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Subject: MONASTERIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FRAGMENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And by that mansion's western side there stoode
Last Line: And meeke unconscious state and winning majestie.
Subject(s): Monasteries; Statues; Abbeys


A NIGHT FANCY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This tide of night that surges slowly
Last Line: They are the grim old monks.
Subject(s): Clergy; Monasteries; Monks; Prayer; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys


A SONNET, by ORANGE WILLIS WINKFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swift-footed time, let me not weep for thee
Last Line: And gain by defeat the laurels I may.
Subject(s): Monasteries; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Abbeys


ABOVE A TRAPPIST MONASTERY, by ROBERT HAZEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hand taking food beyond silence through an iron door glitt
Last Line: I sent her from the earth only all the leaves, lambs' hooves and fossils os %children who cry killin
Subject(s): Monasteries; Trappists


ACHONRY (THE LEGEND OF ERIN'S HOPE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mood of the spring time subtly crept
Last Line: "^1^ ""malo mori quam foedari""—""death sooner than dishonour!"" see notes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Bells; Clergy; Legends, Irish; Monasteries; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys; Journeys; Trips


AT A RUINED ABBEY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray day's ending followed the gray day
Last Line: Will priest and sinner vanish on the night?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 35. OLD ABBEYS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monastic domes! Following my down-ward way
Last Line: Your spirit freely let me drink, and live!
Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys


ELEGY ON NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Newstead! Fast-falling, once-resplendent dome
Last Line: And bless thy future as thy former day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Monasteries; Newstead Abbey, England; Abbeys


FOUNTAIN'S ABBEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never more, when the day is o'er
Last Line: With its beauty to cheer decay.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys


HOLYROOD ABBEY, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: No guidebook description prepares for this
Last Line: Like a fragment of the cross
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Churches; Clergy; Death; Monasteries; Religion; Skeletons


IN A MONASTERY GARDEN, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the long salt ridges
Last Line: And smiles in the eyes of god.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Monasteries; Abbeys


IN AN ABBEY COURTYARD, by LAWRENCE R. KAHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me the song that the swallow sings
Last Line: And I'll tell you what god must be.
Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys


LAMENT OVER THE RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF TEACH MOLOGA, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered forth at night alone
Last Line: The roaring of the wave
Subject(s): Monasteries


LAMENT OVER THE RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF TIMOLEAGUE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lone and weary as I wander'd
Last Line: "death's deliverance were welcome- / father, let the old man die"
Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys


LANG MOUNTAIN MONASTERY, by YANG YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rolling mountains push toward the city
Last Line: But I seek solitude, alone with my bramble cane
Subject(s): Monasteries


MAJESTIC VALLEY, by CHU YI-TSUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Birds become frightened when the mountain moon sets
Last Line: The hermit monks have already prepared their meal
Subject(s): Monasteries


MARMION: CANTO 2. THE CONVENT, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The breeze, which swept away the smoke
Last Line: To hear that sound so dull and stern.
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys


MARMION: CANTO 5. THE COURT, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The train has left the hills of braid
Last Line: For march against the dawning day.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys


MONASTERY, by KAY BOYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Petalless vines of light stain the window with tendrils. Walls stretch
Last Line: Foliage on the sunset, bearing great bunches of rich black and seedless %grapes
Subject(s): Monasteries


MONASTERY AT VRSAC, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We've walked the grounds
Last Line: Mercy upon us %we who have learned how to preach but not to pray
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Monasteries; Religion


MONASTIC POEM (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All alone in my little cell
Last Line: And I there all alone
Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys


MONT SAINT MICHEL, by EMILY TAYLOR PERKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the battlements of saint michel
Last Line: Have worshiped god beneath saint michel's spire!
Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Monasteries; Abbeys


MONTASERY ON HSIU-CH'I, by LIN HO-CHING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down below %by the district town
Last Line: Tea and talk %till dark
Subject(s): Monasteries; Zen Buddhism


MONTSERRAT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace waits among the hills
Last Line: And this poor breath.
Subject(s): Monasteries; Montserrat (mountain), Spain; Abbeys; Monserrat (mountain), Spain


NETLEY ABBEY; A LEGEND OF HAMPSHIRE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw thee, netley, as the sun
Last Line: "but -- I can't say much for his taste.""'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Hampshire, England; Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys


NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dome of my sires as the clear moonbeam falls
Last Line: But the wreck of the line that have held it in sway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Monasteries; Newstead Abbey, England; Abbeys


ORTHODOXIES 13, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An untraceable red bird, grave digging, corpse picking
Last Line: Under the hult tree, of eternal life, vardapet the orthodox saint trembles in rags
Subject(s): Armenia; Monasteries; Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian


ORTHODOXIES 7, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The right hand of bardugomeos, the holy relic, helps
Last Line: With a swollen throat. Hoot hoot
Subject(s): Armenia; Monasteries; Relationships; Saints


PASSING HUNG-FU MONASTERY WITH YUANG-MING: INSCRIBED IN JEST, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: In hung-fu monastery we brush off the dust from purple window
Last Line: And still the visitors shake down the falling blossoms
Subject(s): Monasteries


READER, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Lord, when the clock strikes
Subject(s): Monasteries; Religion


SEMBLABLES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The red brick monastery in
Last Line: His club gives sign, that agony %within where the wrapt machines %are praying
Subject(s): Monasteries


SIX YEARS: DECEMBER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three a.M. -- a far bell
Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys


SIX YEARS: DECEMBER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three a.M. -- a far bell
Last Line: A far bell coming closer
Subject(s): Monasteries


SKY IS FULL OF BLUE & FULL OF THE MIND OF GOD (2), by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A girl wrote that once
Last Line: It is the sanctus; I know it; I'm ready
Subject(s): Churches; God; Monasteries


SOLITARY FALCON ABOVE THE BUDDHA HALL OF THE MONASTERY ..., by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My newly rented home commands a view of the temple hall
Last Line: While I thoughtfully intone my poem by the autumnal riverbank
Subject(s): Monasteries


SONNET WRITTEN IN A RUINOUS ABBEY, by SUSAN EVANCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As 'mid these moldering walls I pensive stray
Last Line: In spells of rapture all my soul is bound!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance
Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys


SPENDING THE NIGHT AT A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE, by CHIA TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A host of peaks rear up into the color of cold
Last Line: Who has never heard of what happens in the world
Subject(s): Monasteries


STONE MEETS IRON AT THE SPANISH MONASTERY, NORTH MIAMI BEACH, by NATHANIEL B. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stone and iron are earth made apparent; all we ever saw of earth
Last Line: Crates, earth riding the waves, how it grew anew, how it lives and %flowers, how we flower in its ho
Subject(s): Iron And Steel Industry; Monasteries; Stones


SWEET ABBIE AT THE SPRING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have read of sculptured beauties
Last Line: A-drinking at the spring.
Subject(s): Monasteries; Women; Abbeys


THE ABBEY MASON (WITH MEMORIES OF JOHN HICKS, ARCHITECT), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The new-vamped abbey shaped apace
Last Line: And upon nothing rear a name.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Monasteries; Abbeys


THE ABBOT, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly, with dream-like sadness, tolled
Last Line: That treasured lock of gold.
Subject(s): Monasteries; Monks; Abbeys


THE BELLS OF RONCEVAUX, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: You can hear them as you go
Last Line: To the bells of roncevaux.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Bells; Monasteries; Abbeys


THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long
Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys


THE NUN OF KENT; A HISTORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A goodly saint, a goodly saint now
Last Line: (curtain falls.)
Subject(s): Clergy; Convents; Kent, England; Monasteries; Nuns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys


THE SEMBLABLES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The red brick monastery in
Last Line: Within where the wrapt machines / are praying ...
Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys


THE SHAVING OF MURDOCH, by MUIREDACH O'DALY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Murdoch, whet thy razor's edge
Last Line: Mary, soft flower of jesse's stem.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'daky, Murragh; Murdoch The Scotchman; O'daly, Murrough; Muiredach Albanach; O'daly, Murdoch
Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys


TROITSA MONASTERY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sacred troitsa! When the skies
Last Line: For the lord of the saints is here as there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Monasteries; Russia; Troitzka, Russia; Abbeys; Soviet Union; Russians; Troitsa, Russia


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 23. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the sun, out of the blast
Last Line: With careless looks may pass you by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Monasteries; Religion; Abbeys; Theology


VERSES FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through alpine meadows soft-suffused
Last Line: "and leave our desert to its peace!"
Variant Title(s): Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse
Subject(s): Monasteries; Poetry & Poets; Abbeys


VISITING HSIANG-CHI MONASTERY, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had not known of hsiang-chi monastery
Last Line: Meditation to subdue one's poisonous dragon
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Monasteries


VISITING THE GARDEN AT MONK WEN KO'S HOME, by WU WEI-YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shadows of the sails pass across his window
Last Line: I expect to meet there this saintly man
Subject(s): Monasteries


VISITING THE MONASTERY AT LUNG-MEN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I explored the grounds with monks this evening
Last Line: But does it also waken the soul?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Monasteries; Zen Buddhism


WRITTEN AT NETLEY ABBEY, by SUSAN EVANCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why should I fear the spirits of the dead?
Last Line: And hold mysterious converse with the dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance
Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys