAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the memory shines a happy day Last Line: Missed in the commonplace of miracle. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE CHANT OF ARDAN THE PICT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O colum and monks of christ Last Line: Birth, sorrow, pain, weariness, death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Monks; Peace; Virtue THE CHIEF WITNESS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her that hath hid a babe beneath her breast Last Line: "through me the race aspires from man to man!" Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sons; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O jesu, better than thy gifts Last Line: For thee, o only lord, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CHILD AT PRAYER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby to a baby prays Last Line: That tender sight to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Childhood THE CHILD JESUS TO MARY THE ROSE, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father above, beholding the meekness Last Line: When they me pray for help in thy presence. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night it was jewelled Last Line: A rosy morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Flowers; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Roses; Childhood; Nativity, The; Paradise THE CHILDREN WHOM JESUS BLESSED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy were they, the mothers, in whose sight Last Line: Of claims upon a heritage divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Childhood THE CHOSEN CHILD, by BLANCHE C. HARDY Poem Text First Line: The chosen child must ever be Last Line: The place of peace is ever found. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Childhood THE CHRIST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The good intent of god became the christ Last Line: Since christ in all the ways of man hath trod. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology THE CHRIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father (so the word) he Last Line: "father! Father!"" so he died." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The THE CHRIST, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He might have reared a palace at a word Last Line: For needs of others, never for its own! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE CHRIST CHILD, by GREGORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lips of the christ-child are like to twin leaves Last Line: And clustering lilies spring up in his path. Alternate Author Name(s): Gregory Of Narek; Gregory The Master; Gregory, Narekatzi Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CHRIST CHILD, by GRACE E. WILSON Poem Text First Line: A star shone in the east Last Line: With mary kneeling at his feet. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Stars; Wishes; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The THE CHRIST OF COMMON FOLKS, by GEORGE T. LIDDELL Poem Text First Line: I love the name of christ the lord, the man of galilee Last Line: I love the christ of common folks, the lord of common things. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CHRIST OF GOD, by RUSSELL E. KAUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: He came-the infant christ of god Last Line: In wesleyan young people's journal Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CHRIST OF PANAMA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the heart of the world Last Line: Set we the image of christ! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Panama Canal; Peace; Statues; Canal Zone THE CHRIST OF SAN BUENA VENTURA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Ghastly christ on rude cross lifted, while behind the / clear-carved face Last Line: Christ was raised from out the shadows—love for him our common joy. Subject(s): Cavalry; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Missions & Missionaries; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day THE CHRIST OF THE SNOWS; A NORWEGIAN LEGEND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set wine on the table / and bread on the plate Last Line: Our christ of the snow. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Legends, Norwegian; Nativity, The THE CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: BULL, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White bull with a crescent moon on your forehead Last Line: Pardon for us from your father Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ; Bulls THE CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: CLOUD-MUSIC, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white cloud you are, white as the one Last Line: Through your body, harp of the universe Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ; Clouds THE CHRISTIAN'S NEW YEAR PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou christ of mine, thy gracious ear low bending Last Line: This is a christian's prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Holidays; Jesus Christ; New Year; Prayer; Soul; Paradise THE CHRISTMAS ANGELS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, as of old, the shadows fold, and the Last Line: Children yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Love; Worship; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see not god, yet while we grope Last Line: Our life! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS HOUR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is the hour my heart has waited for Last Line: "peace and good-will dwell in the world again!" Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS ROSE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A star-eyed child of judah's line Last Line: Then bore the babe the christmas rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Roses; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Shine gently down, o radiant star Last Line: In every little baby's birth. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE CHURCH IN 1849, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty mother, hearken! For thy foes Last Line: A fisher on the lake of galilee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Sin; Cathedrals THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE COMING OF THE HEALER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the watch of lonely mountain prayer Last Line: So shall the people praise thy name, our saviour and our god. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry THE COMING OF THE LORD, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come suddenly, o lord, or slowly come Last Line: Thou wilt to us thy word of promise keep. Variant Title(s): Take Ye Heed, Watch And Pray Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE CONFLICT: 5. KRUPPISM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned on the twilight battlefield, there bends Last Line: So long shall we serve krupp instead of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Jesus Christ; Krupp (industrial Conglomerate); Loss; Loyalty; World War I; Dead, The; Germans; First World War THE CONQUERER, by RUTH M. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Yesterday! Betrayed, forsaken, crucified Last Line: To live forever at his side. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CONQUERING LOVE OF JESUS, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that I could my lord receive Last Line: By thy victorious love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE COURTS; A FIGURE OF THE EPIPHANY, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's imageries are noble ways Last Line: The kings that found a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE COVENANT OF HIS GRACE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus christ, who stands between Last Line: Makes us prophets, priests, and kings. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CROSS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the world's mad mocking strife Last Line: A crucifixion in my dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE CROSS, by CHARLES NELSON PACE Poem Text First Line: The cross is such a simple thing Last Line: By one identified with it. Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ THE CROSS, by SHIRLEY DILLON WAITE Poem Text First Line: So heavy and so fraught with pain Last Line: The cross. Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice THE CROSS WAS HIS OWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They borrowed a bed to lay his head Last Line: The cross was his own Subject(s): Jesus Christ;religion; Theology THE CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS Poem Text First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei THE CRUCIFIXION, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, man's capacity Last Line: Forsaken he went down, and was afraid. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE CRUCIFIXION, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bound upon the accursed tree Last Line: Son of god! 'tis thou! 'tis thou! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CRUCIFIXION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight upon judaea's hills Last Line: Refuse its trembling gratitude? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then pilate, the roman governor, took jesus and scourged him Last Line: Therefore, believe in the saviour, and heaven you shall enter in! Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Death; Heaven; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology THE CUP OF BLESSING, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, at whose supreme command Last Line: To cheer each languid heart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE DARKNESS OF THE CRUCIFIXION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On judah's hills a weight of darkness hung Last Line: The bright and morning star, my guide to perfect day! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE DAY OF VISITATION, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O city that he loved, jerusalem Last Line: Our time of visitation may we know! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry THE DEAREST ONE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Which of all my dearest dear is most / my very own? Last Line: Whose want and weakness are his prayer, and without word can plead. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ; Love; Prayer THE DEATH AND PASSION: 23, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Unhappy merchant, thus t'expose thy lord Last Line: Of him, who came, this sicke worlde to redeeme. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 24, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Oh blessed virgin, hadst thowe present bene Last Line: That juryes wealth, on hayre should never buy. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 25, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: But thowe true patterne of pure pyety Last Line: Goe buy thyne owne from those preistes murth'ring handes. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 26, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: And judas o yf greedy hope of gayne Last Line: Then scornefull foes, whose spight and pyde abhorre him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 27, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Oh what would lazarus new brought to live Last Line: Who lov'd him more then all ye world can doe. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 28, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Yea leave the earth, and ask the angels bright Last Line: Thy guilt had bene the lesse, thy gayne the more. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 29, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: But sin, with self conceit it self doth blind Last Line: Weare in his pow'r, to use him, as he please. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DESCENT OF THE AERONAUT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gang of darkies, hoeing corn one day Last Line: "good-mornin', massa jesus, how's yer paw'?" Subject(s): African Americans; Flight; Jesus Christ; Negroes; American Blacks; Flying THE DESIRE OF NATIONS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth will go back to her lost youth Last Line: More than the light of law that rose on rome. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nations; Peace THE DISCIPLE, by DWIGHT JAQUES BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: I could not leave thee, christ! For when I tried Last Line: "I cannot leave thee, christ! For I am thine." Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE DISCIPLES: OVERTURE, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I write of the disciples, because he Last Line: Grace to endure yet faithful to the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Disciples, Twelve THE DONKEY, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fishes flew and forests walked Last Line: And palms before my feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Bible; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Mules; Theology THE DREAM, by MRS. ROSS YOCOM Poem Text First Line: I had a dream the other night Last Line: For the lowly nazarene of ancient days. Subject(s): Dreams; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Nightmares THE DYING SAVIOUR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o sacred head, now wounded" Last Line: Dies safely in thy love! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE DYING THIEF, by JOHN SWINNERTON PHILLIMORE Poem Text First Line: Even on the cross a man will make a prayer Last Line: Thou hadst the heart to cry, remember me! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE EAGLE SWIFT, by ADAM OF SAINT VICTOR Poem Text First Line: See, far above the starry height Last Line: High above earth in heaven. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE EASTER DAY, by MARTHA SNELL NICHOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since first the stone was rolled away Last Line: Forevermore at home with thee! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE ELDER TREE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bourtree, bourtree, crookit rung" Last Line: Since our lord was nail'd t' ye Subject(s): Crucifixion;trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE EPIPHANY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in sabea's fragrant groves retired Last Line: Peace is proclaimed to man, and heaven begun below. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE ETERNAL CHRIST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Our god is an eternal christ Last Line: And that right instantly. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE EVER-OPEN WAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes like, when all my way seems barred Last Line: And thou thyself art still my strength and song. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Belief; Creed THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE EXPECTATION, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the apple-trees with their red load Last Line: The earth will bear her longed-for perfect fruit. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pregnancy; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the face that thrills with awe Last Line: This face, the face of jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Descent From The Cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE FAIREST HE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: None like he, of the sons of men Last Line: Of matchless worth. Variant Title(s): Is He Not Fair Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE FAITH OF CHRIST'S FREEMEN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Our faith is not in dead saints' bones Last Line: God's present purpose to fulfill. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Belief; Creed THE FALCON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lully, lulley; lully, lulley / the falcon [faucon] hath borne my mate away" Last Line: "and by that beddes side ther stondeth a ston, / corpus christi wretyn ther on" Variant Title(s): The Corpus Christi Carol;the Falcon Hath Borne My Mate Away Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE FELLOWSHIP OF PRAYER, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O son of man, who walked each day Last Line: Thy fellowship shall keep me strong. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer THE FINAL ARMISTICE, by FRANK BROOKS COWGILL Poem Text First Line: Christ of the glowing heart and golden speech Last Line: When thou art king who once wast crucified. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE FIRE BY THE SEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were seven fishers with nets in their Last Line: "thrice over, ""lov'st thou me?" Subject(s): Apostles; Jesus Christ THE FIRST AND THE LAST, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, sun and shield art thou Last Line: Through eternal days prolong. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE FIRST CHRISTMAS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O mary, drooping by the door Last Line: Before thy son, the king. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE FOE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My foe did strike me, lord, I am not meek Last Line: I cannot turn to him the other cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Enemies; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Revenge THE FRENCH OF VICTOR HUGO: BENEATH A CRUCFIX, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Come to this god, ye mourners, for he weeps Last Line: Come, all who pass: christ waits, and will remain. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery THE FUGITIVE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, from the ingrate heart, the street Last Line: That feed his man -- the bread, the wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE FULFILMENT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these that go with our girl white as snow Last Line: Sets all the roses swinging in heaven's bower. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE FULLNESS OF TIME, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a rusty iron throne Last Line: One who had been crucified! Subject(s): Devil; Jesus Christ; Peace; Time; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a garden where he took Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Easter; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE GARDEN OF GOD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the iron cities Last Line: To sweeten the dead air. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Theology THE GATE OF PRAYER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I seemed to stand Last Line: "I bear, come thou to me." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE GIFT, by EMMA VORIES MEYER Poem Text First Line: Well done, thou faithful servant. Enter now Last Line: For lo, his gift lay buried in a dream! Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Emma Voorhees Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ THE GLORIOUS GIFT OF GOD, by BENJAMIN BEDDOME Poem Text First Line: Jesus, my lord, my chief delight Last Line: It never should from thence depart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE GLORIOUS NAME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The name of christ is wonderful, for wonderful he is Last Line: No other high redeeming name wherein we must be saved. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE GOD OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When christ, suffused in glory light Last Line: To heights beyond, above. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Theology THE GOOD SHEPHERD, by J. HAROLD GWYNNE Poem Text First Line: I know mine own, our shepherd says Last Line: They know for them I lived and died. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE GOOD SHEPHERD, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd! Who with thine amorous, sylvan song Last Line: With feet nailed to the cross, thou'rt waiting still for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE GOOD SHEPHERD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O shepherd with the bleeding feet Last Line: Ninety and nine.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE GOOD SHEPHERD, by CLYDE EDWIN TUCK Poem Text First Line: I walked in palestine one summer day Last Line: The shelter of his fold. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 1. THE MOTHER MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, to thee the heart was given Last Line: His life from hers he drew. Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Wine; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 10. PILATE'S WIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why came in dreams the low-born man Last Line: As poor a verity. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Pilate, Pontius; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 11. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot sun, for water cool Last Line: She has the master found! Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Generosity; Jesus Christ; Women; Wine THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 12. MARY MAGDALENE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With wandering eyes and aimless zeal Last Line: Dwell'st with him in god's heart! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 13. THE WOMAN IN THE TEMPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still dark joy! A sudden face! Last Line: Oh, wash them clean again! Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Shame; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 14. MARTHA, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With joyful pride her heart is high Last Line: And with the dead man rise? Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Lazarus; Mary And Martha (bible); Women; Women In The Bible THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 15. MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sitteth at the master's feet Last Line: For he had left the tomb. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Lazarus; Mary And Martha (bible); Women; Women In The Bible THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 16. THE WOMAN THAT WAS A SINNER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face, his words, her heart awoke Last Line: Lord, make no difference! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Sin; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 2. THE WOMAN THAT LIFTED UP HER VOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filled with his words of truth and right Last Line: We hear no more of her. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 3. THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt, she bore a bold request Last Line: God hath prepared it. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Women; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 4. THE SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant, lord, her prayer, and let her go Last Line: In fulness of her will! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 5. THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the city, with the load Last Line: And life is yet our fate! Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 6. THE WOMAN WHOM SATAN HAD BOUND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years eighteen she, patient soul Last Line: And hoping I endure. Subject(s): Bible; Exorcism; Jesus Christ; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 7. THE WOMAN WHO CAME 'BEHIND HIM IN THE CROWD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near him she stole, rank after rank Last Line: He comforteth her soul. Subject(s): Bible; Healing; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Women; Cures THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 8. THE WIDOW WITH THE TWO MITES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here much and little shift and change Last Line: Nor knew her heavenly meed. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Widows & Widowers; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 9. THE WOMEN WHO MINISTERED UNTO HIM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough he labours for his hire Last Line: To him 'tis very much. Subject(s): Bible; Generosity; Jesus Christ; Love; Women THE GREAT REDEEMER LIVES, by ANNE STEELE Poem Text First Line: He lives, the great redeemer lives Last Line: For jesus pleads, and must prevail. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE GREEN CHRIST, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long they almost touch Last Line: Or take me when he returns Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Trees THE GUEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "yet if his majesty, our sovereign lord" Last Line: "we entertain him always like a stranger, / and, as at first, still lodge him in the manger" Variant Title(s): Preparations Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE HALLOWED HOUR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: No witch hath power to charm the hour Last Line: Hallelujah! Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE HANGING, by JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: I bind the soul that fathered me Last Line: I hang, behead, electrocute.; Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Law & Lawyers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS DAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sybil, my little one, come away Last Line: To have the happiest christmas day! Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE HEALER; TO A YOUNG PHYSICIAN WITH DORE'S PICTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So stood of old the holy christ Last Line: Shall walk the rounds with thee. Subject(s): Dore, Gustave (1832-1883); Healing; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Cures THE HEALING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freshly the cool breath of the coming eve Last Line: Full on his beaming countenance -- arose! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry THE HEART, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mee! My enigmatik heart Last Line: But life into ye dust breathe once againe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Regret; Temptation THE HEART OF GOD, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O life, that breathest in all sweet things Last Line: O christ, thou human heart of god! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE HEART OF GOD, by W. E. LITTLEWOOD Poem Text First Line: There is no love like the love of jesus Last Line: In the heavenly home! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE HEAVENLY BREEZE, by GEORGE BURGESS Poem Text First Line: While o'er the deep thy servants sail Last Line: Abroad, at home, or in the deep. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE HOLY EMERALD; SAID TO BE ONLY TRUE LIKENESS OF CHRIST, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gem, to which the artist did entrust Last Line: The saviour's image on his wounded saints! Subject(s): Emeralds; Engraving And Engravers; Jesus Christ THE HOLY STAR, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As shadows cast by cloud and sun Last Line: To fill the world with light. Variant Title(s): Christmas;the Star Of Bethlehem Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE HOLY WELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it fell out one may morning Last Line: Crying out for the help of me Subject(s): Jesus Christ;wells THE HOUND OF HEAVEN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I fled him, down the nights and down the days Last Line: "thou dravest love from thee, who dravest me." Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; God; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE HOUSEHOLDERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One plucked the grape and trod the wine Last Line: The brides of chastity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE HUMANITARIAN, SELECTION, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing how the world suffered and bled Last Line: On the enduring tablet of the human heart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE IMAGE-MAKER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt no graven image make' Last Line: Didst thou thyself consent to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE INNOCENTS, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock in the dish Last Line: "to quiet his crying." Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE JEW TO JESUS, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O man of my own people, I alone Last Line: A thousand times have we been crucified. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology 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 KILLING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was the day they killed the son of god Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE KING IN HIS BEAUTY, by JAMES G. DECK Poem Text First Line: Lord jesus! When I think of thee Last Line: Thy face in glory see. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE KING IN THE CRADLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my sweet little babie, what meanest thou to cry" Last Line: "lulla, la lulla, lulla, lullaby" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE KING OF KINGS, by LON WOODRUM Poem Text First Line: The prancing mounts and twinkling wheels Last Line: He sits upon the throne of hearts! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE KINGDOM OF GOD, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: O world invisible, we view thee Last Line: Not of gennesareth, but thames! Variant Title(s): In No Strange Land Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Jesus Christ; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE KINGS OF THE EAST, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kings of the east are riding Last Line: The child-face of a star. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Magi; Nativity, The THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a haunting thought at easter-tide Last Line: Must always draw our human hearts to him. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little lamb, who made thee: / dost thou know who made thee? Last Line: Little lamb god bless thee. Variant Title(s): The Lamb Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Lambs; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE LAME SHEPHERD, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly I followed on Last Line: Kissing and kneeling. Subject(s): Christmas; Healing; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The; Cures THE LAST HYMN, by BLANCHE LEE Poem Text First Line: As they listened eagerly to all the master said Last Line: And that jesus christ himself sang—and led the rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Lee-adams, Blanche Ruby Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Last Supper, The THE LAST SUPPER, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What song sang the twelve with the saviour Last Line: That blow by the white gravestones. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Last Supper, The THE LEGEND OF THE PASQUE FLOWER, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL Poem Text First Line: There's a legend as old as the calendar year Last Line: Who heed the season's clarion call. Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Legends; The Resurrection THE LEPER (2), by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room for the leper! Room!' and, as he came Last Line: Prostrate at jesus' feet, and worshipped him. Subject(s): Asia; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Leprosy; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Lepers THE LIGHT YOKE AND EASY BURDEN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that my load of sin were gone Last Line: And fill me with thy perfect peace. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE LILY OF THE RESURRECTION, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the lily dwells in earth Last Line: Dies a bulb, to live a flower! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our flesh that was a battle-ground Last Line: Are merged in paradise. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE LITTLE BRETHREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brendan went to the greenwood Last Line: Wept: and he heard their tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Brendan, Saint (484-578); Fairies; Flowers; God; Jesus Christ; Soul; Tears; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Elves THE LITTLE CHILD, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A simple-hearted child was he Last Line: For the thorns that it must wear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer little children to come unto me,' Last Line: The anti-christ of schrecklichkeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Children; Evil; Hell; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Childhood THE LITTLE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars began to peep Last Line: And knows that it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Supernatural; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary THE LITTLE TOWN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little town, o little town Last Line: But follow still the star! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE LOADSTONE OF HIS LOVE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, united by thy grace Last Line: That was in thee receive. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE LORD IS RISEN, THE CHRIST IS KING; AN EASTER HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Awake from thy sleep! 'tis easter day! Last Line: Our lord is risen, our christ is king! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE LOST CHRIST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Your skill has fashioned stately creeds Last Line: The man of nazareth. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE LOST PIECE OF SILVER; A PRAYER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy lord jesus, thou wilt search till thou find Last Line: This lost piece of silver thou wilt search for -- and find. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE LOST SINGER, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the olive orient Last Line: That cloak like himalayan snow? Subject(s): Asia; Jesus Christ; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bore with thee, long, weary days and nights Last Line: A harvest--come and reap. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE LOVING-CUP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the time of year for the loving-cup Last Line: Where the babe and mary are. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Childhood; Nativity, The THE LOWEST PLACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the lowest place, not that I dare Last Line: My god and love thee so. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE MADONNA'S ISLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Embosomed on the deep there lay Last Line: Still kneeling on the shore! Subject(s): Islands; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MAID-SERVANT AT THE INN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's queer, she said; I see the light Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE MAN CHRIST, by THERESE (KARPER) LINDSEY Poem Text First Line: He built no temple, yet the farthest sea Last Line: The kingdom of the truth. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology THE MAN OF SORROWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise Last Line: "in every man that suffers, he, the man of sorrows, stands" Subject(s): Jesus Christ;religion; Theology THE MASTER, by SAMUEL DOWSE ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: Thou art our master! Last Line: Our servant be! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE MASTER IS COME, AND CALLETH FOR THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who calleth? - thy father calleth Last Line: Bids thee give up thy heart to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE MASTER'S MAN, by WILLIAM G. TARRANT Poem Text First Line: My master was a worker Last Line: The master's men are there. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE MATER PIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Softly the fading moon dies in the sky Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby, god is with thee. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Messiah; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE MEANING OF THE LOOK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that look of christ might seem to say Last Line: Because I know this man, let him be clear.' Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Religion; Theology THE MEDIATOR, HYMN 2, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How high thou art! Our songs can own Last Line: Behold our darkness only there! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE MEDITATION OF COLUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise be to god, and a blessing too at that, and a blessing Last Line: And hath no thought of my sons in the deeps of the air and the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; Meditation; Salvation THE MINISTRY OF INTERCESSION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no holy service Last Line: The gladness all to us! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE MOTHER LOVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This master-stroke that deals with the divine Last Line: Back to the mother-lap, the mother-love. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Future; Jesus Christ; Love; Mothers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE NAME OF JESUS, by ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT Poem Text First Line: There is a name all names above Last Line: Our shield and our defender. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE NAME OF JESUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, lord god from all eternity Last Line: I plead thyself, I plead thy name. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE NARROW HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a narrow home, but very still it seemeth" Last Line: Trust him who calls unto his rest our dead Subject(s): Houses;jesus Christ THE NATIVITY, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thou wert born of woman! Thou didst come Last Line: In its own radiancy. Variant Title(s): Ode, To The Saviour Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE NATIVITY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down kedron's vale the wind blows chill Last Line: To find the manger-cradled king. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE NIGHT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the pure virgin-shrine Last Line: Might live invisible and dim! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Jesus Christ; Night; Religion; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Theology THE NINTH HOUR, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the shameful trial in the hall Last Line: Said, truly this man was the son of god. Subject(s): Clergy; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE NONCONFORMIST'S MEMORIAL, by SUSAN HOWE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE OFFERING OF THE NEW LAW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I thought to sit so high Last Line: With these for me thy bread is spread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE OLD PIER-POST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sea-ward-looking one Last Line: Christ must be coming soon! Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Moon; Sea; Soul; Wharves; Dead, The; Ocean; Piers THE ONE REALITY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fog-wreaths of doubt in blinding eddies drifted Last Line: The son of god who gave himself for me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE ONLY NAME GIVEN UNDER HEAVEN, by ANNE STEELE Poem Text First Line: Jesus, thou source divine Last Line: Where joy forever reigns. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE ONLY ONE, by JO GARDNER Poem Text First Line: He is truly the only one Last Line: And there was his blessing given. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE OVER-HEART, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above, below, in sky and sod Last Line: And trust the unknown for the known. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE PASSION FLOWER, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lowly, meek and lovely flower Last Line: Even as the flower of calvary! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE PASSOVER IN THE HOLY FAMILY (FOR A DRAWING), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here meet together the prefiguring day Last Line: And mary culls the bitter herbs ordained. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE PEACE OF CHRIST, by JOHN ANTES LA TROBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let not your heart be faint Last Line: My peace I leave with you! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE PERFECT GIFT, by JULIA BENSON PARKER Poem Text First Line: We worship thee, o son of god Last Line: In thy sweet service here. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer THE PERFECT LIFE, by CHARLES FRANCIS RICHARDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we find a perfect life whereby Last Line: We shape our lives for all eternity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE PILOT OF GALILEE, by SUMNER HAZLEWOOD Poem Text First Line: My sails are spread to unknown winds Last Line: To the pilot of galilee. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Belief; Creed THE PLAYMATES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are thy playmates, boy Last Line: "new-born, is joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Happiness; Jesus Christ; Joy; Delight THE POET, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet lived in galilee Last Line: If we could say we knew him? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE PRAYER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many worlds have I made,' said the good god Last Line: "to draw men's souls to me." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Creation; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Prayer THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Precious, precious blood of jesus Last Line: Praise and laud! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE PRINCE OF PEACE, by EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH Poem Text First Line: Hark, hark! The advent cry again Last Line: And perfect peace! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE PRODIGAL SON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Young man - / young man Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry THE PROMONTORY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not all the range of sea-born liberty Last Line: Self-driven to the rock, its barrier, christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE PURE LONELINESS, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Loneliness; Jesus Christ THE QUEEN OF THE YEAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When suns are low, and nights are long Last Line: With the christ-child in her arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE QUIET WAYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great god made me a man Last Line: And the great hills that pierce the days. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy lovely saints do bring thee love Last Line: A drop from thine abyss. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE READER OF THE SENTENCES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second World War THE REAL CHRIST, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold him now where he comes! Last Line: Pass to return no more. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE REAL CHRIST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should jesus christ once more to earth return Last Line: The son of mary will return again. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion - Disestablishment THE RECRUIT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carter for mister manley Last Line: "and nuts be brown"" answered the guns." Subject(s): England; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; English THE REDBREAST (A LEGEND OF BRITTANY), by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: When jesus meekly passed to death Last Line: Is loved by man the best. Subject(s): Birds; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Legends, French; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; French Folklore THE REED, by HENRY BERNARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the memnonian shadows of memphis, it rose from the slime Last Line: Like vessels of clay. Subject(s): Reeds; Jesus Christ THE RESURRECTION, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd dared her to go in, and we came on that dare Last Line: That first delicate laying on of hands? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jesus Christ; Love - Beginnings; Resurrection, The; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE RESURRECTION, by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His friends went off and left him dead Last Line: That breathed the living breath of spring. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE RESURRECTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That christ did die, the pagan saith Last Line: But that he rose, that's christians faith. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The THE RESURRECTION, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My true love still is all that's fair Last Line: Which throws a shadow on my mind. Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; Trees THE RESURRECTION, by DORA CLAIRE VANNIX Poem Text First Line: Twas just before the rosy dawn, on that first easter morn Last Line: "he lives! Awake! ""rise from the dead and christ shall give thee light." Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE RESURRECTION POSSIBLE, AND PROBABLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For each one body, that I'th earth is sowne Last Line: Of ours, as is the rising of the wheat. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The THE REVEALER, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was I saw christ's body Last Line: How love is crucified. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE RICH YOUNG RULER QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: The night grew late, nor yet matthias paused Last Line: "sometimes I wonder did he think me fool!" Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Disciples, Twelve THE RIGHT MARY, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY Poem Text First Line: All the little mary maids Last Line: She named it child o' god. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise THE ROSE OF SHARON AND THE LILY OF THE VALLEYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou hearken to thy saviour Last Line: That the souls redeeméd know! Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology THE ROSE WINDOW, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This window hath seen many a dame and lord Last Line: The unfading blossom of the rose there limned. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Windows THE SACRAMENT, by CHARLES L. FORD Poem Text First Line: This is my body, which is given for you Last Line: "and hear thy voice, ""arise, let us go hence." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB WAS HE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Christ lived, and died, and rose that we Last Line: Who died that day for you and me. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE SAME FOREVER, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross stands firm; no blast of time Last Line: I drink and live! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SAVIOR, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the savior of mankind Last Line: Was ever love like thine? Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SAVIOUR CAN SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM, by OSWALD J. SMITH Poem Text First Line: The saviour can lift every burden Last Line: There is nothing that he cannot do. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SAVIOUR'S SILENCES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know the worst -- the darkest doom Last Line: He would have said, were these not so Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SCAPEGOAT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bore me away from the happy flock Last Line: God only knows, not I! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Goats; Guilt; Jesus Christ; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE SEARCH (1), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to seek for christ Last Line: His throne is with the outcast and the weak. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SECOND CRUCIFIXION, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud mockers in the roaring street Last Line: Yet christ is with me all the day. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Faith; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Belief; Creed THE SECRET (F.P.D.), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem the stable was small and mean and old Last Line: Then held him close against her breast, for little jesus smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SECRET OF THE CROSS, by M. J. CLARKSON Poem Text First Line: I've learned a precious secret Last Line: And thus return to god. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SENDING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas god in heaven who spake to death Last Line: "I was so weary, death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Jesus Christ THE SERAPHIM, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O seraph, pause no more! Last Line: Before his heavenly throne should walk in white. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE SHEEPHERD, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: When great love / did remove Last Line: To the flocks that thither run. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He loved me, as he said, in every part Last Line: —nay, vain, vain words: how shall he understand? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Belief; Creed; Male-female Relations THE SHIP IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA, by CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters were thy path Last Line: The ship is at the shore. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SIGN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Faithful hearts had long been watching Last Line: And the sign—a little child! Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Paradise THE SILVER TRADE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will hammer silver into a heart Last Line: And throw them behind the mountain. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE SINNER AT THE CROSS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helpless before the cross I lay Last Line: "to-night in paradise with me." Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE SISTER AT A MATERNITY HOSPITAL, by R. ALEXANDER BATE Poem Text First Line: When sister through the doorway peeps Last Line: Madonna and the child asleep. Subject(s): Birth; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Sisters; Women In The Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Theology THE SLEEP IN GETHSEMANE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the dark christ turned away Last Line: O lord, pity us! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SON, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish no more to walk the night. My heart Last Line: And to the paradise thou namest love' Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Kisses; Love; Sons THE SON, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: When jesus was a child, did people say Last Line: The gallows, or the cross, or some bad end. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE SON OF MAN, by DOROTHY J. LANGFORD Poem Text First Line: He grew! From tiny babe to sturdy boy and vigorous man Last Line: The firstborn he, and we shall heaven fill! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SONG OF A CHRISTIAN SOJOURNER IN AMERICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: If christ be god, I him adore Last Line: Nor sin nor hell shall come between. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SONG OF A HEATHEN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus christ is a man Last Line: The earth, the sea, and the air! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SONG OF AEIFA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed hence, speed hence, o lone white swans Last Line: At the ringing of christ's bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Death; Jesus Christ; Mythology - Celtic; Swans; Dead, The THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was near the first cock-crowing Last Line: Lord of peoples, light of nations, elder brother, tender friend. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The THE SONG OF THE WOMEN; A WEALDEN TRIO, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When ye've got a child 'ats whist for want of food Last Line: Singin' of the shepherds on that morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Women; Nativity, The THE SONNE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let foreign nations of their language boast Last Line: We him in glorie call, the sonne of man. Variant Title(s): The Son Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SOUL OF JESUS IS RESTLESS TODAY, by CYPRUS R. MITCHELL Poem Text Last Line: But eternally undismayed Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Modern Life THE SPLENDOR OF LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rare as the splendor of lilies Last Line: To carpet a path for our king. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE SPOUSE TO THE BELOVED, by WILLIAM BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Christ, my beloved, which still doth feed Last Line: According as his will is. Variant Title(s): The Spouse To The Younglings Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE STIGMATA; FOR JOHN J. DONLAN, PH.D., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Silent the mountain; on the plains below Last Line: That to the little griefs of earth he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Jesus Christ; Saints; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE STRANGER, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I saw him where the rose was red Last Line: "yourself stripped of your mask of mirth." Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice THE SURGEON'S HANDS, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Text First Line: His face? I know not whether it be fair Last Line: As though the hands of christ had served and blest. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Surgery THE SWEETNESS OF JESUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lord christ, might I thy sweetness see" Last Line: "to dwell with thee, world without end! Amen" Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SWORDLESS CHRIST, by PERCY ADAMS HUTCHISON Poem Text First Line: Aye, down the years, behold, he rides Last Line: Are slow to rise and follow him. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SYMBOL LOVE CHOSE; A RED CROSS POEM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Love:--that sweet goddess of mercy Last Line: He gave her this symbol of red. Subject(s): Calvary; Cross, The; Crucifixion; Love; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE TEACHER, by HILDEGARDE HOYT SWIFT Poem Text First Line: He sent men out to preach the living word Last Line: But that they brought to him their human need. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry THE TEMPTATION OF OUR LORD: BALEUS PROLOCUTOR, by JOHN BALE Poem Text First Line: After his baptism christ was god's son declared Last Line: Perceive more at large, by the story as it fall. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE THIEF ON THE CROSS, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three crosses rose on calvary against the iron sky Last Line: And if he knew thy face, lord, what did he say to thee? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE THREAD OF LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irresponsive silence of the land Last Line: And sing, o grave, where is thy victory? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE THREE TREES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak is a brave tree that groweth in the wood Last Line: By such as ye the cruel cross was made. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Crosses; Crucifixion; Oak Trees; Pine Trees; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE THREE WISE MEN, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: I came from tigris' sandy plain Last Line: Where christ himself could find no home. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Magi; Nativity, The THE TOILING OF FELIX: 1. PRELUDE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear a word that jesus spake Last Line: "raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): A Lost Word On Jesus Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE TOWER, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was deep night, and over jerusalem's low roofs Last Line: Seeing the torrid moon a ruddy halo behind his head. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE TRANSFIGURATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So from the ground we felt that virtue branch Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE TREE (3), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To me the trembling adam fled in shame Last Line: For adam's guilt to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Trees THE TRIUMPHS OF THY CONQUERING POWER, by WILLIAM HILEY BATHURST Poem Text First Line: Jesus! Thy church, with longing eyes Last Line: The triumphs of thy conquering power. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE TRUE WITNESS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I heard thee say to me Last Line: I know he is! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; World; Theology THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S CHRIST THEORY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God had no emotions but wished temporarily Last Line: They are saving to move to los angeles Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ THE TURNED LESSON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I knew it!' she said Last Line: The hardest is found all clear and sweet! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise men ask, 'what language did christ speak?' Last Line: Christ spoke the universal language—love. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE UNKNOWN GOD, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the crowd went up Last Line: "and from that separate dwelling, give me grace!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE VIRGIN MARY TO CHRIST ON THE CROSS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mist hath dimmed that glorious face Last Line: Let sorrow string my heavy lute. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN OF SAINT MARK'S; THE SACRISTAN'S STORY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a secret recess Last Line: Keeps watch forevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Venice, Italy; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN; COPIED FROM A PRINT OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, sweet babe! My cares beguiling" Last Line: "come, soft slumber, balmily" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (PIEDMONTESE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, oh sleep, dear baby mine" Last Line: "sleep my child, and lullaby" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (SICILIAN), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin thus to jesus did sing Last Line: "sleep now that my tears freely may flow." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VISION OF JESUS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest son, what dost thou see? Last Line: The shadows of three gaunt crosses fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Predestination; Vision; Women - Bible; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary THE VOICE FROM GALILEE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of jesus say Last Line: Till traveling days are done. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE VOICE OF CHRISTMAS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot put the presence by, of him, the crucified Last Line: The master of the centuries who will not be denied! Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Crucifixion; Religion; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE WALK TO EMMAUS, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas eventide. Along the dusty road Last Line: "when jesus talked with us beside the way?" Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CHRIST'S SYMPATHY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus came to earth again Last Line: The moving of thy hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERING JEW, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Go quicker, jesus!' Last Line: Lives on and on and makes for hell or heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology THE WATCHMAN'S REPORT, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, tell us of the night Last Line: Lo! The son of god is come. Variant Title(s): What Of The Night? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Night; Bedtime THE WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood THE WAYS OF GOD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: A lad once dreamed he would be king Last Line: And it exalted him. Subject(s): Cavalry; Crucifixion; Galilee, Palestine; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE WEEPING BABE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She kneels by the cradle Last Line: That still thou wilt cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE WELL OF LIVING WATER, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, the gift divine I know Last Line: In streams of pure perennial peace. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE WHITE CHRISTS, by GUY FITCH PHELPS Poem Text First Line: The white christs come from the east Last Line: Till the black christs shall be born. Subject(s): African Americans; Jesus Christ; War; Negroes; American Blacks THE WHITE COMRADE (AFTER W.H. LEATHAM'S 'THE COMRADE IN WHIRE'), by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under our curtain of fire Last Line: "but of late they have troubled me." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; World War I - Casualties THE WHITE PRESENCE, by JOSEPH FORT NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Will not our hearts within us burn Last Line: Save by his feet! Variant Title(s): Follow Me' Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roman sentinel stood helm'd and tall Last Line: Jesus went calmly on his way to nain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Death - Babies THE WILL! THE WILL!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around the world the chorus rings Last Line: Our master, jesus christ! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE WINDHOVER: TO CHRIST OUR LORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught this morning morning's minion, king Last Line: Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. Variant Title(s): The Windhover Subject(s): Birds; Christianity; Falcons; Hawks; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE WOMAN'S THANKS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is so much strong men are thankful for Last Line: My thanks for these thy little blessings' sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Sabbath; Thanksgiving; Women; Sunday THE WOODEN CHRIST, by MARTHA FOOTE CROW Poem Text First Line: At the high ridge Last Line: Hiving in its heart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE WORK THAT SAVES, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Done is the work that saves Last Line: The blood divine invites us near. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE WORLD, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love built a stately house; where fortune came Last Line: And built a braver palace then before. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Jesus Christ; Redemption; World; Belief; Creed THEIR 'WALK AND CONVERSATION', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grave matthew walked with jesus on the hill Last Line: He wrote the crowning book of holy writ. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THERE IS A MAN ON THE CROSS, by ELIZABETH CHENEY (1859-) Poem Text First Line: Whenever there is silence around me Last Line: "there is a man on the cross." Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THERE LIVED A MAN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Great men have lived Subject(s): Jesus Christ THERE WAS A GARDEN, by MARIE BARTON Poem Text First Line: A cross - one staggering beneath the weight Last Line: He was the son of god. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THERE WAS A MAN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: There was a man - or was he but a man? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THEREFORE FIGHT, by HELEN PHILBROOK PATTEN Poem Text First Line: Lo, I would seek to be alone with peace Last Line: And only these, can lead to final glory. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Peace; Soul THEY SAW AND BELIEVED, by ESTHER LLOYD HAGG Poem Source First Line: And after calvary, a garden, green Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER FOR JESUS, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Source First Line: I think you know, annas, the price is low Last Line: A cask of wine, perhaps, a negro slave, %but seldom such a comely man as this Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THIS ENDURS NIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ THIS NEAR-AT-HAND LAND BREEDS PAIN BY MEASURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Come, gaze upon jesu Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THIS ONLY DO I KNOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I do not know how wide the spaces are Last Line: "atoms, electrons--a kaleidoscope of worlds" Subject(s): Jesus Christ THIS SAME JESUS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This same jesus!' oh! How sweetly Last Line: Jesus christ is still the same. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THOU ALONE CANST SAVE, by AMELIA WAKEFORD Poem Text First Line: Jesus, and didst thou condescend Last Line: For thou alone canst save. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THOU ART FAIRER THAN THE CHILDREN OF MEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose, a lily, and the face of christ Last Line: Complete their orison. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THOU COMEST DOWN TO DIE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I sing, as singing birds, %the glory of thy mood Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Jesus Christ THOU LIGHT OF AGES, SOURCE OF LIVING TRUTH, by ROLLAND W. SCHLOERB Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ THOU LIGHT OF LIFE, by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts Last Line: Shed o'er the world thy holy light! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THOU WHO TAUGHT THE THRONGING PEOPLE, by HENRY S. MINDE Poem Source Last Line: May overcome the bent to evil %by thy purity Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion THOU, GOD, SEEST ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me that I should be Last Line: Lord, help me to begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He who died on calvary Last Line: Ever since, over all our loss %shines the glory of the cross Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion THOUGHT ON A NEWS ITEM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: To think that where young jesus lay Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THREADS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a young girl Last Line: Fallen in a pit. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Memory THREE CROSSES, by EVA WARNER Poem Text First Line: Three ancient crosses on a hill Last Line: Their victims (dust now) challenge still. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crucifixion; Injustice; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THREE CROSSES STOOD ON CALVARY, by LEILA AVERY ROTHERBURGER Poem Source Last Line: Who laughs at pain and want? %can it be you - or I? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THREE GIFTS, by EDWARD JUDSON HANNA Poem Text First Line: Gold and frankincense and myrrh Last Line: This is the golden gift. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THREE HILLS, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN Poem Text First Line: There is a hill in england Last Line: To souls in jeopardy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Mountains; Soldiers; War; World War I; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War THREE MEN OF TRURO: 3. C.W.S. THE FOURTH BISHOP OF TRURO, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prince of courtesy defeated Last Line: Te, flammantibus in portis! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Clergy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THREEFOLD PRAISE: PART 1. HAYDN'S CREATION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the first, simplest praise Last Line: Shall first be fully known. Subject(s): Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809); Jesus Christ THREEFOLD PRAISE: PART 2. MENDELSSOHN'S ELIJAH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O felix! Happy in thy varied store Last Line: The merciful, the gracious one, eternally the same. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mendelssohn-bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847) THREEFOLD PRAISE: PART 3. HANDEL'S MESSIAH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! For a master harp is tuned again Last Line: One amen of praise to thee. Subject(s): Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759); Jesus Christ THURSDAY IN HOLY WEEK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Griefe stay a while, to morrow wee Last Line: Will make it selfe its reason prove. Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Legends; Last Supper, The THUS SPEAKETH CHRIST OUR LORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY CONQUERING NAME, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, my strength and righteousness Last Line: Faith in a dying lord. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY FRIEND AND THY FATHER'S FRIEND FORGET NOT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, I commend to you the narrow way Last Line: For us, and holds us with a wounded hand? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY GLORIOUS FACE ABOVE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day of christ, day of god Last Line: And see thy glorious face above. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY KINGDOM COME, by ALBERT BENJAMIN SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O christ my lord and king Last Line: Thy kingdom come. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY KINGDOM COME!, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: O christ, great lover of all souls Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY NAME, O CHRIST, AS INCENSE STREAMING FORTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nay, lord, what art thou not? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY WILL BE DONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "jesus, while our hearts are bleeding" Last Line: Evermore--thy will be done Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO A BLIND NAZARENE, by EVELYN SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Secure in blind and perfect night Last Line: Something ruthless vision ought to mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Metcalfe, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Jesus Christ; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Sin; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery TO A CERTAIN CHURCH, by ANITA MCCLENDON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Tomb of dead souls that by my pathway stands Last Line: Like thy dear son who died on calvary. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come along...Tearing your shirt...Yelling about Last Line: Nazareth. Variant Title(s): Billy Sunday Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO A PERSON TALKING OF 'REAL LIFE', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so you really hold Last Line: Go -- find a girl -- and see! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Fate; Jesus Christ; Life; Stars; Destiny TO A REVOLUTIONIST, by HAROLD E. FEY Poem Source First Line: With deadly drive your grim advance Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO A WREN ON CALVARY, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the unremarkable that will last, Subject(s): Wrens; Death - Animals; Man-woman Relationships; Jesus Christ; Male-female Relations TO AND FRO ABOUT THE CITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare is dust, and will not come Last Line: May you not meet, in spite of death, %a traveler from nazareth? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion TO CHRIST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crawle, I creep; my christ, I come Last Line: To wast, my jesu, I'le take all. Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO CHRIST CRUCIFIED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am not moved to love thee, o my lord Last Line: And as my love is now, it should remain Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ TO CHRISTINA AND KATHARINE AT CHRISTMAS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now christmas is a porter's-rest whereon to set his load Last Line: For you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The TO HIM ALL LIFE WAS BEAUTY, by A. L. C. Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit to yours, dear brother Last Line: Races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology TO HIM WHO WALKS THE WATER, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sink withing this earth's dark waters Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO HIS SAVIOUR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I confesse, that thou alone art able Last Line: Yet if thy bloud not wash me, there's no hope. Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO HIS SAVIOUR. THE NEW YEERS GIFT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That little prettie bleeding part / of foreskin sent to me Last Line: Because I send thee all. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology TO MARY, by MAURETTE CHRISTOPHER Poem Text First Line: Upon my knees my little baby lies Last Line: How dear his hands and tiny wrinkled feet! Subject(s): Babies; Faces; Jesus Christ; Infants TO MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Source First Line: I, being protestant, can never bow Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TO ONE CONSECRATED, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Your paths were all unknown to us Last Line: But not its ring of wounding spears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE CHILD JESUS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could every time-worn heart but see thee once again Last Line: Safe to its home in thy presence above. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): The Nativity Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth TO THE CHRIST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast on earth a trinity Last Line: Nor, save together, thine are we. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO THE FATHER OF THE UNIVERSE, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Source First Line: Tell me, thou common father, tell me Last Line: Is earth a spot for heaven-born souls to %love?' Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion TO THE MASTER POET, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: They do you wrong who paint you, wondrous man Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TO THEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I bring my sins to thee Last Line: "to thee, my saviour and my king" Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO THEE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring my sins to thee Last Line: To thee, my saviour and my king! Subject(s): Jesus Christ TODAY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: The pagan gods of force reclaim their altars Subject(s): Jesus Christ TOLD IN THE MARKET-PLACE, by EDWINA STANTON BABCOCK Poem Source First Line: That day the doves with burnished breasts Last Line: He gace. He healed us! I, who had been %blind from my birth - I saw the nazarene! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TOMBS, by LOUISE WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: Egyptian tombs hold priceless things Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. CHRISTMAS EVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The bells ringing Last Line: Shrine of the soul, shrine of the new-born god—of man himself. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Nativity, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O TENDER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender heart of our humanity Last Line: All suffering for thy dear sake is holy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hearts; Humanity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Religion; Women In The Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE DEAD CHRIST, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the dead christ lies - borne down the ages Last Line: Once more the dead christ lies—borne down the ages. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Cruelty; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion TOWERING OVER THE WRECKS OF TIME, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cross of christ I glory Last Line: Gathers round its head sublime. Subject(s): Jesus Christ TRAGEDY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: He gave the world, in darkness pent Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TRANSFORMATION BAND, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Behind an old care on the road Last Line: Yez jesus showed how much luv %there is in death Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion TRIED, PRECIOUS, SURE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the yesterday of ages Last Line: "our own saviour, strong and ""sure!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ TRIMMED LAMP, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: I dare not slight the stranger at my door Subject(s): Jesus Christ TRIUMPH OF HIS GRACE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, for a thousand tongues to sing Last Line: His blood availed for me. Variant Title(s): Exhorting And Beseeching To Return To God Subject(s): Jesus Christ TRUE WISDOM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: True wisdom is in leaning Last Line: Where he shall lead the way Subject(s): Jesus Christ TRUE-HEARTED, WHOLE-HEARTED, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: True-hearted, whole-hearted, faithful and loyal Last Line: "king of our lives, by thy grace we will be!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ TRUST AND DISTRUST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Distrust thyself, but trust his grace Last Line: That jesus faileth never. Subject(s): Distrust; Jesus Christ; Love; Trust TRUST IN JESUS, by JOSIAH CONDER Poem Text First Line: When, in the hour of lonely woe Last Line: And jesus is forever mine! Subject(s): Jesus Christ TRUSTING JESUS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am trusting thee, lord jesus Last Line: And for all. Subject(s): Jesus Christ TRUSTING JESUS, by GRACE B. RENFROW Poem Text First Line: When disappointment saddens you Last Line: Let praise to him arise. Subject(s): Jesus Christ TWO CHALICES, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: There was a chalice in the ancient east Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TWO CROSSES, by ADDIE M. HEDRICK Poem Source First Line: A fiery cross against the night Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TWO OTHERS, ON EITHER SIDE', by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Source First Line: If I only had not chanced Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In pity for man's darkening thought Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY ('THE RESURRECTION'): 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In pity for man's darkening thought Last Line: Man's own resinous heart has fed Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The UNBORN, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, full of grace thou art Last Line: These months when god is part of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary UNCONQUERED, by ROSE GOULD CLARK Poem Text First Line: I did not know if stalwart courage you possessed Last Line: Your soul, in victory, sounds faith's triumphant note. Subject(s): Courage; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Valor; Bravery UNEMPLOYED, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Source First Line: It's hard to be without a sage,' I said Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Jesus Christ UNHOLY SONNET: 20, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One model asks another, 'what do you eat?' Last Line: Eating down to the perfume of your wrist Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Food & Eating; Resurrection, The; Jesus Christ UNIGENITUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the man-child morn Last Line: For man in mary's womb. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ UNITY, by LLOYD FRANK MERRELL Poem Source First Line: Jesus %wracked on your cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice UNLIKELY REBEL, by JR. FRANKLIN D. ELMER Poem Source First Line: A most unlikely rebel, he Subject(s): Jesus Christ UNTIL THE DAY BREAK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When will the day bring its pleasure Last Line: Hide in my heart till the vengeance be past.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Given, not lent, / and not withdrawn - once sent Last Line: And he, too, whom we have by heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The UNTRIED DOOR, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, we stand at many doors and knock Subject(s): Jesus Christ UPHELD BY HIS HAND, by GRACE B. RENFROW Poem Text First Line: The way was rocky, rough, and steep Last Line: He held me by his hand. Subject(s): Jesus Christ UPON A HILL, by MIRIAM LEFEVRE CROUSE Poem Source First Line: Three men shared death upon a hill Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice UPON THE CIRCUMCISION, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flaming powers, and winged warriors bright Last Line: Will pierce neer his heart. Subject(s): Bible; Circumcision; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology UPON THIS ROCK, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ UPPER ROOM, by BELLE F. OWENS Poem Source First Line: Oh, had it been mine, that upper room Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice VALUES, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: How strange and pitiful that man Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice VENTURER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! As some venturer, from his stars receiving Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ VERSE-FRAGMENTS FROM THE PROSE WORKS, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balsame, pure wax, and chrismas-liquor clear Last Line: But who shall helpe them to a hempen string? Subject(s): Hearts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology VERSES OF TEXTS: PSALM 37,7. SILENT TO THE LORD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, and be silent! For, faithfully listennig Last Line: Calming and stilling each ripple of fear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ VERSES ON TEXTS: OUR SUBSTITUTE, ISA. 53, 6, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thee the lord Last Line: That it might never fall on me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice VERSES UNDER A PRINT, REPRESENTING CHRIST IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Engag'd amidst the doctors here, behold Last Line: The teacher jesus, in the midst of all. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Teaching & Teachers; Wisdom; Educators; Professors VESPERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the city behind me Last Line: And the thrushes sing their hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Cathedrals; Theology VESTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ of god! Whose life and death Last Line: To thee shall point the way! Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Sorrow; Sadness VIA CRUCIS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark we come, nor know Last Line: End in the lonely figure of a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Life; Religion; Theology VIA CRUCIS, VIA LUCIS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Questioning, blind, unsatisfied Last Line: And the way of the cross is the way of light! Subject(s): Jesus Christ VIA CRUCIS, VIA LUCIS, by FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE Poem Text First Line: It is finished! Man of sorrows Last Line: Whither thou hast gone before! Subject(s): Jesus Christ VICTORY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To him that overcometh Subject(s): Jesus Christ VIE DE JESUS; ON HEARING OF A FORTHCOMING CHEAP EDITION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A book of pleasant phrase, but narrow span Last Line: A frail young saint, in lieu of god the word! Subject(s): Books; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Reading VILLANELLE, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus of nazareth, king of the jews Last Line: The pharisees still clamor in the pews. Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M. Subject(s): Jesus Christ VINCO, by ELLIOT FIELD Poem Source First Line: Out of the depths, from cleft to cleft Subject(s): Jesus Christ VIOLIN SONGS: A FATHER TO A MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god's own child came down to earth Last Line: It's only till to-morrow! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Death; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Dead, The; Parenthood VIOLIN SONGS: A SONG PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, / oh, ease us Last Line: To sing true. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Hope; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Solitude; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: FOOLISH CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking in the night to pray Last Line: Make us good as we go home. Subject(s): Children; Death; Home; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: THE TEMPLE OF GOD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the desert by the bush Last Line: In his heart he makes his home. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); God; Jesus Christ; Job (bible); Moses; Prayer; Temples; Mosques VISION, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We by no shining galilean lake Last Line: Following the christ within a young man's face? Subject(s): Jesus Christ VISION, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: It is a thread - a tiny, shining thread Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry VISIONS OF JESUS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In bethlehem a babe I see Last Line: Before that throne on judgment day. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology VOICE IN A CATHEDRAL, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Is this the tribute you have brought to me Subject(s): Jesus Christ VOX DEI, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father speaking to the son Last Line: The old becoming new. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ VOX ULTIMA CRUCIS, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tarye no lenger; toward thyn heritage Last Line: For the I offered my blood in sacryfice. Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion WAKING THOUGHT, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waking I look to jesus on the rood Last Line: Upon his blessed tree. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice WALK TO EMMAUS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happened, on a solemn eventinde Last Line: Did not our hearts feel all he deigned to say, %did they not burn within us by the way? Subject(s): Jesus Christ WALKING WITH HIM IN WHITE, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus is our common lord Last Line: For our glorious meeting there. Subject(s): Jesus Christ WALKING WITH MATRON, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: In the nilgiris, a platoon of christ's cadets Last Line: A small brown snake to death, her spectacles glowing Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Marching And Marches; Religion WALLS, by MYRIAM PAGE Poem Source First Line: O christ, they took your living words Subject(s): Jesus Christ WANDERERS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Our feet have wandered from thy path Last Line: In every soul a friend of thine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ WAR, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I laugh to see them pray Last Line: There was no milk for him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; War; Dead, The WARNING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Dream not of a new heaven, lad Last Line: Dreamers die on crosses. Subject(s): Dreams; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nightmares WAS IT FOR THIS? THE SILENCE AND THE SNOW, by RENE VERLON Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ WASH ME WHITER THAN SNOW, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, in whom the godhead's rays Last Line: Till all I am is lost in thine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ WATERBIRD MEDICINE, by ANA CASTILLO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Peyote is in my blood Last Line: Bring my lover to me soon. %ho! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion WAY, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Pass not too near these outcast sons of men Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WAYSIDE SHRINE, by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT Poem Source First Line: A wooden christ within a wayside shrine Subject(s): Jesus Christ WE KNOW NOT WHEN, WE KNOW NOT WHERE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One day to see him face to face, / one day Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Faith WE LONG TO SEE JESUS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: We would see jesus! We have longed to see him Last Line: Is ever faithful, o immanuel! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ WE MAY NOT KNOW, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We may not know, we cannot tell what pains he had to bear Last Line: But we believe it was for us he hung and suffered there Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion WE WOULD SEE JESUS - FOR THE SHADOWS LENGTHEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "then welcome day, and farewell mortal night!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ WEARY [IN WELL-DOING], by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would have gone; god bade me stay Last Line: And rest with thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life is death. Yet christ endured to live Last Line: Blood -- in vain? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice WEDNESDAY IN Y' HOLY WEEK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Who doubts how avarice can be Last Line: Shall still from him a full redemption reap. Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Legends; Materialism WELCOME TO MY HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o saviour, welcome to my heart" Last Line: I give it all to thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ WERE FLOWERS THERE, by GEORGE WILLIAM ALLISON Poem Source First Line: I wonder - were there flowers there Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WERE YOU THERE WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text Last Line: "were you there, when they laid him in the tomb?" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;jesus Christ; Negro Spirituals WHAT ARE THESE LOVELY ONES, YEA, WHAT ARE THESE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We cast our crowns before the lamb our might Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHAT IF, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: What if we carved truth in the graveyards? Last Line: There was one who did—he died on the cross. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice WHAT IS IT JESUS SAITH UNTO THE SOUL?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who tells thee what to-morrow keeps in store? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Future; Worship WHAT OUR LORD WROTE IN THE DUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We have saved the soul of the man who killed Last Line: What our lord wrote in the dust Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?', by GERALDINE FARRAR Poem Source First Line: My christ is the sweep of the lofty elm Last Line: For all are his gracious gifts bestowed, %and of his kingdom our part Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHAT WENT YE OUT TO SEE?, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea, along the shore Last Line: And not as do the scribes. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry WHAT WILL THE STARS REMEMBER?, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WHAT WOULD HE SAY SHOULD HE COME ONCE MORE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WHEN HE COMES, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: When jesus came in humble mien to do the father's will Last Line: May the world accord him welcome as the shepherds did that night. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WHEN SPRING CAME TO NAZARETH, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the man of nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth WHEN THE CHILD IS KING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babe, so long ago enshrined Last Line: So to-day a child shall reign. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Religion; Childhood; Theology WHERE CHRIST IS BORN AGAIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Wherever one repenting soul Last Line: And christ is born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology WHERE IS THE REAL NON-RESISTANT?, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can surrender to christ, dividing his best with the stranger Last Line: Surrender, surrender, surrender? Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Peace WHERE THE BLESSED FEET HAVE TROD', by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not alone in palestine those blessed feet Last Line: Jesu, thou art found: my god I hail, %my lord, my god! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Palestine WHICH KING?, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: We have no king but caesar,' answered they Last Line: That christ is king, that he alone shall reign? Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools WHIP OF ANGER, by MARY ROSS Poem Source First Line: Through the sea of money-changers he stormed Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHITE SPLENDOR, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Beyond arcturus and the pleiades Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHITENESS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White roses set in ivory urns Last Line: The white sea of the tears of god. Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Jesus Christ; Night; Roses; Tears; Wine; Bedtime WHO ARE THE WISE MEN?, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who were the wise men in the long ago? Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHO CAN FORGET?, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: This is the greatest proof of power Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WHO KILLED CHRIST, by SHELOH KHALL Poem Source First Line: Here is a question I do ask Last Line: Accept his mercy from above -- he saved -- this very hour Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHOLE YEAR CHRISTMAS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Oh, could we keep the christmas thrill Last Line: To make us children the whole year round Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion WHOM I SERVE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, master, whom I serve Last Line: In thy service glad and free. Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHOSE I AM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, master, whose I am Last Line: Oh, be thou my all-in-all. Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, if I love thee and thou lovest me Last Line: And thou therein shalt waken satisfied.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHY LIFE IS SWEET, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because it cometh up, a heavenly flower Last Line: Sweet, sweet is life! He hath abolished death! Subject(s): Immortality; Jesus Christ; 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 WIDOW OF NAIM [OR, NAIN], by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The men that cut their graves in the grey rocks Last Line: Promised to all the widow-church's risen children.' Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WILDERNESS, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the jordan straight his way he took Last Line: Chaos without, and chaos reigned within, %subdued and conquered by the might of prayer Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WILL YOU NOT COME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you not come to him for life? Last Line: "jesus is calling, ""come unto me!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ WINDFLOWERS AND THE SAGE, by LAURA SPENCER PORTOR Poem Source First Line: While mary and the christ-child Last Line: Since when the humble sage-brush breathes %sweet fragrance on the air Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends WINDS AT BETHLEHEM, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus lay on mary's knee Last Line: The four great winds stood hand in hand %and worshipped there with wings outspread Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wind WITH ME IN PARADISE, by ALEXANDER HARVEY Poem Source First Line: If I had sat at supper with the lord Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WITH THEE TO SOAR TO THE SKIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where'er have trod thy sacred feet Last Line: In life or death we still may be Subject(s): Jesus Christ WITHIN AND WITHOUT, SELS., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of thyself and me, through the sore grief Last Line: Will come with thee, and will abide with me Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion WITHIN THE VEIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She holds a lily in her hand Last Line: But sure one day to be mine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Roses WITHOUT AND WITHIN, by NORMAN AULT Poem Source First Line: If I ascend to heaven, thou art there Last Line: Where I so long had thought thou hadst may part, - %I found thee hiding with me in my heart Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion WOEFULLY ARRAYED, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For mankind, whom I have bought dear Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion WONDROUS LOVE, by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ placed all rest, and had no resting place Last Line: Lord, who can live to see such love again? Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, Countess Of Subject(s): Jesus Christ WORDS FOR A RESURRECTION, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each pale christ stirring underground Last Line: And lilies on his brow. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The WORKMEN, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: A carpenter lived quietly and died Last Line: —christian century Subject(s): Carpenters; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Labor & Laborers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Work; Workers WORLD'S LONE LOVER, by J. R. PERKINS Poem Source First Line: He was no stranger to salty tears, he Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WORSHIP, by BOB JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: I entered a vast cathedral Last Line: In the glory of the dawn! Subject(s): Jesus Christ WRESTLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas my lord / how should I wrestle all the livelong night Last Line: Hold thou us fast, and give us sleep till day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Love; Prayer; Strength WRETTEN BY ME ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD ROBERT PAYLER, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord hath called for my sonne Last Line: Enoughe my lord; now lett me dye. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Death - Babies YE DID IT UNTO ME, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sinner, careless, proud, and cold Last Line: Of his awful sacrifice! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice YE DID IT UNTO ME, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since christ is still alive in every man Subject(s): Jesus Christ YE SHALL LIVE ALSO, by CHRISTIAN FURCHTEGOTT GELLERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus lives! No longer now Last Line: Thou wilt be my confidence! Variant Title(s): Easter Hymn Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection YEA, IF THOU WILT, THOU CANST PUT UP THY SWORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yea, if thou wilt Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Power YET LISTEN NOW, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Last Line: The crushing agony, and hold us still Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion YET LOVE WAS BORN, by CHARLES HANNIBAL VOSS Poem Text First Line: Love came into a world of hate Last Line: On christmas eve. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The YOUNG JESUS, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: O little son, upon your brow Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth YOUNG MAN IN A GALILEAN DOORWAY, by HERBERT DRAPER GALLAUDET Poem Source First Line: Yes, utterly he loves his nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth YOUNG WARRIOR, by GEORGE EDWARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ ZENITH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We watched the gradual rising of a star Last Line: Beneath the king's own smile, -- perpetual zenith thine. Subject(s): Alps; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mountains; Night; Stars; Nativity, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime |
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