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Subject: LAZARUS
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First Line: There is a story that hath oft
Last Line: Can bridge securely o'er!
Subject(s): Christmas; Evil; Heaven; Hell; Lazarus; Poverty; Wealth; Nativity, The; Paradise; Riches; Fortunes


CONSCIENCE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A knocking at my heart - and what art thou?
Last Line: "I am your angel of forgiveness now."
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Conscience; Lazarus


COVENANTERS: LAZARUS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That imperious summons! Spring's
Last Line: Of the blood's seed, where roses should blow
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Lazarus


DIVES AND LAZARUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As it fell out upon a day / rich diverus made a feast
Last Line: For to sit upon a serpent's knee
Subject(s): Diving & Divers;lazarus


EMMA LAZARUS, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When on thy bed of pain thou layest low
Last Line: That with jehovah parleyed, face to face.
Subject(s): Jews; Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887); Judaism


LAZARUS, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O father abram, I can never rest
Last Line: And far behind he hears a glorious shout.
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W.
Subject(s): God; Lazarus; Love


LAZARUS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He may stumble stiffly -- being obviously dead --
Last Line: To pierce whatever coffins he may wear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph
Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Lazarus; Worms; Dead, The


LAZARUS, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light which I have followed all this
Last Line: "art here content to be, then why not I?"
Subject(s): Lazarus


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


LAZARUS AND MARY, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesus was there but yesterday
Last Line: And worshipp'd him who loved them.
Subject(s): Lazarus


MRS LAZARUS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had grieved. I had wept for a night and a day
Subject(s): Lazarus


ON LAZARUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, by HENRY COLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where am I, or how came I here, hath death
Last Line: Prepare, and fit me 'gainst the reckoning day
Subject(s): Bible; Lazarus; Religion


RAISING OF LAZARUS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead shall rise again
Last Line: Stand up %even the dead shall rise
Subject(s): Lazarus


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE TEARS OF LAZARUS SCORNED BY DIVES, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy man! O lazarus, richer in your tears
Last Line: How he will wish for your tears to be his!
Subject(s): Lazarus


SONNET: 13. THE WEAVER, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little they think, the giddy and the vain
Last Line: Where weary lazarus leans his head on abraham's breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Lazarus


STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 4. IS RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD POSSIBLE?, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the table the cadaver thrashes: its blue arms quiver
Last Line: Its own suttee. The corpse has the final word
Subject(s): Books; Corpses; Lazarus; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


THE AGING COLOSSUS, by JULIAN MOSES DRACHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Liberty, they are polishing your crown
Last Line: Shut not their gate of hope, o liberty!
Subject(s): Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887); Statue Of Liberty


THE CONVERT, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After one moment when I bowed my head
Last Line: Because my name is lazarus and I live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Lazarus


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 HOMECOMING OF EMMA LAZARUS, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having no father anymore, having got up
Last Line: It fades, and the wounds of all we had accepted open.
Subject(s): Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887)


THE MERCY OF LAZARUS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Groggy, sure, and in the midst of bad dreams
Last Line: His miracle without your deceit-- your laugh and eager shout, the out-stretched arms?
Subject(s): Lazarus


THE PLAYERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: To-day I acted christ
Last Line: Ring every bell on earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Lazarus


THE RAISING OF LAZARUS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead shall rise again
Last Line: Even the dead shall rise
Subject(s): Lazarus


THE SISTERS OF BETHANY AFTER THE DEATH OF LAZARUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One grief, one faith, o sisters of the dead!
Last Line: Free service from the heart is all in all to heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Lazarus; Women In The Bible