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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NUNS Matches Found: 230 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF A NUN, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From eastertide to eastertide Last Line: Dawn lightly laid her rosy hand. Subject(s): Nuns A GIRL'S SONGS: 3, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to be a nun Last Line: About himself to god at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Nuns A HYMN [TO THE NAME AND] IN HONOR OF SAINT TERESA, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, thou art absolute sole lord Last Line: Must learn in life to die like thee. Variant Title(s): In Memory Of The Vertuous And Learned ... Early Martyrdom Subject(s): Nuns; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint A LEGEND OF PROVENCE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The lights extinguished, by the hearth I leant Last Line: May be the truer life, and this the dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Nuns; Provence, France A NUN, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One glance and I had lost her in the riot Last Line: Their dreadful peace. Subject(s): Nuns A NUN, AT SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god, they are sending me to rome Last Line: The sea is a terrible thing! Subject(s): Life; Nuns; Religion; Rome, Italy; Sea; Theology; Ocean A PASTORAL NUN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally, in the last year of her age Subject(s): Nuns A SONG OF NUNS, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fly, my soul! What hangs upon Last Line: When all the shadows do increase. Variant Title(s): A Hymn Subject(s): Nuns ARCUM CONTERET, by MARY THERESE Poem Source First Line: The dusk is sudden with luminous music flooding Subject(s): Nuns ARTHURIAN SONGS: 2. THE END, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen guenevere a-maying rode Last Line: In white clothes and in black. Subject(s): Convents; Courts & Courtiers; Nuns BABY OF SAINT BRIGID, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Source First Line: Since first the beams of summer lit Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Nuns BEACH PARTY GIVEN BY T. SHAUGHNESSY FOR THE SISTERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven nuns went wading in the sea Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Nuns; Work; Workers BEACH PARTY GIVEN BY T. SHAUGHNESSY FOR THE SISTERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven nuns went wading in the sea Last Line: They were like to the devout sea, and to the shore %they sisters were Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Nuns BEGGAR FOR GOD, by JOHN STIGALL Poem Source First Line: She stands in rusty black upon the curb Subject(s): Nuns BENEATH THE SANCTUARY LAMP, by ELENITA THOMPSON KIRKPATRICK Poem Source Subject(s): Nuns BENEDETTA MINELLI: THE NOVICE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is near morning. Ere the next night fall Last Line: O love, keeps sacred thus forevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Nuns BENEDETTA MINELLI: THE SISTER OF MERCY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it then so? - good friends, who sit and sigh Last Line: Te deum laudamus. Now, -- 't is all repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Nuns BLACK MADONNA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: In mexico there's a madonna with her teeth ajar Last Line: They butt into the wooden benches %until they collapse Subject(s): Churches; Convents; Nuns BLEEDING HEART AFLAME, by JAMES M. HAYES Poem Source First Line: I longed for joy and peace and deep content Subject(s): Nuns BUT TWO I LOVE, by JAMES M. HAYES Poem Source Subject(s): Nuns BUT WELL I KNOW WHEN APRIL COMES, by RUTH LE PRADE Poem Text First Line: I would be a nun Last Line: To find my lover there! Subject(s): April; Nuns CANTERBURY TALES [DIFF. VER], SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nuns CARMELITE BREAKS SILENCE, by MARGARET MIRIAM GALLAGHER Poem Source First Line: God's house is heaven and it is here within Subject(s): Nuns CARMELITE CONVENT, MEXICO DF, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Past portraits of sedate saints Last Line: Skinned back to bare a knuckled wrist Subject(s): Convents; Death; Nuns; Portraits; Saints CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 11. THE BLIND NUN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: A nun green-girdled in a forest tower Last Line: Across her blindness shone the face of god. Subject(s): Blindness; Great Britain - History; Nuns; Visually Handicapped; English History CHRISTMAS IN CARMEL, by MARY THERESE Poem Source First Line: Now in this quiet love-illuminated night Subject(s): Nuns CLARE OF ASSISI, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far ahead, we could already make out the bishop Last Line: Hear those bells under water. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Confirmation; Names; Nuns CLOLISTER, by MARY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: Earth-lover that I am, you say Subject(s): Nuns CONTEMPLATIVE, by MARY BENVENUTA Poem Source First Line: Why should she wait death's bidding to begin Subject(s): Nuns CONVENT GARDEN, by MARIE KIRKWOOD Poem Source First Line: Rose bushes lean against the wall Subject(s): Nuns CONVENT GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Nuns CONVENT MORNING, by MARY EUGENE Poem Source First Line: She could not sleep all night for happiness Subject(s): Nuns COR CORDIUM, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of hearts - I whisper this for name Subject(s): Nuns CUT HAIR OF NUNS, by VALERIE WOHLFELD Poem Source First Line: Austere as horsehair, or luxuriant as cashmere Last Line: Locket-locked oval-window shut midair Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion DAY OF MY PROFESSION, by MARY CHRISTINA Poem Source First Line: When men describe a happy lot Subject(s): Nuns DEATH IN CARMEL, by MIRIAM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Poem Source First Line: I was in a garden, she said Subject(s): Nuns DEATH OF SAINT THERESE OF LISIEUX, by MIRIAM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Poem Source First Line: Winter, her life was past. To her charmed sill Subject(s): Nuns DESCRIPTION OF A RELIGIOUS HOUSE [AND CONDITION OF LIFE], by JOHN BARCLAY (1582-1621) Poem Source First Line: No roofs of gold o'er riotous tables shining Last Line: Below: but meditates her immortall way %home to the original source of light and intellectual day Alternate Author Name(s): Barclaii, Joannis Variant Title(s): Decscription Of A Conven Subject(s): Nuns; Religion DITTY OF SAINT CLARE, by ENID MAUD DINNIS Poem Source First Line: The holy lady poverty Subject(s): Nuns DIVINE CALL, by MARY GENEVIEVE Poem Source First Line: The master calls for thee Subject(s): Nuns DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CONVENT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray stole away from nice Last Line: Out of a curious but hardened heart. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Letters; Life; Nuns; Prayer; Italians DRAWING SWASTIKAS ON THE FOGGED WINDOWS OF ST. JOSEPH'S GRADE SCHOOL, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: After school we cleaned bruised boards Last Line: The lights blacked out, %the windows steamed Subject(s): Children; Nazis; Nuns; Schools; Youth EFFIGY OF A NUN (SIXTEENTH CENTURY), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite gentleness, infinite irony Last Line: How empty wisdom is, even to the wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Nuns; Wisdom ELDERLY NUN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Source First Line: Not hers the young nun's quest to ride Subject(s): Nuns ENGLISH FLAVORS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to lick english the way I licked the hard Last Line: Flavored and sharp -- to the ambiguities of meaning. Subject(s): English Language; English Language; Language; Mouths; Nuns; Pleasure; Taste (sense); Words; Vocabulary EPITHALAMIUM, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Source First Line: No, she does not falter Subject(s): Nuns EXCHANGE, by MARY DOROTHY ANN Poem Text First Line: I am all thine, beloved, for Last Line: The bread and wine. Subject(s): Nuns EXISTING LIGHT; FOR LEE NYE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A picture is worth a thousand words Last Line: Where I stood, half woman, half nun, exposed. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Nuns; Secrets FAR MEMORY: 2. SOMEONE INSIDE ME REMEMBERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That my knees must be hidden away Last Line: Than myself Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Prayer; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 5. SINNERMAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizontal one evening Last Line: And my own whispered / hosanna? Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Women & Religion FIRE SHALL BURN BEFORE HIM, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Source First Line: The living sacrifice, the pyre Subject(s): Nuns FIRST SNOWFALL (THE BEES OF SAINT RITA), by CHARLES WARREN STODDARD Poem Source First Line: Blue dome above us, marvelous hive Subject(s): Nuns FOLD YOUR PALE HANDS, by KATHLEEN CLOSE Poem Text Last Line: Light your clear stars. Subject(s): Hands; Nuns; Prayer FOR A NOVICE, by MARY EDWARDINE Poem Source First Line: I have prayed for you, prayed that your path Subject(s): Nuns FOR THE SISTERS OF THE HOTEL DIEU, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pairs Last Line: The sense of angels- %be thanked, o plumage of paradise, be praised Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Hospitals; Nuns FRENCH NUN, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She sits upon her pallet bed Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Nuns FRIDAY NIGHT, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Must I take %the scourge in hand for jesu's sake? Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Nuns GILBERT OF SEMPRINGHAM, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plain gilbert to me, who wore with a heavy veil Last Line: Not even my name new-borne? Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Nuns GOD'S HANDMAID, by HUGH FRANCIS BLUNT Poem Source First Line: She craved nor wealth nor power Subject(s): Nuns GRANDMOTHER GRANT, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the rejected lies of the new york foundling Last Line: Here is my claim. I need to come into my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Mothers & Daughters; Nuns HANGING THE BLUE NUNS; FOR WARREN CARRIER, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like saints in cathedral windows, they look Last Line: Errors — over the shrine of the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Nostalgia; Nuns HEAVEN-HAVEN; A NUN TAKES THE VEIL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired to go / where springs not fail Last Line: And out of the swing of the sea. Variant Title(s): Surcease;heaven-haven Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Life Change Events; Nuns; Sea; Paradise; Ocean HIDDEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three nuns at owlet-call Last Line: Die by the virgin's knees. Subject(s): Convents; Death; Mourning; Nuns; Dead, The; Bereavement HIDE AND SEEK, by MARY PHILIP Poem Source First Line: I sweep the cloisters Subject(s): Nuns I VISIT CARMEL, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: Your eyes of infinite kindness meeting mine Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Nuns I WON'T BE A NUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there never was a nun, sir" Last Line: And won't be a nun! Subject(s): Nuns IDEAL, by MIRIAM CLARE Poem Source First Line: You love the mountain tops; you lift your face Subject(s): Nuns IDYLL, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA Poem Source First Line: Lord, forgive me if I do not look for you Last Line: Whom one foresees Subject(s): Convents; Forgiveness; Nuns IF THE LORD, THY LOVE FOR ME IS STRONG, by THERESA OF AVILA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Love on, and turn to love again? Alternate Author Name(s): Teresa Of Avila; Teresa Of Jesus; Teresa De Avila Subject(s): God; Love; Nuns; Religion IMPRESS OF THE CRUCIFIX, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From her willing heart he hewed him a cross. (my heart) Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary Subject(s): Nuns IN MEMORY OF MOTHER SERAPHINE IRELAND, by MARIS STELLA Poem Source First Line: Spoil not her rest by singing threnodies Subject(s): Nuns IN THE CLOISTER, by WILLIAM J. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: She spends her life, far from the noisy mart Subject(s): Nuns IN THE LONGER NOVITIATE, by CATHARINE MCPARTLIN Poem Source First Line: Dear lord of life, if I will follow thee Subject(s): Nuns IN THE MIDDLE OF PRIEST LAKE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister margaret clare Last Line: Mother superior holds fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Nuns IN THE NUN'S GARDEN, by DENIS ALOYSIUS MCCARTHY Poem Source Subject(s): Nuns INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind! Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones KITCHENS, by JUDITH TATE O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: The morning I received the religious habit Last Line: And wore them like saucers under my chin Subject(s): Habits; Nuns LAUGHTER IN HEAVEN, by MARY ANGELINE Poem Source Subject(s): Nuns LEGEND OF THE BEWITCHED NUNNERY, by MAX HERRMANN-NEISSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nuns kept to their garden all night long Last Line: To the unseen deliciously delivered. Subject(s): Nuns LETTER FROM A POSTULANT, by MARY IRMA Poem Source First Line: Through all the days of your secret, wishful planning Subject(s): Nuns LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see / that the ocean is still going on Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion; Theology LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see %that the ocean is still going on Last Line: They call back to us %from the gauzy edge of paradise, %good news, good news Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion LINES WRITTEN IN A NUNNERY CHAPEL, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Me hither from moonlight Subject(s): Nuns LITTLE FLOWER, by LEONARD FEENEY Poem Source First Line: Knowing that it would burn she courted fire Subject(s): Nuns LITTLE NUN, by EDITH LOOMIS Poem Source Subject(s): Nuns MARCELA (SISTER MARCELA DE CARPIO), by GEORGE HENRY MILES Poem Source First Line: Was it wrong, dear lady abbess Subject(s): Nuns MARIANNA ALCOFORANDO, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrows wake beneath the convent eaves Last Line: And sheds a quiet light across the fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Alcoforando, Marianna (1640-1723); Nuns MARIE NANGLE; OR, THE SEVEN SISTERS OF NAVAN; A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, there were sisters, sisters seven Last Line: "what aileth me, a novice nun?" Subject(s): Navan, Ireland; Nuns MARTYRS OF NAZARETH, by MARGARET MARIA Poem Source First Line: Sound ye no trumpets. These Subject(s): Nuns MAUREEN O'REILLY, by MARY EUGENE Poem Source First Line: Did you know maureen o'reilly? She was lovely as the morning Subject(s): Nuns MISSION OF SISTER SERAPHINE, A SISTER OF CHARITY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mission accomplished is o'er Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Nuns MONASTICISM, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit has its passion as the sense Subject(s): Nuns MOTHER MARY XAVIER, by FRANCIS PATRICK DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Bless with the splendor white of god's new shrine Subject(s): Nuns MOTHER MARY XAVIER, by BENJAMIN DIONYSIUS HILL Poem Source First Line: Twas a jubilee day, our first mother's first daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Edmund, Father Subject(s): Nuns MOTHER SAINT URBAN, by JAMES M. HAYES Poem Source First Line: Twas in the dawn Subject(s): Nuns NEEDLEWORK, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes fate takes Last Line: In the butterfly's orange wings. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Convents; Needles; Nuns; Seamstresses NOVICE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail virgin, if you be, as these cheek-roses Subject(s): Nuns NUN, by J. O. AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: That I to god, unfettered, may aspire Subject(s): Nuns NUN, by SHIEL MACDARA Poem Source First Line: O einisheen o dhua, your woman's voice is calling me Subject(s): Nuns NUN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is as a freeborn bird Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nuns NUN IN NINH HOA, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: It was quite a sight for a boy from tennessee Last Line: He grinned - shivered - then softly swore: %'jeesus! How'd we get in this crazy place?' Subject(s): Nuns; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NUN OF NIDAROS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the convent of dronthein Subject(s): Nuns NUN PUN, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: The strangest phenomenon under the sun Last Line: Is no better roll model anywhere Subject(s): Nuns NUN SPEAKS TO MARY, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: You had no little maid, so I remember Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Nuns NUN WHO DIED THAT SUMMER, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: On the day we realized how sick she was Last Line: And his hand the very kindling that would %carry her into spring Subject(s): Death; Nuns NUN'S BELOVED, by FRANCIS RAPHAEL Poem Source First Line: Mountains that upwards to the clouds arise Subject(s): Nuns NUN'S DANCE, by CHO JI-HOON Poem Source First Line: Folded delicately into shape Last Line: The fine gauze white cowl wavers %gently, delicately folded into shape Subject(s): Nuns NUN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE, by GERTRUDE JANE CODD Poem Source First Line: When we remember that dear childhood day Subject(s): Nuns NUN'S HEART, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah! Make a shady garden of my heart Subject(s): Nuns NUN'S HOBBY, by MARY OF THE ANGELS Poem Source First Line: I have a little hobby of saving odds and ends Subject(s): Nuns NUN'S VOW, by MARY WILFRID Poem Source First Line: O lord, dear lord, behold me at thy feet Subject(s): Nuns NUNNERY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floods are roused, and will not soon be weary Last Line: Canal, and viaduct, and railway, tell! Subject(s): Nuns NUNS, by EDWARD FRANCIS GARESCHE Poem Source First Line: I desire %words that are as sweet as dawn and strong as fire! Subject(s): Nuns NUNS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: When our nun drove the idiot's head into the blackboard Last Line: Not even from thirst, or from hunger Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Nuns; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NUNS, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A woodland cloister rude and desolate Subject(s): Nuns NUNS ARE PEELING APPLES, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: See how they sit in pairs Last Line: A paring down of decades %coils damp in their dark laps Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Nuns NUNS GO WALKING, by ALDO GIURLANI Poem Source First Line: The little churches wake up in the half-light Last Line: In the half light, in the evening Subject(s): Futurism (art); Nuns NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 1, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, your harridan nuns Last Line: Enthroned as a symbol with upturned palms Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Convents; Nuns; Women NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 2, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, my darling nuns Last Line: Who rustles dryly inside my gown? Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Convents; Nuns; Religion NUNS OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls Last Line: But there, beside the altar, there, is rest. Subject(s): Nuns NUNS OF VORKUTA PRISON, by MARK ROZEMA Poem Source First Line: In vorkuta, there are nuns who lie face down Last Line: To lie face down in the shape of the cross, %weeping and praying for the world Subject(s): Nuns; Prisons And Prisoners; Religion; Siberia ODE ON A PRAYER BOOK SENT TO MRS. M.R., by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Here a little volume, but great [or large] book! Last Line: To have her god become her lover. Variant Title(s): Prayer. An Ode Prefixed;prayer: Gentle-woman Subject(s): Nuns ON A CERTAIN NUN, by MARY IGNATA Poem Source First Line: I met her on the poetry page Subject(s): Nuns ON A FAVORITE POET (SISTER MARY MADELEVA), by MARY THERESE Poem Source First Line: Exquisite reaper in a field of song Subject(s): Nuns ON A NUN, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of two fair virgins, modest, though admired Last Line: And knock, and knock, and knock -- but none replies. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Variant Title(s): Sonnet On A Nun Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Nuns; Death - Babies ON KNOCKING OVER MY GLASS WHILE READING SHARON OLDS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The milk spread, %a translucent stain Last Line: To refill my glass %with her wild and holy blood Subject(s): Convents; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Praise; Prayer; Statues; Women - Bible PASTORAL NUN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally, in the last year of her age Last Line: The two things compared their tight resemblances:%each matteers only in that which it conceives Subject(s): Nuns PERPETUAL VOWS, by MARY ANGELITA Poem Source First Line: Before the earth with glittering seas was girded Alternate Author Name(s): Stackhouse, Mary Agnes Subject(s): Nuns PICTURES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pallid nun by serge made doubly pale Last Line: Touches the cheek, and fairer skies float down. Subject(s): Italy; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Italians; Songs PORT-OF-CALL, by MARY THERESE Poem Source First Line: A quiver of wings and the gulls dip into the sunset Subject(s): Nuns PORTRAIT OF A NUN, by MINA LOY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smile folded as a marriage-veil Last Line: But jesus is %gentle to us Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Nuns PRAYER FOR A SILVER JUBILEE, by MARY COLMAN Poem Source First Line: Dear lord, it's but a silver chain Subject(s): Nuns PRIEST, by WILLIAM FAULKNER Poem Source First Line: Evening like a nun shod with silence, evening like a girl slipping along Last Line: Ave, maria; deam gratiam...Tower of ivory, rose of lebanon Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Women - Bible PROFESSION SONG, by MARY OF THE VISITATION Poem Source First Line: He that is joy through meadows of joyance hath led me Subject(s): Nuns PSALM FOR A NEW NUN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life was rescued like a bird from the fowler's snare. Last Line: Heaven and earth. Yes, earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Nuns QUAINT RIDER, by FRANCIS MAGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Though quaint indeed your riding habit Subject(s): Nuns QUESTION OF LOVERS, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: There be lovers who bring me roses, the velvet of buds upcurled Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Nuns QUESTIONS ON A NUN'S HABIT, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: You do not think it is because I do not share Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Nuns REPLY, by MONICA Poem Source First Line: Your feet tread no rhythms of the dance! Subject(s): Nuns RESIGNATION, by JULIA CLAIRE O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Goodby was not an easy word to voice Subject(s): Nuns ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE NUNS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who at night the convent walls Last Line: O'er the keys are wildly straying. Subject(s): Churches; Faces; Love; Nuns; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD TO KING HENRY III, AFTER SHE HAD TAKEN THE VEIL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry, 'its past! Each painful effort o'er Last Line: That even death was weak to end our love. Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Farewell; Henry Iii, King Of England (1207-1272); Love; Nuns; Redemption; Regret; Salvation; Parting S.M.S. (SISTER MARY STANISLAUS), by PATRICK AUGUSTINE SHEEHAN Poem Source First Line: I never knew thee child; but this I knew Subject(s): Nuns 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 FRIDESWIDE (AN ANGLO-SAXON NUN), by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One love I; one: withing his bridal bower Subject(s): Nuns SAINT ITE, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Source First Line: He came to me Subject(s): Nuns SAINT TERESA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Source First Line: Basil, rosemary, rue and lavender! Subject(s): Nuns SAINT TERESA OF AVILA, by MARY SAINT VIRGINIA Poem Source First Line: I feel towards you as toward a meagre few Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia Subject(s): Nuns SAINT WINEFRIDE, by C. W. BARRAUD Poem Source First Line: Blessed saint winefride, at thy fair shrine Subject(s): Nuns SAYING GOOD-BYE TO A SINGING GIRL WHO HAS DECIDED TO BECOME A NUN, by MO SHIH-LUNG Poem Source First Line: You have called at the gate of the true vehicle Last Line: Will bloom %in the realm of emptiness Subject(s): Farewell; Nuns SENORA X NO MORE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Straight as a nun I sit Last Line: I carve my crooked name, / my name Subject(s): Nuns SISTER, by GERALD M. C. FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: I am the bride of christ, she said Subject(s): Nuns SISTER AGATHA, by MARY A. MCMULLEN Poem Source First Line: Within a splendid home is missed a frank and joyous smile Subject(s): Nuns SISTER AND NUN, by GERALD M. C. FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: A nun is a city builded Subject(s): Nuns SISTER ANN RAPHAEL, S.N.D, by E. MARY Poem Source First Line: Her noblest poem was a life that bore Subject(s): Nuns SISTER ANNUNCIATA: 1. AN ANNIVERSARY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wedding day! A simple happy wife Last Line: But yet I would I had not seen that face. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Nuns SISTER ANNUNCIATA: 2. ABBESS URSALA'S LECTURE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter, do you guess why I chose you Last Line: And know at last even such a peace in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Nuns SISTER LIGHTS THE CANDLES, by MARY JEREMY Poem Source First Line: Dahlia-red, the shadowed curtains Subject(s): Nuns SISTER MARGARET BOURGEOYS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark is the light of prophecy - no heavenly dews distill Subject(s): Nuns SISTER MARIE; A LEGEND OF TYROL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I through the valley of klausen went Last Line: "ah! Pity me, dear lord,"" it sighed." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Brooks; Death; Legends; Nuns; Prayer; War; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The SISTER MARY ALPHONSA, by ELEANOR C. DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: They made her a grave where the tall grasses wave Subject(s): Nuns SISTER MARY CONCEPTIA, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Source First Line: O lady with the luminous sombre eyes Subject(s): Nuns SISTER MARY OF THE LOVE OF GOD, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the convent where they tend the Last Line: The sick are smiling and the dead in bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Nuns; Worship SISTER MARY PHILOMENA, by JAMES M. HAYES Poem Source First Line: A tabor was her dying bed Subject(s): Nuns SISTER MARY VERONICA, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft-shod nuns have laid the last fold straight Last Line: Life still a dream -- love still a mystery! Subject(s): Nuns SISTER OF CHARITY, by ALEXANDER J. CODY Poem Source First Line: She hastens through the dingy street Subject(s): Nuns SISTER OF CHARITY COMFORTS A WOUNDED SOLDIER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man has no nation Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Nuns SISTER SAINT LUKE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lived shut in by flowers and trees Last Line: The peace of god that filled her eyes. Subject(s): Nuns SISTER VERONICA, by MARGARET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Her life-path winds through shadowed ways Subject(s): Nuns SISTERHOOD OF GOD, by PATRICK F. DURKAN Poem Source First Line: They are gathered in the cloister, highest type of womankind Subject(s): Nuns SOEUR FIDELE, by FRANCES TYRRELL GILL Poem Source First Line: Sister fidele stands at the convent gate Subject(s): Nuns SOLDIER AND THE NUN, by MARY ELEANORE Poem Source First Line: So madly noisy are men's battle ways Subject(s): Nuns SONNET: HELOISE. 2. NUN, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the doom I must henceforth fulfill Last Line: Joy comes with morn -- that joy whose name is death. Subject(s): Death; Heloise (1098-1164); Nuns; Dead, The; Eloise; Eloisa SPOUSE OF CHRIST, by D. A. CASEY Poem Source First Line: He came from out eternal years Subject(s): Nuns ST. FRANCIS AND THE NUN, by CARL DENNIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The message st. Francis preached to the birds Last Line: From poetry Subject(s): Death; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Nuns; Saints; Dead, The SUMMER - THE NUN, by ANN CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: Summer - Last Line: She has gone from out our vision. Subject(s): Nuns; Summer TEACHER, by MONICA Poem Source First Line: This school: like larks, in the clod low down Subject(s): Nuns TEASING THE NUNS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the elevator went the nuns Subject(s): Nuns TERESIAN CONTEMPLATIVE, by ROBERT HUGH BENSON Poem Source First Line: She moves in tumult; round her lies Subject(s): Nuns THE ASSIGNATION, OR LOVE IN A NUNNERY: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have expected, from our bills to-day Last Line: And, sure, behind our scenes you'll look for none. Subject(s): Nuns; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE BLACK NUN, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: Her part at vespers was to light each candle Last Line: Spattered the loftiest saint with drops of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Nuns THE CARMELITE NUN, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence is mine, and everlasting peace Last Line: "and yet I cry, ""how long, o lord, how long?" Subject(s): Nuns THE CLOISTERED ROSE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose that grew in the nun's white window Last Line: Ah, who may understand? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Nuns; Roses THE FEMALE MARTYR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring out your dead!' the midnight street Last Line: Shall live in heaven, of which it was a part. Subject(s): Nuns THE FLAMING HEART, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well meaning readers, you that come as friends Last Line: Unto all life of mine may dy. Subject(s): Nuns; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint THE FLOWER OF FINAE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright red is the sun on the waves of lough sheelin Last Line: This nun is poor eily, the flower of finae. Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Death; Finae, Ireland; Nuns; Dead, The THE LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In meek seclusion where cathedrals vie Last Line: The convent gate of fra hilario. Subject(s): Church Of The Transfiguration, New York; Convents; Nuns; The Little Church Around The Corner THE MARRIED AND THE SINGLE; A FRAGMENT, by GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As, when the hand some mimic form would paint Last Line: "to know and love my god, and then to die content." Alternate Author Name(s): Gregory Of Nazianzen; Nanzianzen, Gregory; Gregory The Theologian Subject(s): Nuns THE NOVICE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: She had a lover in the world Last Line: "o mary, thou'rt a woman, too!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nuns; Pain; Prayer; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery THE NUN, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So thy soul's meekness shrinks Last Line: In one god-linked sun. Subject(s): Nuns THE NUN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lies upon the cold stone of her cell Last Line: Hides in her heart an alien paradise? Subject(s): Nuns THE NUN, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the quiet convent garden Last Line: Down fell the long, black veil. Subject(s): Death; Nuns; Dead, The THE NUN AND THE HARP, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What memory fired her pallid face Last Line: "and I will pledge with mine!" Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Nuns; Sorrow; Sadness 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 NUN'S ASPIRATION, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yesterday doth never smile Last Line: How lame the other limped away. Subject(s): Nuns THE NUN'S SOLILOQUY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon sun, who runs his annual course Last Line: No convent walls divide. Subject(s): Friendship; Nuns THE NUN: A CANTATA, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of constance holy legends tell Last Line: The righteous find comfort in death.' Subject(s): Chastity; Clergy; Lust; Nuns; Religion; Sin; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE NUN; SUGGESTED BY PART OF AN ITALIAN SONG, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you become a nun, dear Last Line: You may -- but they'll be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Love; Nuns THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE SILENT SISTERS OF THE POOR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Meekly, with folded hands and patient brows Last Line: Meekly, with patient brows and folded hands. Subject(s): Charity; Humanity; Nuns; Poverty; Philanthropy THE SISTER OF CHARITY, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She once was a lady of honor and wealth Last Line: With the life and the deeds of that high-born maid? Subject(s): Nuns; Service THE SISTER OF MERCY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak not of passion, for my heart is tired Last Line: This is the voice of mine own steadfast will. Subject(s): Nuns THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mastering me / god! Giver of breath and bread Last Line: Lord. Subject(s): Disasters; Nuns; Shipwrecks THREE NUNS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow, shadow on the wall Last Line: "the spirit and the bride say, come." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The TO A NUN, by MARY TERRY GILL Poem Source First Line: I may not hold to sacred strain Subject(s): Nuns TO A NUN, by JOHN ORMOND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Please god, forsake your water and dry bread Last Line: For surely god and all his saints above, %high in their other heaven, pardon love Subject(s): Nuns TO A NUN DECORATED WITH THE IRON CROSS (SISTER ROSINA), by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Source First Line: The day was hot and the sun beat down Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Nuns TO A NUN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, by MICHAEL EARLS Poem Source First Line: If in a wildwood where no sunbeam falls Subject(s): Nuns TO A NUN VIOLINIST, by MARY LOUISE Poem Source First Line: There is a world of tenderness, within Subject(s): Nuns TO A NUN-STIGMATIST, by MARY THERESE Poem Source First Line: My hands within your hand Subject(s): Nuns TO A YOUNG GENTLE-WOMAN [CONCERNING HER CHOICE], by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, heaven-designed soul! Last Line: May it not be amongst the sonnes of men. Variant Title(s): To [mrs. M.r.] Councel Concerning Her Choice Subject(s): Marriage; Nuns; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MOLLY, by LILLIAN S. RING Poem Text First Line: You are like a flower of two colors Last Line: The seed of death. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Nuns TO MY NUN SISTER, by E. P. TIVNAN Poem Source First Line: Methought I saw a wondrous throng Subject(s): Nuns TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 9. DELICIAE SAPIENTIAE DE AMORE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, light for me Last Line: With the bridal robes of ardour virginal. Subject(s): Nuns TO THE URSULINES, by CAROLINE GILMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, pure and gentle ones, within your ark Subject(s): Nuns TO TWO LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and humble and gladly poor Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Nuns TOWER OF LOWLINESS, by MARGARET MIRIAM GALLAGHER Poem Source First Line: Lady, scholar, poet, saint, you ask Subject(s): Nuns TWO NUNS BATHING, by MEREDITH COLE Poem Source First Line: Below a shedding birch Last Line: Out in the lake, %weightless, weightless Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Lakes; Nuns UNHEEDED VOCATION, by ELEANORE L. PERRY Poem Source First Line: You should have walked those cooler garden ways Subject(s): Nuns VANQUISHED (FOR A NUN'S PROFESSION), by KATHERINE ELEANOR CONWAY Poem Source First Line: Yea, vanquished am I - thralled and bound! Subject(s): Nuns VICTIM INVISIBLE (FOR MOTHER M. CARMELITA), by MARGARET MIRIAM GALLAGHER Poem Source First Line: No corpus hangs upon the cross I wear Subject(s): Nuns VILLA DE MATEL, HOUSTON, by SYBIL ESTESS Poem Source First Line: At twilight an old nun paddles towards me Last Line: In palms; black evening; change; children; her peace Subject(s): Nuns; Religion VOCATION, by MARY DAVID Poem Source First Line: She walked with god upon a golden morn Subject(s): Nuns WHITE BIRCHES, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Pale birches always make me think Last Line: Or can it not be told? Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Theology WHITE SISTERS OF CULION, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bridegroom calls and led by love they go Subject(s): Nuns WHITE VEIL, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have forgot them all Subject(s): Nuns WILD ROSES AND MYRRH, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prairie ocean rolled away Last Line: To line the manger bed. Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Women; Theology WITH A BOTTLE OF BLUE NUN TO ALL MY FRIENDS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters, / the blue nun has eloped with one Last Line: It's that simple. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Change; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nuns; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin WORLD TO ANY NUN, by MARY ELEANORE Poem Source First Line: Yours are the tranquil ways Subject(s): Nuns YOUNG NUN, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Source First Line: She is so young for this grave sacrifice! Subject(s): Nuns |
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