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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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-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


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


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 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


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


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


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 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 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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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


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 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


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


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 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: 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


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 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


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


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


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


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


LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT                       
First Line: When love / had strove
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Worship; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say what is love
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Worship; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


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


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


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


MISERERE: ECCE HOMO, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem 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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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


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


PASTORAL, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dove walks with sticky feet
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL    Poem 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


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


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


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


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


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 BLEEDING MIND, by JAMES TATE    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem 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


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 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


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 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


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


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


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