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Subject: MASS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALIFORNIA EASTER MASS, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now burn the poppy-lamps of spring
Last Line: The gloria of the born-again.
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Mass; The Resurrection


AN IMPORTER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs. Someone's been to asia
Last Line: Teach your grandmother egg suction
Subject(s): Asia; Mass Production; Far East; East Asia; Orient


ANCIENT BALLAD: MASS OF LOVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn of a bright june morning %the birthday of saint john
Last Line: Instead of amen, amen %they sang amor, amor
Subject(s): Clergy; Hearts; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Love; Mass


CIUDAD ACUNA, by PETER LASALLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let me have this forever
Last Line: With their trunks whitewashed so bright lower down
Subject(s): Mass; Mexico; Religion


CLAUD HALCRO'S INVOCATION, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Magnus control thee, that martyr of treason
Last Line: Hence pass till hallow-mass!—my spell is spoken.
Subject(s): Cross, The; Ghosts; Mass; Saints; Sin; Supernatural


CORPUS, CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing can I recall
Last Line: Walked and blasphemed on corpus sod.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; God; Mass; Singing & Singers; Tears


FORBIDDEN MASS, KRAKOW, by LEONARD KRESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fanfare from st. Mary's towering crown
Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Mass


IMPORTER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs. Someone's been to asia
Last Line: Teach your grandmother egg suction
Subject(s): Asia; Mass Production


MASS, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The church is small and well designed
Last Line: Moves down the aisle with dreamer's tread %rapt in the mystery of the mass
Subject(s): Mass


MASS AT DAWN, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dropped my sail and dried my dripping seines
Last Line: Never was wine so red or bread so white
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Mass


MASS AT DAWN, by LUIS G. URBINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long ago, in times departed
Last Line: And the marvel does not follow!
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mass; Temples; Worship


MASS AT INISHGALL, by AINE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The priest %opens his arms
Last Line: Waves splash %and recede, splash %and recede, ask, receive, %ask, receive, asking, receiving, %askin
Subject(s): Mass


MASS AT THE CRYPT, by SHEILA E. MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father the brains of this outfit can't remember his own n
Last Line: Syllables to mean smallest prayers, the ice once broken
Subject(s): Mass


MICHAELMASSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What though our languid songs cannot aspire
Last Line: And our sad groans, to your sweet tunes aspire.
Subject(s): Mass; Trinity, The


PROVINCIAL SUNDAYS, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On sundays when the weather's good, traditionally
Last Line: Not one beauty, who would miss mass
Subject(s): Holidays; Mass; Sabbath


RATTLIN' JOE'S PRAYER, by JOHN WALLACE CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jist pile on some more o' them pine knots
Last Line: So I guess I hed best turn in too.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jack, Captain
Subject(s): Bible; Coffins; Mass; Prayer; War


SUNDAY, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late arrivals at mass, in lace
Last Line: Futility civilization
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Mass; Sabbath


THE MASS FOR THE DEAD, by SABINE BARING-GOULD    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day unflagging in his stall
Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Death; Mass; Confession; Dead, The


THE OLD MASS SHANDRYDAN, by P. J. HARTIGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I can see it in my dreaming o'er a gap of thirty years
Last Line: When I saw it o'er the tail-board of the old mass shandrydan.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2)
Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Mass; Relatives